Questions tagged [windows-server-2008-r2]

Windows Server 2008 R2 is a server operating system produced by Microsoft.

Windows Server 2008 R2 is a server operating system produced by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing (RTM) on July 22, 2009 and launched on October 22, 2009. It is built on Windows NT 6.1, the same kernel used with the client-oriented Windows 7.

It is the first 64-bit-only operating system released from Microsoft. Version enhancements include new functionality for Active Directory, new virtualization and management features, version 7.5 of Microsoft IIS Web Server and support for up to 256 logical processors.

There are seven editions:

  1. Foundation
  2. Standard
  3. Enterprise
  4. Datacenter
  5. Web
  6. HPC Server
  7. Itanium and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 (Essentials Edition).

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Web Server to SQL Server Using Windows Authentication

Does the server (Windows 2008 R2) running my ASP.net MVC application using Windows Authentication need to be setup for Delegation(within AD) in order for my Active Directory User ID & PW to be sent to a SQL Server that is on a different…
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Windows service started with domain admin account butwhen other domain account logon is shows that the service didn't start

I've recently stumble across this problem but cannot fins a reason for this and a workaround. I've logged on with my domain admin account on a server (Windows Server 2008 R2) and started a service that were set to start manually. After wards when…
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win32security.LookupAccountName fails with error The trust relationship between the primary domain and the trusted domain failed

I have very basic question here... I have a situation where friend of mine claims that he has a parent child domains created. As they are parent child domains there is two way transitive trust created by default... But when I try to run Python…
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Windows server power off button and blocked sessions

We have one windows Server 2008 R2 installation and we need the power button to trigger the server's shutdown procedure. Generally this works as expected, but when there's a blocked session the shutdown does not happen. I have googled this…
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Microsoft CryptoAPI not working in web service on Windows Server 2008 R2

We have a web service that uses the Microsoft Crypto API for encryption. It works fine as a web service on Windows Server 2003. For some reason, it doesn't work as a web service on the Windows Server 2008 R2 that we're trying to move it to, although…
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Registering an interop dll on Windows Server 2008 R2

I have searched all over StackOverflow and the internet for help with this. This is a very commonly asked question and I have tried everything that I could find and still no success. The problem is that my company wrote their own encryption dll…
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IIS Dynamic IP Address Restriction to permanently block IP

So I have a website that is getting hit regularly from someone scraping our content and I would like to do my best to annoy him as possible. Currently we have IIS Dynamic IP address restriction on but this only temp blocks him for a very short…
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psexec fails with error Could not start PsExec service on NTDB2UT02:

We recently moved from a Windows 2003 server to Windows 2008 R2 server and now I see that all my psexec jobs fail. thsi is how they are coded to run: c:\shell\psexec.exe \NTDB2UT02 -u conseco\plat -i cmd.exe I then get prompted for a password and as…
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Schema folder for IIS resetting its state

I am currently working in a Windows Server 2008 R2 enviroment with IIS and sharepoint installed. I have installed Application Request Routing(ARR) onto the IIS server and it installs some xml files into "%windir%\system32\inetsrv\config\schema" I…
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Lab environment for Active Directory learning without a real DNS

I am trying to setup a lab type of environment for learning Active directory environment using Virtual machines on HyperV. I am planning to create a VM using Windows 2008 R2 Standard. When I google around on step of setting up Active Directory and…
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IIS SMTP DeliveryMethod script Error

I am trying to setup my outgoing email from Sharepoint on premises. I need to configure smtp settings by the script given on IIS official web , but I received an error \windows\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config /commit:WEBROOT /section:smtp…
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POST to ASP during authentication not redirecting to asp form

POST to ASP.NET during authentication not redirecting to asp.net form. We have a login.asp page The GO button is a submit to a loginproc.asp that is in a subfolder of the website. The program hangs like it cant find loginprocesing.asp. This…
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How to enable downloads for EXE files on windows server 2008?

Our Windows 2008 R2 server provides downloads to requests for ZIP files but not for EXE files (resource not found), even though EXE is included in the mimetypes list for the server and the site. There is little to no info about this returned from…
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View cmd.exe console from Scheduled Task batch in Windows Server 2008 R2

In Windows Server 2008 R2 I am running a batch as a Scheduled Task. I know this is not usually the case, but I want to view the cmd.exe console window when it is running. Note that 'Hidden' under the General tab in Task Scheduler is not selected. I…
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Changing ComSpec in Systems Properties doesn't change default cmd.exe

This is related to another post for 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2: Scheduled Task on Windows Server 2008 R2: batch keeps running I guess I am mistaken, but I thought if I changed the ComSpec path for cmd.exe to %SystemRoot%\syswow64\cmd.exe by…