Questions tagged [windows-server-2016]

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The first early preview version (Technical Preview) became available on October 1, 2014. Windows Server 2016 was released on September 26, 2016 at Microsoft's Ignite conference and became generally available on October 12, 2016.

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Windows Server 2016 IIS - Application not always running, not starting immediately, and starting twice

I have a Wep API .NET core application running through IIS on Windows Server 2016. The app is doing a lot more than just replying to its API as it is monitoring events, etc on other services. I have 3 problems: When I start / restart the app…
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Can Windows Server 2016 EC2 mount EFS?

I am new to AWS. I have seen numerous definitive answers saying Windows and AWS EFS can't work with each other. Is it still the case with Windows Server 2016?
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Remote debug UWP app on Windows Server 2016

The goal I would like to use a Windows Server 2016 (x64) for remote debugging of UWP applications. The reason? My working PC still runs a Windows 7 instance and it is not possible to deploy an UWP app on a Windows 7 machine. The problem I have…
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Add D: Drive to Windows Server 2016 Docker Images

How do I add a D: drive to the microsoft/windowsservercore base image? My Windows Server 2016 server has a D: drive. The server is an AWS instance. This is with native Docker installed and not the "Docker for Windows" that has been around for a…
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Windows Server 2016 docker image default username/password

Is there a default user/password that the base microsoft/windowsservercore image uses?
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Is it good practice to delete Default Web Site in IIS?

I can't found nothing recent on the web about if deleting Default Web Site in IIS is a good practice, i'm using IIS v10 and as in wwwroot i have each website inside it's own folder in IIS i've just created a website for each of them.. So i'm just…
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python.exe - The FastCGI process exited unexpectedly

I have read all posts about this issue, here and on IIS forum, got it to the second page on Google too... and still can't get it to work. I want to run Flask/Python app in IIS on Windows server 2016, but I keep getting this error: HTTP Error 500.0 -…
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Is Docker on Windows Servers "free"?

I have been playing around with docker windows containers lately and I got to the point where I wanted to put some of the workload on a Windows Server. But when I go to install Docker Desktop on Windows Server 2016 it fails saying it only works on…
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Compile VB6 as background process on Server 2016

We're having a very strange behaviour that I'm unable to identify a root cause for. We use TFS (2017.U2) to compile our legacy system, and are trying to update our build farm from 2008R2 up to 2016. The build system uses PowerShell (v5) to cycle…
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Launch Windows executable without conhost?

Is there a way to programmatically launch a background (i.e. non-windowed) executable without launching an associated conhost.exe process? I have tried code such as this in the launcher process that spawns the worker process(es): var process = new…
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can't load a docker image in windows server 2016

I'm trying to load an image on my Windows Server 2016. But for some reason I'm unable to do so. I have tried several things. Including: Saving an image, copy pasting it to the server and trying to load it (docker load...). This gives the error you…
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dism mount-wim in docker

When I try to use dism /Mount-WIM in microsoft/windowsservercore image I'm getting next error: Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool Version: 10.0.14393.0 Error: 0xc1420121 The image could not be mounted because the wimmount.sys driver is…
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Window Server 2016 Datacenter is unable to automatically trigger the action

Good afternoon! Recently I have created a Window Server 2016 Datacenter. One of my tasks is to run my own application on a schedule(every 5 minutes). In order to test whether "task scheduler" works properly a try to launch calculator and set…
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Cannot launch interactive session in Windows IIS Docker container

I'm using the AWS "Windows Server 2016 Base with Containers" image (ami-5e6bce3e). Using docker info I can confirm I have the latest (Server Version: 1.12.2-cs-ws-beta). From Powershell (running as Admin) I can successfully run the…
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Windows Server Containers domain account auth

Is it possible to logon to, for example, a SQL server database using a domain account from a windows server container (either hyper-v or regular container)? As I understand you can't domain join the container itself (neither server Core nor server…
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