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.
Questions tagged [windows-server-2016]
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After installing RDS on WinServer 2016 I still can only connect with two users?
What I'm trying to do: I have a software that multiple users are supposed to use on one system. Because a standard installation of WinServer2016 can only hold a maximum of two users at once I googled and was told that a Terminal Server / RDS Server…

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Does windows 2016 server support hot add cpu?
Today, I created a KVM vm with windows 2016 server operation system by libvirt, and its memory can be hotplug with "virsh attachdevice" command, but vcpu cannot be hot-add with "virsh setvcpus". However, it is worked in windows 2008R2 and windows…

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Unable to connect the Sql server 2016 present on another server with the Sql server 2008 management studio
Unable to connect the Sql server 2016 present on another server with the Sql server 2008 management studio.
We have one remote database which is present in the sql server 2016
which is present on Server X (We do not know the windows…

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I can not log in with the user created on the server
I'm trying to make a mobile profile in Windows Server 2016, I created the user account on Active Directory Users and Computers and i set the path to profile like this: http://prntscr.com/hg8joh
Now I am trying to log in with that user account from a…

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Cannot access windows container from outside the Azure host vm
I have created a docker container in Azure on Windows 2016.
Here is my DOCKERFILE:
FROM microsoft/aspnet
COPY ./ /inetpub/wwwroot
EXPOSE 443
EXPOSE 80
I run it up like so:
docker run -d --name myctr myimg -p 443:443
I can browse to it via the a…

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How do I know which ports to allow over the network security group?
I have Oracle 12c installed on a windows server 2016 in Azure. I have a database populated locally, and need to access it remotely. I have allowed following through firewall within the machine:
\dbhome_1\bin\oracle.exe
\dbhome_1\bin\tnslsnr.exe
I…

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Cloning and Adding Hyper-V VM to Domain
I have a standalone (not clustered, but in the domain) Windows Server 2016 with Hyper-V role installed.
I need to clone VMs on a daily basis, so I wrote a few small "things" using C# and PowerShell.
Parallel Copy of VHD
public static void…

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Unable to install Remote Desktop Session Host role on Windows Server 2016
I am unable to install Remote Desktop Session Host role while trying to setup a remote app on a virtual machine. It asks for a restart after completing the installation wizard but reverts back to the same state after the pending restart. Can't find…

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Username for Windows Server Nano Recovery Console
I've loaded up a new Nano VM but, at the recovery console, I'm prompted to enter a username, password and domain.
I'm not attached to a domain and I know the password I created with the PS scripts, but what is the user name?

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Windows server 2016 password hashes
how to store passwords of local users (including existing users) in the configuration as a scrypt\bcrypt hash.
I tried configuring it in password policies. But I found nothing.

Sri Hari
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Task Scheduler won't run simple tasks in Windows Server 2016
I can't get Task Scheduler to run my tasks so I setup a simple tasks to see if it there was something wrong with the system. The tasks I created was open a command prompt at a specific time. Tasks Scheduler says it's running, but the cmd prompt…

Gman
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I get the 404 error after migrating the window server
We are migrating the old server to the new server. The new product is on Windows server 2016.
All settings have been completed. However, when I tried to enter the website,
The 404 error resource was not found.
For example, the website name will be…

sdrfgd
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How to Filter DNS query result in windows Server 2016?
I have one forest. In that, we have total of 14 domain controllers. DNS zone contains A record of these 14 domain controller. If I do nslookup from client windows machine, it is displaying all 14 records(resolving to IP addresses). I…
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Why does my scheduled task running a ps1-script not terminate?
I have a Powershell-Script script.ps1 configured to be executed by a scheduled task on a Windows Server 2016 and it does its job but does not terminate. This causes problems when the Task Manager tries to start the task again for the next scheduled…

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How do I determine total network bandwidth usage on windows server 2016?
I am currently looking at 1Gb/s download and 35 MB/s upload over coax. We are looking at setting up some VOIP services etc which will be impacted by such a low upload speed. How do I determine what the max bandwidth usage for the day was? I'm aware…

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