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Exporting menu Win 2012 Terminal server for common start

May 25, 2017, 2:09 pm
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At this point I'd done to export a start menu I've created... and then put it in the local policy (see screen pic in attachment)

It's not working here on the export... and a command line I tried earlier in the policy doesn't seem to do anything.

PS H:\ Export-StartLayout -Path c:\menu -Confirm
Export-StartLayout : Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))
At line:1 char:1
+ Export-StartLayout -Path c:\menu -Confirm
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Export-StartLayout], UnauthorizedAccessException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.UnauthorizedAccessException,Microsoft.Windows.StartScreen.Commands.ExportStartLayoutCommand

So I'm curious in what I'm missing.

The policy "seems" ok but it's not applying to new users on my 2012 terminal server. The original menu.xml...

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2012 R2 - Unable to Add/Remove Roles

May 25, 2017, 2:29 pm
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SERVER OS: 2012 R2 - vm on ESXI 6.0 - Stand alone server - NO DC roles
This server is hosting a monitoring program and I needed to add another role. I just started here recently so do not have a vast knowledge of a historic data on the server. I know this was a clean install, not an upgrade.

When attempting to add role receive error


Checking the Dashboard can see I get the

Reviewing the Event Log
Applications & Services Logs Microsoft Windows ServerManager
I am seeing ID 107, 113, 1315, 1537, mainly seeing "A DISM session could not be opened. The request is not supported. Error: 0x80070005"
I have verified
  • Using domain admin account
  • All the "grayed" out devices in device manager has been removed
  • C drive has plenty of storage space
  • Verified Component Services Management Console is setup correctly
  • Ran SFC/scannow (no issues)
  • Even ran DISM /Online...
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Can I add 2012 R2 Standard as secondary domain controller to 2012 R2 Essentials?

May 25, 2017, 3:01 pm
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I currently have a Windows 2012 R2 Essentials server as DC for location.

Can I add a Windows 2012 R2 Standard server as secondary/replica DC at sister location to make logins and such local?  Is there anything special needed for this, ie: Windows Essentials Role ?

Thanks!

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Login error when adding remote users

May 25, 2017, 3:05 pm
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Hi all,

I am encountering a strange issue when trying to add a user to the remote desktop users group. When I try to add their user account (at the Select Users, Computers, Service Accounts, and Groups) I get prompted to login to my domain but it keeps saying my credentials are invalid. This is strange because I am able to login to the server itself with the same credentials. Could something be happening to my domain?

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Server 2008 R2 AD Replication failing due to USN mismatch

May 25, 2017, 4:36 pm
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Hey guys and girls. I've been having a bit of a frustrating couple of days. I'm not even sure how this occurred in the first place, but I noticed that my RODC wasn't replicating with my PDC. I tried to force the replication, but got an error:

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The destination server is currently rejecting replication requests. This operation will not continue.

Fine. So I ran the command repadmin /options -disable_inbound_repl on both DCs, but nothing changed. Still could not replicate.

I ran repadmin /showreps to see how long this has been going on and I got this back:

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DC=macc,DC=local Default-First-Site-Name\DC2 via RPC DSA object GUID: 4f52c1f7-a5ee-480d-a2a3-xxxxxxxx Last attempt @ 2017-05-25 13:27:07 failed, result 8457 (0x2109): The destination server is currently rejecting replication requests. 6115 consecutive failure(s). Last success @...
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IIS Server farms not doing URL rewrite

May 25, 2017, 9:38 pm
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Hi guys, 

I have set up a bunch of server farms that use custom ports in most cases to point to other web-servers. All on the same server except for two which are for Exchange (they are all servers for things like kodi or plex ect using there own bespoke webserver). But I cant get them to work. 

If I add just one @ a time, it works. But once I add a few, they stop and just show the default IIS screen. So its something about the way its processing the URL rewrites.

Match URL: matches the pattern: wildcard: * 

Conditions: input: {HTTP_HOST} Type:  matches the pattern: sub.domain.com

Action:

Route to server farm: scheme: http:// farmname /{R:0}

With the custom ports being set up in advanced settings when creating the farm. 

Any ideas??

Thanks 

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Migrating Roaming Profiles to Local Profiles

May 26, 2017, 1:21 am
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Hi,

I have to change about 100 users' roaming profiles, to local profiles. Probably the easiest way to handle this in AD is by simply removing the "profile path" of a user's AD properties. So the next time a particular user logs in, his/her files are copied locally. This probably works fine for all regular files and data, but what about the AppData folder?

What is the easiest way to copy/move the Roaming AppData folder which is located on a network share, to the local profile on the user's computer? I read that some admins are using robocopy to do this (e.g. robocopy source destination /b /mir /mt /r:0 /w:0 /xf *.tmp) but I'm not sure how to execute this. Do I execute it manually or do I need to put it in a logon script ? And I presume the folder's name "AppData\Roaming" should be kept, instead of trying to mergethe datainto the local...

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Security Database and Trust Relationship Errors

May 26, 2017, 4:06 am
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We have two VMWare Windows Server 2012R2 servers running our domain. We also have 5 our servers in our domain, that are used for specific things for the building they are physically located in. These servers are 2008. In active Directory these other 5 servers are in the Domain Controller OU. 3 of the 5 are list with a DC type of GC. Our Workstations are a mix of Windows 7 Professional and Windows 10 Professional.

Our issue started right about the time we had our server issue in January and an infrastructure change. A Windows update corrupted one of our main 2012 servers. We were able to recover the server from a backup. The functions of the corrupted server are DHCP and DNS. The other 2012, server, which was not corrupted function is just DNS. Also, at that time all our switches were replaced with Alcatel-Lucent model OS6450-P48X to...

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Remote Desktop Services, RDS Host, showing "Online - Data retrieval failures"

May 26, 2017, 4:59 am
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We are having a problem in one of our VMs, recently has started showing the following Manageability error on the Server Manager Dashboard

Online - Data Retrieval Failures Occurred

It's a 2012R2 Windows Server install not upgrade path

Found few events related errors persistent

Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-ServerManager-ManagementProvider/Operational
Source: Microsoft-Windows-ServerManager-ManagementProvider/Operational
Task Category: Get server inventory task
Event Id: 45
Level 45

Failure opening metadata of the owning provider for channel: Microsoft-Windows-SPB-HIDI2C/Analytic [hResult = Function failed during execution., hLastResult = The system cannot find the file specified.].

I found a couple of forum saying to copy a driver from one server to another or delete some registry keys, but they do not look to apply for 2012R2 install

Any points or...

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W32Time Using Port 80?

May 26, 2017, 6:37 am
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Found another oddball. Has anyone ever seen the W32Time service trying to communicate over port 80?

No custom configs or anything set. Did multiple scans and no malware is present.


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CUTOFF - Script to disable VM network access by ransomware

May 26, 2017, 6:52 am
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In the battle with Ransomware, the last line of defense has to be denying access to your file shares. In the movies, we shout, "Cut the hardline!" This isn't the movies, but cutting the network connection is still pretty effective.

Remoting to a host or virtual machine that is having its files encrypted can be agonizingly slow - finding which host the VM is on, opening settings, deleting the NICS, and so on. I needed a way to rapidly cut off a VM hosting a file share. And I needed the process to be reliable and reversible. I also looked at disabling switchports, but that only worked for non-shared adapters and was too complex and error-prone.

In the end, I created a short Powershell script to provide a rapid, easy-to-use way of cutting off the network connectivity of a specific virtual machine. It does so while retaining the...

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Event ID 4107 from Source CAPI 2

May 26, 2017, 7:00 am
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This morning I logged into my server and my event logs has this error and it generates once every hour.

Event ID 4107 from Source CAPI 2 is logged under Windows 2008 R2 in the Application Log

Log Name: Application
Source: CAPI2
Event ID: 4107
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Description:
Failed extract of third-party root list from auto update cab at: <http://www.download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3/static/trustedr/en/authrootstl.cab (http://www.download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3/static/trustedr/en/authrootstl.cab) with error: A required certificate is not within its validity period when verifying against the current system clock or the timestamp in the signed file.

Ive been researching and some people have done this but I have not seen a reply saying yes it worked, or it required a reboot etc.....<
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Server 2008 r2 repeated keystrokes

May 26, 2017, 7:55 am
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I have an ML110 G9 that I just used intelligent provisioning to install a fresh copy 2008 r2. Now whenever I try to use it I get repeated keystrokes. For example trying to browse to the firewall IP address 192.168.1.1 I'll get 192222222222222222222222222222222222222

I removed the keyboard and tried another, tried different usb ports. I had to keep working so I unplugged the keyboard and opened the onscreen keyboard and the same thing happens so it doesn't appear to be hardware related.

We first installed server 2016 on this box only to find out the software the client needed wouldn't run on it so we wiped it and used IP to install 2008 r2. When it had 2016 on it there was no issue with this so it appears to be just 2008 r2.

I've installed more 2008 r2 servers than I care to remember but I've never come across this. Any ideas would be...

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Script to remotely retrieve the OS Name, hostname, and IP.

May 26, 2017, 10:41 am
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I am not the best at scripting and I am on a time crunch here, so I thought I was see if anyone already has this wheel so that I don't have to reinvent it.

I need a script that uses systeminfo, wmic, or whatever you may have that does the following.

  1. Pulls from a list of IPs from a text file.
  2. Queries those IPs for hostname and OS Name.
  3. Returns all the results in an output file that prints the IP, hostname, and OS name.

Thanks in advance!

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Group Policy and Active Directory Server Locations

May 26, 2017, 11:06 am
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So this may be a simple question but I cannot find the solution anywhere. Can I have Active Directory running off of a different server from the Group Policy management for the same AD groups?

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Migrate Domain Controllers from WS 2012R2 to WS 2016

May 26, 2017, 11:22 am
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Hello All,

Anybody have a step by step guide on how to migrate two Windows 2012R2 DCs to Windows Server 2016?

Need to migrate Active Directory, DNS, and DHCP.

Currently have 2 Windows 2012R2 domain controllers(primary and secondary) and want to  migrate to 2 Windows Server 2016 instances. Most the videos I've found on youtube have a pretty tough language barrier, and none of the videos follow the same steps. 

Thanks!! 

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Allow remote desktop users to use task manager to kill their own tasks

May 26, 2017, 12:45 pm
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We configured a Windows Server 2016 for a client and their users are logging in to use Quickbooks etc just fine. We ran into an issue where one of the users app locked up and they could not launch task manager without entering admin creds first.

Research is showing a dozen ways to hide and show the task manager but no one is addressing the fact that a user cannot launch a task manager without receiving the admin prompt. Ive been at this all day and maybe i just need to take a look at it another day.
To Summarize: Server 2016 single server configured with RDS etc. It is a DC and users are logging in remotely via their Windows RD Client. They are just regular domain users and can launch their apps no problem but trying to launch taskmanager they get a credential prompt. They need to be able to launch task manager and kill their own...
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DFS from windows 2008 to windows 2012

May 26, 2017, 5:28 pm
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We have three windows 2008 R2  physical servers running DFS at present. We want to move this DFS to Windows 2012 VMs.  I want to move namespace to windows 2012 as well as the target folders and retire the windows 2008.

What is the best way to do this?

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DC Down any suggestions?

May 26, 2017, 8:36 pm
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2003R2 Child Domain in Forest (I know I was literally working on the order of a new server and 2016 upgrade. When it crashed. Really)

The DC that went down had all the FSMO roles. It also had DNS and was global catalog server. It also served as File Server. Already verified yesterday backups .

2nd DC no FSMO but has DNS and global catalog server

3rd DC stood this DC up just in case a scenario like this happened. It has no FSMO or DNS or GC basically use it as a backup target.

I have a 4th server that served as backup target and is now acting as main file server with yesterdays backups. (probably doesn't play a role in this but could be promoted to DC if all else fails??)

I made bare metal backups of both DC's and File Server tonight just in case.

I have all workstations off just in case

If seizing roles fails I can just create new domain....

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task scheduler wont run

May 26, 2017, 11:38 pm
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we are on windows 2012 r2 std.

we have a .bat file that does a copy of files from a mapped drive to a local drive. this was working perfectly.

we did a evaluation of tsplus after which the task schedule wont run. if we click and run the .bat file it runs. but if we run it manually from task schudule library it does not run.

permissions are fine.

run of user is logged on or off is checked.

the user is the domain administrator.

the task will not run even manually. not sure what has prompted this. any help?

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