Windows 2008 STD R2 GPUpdate errors out
Ran gpupdate /force on my DC01 Win 2008 STD R2, got this errorUser policy could not be updated sucessfully. The following errors were encountered: The processing of Group Policy failed. Windows...
View ArticleRestoring a server 2008r2 Domain Controller in server 2012
I need to move domain services to another server. Currently my domain controller is a server 2008r2 machine. I'd like to back that up and restore it on a server 2012 machine. Is there a guide that I...
View ArticleBest Practices: Server 2012 Running everything or split
I'm planning on rolling out a new server, all shiny and completely under my control for implementation (No more dealing with 6 years of built up implementations, software installs/changes and...
View ArticleFind A Unknown Server
Greetings,I am in a bit of a jam with this one. Long story short, I have a Win2k3 that since I started here gets rebooted daily via a Remote Command from A Server Unknown.Does anyone know a way to...
View ArticleSlow Application Response
250 offsite, mixed OS, client machines are having very poor response when using VPN connection to Windows 2003 R2 Std VM Terminal Servers. This started after MS Updates were applied on March 15....
View Articleshare windows server 2012
I must be doing something wrong!I created a share in windows 2012 and I want to assign multiple users from my AD user list to the share. So in server manager shares I clicked on the share folder and...
View ArticleDFS - On drive
Hi to all,I'm using Citrix environment. I have create two (2) servers:1. DFS12. DFS2Both Windows Server 2008R2.Currently we have our UserHomeStore and the DataShares on the DC. We want to move the...
View ArticleFolder permissions gone
I have a folder on a Windows Server 2012 R2 machine that seems to have lost all of its permissions...I can't even do anything with it as Administrator. It is a folder within a shared folder that the...
View ArticleWindows Server 2003 suddenly stopped communicating over the LAN
I have a strange problem on a Dell R610 running Windows Server 2003 standard Edition. The server has Windows Firewall (disabled) and McAfee AV + HIPS. Sunday morning the server rebooted after...
View Articleusing group policy to set background picture
i have used GPO to set background picture of my client in a domain all the client background turns to back.
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 & Deployment
Hello. I am currently a student studying HND Technical Support and one of our modules, Team Working In Computing, required us to come up with a team project, plan it, implement it & evaluate it....
View ArticleLogon Auditing
Scenario is we are planning on replacing Windows XP machines with Fedora. I have our test machine able to login to our Active Directory using SSSD and everything seems to be working however the domain...
View ArticleSystem Volume Information over 100GB 2008 R2
I have a server that has over 100GB in this folder. It appears this is shadow copies, but I have this disabled. I ran diskshadow followed by list shadows all and I get "no shadow copies found in the...
View ArticleDaylight Savings Time server time issues
Daylight savings time has really been throwing me for a loop the past couple of weeks. We have users in the Eastern time zone that have time showing an hour behind in Central Time. We have other...
View ArticleHyper-V Baremetal(boot from usb) corrupted from windows update
I have a server I use for virtualization. Following guides on spiceworks I had it booting from a 32gb usb drive with hyper-v 2012 installed, using DAS OBR10 for storage of vms. 3 separate usb drives...
View ArticleNew to Group Policy
Can y'all give me some pointers for where I can become more proficient in group policy?
View ArticleAliases and SPN's
Hey guys,I'm currently trying to move an existing file server to a new file server. My plan was to create an alias for any connections that still lookup the old server name. Now I understand there's a...
View Articleyet another event ID 4625
I have one of my administrator accounts being locked with the follow error. An account failed to log on.Subject:Security ID:SYSTEMAccount Name:(my Server)Account Domain:(My domain)Logon ID:0x3e7Logon...
View ArticleNetwork password change causes problems with TS app
Scenario: SBS 2003 AD environment (I know, I know) with a Server 2008 terminal server.Custom accounting-type package is installed on the terminal server.Network passwords expire every 40 days.Problem...
View ArticleServer 2008 R2 holds APIPA and Static IP on Same NIC
Hello All,This week I've had an issue where I cannot remove an APIPA from the NIC of my Server 2008 R2 VM. I have a ticket open with VMware regarding an issue with our vCenter Server 5.5 upgrade and we...
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