Windows update will not show a specific download (security update for word)
Good morning!Ok so first if you guys did not know already their was a vulnerability in opening RTF through outlook.More info about it here-...
View ArticleDomain Controller Certificate Authority recover
I recently took over with a company and am working through various issues left by the previous sysadmin. The domain functional level is Windows Server 2008 R2. On the domain controllers I am getting...
View ArticleWeird Permissions Issue - Windows Server 2012 R2
I have been having a weird issue this week. We run session-based RDS on our server. My users have full access to our development directory. No permissions have been changed recently. Yesterday, I was...
View ArticleServer 2012 Showing Event 45 and 46, Server Manager Not Refreshing
I have a Server 2012 VMware guest file server that has not been properly refreshing the Server Manager window and shows a yellow triangle warning. The notification is:SERVERNAME: Configuration refresh...
View ArticleTurning off Remote Desktop printer direction by default but allowing exceptions
By default, Remote Desktop Services (RDS, formerly known as Terminal Services) allow local printer redirection, where the user's local printer(s) show up as available printers in their remote desktop...
View ArticleClient PC points to ISP's DNS servers
My single DC is also my DHCP/DNS server (Windows server 2008). The workstations are all set to acquire dynamic IP address from the DHCP server and everything seems to work fine except that the...
View ArticleServer 2012 DC in W2k8
I have a virtually new Cisco UCS server to do what I want with. I think I am going to decommission one of my three DCs which holds the PDC role and promote the UCS server to DC holding the PDC. Our...
View ArticleBest way to refresh and upgrade an existing server
Fellow Spiceheads:I have a somewhat unique situation that Im not sure how to approach. Long story short I have server in my office (DL180 g6) thats not that old thats running server 03. Its running...
View ArticlePursue caching the MX Record for your selected SMTP server on the DNS server
Okay I am trying to troubleshoot a failure with an APC NMC 2 card. Their KB article (APC) points out that the card has trouble with snmp an it needs to be able to lookup the mx record. Here is a...
View ArticlePrinting from a Remote Desktop Server
We are getting ready to roll out new version of our Terminal Server. It is running Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Service Pack 1. The system is able to pickup all the printers that are installed...
View ArticleMS SAM Audit - missing COA for SBS 2003
I am coming up on the end of a SAM audit, and I am missing a COA from my Dell PE T105. I can see the place on the top near the back where it would be, but it's not there. In fact, the spot is clean, as...
View ArticleWindows Network Share Migration
All,I have 3x servers all are mix of Windows 2003/2008.I have total of 3x disks.I have total of 15x Network Shared Folders. All NTFS. Now, I have to migrate(copy/move) all these shares to a different...
View ArticleIncremental file copy with robocopy
I migrated a file server 2 weeks ago using robocopy. yesterday i received an email that the drive mapping for a user never worked and they have been using the old share. Can I use robocopy to grab only...
View ArticleBare Matel Restore windows server 2008 R2
Hi All,I would like to restore my server running with windows 2008 R2 into different model hardware from backup taken using windows Server bkp software.I tried with restore.But new server getting...
View Article2012 RDP server how to add trusted sites
Hey, I have a 2012 RDP server running IE10, I need to add some url's to the trusted sites for all of the users. The server is a stand alone machine that is not part of a domain. Can someone please...
View ArticleServer disk space issue
Hi all!Having quite a weird issue with an SBS2011 server. Long story short, there's a drive in the server configured completely standalone to the other RAID arrays. This volume is a 72.8GB disk used...
View ArticleNIC teaming on Windows 2008r2 VM (vmware)
Hi everyone, getting kind of stumped here. We have a Windows 2008r2 virtual machine on vsphere version 5.1. This VM has a 3rd party print server installed with nearly 100 printers connected to it. It...
View ArticleWin 2003 r2 IIS/FTP Logs??
Does anyone know where I can find the FTP logs in IIS on win 2003 server?Outside source trying to connect cant need to look at logs ??
View ArticleDisk defragmentation not completed in windows server 2012
I have a server with windows server 2012. It has 4 disks with 4 partitions in each. In that 16 drives, 4 are configured with volume shadow copy. Everyday the data in those disks with shadow copy is...
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