Event Logs
Today someone accidentally cleared the event log in one of our servers instead of clearing the filter. Now we have lost all the event logs and I'm trying to find a way to get them back. I've ran the...
View ArticlePowerCLI outputting to a HTML file. Output growing like a cancer...
I'm writing a PowerCLI (Powershell) script to grab the state of each of our ESX host's VMs and output it to an HTML page so at login that page can be displayed to the ESX admin (me).I've set it up so...
View ArticleServer 2012 Boot Loop after Updates
Installed Microsoft Updates on production server (worked fine in test environment), now when server boots it "Configures updates" then send me to a screen that tells me "my PC is experiencing problems...
View ArticleSQL2012 high saftey with automatic failover- problems
Here is my problem.Needed info:Server 1: SQL Principal InstanceServer 2: SQL Mirror InstanceServer 3: SQL WitnessConnection Method: Windows 2012 IIS 8.5 with PHP...
View ArticleWindows Client to Authenticating to Local DC
All Windows Server 2008 non-R2Sites: CorpDC, Site1DC, Site2DC, Site3DCAll windows client seem to be authenticating to CorpDCCan DCDIAG diagnose the issue or do I need to be looking somewhere else?...
View ArticleFolder redirection issue after server crash
Hi, I have a problem that is causing me alot of grief.Win2k8R2 server, hard drive failed and is unrecoverable. I have replaced the drive and recovered the server from backup image, however the last...
View ArticleMAnage windows updates
Dear Spiceheads,Just want to ask some advice here how to manage Windows Updates. Some of our servers wasn't set to automatically install updates. We also don't have WSUS. I wanted to run and install...
View ArticleBitLocker Network Unlock on Windows 2008 R2 Server
Hi, Is it possible to utilize this feature by using Windows 2008 R2 infrastructure ? We have WDS service up and running, thereby it would be really cool to use it, that is unlock Bitlocker (mostly...
View ArticleNeed a Power full Tool for Server Audit (both for microsoft and non-microsoft)
We have 20 to 25 servers running in our organization ,currently we are using Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.3 for audit our server its only for Microsoft product , I need some complete...
View ArticleGet device name in Query session
I have a windows server 2003 R2 PC which is accessed by more than 4 users simultaneously through remote desktop.In server if I open task manager users tab, I can see which user is active and from which...
View ArticleServer 2008 R2 WDS Driver Questions
I'm getting ready to capture the image from my reference PC. Before doing so I'll run Sysprep with the generalize switch. In the past I'm certain this stripped the video driver, not sure if it...
View ArticleServer 2012 R2 Datacenter license key for Standard installation?
Hi all,I just completed a server upgrade project last night. We moved one of our SQL servers from Server 2008 with SQL 2008 on old hardware, to Server 2012 R2 with SQL 2012 on newer hardware by doing a...
View ArticleServer 2012 restarts after remote users log off
Hi guys, We use a 2012 Server machine to allow managers to access software that we are required to keep at out main office. This has worked fine until a new regulation was passed that also required...
View ArticleDuplicate network name
I have recentlymoved a share from a NAS box to a 2008 R2 fileserver. A lot of users have their email archives mapped to the old nas box name so I thought it simplest to add a CNAME for the old NAS...
View ArticleConfiguring Multiple Paths for My Documents
Hey SpiceWorks Community,We are wanting to archive a lot of old user data from My Documents, and to this purpose we've fired up a dedicated NAS.We'd like to make this process as seamless as possible...
View ArticleServer 2008 Folder Redirection Issue
I am setting up folder redirection on a 2008 R2 Server. The folders are created successfully when a user logs in; however when you click on the start menu there is a list of all of the users folders....
View ArticleWindows Embedded Standard will not connect
ISSUE RESOLVED.We have 2 identical machines running Windows Embedded Standard. We installed 1 last week, got it connected to the domain, but we cannot map any network drives or even directly navigate...
View ArticleAdobe files not showing read only
Hi,Our file server is Windows 2008 R2. When you open a document on the server that is already open by another user Windows notifies you the file is in use and is read only. When this same process for...
View ArticleVBSCript for Default Printer if Server name starts With ....
I have found online how to set a default printer using VB but for my print cluster migration I need to set users new default printer to any printer shareing with the name \\ServerA
View ArticleRichCopy Directory Exclusions
I'm using RichCopy (Latest version, just downloaded today)I'm using it exclusively for the whole "condition to exclude files" and "condition to exclude directories" capabilities.Guess what capabilities...
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