Share drive Drama
Good Day fellow Splicers. I need help with a map drives issue. The server is Windows 2003 64bit and the client is well any OS tba. When i try map to a share on the machine it prompts me for the...
View ArticleSingle server 2003 being replaced by single server 2012 - am I missing any steps
Just want to double check and make sure I haven't missed anything before copying data and powering off the old server. I have added AD and DNS roles. netdom shows that the FSMO roles have all been...
View ArticleSingle Domain Controller, multiple subnets
I'm currently testing to divide our network into multiple subnets. I have created an additional subnet on a vlan which routes to and from the existing subnet absolutely fine, DHCP is relaying from the...
View ArticleBasic to dynamic disk conversion question
Hello everyone, I have a single 72GB drive in a server that I need to mirror. The disk is currently basic and has three partitions. When I convert it to dynamic in Disk Management, will the three...
View ArticleLync 2013 Address Book issues after changing user SIP
Hi, I am getting ready to transfer users to a new SIP domain and having some issues with the address book updates. I changed SIP domains for 5 users as a test and changed their primary email addresses...
View ArticleIn dire need of help with Remote Desktop Service 2008R2-RDWEB & SSL!
Hello all, So we're setting up this 2008R2 RDS server...great fantastic....easy enough...run through the wizard...install RDS Host, Licensing, Gateway & Web Access - wham! done. got an SSL from...
View ArticleRemoteApps issue in Server 2012 Standard
I have a windows server 2012 installation VM in Hyper-V. I installed Remote Desktop Services, setup RemoteApps and published an app from one of our terminal servers. It was working fine last night. I...
View ArticleRemove all access to task manager
I am setting up a 2008r2 Remote Desktop Services server (Terminal Server) on a 2003 domain. I would like to make sure all none admin users do not have access to the Task Manager. What is the best way...
View ArticleServer 2012 in Hyper V - ctrl alt del massive delay
Hello, I've been running into this issue repeatedly throughout multiple Server 2012 builds and it's a really big problem for me now. I'm thinking it must be something I'm doing. I've posted about this...
View ArticleWindows 2012 R2 - Volume licensing availability rumors?
Are there any rumors RE: the availability of Windows 2012 R2 RTM via volume licensing? Windows 8.1 is rumored to RTM in a week or two, I wasn't sure if Win2012 R2 was rumored to be on the same...
View ArticleWindows 7 hosting SQL Server
Posted this question earlier in MS SQL section, and wanted to post in the Windows side of things to see if anybody here had any additional...
View ArticleRedirected (Home) Folders - Windows
So the backstory is we have setup redirection of My Documents to our users home directory. This is created by AD by mapping a drive letter to \\fileserver\homeshare\%username% and this was setup a...
View ArticleFile Transfer rate slow after power outage - Windows 2008R2 VSphere VM
We recently experienced a brief power outage that crashed the VSphere 5.0 ESX Host serving our File Server. The outage seems to have re-set the IP selection to DHCP from the static settings on all the...
View ArticleWDS 2k12 Deployment [NIC Driver issues]
So I have been messing with WDS on server 2012 for the past couple of weeks and I've had nothing but trouble with it. I have it pushing out a disc image of Windows 7 Pro x64 to a HP 4300 Pro SSF and...
View ArticleUsable RAM after upgrading OS from WinSvr 2003 to WinSvr 2008 R2
I have upgraded the memory on a Dell 840 from 4 x 512MB (2GB) to 4 x 2GB for a total of 8GB RAM; clean installed WinSvr 2008 R2; updated BIOS to lastest revision.On boot, I get the read/write error....
View ArticleRoboCopy - First Copy Has a few Access Denied Error 5 - Perm Fix, still denied?
Hi Guys, Just like to explain scenario to you and if this is the default behaviour or whether I have 'locked myself out' and what options I have? I run robocopy on shared data using /COPYALL e.g.:...
View ArticleHP Terminal Server
Hi. I'm building a HP terminal server for me and 6 users and I need advice about the best type of CPU to use. I have two different ones for the case I have - either the INTEL XEON E5-2420...
View ArticleWireless Driver for Server 2008
I needed to install Server 2008 on a Dell Latitude 6520 laptop, but have not been able to identify a wireless driver to connect to our network. It is not able to connect to our network.
View ArticleRobocopy to inherit destination folder permissions to new child folders/files
Hello everyone, I have been working on a domain migration that we have been doing from scratch. We needed to rebuild AD and after migrate those users documents. I'm using the below script to push...
View ArticleHow to stop people from copying/moving/deleting files from the shared drive
We have a shared drive that basically everyone in the company has access to...and they have to have access to. All day long people are adding documents into the folders and sub-folders. Periodically...
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