Task scheduler start a task and shows running, but nothing happens
Hello, I am trying to run a java program through the task scheduler on an old windows server 2012R2. My script runs when I double click on it, or if I run directly from the CMD screen. This is a batch program that doesn't need any interaction with…
Options to clean up primary drive on server
Hello, We have a 2012 R2 domain controller with very low hard drive space on the primary drive. I have checked to display hidden files and when checking the size of all the files and folders of the C drive, the total is less then what the critical state…
DHCP server - State Switchover Interval, Maximum Client Lead Time? What options do I need?
I have relatively a small network with two domain controllers (windows server 2012 and windows server 2016) I want to use a shared pool option with something like 90% - 10 % (So there is the main server and the second reserved one). The vast majority…
Server 2012 R2 Essentials forever "Please wait" screen after latest windows update and also threw the IRQL_not_less_or_equal error - just once but now stuck at "Please wait"
OS: Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials version is installed. Worked perfectly fine for more than three years now. Latest Windows update that was automatically applied 2 days ago. Server went into installing update 1 of 1 and restarted as normal and the…
Cannot access new website
Hello, we have a new website created and hosted by a third party. Users cannot access the website from the office network. It can be accessed anywhere else outside the office network. Users can also surf the net as usual other than this new website.…
Windows Server 2012 R2 restart loop
Today we facing windows server 2012 R2 keep on restart loop after trying to load the windows login. It prompt "Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart. We're just collecting some error info, and then we"ll restart for you". …
Remove unused space from a disk
Hi, I have a on-prem VM which has 500 GB of disk connected, it is hardly used, currently utilized around 30 GB. Is there a way using "disk mirroring option" to reduce the total space and return remaining space back to datastore eg: by…
The DNS server has encountered a critical error from the Active Directory. Client cannot authenticated.
Hello, I have four DCs, one of them in personal site. Client in same site could not authenticate in AD because server is not available if I reboot one of DC from other site, for example DC01 On primary DC for this clients (for example DC03), I…
SMTP server (IIS) 2012 R2 is using incorrect certificate by outbound connection
I have setup a Windows server 2012 R2 SMTP server and it's working fine, accept that is not using the correct certificate for the outbound connection, which is een problem because i need it for my office365 (exchange-online) connector to identify itself…
DNS forward lookup zone is empty
In my Windows Server 2012 R2, it host a few asp.net web sites. Now I just installed DNS by this tutorial. However I haven't seen anything under DNS Forward Lookup Zone there is no _msdcs zone or local something. Do I have to manually install them? If I…
New WSUS server
Hi, We are curenly using a WSUS which runs on a Windows Server 2012R2. Since there are a performance issues on that server, we've decided to deploy a new WSUS server (Windows Server 2019). We are using an option "Use Group Policy or registry…
How to add Tracing to IIS under Windows Server 2012 R2 under Azure
We are currently struggling to add Tracing to the roles on a Windows Server 2012 R2 under Azure. We have been using "Server Manager" app. We get to the screen that says "Feature installation" of "Web Server (IIS) > Web Server…
VP Configuration server/-client
Install and configure a VPN service on the Windows server 2012 Foundation, the server has two network cards installed and configured, both have IP addressing in the same segment, and the remote access and configuration services are configured and active.…
Server 2012 r2 WMI error
Server 2012 r2 Domain controller. WMI diag gives the following errors: Root/aspnet, 0x8004100E - (WBEM_E_INVALID_NAMESPACE) Namespace specified cannot be found. Then 118 error 0x80070002 saying it can't open registry keys. DISM scanhealth showed…
Windows 10 PCs not displaying Windows Server 2012 in Windows Explorer
I have a client that just upgraded a few Windows 7 PCs to Windows 10 Pro and has one new Windows 10 pro box on a client-server network. Since they moved from Windows 7 to 10 on the workstations, they cannot see the Windows Server 2012 (domain controller)…
Update Windows Server 2012
I want to update my Windows Server r2 2012. So I got the patch on KB2822241 nad run it. But the system said that it is not applied. Why?
In-place upgrade from 2012 r2 to 2019 affect on spanned volume
We have a 2012 r2 server we are trying to do an in-place upgrade to 2019, the question is how will the upgrade affect the spanned volume that is on the 2012 r2 server. Not sure if need to just move the volume of if there is a different option.
Windows Server 2012 Foundation user profile
Good afternoon. I have a Windows Server 2012 Foundation running, with RDP configured and 12 users accessing. It has been running for 2 years without problems, but a couple of months ago I saw that the folders of the user profiles (c: \ users \…
iSCSI Initiator
I lost power and lost connection to my iscsi target. I get the following error in event viewer: iSCSI discovery via Host Bus Adapter failed with error code 0xefff003a to Host Bus Adapter…
IIS User Extend
Dear Team, I want to extend/increase application users concurrently login in IIS Service. our current user 30 but i want to increase more 10 users. Please share the Microsoft documents and advice me. Thanks