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I have a user that has had a windows xp workstation for years. We are running WINDOWS 2008R2 servers in our domain environment. Yesterday he picked up some kind of virus, then kind that tries to sell you a AV software, but is really a virus in...

Hi,

I'm, running VMware data recovery 2.0.0.1861 on my vSpere 4.1 cluster. All my VM's are backupped without problems, my vcenter server (W2008R2 SP2) not however, error:

Failed to create snapshot for vCenter, error -3960 ( cannot quiesce...

New XenApp Servers are cloned from a prept VM template (Server 2008 R2 and XenApp 6.5 on vSphere 5).

Config is applied by GPO (RDS Lic Server, Citrix Lic Server, SQL Server, Zone). After server boots MFcom service is in "starting ...." state...

I am having this error repeatedly on my Windows 2008 R2 server running Exchange 2010 SP1 RU6.

 Event Type:      Error
Event Source:      MSExchange Common
Event Category:      General
Event ID:      4999
Date:            2/15/2012
Time:            7:49:46 AM
User:            N/A...

I have hp proliant ml350 g6. It was running server 2008 and running vmware server.
I wanted to run VMware ESXi 5 on the server, so I run the convertor and save the vm file on D drive. I run the cd and installed VMware ESXi 5. Now I am able to...

Hello All,

This is my first ML110 G7 server install, although I have installed about 50 G5 and G6 servers in the past so I am familiar with the general process used.

This is a brand new ML110 G7 server straight from the box, with the...

Hello,

We have an Exchange 2010 SP2 Rollup 1 server running on 2008 R2 which isn't letting us search using Microsoft OWA.  We keep getting the error "The action couldn't be completed, please try again".

In PShell I have run:...

I'm working on a Windows 7 deployment using WDS and MDT 2010.  I've ran into a snag.

When attempting to PXE boot a workstation I started getting the below error  

A connection to the deployment share could not be made,...

hello experts,

hopefully, anyone can help me out.

environment: xenapp 6.5 on w2k8 r2 sp1

problem: i'm connecting to publish desktop and suppose to get 5 printers (lets call them printer 1,2,3,4 and 5) which i can eventually see upon...

About 12 months ago we rolled out XenApp 6 published desktops to all of our staff over 8 offices around the country.
Majority of the staff work within the LAN where the XenApp servers are located.
The rest are in branch offices connected via...

Hello,

I am running Windows 2008R2 as a print server and noticed that the following error keeps appearing:

Faulting application name: PrintIsolationHost.exe, version: 6.1.7600.16385, time stamp: 0x4a5bd3b1
Faulting module name:...

Connecting by Remote Desktop from my Windows 7 machine to a Server 2008 r2 Remote Desktop server, which is a Vmware Esxi 4.1 VM.

Whether I do a straight remote desktop, or whether I try to run the remote media player as a published...

Hi All,

We have a requirement of backing up the Netapp cifs share using TSM. I know we can do it by mounting the cifs share to the windows node. I have windows node ready and my windows admin is getting the share ready by mapping it as one of...

Received an message from hp proliant alrert.:

Source:             Storage Agents
Type:               Warning
Category:           (4)

Description:
An 'Accelerator Board Battery Failed' trap signifies that the agent has detected a battery failure...

I recently moved a public folder to a shared mail box so I could enable exchange 2010 archiving. The public folder was huge and I forgot to turn off the default mail box limits, when I came back to work in the morning the public folder was all...

Hi,
I have a client who uses Win 2003 terminal server today. I suggested an upgrade to 2008 R2, and showed them a demo of RD Web access. I was not sure how iPad would work with Rd Web, but found out it doesnt.
This client uses iPhones and...

I have a just finish setting up a 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Server (Terminal server) with Remote Desktop Web Access site and a RemoteApp.  All windows firewall was disabled and everything works internally.  Is there a way to have only port 80/443...

I've been banging my head against this one for a couple days.

I'm attempting to build a media deploy on a USB key as there is no builtin Ethernet port on this laptop to allow for PXE booting.  

I have the laptop plugged into a Targus USB...

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What is the best way to investigate and look for the root cause for the AD account lock out ?

I have a recurring problem in account lock out in my AD that is happening often.

Thanks.

I am trying to get MDT up and running, it is kinda getting there but I am having some issues with getting it to join the domain.

I get an error along the lines of "ZTIDomainJoin has attempted to join to the domain(my domain) too many times....

Hi Experts,

I have a system set up:

FrontEnd
1 SQL backend
1 FE Lync Server - 172.16.0.10


Edge:
1 Edge Lync Server - 2 Subnets

172.16.1.10 - Edge Internet NIC
-
172.16.2.50 - Access Edge IP
172.16.2.51 - WebConf IP...

How can I Robocopy from one domain to another?  I can manually copy in Windows GUI but takes way too long because going from one server to your remote desktop host and back to another server.  I want to Robocopy directly from one to another but...

can't figure out how to allow more than one session by sbsadmin user.  i would like to have multiple sessions...for whatever reason, sbsadmin bumps off sbsadmin.  

where can i change this setting?

i have already tried a bunch of settings so...

My company is connected to my home office via T1. We run a IE based inventory system called Tecsys Elite. Our DNS servers are pointing to a Windows Server 2008 machine at the home office. My workstations in my office are using Windows 7.

My...

I have a client that just purchased a number of Macbook's along with an OSX Lion server.  I am supposed to setup the Lion Server in Dual Directory mode so that it can manage the Macbooks.  The current Windows domain ends in .local.  Whenever I...

Hello,
I keep receiving the following error when attempting to upgrade from Exchange Server 2010 SP1 to SP2:

Entry DN: CN=ms-Exch-ELC-Expiry-Action,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=,DC=local
Add error on entry starting on line 1: Operations...

I am having a problem with printing on 64-bit 2008R2 box. The error I get is this:

The document %DocumentName, owned by %User, failed to print on printer %Printer. Try to print the document again or restart the print spooler.
Data type: NT...

We're trying to use the "Backup Once" Wizard in Windows Server Backup.

Here are the options we select:
- Bare Metal, System State, C:, and E: (our data volume)
- Storage Type: Local drive -- formatted with NTFS, plenty of space for multiple...

Picked up on some issues while backing up two new VMs since we have started calling the script at the start of the backup jobs. It appears that the script causes the CPU usage to hit 100% and cause the backups to fail, the high CPU usage is...

Hi Everyone,

The other day I noticed the C drive on my 2008 file server was 75% full, about 110GB of my 140GB drive. I though this was odd because the drive only holds the OS, and some Domain Controller features.

After some digging I found...

I have a client wich a Windows 2008 R2 standard server. I have Citrix Fundamentals installed on it and the certificate wich they are using is expired.

So i went to Godaddy and bought a new multi domain certifcate.
The CSR is created on the...

Hi,
 
 I was trying to install Office 2010 Professional from RETAIL version of Office 2010 CD on Terminal Server 2008 R2 and I saw a message that I have to have Volumne Licensing version of office 2010 in order to install it on the Terminal...

Hi Experts,

Our main server is running Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit.
Because I heard about the security issue MS12-020, I checked the status of our Windows Updates a few days ago and was shocked to see that none were being downloaded or...

Hi guys,

I have Solarwinds monitoring internally and we would like to publish the website of it, out to the Internet.

We have set up logins, so users can enter their details into the login form that Solarwinds presents


I have tried to...

Hi,

I trying to get my Cisco catalyst switches (2960G) to use MS NPS as a RADIUS server so that AD accounts can be used to log into and manage the device.

I have read several guides on the internet including some posts here at EE - no...

I recently upgraded a 2003 print server to 2008R2.  When I attempt to install the shared printers from a workstation I get this error:

Windows cannot connect to the printer
Operation failed with error 0x00000574

It was working yesterday...

Hello

We recieve the following error message when trying to revert a VM back to a Snapshot taken a few days ago

"A General system error occurred:  Failed to lock the file"

How do i resolve this and revert back to the snapshot?

Thanks...

I am loading drivers onto a print server, Server 2008R2, I am loading both 64 bit and 32 bit drivers to be served to our users.  This is a brand new server, the only thing on this server is print services.  The first time I installed the drivers,...

I got the following error on SBS 2011, for an existing domain, which has previously been set up with the domain name provider:

Domain provider authentication error      domain.local      6/22/2011 1:48:18 PM      1
   
The Dynamic DNS client did not...

I have two exchange 2010 server across two datacenters in the same AD domain. I already have installed SP2 on one of the exchange server at datacenter1 which then update schema. I used this command to do this:

SETUP /m:upgrade...

I have playing with StoreGrid to create BMR images and Restore to a .vhd file.  I then create the vm and attach the vhd.  Start the vm and it starts to boot the I have the BSOD and "unmountable_boot_volume 0x000000ED".  It then goes to the F8...

We are running two ESXi 5.0 hosts, connected via iSCSI to an HP P2000 G3 SAN. One of the VMs, a Windows Server 2000 machine has it's C: drive on a VMFS LUN and it's D: drive is an RDM LUN.

That LUN gets hourly snapshots at the SAN level.

We...

I have server with 64GB and windows 2008 standard R2 tell me that only 32GB useable is there is way to change it?

Hi!

Just some quick (I hope) questions...

Have a new DELL PowerEdge T410 Server to install windows Server 2008 R2 on. System has 6 HDDs with a 1TB pair of HDDs for RAID1. The RAID configuration was specified on order as 2x RAID1 and 3x...

I have an issue with one of my Windows 2008 R2 DC's and that when I go under DNS on the server and under Forward Lookup Zones and then under NameServers.

When I click the resolve button I get an error "An unknown error occurred while...

Hi Experts,

I have a Toshiba Copier / Printer ES351c.
I want to use SMB to directly drop scanned documents onto a shared folder on the Server.

The scanner configuration page is shown below.

How do I configure the SMB service?  
...

Running Window Server 2008 R2. When I try to start the service I get this error here.

I don't have a AD Environment this just a Workgroup environment.

I have tried following the Link here. It does nothing. Tried updating network cards...

I need a list of all of the Identifying characterizes that uniquely identify a file.

I've heard that one of these is the MD5 checksum (or something like that).

What other unique identifiers are contained within files that can be used to...

Hi Team,

I am using Lync 2010 and i need to know how to export/Import the local contacts in one of the user..

I need to re-enable this user account.. so before deleting this account in the lync server i need to export the local contacts in...

Hi,

We just implemented Room Finder where we created Room List for our users but whenever we create meeting we cannot see the available rooms.  The suggested times is reporting a message indicated in the title of this inquiry.

We can...

A new DC / DHCP server (running Windows Server 2008) is throwing the 10020 warning in the event log.  I've followed steps to disable IPV6 in both Network Configuration and in the registry, but the warning is still appearing.  The answer may be to...

I am hosting a RemoteApp from a Windows 2008 R2 server. I created an installer package and a .rdp file for client use. It doesn't matter which I use. The problem is when I first launch the RemoteApp and a session is created for me on the host, I...

What if any command line parameters/Powershell script could I use with wbadmin to backup only select VHD's on a Core Server.  For example, let's say I have 3 running VM's - VM1, VM2 and VM3 - on a 2008 R2 Core Server and I want to run a wbadmin...

Heyas,

I am trying to deploy network application that keeps getting blocked by windows proxy servers so am trying to bypass them. I have read that applications that support SOCKS protocol can forward its network connection over ssh and...

I have been trying to understand how to apply the relationship and how it really work.  I can not find any material that deep enough to let me understand how it really work.  Does anyone can explain in detail.

How is a relationship work? When...

I would like to programatically create an attribute for contact entity within a specific unmanaged solution I created.  How do I do that?

Hello,

I am setting up a Windows Server 2008 R2 system with GroupWise 2012 and I am having many problems. I

My first hurdle is with eDirectory. I installed eDirectory but it does not appear to be working. How will I know if it is working? I...

How can I copy an ISO file from one computer to the data store in a VMware ESXi server?

I need to make this ISO file accessible so that I can load it to install Server 2008 R2 within the VMware ESXi environment.

Please provide me with the...

Hi I am new to SAN storage and its allocation to windows servers, i have got to add LUN space to win 2k8 r2 servers and have given Qlogic HBA info from the win 2k8 server storage explorer interface to SAN team to assign the LUN space to this...

Hello,

I have an existing Server Farm running XenApp 5.0 and I'm needing to add another server running XenApp 6.5 and then eventually bring down my existing XenApp 5.0. What are the steps to complete this project successfully?

This is what...

I have a remote location that we're looking to setup with a local copy of a data set from corp, I've looked at DFS for this and it looks to be a viable option.  However, someone mentioned BranchCache and that also seems interesting, however,...

Hi Guys,

I have an interesting issue where one user gets the "The Citrix server has reached its concurrent application...." when trying to run an application. The app published is a desktop and the screen goes black as if its going to start...

Hi Everyone,

I'm trying to add a standalone drive (raid 0) to a perc 6i without losing the data thats on the drive (without formatting, etc.). In OMSA, the create virtual drive wizard seems to nuke the drive, and then requires formatting in...

I have a Dell R710 with boot to SAN (Compellent) and am now getting random crashes. WinDBG  shows the text below but I can't figure out what exactly to do about this.

DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (d1)
An attempt was made to access a pageable...

Hello,

I'm planning to upgrade memory (RAM) on Exchange Server 2010 running on two ESX hosts. I'm looking for directions to put some part of servers in maintenance mode while the second host handle traffic.

Here is the existing setup:
...

I have installed a server sbs 2011 (close match of server 2008 R2 core)
Have four physical HDD ( two * RAID 1 )built using inbuilt RAID card on ufi enabled IBM x3400 M3 server

First RAID set is meant for OS & must be independent to data disk...

This is driving me crazy and I know there are others out there that have had this situation:

I installed Server 2008 into an existing Server 2003 domain. I think I may have made a mistake by installing DNS role first and not allowing DCPromo...

I am getting the following error when trying to access our only SharePoint site:

Server Error in '/' Application.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Object reference not set to an instance of...

When one of my customers tries to install the Symantec Backup Exec 2010 R3 updates, he gets the message shown in the screenshot "Symantec Live Update is not installed. Scheduled updates to Backup Exec cannot be retrieved without Live Update. You...

hey peeps,

I've got a Windows 2008 R2 server on a tin machine and one of its services is acting as a print server. It was fine until two days ago.

The print spooler keeps stopping. I restart it. Then it stops again.

I've installed...

Transitioned from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010, and noticing high memory usage and multiple processes running taking up a lot of memory.  Is any of this an issue, or to be concerned about?  It's a single Exchange 2010 server with SP2...

Hello,

I have an SBS2011 Server and I have been getting the error NtFrs Error 13559 in the File Replication Service event logs…



The File Replication Service has detected that the replica root path has changed from...

We have a number of meeting room's and other equipment (cars, Projectors etc) that I have created a Room or Equipment mailbox for in Exchange2010.  I have added these to outlook2010 on a few test computers to make sure all is working.  I now need...

Hello,

I have a PE R300 Server that I just replaced two hard drives. It was initially setup for a RAID 1 with two 73 GB HD. Now, I have two 300 GB HD, however when I insert them and run a new Windows Server 2008 R2 installation I see two 300...

I have an SBS2003 server that is the only domain controller. I recently installed a Server 2008 R2 server and ran DCpromo. All went well with no errors, but when I look in C:\Windows\SYSVOL\sysvol\allsaintsaustin.local

all I see is:...

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how can i do log rotation in windows 2008?

also, how do i backup the old ones?

thanks

We use a template to deploy VMs. The VMs are normally Windows 2008 R2 Data Center that have been setup and run Sysprep on and then Converted to a template and then we deploy from that Template. What we have been seeing is duplicate UUID's on the...

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On my Virtual Machin Properties - Summary, I've changed the hard disk 1 size from 50 GB to 60 GB.  But when I go to vitual machine console and I click on c:\ drive it show 50 GB not 60GB.

What i'm missing ?

I have migrated from an old server running Exchange 2003 to a new server running Exchange 2010.

My Outlook 2003 clients are able to download the OAB fine, but my Outlook 2007 clients get an error 0x80200049 when trying to download the OAB.
...

Hi,

I'm about to pilot test Citrix Xen 5 App on site for one of my client.

My questions are:

do you required to purchase third party SSL certificate to be able to securely access Citrix over the public network?

Or, can you use the...

Hi,

We are attempting to install backup exec 2010 R3 on a 2008 R2 standard server. the installation fails during the SQL installation stage.

This is the error line from the Backup Exec logs:
 

We have referred to the article which...

Is it possible for a Mac to connect to DFS shares on a Windows Server 2008 Active Directory network?  How?  

Thanks.

Hi,

I have a Terminal Server environment where 4-5 clients are working.

Did somebody set up such a thing like 2 exchange account in the same outlook profile?


Thanks.

Hi all,

After running WSUS 3.0 SP2 on an SBS 2011 Standard Server for a few months, we've changed the WSUS config to "Do not store update files locally..." as we have a small network and not a massive amount of disk space on our Server.

I...

When updating the Group Policy I need to go and propagate on every server with gpupdat /force for GP to take effect.  How often it updates on its own if I don't do it and where can I see that setting?  Is there a way to change it?
Thanks.

I have a new Hyper-V 2008 R2 guest that was working 100% fine for a few weeks and all of a sudden today remote desktop became unusable. It's just using RDP for Administration and I've verified everything I can think of is fine but nothing will...

Heres the situation.  server 2008 r2 active directory.  We set peoples accounts up to expire when HR notifies us that they will be leaving in a month or so.  A month later, their account expires.  Their account is NOT disabled.  I need a way to...

Have a 2008 r2 server that the 120 day trial Remote Desktop license has expired on.  It was my understanding that you could get 1 (or 2) admin connection(s) with or without a license.  This license expired over the weekend and I cannot get a...

We are seeing an issue where users are attempting to launch a session and the session somethimes connect, somethimes not connect. They are having to relaunch the application 3 - 5 times before the connection establishes. Once connected they are...

We have a few Notebook computers that connect and disconnect to our network via wired, wireless and VPN. With 2007 Exchange and Outlook 2007, they could run in Cache mode and disconnect from the network without any problems.

But now, right...

We use PKI, Common Access Cards to activate Windows.

One admin reports that when he tries to activate windows on his Windows 2008 Servers he gets the error "This ID card cannot be used to activate Windows."  Other admins are able to activate...

I have a WD Elements USB drive I can see in "My Computer" (Windows Server 2008 R2), but is not listed in "Disk Management". Not a big deal normally, but I need to attach it to a Hyper-V virtual machine and can't do that if its not mounted and...

I am receiving the following error consistently on my exchange server and do not know how to start to diagnose the problem

Log Name: System
Source: Schannel
Date: 09/11/2011 11:09:23
Event ID: 36887
Task Category: None
Level: Error ...

Had the brilliant idea of creating a virtual server from which to run Backup Exec 2010.  Created a VM on XenServer 5.6 FP1 running Windows Server 2008 R2. Had difficulty with the drivers for the Dell SAS/5E card which connects the Powervault 124T...

I am having an issue where someone in my organization sent sensitive data to all users in the organization. I have successfully retracted the email, but now the request was made for me to find out who actually opened the email before I was able...

Hi,

I got a new domain based on a SBS2011. I want to let the SBS synchronise time with an external source, like europe.pool.ntp.org. Then I want the rest of the servers sync time with the SBS.

There are many websites with information about...

I just installed/moved to Exch 2010 from exch 2003. Before the change anyone could scan to email on the copiers inside or outside email addresses. now you can only scan to network (domain) email addresses, can not scan to outside email addresses...

Getting event id 3112 "The virtual machine could not be started because the hypervisor is not running" on a DL 385 G7.  I have confirmed AMD Virtualization Technology is enabled and No Execute is enabled in BIOS.  Even disabled both, powered off...