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I need o setup LDAP server and confirm it works on a Win Server 2008

I am moving mailboxes from exchange 2003 to exchange 2010.  I am getting an error that states:

Error:  Mailbox size 2.894 GB exceed target quota 2.3 GB

Is there a way that I can change the quota to have no limit?  Thanks

I am in the process of setting up a Microsoft TMG Enterprise server on a new Dell PowerEdge R610

I have installed Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, Exchange 2010 Edge Transport Service, ForeFront 2010 for Exchange and finally TMG 2010 as per...

Over the weekend i created two Server 2008 R2 servers (dc1 and dc2) and made them both domain controllers.  There was already a current server 2003 (HTE)acting as a domain controller.  It took awhile to promote the first server since it was going...

I have a standalone Windows 2008 R2 box with Exchange 2010 Standard on it.  It's a new install, about a month old.  From the beginning, I've been getting about a hundred errors a day in the system event log.  They look exactly like this.  

Log...

I have a Dell T610 with builtin 2 port Broadcom BCM5709C NetXtreme II NIC and a PCIe 2 port Broadcom BCM5709C NetXtreme II - giving 4 ports in total.  The server is running Windows 2008 Small Business Server (x64).

I want to team the ports...

I'm experimenting with VLAN, and notices that for most NICs I'm working with I don't have the opportunity to choose VLAN ID.

I'm using Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7, and here's what I do: in settings for network adapter, I click...

I am attempting to add a 2008 server to an existing domain which is Server 2003 Standard.

When installing the Active Directory Domain Service Roll, this completes correctly.  You are then advised that the server isn't running as a domain...

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I am having general slowness issues on my Server 2008 terminal server. The issue only happens when over 40-50 users are online, I need 100-150 users on it. This is their only way to work, they use thin clients over RDP.

I have 3...

When trying to start the Exchange Management Console I get a Initialization failed.
The following error occurred while attempting to connect to the specified exchange server 'removed for security':
      
The attempt to connect to (removed for...

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I have some Windows 7 Pro client pc's, which are running in an environment with Microsoft Small Business Server 2008, Exchange Server 2007 and Outlook 2010 client. However the users get prompted for username and password every single time...

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I am using Windows 2008 r2 .... without CItrix ....

I need to know exactly why this message occurs on remote desktop
reconnects and how to fix it. I have to reset the remote machine to
restart the OS to get back in.

I use remote...

Can anyone recommend a good free antivirus that is compatible with Windows Server 2008?

I have a feeling this could be related to another question I've raised on here (http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Server/SBS_Small_Business_Server/Q_27143519.html), however I'm listing it separately as it affects a...

I am trying to remove Administrative Tools from appearing on non administrators group policy setup for a 2008 R2 terminal server. I found the following similar question and tried this but the darn administrative tools still is there. Not sure how...

Over the past months we have had multiple network issues on the server CT-EDM-DC-01. We have completely ruled out the entire network and have found that the server is the main culprit. The problems include but are not limited to:
- During peak...

I get the above error when attempting to create my domain controller. I have selected the DNS server option as I need this to run DNS services as well. I am adding this into an environment with 2003 domain controllers. I am wondering if this will...

This was a pretty easy thing to do in SBS 2003. How do you update the self-signed certificate in SBS 2008.

Can anyone give me step by step instructions how to do this, starting with setting up the DNS all the way through the trust on the Windows 2008 domain?

Here is my senario,

I have a Windows 2008 Server, domain controller running in 2008...

I seem to be having some problems finding a way to disable the indexing service on a Windows 2008 R2 server.  Where do I need to go?

I have a 2008 server that is stuck on boot at the "Please wait for the group policy client" screen.  This is a file server and the main server is on SBS 2008.

Any ideas how I can get the server to boot completely.  The users are able to use...

Hello all,

I hope someone can help me with this.

Last week I started implementing the Active Directory Certificate Services  on one of the main domain controllers (Windows Server 2008R2 Enterprise).

Here is what I did:

1. Added the...

Is RDP 7.1 available for Windows XP?

Hello,

I need a script to reboot windows 2008 server with scheduled task.

Thanks

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I have Exchange 2010 running on Windows 2008 R2.
The issue Im having is that the transaction logs are filling up fast.
With 2003 I use to use NTBackup and this worked beautifully to backup exchange and after the backup it would...

Hi,

Just wonder if it's possible at all to enable NLA (Network Level Authentication) on Windows 2003 Server, 'cause I can't find any information anywhere about anyone that has done it.
My problem is that when I'm at home and need to check up...

I'm currently running exchange 2010 on Windows server 2008 r2. From within Exchange I've created a certificate request (.req) file with my various detials. I've then gone to my certification Authority which is installed on a DC also running...

I have a 2008 terminal server.  One user is having problems with their profile being created on the terminal server.  When they log in only a temporary profile is created.  So when they log off they lose all of their session settings.

In the...

I dont see the  option to install a new font in windows 2008 server R2:

Tried to follow the below instructions to install the font:
Choose Start > Settings > Control Panel; Double-click the Fonts folder.
Choose File > Install New Font.
...

I am trying to run a .bat file from Task Scheduler in Server 2008. I have set up my scheduled task, given it proper permissions and in the Actions Tab I have chosen "Start a Program." In the Program/script field I have browsed to my .bat file and...

We just deployed our first Forefront TMG server, and for the most part it is going well.  However, I have quite of entries in my event viewer of the following:

Forefront TMG detected Windows Filtering Platform filters that may cause policy...

When we are logged on to the 2008 Server and remote session is started the server session is logged off and the same goes if 2 of us are using RDP.  In windows server 2003 we could have the server logged on and have multiple sessions of RDP...

I have a problem on our network with FTMG and trying to understand the problem and FTMG mittigation mechanism.
At our network any user can make Forefront TMG unusable by using uTorrent aplication! FTMG stops accepting new connections and stops...

We've hit a little bit of a strange/frustrating problem with two of our newly created packages for SCCM 2007.

Two packages we have created and deployed to test machines will not download completely on those client machines.  Basically, the...

Event id 1511 is logged few times a day.

Summary:
Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on wwith a temporary profile. Changes you make to this profile will be lost when you log off.

User: domain\spwebapp

If I look in...

I'm having a problem connecting to a Metaframe Presentation Server website.  I can install the plug in (taken from here: http://support.citrix.com/product/ica/win/)

When I click the icon for the published app, a new pop up displays asking...

I am working from home (100 miles from server) and I need to remotely shutdown/restart a Server 2008 machine on my SBS 2003 domain.  I need to do this because I can no longer logon to the machine for reasons I do not yet know.  However, when I...

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I have 10 laptops running Windows 7 Professional I need to deploy.  Laptops will be shared by users and they'll be wireless.  I have Cisco WAP4410N access points which support WPA2-Enterprise and RADIUS authentication.

I would...

I have a two server environment.  "Fileserver" is Windows Server 2008 serving as file/print server as well as Active Directory server and DNS server for the domain.  "Mail" is Windows Server 2008 machine running Exchange 2007 SP1.   About once...

I have a new Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise server running the following roles:
Remote Desktop Session Host
Remote Desktop Licensing
Remote Desktop Gateway
Remote Desktop Web Access

Lets call the server "TS" for short.  It's internal name is...

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Just joined a new DC to the domain and am getting this error. I cant find much if any information about this error.

It references schannel

This Machine is 2008 R2 Standard. any help would be appreciated.


Log Name:      System...

I'm basically looking for some baseline CPU Utilization information in order to compare my Print Server with others.  I'm seeing high CPU utilization about every 5-7 minutes on the server where spoolsv.exe will spike at 100% for about a minute...

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I just finished replacing our old Domain Controllers with new Hardware and Windows Server 2008, and I need help with the time synchronization.

Here is my current network:
4 Domain Controllers with Windows Server 2008
4 Separate...

I have setup a new Exchange 2010 server and need a little help configuring the whitelist.  I have configured the AntiSpam on the EX2010 box and enabled spamcop.net and spamhaus.org as block list providers on the content filtering.  I have a few...

I have a Windows 2008 TS server that uses folder redirection group policy to redirect all user's folders to a file server.  All other servers / domain is on Windows Server 2003.

I have been seeing the warning event 510 appearing on the...

I created a brand new Windows 2008 Enterprise Domain in a VM Environment with all the latest patches. After promoting the Second DC - I started noticing that servers that were joining the domain would not appear in Users and Computers.  I checked...

We are using latest version drivers, indicated as Server 2008 compatible from the HP website, for the following printers:

LaserJet 9050DN, PCL6
LaserJet 4250, PCL5e
Color LaserJet 9500, PS

Printers are hosted on a Windows Server 2003...

I have a HP Proliant DL380 with Windows 2008 R2 std. x64 OS and I've installed HP Smart Start 8.30-0-x64 however I'm having problems installing the HP Insight Management Agent for Windows 2008 R2 x64 OS.

Trying to install HP Insight Management...

I done a fresh install of Server 2008 last week (on a HP Prolian ML350) and it's been running fine up until this morning when users reported the network was down.

Locally on server I could move the mouse but that was it, I had to do a hard...

We have a domain controller that is Windows 2000 server (standard).  A Windows 2003 server running terminal server as a member server.  We are getting a new Windows 2008 server that we want to be the domain controller and the terminal server.  Is...

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After install DNS, DHCP on windows server 2008 the vista clients get ipv6 and can't find the exchange server ( exchange 2007 on OS server 2008) .

Vista client find the exchange server , when i delete the "IPV6 Host AAA" record (the...

The method of disabling 'Administrative Templates\Desktop\Remove My Computer icon on the desktop' etc policy settings to force the icon to be visible on desktop doesn't seem to work on Windows Server 2008 R2.
I've for the moment forced Computer...

Hello Everyone

I'm trying to find out how to edit the start menu for all users.

When i go to c:\users\All Users\Start Menu i get an access is denied.

I gather it's somewhere else to edit but i can't find it.

I was asked work on a clients new server.  They already setup installed Active Directory, but they installed it in what I "strongly considered" the wrong domain.  I removed Active Directory and reinstalled it.  Everything appeared to be good...

I have a new Ex2010 server running on a Server 2008R2 box.  This email server was put in place last week and was a migration from EX2003.  Email is sending out fine to everyone but one domain.  Yesterday I haad users complaining that email had...

So have have a new XenApp 6.5 test farm and I'm having trouble. After closing a seamless program, the session remains open.

To eliminate some issues (like the splwow64.exe one) I created just a simple cmd.exe published app.

I've checked...

I am trying to setup Exchange in SCC cluster mode.  During the Exchange install I discovered that I actually need to setup a Windows Cluster first in order to get the Exchange into a cluster mode.  When I try and setup a Windows cluster, it all...

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I have problem with one installation of windows 2008 server Enterprise with Active Directory and  Hyper-V virtualization on it.
When the OS starts  it boots all the way to the logon screen, but when it's time for the logon screen to...

I have a brand new Server 2008 R2 box, with an Areca 1222 Sata II RAID controller, 24GB of RAM, SQL 2008.

It has been running fine up until yesterday when I needed to reboot the server for updates.  After reboot, the server would load windows...

I have setup a lab System Centre Configuration Manager 2012 RC install and now trying to install the client on a windows 7 test using push install but it fails (log attached).

the server and client firewall is off.
the 'client install'...

Have just set up a Server 2008 R2 machine with Remote Desktop Services.  It's all running on the one server, just for a single application, which works fine locally and when using Remote Desktop Web Access on the local network.

However, when...

We have upgraded our domain controllers to win2008r2 and in the process we renamed the old servers with prefix 'old' and the new ones with prefix 'new'.

Now when we want to rename the new servers from NewServer to just Server it asks for...

Since our Citrix Install, been getting the same error. No matter how many times I try building from the begining.

The installation goes fine, but when testing launching an application from the client plugin or web browser I get the following...

I need to do a fresh install of Windows Server 2008 R2 on a Dell PowerEdge 2800.  How will I get the Server 2008 R2 DVD installation to see my RAID 1disk?  I know usually I need to somehow load the RAID drivers during or before the Windows...

Very simple quetion for those of you who knows Windows 2008 better than me... How can I enable (Be able to see it in Administrative Tools) Active Directory Users and Computers on Windows 2008 server? There is no "adminpak" like Windows 2003......

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I have a windows 2008 server, running terminal services. I created a profile (locked down) that i wanted to apply to all users. I there for created this, went into my computers - - properties and copied this over the default...

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we have now tried everyting: disable time syncs between host and guest, use windows time service, dont use it - results are still the same: every now and then, the event log shwos events from the kernel with id 1 stating "the system time...

Hi, users are having random issues when connecting to our Windows 2008 R2 XenApp 6 servers.  I think it might be when they try to reconnect to a session.  I see in some forums this was caused by firewalls or anti-virus on the servers.  My servers...

I recently upgraded a server from server 2008 sp2 to r2. It had hyper-v installed and the Hyper-v machines are working, managed from any other servers. But in Server Manager on the actual machine, if you click on Roles or Features it try to load...

Hi,

I have this scenario:

- Router 1 public IP address
- W2008 R2 + Exchange 2010 w/ OWA
- Windows Server 2008 + TS + TS Web Access + TS RemoteApp + TS Gateway (not W2008R2 RD Web)
- W2008 R2 + Forefront TMG 2010 + RD Web + RD gateway
...

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I'm trying to convert a physical  2008 R2 Exchange 2007 to a VM (VMWare Vsphere Hypervisor) using MWare vCenter Converter Standalone V.4.3.0 Build-292238.

The coversion fails at 1 %.

The log highlights says:
A snapshot of the...

Lately, not sure why, but when booting up my Server 2008 Domain Controller (holds all roles) It sits at "Applying computer settings" for an extremely long time and I receive the following error message in the event logs, any ideas?

The...

On our windows 2008 terminal servers i experience logon problems. Sometimes the logon time takes about 10 seconds wile other times it can take up more than 50 seconds only showing an rotating welcome.

i found out that when this problem occurs...

I've brought in a new w2k8 R2 DC into our w2k3 domain, and I'm seeing all kinds of security log audit failures, mostly kerberos.  I've found some basic information on them, but I don't understand the process well enough to make much sense of...

Environment:
Citrix XenApp (all on Windows Server 2008 SP2)
AD 2003
Printserver Windows Server 2008 SP2

I'd like to use GPO Preferences for printer mapping. I set up the printer mapping using the create or replace option. So far everything...

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I have setup a small network at my church - (Server 2008 R2 - fully updated).  We have XP machines on the network that are able to get the printer (copier) applied to machines.  This is a preference that is applied to "computer...

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Here is my problem:

Exchange 2010 - Win2008 R2

I had to recreate virtual OWA and ECP in Exchange because they were not working. I could recreate OWA virtual directory but when I try to do the same with ECP it gives me this error:
...

We are creating a standard build for windows 2008 and windows 2008R2 for remote offices who have different servers and application roles.

I know there are many arguments to what size should be and that you should use permon for further...

I have numerous policies that are only partial working after upgrading 2 of my three DC's to 2008. I believe that the issue withthe GPOs is the same accrost the board... One specific GPO that Im working on is suposed to set the connection...

How can I fix this problem???
We are using windows sbs 2008

The DNS server is waiting for Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) to signal that the initial synchronization of the directory has been completed. The DNS server service cannot...

Hi Everyone,

Here is my set up:

All domain controllers are running Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition.

ISA-SERVER:
Handles DHCP for 2 segments: 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.10.1.
Traffic between segments is routed and unrestricted.
...

Been looking on Microsoft's site and Google-ing for 2 hours now and I can't find any information on the ACTUAL number of CPU cores (NOT CPU SOCKETS!) that Windows Server 2008 R2 will support.
8, 16, 32?

I'm trying to spec out a server with 1...

I have a question regarding Home Folder shares in Windows Server 2008:
I have home folders located in the following directory:  C:\home$\usershare$
(where usershare$ is one particular share and home$ is the parent folder)
When I attempt to...

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I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controller. Active directory integrated DNS is installed along with DHCP on the DC. I have configured the following on the dhcp server properties;

In the dhcp console if I right click on IPV4 and...

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...

i have basic scripts scheduled to run drive backups, when i manually run the script it loads the software and backups happen 100%, but when i schedule a task as the admin to run at full priviliges etc the task will start and finish but the backup...

I have an Exchange 2007 CCR cluster that runs in a Windows 2008 cluster.

2 days ago, the active node had performance problems (reading from / writing to the DB files took an abnormally long time). Sind a manual failover to the other node did...

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While trying to figure out why backup jobs are failing I noticed I had tons of iSCSI warnings in the event viewer-

Here's a couple all event id 113-

iSCSI discovery via SendTargets failed with error code 0xefff0024 to target portal...

I am trying to setup task scheduler in win 2008 x64 to send an email  when an event happens.

I have 2 servers:
server 1 is SBS 2003 FQDN SBS2003.XXXX.local

Server2 is win 2008 std x64. It is running application. has been up for 4 months...

Recently purchased a new IBM server x3650 am I am unsure the best way to setup the RAID. I want to do RAID 5 but I have read that the OS cannot/shouldn't be put on the same array.

Experiencing major printer disruption on our Windows 2008 Terminal Server. Throughout the day all of the printers become unavailable either because the spooler has crashed ( no printers listed) or jobs submitted just do not print. Before the...

When computers attempt to connect to a Terminal Server running Windows Server 2008 R2, they receive the error "A revocation check could not be performed for the certificate."

Access from the machines to the CDP has been verified both through...

Hi Everyone,

Our server 2008 box keeps hanging on "Please wait for the user profile service" when logging on or off, even locally.  Occasionally while signing on and off via TS you get the message that the terminal server is busy processing...

We bought a new Dell MD3200 DAS (NOT iSCSI) This is connected with the MiniSAS cables.
http://www.dell.com/us/enterprise/p/powervault-md3200/pd

I have 2 Windows 2008 R2 servers which I would like to Cluster SQL on, I already have some good...

I am getting the following error in the even log of my exchange 2010 HUB/CAS Server:
EVENT ID:  1035
Inbound authentication failed with error LogonDenied for Receive connector Default EXCHSVR. The authentication mechanism is Ntlm. The source IP...

Is there any way to get appletalk (afp) installed as a protocol in Windows Server 2008? It came standard as an option in 2000 and 2003. I'm assuming a lot has changed with Server 2008 since it's built on vista.

Right now I'm using smb with...

I am trying to move mailboxes from SBS 2003 to our new Windows 2008 Exchange 2010 box and most moves have completed without issues.  However, there are two that have the error below when trying to create the local move request.  I am not sure how...

We have a remote client that would just like basic VPN services for two users from home.  The users are 100% remote - never in the office.  We'd like to just use PPTP for ease of use rather than the new SSTP setup.  How can this be accomplished?