Hello  I have a Windows 2016 Domain Controller that is a Read-Only DC.  I need to be able to bring this server up and log into it when it is not connected to a NIC card.
The error I get when I try is  "There are currently no login servers available to service the login request?"  It does not seem to be storing the Cached Password like my Windows 2008 DC do.

Please help

thx

Jake

Dell R710 - PERC H700 Integrated Driver.

We formatted this server for the purpose of converting it into a Domain Controller for one of our other locations, (replacing a server that died) running Windows 2008 Server R2.

Once we installed Dell OpenManage it kept indicating that the current version (4.05.01.64) is older that the required version (4.31.1.64) of the controller, see image.


I already have the version 4.31.1.64 installed as you can see from the image but OpenManage isn't seeing.

We live in a Windows Server 2008 environment and have a quick need for a Windows Server 2012.  Can we run one instance of 2012 on a 2008 hyper-V server?

The goal:  Copy client files/folders (and their security settings) from Server1 to Server2.  Note:  Server1 and Server2 are on the same network.

The problem:  Due to the collective size (1 TB) of data to be copied, it would take days to complete over a network connection.

Possible steps:
Part A - Goal:  Copy Server1 data to external disk drive  (Drive Letter H)
Step 1:  Attach a USB 3.0 external disk drive to Server1.  
Step 2:  Robocopy Server1 (shared folder "Clients") to external disk drive.  
Step 3:  When complete, disconnect external disk drive.

Part B - Goal:  Copy External disk drive data (Drive Letter H) to Server2
Step 4:  Attach external disk drive to Server2.  
Step 5:  Robocopy external disk drive data to Server2  (shared folder "Clients")
Step 6:  When complete, disconnect external disk drive.

I have reviewed the robocopy command here:  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/robocopy

To ensure I do this correctly, I have two questions for you regarding Robocopy:
 
Question 1:  What would comprise the robocopy command line, to accomplish Step 2 (Server1 to USB drive)?  
Question 2:  What would comprise the robocopy command line, to accomplish Step 5 (USB drive to Server2)?

Thanks for your help!

Hi,

   I have two servers one server 2012 r2 and one is 2008r2. Both of them have randomly started asking to activate windows, but neither will activate. They both spit out the KMS server is unavailable. I have ran nslookup -type=srv _vlmcs._tcp, which gives me the results:
 Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.1.2

***UnKnown can't find _vlmcs._tcp: non-existent domain

This the same on both sever. The 2008 is the DNS server which has the ip of 192.168.1.2

I have tried running all of the slmgr.vbs comands via command prompt and cannot get any of them to work.

How to allow an AD security group to read the Security Event Viewer log in all domain via GPO ?
We have server 2008 Dcs

Can we update to Window 2019 Server from windows 2008 R2? I found information about going to 2019 from 2012 or 2016, but I would like to confirm that it is not possible from 2018 R2.

L

I have a need to schedule a task to occur every four hours, but unbelievably I cannot find any way to do this with the  GPO Task Scheduler in Server 2008. The options for "repeat task every" are 5, 10, 15, 30 minutes and 1 hour...
I can modify the custom repeat time manually in 2008 Server task scheduler but the same isn't possible when doing it on GPO task schedule. I understand and tried changing the repeat interval by editing .XML file but instead GPO tasks schedule change to "5 minutes". Please help its very urgent and important.

Thanks in advance.

 here is the .xml file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<ScheduledTasks clsid="{CC63F200-7309-4ba0-B154-A71CD118DBCC}">-<TaskV2 clsid="{D8896631-B747-47a7-84A6-C155337F3BC8}" removePolicy="0" userContext="0" uid="{E5521DE0-0643-4ED9-AC8E-8EA1DD8FED23}" changed="2019-01-15 16:33:08" image="2" name="Reboot Notification">-<Properties name="Reboot Notification" logonType="InteractiveToken" runAs="%LogonDomain%\%LogonUser%" action="U">-<Task version="1.3">-<RegistrationInfo><Author>TMMCADM\admin152</Author><Description/></RegistrationInfo>-<Principals>-<Principal …

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Dell PowerEdge 2970 Windows 2008 R2 running three 300GB 20K SAS drives 3Gbps RAID5

I have a much newer server that is a file server for a dozen users, I want to rebuild this newer server  so I'd like to move around 4TB to this 2970 server temporarily but I'll have to add some storage. Would anyone know if these hard drives will work on this 2970 server?

https://www.yobitech.com/Part-400-AMTN-Original-Dell-2TB-2000GB-7200-RPM-p/400-amtn.htm

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But for now we are seeing an issue with DHCP in that there are different computers that are getting the same IP address handed to them for some reason. Nothing has really changed in the DHCP setup that has been in place for sometime now.
We are seeing this more and more frequent for some reason.
Is there something that I need to check with dhcp to stop this from occurring?