I have a Old Server with windows server 2008 R2 with a lot of share folders and share files and I want move all the folders and files to the new server with windows server 2012 which is the best way to do that, with the less time of downtime and also keep the users permissions? that way I dont need to add permission again to the users and to the security groups

any idea?

The backup operation that started at '‎2017‎-‎06‎-‎20T13:08:50.968000000Z' has failed because the Volume Shadow Copy Service operation to create a shadow copy of the volumes being backed up failed with following error code '2155348129'. Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.

Hi all,

We have recently upgraded our internal CA to SHA256. We have a number of internal webservers that have sha1 certificates that are still valid. We are looking to upgrade each other certificates through controlled process. My question is, if we are to renew the certificates on the servers with the new SHA256 if there any issues are we able to recreate a new cert using a SHA1 cert?

Install a .exe file (MS Patch) using PSEXEC as Admin on multiple servers

Any help is appreciated.

I have a Windows Server 2008 r2 machine on DMZ. We have a shared folder on there that one day a couple weeks ago was no longer able to be accessed. No changes occurred except for maybe windows updates. I am having an issue trying to map the shared drive on the dmz server from any internal lan machine.

Steps I have tried so far:
1. Completely turned off firewall
2. Made sure all services that pertain to print and file sharing are on turned on and running.
3. Ensured that the checkbox for File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks is checked.
4. Turned on File and Printer sharing, network discovery, and public sharing folder in Advanced sharing settings.
5. Tried uninstalling File and Printer sharing driver and reinstalled.
6. Verified that some local security policy were turned on to make sure to allow file and printer sharing.
7. Ran packet traces on Cisco ASA firewall with Cisco tech support but they are claiming that the packets are being allowed through without issue. They're saying that the smb ports (445, 137-139) on the dmz server are not responding once the packets get into the dmz server.
8. Went through registry and made sure everything for SMB1 and SMB2 were turned on.

I am able to remote the DMZ server and ping it from any LAN machine but not able to map the shared drive. I am at a loss and have been pulling my hair out. If anyone could lend a hand and assist with this or lend some recommendations to me, that would be awesome and very …

I'm trying to copy all files from one folder to another on the same drive

I tried xcopy d:\FTP\filename\*.* D:\filename /v /f /s but I don't see the file and its also asking me if it's a file or directory.  I'm trying to automate it where it will just copy any file in the first folder.  what am I doing wrong?

We have an AD Account  and it should be given Mininum permissions whatever is required to just do the below tasks for that account. Nothing else.
1. User should be able to remotely logon to the server in domain joined computer.
2. Should be able to start / stop services using command prompt (cmd.exe "run as Administrator")

Can we assign the user to any of the groups in attached screenshot or need to create something else.

Appreciate your help.
groups.jpg

One of our customers is having a complex (multi-symptom) issue with a Server 2008 R2-based VM running in Hyper-V.  

Affected server:  Server 2008 R2 virtual machine on a Server 2012 R2 hypervisor.  VM functions as a file server, DC, DNS server, DHCP server, and application server (yes, we're aware this isn't a best practice, but we inherited it from another provider). Integration services are up to date for this VM.

Symptoms:

--Client PCs on both of the customer's network segments suddenly and randomly (morning or evening) all lose the ability to reach the server's file shares (all clients timeout trying to connect).  App and system logs on the client PCs, file server VM, and hypervisor show no apparent problem.  In fact, the file server can be pinged just fine from every workstation, and curiously, I can browse to \\PCname\C$ of each PC on the network from that server!

--When the VM is restarted, it hangs on "shutting down", and the "turn off" function in Hyper-V Manager must be used to power it off (we've waited 1 hour and then 30 minutes the first 2 times this happened).  As soon as it is powered back on, Windows loads without incident, and client PCs can reconnect to all shares.  The app and system event logs for the VM show the transition from shutdown to restart, but there's nothing abnormal noted.

--When this VM experiences the issue, no other VMs on the same host have problems (we have an Exchange VM, terminal server VM, etc.).

I should mention that…

This is s SBS 2011 Standard
Found out today that a client can't access email. A colleague jumped on the Server and found all the exchange services disabled, he enabled them and mail worked for a short time. Mail not longer works, here are the issues I have found.
Exchange management console shows this error
Connecting to the remote server failed with the following message : The client cannot connect to the destination specified in the request.  Verify that the service on the destination is running and is accepting requests.  Consult the logs and documentation for the WS-Management service running on the destination, most commonly IIS or WinRM.  If the destination is the WinRM service, run the following command on the destination to analyze and configure the WinRM service: "winrm quickconfig". 

Winrm shows everything is fine.
Strange things I have noticed, Update rollup 4-14 for Exchange server 2010 SP3 all installed with todays date. In the programs list Microsoft Exchange server 201 is showing an install date of today. I have all the services running for exchange.
When I hit "change" on exchange server it says "The LPVersioning file has an invalid value. Please check the Exchange Log for more info.
I also can't open the "Turn Windows Features on or off" it just opens Services.
What the heck happened last night?
Running SFC now.

Hello,

Where to start trouble shooting servers
which logs we need to look.

Thanks

I know this is okay but I wanted to see if anyone could explain to me why our conditional forwarders do not resolve the "Server FQDN". I attached a screen shot. The conditional forwarders are on a domain that is setup on a trust relationship.

Everything else resolves and validates.
DNS-forwarders.bmp

This is using Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 on MS Windows Server 2008 R2. Recently, we just implementing the retention policy, so as only the latest 30 day backup images would be kept. The scheduled backup job is quite simple, at first either a "Simple" backup schema that comprises a simple full backup jobs to be conducted on all 5 weekdays plus either one day on weekend - either Sat or Sun. Or the second type of backup schema is "Custom" comprises of  incremental backup jobs on all 5 weekdays plus also one weekend - either Sat or Sun.

With either of the way of backups, the job can be completed successfully. Backup jobs fired on time, and completed a few hours later with "success". Now, we add-in the retention policy with the following selections:

 - Cleanup archives:

   Retention rule - see attached Retention rules.bmp

I even run the "Replication/cleanup [1st location]" manually. The result is the operation shows "running" with fix "0%" in progress. Apparently, the operation is idle.
What's went wrong with the retention policy cleanup? How to resolve this issue?


Thanks in advance.