I have several directory structures and I want users to be able to edit files in those directory structures but I do not want them adding files or changing the directory structure. Can this be done with NTFS Permissions?

My application sends out text messages to employees selected to work overtime.  This is coming out of my PowerBuilder application (running on Windows Server 2008 R2) using a 3rd party company to provide the SMS capability.  I'm currently using a company called Clickatell and I'm not happy with their either their web portal and reporting capabilities or their support, which is all on-line, no ability to call anyone directly.  Does anyone know any other companies that provide a similar service with phone support?

I have an application that uses Apache running on a windows server that I need to create a certificate for. We have a 2008R2 server that is a CA that is trusted by all the machines in the domain. I understand the basic process of doing this, but all my research shows how to's that don't apply to my specific situation. (apache running on linux, submitting CSR to public CA etc.)
I'd like as step by step as possible as this is a production machine I'm meddling with. It can go down for an hour or a few without much impact, but I'd look bad.

Random loss of access to files/exe's on public shares... I have public shares where everyone has full access... Its a location where we have all of our programs located for the users to access.... Randomly we have some users that get permission denied on some of them... Odd thing is they can open other exe's in that folder perfectly fine, just randomly some cannot... Quick fix is just to reboot their machine and everything works fine again... Just really annoying to tell them to just reboot... Trying to figure out what could be the issue. I have checked the server and cannot find any kind of logs... On the client i have tried just gpupdate /force instead of a reboot but that doesn't work either... Wondering if maybe its a windows update or a specific OS patch that has this issue? Anyone have any ideas?

The transaction resource manager on volume \\?\Volume{a818df19-f109-423d-9591-f81f13ab57c9} encountered an error during recovery.  The resource manager will continue recovery.

Event ID: 134

I have deleted the .blf and .regtrans-ms files from System32\SMI\Store\Machine\    
and did: fsutil resource setautoreset true c:\


Chkdsk, SFC, disk cleanup, defrag all done.  There is plenty of disk space.


They errors happen 10 at a time at the top of the hour (not every hour).
The Volume{####### etc} seems to be different for every batch.



At a loss, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

I am trying to get a Windows SBS2008 server up and running to replace one that has failed but this one will start in safe mode with networking but hangs at applying settings in normal mode. Any ideas?

Hi,

I recently added space to a VM disk in vSphere and went into Windows Disk Management to extend it.  To my surprise, the Extend Volume option is greyed out.  Never seen this before.

Any suggestions?

Windows Server 2008 R2 environment.

Thanks!

--Ben

Server 2008 R2 VSS Issue

I am currently having an issue where the NTDS VSS writer is not showing when running the VSSAdmin List Writers command. This is causing an issue with our third party backup software not showing any data to backup for AD. I have verified that the Active Directory Domain Services service is running and have even restarted it multiple times an the writer never re-appears. This issue happens randomly after the server has been running for a few weeks without a restart. The moment I restart the server, the writer returns and the backups will go back to working and showing the appropriate data in the AD backup.  Scheduling downtime constantly to fix this issue is not ideal as I shouldn't have to restart the server to correct this issue. Is there any way to get the writer back up without having to do a restart? I have copied the currently active writers below:

Writer name: 'Task Scheduler Writer'
   Writer Id: {d61d61c8-d73a-4eee-8cdd-f6f9786b7124}
   Writer Instance Id: {1bddd48e-5052-49db-9b07-b96f96727e6b}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'VSS Metadata Store Writer'
   Writer Id: {75dfb225-e2e4-4d39-9ac9-ffaff65ddf06}
   Writer Instance Id: {088e7a7d-09a8-4cc6-a609-ad90e75ddc93}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Performance Counters Writer'
   Writer Id: {0bada1de-01a9-4625-8278-69e735f39dd2}
   Writer Instance Id: {f0086dda-9efc-47c5-8eb6-a944c3d09381}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last …

Can I run a Windows 2008R2 Host Terminal Server from inside a 2016 Gateway Server?

Hi,

I copied a Windows Server 2008 domain controller (Hyper-V VM) from company to my home for testing. I impoted the VM and seized all FSMO roles to this dc.  DNS server and all AD tools cannot locate the AD information after I restart the dc everytime. Please refer to the following screenshot.




After I used the tool NTDSUTIL and submited  roles -> connections, All DNS and AD services decame normally.




I want to know that why happpen this issue and how to fix it.

Note this domain contain 6 DCs, however, I only copied one dc to my home network and I will delete the other five dc later.

Thomas

2008 server
I have c driver 250gig size and d drive 1tb
needing to increase c drive
tried backup then boot from cdrom 2008 server
recovered backup to new drive
will not bootup. starts windows boot bar and then restarts.
I can boot f8 with directory services restore mode and see files.
what are my options to resolve this problem.
ASAP
been working on this all day. needing to get customer up by Monday
Thanks Bob

I get the following error when trying to access a server by Remote Desktop Connection from DomainE with an account from DomainH: "The specified domain does not exist or could not be contacted"
I want to specify that there is an outgoing trust relationship between DomainE and DomainH, so that every user from DomainH to have access to resources in DomainE.
The user has admin rights on the server from DomainE and this is happening for all the users in DomanH and all the servers in DomainE.
I don't get this error if I try to connect with a user from the same domain.
The trust is in place in both domains and DNS works properly in DomainE. Also I am able to resolve any host name from one domain to the other.
The DNS servers from the other domain are set as conditional forwarders on each of the mentioned domains and I've checked the DNS servers that are set to the NICs of the servers from DomainE.
The domain functional level is Windows Server 2008R2 and all the servers are using the same version of Windows. The users from the DomainH use Windows 10 to establish the RDP connection to the other domain.
I get no errors when I try to add users from DomainH to security groups in DomainE.

So could you please give me a solution to this problem?

Hi!
An employee that is no longer with us encrypted some files.  Is there a way for me, the domain admin, to decrypte the files?

I've joined a screen shot (in french - Sorry about that).

Thanks!