Was troubleshooting a network scanning to desktop problem (since solved) when I noticed Network Discovery was turned off on the client's 2012 R2 server. This server is the DC in a single server environment. It's also virtualized. I thought that was strange, and at the time didn't know if that's what was causing the problem. I attempted to turn Network Discovery to no avail. Several of the services mentioned in the following link were disabled, so I turned them enabled and started them. Thereafter Network Discovery was on.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2722035/you-cannot-turn-on-network-discovery-in-network-and-sharing-center-in 
I enabled, set to automatic and started the following services:
Function Discovery Resource Publication
SSDP Discovery
UPnP Device Host

I checked the Network Discovery setting on a couple of other clients' servers, both DCs. Network Discovery on a similarly virtualized 2012 R2 server was on, and was off on a non-virtualized 2012 R2 server.

Both networks that had/have Network Discovery turned off have had zero problems.

Ultimately the scanning problem had nothing at all to do with the server's Network Discovery setting. I've left Network Discovery on for the time being, but wonder a) why were those services off,  b) is there any harm in leaving it on, and c) should Network Discovery be on at all?

??????????

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Mark

Trying to deploy Logmein via GPO and im getting Event ID 102. The install of application Logmein from policy Logmein failed. The error was %%1603.

I checked and the security of the MSI file is set to Everyone with full permissions. It even added the computer to the logmein control panel but there are no system files in the Logmein program folder.

Hi,

I have colleague complains that if they open Share Excel file it does not indicate that  File is already open with user. and that cause overwriting issue within there team.
I have looked into this and cannot figure out why this happen. the file is on Cifs shared folder.

please advice how to restrict the file that if some one has open it, it will force  read only for other colleagues.


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Hi,

We have MS SSRS 2016 configured on Windows Server 2012 R2. Quite frequently we have to end the "ReportingServicesService.exe" process via the task manager and then restart the service because the reports just show the loading circle when rendering. The SSRS portal itself is OK and the end users can browse through folders and see all of the reports but when they select ANY report it just hangs at rendering.

If we try to stop the "SQL Server Reporting Services" service via the SQL Server Configuration Manager it does not stop. We have to end the process via the task manager and then restart the service. Normal service then resumes for a few days.

I have had a look through the logs in "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS13.MSSQLSERVER\Reporting Services\LogFiles" but I cannot find anything useful, but then I do not really know what I am looking for.

Has anyone come across this issue before?

Thanks, Greg

So, I'm trying to setup Shibboleth on a windows 2012 server to work with our adfs 3.0 server.   This was working over the past year until recently.. I figured it was the recent renewed certificates for signing / decryption.  So i stood up a new shibboleth server since the previous was 'temporary' and the new server is also throwing 500 service errors.

Looking through the shibboleth native logs i spot this:
ERROR Shibboleth.ISAPI [4080] isapi_shib: Unable to locate metadata for identity provider (http://adfs.mydomain.com/adfs/services/trust)

so i browse to "http://adfs.mydomain.com/adfs/services/trust" in chrome and receive a 503 error.

pretty sure this worked in the past or none of my other RP's would work.  is this related to new certs, and whats the solution?  I havent seen much for adfs 3.0 out there to help guide me

Thanks in advance!!!

Windows Server 2012 unit has been having issues with the print spooler. We went to reboot it last night, the system didn't come back up. The system has a error on the screen now which is no help.    C000003A applying update operation 307 of 49083 (networkins...)
Trying to get it to boot up using safe mode, safe mode with networking and others isn't working. Always comes back to this window.

Hi

Our web filtering is hosted outside of our organisation I have been asked to create a user account which has read only access to our AD.

Not sure as how to create this account please post me tutorials to set up this read only access account.


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Hi guys,
Recently started managing a small new company.
They using windows 10 as their main computer. And it has raid 1 used.
How do I test/manage or find the health status of disks ??
If it’s windows server, either have server administrator or raid storage manager to check disks, but for windows 10 how do I check the disks health ?

Any help would be great.

Has anyone come across an issue where Loopback-Enabled Computer/User Policies are preventing regular User Policies from being applied?

I am in a situation where a simple Loopback-Enabled policy that controls folder redirection for my Citrix XenApp servers is preventing a users regular policies (i.e. drive mappings) from being applied.

Hello All,
We are currently using a single ADFS 2.0  and need to add a 3.0 server so that I can update my schema to Windows 2012 R2.  I've read articles on how to export the ssl cert and install the new 3.0 server.  Unfortunately, my cert. can't be exported (greyed out).  I'm thinking I'll need remove the 2.0 server completely and install the new server with a new cert (will be down time).  Has anyone been in this situation? If so, is this my only way to proceed with the upgrade?   Any offered ideas are much appreciated.