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In my permissions list, I have a red X on the 'built-in administrator' account on the name itself. After some searching I havent come up with a solution to this. I have a domain, and the server (Server 2008 R2) itself does not have the red X on the administrator account. It is only on the client computers. Any ideas as to what is going on? Any help is appreciated. :) DT

Hello, I'd like to block on Windows Server 2008 TCP Port 80 so internet access is not possible. But I have a list with a few IP addresses which are allowed to use PORT 80, so it's actually blocked for everyone, except for the people that are listed in a list. I would also like create a webpage (.html) for the people that are not allowed to use PORT 80. How can I do this? Thanks in advance, Jorgoo

hi everyone, i'm a new member .I installed windows server 2008 os recently.but i have security issues while connecting my modem to it.can anyone pls help me out?

Server 2008 ; Scheduled Tasks cant run a batch file; this seems a known issue, my troubleshooting doesnt work, but I find myself confused about assigning the "Full Control" permission explicitly to .bat file for the account running the task. ; I am logged in as administrator, when I look at permissions for the directory and the batch file I see I have full control checked. But I also note that I can change settings for User, but not for Administrator ; what is this telling me ? I also see two shades of gray check marks, and I cant make sense of this either. Is this the issue preventing TS from running the file ? ( I can run it manually fine) Is there a 3rd party TS …

I have a small server 2008 R2 setup in a non-production environment to test and learn about the OS itself and eventually other applications and services. I have been trying for about the last week to install a second DC. Every time I try do this, I run dcpromo.exe and it says this exactly: "This computer is already an Active Directory domain controller. You can use this wizard to uninstall Active Directory Domain Services on this server" This is the only option I am given. All of the texts I read say to run dcpromo.exe and just 'install another DC' (spoken sarcastically because of the issues I am currently having) for fault tolerance and the like, but I simply ca…

After installing Office 2007 (including Outlook 2007) on a Windows 2008 server standard, the preview handler of Outlook e-mail messages is not working in the Explorer (extension .msg). How can I enable or register this to work. I thought that this would work automatically in Windows 2008 (as it does in Windows Vista and Windows 7). I've already tried to copy registry entries from a Vista System, but without result (the only result was that the preview pane gives a blanc page, without the message 'No Preview available') Does anyone know how to get .msg previewing in Explorer? Ria

Currently my organization has 8 satellite offices which use a terminal server (2008) located in our main office. I am attempting to make it so that a user that logs in from location B will only see printing devices located at location B, not from any other location. Curently, any user logged into our TS can see all printers and it is getting very cluttered. How can I achieve this? Thanks in advance. BSDAdmin

Hi guys, I am running a WIN2008R2 Rootserver for my friends, mostly for Gameservers, Voiceservers etc. and I have a little problem. One of the Games I am hosting, I don't think that many are Gamers here so I might as well not mention the name of the Game, doesn't matter really, I run several Servers of. Since the Server Hardware isn't used really by the Gameservers, my problems sure don't originate in Resources. Usually one of the Servers hangs up, could be because of a wrong or broken map (Game Map) or something, but when it does, it causes all the other Servers of the same Game to also have high CPU use and of course at that point there is no getting into them any…

Hi... What kind of virus attack my win server 2008 change all the text of screen (desktop) and all TEXT in the system become symbols i cannot even read it? any one who has problem this before or the master guys please help me to change back my system back to normal text. Thanks for any help

Hello all, Just want to say hello. Thank goodness for a forum so I can get some help, and when I become more acquainted with server 2008, I will be able to offer assistance as well. I look forward to getting to know the good folks here. DT

Hey Everyone, I have a 2008 R2 Server that is experiencing random lockups. There is no BSOD, no memory dump, and no Event log entries to work from. Symptoms: When it has crashed, I cannot access any file shares, services, RDC, DNS or even the login screen directly on the server, BUT I can ping successfully. The only thing that resurrects the server is a hard reboot. Sometimes the server will go for weeks without any issues, then it will start locking up 3 - 4 times per day. I cannot correlate this to any changes in the environment or usage. The system is running the following services: File Share, Folder Redirection for (desktop, mydocs) on 7 PCs (5 xp, 2 win 7),…

Hi all, I have a Windows 2008 server, latest updates are installed 2 weeks ago, and it's running as a virtual on a Hyper-V host running 2008R2. The server is a webserver, but runs some scheduled tasks too. Since about one month, all scheduled tasks suddenly stop getting fired at sunday-night, sometimes around 0700pm, sometimes around 1100pm local time. I can't find anything in the event-logs, I can only determine the time because I can see log-entries from a batch that runs every 3 minutes and suddenly stops. Removing and recreating the tasks doesn't work, but after a server-reboot they run again. Happened again yesterday-night, I don't know what to do. The Task Schedu…

dear friends, i have installed Windows 2008 server R2 with Active Directory, but the problem is when i am trying to join new computers to the domain it keeps giving me errors. it only works if i manually put the IP address of the server in the DNS field of the TCP/IP properties of the PC, the computers are all new with wirdows 7 professional and some with XP and all they have the same problem. Please advice...... best regards

hello everybody, Glad to be a member and i hope we share our knowledge and support in all fields, Issa from Cyprus,

Hi, I have made a share (name: UserProfiles) for the roaming profiles for the users. However, the users can access the share (if they type \\server\UserProfiles) and there they can make folders. Can you prevent that the users can access of make folders there? Thanks!

Hi guys, I hope I can help you and you me :P I'm young (almost 21) but I have a good experience with Windows and Linux. I'm Network+ certified and I'm studying for the CEH certification. I love networks and security :) Keep posting guys! Cheers

Gents, I've installed Routing & Remote Access Role and all the other bits inc Network Policy Server. I am using an XP servcie PK3 Laptop with a Vodaphone Mobile Connect Internet connection to test dialing into my Server 2008 R2 which is on Virmin Business Account. When I dial up on XP machine to use VPN, it connects fine. I can ping all the machine's IP addresses located on my server 2008 LAN network. If i try and access any of the remote network folders such as typing in \\Sever\c or even just \\Server (server is name of my 2008 R2 machine) then I get bloddy long pause and eventually an error window saying the 'specified network name is no longer available' …

Hi, I have IBM X3650 M3 server, OS is Windows 2008 R2 Ent. 64bit. I have installed 12GB RAM. Post screen can detect 12GB RAM but in OS it's showing as " Physical memory 12GB (8 GB usable). What could be the reason? How to make 12GB usable in Windows 2008 R2 Ent? Please suggest.

hi, I have configured a vpn server using RRAS and I give internet access to clients using NAT. I have 10 public IP addresses and I added them to address pool in NAT. I want these 10 IPs spread over 100 clients randomly. but the problem is that all clients get only one of these IP addresses and the rest remain unused. I tried adding all IPs to TCP/IPv4 as extra ip without any success. should I do anything else to solve this issue? I would appreciate your help Regards

hi, in windows 2008 R2 firewall should effect RRAS connections too, right? When I add a rule say closing port 443, it is closed in the server but when users connect using pptp protocol (through RRAS) their 443 port is open. should I do anything else so firewall effects RRAS ? Regards