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Hi everyone, I've been trying for 5 days now to deploy Windows Server 2008 R2 onto our server. It likes to freeze at "Expanding Files". I've tried resetting the bios, and trying to insert different RAM sticks. The first time I tried, I managed to get Windows Server 2003 Enterprise X64 installed, then I attempted to "Clean Install" Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, but that time it froze at the very last step "Completing Installation". I forgot, the motherboard is a Foxconn G33M, Pentium D 3.00GHz processor, 250GB SATA HDD, and 2GB of RAM. Please help. Thank you!

Hello I am a systems administrator with 20 years experience. Administered Windows desktops and severs with Unix and Linux. Brief experience with Novell too. I have over a decades experience with Samba. At a previous employer, there were Windows Severs, but was not responsible for administering those boxes. One of the accounting packages which will be used is not supported by Linux using Samba and as such have started to work on deploying at Windows Server box at one of my locations. Doing a new install. I had no problems with Windows 2008 server up until I played around with Active Directory in an effort to get user home directories. I am going to look around here…

Title says everything. I am not sure if this is an very active forum. But am hoping to give a try. Basically there is a enterprise who wants to implement ADFS 2.0 with SharePoint 2010 for identity management in their own environment as well as with federated relying party. I found no proper tutorials to do the lab, If not, i dont know where exactly to start. I would appreciate if anyone could provide me the right path and source ... can't wait! Thambi

hi everyone. I wanna create new folders by CMD, but its seems to be impossible... it says "access denied" I can do it graphically. It asks me for a confirmation about the creation of a new folder, and then it creats it. But i do really want to creat it by command line. is there any flag i can use to solve it ? thx

Hi All, One of my customers is having issues with one of the VB6 software packages we develop. They are running Server 2008 R2 with Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Server), with native 2008 load balancing. I believe it is a virtual server running in VMWare on a Redhat box. The System specs are as follows. OS: Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Processor: Intel® Xeon® CPU X5460 @ 3.16GHz (2 processors) RAM: 4.0GB System Type: 64 Bit The problem is the machine randomly BSOD reboots during the day. I have used windbg to review the memory dumps and have the results below. The faulting module seems to be win32k.sys but the process is my application Syne…

Hi, I try to call ServerManagerCmd.exe in C#. Below is my code: ProcessStartInfo startInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("ServerManagerCmd.exe", ""); Process process = Process.Start(startInfo); However, running this code always throws error "System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified". I have verified ServerManagerCmd.exe is in c:\windows\system32 and I can run it in a command window without specifying the full path. Also there is no problem to run some other exe files in the same directory through the C# code, for example, wevtutil.exe. I also called ServerManagerLauncher.exe in C#. It has the same problem as ServerMa…

Hi, I've created a new OU called GPO_Test and placed a test user account in there. I've created a new GPO and linked it to the GPO_test OU using group policy management. I have enabled several settings such as remove run command from start menu, disable wallpaper changes etc. I've performed gpupdate /force from the command prompt. The XP client does not acknowledge any of the changes. why is this happening? it is doing my head in. there are no local policies setup on the xp machine. I have not messed with the default domain policy either. please help.

Dear techies, Please help me with a situation below: - I have the Routing and Remote Access role added and configured. - My server machine have 2 NICs. - One NIC has active internet connection from another gateway device, while the other NIC links to the other 2 sub-offices through a WAN. -ICS is on the NIC with internet and the other sub-offices access this connection. -This server hosts some shares visible to the all the users in the other locations. My task is to replace the Gateway Device with a Cisco 1841 Router while keeping the same setup. Any idea on how this can work is welcome. Attached is a basic hand-drawing showing this. Regards,

Here is the issue. I have an HP dl380 G3 server with dual nic's. It is running windows 2003, I know this is an 08 forum but I didn't think it would matter. Randomly NIC 1 stops responding, even thou on the server it says its up and running just doesn't recieve or send any packets. I can disable it and enable it again, and boom it works. But its getting really annoying when about every 7 to 16 hours it stops responding for some odd reason. Nic 2 is used for LAN and its always working and never has this issue. Its how I rdp in everytime. I updated everything, reinstalled all the drivers to make sure everything was up to date. I have tried everything I could thi…

I have installed and configured on my windows 2008 server standard windows media services 2008 and all works ok. I don't understand how it works WMS Digest Authentication. Anyone have configure it? I read somwhere that it's necessary to install active directory. thanks to all!!

Hello good people I am a novice and want to configure clients to access internet via my server but i can't find a way. My DC access internet via data card which does not have a static IP address, when i give it static IP, it automatically disable it. I have watched all MCITP videos but none brings this close to me, illustratively ofcourse. Also i want to configure users to use emails and need how to configure the settings thereof. Your assistance will be highly appreciated as i need to take my exams as soon as possible. Do i have to register the IP addresses? Remotely i also cannot access my workplace after configuring VPN and/or Terminal Servers. I have all IIS…

Hi, I have just migrate our all websites from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008. and MSSQL Server 2005 to MSSQL Server 2008. One of our web site is job search base web site so i am facing two problems 1. It can connect to database successfully but when we want to search profiles it throw your session has expired. It may be cryptography query string it contain some special correctors.So i want to how i can handel the query in IIS 7.0 2. I want to show .docx , .doc documents on my web site. So what are the required DCOM settings in Windows 2008. PLZ reply me as soon as possible.

Got a file server running Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise Server. When setting the firewall service to disabled, i can't ping the server anymore. Anyone ever seen this before? Does 2008 natively block ICMP??? :confused:

1: how can i set up my server so i can login in to it from my mates house?, I know its possible as I helped set it up for a client, but I cannot remember what we did :S 2: how can my roaming profiles pull programs from the server? is this possible? 3: how can i display the logged in users name, the computer name and the ip address in the bottom corner of the desktop? and it it possible to do this with a batch file? thanks in advance for any help i get :D Vinny

Hello, When i tried to start WINDOWS INSTALLER service, i get error of THE WINDOWS INSTALLER SERVICE ON LOCAL COMPUTER STARTED AND STOPPED. SOME SERVICES STOP AUTOMATICALLY...................... I am unable to install anything on my windows server and no automatic updates are applied because of this. This server is also part of CCR of exchange 2007. I am getting event ID 1026 in my Windows server 2008 sp2. Error message is Windows Installer has determined that its configuration data registry key was not secured properly. The owner of the key must be either Local System or Builtin\Administrators. The existing key will be deleted and re-created with the appropri…

Hello, i am here to search a problem solution, stuck in it for the last 24 hours. Hasan System Engineer and working on Exchange 2007

Hi and thanks in advance for the patience and help. I am a first time computer maintenance worker in a physics research lab at a university and I'm starting to find myself in a little bit over my head (but I'm trying to learn as quickly as I can). I have a fair amount of knowledge of pc software/hardware and a decent amount of networking knowledge but i have never really worked with servers or raid arrays before. So, please bare with me and I'm sorry if my questions and/or abilities to answer your questions are weak. Problem: Windows will not load unless only the topmost and bottommost drives of our raid array are turned on. Even when the middle two drives are tur…

Hello. I have a terminal server with Windows 2008 R2 instaled, these server haven't got A.D, but have terminal server license (users mode). The users are in the Remote Desktop groupe int global policy, and on the Remote Desktop policy local (in Terminal server) too. The first problem: The users can't validate in the server, "access denied", i resolve these with new input in regedit: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server, IgnoreRegUserConfigErrors=1. But a new problem appears, when a user are validate in the server, it haven't got network, the firewall are desactivated and a ping to the same server says: Can't find IP controler. Ge…

Hi, can anyone please let me know the latest idwbinfo contents, i have checked in couple of OS where the build architecture value is "longhorn_rtm" in some and "lh_sp2rtm" in some, i think the latest must be "lh_sp2rtm", let me know if i am wrong/right