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At the office I run MS Vista Business with the fileserver/domain server/webserver/anything else server running Windows Server 2008. The user profiles are configured (using folder redirection) so that the windows profile is hosted on the fileserver (e.g. \\server\users\jonathan). Recently I had a few issues: 1. According to the admin's logs I was told I forgot to log off from a laptop before logging on to another terminal. Afaik, previous versions of windows used to warn the users when the user tried to log on to another terminal. Is it considered safe to logon to more than one terminals, or, would it be helpful if a warning was displayed? 2. Windows profile does not load entirely. The desktop loads correctly however, the "My Documents" does not seem to be "looking at" the path expected. My user does not have admin rights. Can I double check the UNC path where the profile should be read from? Is it possible to start this over, as in a refresh? 3. I cannot change my domain password, because windows displays a warning that it does not meet complexity etc requirements. I have used password number 2.2 (ASAAAAAAANNNN) before and tried reverting from a temporary password provided to technical support (e.g. p@ssw0rd1234) to work with again to password number 2, inverting a few numbers so that I hack around the rule that disallows me to use the same password over again. Why doesn't it work this time? The funny thing is that after a restart I could not logon again, so I thought I forgot my password. I was getting an "incorrect password" error, although I'm confident I was keying in the same password. Has anyone encountered similar issues? Passwords I tried: 2.1. NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS - accepted 2.2. ASAAAAAAANNNN - not accepted; maybe because I have used this password before (13 characters) 2.3. AAAAAAAANNNN - not accepted (12 characters) 2.4. AAAAAAAANNNNS - not accepted (13 characters) where N = 0-9 A = a to z (lowercase) S = special character e.g. $,% 3. We have been told that due to a recent issue with Windows Server 2008, the DHCP server was not allocating the IP addresses as expected. As a matter of fact the IP addresses were being allocated starting with '169.XX', and we had to use statically assigned IPs as a temporary workaround. Does anyone have a link if this is a "known issue"? :confused: Related links 1. Folder Redirection feature in Windows

It's noted that when calling UNC paths on a machine running Windows Server 2008 the view does not seem to refresh automatically, although it used to up to a while ago (yesterday). Environment machine with Windows XP (32 bit) > calls \\computername\share on > machine with Windows Server 2008 64 bit On machine with Windows Server 2008 resources are quite idle (CPU Usage at 1%; Memory used ~900Mb/4Gb LAN: 100Mbps that runs through a personal router I'm not sure what is causing this lag, any ideas? :confused:

On the same hard disk, I've noted that the UI for sharing of different sub-directories within the same hard disk is slightly different. I checked within Folder Options > View > User Sharing Wizard is checked, so I would have assumed that both shares would have to follow the UI for the 2nd sub-directory. The hard disk was previously configured on Windows XP, and, might have retained some of the sharing settings for the first share. See screenshots at http://cid-b712073b3513eb8e.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/shares%20on%20giorgio.doc.

lol..I did as well, but initially it would not install on Windows Server 2008 VMs. After a while I had to install a 64 bit version, and, I successfully installed the Installer, however, the installation of SQL Server 2008 is not successful on this version of Windows Server 2008 (from what I can see). Although it is not intended to be a development server, I would expect a database server to run MS SQL Server 2008. Bug? The pc in question has the following hardware: AMD Athlon 64x2 4600+ 2.40Ghz 4Gb RAM

I have Windows Server 2008 64 bit installed. I noticed that when reading the PATH variable from the command line, the PATH is displayed in full, whilst when checking through the System Properties the path only displays one of the paths. See Win2008PATH.doc - Windows Live Is this a bug?

Every now and then I'm getting prompted that there are compatibility issues for Visual Studio 2008 SP1. What issues? :confused: Also, I have had a hard time finding Installer 4.5 for Windows Server 2008, which seems to be a pre-req for SQL Server 2008, any ideas?

Although installing roles (e.g. IIS) for the first time is pretty straightforward, I could not find an option to: - uninstall roles (e.g. uninstall IIS) - install additional components within roles (e.g. components within IIS that were not selected when initially installing IIS). :confused: Windows Server 2008 Standard Can this be done from the UI? If not cmd line would be appreciated as well...