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Good morning, I don't know if I chose the apropriate subforum, I chose this one because the first symptom of my problem derives from the process of installation Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard on Dell PowerEdge R710 rack server. -- Symptoms: -- When I try to install Windows Server it all goes well to the point where computer must be rebooted for the very first time. It hangs, leaving message "wait until computer is reboted" or something similar (you know what I mean). I waited him, indeed, for couple of hours to no avail... When I shutdown the computer holding the power switch and power on again, the process of installation finishes sucessfully, and the whole sy…

Good afternoon guys On the file server windows 2008 is there a way to configure when the User to create a new file or directory on the network as it has the same owner? I'm having trouble on my network because it does not then have to assign the owner in the hand or else the report from the fileserver does not appear for all user created files on the network administrator are born with the landlord.

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Hi All, This has been driving me potty, I'm trying to create a roaming profile for a user but for whatever reason I am unable to write to the network share. The user account has full privileges to the directory (I even made it so "Everyone" does) but not matter if I login through Windows 7 (as a Directory Server) or through another OS as a normal fileshare I can't write to the folder I'm running Server 2008 R2 Trial Edition (if this makes any difference) Kind regards James

Hi everyone, I am new to NAP and Windows 2008 security options. I have a small network of 20 PCs all joined to a Windows 2008 domain. Every so often, some clients visit our offices and connect via wireless to browse the Internet. At the moment, they get an IP from our Domain range and can view the domain shares (those visible to everyone like NetLogon). I would like to give out IPs from another range if the Laptop is not joined with the domain. Can this be done with NAP in Windows 2008? Kindly help. Thanks in advance

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Hi, I made the following script in win 2k8 enterprise edition @echo off cls echo Creating Accounts echo ------------------ for /f "tokens=1-2" %%A in (users.txt) do (dsadd user "CN=%%A,CN=users,DC=contoso,DC=com" -pwd Welkom01 -mustchpwd yes -disabled yes) echo ================== pause but for some reason its just looping the "echo Creating Accounts echo ------------------" bit. If I replace the dsadd bit by echo test it works normally. so the mistake must be in the DSADD bit. but I cant seem to find it. please help. the txt file looks like this: Wim Teunisen Jelle Klomp Jan Muller

Greetings, What client O/S's does Server 2008 R2 support? Thank you, Louis

Hello all can somebody please tell me the process for upgrading from win 2008 core to win 2008 r2 full version and if there is a way to upgrade machines with cluster between them with out breaking the cluster ? thank you in advance

Hello. I have a problem with the remote printers. I have a domain with about 60 workers with XP Pro SP2. Recently i've installed a new server with Windows Server 2008 R2 and they can't "import" their local installed printers to the remote session. The printer drivers have already been installed in Windows Server 2008 R2. Can anyone give me a hint to solve this? Thank you!

Hi, We have a client having trouble with their network, now and then the workstations can not talk with the server anymore (can not access files on the shared folders etc, email doesn't work, can not browse internet etc) untill they restart the server and everything is working fine again. We have determined the problem is the following event: Event ID 8003 The master browser has received a server announcement from the computer "computer name" that believes that it is the master browser for the domain on transport NetBT_Tcpip_{70CEAA76-DAE3-443A-B45A-625D742F27BB}. The master browser is stopping or an election is being forced. We have performed all the solutio…

This has been driving me nuts - and I've searched everywhere for a solution with no luck ... A few weeks ago, we installed a new Server 2008 R2 box setup for DHCP, DNS and AD. At random intervals throughout the day, users will be unable to resolve domains that they were just on a few minutes prior. They get the "Diagnose Connection" screen in IE8. Everyone on the network is setup to get DHCP from the server and their primary (and only) DNS IP is that of the server as well. When the problems with domain resolution occur and I do an NSLOOKUP from the client, I get the error message "DNS Query Time Out. Time Out Was 2 Seconds". I checked the server and I currently have…

In this thread Members can post details and link for Windows 7 software (freeware only please) Eraser (Compatibility Mode - Vista) Eraser is an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. Works with Windows 7. Eraser is Free software and its source code is released under GNU General Public License. Note: Files etc deleted with Eraser cannot be recovered Click on image to enlarge . Link > Eraser

Hello everyone. My name is Jonathan and I have a problem that doesn't want to be solved. I have two W2k8 R2 servers with a Primary and secundairy domain on them. The DNS work great and nothing more is on the server. After a couple of days the two servers were on hibernate or sleep mode. To disable hibernate I used the following command: "powercfg.exe /hibernate off" only it didn't solved my problem. Knowing that it probally is sleep mode that's causing this problem isn't helping me much. Google gave me some good results but none of those results helped me and power managment was already set on high performance by me. It happends after 40 min. roughly. So my q…

This is probably going to be something simple, however I can't figure it out. I have a 2008 DC running on one virtual machine and a Forefront server running on another. The DC has DNS installed (of course) and that all works fine. Now this is where I'm running into a problem I have DNS also installed on the FF server to resolve DNS from the internet. The DC is set as the primary DNS server, with no fowarders listed, and the FF is set as the secondary DNS server which does have the fowarders to my ISPs DNS servers. This setup is working, mostly. It resolves but far more slowly than it should. My friend tells me that I shouldn't need a DNS server on the FF server, but…

Hi, I hope this is the right place in the forum for my problem. I have a Small Business Server 2008 with Terminal Services and Outlook 2003. The users log on the Server with RDP. They added some calendars from other users in Outlook. The problem is that Outlook does not save the check marks so they have to click on the marks every time they start outlook. But they do not have to add the calendars again. Thanks in advance. pYro.O

Hi, Thanks in advance for your help. We've got a Server 2008 R2 of approximately 500 computers. Within that last couple of days, we've had several computers get randomly "kicked off" the domain. When a user attempts to log in, in gives an error that the domain controller cannot be found or that there is no account for that computer. However, when I go into active directory, the computer's account is still there. The fix is to log in locally to that machine, goto network identification and retype the domain name. After a restart the computer is again able to log onto the domain. The fix is easy enough but every day brings another batch of machines that can't …

Hy there, I am very new to windows 2008 server and my boss ask me to install it and to configure a web and a mail server on it. I did it at first (it took me a while) then after a power failure the server had to be reinstalled. I had a backup on the second partition but i couldn't restore the partition table and had to take from scratch again. I have a kerio mail server which is configured on 8080 port as the web server uses 80 port so for that matter all is good. The problem is I can send emails anywhere but i cannot receive from exterior. I mean from within the domain i can send and receive but with exterior i can only send. So my question is WHAT AM I D…