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I've searched for previous posts but they all come up error 404. I watched a tutorial on network load balancing. I have 4 web servers and one database server. I would like the load to be spread between the web servers (which get data from the data server) , basically have NLB be the "traffic cop". The only question I have is...is the virtual IP address that the web servers (or users) would connect to hosted on a main domain controller , or is the cluster IP address just on whatever machine I want to set it up on and then the computers connect to it (after I run the configuration for each web server). I'm thinking I would need a DNS computer A as the host IP, that web…

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ICTCity replied November 19, 201113 yr

Hi, Is it doable to set up a non-domain-based (standalone) Windows Server 2008 as an SSTP VPN (Secure Socket Layer Tunneling Protocol VPN)? I'd like to enable remote users to access a network via SSL-based VPN (currently using PPTP) by making an SSTP VPN connection via a Win2k8 server. Most of the docs seem to include running in an AD domain with an in-house Certificate Authority to enable this feature. Is it possible to do this with a stand-alone Win2k8 server? If so, how?

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ICTCity replied November 19, 201113 yr

Hello- I have a tail to tell you. I just started a new job. At this job I was asked to basicly take over a position for someone that just jumped ship sooo I have a mess. What I am looking for is some help/suggestions. First off my network is about 1500 total units(XP desktops and 800 windows 7 laptops). My company just migrated all our servers to VMware. All of this was just before my time a "IT Consultant" set them up. I have 3 DC and 1 remote DC at a remote location all networked togeather. The main server is a 2003 and the rest are 2008 x2 and 2003x1. I am having issues with some of the laptops just dropping off the domain. Is this normal for server 2003/2008 environ…

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ICTCity replied November 19, 201113 yr

Hi, This is syam, i am new to this forum Can any one help me out in how to migrate the existing .net web application from IIS 6.0 to IIS 7.0, and also can you help what are steps to be taken to setup the web application to work fine without any issues. Also i have an SSL certificate configured on IIS 6.0, will the same SSL certificate work on IIS 7.0 thx in advance

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ICTCity replied November 16, 201113 yr

When i reinstall my dhcp server my old dhcp server files is still there how do i get ride of the old dhcp settings?

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ICTCity replied November 16, 201113 yr

Hi, I have configured my Win2k8 R2 to accept VPN connection, and I have followed this manual: How to Install VPN on Windows Server 2008 R2 | Thomas Maurer I connected to VPN successfully from my windows workstation (Brno-PC). But I can not ping my server(Bratislava Server2). I can not connect to server via RDP protocol. . When I look on my server, it tells me: "Unsupported profile NAP" My network topology is this: Any ideas? Thanks :-)

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ICTCity replied November 16, 201113 yr

Hello, We have installed Windows 2008 Server with 20 client computers, connected with DNS Server, our issue is that we have to turned off manually Windows 2008 Server daily after all client computer have been turned off. Is it possible to shut down 2008 Server automatically when all client have been turned off after 5 pm daily, any tools or triq to solve this issue will be highly appreciated. Thanks a lot.

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ICTCity replied November 16, 201113 yr

Hi all, im new in Windows Server. My server is Win Server 2008 R2 Standard. WSUS support or not for Win Server 2008 R2 Standard? if support what version WSUS? thanks all.

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ICTCity replied November 16, 201113 yr

We need to be able to present multiple internet explorer sessions with different proxy settings to our freelancers. Is there a way to have a configuration where our freelancers see something like this: IE Shortcut1 -> Proxy1 IE Shorcut2 -> Proxy2 IE Shortcut3 -> Proxy3 Basically we don't want the freelancers to have to go into their internet properties each time just to change their proxy settings in order to connect to a specific client's website. Any ideas?

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ICTCity replied November 16, 201113 yr

Hi, I'm configuring my dns for the first time and am having some problems. I have my domain pointing to ns1.mydomain.com and on my server I created a ns1 nameserver entry under the forward lookup zone for mydomain.com. My problem is in the SOA whenever I change my nameservers or the primary server from compname.mydomain.com to ns1.mydomain.com it takes effect... but then later I go back into it and it has changed back automatically to compname.mydomain.com This leads me to the conclusion that I'm not doing this correctly! My question is... does ns1.mydomain need to be a physical server or just a nameserver entry for mydomain.com? Is there any way to change the primary…

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ICTCity replied November 15, 201113 yr

Hi Guys I have recently installed Server 2008 R2 and am looking to start playing! What I am looking to do is the following - Connect network cable to laptop, boot from network to the WDS server, select image, hit enter, leave the machine, come back and it has installed windows 7 along with a selection of generic apps (ccleaner,malwarebytes etc) I have configured my server as a WDS and have loaded up a couple of boot images What more do I need to do? Point me at a post if one already exists. Cheers

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ICTCity replied November 13, 201113 yr

Hello, I have a Windows Server R2 64 bit . It was running Fine till Yesterday, but Microsoft Excel Stopped opening suddenly, it started getting updated and gets failed everytime. So, I restarted the PC and it stopped booting up, it just restarts after a Black Screen. I tried Safe Mode, but It loaded all drivers till HWPOLICY.SYS , so all Drivers were being loaded and then it just restarted. I tried doing Startup Repair, Chkdsk , sfc etc. but nothing helped..! When I tried Disable Restart on System Failure Option I Got Following BSOD (0x7E): After researcing google for 6-7 hours I found only one Resource on this : http://forums.techguy.org/windows-7/1005598-w…

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ICTCity replied November 12, 201113 yr

Hi All, I am hoping this is something you experts can help with. The Motherboard I have is GA-X58A-UD5 and I want to setup Wake On LAN for Windows Sever 2008 R2. It is a test system and would like to be able to start and put it to sleep as and when required. I am not too sure how to go about this as I cant find any offical documents. The questions I have are: (1) Will WOL work with "GA-X58A-UD5", from what I can see from the manual it should work? The motherboard has PME Event Wake Up and Power On by Ring. The only concerns I have is that it states at the bottom, Support on Windows 7/Visa only - but does that mean it wont work with Windows Server 2008? It also st…

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ICTCity replied November 12, 201113 yr

I have an existing Windows Server 2008 machine serving as domain controller, file server, and dns. I need to encrypt the data. a) Can I turn on Bitlocker and encrypt existing data? B) Will users be able to access network shares just as they always did? We have a mixture of XP, Windows 7, and Mac clients. c) What are the potential trouble spots if I proceed? Thank you.

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ICTCity replied November 12, 201113 yr

Does W2008 R2 need register domain for local users have access? I need help pls, I recently install W2008 in my house to share Hardware resource, like printing and HDD for now. I install the AD the server does not give any error on those services, but I still can see on my network the server, less ..I can see any of the share resources. Sorry my bad english!! Can some can help me out how to start to solve this problems...? Thks and regards, Carlos Eduardo Aguilera Armas.

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ICTCity replied November 12, 201113 yr

I have configured Cacti on my linux server to monitor all of my other linux and windows servers network traffic. But on Cacti monitoring graph is working fine for linux servers and graph always empty & nothing get updated for windows servers. I have installed snmp-informant in windows to generate/update graph and was worked fine earlier but now its no working. I haven't changed anything on my cacti server. Any possiblites to resolve this issue? Any other software like snmp-informant is avail to do this job?

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ICTCity replied November 10, 201113 yr

I have windows 2008 server and I am able to login as Administrator via KVMoIP. I have enabled RDP in my server and its connecting fine but the same Administrator password not working to access it via RDP. How can I resolve this issue?

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ICTCity replied November 10, 201113 yr

Anyone know how to block/prevent IP spoofing in windows 2008 servers using windows firewall/IPSec? I am using Windows dedicated server and my server not in hardware firewall, my server getting IP spoof attack regularly so network is getting really slow. I want to prevent/stop such attack on my server to get stable. I know there is easy option in linux (add an entry in sysctl.conf and /etc/host.conf) but I don't know in windows. Awaiting for your reply Guys!

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ICTCity replied November 10, 201113 yr

Hi, Have just finished building svr 2k8 std box, dc/dhcp/dns. Srv is connected to L1 switch, modem with static ip & running dhcp is connected to switch, laptop connected to switch. I was able to join client to domain and use mapped drive through GP from server fine, until I walked away. After testing file xfer to server I turned off all devices on network. When I restarted a day later I cannot connect to the server with UNC or IP. I can rdp from client to svr, I can see the svr within network on client though cannot connect, I can ping svr by name and IP, I can see both machines with net view command, client is auto dhcp and has server IP as DNS, i have tried stati…

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north1 replied November 9, 201113 yr

so im using microsoft network monitor to monitor all traffic in and out (public) and mirrored ports for local traffic, except wireless traffic as its connecting to the router. I want to use a wifi NIC on the server to broadcast, so wireless clients can connect via the server and obtain DNS and DHCP etc from there, therefor, monitoring all traffic. Below is a diagram. Is this possible? Thanks! [ATTACH]177.IPB[/ATTACH]

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iphonogasm replied November 9, 201113 yr

Hi Everyone. I am after a little advice, we are in the process of purchasing some new servers for our domain, these are going to be Windows Server 2008 R2 servers. The servers are going to replace our domain controllers and our file servers. The plan is this: Implement 2 x Domain Controllers also running File Servers in a DFS Replacing 2 x File Servers runing only shares, both different names Replacing 2 x Domain controllers running Server 2003 Can anyone give me some sound advice and guidance on how to install and setup the servers as well as how to replace the DCs and the fileservers to create one DFS in our domain with the contents of both original file se…

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danttr replied November 6, 201113 yr

hi! Good day to all, I accidentally saved my network credentials in a server running windows server 2008 r2 with multipont 2010 (with that Authentication I have access to Internet/Intranet). Many users can now use them ( :S ! ) so Im very interested in deleting my username and password as quick as possible. Ill appreciate if someone could tell me how to delete those credentials. Thanks!!!

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ICTCity replied November 6, 201113 yr

Hi all, I have done some research investigation without results. There's an special attack to some of our servers. With linux we simply block certain UDP packets by length ( As an example, all UDP packets coming from XX port and with XXXX packet lenght ) would be blocket. But I can't figure out how to do that with windows. We are using windows 2008 server R2 ( std edition ). Windows advanced firewall seems to have some options, but not as detailed as i wanted, and it seems that there aren't so much windows server firewalls ( I see comodo ). Is there any way or policy to allow me to achieve that ? Thanks,

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ICTCity replied November 6, 201113 yr