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I need help, I am fairly new to server 2008. I set up some policies to affect a certain user and everything was going well. Once I came back and try a policy that would restrict users from using programs except the once I allowed, some how the policy affected all the accounts even the admin account. I allowed it to use only 2 programs which are IE and some banking program but now i can not make any changes even with the admin account i can't access anything. Is there any way i can turn of policies without the admin account?

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ICTCity replied November 6, 201113 yr

so i just RDPed into my server to restart it and it said there are currently other users online or whateva. Im the only one who has access to my server and i use the admin account? so is there someone else on my server, and how can i view a list of active users? thats pretty freaky Thanks!!

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ICTCity replied November 6, 201113 yr

Hi Pros, I am new to windows server configuration and all that takes me here was an issue: I've registered a domain www.example.com I own a windows 2k8 server (dedicated) I map my valid IP (got from my ISP) to my server using DMZ server. I have a site on server's localhost when I type the valid IP address in browser, it takes me to my site. AND NOW, I need to install and config DNS server to set my registered domain mapped to localhost in windows server 2k8 I install DNS on windows server 2k8 and I need to know how to configure DNS to something like: ns1.mydomain.com ns2.mydomain.com I registered a domain "example.com" and I have access to a panel that I can …

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ICTCity replied November 6, 201113 yr

Hello, let me try to describe the problem (this is my first question on this forum). Operating system is Windows Server 2008. There is a folder, on domain controller drive, named: FOLDER_1, and file, in this folder, named: FILE_1. There is also OU, named: OU_1. Members of this OU should have been granted access the folder: FOLDER_1 and file: FILE_1, as follows: - OU_1 should granted permissions on FOLDER_1: 'MODIFY'. - One member from OU_1, named: MEMBER_1 (MEMBER_1 has not been granted membership of any Admin group), should granted the 'Modify' permissions on a file: FILE_1 - All other members of OU_1, should granted only 'Read' and 'Read & Execute' permi…

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nikitaGradov replied October 31, 201113 yr

Hallo, I have a little Windows 2008 Server STD Sp1. I have the first C: partition of 100GB. 50 GB are accupied by C:\Windows\Winsxs. I know that there are to commands cleaning this folder: vsp1cln.exe for Windows 2008 SRV with SP1 compcln.exe for Windows 2008 SRV with SP2 I never use these commands? Are safe commands? Some problems use it ? Thank you very much. Andrea

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ICTCity replied October 29, 201113 yr

Just deployed a new server on my home network for storage, DHCP, DNS running Server 2008 Std. Been very disappointed with the transfer speeds I'm getting copying files to and from the server. Over wireless (g) I'm lucky if I get 1 Mbps. Wired with gb controllers and gb switch I get about 18 Mbps. Drive to drive copies on the server itself fly (around 300 Mbps). If on the server console itself I browse to "\\localhost\Share" I still get a slow speed (around 28 Mbps). This led me to believe it's a problem with the server configuration, TCP/IP or something. Any advice or ways to better troubleshoot to narrow it down?

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ICTCity replied October 29, 201113 yr

Hi guys, I came across this site during random searching for answers, and was wondering if some of you guys could offer some assistance. I come from a helpdesk background and never really played with servers at all except for very basic administration. I have this project to set up a new Domain Controller, and install an SMTP server on there. I have managed to get the server installed, installed ADDS, DNS server, and an SMTP server through IIS 6, which is up and running fine. I can also telnet to the server though port 25. my problem lies here, It is required of me to be able to send a test email, I think via Telnet from a specific address, not related to the dom…

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ICTCity replied October 28, 201113 yr

I've just installed Windows Server 2008 Standard. I have puchases domains, and a static IP as well. Also I am reading Windows Server 2008 For Dummies...and I am still stumped lol. Is there a tutorial out there that basically takes you from installation, to hosting sites? I would like to use the server to host about 4 sites, when I am done. I guess my questions are mainly about which Ip address I use (for the router) and how I find that info...Also, how to do the port 80, what to enter in the DNS info, AND, how to set up the FTP (I ALWAYS) had trouble with that. At some point I would like to be able to access my server from other places (it is in my basement rig…

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ICTCity replied October 27, 201113 yr

Hi, I've recently installed a vanilla version of Server 2008 to take over from our old SBS 2003 server which is close to death. Everything seems to have migrated well and the new 2008 box is running as a DNS server and a DHCP whilst clients are able to log on and off and access the internet as usual, IP's are also being issued successfully. There is one problem, browsing the internet is very slow going, and I think it's DNS related. When typing in the URL to ANY website, no matter the site, the browser (multiple browsers on multiple platforms) hang for around 5-6 seconds before loading the page instantly. It's very odd as it's not like it's making any progress then …

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fRAiLtY replied October 27, 201113 yr

Hello Sir, I am going to implement a small network. Sir I want to install windows server2008 in my server. I just want two things from the windows server The users will just use print server and internet they will required to join the domain. First and most important thing is that I want that all the users on the network should get equal speed nobody gets more. The other thing is that a dhcp server should be made in windows server and then each mac adress should be bound to its ip. Are these possible with windows server? if it is possible then please help how? I have a server machine and i also have a seprate machine for load balancing with 4 lan cards as i am gett…

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ICTCity replied October 27, 201113 yr

I'm having trouble with a particular Windows update - KB2463332. It's an SQL Service Pack 4 update, if that makes any difference. Anyway, the update says that it has successfully installed, but the next time that WSUS is run, it appears as a Windows update that needs to be installed. This has been going on for 3 months now. I've rebooted several times, even doing a "clean" reboot without any non-Windows services or startup programs running, thinking that they might be conflicting with this update. Below is a snippet from the CBS log, which gives a small indication of what might be wrong. Unfortunately, anything that I've found on this subject will not work on Serv…

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ICTCity replied October 27, 201113 yr

Hello Sir, I am going to implement a small network. Sir I want to install windows server2008 in my server. I just want two things from the windows server The users will just use print server and internet they will required to join the domain. First and most important thing is that I want that all the users on the network should get equal speed nobody gets more. The other thing is that a dhcp server should be made in windows server and then each mac adress should be bound to its ip. Are these possible with windows server? if it is possible then please help how? I have a server machine and i also have a seprate machine for load balancing with 4 lan cards as i am gett…

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ICTCity replied October 27, 201113 yr

Hello Sir, I am going to implement a small network. Sir I want to install windows server2008 in my server. I just want two things from the windows server The users will just use print server and internet they will required to join the domain. First and most important thing is that I want that all the users on the network should get equal speed nobody gets more. The other thing is that a dhcp server should be made in windows server and then each mac adress should be bound to its ip. Are these possible with windows server? if it is possible then please help how? I have a server machine and i also have a seprate machine for load balancing with 4 lan cards as i am gett…

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ICTCity replied October 27, 201113 yr

Hello Sir, I am going to implement a small network. Sir I want to install windows server2008 in my server. I just want two things from the windows server The users will just use print server and internet they will required to join the domain. First and most important thing is that I want that all the users on the network should get equal speed nobody gets more. The other thing is that a dhcp server should be made in windows server and then each mac adress should be bound to its ip. Are these possible with windows server? if it is possible then please help how? I have a server machine and i also have a seprate machine for load balancing with 4 lan cards as i am gett…

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ICTCity replied October 27, 201113 yr

Hi all, I have a problem with my new 2008 terminal server. In our domain we have users with roaming profile and users without roaming profiles. When a user without a roaming profile (like an admin user) logs on to the terminal server, everything seems fine. But when a (win7) user logs on with a roaming profile true remote connection. The user gets a black background. The look and feel of the windows are also a bit different. I think it's because the terminal server wants to load the theme of the user, buth it can't. Because can't be loade on the terminal server. I want to set up the terminal server so that they all have the same windows classical theme.…

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ICTCity replied October 27, 201113 yr

Hi ive just got a D-Link DES-3226S managed switch for dirt cheap, and am have a little play around with it. Ive just setup Port Mirroring on it so i cant use my Server running a Packet Sniffer to Monitor All Traffic! This is my setup! Its a 24 Port stackable switch, with the server connected to port 24. (i dont know what port 25 and 26 is, but it has serial to) [ATTACH]176.IPB[/ATTACH] Just woundering if ive done it right, Thanks!

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ICTCity replied October 27, 201113 yr

Hi, so this is also my first DNS setup, but i know nothing about DNS, i dont know how it works or what its for HAHA! all i know is its something to do with the internet, correct. Very new to this and keen to learn.. had a play around with setting one up but as you could immagine didnt get far, I guess my question right now is how exactly does it work and what exactly is it for, and maybe do i need one What lead me to setting up DNS was the fact that i have a DHCP server configured and i want the DHCP server to issue the DNS of the server not the router, eg, the DHCP server is 192.168.0.2 and so i want a DHCP lease to be IP: 192.168.0.xxx Gateway: 192.168.0…

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ICTCity replied October 26, 201113 yr

Hi, My client has a share on their SBS2008 server that they use to track work and to do this they sort by Modified date. Recently they have noticed a speight of random old files appearing at the top of the list with new modified dates. I cannot work out why. I know this is a vague description of whats going on but at this stage I'm still looking for clues as to why this is hapenning. can anyone offer any clues or point me in the right direction? Thanks Mark

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ICTCity replied October 25, 201113 yr

Hello all, first post here. I have a 2008 R2 terminal server that by all accounts is working fine. I have one particular user that I gave a new laptop to (W7 Pro, updated fully), and he can not print to his redirected printer. When you are in the remote server the redirected printer shows up and everything looks fine. If you try to print, it does nothing. If you try to print a test page from the redirected printer properties, it fails instantly. I can not figure out why this one machine can not seem to handle redirected print jobs. I just reformatted it last week and ran all windows updates. http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b199/TTU98SS/Capture2.png http://i…

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ICTCity replied October 25, 201113 yr

Here's the quick and dirty of it, our SSL cert signed by our CA has expired. Typically the CA emails the requester before it expires and warns them but the requester was a former employee, his email was disabled when he left and therefore the warnings are well somewhere in email limbo. Nothing we can do about that now only make better choices in the future. But the issue is that now that it has expired I cannot seem to just press the renew button. I go into IIS 7 on our server 2008 sbs server, in our domain I go to server certificates. I select the expired cert from the center pane and press the renew button on the right. I select "Renew an existing certificate using a…

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ICTCity replied October 25, 201113 yr

I am trying to set up the following environment: Standalone Root CA and Enterprise Sub CA, both running windows 2008 R2 core. To set up the ROOT CA i have done the following: Install the Certificate Services Roll by typing the following at the command line: Cscript C:\Windows\System32\setupca.vbs /IS /sn RootCA /sp "RSA#Microsoft Software Key Storage Provider" /sk 2048 /sa SHA256 /SV 20 Run the following commands on the ROOT CA to set the issuing validity period to 20 years certutil -setreg ca\ValidityPeriod "Years" certutil -setreg ca\ValidityPeriodUnits "20" net stop certsvc & net start certsvc Install the CRL List in Active Directory by running the fo…

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ICTCity replied October 25, 201113 yr

Afternoon everyone, came across this site, thought I'd ask the question. I work in a school, we have a .gov.uk domain name, we recently employed a company to build a VLe - virtual learing environment in short a web based interface that allows students, parents and teachers access to configured resources. Moodle. Anyway, annoyingly the builders haven't followed the spec originally layed out. Externally we have a domain name of www.xschoolvle.co.uk this has been associated with an IP on the VLe server to which external trafic is forwarded - no problems. However they, the builders, have configured the VLe in such a way that the content of the VLe can only be accesse…

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koga73 replied October 25, 201113 yr

Hi guys. I am new to the forum and would like to have assistance on one of the issue which have my head scratched for days. I have two Windows 2008 x64 R2 servers. One was placed at OU, lets say A. Another node located at OU B. I have the domain users group added to the local Administrator group and was given FULL CONTROL on both servers. Server A does not apply the GPO on the ACL for D drive (.\Users group is within the ACL) hence, the domain users (With Admin access) does not facing any issue access to D drive. However for server B, the GPO applied and it will remove .\users group. The domain users are not allowed to access D drive, it will throw "Access …

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ICTCity replied October 24, 201113 yr