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Hey I am in here in hopes someone can help us with a 'wierd' issue we are having, and I think I have narrowed it down to something with the user on our 2008 server. Thanks for your help in advance and I will try to explain the issue in detail: A user who is logging onto our server is experiencing display issues when browsing the internet. 1) We have used IE, Firefox and Chrome to verify its not a browser issue, and even in those instance reset and checked all security and addons. 2) We have logged the user onto the server from 4 different office computers. And yet still we have the same result. Making me believe this could be a user logon setting or server bl…

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ICTCity replied September 23, 201113 yr

Hi All, I am about to embark on a project to test Virtual applications in our environment. We have just put an order in for a spangly new HP DL380 Server with 2Tb of storage running 2008 R2 with 5 TS CALS. When I recieve the server I would like, as most techie's do, to set it up the instant it arrives - now I would really like to know the best way of doing this, so hopefully this is where you guys come in. The idea is to virtualise all in house apps develped in delphi, and all Office Apps used in house (to start with anyway!) We will have 5 test PC's varying between Windows XP and Windows 7, although the aim ultimately is to W7 all of our PC's Can you give …

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ICTCity replied September 23, 201113 yr

Hello. I need to bind to my Active Directory server. I use JXplorer. I can log in using cn=Administrator,dc=...., but I can not login using cn=Myuser,dc=... User Myuser is member of DomainAdmins and has delegated all required permissions. I can log in with Myuser via ldp.exe on local server machine, but I can not do it remotely. Where is the problem? Are there any remote access permissions?

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ICTCity replied September 21, 201113 yr

I am looking to install "Windows Server 2008", O/S on 64 bit So, I am asking which is the best Motherboard? Any specific brand? Make sure, it should support all drivers for "Windows Server 2008", O/S on 64 bit and should have excellent performance.

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ICTCity replied September 20, 201113 yr

I tried to search for such an issue but have had no luck finding answers that cure the issue. We have an array of XP clients that cannot join the domain offered by the Server 2008 box. I can get Windows 7 to join the domain, but not any XP machines. I have tried manually setting the DNS server on the client machines to reflect the IP on the same subnet they get an IP from I can ping the domain from client machines and receive replies. I cannot figure out why they won't join the domain. It errors with cannot join domain.local. Network path not found. Many forums blame DNS, but if that were the case, why would the client be able to ping the server? Doesn't make …

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ICTCity replied September 18, 201113 yr

I am trying to have some Windows 2008 servers out on the internet through http/https My existing 2003 servers are working fine and when connecting to the LAN they work fine too. However what I am finding is that when I am connecting from the internet i am not getting any response from the clients. I found that when looking at the network monitor and looking at the traffic from these clients I am getting things like this: 146 12:03:22 PM 9/17/2011 14.5766450 svchost.exe 203.173.163.38 WIN2K8-RDS TCP TCP:Flags=......S., SrcPort=34373, DstPort=MS WBT Server(3389), PayloadLen=0, Seq=1503735608, Ack=0, Win=5840 ( ) = 5840 {TCP:1, IPv4:8} 149 12:03:22 PM 9/17/201…

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ICTCity replied September 18, 201113 yr

Hi If you were using Server 2008 R2 as a workstation with Avast and Comodo firewall and a basic network(computers connect to router and share files/connect to internet), what services would you turn off? Trying to clean up the computer and make it quick as possible. Cheers.

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ICTCity replied September 17, 201113 yr

Hi, I just installed a Win2008 SVR STD R2 on a Intel x5660 / s5520scr Motherboard/ 24GB 2x600 SAS Raid1, and since i finish the system installation Im getting system micro freezes every 2 seconds, the mouse freezes and seems all processes do the same, I just windows updated to every available but Im getting same behaivor. Of course safe mode is not affected by this issue and Im not getting any kind of error messages, just the frustating hang up all time. I hope someone can give me any hint to resolve this situation. Thanks in advance.

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ICTCity replied September 17, 201113 yr

I have Windows Server 2008 x86 installed. I installed Active Directory with DNS, created a new forest and see AD and DNS are working sympatico after a few failures (always happens after it's first installed, not sure why). I installed DHCP Server and see client machines are able to receive an IP lease. However, once I install Routing Acesses so the client machines can access the Internet, DHCP no longer provides IP leases. There are no DHCP errors logged to ascertain the cause. If I install DNS without AD, install DHCP and Routing Access, all clients work flawlessly, even with DHCP Reservations created. I want to use Active Directory though and it should work, yet…

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ICTCity replied September 15, 201113 yr

Hi all, I have had an extensive Google search for an answer but I can't seem to find the right documentation for help. Also, as per the rules I have searched the forum itself for an answer, but no luck. Box details: At work we have a Dell PowerEdge T110 (box details here) running Win Server 2008 with Hyper-V. Hard drive wise, it is sporting a mirrored RAID between 2 drives. The issue: My boss wanted to install a 1TB SATA drive to run separate from the RAID as extra storage for non mission critical data. I have since purchased and installed this hard drive into the T110. On boot, the POST shows that the HDD is plugged into the SATA0 port. However once in the UI …

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bigr3d replied September 15, 201113 yr

Situation: We are working with a bank that has a primary corporate identity website, and each bank branch has their own mini-website residing within a folder of the primary website. For example, www.corporatesite.com/bankbranch1 for one bank branch and www.corporatesite.com/bankbranch2 for a different bank branch. Currently you must use the full path to get to the website of each bank branch. These bank however wish to have their own domain names that resolve only their mini-website. Meaning we want www.bankbranch1.com to resolve the same as www.corporatesite.com/bankbranch1/. What We Have Tried: We tried setting up IIS to point to the www.bankbranch1.com domai…

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ICTCity replied September 14, 201113 yr

Hi, I am trying to deploy Windows 2008 R2 for my client, they have over 500 staff and want to use 1 server as their DC/DNS. As I understand it seems there is a limitation for Users on each 2008 servers, up to 500 per DC(Based on SID). I would like to ask, is that information right or I could add more than 500 users on one DC? I believe it would be good to add: 1: They do not have any other servers to be used 2: Virtualization might be a possibility ( Currently they consider, bare-metal server installation) Thanks for your responses beforehand

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ICTCity replied September 14, 201113 yr

Im currently training in windows 2008 server just started and I have two computers at home that I would like to phyiscally connect this two computers to my windows server computer,t so I can have a home domain to practice setting up windows 7 to windows 2008. what is the best way to connect the computers to the server e.g. switches, cross over cables as Im wanting setup a lab at home to practice such things as active directory, and group policy etc. Any help would be greatly apperciated cheers

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ICTCity replied September 14, 201113 yr

hi, so i recenlty installed the WDS role, and now my servers giving me huge problems. When i RDP into it, it works for a while, realy really slow and then after about 2 mins it kicks me off. Then i try ping the server, no response. then i have to restart it by powering down and up again, then i can ping it again but if i rdp it again, same thing happens over and over again Thanks!! EDIT: So i just reinstalled my wireless NIC as a backup, now i have 2 NICS Wireless NIC: IP: 192.168.2.200 Gateway: 192.168.2.1 Ethernet NIC IP: 192.168.2.100 Gateway: 192.168.2.1 Now, i just restarted it, and again i could ping both devices, reply from both,…

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ICTCity replied September 14, 201113 yr

Basically I have a project I need to do but I am a but fuzzled on which Audit policies I need to set by these standards " Keep a log file of user caused events (logon, folder/printer access etc.) that take place on the server (you will need to configure audit policies and demonstrate Failed/Success events to your lecturer). Use the following criteria to make your decisions when auditing: Record unsuccessful attempts to gain local or network access to Server Record unauthorized access to the files that make up Department Data For billing purposes, track printer usage. Keep a record of actions that an administrator performs to track unauthorized changes on Server.…

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ICTCity replied September 14, 201113 yr

ok hi, im wanting to setup a role in server 2008 to offer virtual desktops, a users starts up their computer, and logs in and the desktop settings, layout etc and everything is stored on the server and displays their settings from the server, if you know what i mean. is this Windows Deployment Services? Thanks!

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ICTCity replied September 14, 201113 yr

Hello I am trying to install a 90 day trail of Windows 2008 server. I have tried to download a few copies of the 32 bit disk from Microsoft website after reading a few posts on other forms in regard to this issue. I am installing Windows 2008 on a Dell optiplex GX520. It has had both Windows 2003 and Windows 7 Ent installed on it with out any issues. I get the error message "No drives were found. Click Load driver to provide a mass storage drive" when it displays the available hard disks to install Windows 2008. I have tried downloading some drivers for the hard disk and using the dell download options but I am not a 100% sure on what drivers I should download and p…

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n33dh3lp replied September 12, 201113 yr

Hi all, I have an c#.NET web application running on Windows 2008 Enterprise 32 bit server. Dual Xeon X5460 CPU with 16 GB RAM. Database server also has the same configuration. I get 8-9 seconds waiting time before the application responds. I use the same application on Windows 2003 Enterprise server. Application responds in 3 seconds for the same data and application. I made a search on the internet and made the following changes on the 2008 server: Disable chimney offload state Disable receive window auto tuning Adding to aspnet.config It made only minor changes. Any other ideas to fix this performance issue? Kindest Regards telmessos P.S: I…

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ICTCity replied September 9, 201113 yr

We would like to allow win7 users to search a win08 R2 file server's remote index. I get to a point where each user needs a unique library file on there machine in order to search remote network shares that have indexes. Anyone have experience doing this and how did you setup/deploy. This doesn't seem to scale very well. Also, would be nice to setup Win7 desktop search to include this in it's default search. I don't see an easy way to setup network shares/with index's into the default win7 search.

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ICTCity replied September 8, 201113 yr

Hi , We are working on a project where we have our file server Windows Server 2008 and this serves files via network drives , we would like to be able to colour a folder on the server .. say red and then if that folder is mapped to the user , once the user on his computer looks at that folder he also sees the folder colour as red ... we havent found a way of doing it yet , though we can do it on the server , but it doesnt flow down to the user ... anyone any ideas ????

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ICTCity replied September 8, 201113 yr

Hello, I want to create special group with permissions to join computers to domain controller. No more permissions. Is it possible? How?

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michaelhu replied September 8, 201113 yr

Hi, I am fairly new to using windows server 2008, but an encountering a peculiar problem. I have a samsung multifunctional, standalone connected to the network. Windows server has detected it and installed it as default printer. I have also installed the samsung universal scan driver and windows server detects it fine. Furthermore, to get the wia service, I installed the desktop experience feature on windows server 2008. Now, if I try to import a picture from scanner in paint, it nicely starts the windows scan program and all works perfectly fine. If I start a different application, a small business app for keeping records and I try to scan, 99 out of 100 time…

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ICTCity replied September 7, 201113 yr

Hi :turned: This is my first post. Thanks for having me as part of this community and for all the help! I'd like to pose my problem and ask for some advice on how to proceed: I work for a small company, that has 2 teams of construction technicians. I do most of the IT for our company. I'm very good with basic networking, computer reformatting, building computers, and general day to day IT issues that we encounter. Basically, my company would like to set up a server, so that our 2 field teams and some of the bosses can share pictures, spreadsheets, and collaborate on field reports. This seems very basic but I don't know how to implement these objectives. When I w…

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ICTCity replied September 7, 201113 yr