Questions tagged [windows-server-2012-r2]
A version of Windows for servers based on Windows 8.1 and a significant update to Windows Server 2012. Questions about administering Windows Server systems that are specific to a business environment are off topic for Super User; please consider asking on Server Fault instead if your question is on topic there.
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Stop OneDrive in Scheduled Task
I need to stop and resume OneDrive inside a PowerShell Script that runs at Scheduled Task.
The stop/resume works fine unless I check 'run whether user is logged on or not'. In that case the OneDrive ...
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Right parameters for defrag on Windows Server 2012 R2
In Windows Server 2012 R2 I used the standard dfrgui.exe to turn the scheduled optimization on. After several months I looked at the Defrag UI again and noticed that drives were never optimized since ...
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tricky user profile issue on a Windows Server 2012 R2 machine
Need some help with a tricky user profile issue on a Windows Server 2012 R2 machine acting as a CAS server.
Here's the scenario:
I'm using Hyper-V manager on another Windows Server 2012 R2 to connect ...
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Connect to Windows Server 2012 VPN using L2TP randomly fails
I have multiple computers running Windows 11 Pro. All computers have the same problem. I'm trying to connect to a remote L2TP/IPSEC VPN with a pre-shared key.
Client side: I have two vpn entries. One ...
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mapped drives stop working and need to be remapped
This is a weird situation. I have a desktop PC with Windows 10 and a Windows Server 2012 R2 from which I have mapped shares onto the desktop. Quite often it happens that drives become unavailable or ...
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Advanced tab missing in Network Adapter properties after installing 28.2 version of Network Adapter Driver
I recently updated my Intel X540-AT2 Network Card on a Windows Server 2012 R2 system to the latest version 28.2. This update included both the driver package and the Intel® PROSet package, which I ...
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How to Exclude Files and Folders from Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) Backups
I've been using Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) to create backups of my files and folders. However, I've encountered a situation :
I need to exclude specific files and folders from Microsoft built-in Volume ...
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Possible issues after turning on Bitlocker on Windows Server 2012 R2
I would like to turn on BitLocker encryption on a remote computer I don't have physical access to. What I am afraid of is that:
The operating system will not be able to boot after enabling BitLocker (...
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Windows server RDP logon causes external USB disks to spin up
I have a silent low power consumption Windows Server 2012 R2 machine with one SSD and two external USB 3.0 HDDs Toshiba Canvio Basics.
Those HDDs are the "green" ones and spin up for ...
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What to try before power cycling unresponsive remote Windows Server VM
I have some Server 2012r2 hosts (all remote QEMU/KVM virtual machines) that become unresponsive to new session requests: Can't RDP, Enter-Pssession -ComputerName, Invoke-Command -ComputerName, or even ...
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Outlook 2013 won't start except Exchange Cache Mode is active
I do have a strange problem:
Yesterday I logged off from my RDS 2012 R2 session. until that point I had no issues with Outlook.
Today I logged into a new RDS 2012 R2 session and tried to start Outlook....
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S.M.A.R.T. on Windows Server 2012 R2
One of hard drives on my Windows Server 2012 R2 starts to fail and I detected this too late - only when I was not able to read one file and got some strange errors on read.
After checking the drive ...
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How to use a SSD as cache on Windows Server?
I have Windows Server 2022 2xHDD and 2xNVMe
Can I use NVMe like cache? Maybe Storage Spaces or other app? I want to use half of NVMe space directly for VMs and half of NVMe space for cache of HDD. ...
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In place off network upgrade to server 2019
Ok, I made a backup image of an AD and have it hosted in Hyper-V machine with no network on a separate pc. Unfortunately, it will not boot normally so the only way I am able to boot it and login is by ...
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My computer works fine without the Ethernet cable but as soon as I plug the cable in, it is extremely slow
So, this is a weird one. The network I control, had a power blip in the morning and right after that, there were issues. As soon as the users log in to their computers, it would take extreme amount of ...
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