Questions tagged [windows-server-2008-r2]
Windows Server 2008 R2 is an operating system from Microsoft, and reached End Of Life on January 14, 2020. It is an update of Windows Server 2008. Unlike Server 2003 R2, this R2 is a fully new Operating System. It is only available in 64-bit versions.
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Upgrading SQL Server Express 2008 R2 that seems to be tied with SQL Server Standard
I have a Server Server 2008 R2 instance. I need to upgrade to SQL Server 2016 temporarily until an infrastructure upgrade to newer hardware and newer software.
I try to upgrade to SQL Server 2016 ...
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Unable to locate VBScript.Encrypt
I'm in the process of trying to migrate a legacy ASP application from Windows Server 2008 R2 to a Windows Server 2022 box.
Currently, I'm having trouble with the application being encoded by the ...
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Cannot remove alternate computername after in-place upgrade from 2008 R2 to 2012 R2
We have some servers that were upgraded in-place from 2008 R2 to 2012 R2. While they were running 2008 R2 alternate computer names were added to them with netdom computername <computer> /add:<...
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Isass.exe memory leak on Windows Server 2008 R2 [closed]
I found one of our Windows Server(2008 R2) use 98% memory(16GB in all). In Task manager, lsass.exe was found using about 15GB memory. After restart the server, lsass.exe occupy about 10MB memory, and ...
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Trouble Upgrading Secondary DC from 2008R2 -> 2012R2 without FSMO Roles Present
I am attempting to upgrade a recovered DC running 2008R2 to 2012R2. This DC is the secondary and the primary is still in production. When attempting the upgrade process, I run into an issue where the ...
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Replacing Domain Controller with Server 2022
We have two Domain Controllers running 2012 R2. I have been given a project to replace these with 2022.
I have just discovered that the Domain Functional Level is still 2008 R2.
I have issues with FRS ...
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Migrating from Windows Server 2008 R2 to Azure AD
Windows Server 2008 R2 (I am aware that it is out of support) Active Directory Domain Controller and file server.
I am considering migrating users and files to Azure AD. Our users currently have ...
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Prevent specific application information event IDs from Source Security-SPP flooding the Windows Application Event Viewer Log
Is there a way to prevent event IDs: 1003 and 1033 from Source: Security-SPP with Level: Information from flooding a Windows server Application Event Viewer Log?
I am seeing approx 4500 of these ...
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Windows Server no option for domain logon
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Problem solved. Thank you everyone! I reset local admin password and discovered that someone had taken this machine off the domain. Easy fix once the password was reset.
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We are running ...
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Silicon Image Raid5 search for data recovery options [closed]
In a HP server with windows 2008-R2. There is a PCI Silicon Image SATA raid controller with 4 SATA disks.
In the controller is a config to make them in a Raid5 config.
Windows is seeing them as 1 ...
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Upgrade Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2022
Is it possible to upgrade from Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2022, passing through Windows Server 2012 R2?
I don't know if it is possible with the "storage" version of ...
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RDP not respecting client's desktop scale factor
We upgraded our laptops and their resolution went from the old laptops' 1366 x 768 to 1920 x 1080 and this is causing our one Remote Desktop server to scale everything small so it's hard to see. I ...
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Does UEFI info on the hard drive's boot partition gets written to the system's BIOS?
I was transferring a set of existing raid drives into a second-hand server, an HP Gen9 server. I observed 2 interesting details:
When I was configuring UEFI boot Order shown in the picture below,
I ...
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What is a good indicator that a server does not have enough RAM?
I am the "application owner" of a server (ie. I am responsible for running and maintaining the application running on the server).
The VM has 8GB of RAM, as was recommended when the ...
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Restoring Win server 2008 from full back up?
I'm having trouble of restoring win server 2008, can anyone help me.
First of all, i got the Power Edge 2900 running raid 1 with 3 disk. Power outage happend, and 2 disks are gone -slot0 and slot1 (...
