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Direct Access can't connect via Remote Access Management Console

December 13, 2012, 5:36 am
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I've set up Direct Access in Server 2012 following the guide by Chad Duffey. It all set up ok, with the PKI part set up for Windows 7 clients also, but now that the server has been restarted, I can't access the Remote Access Management Console and Server Manager is telling me it still needs configuring.

The message for both is the same "Settings for server servername.domain cannot be retrieved. The connection to the specified remote host was refused. Verify that the WS-Management service is running on the remote host and configured to listen for requests on the correct port and HTTP URL."

WS-Management is running and I can't see anything that jumps out as wrong.

What have I done wrong here?

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Wsus causing NiC teaming in WS2012 to fail

December 13, 2012, 5:40 am
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I have setup two WS 2012 servers both with 4x NiC teamed with LACP, when wsus kicks in it reset all adapters and make our failover cluster to go down.

There is no hyper-v on these servers, only failover clustering with sql HA.

Events from windowslog is as follows on all 4 NICS, this happens right after Wsus kicks in:

Log Name:      System
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-MsLbfoSysEvtProvider
Date:          13.12.2012 03:16:21
Event ID:      16949
Task Category: None
Level:         Warning
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:    
Description:
Member Nic {1566f37c-4ffa-4aa6-ac89-1d8db44bfb5a} Disconnected.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-MsLbfoSysEvtProvider" Guid="{387ed463-8b1b-42c9-9ef0-803fdfd5d94e}" EventSourceName="MsLbfoProvider" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="32768">16949</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>3</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2012-12-13T02:16:21.912625900Z" />
    <EventRecordID>11695</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="6668" />
    <Channel>System</Channel>
    <Computer></Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data Name="DriverObject">
    </Data>
    <Data Name="Member">{1566f37c-4ffa-4aa6-ac89-1d8db44bfb5a}</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>


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Customize the default local user profile in windows Server 2012

December 13, 2012, 5:44 am
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Hi

Is there any easy way to customize the default user profile?
I want to install and do my changes in the administrator account, and copy it to the default user profile, so any user that log on this server have that profile.

Can anyone help me?

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Windows Boot Manager missing after first boot after bluescreen/error

December 9, 2012, 10:13 am
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Hello,

today I encountered a very annoying problem. I ran into a blue screen (I guess due to too much NAT rules - 131068 to be precise - but that's not the point). The system told me it ran into a problem and needs to restart or something like that and the event log had an entry "The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly." with
WINSERV 41 Critical Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power System 09.12.2012 15:48:41

And now the real problem:

This error caused the Windows Boot Manager to disappear and the system to boot into BIOS (or trying to boot the next boot device if there are any further devices configured). In any case Windows Server isn't booted anymore.

If you now boot from a HDD without the Windows Boot Manager that of course fails but after that the Windows Boot Manager is again available - but its now on the last position in the BIOS boot order so that you manually need to set it back to 1 to boot the Windows Server again.

I've tested serveral times today and with a normal shutdown / reboot there is absolutely no problem but with every blue screen you get this. And that is really bad as the server isn't available anymore until you manually fix the boot order...

I'm using Windows Server 2012 x64 EN Datacenter, Installed on partition (boot) on a 3 TB HDD which is mirrored by the Windows Disk Management to another 3 TB HDD and there are no other operating systems installed.

Any ideas how to fix that problem?

Best regards and thanks for any tips!

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Cannot Delete Shadow Copy Path on Windows Server 2008 R2

December 13, 2012, 6:03 am
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I was testing out the use of Shadow Copy for Shared Folders and all went well except when by accident, I removed the folder I had Shadow Copies enabled on before removing the Shadow Copies first.

When I got back into the configuration for the Shadow Copies, I see the 2 drives on my server C: and E: but there is also now a 3rd one that didn't exist before this happened.

The Volume Path shows up like this:

\\?\Volume{GUID}

I went into the registry and found and deleted every single GUID that matched, restarted the server, and still no go. The actual GUID comes back as a different number every time.



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server 2012:what about mobile broadband?

November 27, 2012, 8:14 am
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mobile broadband:use it easy at win8,but can do nothing for server 2012,lost some *.dll？
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error installing SQL server 2008 installation package on Windows server 2012

July 19, 2012, 2:10 pm
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Hello,

I am trying to install SQL server 2008 on windows server 2012 RC (build 8400)  build I got below error

Product: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Setup Support Files  -- Error 1935. An error occurred during the installation of assembly 'Microsoft.VC80.ATL,version="8.0.50727.1833",publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",processorArchitecture="amd64",type="win32"'. Please refer to Help and Support for more information. HRESULT: 0x80073712. assembly interface: IAssemblyCacheItem, function: Commit, component: {837BF1EB-D770-94EB-A01F-C8B3B9A1E18E}

digging into CBS log i got the following related entries

2012-07-19 19:24:14, Info                  CBS    Not able to add pending.xml.bad to Windows Error Report. [HRESULT = 0x80070002 - ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND]
2012-07-19 19:24:14, Info                  CBS    Not able to add poqexec.log to Windows Error Report. [HRESULT = 0x80070002 - ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND]
2012-07-19 19:24:14, Info                  CBS    Not able to add SCM.EVM to Windows Error Report. [HRESULT = 0x80070002 - ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND]
2012-07-19 19:24:14, Error                 CSI    0000008c (F) STATUS_SXS_COMPONENT_STORE_CORRUPT #19530# from CCSDirectTransaction::OperateEnding at index 0 of 3 operations, disposition 0[gle=0xd015001a]
2012-07-19 19:24:14, Error                 CSI    0000008d (F) HRESULT_FROM_WIN32(14098) #19277# from Windows::COM::CComponentStore::InternalTransact(...)[gle=0x80073712]
2012-07-19 19:24:14, Info                  CBS    TiWorker: Client requests SxS store object.
2012-07-19 19:24:14, Info                  SXS    Uninstall Assembly: policy.8.0.Microsoft.VC80.MFCLOC,version="8.0.50727.1833",publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",processorArchitecture="amd64",type="win32-policy"
2012-07-19 19:24:14, Info                  SXS    Submitting uninstall transaction
2012-07-19 19:24:14, Info                  CSI    0000008e Performing 1 operations; 1 are not lock/unlock and follow:

Any idea what is going on, is this MSI authoring error or OS file corruption issue ?

If it mainfest corruption issue how can i fix it ?

Should i do OS repair ?

I have tried the following workarounds

Installing VC red 2008

Installing VC red 2008 SP1

Running SFC /SCAN command to fix damaged system files.

Rebooting the machine multiple times.

Regards,
Ahmed Ibrahim
SQL Server Setup Team
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RSAT Server Manager events error accessing from Windows 8

December 13, 2012, 8:16 am
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Using the "Server Manager" from RSAT on Windows 8 and accessing Server 2012 servers, I am not able to receive events data from servers. The error is: "Online - Cannot get event data". Services, BPA, Performance & Roles and Features panes all work correctly. Actually everything works except events data.

Using "Server Manager" on a server and accessing other servers works correctly. This only seems to be problem on Windows 8.

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New! Windows Server 2012 Core Network Companion Guide: Group Policy Deployment, on Web and in Word format, just FYI

December 13, 2012, 8:42 am
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REQ: Server 2012 DirectAccess & Teredo Guide

December 13, 2012, 11:09 am
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I have DA working right now using IPHTTPS but connections are terribly slow.

Is it possible to speed this up using terendo? If so, does anyone have a nice guide on how to do this?

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Unable to add server GUI

December 13, 2012, 11:58 am
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I had a 2008 R2 Standard Server which I upgraded to Server 2012 Standard.  I had Hyper-V installed and I'm happy to report the upgrade process was pretty easy.  After the install we wanted to try managing the server as a Server Core Install.  I ran the Power Shell command: uninstall-windowsfeature server-gui-mgmt-infra which removed the full GUI as well as the minimal server install.

We are trying to add the Minimal GUI or Full Gui back and we get an error message after reboot. 

The server reboots and the sever is back to it's core status. 

I've also tried to remove the binaries, uninstall-windowsfeature server-gui-mgmt-infra -remove and then re-add them with install-windowsfeature server-gui-mgmt-infra -source wim:e:\sources\install.wim:2 but get the same error.

Allowing it to download them from the Internet also give the same error.

For additional troubleshooting I did a Windows Server Backup and restored to a lab environment.  I installed 2012 core on top which installed fine but when I try to add the GUI again I get the same errors.

Server logs are no help and I'm running out of options.

Brady

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Migrating Certification Authority to Server 2012 and private key name doesn't match CN of the CA

December 13, 2012, 2:29 pm
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I am migrating a Windows Enterprise Root Certification Authority from a Server 2008 R2 server to Server 2012. I followed the steps in the TechNet article to export the CA certificate with private key, registry settings, and database. I removed the ADCS role from the server and then added the ADCS role on my 2012 server. I imported the CA certificate with private key, and it appears properly in the Certificates MMC snap-in with the name of the CA as the CN on the certificate. It says "You have a private key that corresponds to this certificate."

My previous CA name was InternalCA and that is the Common Name of the CA certificate. When I run the ADCS Configuration wizard on the 2012 server, it tries to name the CA InternalCA(2). It won't let me use any other name. It appears that although the CN of the public key is InternalCA, the CN of the private key is InternalCA(2). I'm not sure how that happened, but it was working fine on the 2008 R2 server. When I runcertutil.exe -store my | find "Key Container" on both servers, they both return InternalCA(2) as the name of the key container. Is it possible for the public and private keys to have different CNs?

How can I make the new CA have the same name as the old server? Also, does it matter? Every PC in the domain has a computer certificate that is set for auto-renewal. What will happen if the name of the CA changes? Will auto-renewal fail?


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storage spaces not working when disks are attached to a supermicro AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 HBA

December 13, 2012, 3:27 pm
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I have a computer with a AOC-SAS2LP-MV8. This computer had windows 8 running for about 4 months. Storage spaces was working fine in windows 8.

I bought windows 2012 and installed it. the AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 was not recognized (I can't remember if it was recognized with windows 8)

I could only install the old driver from 2011 that is available on supermicro FTP.

back in september, I did ask supermicro if the AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 would be supported in windows 2012 but they never replied. I started to dislike that brand from that point.

Anyway, the installation of the 2011 driver went fine. I rebooted the system and all HDD were visible.

I decided to create a virtual for 2 of the disks. these disks are identified as disk2 and disk3

I never managed to create a storage space as there is a step that formats the drives and that step always failed.

I used Paragon partition manager to wipe the disks. Then I was able to create a storage space.

the last step is to create a virtual disk:

I selected my new storage space and choose the simple layout (that layout needs at least 1 disk, I have 2 in my storage space)

I click next and I get this error:

"The storage pool does not contain enough physical disks to support the select ed storate layout. select  a different layout" 

I did notice that in the list of disks under the storage space, the disks are named:

PhysicalDisk4 
PhysicalDisk5

that's rather strange since they were initially named disk2 and disk3. I do have other disks which are called disk4 and disk5 but these disks are not in any storage space.

contrary to the AOC-SASLP-MV8, the  AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 does report unique Id's for each disk.

so here we are, after 10 hours, I have a system that won't work with storage space.

Supermicro remained silent. I really hate when a customer support refuse to communicate with their customers.

Note: i tried the 2 disks when connected to the motherboard SATA ports. I was able to create a virtual disk! so I can't blame the disks for this problem.

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How do I use a Group Managed Service Account with the Task Scheduler

September 19, 2012, 4:53 pm
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In Server 2008, Managed Service Accounts only worked with services, and only a single computer. In Server 2012, the new Group Managed Service Accounts apparently now work with IIS Application Pool and Scheduled Tasks too according to this TechNet documentation:

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With Windows Server 2012, services or service administrators do not need to manage password synchronization between service instances when using group Managed Service Accounts (gMSA). You provision the gMSA in AD and then configure the service which supports Managed Service Accounts. You can provision a gMSA using the *-ADServiceAccount cmdlets which are part of the Active Directory module. Service identity configuration on the host is supported by:

  • Same APIs as sMSA, so products which support sMSA will support gMSA
  • Services which use Service Control Manager to configure logon identity
  • Services which use the IIS manager for application pools to configure identity
  • Tasks using Task Scheduler.

" - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj128431.aspx

However, I cannot find a way to specify a Scheduled Task to run as a gMSA that I have created. I've tried both the taskschd.msc GUI and the schtasks command-line. Is there a trick to it or is the documentation incorrect?

Regards,

Jason

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VMNetworkAdapter and port mirroring

May 29, 2012, 5:44 am
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Hi,

I have 2 VM connecter on the same virtual switch.

For the First VM,  network adapter is configured with "–PortMirroring Source" parameter

For the Second  network adapter is configured with "–PortMirroring Destination" parameter

On the second, i have installed Netmon 3.4. When i monitor trafic, i cna't see any packet from VM 1.

What is the mistake ??

Thanks !



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Non-Domain PC's accessing a Domain Server

December 10, 2012, 6:32 am
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Hi

I have a new server 2012 set up, and it has a share on it, 3 users have been made and assigned security groups. The folders within the share have been customised so only certain user groups can access them. This all works great.

I have always known that non-Domain pc's can access shares on a Domain Server, all you have to provide when connecting to the server for the first time is the Domain\Username and Password.

Now when does this connection time out? so it would ask again (after a period of not accessing the server)

Or does it only disconnect when you reboot and then ask you again?

Is there a way to manually disconnect so you can log in as a different user? (obviously while testing on one PC i logged in as a lesser user, and now would like to properly log in myself now)

Just to clarify - This is logging into a share from a non-domain PC, with the User details set up on the server

Thanks

Tris

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Hyper V management console missing

December 13, 2012, 7:40 pm
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Hello,

I am trying out the Server 2012 Standard trial on a test box.  My issue is that the VirtMgmt.msc file has gone missing so I cannot manage my Hyper V guests from the host.  Here is what I've done to get into this mess.

  • On a physical test box install Server 2012 Standard with a GUI (trial version)
  • Added ADDS role
  • Promoted to a DC
  • Created a 2012 Std GUI guest VM using the Hyper V console on a local disk
  • Then, on the DC (Hyper V host) I un-installed the GUI via power shell commands
  • Then, I fiddled a little to see what this version is like
  • Then, I re-installed the GUI using the powershell commands

Now that I have the GUI back on the Hyper V host I tried these things:

Clicking the Hyper-V Manager icon brings up this error:
- MMC cannot open the file C:\Windows\system32\virtmgmt.msc

Browsing to this location shows that the file does not exist.
When I go into Add Roles, the Hyper V role is checked already so I cannot install it

The hyper V guest does run properly, I can RDP to it

Any tips would be appreciated.  Honestly, I don't know powershell too well - maybe there is a solution there to re-install the admin tools?

-Drew

Drew

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TimeServer for Server2012

December 14, 2012, 3:37 am
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Hi

I have just set up a Server2012 standard install. The event log identified an error about having access to a Time Server. In the event error it suggested what to type in to the PowerShell in order to set the server to connect to a Microsoft Time Server (NTP) (I can;t remember what as it was a few days ago)

Everything then seemed fine for a few days, and now I am getting a new error claiming that that server is no longer valid (access to the network/internet is all fine, its as if the microsoft time server is offline, or not valid anymore.

What do other use for the time server setting?

Anyway to enter the details, or confirm what is entered via GUI rather than command line?

What should I enter as a Time server for the server to use?

Tris

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Windows 8 Server do not open "\\\\.\con". previous windows version does

March 2, 2012, 10:09 am
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Windows 8 Server feedback:

fail: open("\\\\.\\CON", O_WRONLY | O_CREAT, S_IWRITE);
all prevoius Windows versions open the console in this case.

still ok is on Windows 8
open("CON", O_WRONLY | O_CREAT, S_IWRITE);
open("\\.\\CONOUT$", O_WRONLY | O_CREAT, S_IWRITE);

why should --> open("\\\\.\\CON", O_WRONLY | O_CREAT, S_IWRITE);
not fail.

because DOS-Namespace usage like "\\\\.\\COMx" instead "COMx" is documented in the following way.

from
http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/aa365247%28en-us,VS.85%29.aspx

Do not use the following reserved device names for the name of a file:
CON, ... COM1, ... COM9...

The "\\.\" prefix will access the Win32 device namespace instead of the Win32 file namespace

example:
This works because COM1–COM9 are part of the reserved names in the NT namespace, although using the "\\.\" prefix will also work with these device names. By comparison, if you have a 100 port serial expansion board installed and want to open COM56, you cannot open it using "COM56" because there is no predefined NT namespace for COM56. You will need to open it using "\\.\COM56" because "\\.\" goes directly to the device namespace without attempting to locate a predefined alias.

if COMx is a device in the win32 device Namespace like \\.\com56

than CON should be reachable in the win32 device Namespace with \\.\con too

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Download Manager - limit the download speed?

December 14, 2012, 4:08 am
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For all its faults the old File Transfer Manager did have the option to limit the download speed - useful if you don't have a fast connection and you don't want to annoy everyone else in the house.

Is there a way to limit the new download manager so that it doesn't swamp the link and generate the (not unreasonable) moaning?

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