Group policy editor keeps crashing under 2012, works fine on 2008R2
Hello everyone,We just introduced our first two windows server 2012 DCs in our AD and we have an unexpected issue: the group policy editor MMC snapin keeps crashing. This happens on both server in the...
View ArticleNFS Share on an ReFS Volume?
I have a 7.5 TB GPT partition for NAS data. When formatted as ReFS, the NFS tabs disappear from folder properties. When formatted with NTFS, they reappear. Is it not possible to create an NFS share...
View ArticleManage A Server Core Server Firewall Rules
Hi,Looking at the following article you need to enable firewall rules to allow core to be managed via MMc'shttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj574205.aspxAccording to the article you need to...
View ArticleKB2750149 breaks Windows 2012 Failover Cluster Manager
After installing KB2750149 on one of our cluster nodes the UI would no longer function properly in the following way:The Failover Cluster Manager will start, I can select Nodes and it will list the...
View ArticleScanning for missing updates for server 2012
Hi guysWe have a few server 2012 running with no internet conenction. Hence, we need to manually download and install them. MBSA tool doesn't seems to support server 2012. Is there other ways to scan...
View Articlesysprep help.
Hi all,I need to sysprep Windows 2012 VM for our several windows 2012 VMs.Can I need to join it to the domain before sysprep? also, activating windows before sysprep?Thank you very much!
View ArticleUpgrading Windows Server 2012 Foundation
We purchased a copy of Windows Server 2012 Foundation with the purchase of our new server. Looks like we might need Hyper-V which I believe Foundation does not support, is the only way to upgrade to...
View Articlerole installation failed
Hi all, just trying to install a wsus on my first server 2012 unfortunately the installation fails. Error message i see in the Wizard: The operation cannot be completed, because the server that you...
View ArticleServer 2012 Datacenter - Virtual Licensing
Hello, We bought Server 2012 Datacenter, which I deployed and activated on Host server. Now it's time to install a lot of new VM's inside.Question is, when I install new VM I have to choose which...
View ArticleIPAM - cannot search by IP or Host or anything else. No data
Hi, guys!I have installed IPAM on one of my Windows Server 2012 box. I have two Domain Controllers with DNS and DHCP roles. I used GPO for setting up IPAM and everything looks fine (Servers...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 Standard Retail - Retire old server and re-use license on...
I am a system builder. If I were to sell a server including Windows Server 2012 Standard Retail(P73-05363) to my customer, could they at some point in the future remove the Windows Server 2012...
View Articleproblems updating windows 2012 server
I'm having failures installing updates, particularly KB2753842 which fails with error Code 80071A91 .What should I do?Thanks -Jeff Garonzik
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 Auto-Activation
Hello!I have just installed a fresh copy of Windows Server 2012 on one of my test servers. I then installed the Backup and Desktop Experience features and restarted the server. After having logged on I...
View ArticleConfiguring RemoteFX with RDSH on Win Server 2012
We are trying to enable RemoteFX on Windows Server 2012. We tried to find out a step-by-step guide for the same and since we weren't able to find we used the guide for Windows Server...
View ArticleNeed help using Windows Server Migration tool
HII've done some googling and read http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj134202.asp however i dont really understand it.I have a Windows 2008 R2 Std edition server and a R2 Web Edition server...
View Articlentfsstreamexception when readin files from 2008 server
HelloI am trying to read files from a windows server 2008 to a windows server 2012 and I get a ntfsstreamexception saying that it can't access the files. I know that windows 2008 had the same issue...
View ArticleWSUS Will Not Download Content
Hello everyone....I am having difficulty getting WSUS to transfer files from the Microsoft Update site and store them locally using W2012 RC. I am havingno problemsgetting the "list" of updates from...
View ArticleHow to rename Local Area Connection from CMD/PowerShell in Free Hyper-V 2012
How to rename the classic "Ethernet", "Ethernet 1", "Ethernet 2"... from CLI/PowerShell in Hyper-V 2012?The name to be located as "NIC-192.168.7.x" "NIC-172.16.1.x" etc...Regards!Lasandro Lopez
View ArticleWindows Server Desktop
Hello!If we look at the Desktop we can see there a few System Folders: Libraries, Administrator, Computer, Network, Control Panel and Recycle Bin. Of all these System Folders,Recycle Bin is the only...
View ArticleUnable to modify Direct Access config
I've been playing around with setting up Direct Access with Server 2012. I made a change to allow Windows 7 clients and selected an intermediate certificate authority. I think I picked an incorrect...
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