Questions tagged [windows-server-2012]
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Windows Server Backup Disk Space issues
I have a dedicated E drive that was formatted by Windows Server Backup, however the drive keeps filling up with an oversized *.vhdx file. What is the best method to make space, without causing ...
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How Can I Access my WebServer's Public-Facing [External] Website from my Company's Internal LAN
Problem = Internal users cannot access my website (MyWebDomain.com), but external users can. In other words, people who are outside my LAN can navigate to my website, but people who are inside my LAN ...
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Why does conhost.exe, with headless argument, go to 100% CPU?
On my production server, the CPU usage goes to 100% after every 10 days. Sometimes within 5 days too.
In Task Manager, there are 2 instances of conhost.exe every time eating 50 - 50% of CPU each. I ...
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How to utilize an IPv6 address on Windows Server for a service
I have a Windows Server at a data center which has a range of IPv6 addresses, for example 2000:5300:120:e5e:: (not real address) with 64 entered in the Subnet Prefix Length. I want to bind one of the ...
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Windows server IP address
Currently, I'm using Oracle Virtual Box 7.0.12. My Windows 10 Server has a static IP address of 192.168.10.10/24. The roles I added were Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, and IIS services. However, it is ...
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How to test localhost:PORT website by amending the hosts file?
Windows 11 + all updates.
Visual Studio 2022 + all updates
I have a website which can run on https://localhost:44313/ in my CMS i have configured it to use a test domain.
I have set a test domain set ...
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Time Synchronization not working on Windows domain
I work at a dental office (and am not an IT professional, hence this post haha), and we have several computers using Windows 10 on a domain using Windows Server 2012. The time is right on the domain ...
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Client PC not downloading WSUS updates on Server 2012
I have a client pc on windows 10 that can ping the WSUS box and vice versa but the updates are just not coming down despite the windows firewall being off and the antivirus being off.
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WSUS updates were pushed to local host, but PC is not updated
I consider myself a self-learner in the vast ICT Forest, always eager to acquire new knowledge and skills. Today, a friend of mine has approached me with a request to push updates on a WSUS Server to ...
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Test-Path on multiple computers of an AD
I'm trying to find out how to make a Test-Path against a list of computers via PowerShell and receive a "false" or "true" for each computer.
For example, to do something like this:
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Windows server 2019 VM (Hyper-V) no access to internet
I have a Windows server 2012 computer hosting a Windows server 2019 server with Hyper-V but the Virtual Machine can't connect to the internet. The guest adapter is set up as External. I have other VMs ...
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Screen goes black randomly
The screen of a Windows Server 2012 Essentials with version 6.2.920000 randomly turns black and the system seems to be frozen, forcing us to physically reboot the machine.
It happens completely by ...
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Windows Server - Disk full but isn't?
Never had to ask on a forum about Windows before but this one has my head scratching.
The issue is the error message 'There is not enough space on [NETWORK SHARE]'. The server has 10TB disk space and ...
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Disable password expiration while joining AD
I want to create a local user without password expiration on a Windows Server 2012 VM using a powershell script.
In the moment when the user is created, the machine is not in AD. The problem is, that ...
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Blocking Powershell with GPO
My manager has told me that they want Powershell to be executed only in servers with the admin account, so I created a GPO that blocks Powershell.exe and Powershell_ise.exe with "Don't run ...
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