@dbeato said in Reset 120 Day Grace Period for Windows RDS Server with PowerShell: @scottalanmiller I assume you needed to do this while dealing with the RDS CALs on your post about that right? Yeah. They still have not come through, but there is a chance that they might today. We will see.

Good find.

Our go-to solution for VSS problems is to set up a dedicated snapshot volume. Otherwise we were getting timeouts and M$ does ugly things that don't make sense when VSS doesn't work properly.

@Obsolesce said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?: @WrCombs said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?: @Obsolesce said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?: @WrCombs said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?: @Obsolesce said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?: @WrCombs said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?: @WrCombs said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?: @Obsolesce said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?: @WrCombs said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?: @Obsolesce said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?: @WrCombs said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?: @Obsolesce said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?: @WrCombs said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?: @WrCombs said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?: @Obsolesce said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?: @WrCombs said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?: @DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?: I've seen the time slip, usually caused from a aging bios battery. But where time is jumping all over the place. That's a new one. after I re synced, It slipped an hour ahead. Check (as in look at) the timezone and the automatic daylight saving check box Says eastern time . wont let me change to Central Standard either What do you mean it won't let you? Is it grayed out? Is there a link to click in the window to enable changes to be made? When I change it to CST it says " Your current time zone is not recognized, Please select a valid time zone. " Try PowerShell: Set-TimeZone -Name "Central Standard Time" Or whatever zone you're in and is current. Powershell blows up Don't know what that means. Screenshot? even with copy paste it does that and elevated What's the result of this: $PSVersionTable Oh. That's why. Are you able to install PS v 5.1? I don't know the CMD.exe way to do it. Im not sure, Give me a few I'm sure a reboot would be required somewhere... but if you can, I found this: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/3b13b6a0-ecb2-429d-ad8d-533b7322c7ee/installation-of-powershell-50-on-windows-2012-r2 I did not do this, I did however set it up to not be accessible from anyone but our Account which is completely locked and no one has the password, to see if the issue goes away.

@JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue: @scottalanmiller the issue with nslookup being useless is stupid though. Agreed, that's really messed up.

@donahue that's more of what we would expect.

Must've been that one server. Seems like it's running fine on another one.

@dbeato said in Error: The flush and hold writes operation on volume timed out while waiting for a release writes command.: This might be Crashplan not supporting SQL Open files as you can see here: https://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/4/Backup/Back_up_open_files_and_databases Yes, we looked around to find some that weren't where they were supposed to be and might have been open. Hoping that that might end up being all that the issue was.

@dbeato said in Windows 10 Hyper-V Manager unable to connect to Server 2012 R2: @jaredbusch said in Windows 10 Hyper-V Manager unable to connect to Server 2012 R2: , in an elevated command prompt you run this. MOFCOMP %SYSTEMROOT%\System32\WindowsVirtualization.V2. Interesting, that was the issue you were having last week right? Nope. Different client. That location is a firewall issue.

I've had this happen on multiple occasions. The system was configured to use the internal windows database instead of sql, and there were too many records so the refreshes and etc. would take forever, or you'd get the reset server node issue. After I migrated the database to sql, the problem mostly went away. It still occurs on slow connections.

@tim_g said in Replacing a failed CA: @kelly said in Replacing a failed CA: @dashrender said in Replacing a failed CA: @kelly said in Replacing a failed CA: @tim_g said in Replacing a failed CA: @kelly In what way is your DC using certificates? Domain Controller Authorization and Domain Controller. I ended up just deleting the certs within CertMgr on the DCs themselves, and then requesting new ones. It appears to have fixed the problem. I was wondering if it would simply be that simple. I was leery of doing it at first since I didn't know what all was tied to those certs. In the end I just decided to go for it. You could always export the cert first before deleting it. That way you can always put it back. Too late for that... cough

I ended up going with an upgraded script by truly using powershell. I found the answer here - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/936108/how-to-script-ftp-upload-and-download Essentially this is the script: $File = "D:\Dev\somefilename.zip" $ftp = "ftp://username:[email protected]/pub/incoming/somefilename.zip" "ftp url: $ftp" $webclient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient $uri = New-Object System.Uri($ftp) "Uploading $File..." $webclient.UploadFile($uri, $File)

Loving the Marvin Gaye reference in the title.

Radius https://blog.ubnt.com/2016/11/04/managing-radius-authentication-unifi/ http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000685 http://thesolving.com/server-room/configure-radius-server-windows-authenticate-cisco-vpn-users/ For LDAPS see below: http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000962 https://www.petri.com/enable-secure-ldap-windows-server-2008-2012-dc

@Mike-Davis said in IIS / RDS 2012 R2 User's Can't Log On: What does the IIS log say? IIS Shows no errors. I see the POST where the login attempt is made, and then it 302 Redirects to Default.aspx and then it 302 redirects back to the login page. 2017-05-12 12:34:53 x.y.z.a GET / - 443 - a.b.c.z Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+7.0;+Windows+NT+6.3;+WOW64;+Trident/7.0;+.NET4.0E;+.NET4.0C;+.NET+CLR+3.5.30729;+.NET+CLR+2.0.50727;+.NET+CLR+3.0.30729;+InfoPath.3) - 304 0 0 218 2017-05-12 12:34:56 x.y.z.a GET /RDWeb/Pages/ - 443 - a.b.c.z Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+7.0;+Windows+NT+6.3;+WOW64;+Trident/7.0;+.NET4.0E;+.NET4.0C;+.NET+CLR+3.5.30729;+.NET+CLR+2.0.50727;+.NET+CLR+3.0.30729;+InfoPath.3) - 302 0 0 15 2017-05-12 12:34:56 x.y.z.a GET /RDWeb/Pages/en-US/Default.aspx - 443 - a.b.c.z Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+7.0;+Windows+NT+6.3;+WOW64;+Trident/7.0;+.NET4.0E;+.NET4.0C;+.NET+CLR+3.5.30729;+.NET+CLR+2.0.50727;+.NET+CLR+3.0.30729;+InfoPath.3) - 302 0 0 0 2017-05-12 12:34:56 x.y.z.a GET /RDWeb/Pages/en-US/login.aspx ReturnUrl=/RDWeb/Pages/en-US/Default.aspx 443 - a.b.c.z Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+7.0;+Windows+NT+6.3;+WOW64;+Trident/7.0;+.NET4.0E;+.NET4.0C;+.NET+CLR+3.5.30729;+.NET+CLR+2.0.50727;+.NET+CLR+3.0.30729;+InfoPath.3) - 200 0 0 203 2017-05-12 12:35:10 x.y.z.a POST /RDWeb/Pages/en-US/login.aspx ReturnUrl=%2fRDWeb%2fPages%2fen-US%2fDefault.aspx 443 [email protected] a.b.c.z Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+7.0;+Windows+NT+6.3;+WOW64;+Trident/7.0;+.NET4.0E;+.NET4.0C;+.NET+CLR+3.5.30729;+.NET+CLR+2.0.50727;+.NET+CLR+3.0.30729;+InfoPath.3) https://sk_dev.gcsu.edu/RDWeb/Pages/en-US/login.aspx?ReturnUrl=/RDWeb/Pages/en-US/Default.aspx 302 0 0 156 2017-05-12 12:35:10 x.y.z.a GET /RDWeb/Pages/en-US/Default.aspx - 443 - a.b.c.z Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+7.0;+Windows+NT+6.3;+WOW64;+Trident/7.0;+.NET4.0E;+.NET4.0C;+.NET+CLR+3.5.30729;+.NET+CLR+2.0.50727;+.NET+CLR+3.0.30729;+InfoPath.3) https://sk_dev.gcsu.edu/RDWeb/Pages/en-US/login.aspx?ReturnUrl=/RDWeb/Pages/en-US/Default.aspx 302 0 0 15 2017-05-12 12:35:10 x.y.z.a GET /RDWeb/Pages/en-US/login.aspx ReturnUrl=/RDWeb/Pages/en-US/Default.aspx 443 - a.b.c.z Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+7.0;+Windows+NT+6.3;+WOW64;+Trident/7.0;+.NET4.0E;+.NET4.0C;+.NET+CLR+3.5.30729;+.NET+CLR+2.0.50727;+.NET+CLR+3.0.30729;+InfoPath.3) https://sk_dev.gcsu.edu/RDWeb/Pages/en-US/login.aspx?ReturnUrl=/RDWeb/Pages/en-US/Default.aspx 200 0 0 0

Use the clear-dnsservecache cmdlet https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/powershell/windows/dns-server/clear-dnsservercache

@Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 R2 Licensing: @JaredBusch said in Windows Server 2012 R2 Licensing: @Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 R2 Licensing: @JaredBusch said in Windows Server 2012 R2 Licensing: Server 2016 have a install method called Core. Actually it doesn't. The install options are standard standard with desktop experience datacenter datacenter with desktop experience The ones without desktop experience are what used to be called Core installs. I think MS does have the term Core still sprinkled around inside the OS and documentation though.. just adding more to the confusion. They changed again? I have not installed 2016 yet. Yep. And this time I actually agree. The whole idea, I think, being that MS is moving toward a non GUI on the servers being the standard way of installing/using Windows Server going forward. They made that very public as their goal when PowerShell was released long ago.

@Tim_G thanks

@Dashrender said in Server will not shut down: @scottalanmiller said in Server will not shut down: @Dashrender said in Server will not shut down: I understand Scott comment about trusting hyper-v vs. VMware but the reality of that situation bro I was down at the hyper-v is so young in comparison to VMware I'm not recommending it here, only stating that it is a weird emotional thing for the manager to dis VMware for Microsoft in a place where it is a pretty obvious technical problem but not do it where it would make sense. LOl is it really weird? or is it normal even though it probably shouldn't be? This makes me very sad.

@Dashrender said in Downgrade Windows 2016 Licence: I maintain SA on my servers, CALs and until next year Office. I'll be dumping Office for O365 next year ( I hope) Staying current is what I consider worthwhile. Sure we stay current.. but for example office was release every three years (2007-> 2010 ->2013 - >2016) It was cheaper to buy new outright than to use SA.

There you go, that's how VSS is supposed to work. Get one taken right before patching and another right after. Then you have lots of options.

@Romo said in Installing a Starwind SAN on Windows Server 2012 R2: @FATeknollogee said in Installing a Starwind SAN on Windows Server 2012 R2: Paging @KOOLER Will the performance of the appliances be as good or better than the native windows install? It must be at least as good, why release an inferior product. Nissan has GT-R cracking 0-100 in sub 3 seconds but it doesn't mean Nissan Altima doing same 0-100 in low 10s suck Every product has own target niche.

Wow crazy problem, never seen that before.

@BBigford said in Hyper-V homework question: @Kelly said in Hyper-V homework question: I posted this on that other site, but it appears that you do the teaming inside of Hyper-V, and not in the host OS: http://www.serverwatch.com/server-tutorials/configuring-nic-teaming-for-virtual-machines-with-hyper-v-3.0.html. As soon as the team is added, connectivity is lost. Can't even get as far as adding the adapter before connectivity is lost. So... once you create the virtual switch in Hyper-V Manager Virtual Switch Manager, using the NIC Team you created on the Host OS, all connectivity is lost? At that point, what do the event logs say? Is there some kind of weird MAC conflict? When you look at the connection status of the virtual switch in Control Panel -> Network Connections, what does it look like? Are you getting a 169 address? Is it all 0's? What's actually going on and what does Event Viewer say?

Only the other night for me and it was all on one project so I'm not sure what it was, yet.

The XX concurent users only comes into play if the licensed application offers such a thing. In the case of something like Office 2013, you'd definitely need 300 license... But for Something like... Raiser's Edge, or a Student Information System... You'd only need to license for the expected number of concurrent users. IE: Raiser's Edge can be installed on every computer on my campus... But only 15 of us can log in at one time.