Need help here, Win Server 2008 RDS CALs not activating automatically or via web browser. Says already activated. Tried multiple different keys. Same issue. Tried phone activating, MS hungup on me 3 times, support chat ended the chat on me by giving me th
Has anyone started seeing this on Windows Server 2016?
Unable to read Server Queue performance data from the Server service. The first four bytes (DWORD) of the Data section contains the status code, the second four bytes contains the IOSB.Status and the
I have three Server 2012R2 core edition hosts, running Hyper-V joined in a cluster. They share a number of CSV's. Tonight a customer called and needed an extension of a virtual disk of one of his VMs. Since there was not enough room left on the CSV, I fir
It is time to hit refresh on the Remote Desktop (RD) experience for macOS.Downloadthe next generation application in the App Store today to enjoy the new UI design, improvements in the look and feel of managing your connections, and new functionalities
I assume you mean MDT 8443, which was released in November? I have used that MDT, with the ADK 10.1.14393 to create the Windows 10 1703 images we use in our orga
The Standard edition (note, not version, but edition), only supports two virtualized instances of Windows Server for every time the cores within the physical host are lic
Last week a added a secondary, internally signed, token-signing certificate to our ADFS 3.0 farm in advance of the cert rollover later this week. When running a get-adfsproperties to validate we see both the current primary cert and the new secondary cert
What a great day! Back in June, we announced Windows Server was joining theSemi-Annual Channelrelease cadence to deliver innovation at a faster pace. Two weeks ago at Ignite, we announcedWindows Server, version 1709, the first release in this new model
For production servers Always use Server core. The Server Core option reduces the space required on disk and the potential attack surface, so we recommend that you
I want to move my on-prem file server to Azure; while saying that this has some performance impact on my branch offices, so I want to handle that by using the Branch Cache feature.
I know that for Windows Server 2012 the Branch Cache feature is not support
Hello, my question may be in the wrong place. We are adding a new server running window server 2016 to replace a server 2008 server. we will add the new server and transfer domain controller roles to new server. my question is we will also be upgrading ex
The best upgrade path would be to build a new 2016 server and migrate any roles or features from the old 2008 R2 server to the 2016 server. Let me know if you need any mo...
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How can a admin backup CAL's and server keys and re-use them on the same server? Or if we build a new one and transfer the keys to a new 2016 server? From what i have been able to read it seems that once the keys are in thats it, no going back.
It all depends on what type of keys you have. If they are OEM then yes you would have to buy a new key if the server totally died. If they are part of an agreement with M...
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Microsoft added some amazing new features and improvements to Hyper-V over the past few years. A lot of them you can use in Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V today, but there are also a lot of features hidden in the user interface and they are also included in
I am not sure if I would migrate as the Hash and key lenght might need to be changed to be more secure. I know we have moved off of SHA1 to SHA256/512 and our root, Inte
Hi all. I help out at a small charity with a handful of users. We have one DC (Server 208R2 Standard) and need to migrate to one new DC (Server 2016 Essentials).
Remote Desktop Services (RDS) allows you to access a remotely-hosted Windows desktop environment or application from almost any device. We’re extending the capabilities of RDS to offer more security, flexibility to run Windows apps on any device, and clou
I recently upgraded server 2012 essentials to 2016 essentials. I reformatted the SSD for the OS and did a clean install. After everything booted up I turned the server of and then plugged in the 3 hard drives I had running nder 2012. I cannot see or find
