Windows Server 2012 Essentials announcements
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The Update Rollup 3 for Windows Server 2012 Essentials is now available for download from Windows Update. You can read about the issues this rollup update addresses in Microsoft Support Knowledgebase http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2862551.
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With the announcement of the new Windows Azure Backup preview, we’re happy to announce the new release of the Windows Server Essentials integration module.
Windows Azure Backup helps you protect important server data off-site with automated backup and restoration. You can manage cloud backups from Windows Server 2012 Essentials Dashboard by installing the integration module.
To start using the Windows Azure Backup preview, please create a Windows Azure account. To begin your sign up, go to the Windows Azure free trial webpage. Then visit the Windows Azure Management Portal to New a backup vault, download and install the integration module, and register your server.
If you had the previous version of the integration module installed, you must retrieve your stored data before May 4. Then you need to uninstall the previous integration module and the Windows Azure Online Backup agent, before trying the new version.
To uninstall the integration module:
- Go to the Essentials Dashboard.
- Navigate to Applications page, Add-ins tab.
- Remove the online backup add-in.
To uninstall the Windows Azure Online Backup agent:
- Go to Control Panel.
- Click Uninstall a program.
- Remove the Windows Azure Online Backup agent.
Data from the earlier preview will be available until May 4, 2013. It will not be transferred to the new Windows Azure Backup preview. Please make sure to retrieve any data that you wish to retrieve before uninstalling the old integration module.
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Download RTM Evaluation copy from here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/jj659306.aspx?wt.mc_id=TEC_133_1_14
See Sinead’s post for details:
Read the Overview blog from our engineering team:
TechNet Center:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sbs/jj159331
TechNet Library:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj200119 (Note the Exchange installation, and Transition to Windows Server 2012 Standard instructions are also included)
More product introduction coming from our official product blog:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/
Product data sheet and FAQ
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/windows-server-essentials/default.aspx
Licensing datasheet on price, license, and server roles comparison:
Additional downloads on TechNet and MSDN, including SDK and Client Restore Disk:
Thank you everyone for your feedbacks and support, please continue to use the Windows Server 2012 Essentials forum for your RTM and evaluation experience.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserveressentials/threads
High Availability (Clustering) announcements
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Webcast: “High Availability 101 with Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V”
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032407222&Culture=en-US
Webcast: “Failover Clustering Feature Roadmap for Windows Server 2008 R2”
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032407235&Culture=en-USWebcast: “Innovating High Availability with Cluster Shared Volumes”
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032407238&Culture=en-USWebcast: "Automating and Managing Windows Server Failover Clusters with PowerShell"
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventId=1032448852&CountryCode=USWebcast: "Failover Cluster Troubleshooting with Windows Server 2008 R2"
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&EventId=1032399048
Deployment:
Webcast: "High Availability Server Apps with Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clusters"
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032448854&CountryCode=USWebcast: "Clusters and Virtualization: Guest Clustering vs. Host Clustering"
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032448850&CountryCode=USWebcast: “Multi-Site Clustering with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise”
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032407242&Culture=en-US
File Services and Storage announcements
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Microsoft released a new white paper, available here, discussing best practices and guidance for sizing NTFS volumes and some details on CHKDSK execution times on Windows Server 2008 R2. When planning Windows Server deployments, we are often asked questions such as “How large can I make my volumes?” or “How long will it take to repair a volume?”. This white paper helps answer these questions.
Hyper-V announcements
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This has been a popular question lately, here are the details:
Remote Server Admin Tools:
(please note that there is a client and server combination here. AFAIK there is not (yet) a tool release to manage Server 2012 from Win 7 clients)
Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 8: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=28972
Manage Hyper-V Server 2012 Remotely:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj647785.aspx
(there are domain member and non-domain member instructions in there)
Network Access Protection announcements
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Please be aware that NAP is deprecated, and might be removed in a future release of Windows Server. This was announced with the release of Windows Server 2012 R2.
See http://technet.microsoft.com/library/dn303411.aspx:
"Network Access Protection (NAP) is deprecated. Other options for keeping client computers up to date and secure for remote access include DirectAccess, Windows Web Application Proxy, and various non-Microsoft solutions."
Thanks,
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The TechNet Wiki is now available. Use your Live ID to join.
We hope this will be a great tool for our community, so check it out! There is even a forum for discussing the Wiki, or asking question.
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Setup Deployment announcements
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On 7/8/2008, a security patch was released for DNS by Microsoft and other DNS server vendors. The Microsoft patch was tracked as KB953230 - the documentation on it is here.
As part of the patch, DNS now reserves 2500 UDP ports - including the ports from 64000 to 65000 that WDS uses by default. Because of this, if DNS and WDS are running on the same server, WDS cannot access those ports and so is unable to perform TFTP (required for PXE boot) or Multicast.
To work around this, open the WDS MMC, select your server, and go to Server Properties from the right-click menu or the Action menu. Then on the Network Settings page, set a different range of UDP ports. The best range to choose will depend on what else you are running on your server - you want to pick ports that other server roles and applications are not using. The dynamically allocated ports start from 49152, so your Start port should be at least that.
Windows PowerShell announcements
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Find a PowerShell user group here: http://powershellgroup.org/
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Quite often, some users will be provided with a solution, yet won't mark the thread as answered. The moderators of this forum will try to review almost every thread/answer, and may prematurely mark a thread as answered, when it isn't. In cases like those, the original poster can feel free to unmark the thread as answered.
Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services) announcements
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To understand application compatibility for RDS environment and the issues faced by other users and their possible solutions, please visit: the new community driven website http://www.microsoft.com/rds/compatibility/Default.aspx
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A low-cost server platform for small businesses, Windows Foundation Server includes support for Terminal Services including TS Gateway for secure remote access. More information is linked below.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/foundation.aspx
Backup – Windows and Windows Server announcements
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Folks - Some of the old threads has been marked as general discussion based on inactivity on them for a longer duration. If the issue is not resolved, please start a new thread.
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We've created a solution table on our blog for some issues we've seen while troubleshooting Vista backup\recovery (including System Restore) issues with some customers. We encourage you to visit the blog and see if it addresses your issue.
http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/archive/2008/03/12/common-causes-and-solutions-to-backup-system-restore-and-complete-pc-backup-problems-updated.aspx
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Windows Backup forums provide you an opportunity to join a community of Windows customers where you can share knowledge on windows backup, get questions answered, and learn from others with backup needs similar to yours. Start by posting Windows Backup related questions and leverage the knowledge available in your new forum community.
This forum supports Backup questions for Windows and Windows Server.
Also, visit our blog for fresh information on Microsoft Storage and Windows Backup:
Streaming Media Services announcements
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Sometimes the links on support.microsoft.com are a bit hard to find. If you need assisted support for Windows Media Services you can open a support ticket by going to http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?Gprid=3170.
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If you are running a Windows Server 2008 R2 server, then you will need the corresponding R2 release of Windows Media Services 2008. You have two options for getting it:
- You can follow the download and installation instructions on http://support.microsoft.com/kb/963697
- You can install and auto-configure WMS using the Web Platform Installer directly on your server
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The Streaming Media Services forum provides you an opportunity to join a community of Windows Media server customers where you can share knowledge, get questions answered, and learn from others with IT environments similar to yours. Start by posting Windows Media Services related questions in the forum corresponding to your topic of interest and leverage the knowledge available in the new forum community.
If you have any questions or feedback about Windows Media Services 2008 for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, or about Windows Media Services 9 Series for Windows Server 2003, please feel free to post them in this forum.
Windows Multipoint Server announcements
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If you are running into an issue where the WMS Dashboard is in an unusable state the security certificate might be expired which the Dashboard needs to connect to the webservice on the Server. Please use the following steps to identify if you are running into the same issue and apply the solution provided in this article:
- Run "c:\Program Files\Windows MultiPoint Server\LogCollector.exe". Click "Collect Data" and then "View Logs" in MultiPoint Log Collector
- "View Logs" will open a folder with some zip files. Open the latest zip file, and then open "Microsoft-Windows-WMS-Trace.csv" from inside the zip file (use notepad)
- Search for SecurityNegotiationException in the logs.
If you see this error to run the following command in PowerShell as administrator:
net stop wms; $hostname = (Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_ComputerSystem -Property Name).Name; Get-ChildItem -Path 'Cert:\localmachine\MultiPoint Services Certificates\' | ForEach-Object {if ($_.Subject -like ('*'+$hostname+'*')) {Write-Host ('Removing '+$_.Thumbprint); Remove-Item -Path ('Cert:\localmachine\MultiPoint Services Certificates\'+$_.Thumbprint)}}; net start wms
The certificate can also be manually deleted but the process to do that is complex, so either way should work.
If you want to try to manually remove the certificate, follow these steps:
- You will need your local host name. If you don't know that, you can run the command "hostname" from a command prompt and it will tell you the computer's host name.
- From a command prompt run “Net stop wms”. You will need to be running in an elevated command prompt as an administrator.
- From a command prompt run “mmc.exe”. You will also need to be running in an elevated command prompt as an administrator.
- CTRL+M to add a new snap-in
- From the list of available snap-ins on the left, choose certificates, then add it to the list. There will be a popup dialog. Choose computer account from the three options, then choose local computer
- Find “MultiPoint Services Certificates” in the list of certificates for the local computer. Delete all the certificates where “Issued By” is the local host name.
- Now run “net start wms”. When the MultiPoint service starts, it will create a new certificate for you. This should fix the problem.
An update is work in progress and will be shipped in one of the upcoming releases.
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Download the latest technical preview for Windows Server 2016 and test-drive Multipoint Services role: https://aka.ms/ws2016-eval
If you are running into issues let us know here on the TechNet forum.
Are you missing features? Let us know on UserVoice: aka.ms/uservoice-wms
Windows Server 2012 R2 Application Certification (Logo) program and test tools announcements
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Application Certification for Windows Server 2012 R2 is now available
- Assessment of Application compatibility, best practices and security
- Formal listing in the Windows Server Catalog and Windows Server Marketplace
- Credits toward Microsoft Partner Network competency
- Self-test, wizard-based test tool
- No fee required
Additional information and resources
Windows Server 2012 R2 Certification (Logo) Program
Requirements for Windows Server 2012 R2 Application Certification Program
Remediation for Test Failures of the Windows Server Application Certification Program
Windows Server Catalog - Windows Server Marketplace
Questions regarding the Certified for Windows Server Logo, or the Microsoft Platform Ready Test Tool, can be directed to WSLogoFB@microsoft.com
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We have created a Channel 9 video, which provides an overview of the Windows Server 2012 Logo Program, in order for ISVs to quickly gain an overview of the Windows Server 2012 Logo Program. The video can be viewed at the following URL, and any questions can be directed to this TechNet Forum or to our support email WSLogoFB@Microsoft.com.
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Windows-Server-App-Certification-Program
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Announcing MPR Support Blogs with answers to Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to frequently asked questions found during support of the Microsoft Platform Ready Test Tool can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/winsdk/archive/tags/certification/.
In addition, questions regarding the Certified for Windows Server 2012 Logo, or the Microsoft Platform Ready Test Tool, can also be directed to WSLogoFB@microsoft.com
Remote Desktop clients announcements
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We are migrating to new forums and the Microsoft Remote Desktop product group will no longer be monitoring this forum! Please submit your feedback for our clients via its respective feedback forums listed below to ensure we see it.
IPAM, DHCP, DNS announcements
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A Windows DNS server related patch has been released.
Update adds query logging and change auditing to Windows DNS servers
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2956577/en-us
This is a hotfix and has to be downloaded on servers. A brief summary:
1. Analytical logging for all DNS transactions (queries, responses, drops, server falures, zone transfers, dynamic updates) at a very high speed. Has negligible impact on DNS server performance.
2. Enhanced logging for all change auditing on DNS server.
New event channels have been introduced for this. Analytical channel is disabled by default. Audit channel is enabled by default.
Watch this space for more details...
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Read the full blog here: Name Resolution Performance of Windows DNS Server 2012 R2
Do subscribe for updates!
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Windows PowerShell scripts have been uploaded to the Microsoft Script Center for integration of your current DHCP lease database with IPAM.
By default, IPAM imports DHCP scopes from managed DHCP servers as IP address ranges. However, individual leases and reservations are not automatically imported as IP addresses. To import these, and to configure a periodic import task, see the following links:
For IPAM on Windows Server 2012: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Windows-Server-2012-f44cefce
For IPAM on Windows Server 2012 R2: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Windows-Server-2012-R2-15d16e82
Thanks,
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Welcome to the Windows DNS. You can get started at
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For any queries on IPAM, DNS and DHCP in windows server please use this forum
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Windows Server 2012 Essentials announcements
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The Update Rollup 3 for Windows Server 2012 Essentials is now available for download from Windows Update. You can read about the issues this rollup update addresses in Microsoft Support Knowledgebase http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2862551.
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With the announcement of the new Windows Azure Backup preview, we’re happy to announce the new release of the Windows Server Essentials integration module.
Windows Azure Backup helps you protect important server data off-site with automated backup and restoration. You can manage cloud backups from Windows Server 2012 Essentials Dashboard by installing the integration module.
To start using the Windows Azure Backup preview, please create a Windows Azure account. To begin your sign up, go to the Windows Azure free trial webpage. Then visit the Windows Azure Management Portal to New a backup vault, download and install the integration module, and register your server.
If you had the previous version of the integration module installed, you must retrieve your stored data before May 4. Then you need to uninstall the previous integration module and the Windows Azure Online Backup agent, before trying the new version.
To uninstall the integration module:
- Go to the Essentials Dashboard.
- Navigate to Applications page, Add-ins tab.
- Remove the online backup add-in.
To uninstall the Windows Azure Online Backup agent:
- Go to Control Panel.
- Click Uninstall a program.
- Remove the Windows Azure Online Backup agent.
Data from the earlier preview will be available until May 4, 2013. It will not be transferred to the new Windows Azure Backup preview. Please make sure to retrieve any data that you wish to retrieve before uninstalling the old integration module.
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Download RTM Evaluation copy from here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/jj659306.aspx?wt.mc_id=TEC_133_1_14
See Sinead’s post for details:
Read the Overview blog from our engineering team:
TechNet Center:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sbs/jj159331
TechNet Library:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj200119 (Note the Exchange installation, and Transition to Windows Server 2012 Standard instructions are also included)
More product introduction coming from our official product blog:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/
Product data sheet and FAQ
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/windows-server-essentials/default.aspx
Licensing datasheet on price, license, and server roles comparison:
Additional downloads on TechNet and MSDN, including SDK and Client Restore Disk:
Thank you everyone for your feedbacks and support, please continue to use the Windows Server 2012 Essentials forum for your RTM and evaluation experience.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserveressentials/threads
High Availability (Clustering) announcements
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Webcast: “High Availability 101 with Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V”
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032407222&Culture=en-US
Webcast: “Failover Clustering Feature Roadmap for Windows Server 2008 R2”
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032407235&Culture=en-USWebcast: “Innovating High Availability with Cluster Shared Volumes”
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032407238&Culture=en-USWebcast: "Automating and Managing Windows Server Failover Clusters with PowerShell"
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventId=1032448852&CountryCode=USWebcast: "Failover Cluster Troubleshooting with Windows Server 2008 R2"
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&EventId=1032399048
Deployment:
Webcast: "High Availability Server Apps with Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clusters"
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032448854&CountryCode=USWebcast: "Clusters and Virtualization: Guest Clustering vs. Host Clustering"
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032448850&CountryCode=USWebcast: “Multi-Site Clustering with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise”
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032407242&Culture=en-US
File Services and Storage announcements
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Microsoft released a new white paper, available here, discussing best practices and guidance for sizing NTFS volumes and some details on CHKDSK execution times on Windows Server 2008 R2. When planning Windows Server deployments, we are often asked questions such as “How large can I make my volumes?” or “How long will it take to repair a volume?”. This white paper helps answer these questions.
Hyper-V announcements
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2. Provide all the necessary information in your initial post. The following information would be very helpful:
- Symptom description: Detailed description of the problem. If you receive any error messages, please let us know the exact error WORD BY WORD.
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- Any additional information. Tell what you have done prior to asking your question. This will help us understand that you've done so far.
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This has been a popular question lately, here are the details:
Remote Server Admin Tools:
(please note that there is a client and server combination here. AFAIK there is not (yet) a tool release to manage Server 2012 from Win 7 clients)
Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 8: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=28972
Manage Hyper-V Server 2012 Remotely:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj647785.aspx
(there are domain member and non-domain member instructions in there)
Network Access Protection announcements
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Please be aware that NAP is deprecated, and might be removed in a future release of Windows Server. This was announced with the release of Windows Server 2012 R2.
See http://technet.microsoft.com/library/dn303411.aspx:
"Network Access Protection (NAP) is deprecated. Other options for keeping client computers up to date and secure for remote access include DirectAccess, Windows Web Application Proxy, and various non-Microsoft solutions."
Thanks,
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The TechNet Wiki is now available. Use your Live ID to join.
We hope this will be a great tool for our community, so check it out! There is even a forum for discussing the Wiki, or asking question.
Greg Lindsay
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Setup Deployment announcements
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On 7/8/2008, a security patch was released for DNS by Microsoft and other DNS server vendors. The Microsoft patch was tracked as KB953230 - the documentation on it is here.
As part of the patch, DNS now reserves 2500 UDP ports - including the ports from 64000 to 65000 that WDS uses by default. Because of this, if DNS and WDS are running on the same server, WDS cannot access those ports and so is unable to perform TFTP (required for PXE boot) or Multicast.
To work around this, open the WDS MMC, select your server, and go to Server Properties from the right-click menu or the Action menu. Then on the Network Settings page, set a different range of UDP ports. The best range to choose will depend on what else you are running on your server - you want to pick ports that other server roles and applications are not using. The dynamically allocated ports start from 49152, so your Start port should be at least that.
Windows PowerShell announcements
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Find a PowerShell user group here: http://powershellgroup.org/
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Quite often, some users will be provided with a solution, yet won't mark the thread as answered. The moderators of this forum will try to review almost every thread/answer, and may prematurely mark a thread as answered, when it isn't. In cases like those, the original poster can feel free to unmark the thread as answered.
Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services) announcements
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To understand application compatibility for RDS environment and the issues faced by other users and their possible solutions, please visit: the new community driven website http://www.microsoft.com/rds/compatibility/Default.aspx
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A low-cost server platform for small businesses, Windows Foundation Server includes support for Terminal Services including TS Gateway for secure remote access. More information is linked below.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/foundation.aspx
Backup – Windows and Windows Server announcements
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Folks - Some of the old threads has been marked as general discussion based on inactivity on them for a longer duration. If the issue is not resolved, please start a new thread.
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We've created a solution table on our blog for some issues we've seen while troubleshooting Vista backup\recovery (including System Restore) issues with some customers. We encourage you to visit the blog and see if it addresses your issue.
http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/archive/2008/03/12/common-causes-and-solutions-to-backup-system-restore-and-complete-pc-backup-problems-updated.aspx
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Windows Backup forums provide you an opportunity to join a community of Windows customers where you can share knowledge on windows backup, get questions answered, and learn from others with backup needs similar to yours. Start by posting Windows Backup related questions and leverage the knowledge available in your new forum community.
This forum supports Backup questions for Windows and Windows Server.
Also, visit our blog for fresh information on Microsoft Storage and Windows Backup:
Streaming Media Services announcements
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Sometimes the links on support.microsoft.com are a bit hard to find. If you need assisted support for Windows Media Services you can open a support ticket by going to http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?Gprid=3170.
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If you are running a Windows Server 2008 R2 server, then you will need the corresponding R2 release of Windows Media Services 2008. You have two options for getting it:
- You can follow the download and installation instructions on http://support.microsoft.com/kb/963697
- You can install and auto-configure WMS using the Web Platform Installer directly on your server
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The Streaming Media Services forum provides you an opportunity to join a community of Windows Media server customers where you can share knowledge, get questions answered, and learn from others with IT environments similar to yours. Start by posting Windows Media Services related questions in the forum corresponding to your topic of interest and leverage the knowledge available in the new forum community.
If you have any questions or feedback about Windows Media Services 2008 for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, or about Windows Media Services 9 Series for Windows Server 2003, please feel free to post them in this forum.
Windows Multipoint Server announcements
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If you are running into an issue where the WMS Dashboard is in an unusable state the security certificate might be expired which the Dashboard needs to connect to the webservice on the Server. Please use the following steps to identify if you are running into the same issue and apply the solution provided in this article:
- Run "c:\Program Files\Windows MultiPoint Server\LogCollector.exe". Click "Collect Data" and then "View Logs" in MultiPoint Log Collector
- "View Logs" will open a folder with some zip files. Open the latest zip file, and then open "Microsoft-Windows-WMS-Trace.csv" from inside the zip file (use notepad)
- Search for SecurityNegotiationException in the logs.
If you see this error to run the following command in PowerShell as administrator:
net stop wms; $hostname = (Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_ComputerSystem -Property Name).Name; Get-ChildItem -Path 'Cert:\localmachine\MultiPoint Services Certificates\' | ForEach-Object {if ($_.Subject -like ('*'+$hostname+'*')) {Write-Host ('Removing '+$_.Thumbprint); Remove-Item -Path ('Cert:\localmachine\MultiPoint Services Certificates\'+$_.Thumbprint)}}; net start wms
The certificate can also be manually deleted but the process to do that is complex, so either way should work.
If you want to try to manually remove the certificate, follow these steps:
- You will need your local host name. If you don't know that, you can run the command "hostname" from a command prompt and it will tell you the computer's host name.
- From a command prompt run “Net stop wms”. You will need to be running in an elevated command prompt as an administrator.
- From a command prompt run “mmc.exe”. You will also need to be running in an elevated command prompt as an administrator.
- CTRL+M to add a new snap-in
- From the list of available snap-ins on the left, choose certificates, then add it to the list. There will be a popup dialog. Choose computer account from the three options, then choose local computer
- Find “MultiPoint Services Certificates” in the list of certificates for the local computer. Delete all the certificates where “Issued By” is the local host name.
- Now run “net start wms”. When the MultiPoint service starts, it will create a new certificate for you. This should fix the problem.
An update is work in progress and will be shipped in one of the upcoming releases.
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Download the latest technical preview for Windows Server 2016 and test-drive Multipoint Services role: https://aka.ms/ws2016-eval
If you are running into issues let us know here on the TechNet forum.
Are you missing features? Let us know on UserVoice: aka.ms/uservoice-wms
Windows Server 2012 R2 Application Certification (Logo) program and test tools announcements
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Application Certification for Windows Server 2012 R2 is now available
- Assessment of Application compatibility, best practices and security
- Formal listing in the Windows Server Catalog and Windows Server Marketplace
- Credits toward Microsoft Partner Network competency
- Self-test, wizard-based test tool
- No fee required
Additional information and resources
Windows Server 2012 R2 Certification (Logo) Program
Requirements for Windows Server 2012 R2 Application Certification Program
Remediation for Test Failures of the Windows Server Application Certification Program
Windows Server Catalog - Windows Server Marketplace
Questions regarding the Certified for Windows Server Logo, or the Microsoft Platform Ready Test Tool, can be directed to WSLogoFB@microsoft.com
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We have created a Channel 9 video, which provides an overview of the Windows Server 2012 Logo Program, in order for ISVs to quickly gain an overview of the Windows Server 2012 Logo Program. The video can be viewed at the following URL, and any questions can be directed to this TechNet Forum or to our support email WSLogoFB@Microsoft.com.
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Windows-Server-App-Certification-Program
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Announcing MPR Support Blogs with answers to Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to frequently asked questions found during support of the Microsoft Platform Ready Test Tool can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/winsdk/archive/tags/certification/.
In addition, questions regarding the Certified for Windows Server 2012 Logo, or the Microsoft Platform Ready Test Tool, can also be directed to WSLogoFB@microsoft.com
Remote Desktop clients announcements
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We are migrating to new forums and the Microsoft Remote Desktop product group will no longer be monitoring this forum! Please submit your feedback for our clients via its respective feedback forums listed below to ensure we see it.
IPAM, DHCP, DNS announcements
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A Windows DNS server related patch has been released.
Update adds query logging and change auditing to Windows DNS servers
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2956577/en-us
This is a hotfix and has to be downloaded on servers. A brief summary:
1. Analytical logging for all DNS transactions (queries, responses, drops, server falures, zone transfers, dynamic updates) at a very high speed. Has negligible impact on DNS server performance.
2. Enhanced logging for all change auditing on DNS server.
New event channels have been introduced for this. Analytical channel is disabled by default. Audit channel is enabled by default.
Watch this space for more details...
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Read the full blog here: Name Resolution Performance of Windows DNS Server 2012 R2
Do subscribe for updates!
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Windows PowerShell scripts have been uploaded to the Microsoft Script Center for integration of your current DHCP lease database with IPAM.
By default, IPAM imports DHCP scopes from managed DHCP servers as IP address ranges. However, individual leases and reservations are not automatically imported as IP addresses. To import these, and to configure a periodic import task, see the following links:
For IPAM on Windows Server 2012: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Windows-Server-2012-f44cefce
For IPAM on Windows Server 2012 R2: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Windows-Server-2012-R2-15d16e82
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Welcome to the Windows DNS. You can get started at
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For any queries on IPAM, DNS and DHCP in windows server please use this forum