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Windows Server 2008 is a Microsoft server operating system released in February 2008 and reached End Of Life on January 14, 2020. It is the successor to Windows Server 2003 and is based on the Windows Vista codebase. It was succeeded by Windows Server 2008 R2.

This tag should only be used for questions related to Windows Server 2008. If your question is about Windows Server 2008 R2, please use the Windows-Server-2008-R2 tag.

Windows Server 2008 is a Microsoft Server Operating System released in February 2008. It is the successor to Windows Server 2003 and is based on the Windows Vista codebase. It was succeeded by Windows Server 2008 R2.

Windows Server 2008 Introduced the following new features:

  • Server Core installation
  • Read Only Domain Controllers
  • Hyper-V

It is available in the following editions:

  • Windows Server 2008 Standard (x86 and x86-64)
  • Windows Server 2008 Enterprise (x86 and x86-64)
  • Windows Server 2008 Datacenter (x86 and x86-64)
  • Windows HPC Server 2008
  • Windows Web Server 2008 (x86 and x86-64)
  • Windows Storage Server 2008 (x86 and x86-64)
  • Windows Small Business Server 2008 (x86-64)
  • Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (x86-64)
  • Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems
  • Windows Server 2008 Foundation

Server 2008 is the last 32-bit Windows Server version Microsoft plans to release.

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Windows\Temp large amounts of cab_XXXX files

Couple of servers that have been rebuilt recently are hitting warnings on C:\ drive usage. Looking at the disk there are GBs of data in Windows\Temp being used up by cab_XXXX_X (e.g. cab_5328_2). The suggestion I have found online is to just…
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How to install Active Directory Users and Computers for Windows 2008

I want to install the administration tools on a Windows Server 2008 (R1) machine. On Windows 2003 you installed adminpak.msi, but I can't find such a file for 2008. Is this a "feature" in Server Manager? If so what is it named? ---UPDATE--- So I…
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What is Windows equivalent to Puppet/chef?

Does windows have an equivalent to puppet/chef for configuration management?
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Windows RDP - Making production server look unique

Regarding Windows 2008/R2: I've changed my desk-top color to red. I've played with the "appearance settings", but none of them are tolerable to the eye. Is there something I else I can do to make production look different? Obviously, I don't want…
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Windows module installer delaying login, server 2008 R2

We updated our servers this weekend (windows updates), everything went fine except one of our terminal servers now hangs at login with the message, "waiting for windows modules installer." It eventually times out and leaves an event log message that…
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In-place upgrade from Windows Server Standard to Enterprise or Datacenter

We ran into a little issue where Windows Server Standard only supports 32 GB of memory, which is depressing to find out when your server was recently upgraded to 48 awesome GB of memory. Is it possible to do an in-place upgrade from Windows Server…
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Completely disable "this program has stopped working, etc" dialog

We run command line program in automation process on Windows 2008 and sometimes when closing it Windows 2008 show dialog "this program has stopped working" with Close button. How to completely disable it? I've tried turning off error reporting for…
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install service in windows server 2008

As a Resource Kit doesn't exists for Windows Server 2008, how do you install a service? instsrv and srvany are no where to find..
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Server 2008 Web Edition limitations

Can anyone point me at very specific details of what the limitations of the Web Edition of Windows Server 2008 are? I have seen the higher level comparisson charts of the various editions but no detailed specifics. I understand they removed the…
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Where does task scheduler store its files in windows server 2008?

Where does task scheduler store its files in windows server 2008?
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Windows command to get CPU and memory usage for all process at specific time say 10:00 PM MST

Kindly help me to get the windows command to get CPU and memory usage for all process (system and user process) at specific time say 10:00 PM MST.. This will very much helpful to troubleshooting day by day getting high spike to system. I am…
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What's the difference between Windows Server 2008 Standard and Web?

Possible Duplicate: Server 2008 Web Edition limitations What's the difference between Windows Server 2008 Standard and Windows Server 2008 Web?
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Take screenshot from server screen while disconnected from RDP

I have a rather specialized application that HAS to work in a certain way. It works as a client application on a server. That means I have to be logged on for it to run. At the same time, I cannot keep an RDP connection open at all times, so I have…
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Mount an ISO Image on Windows 2008 Server

I followed the instructions on mount-an-iso-image-on-windows-2003. I don't see the the drive after mounting. I used the Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel v2.0.1.1 from microsoft. Virtual CD-ROM Anyone have a simple clean way of mounting ISO image on Win…
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Having trouble using psservice and sc.exe between Windows Server 2008 machines

I'm trying to control services on one W2k8 machine from another; no domain just a workgroup. The user account I'm logged in as is an administrator on both machines. I've tried both psservice and sc.exe. These work in a Windows Server 2003…
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