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A version of Windows for servers based on Windows Vista. The original version became generally available in February 2008, and an updated 2008 R2 version was released in July 2009. Questions about administering Windows Server systems that are specific to a business environment are off topic for Super User; please consider asking on Server Fault instead if your question is on topic there.

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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How to display a list of network shares shared by a Windows computer

I have a Windows 2008 server with various software packages installed on it. I want to know what network shares my server is sharing (and I want to know that from within the server, not by trying to access the shares from another computer). Does…
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Server 2008 locks me out when not using the machine for 10 minutes after installing SP2

I have recently installed Service Pack 2 on my Windows Server 2008 machine (which I use actively for development, and i'm always logged on to). Now, after this installation, when I don't use the machine for some time (let's say, 10 minutes), it…
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Can/should we copy DVD to HD when installing server 2008?

With Windows 2000/XP, possibly NT4 even, we used to copy the i386 folder to %SYSTEMROOT%, usually c:\windows, and update a key within HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup to point to that. Then when Windows Setup needed something…
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Finding space of drives in remote servers

How can I find out how much disk space is available/used/free remote Windows servers using a .bat command?
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How to change the administrator account name from command prompt in Windows Server 2008 Server Core?

I'm trying to change the administrator account name on my virtual machine for lab work purposes. I'm running Windows Server 2008 Server Core, therefore I'm only using the standard command prompts. How can I do this?
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Is there a way to log all output from a script in Task Scheduler?

I am scheduling a DOS batch script to run through Task Scheduler. Is there a way to configure the task/job to write all output (producing output using ECHO commands) to a log file? Can logging be configured within Task Scheduler (appears v1.0 is…
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Incorrect used space in Quotas Manager

We are facing a strange issue, The quota manager (in Server manager) shows wrong used space, while TreeSize shows other results. TreeSize: 269.4MB Folder properties: 266 MB Quota manager: 805 MB What can be the reason?
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Swapping hard disk to new PC causes blue screen with Windows Server 2008

Just taken out a hard disk with Windows Server 2008 on and plugged it into a different PC and tried to boot it - it is blue screening and I can't even tell what the message says as it reboots immediately. I take it I cannot trasfer one hard disk…
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Windows server as a development machine

I have been using Windows XP for many years as a development environment. I now need to get a much faster machine, with more cores and am considering a 4-socket machine so I can have 16 physical cores. Unfortunately it seems that normal windows can…
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Unable to view connection settings from Administrator account

I am using Administrator account but I am unable to see the network adapter configuration. An error message says "You do not have sufficient privileges to view connection settings". Similarly on another server running the same operating system I am…
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Sharing wireless LAN via ethernet

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Is there a way to disallow users from moving directories?

I have a shared directory on Windows Server 2008 that is shared between about 15 people. In the root of the share are folders corresponding to the clients my company has. Someone keeps dragging folders in the root of the share into other folders…
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How to dispatching an email or a message box when something happend on a folder to another local machine?

I have a Windows Server which some local users put files that I need to manage quickly, however, I can't see my server every hour. There is a way to Windows Server itselfs warns me that I need to take care of new files of the shared folder? Someone…
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Copying a folder on Windows Server 2008 gives "Error 0x80070057: The parameter is incorrect."

I'm using remote desktop into a Windows Server 2008 machine. On that machine I use a shared drive on the local network for some development. I can use those files just fine in Visual Studio, but occasionally when I try to make a copy of the folder…
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How do I view which process is using a particular file?

Can anyone suggest a program that can tell me which process is using which files? I need a GUI program that I can run on Windows Server 2008.
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