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A version of Windows for servers significantly updated from Windows Server 2008. 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 R2 is a significantly updated version of Windows Server 2008. Unlike Server 2008, 2008 R2 is only available in 64-bit versions. No 32-bit version exists.

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Is it worth using Windows Server 2008R2 as a desktop OS?

I use Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit on my main PC - a reasonably powerful machine. At the moment it is going through major instability and its time for a reformat. Being a student, I can use Windows Server 2008R2 for free under the Microsoft…
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What paths are guaranteed to exist on Windows Server 2008 R2?

What paths are guaranteed to exist on a Windows Server 2008 R2 instance? A client is requiring that some instructions specify exact paths in all cases. (The person executing said instructions is not supposed to have to decide on any path themselves,…
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How long should a Windows Server 2008 R2 install spend at "expanding Windows Files"

I'm currently installing Windows Server 2008 R2 on a newly built computer. The system does meet the minimum requirements. It seems to take forever on the "expanding windows files" section. I've left it run for an hour and it hasn't moved beyond…
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Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations wording unclear

Logged onto our live server and it has the annoying prompt for a restart box. This is really annoying as it's our production server. I've read that I can alter the setting "Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations" to change the time to…
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Finding hidden files in Windows Server 2008 R2

I'm trying to locate only the hidden files in a given subtree of the file system. The search box in Windows Explorer has facilities for tags like Date Modified: or Size: Is there a similar tag for hidden? This: Hidden: true doesn't seem to…
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Change Windows Server 2008 R2 Full to Server Core

Is it possible (unofficially of course) to downgrade a normal Windows Server 2008 R2 installation to Server Core. Which is theoretically speaking just a trimmed down version of the normal interactive version. Anybody done it? How?
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Why i can not change the windows server password?

I want to change the my server password,use the remote desktop and connect to the server and use the CTRL+ALT+DEL to change password,when i click change password that page try to change the password but show me username or password is incorrect,if…
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Clock Time loss on windows server 2008 r2 upto 10 sec per min

The windows Enterprise server has been loosing time of up to 10 sec per min. I am running MSSQL on the server and there are jobs that need to execute at specific time. If i leave the machine on over night starting at 2100-HRS the next morning at…
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Windows Server 2008 r2 as a Digital Audio Workstation

If windows server is optimized for background servies would that make it optimal for a DAW since DAWs have to be optimized for background services to give priority to asio drivers and sound to reduce latency
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Windows 2008: setspn -L domain\account returns Invalid DN Syntax

As the title indicates, on Windows 2008 R2, use of SETSPN -L domain\account returns Ldap Error(0x22 -- Invalid DN Syntax): ldap_search_s What little information I could find, says the domain\account may contain an 'invalid' character in its name.…
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How to I determine the bottleneck for a mapped drive that points to a physical drive on the same server

So, I know that if I copy from machine A to machine B it will be slow over a mapped drive. because it's over the network. But I'm sitting in front of a server that is setup with a mapped drive that actually points back to itself. So, technically it…
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Determine number of installed TS cals

How can I determine how many simultaneous remote desktop / remote app users can use a particular host? Is there a better way of scripting the current amount of users logged on other than fetching the output of "qwinsta" (like WMI etc)
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Lost my documents

I disconnected one of my PCs (Windows 7) from my Windows 2008 R2 domain and restarted the pc. Once I did that, I could not find this account again and could not find the data that was saved in that account. (lost all programs I installed and data…
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Windows Server Editions resource demands

Are there any actual differences in requirements when running W2K8R2 Enterprise, Standard or Datacenter edition? In example, will the Datacenter edition consume more memory or CPU than the Standard edition when idle?
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What can I use in eventtriggers.exe place on Windows 2008?

I would like an alert to either be shown on the screen or to be emailed when a particular event is logged on a Windows 2008 R2 server. I understand that eventtriggers.exe has been deprecated however am unable to find a replacement for it on Windows…
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