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Windows Server 2008 R2 is an operating system from Microsoft, and reached End Of Life on January 14, 2020. It is an update of Windows Server 2008. Unlike Server 2003 R2, this R2 is a fully new Operating System. It is only available in 64-bit versions.

Windows Server 2008 R2 is a significantly updated version of Windows Server 2008, which reached End Of Life on January 14, 2020. Unlike Server 2008, 2008 R2 is only available in 64-bit versions. No 32-bit version exists. It is superseded by Windows Server 2012

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Last restart/start time of a windows service

Is it possible to find out in Windows what the last restart time of a windows service is?
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Ban, slowdown or stop massive login attempts to RDP

Remote session from client name a exceeded the maximum allowed failed logon attempts. The session was forcibly terminated. One of the servers are being hit by a dictionary attack. I have all the standard security in place (renamed Administrator,…
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Time or date difference using remote desktop

When remoting into 2008 R2 we are getting this message. Remote Desktop cannot verify the identity of the remote computer because there is a time or date difference between your computer and the remote computer. Make sure your computer's clock is…
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Turn off server manager on login

In Windows Server 2008 R2 there is the "Server Manager" program that always starts up when I log on. I would like to make it so that this does not start up every time that I log into the server. How can I do this?
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Windows Server 2008 R2, no internet time tab

I usually sync my time on any windows based system with internet time. To do this... Adjust date/time, then click the Internet Time tab, and Synchronize with an internet time server. However that tab is missing from my Windows 2008 R2 Server. How…
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Does Win 2008 R2 still have 32 bit edition?

I was looking for the proper version of Win 2008 R2 to download, and cannot find a 32 bit. Is it 64-bit only? I'm still on a 32-bit machine, going to run it under VMWare. Do I need to go back to the original Win 2008 (i.e. the one before R2)?
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Why are only 16 GB of memory usable on our server?

We've recently upgraded the RAM on a Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Standard to 32 GB. When I open the System panel, it indicates Installed memory: 32.0 GB (16.0 GB usable). Why is that? I've been trying to dig up documentation that would indicate…
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Remote Server: Please wait for the System Event Notification Service

I was rebooting a remote server (Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard) over remote desktop and the session now shows the blue screen during the shutdown sequence, and the message "Please wait for the System Event Notification Service..." It seems that…
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How to determine who installed a program?

I need to figure out who installed a particular program (Adobe Flash) on a server. How can I do that?
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Mistakenly configured advanced audit policies; return to basic?

I can't believe I did this... I set an advanced auditing policy in our GPO and it shut down all of our basic policies. From Technet: After you apply advanced audit policy settings by using Group Policy, you can only reliably set system audit policy…
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Servers suddenly unable to make new connections; seems like ephemeral port exhaustion

We have several Windows 2008R2 servers which run a variety of commercial (e.g. SQL Server) and in-house applications. It's a variety of virtual and physical, all of which have been running for some years without any problems. However, in the last…
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What does event BEX64 mean?

Recently I had to deal with the situation where an application would crash with problem signature like: Problem Event Name:BEX64 ... Fault Module Name:StackHash_1dc2 Fault Module Version:0.0.0.0 Fault Module Timestamp:00000000 Exception…
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how to find the event where someone ejected a hot pluggable device

I got a Win Server 2008 R2 on a VM. I think someone accidentally ejected the NIC card that is presented as a hot pluggable device. But I am trying to find proof of that in the windows event logs and I haven't found a thing so far. What should I be…
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Determine the date time a feature was installed on Windows 2008 R2

I have another department logging onto a server without authorization. I want to determine if they added a feature without following the proper procedure.
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WMI object to get current sessions with client name?

I want to be able to create a powershell script that will tell me, for all RDP sessions currently active on a machine, who the user is, and what their clientname (machine name) is. I can use a combination of win32_loggedonnuser and…
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