Getting to know Server 2012 R2 Issue

Trying to work in the virtual lab for Getting to know Windows Server 2012 R2, and I was stumped within 5 minutes. Server3 in that lab can ping every other machine, but no machines could ping Server3 and thus everything involving Server3 in the lab was
invalidated. Can someone else reproduce?

Hi,
Good to hear that and thanks for you share.
Have a good day!
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Susie

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Utterly and totally LOST and CONFUSED getting IE10 in Server 2012 x64 to work

I am at my wits end, I believe I posted in here before but am still having tons of problems with IE10 and Server 2012 x64. Can someone shed some light on ANY of the following:
1)Is IE10 embedded with flash player by default or not? If so what version?
2)If IE10 is embedded with flash player how do I get it to consistently work and show the flash player test movie from Adobe's site instead of a gray box (following steps on site does NOTHING to fix issue)?
2b) I have had some success simply changing the following security settings for the Internet Zone in Security:
Settings>Internet Options>Security>Internet Zone, click custom level> Active X Controls and Plugins> Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting: enable
Settings>Internet Options>Security>Internet Zone, click custom level> Scripting> Active Scripting: enable
on some machines the above works and I see a flash movie, other machines not.
3)What is the shockwave flash object in my add-ons for IE? Some machines have this and some don't. Was it installed by default or installed manually? I cannot install this on non working machines where it is missing as the install page from adobe (get.adobe.com/flashplayer) says there is nothing to install since IE 10 should have flash player embeded by default. (it says flash player is integrated with Windows Explorer in Windows8. You do not need to install Flash Player and the bottom of IE says an add-on for this website failed to run).
This is a NIGHTMARE process that doesn't work and is pathetic. Can someone please steer me in the direction to get this simple POS to work? Something that should work by default doesn't, and then should take no more than 10 minutes is wasting hours of my time.

Hi,
The RoboHelp 10 API should work for WebHelp created with RoboHelp 9. Since the RH10 API will now support Multiscreen HTML5 (introduced with RoboHelp 10), I imagine it will work with VS 2012. But I’ve not tried that. You can try the RH10 API, but Adobe won’t support it
Alternatively: A colleague of mine created a custom C# API some time ago. That might work for you: http://www.wvanweelden.eu/blog/2012/08/03/custom-webhelp-apis
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Willam

Syspolicy_purge_history job getting failed (SQL Server 2012)

Job Name  syspolicy_purge_history
Step Name  Erase Phantom System Health Records.
Duration  00:00:05
Sql Severity 0
Sql Message ID 0
Operator Emailed
Operator Net sent
Operator Paged
Retries Attempted 0
Error Message :-
A job step received an error at line 1 in a PowerShell script. The corresponding line is 'import-module SQLPS -DisableNameChecking'. Correct the script and reschedule the job. The error information returned by PowerShell is: 'The following error occurred
while loading the extended type data file:
Microsoft.PowerShell, D:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Tools\PowerShell\Modules\SQLPS\sqlprovider.types.ps1xml : File skipped because of the following validation exception: AuthorizationManager check failed..

Hi nap_bhatt,
Based on your description, we need to verify that if you get the error while starting the syspolicy_purge_history job manually in SQL Server 2012. If so, which account do you use to log on to the SQL Server instance and run the job?
According to the error message “AuthorizationManager check failed” , it indicates that your account has no permission to execute the PowerShell script in SQL Server Agent job. To troubleshoot this issue, please make sure that your account has permissions
to the SQLPS folder and it has rights to execute the PowerShell script.
In addition, please use the “Get-ExecutionPolicy” PowerShell command to check the current status of execution policy, if the execution policy is set to “Restricted”, try to set it to “RemoteSigned” or “Unrestricted”. Please note that you need to set this
execution policy in both the Windows PowerShell and the SQL PowerShell consoles.
For more information about syspolicy_purge_history job in SQL Server 2012, please review this similar blog:
SQL job “syspolicy_purge_history” fails on SQL 2012 .
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WSUS - Server 2012 Client Issues

Hey all,
I seem to be having a lot of WSUS issues recently. I have a pure Windows 2008 R2 domain in my lab environment. I decided to start testing server 2012 and I've added the servers to the domain. My first glaring issue is that after I ran the KB2720211-x64 fix
the 2012 servers are appearing as "Windows 2000 Datacenter Server."
My second issue is that the 2012 servers are unable to "check for updates" from the control panel menu. I get the following error: "Windows could not search for new updates" Of course the code is 800B0001. Any ideas?

My first glaring issue is that after I ran the KB2720211-x64 fix the 2012 servers are appearing as "Windows 2000 Datacenter Server."
That's because KB2720211 does not provide support for WS2012/Win8 systems; you need to install KB2734608.
My second issue is that the 2012 servers are unable to "check for updates" from the control panel menu. I get the following error: "Windows could not search for new updates" Of course the code is 800B0001. Any ideas?
Install the correct patch and follow the post-installation instructions in the KB article, and all will be copasetic.
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Server 2012 Password issue on new domain

We recently setup a new domain controller running Server 2012 R2 standard 64 bit. All user profiles were setup in Active Directory. The default password we set users was Welcome1 and we chose all the defaults for the password policy. We set each account
to force the user to change their password when they first login.
The issue we see is that when a user logs in and tries to change their password, it will not let them change their password the way it should be. For example, the account "testuser" was set to Welcome1. When I tried to change it to
Atlanta@2 or Georgia8 or Nexeo+=7 or Kentucky9 it said "Unable to update the password. The value provided for the new password does not meet the length, complexity, or history requirements
of the domain"
I then tried to change it to Welcome2 and it accepted it.
I then went on the server and reset it logged in as administrator and see no issues (I can change it to whatever I want). So the issue is on the user end. I also turned OFF complexity requirements.
I logged back into the account and tried to change the password to Kentucky7 and it worked. I then did a CTRL ALT DEL and tried to change it to Kentuky9 and it gave the same error.
I'm not sure what is going on. Maybe there are time intervals on how often a user is allowed to change their password in Server 2012? Any ideas as to what is going on?

I logged back into the account and tried to change the password to Kentucky7 and it worked. I then did a CTRL ALT DEL and tried to change it to Kentuky9 and it gave the same error.
I'm not sure what is going on. Maybe there are time intervals on how often a user is allowed to change their password in Server 2012? Any ideas as to what is going on?
You must set minimum password age.
What is this:
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SSRS 2012 - Windows Server 2012 R2 issue with OLEDB Connection String

Hoping someone can help. As stated above, we are running SQL Server 2012 with SP1 on Windows Server 2012 R2. When I create a Data Source as follows in Reporting Services, I receive the following error message. Any thoughts on why this fails? The same data
source works on Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise SQL Server 2008 R2.
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Unspecified error
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnectionInternal..ctor(OleDbConnectionString constr, OleDbConnection connection)
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnectionFactory.CreateConnection(DbConnectionOptions options, Object poolGroupProviderInfo, DbConnectionPool pool, DbConnection owningObject)
at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.CreateNonPooledConnection(DbConnection owningConnection, DbConnectionPoolGroup poolGroup)
at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.GetConnection(DbConnection owningConnection)
at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionClosed.OpenConnection(DbConnection outerConnection, DbConnectionFactory connectionFactory)
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection.Open()
at Microsoft.ReportingServices.DataExtensions.ConnectionExtension.Open()
at Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.DataExtensionConnectionBase.OpenConnection(IProcessingDataSource dataSourceObj, DataSourceInfo dataSourceInfo, IDbConnection conn)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---;

Hi ABAA101,
According to your description, when you use csv file as data source in SSRS 2012 report, you got the error message.
I tested the issue in my local machine, due to some policy restrictions, I could not install Access in my local machine. To workaround the issue, we can use the connection string like below:
Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:\\report;
Extended Properties="text;HDR=Yes;FMT=Delimited"
The csv file is stored in report folder in C driver.
In Query text box in the dataset, we can use the query like below:
Select * from new.csv
If you have any more questions, please feel free to ask.
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SQL Server 2012 Installation Issue

Hi
Not sure if this is the correct forum for this but I'll post anyway.
Ialready have sql 2005 and 2008r2 installed on my local machine running windows 7, 64 bit.
I recently tried to install sql 2012 but ran into a problem that I'm stumped by. The installation runs fine, no errors or issues. When I start 2012 the SS Management studio window appears but the usual splash screen in the middle of the window asking to
to connect to a server does not. If I try hitting any of the meny items at the top of the screen the SSMS window just hangs.
I have service pack 1 installed also. I uninstalled and tried again but still no luck. my SQL 2005 and 2008r2 version are still fine and run as normal. I also tried installing sql 2014 to see if that would work but I had the same issue as with 2012.
Any ideas anyone?
thanks in advance

Hi,
Both SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2014 require .NET Framework 4.0 which does not required by the previous versions.
Make sure that . NET Framework 4.0 has been successfully installed on your system before you install SQL Server
Hardware and Software Requirements for Installing SQL Server 2014
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143506.aspx
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...that no computers are registered to receive updates (Server 2012) WSUS issue

Hi
Server 2012 64-bit WSUS install
I have trolled as many forum posts as possible but they seem to relate to older versions of Windows OS.
I have clicked the "To set up a client computer" and followed all the steps to create a GPO etc.
However the computers on the domain still look to the internet for their updates and not the WSUS server despite the policy in place.
WSUS is sync and I have 1987 security updates waiting, 626 critical updates waiting etc.
I have approved 562 updates and declined 1338 so far.
I have created 8 separate computer groups.
What can I do to get my domain computers looking to the WSUS server to receive their updates?
Many thanks
Leo

I would suggest starting with
Update and Configure the Automatic Updates Client Computer in the WSUS Deployment Guide, and the
Step-by-Step Guide to Understanding the Group Policy Feature Set.
The links provided point to solutions for much older OS. I am running a Windows 2012 Server environment with Windows 8 OS on client PC's. All the data provided on the link is for Server 2000/2003 and Windows XP. Must I assume that nothing has changed in terms
of registry values and methods of solution?
Very little has changed, the principles are the same, the Admin UI has evolved/modernised somewhat.
Windows8 does have a slightly changed auto-updating behaviour (relating to the post-install-restart behaviour) , but this is able to be modified with a GP setting.
The main settings for a client, continue to be controlled by the same registry settings (keys/values), and this can be configured by GP, and the resultant settings can be observed in the registry.
The applied settings, are consumed by the WUAgent and output to the windowsupdate.log, so it's easy to confirm if your GP settings are being applied correctly as expected.
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Server 2012 DirectAccess Issues

I have DirectAccess configured on Server 2012. Just a single NIC configuration. I've got it configured to work with Windows 7 and everything is fine as far as accessing network resources from the DirectAccess client, but not the other way around.
I've setup ISATAP for the machines that I want to communicate with the clients and that appears to be working.
The first problem we are having is the client will not register with our DNS servers.
If we manually add a record with it's IPv6 address, we can ping the client, RDP to the client, but Microsoft Remote Assistance or trying to browse to the client doesn't work.
I believe I have opened the correct ports and allowed edge traversal on the client. Do you guys have any other suggestions? Thank you.

Hi,
"To configure ISATAP you have to put ISATAP host (A) record in your DNS and all machines can then resolve this name to configure their ISATAP adapters." (Quoted from below article)
Windows Server 2012 Direct Access – Part 1 What’s New
In addition go through beneath articles and thread for more information.
1. Direct Access Windows Server
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2. 'Real W2orld' Direct Access installation using Windows Server 2012
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Windows Server 2012 Login Issue "The User Profile Service service failed the sign-in. User profile cannot be loaded."

Whenever I try to login to our Exchange Server, I receive the following error:
"The User Profile Service service failed the sign-in. User profile cannot be loaded."
The issue affects more than one user.
Relevant Info:
Server Version: 2012 Datacenter
Exchange Version: 2013
The Exchange server is virtualized.
What I've tried:
1) Remote Desktop from a workstation on the network
2) Remote Desktop from Virtual Machine Manager
3) Connect via console from Virtual Machine Manager
4) Accessing the server via Computer Management and adding my user account to Allow Login via Remote Desktop
5) Creating a new user account for myself by copying the account of a user who can get in
6) Rebooting
I'd appreciate any suggestions.

Hi Aaron,
I would suggest you to check the event log .
Maybe this issue due to the permission of profile folder , please refer to the following link :
http://helgeklein.com/blog/2013/09/error-message-explained-user-profile-service-failed-logon/
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Licensing issue with Windows Server 2012 R2 Essential

Hi,
we purchased a server that came with Windows Server 2012 Essentials. and we found out some of the issue regarding the licensing. I would like to verify it with the experts here.
1. This Essential O.S. cannot be deployed as a member server in the domain, only Windows server 2012 r2 Standard and data center is capable as deploy as a member server?
2. does it work with a single domain with multiple domain controllers and one primary domain controller? Example, 10 offices in different states, each location has a domain controller in their office, I'm installing to install this Essential server as another
domain controller in one of the offices for redundancy purpose. I promoted this server into domain controller with success, but it gives me an fsmo error everyday, and warning about shutting down if i don't transfer the fsmo role to this server.
3. which leads to this question, so this Essential OS can only be deploy as a single domain as the primary domain controller? Up to 25 user and 50 device license?
4. Is it possible to deploy it as a domain controller (that office has less than 25 users) in that office while syncing correctly with the other 10 domain controllers in other offices, they are all in the same single domain? I can't make this work, and I
think due to the Essential O.S.'s limitation.
5. we use a vpn connection to connect all the office together, and all the domain controller uses lan ip address to communicate with each other.
Thank you for the help in advance. I have been researching for the past couple days, but I still couldn't get a clear answer. Thank you again.

Hi Cliff,
Thank you for your reply.
1. We will get a new server 2012 r2 standard to deploy as member server.
2 and 3. Only ONE domain controller can hold all FSMO roles in a single domain, correct? Currently an windows 2003 enterprise, this is our first server in our domain, it holds all the FSMO roles currently.
4. Yes, we realized essentials will not work for us, so we are switching to 2012 r2 standard to deploy for the new
domain controller for our new office, still under the same domain.
5. This wasn't a question, just wanted to give out the connection information.
The problem was that We didn't read the Essentials in detail when buying the new server, on dell website, it said it was perfect for small business, we didn't know it has to run as a primary DC. it was great in price, and it doesn't need CALs.
but we quickly realized after deploying it as a DC, it gives us error about Server Licensing compliance, and will shut down automatically. Then we were going to use it as a member server to run application, and realized we couldn't. So we are returning the
server, and getting a new one with standard r2 2012 and CALs license.
It was a costly mistake.
Thank you again.

Installing Windows Server 2012 RC Remote Desktop (ISSUE)

Installing the RD Host Service doesn't work and I get several errors. Any Hints?

You cannot be serious. I approached your Microsoft "Gold certified" software partner 'Cancom Germany' with the following requirement:
- Need a Windows 2012 "Terminal Server"
- for 15 client devices
- currently no AD or other Windows servers installed
What do I get sold:
- Windows Server 2012
- 15 Device CALs
- 15 RDS device CALs
and the information that I need to setup AD and the RDS roles. So far so good.But I run into these error messages when setting up the RDS roles.
Now you are telling me that I need another server running just for the AD? Which I do not need for anything except for the internal requirement of the RDS services?
Please elaborate a bit more on the way to get it work on the same machine or suggest another solution (btw buying another license for the AD server is not a solution).
Totally agree with you. buying extra server just for AD or broker frustrated me. but I found a patch here
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2799605
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Sql server 2012 installation error

can someone please tell me why i am getting an error when i am trying to install sql 2012 SP1. it when i get to the installation it says "sql server Setup has encountered the following error. hexadecimal value 0x00, is an invalid character.Line
1, position 51471. error code 0x84B10001.

Hi vijatkumar.ptl,
According to your description and your error message, when you install SQL Server 2012, check if splinters of an MSDE instance (Microsoft Desktop Engine) was left over from other program. If this hidden instance exists, and the installer perform the RunDiscoveryAction
process, the issue will occur. So I recommend you manually remove a Microsoft SQL Server
Desktop Engine instance (MSDE) by using Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel, and so on, then reinstall again.
There is a similar issue about SQL Server 2012 setup issue, you can refer to the following posts.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/72fbd726-730b-4aef-9db1-aeb8bfb5d334/sql-2012-setup-issues-hexadecimal-value-0x00-is-an-invalid-character
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/f37e18eb-f1ab-4106-83f6-8bbf04d6a41a/setup-failed-0x84b10001-sql-2012-hexadecimal-value-0x00-is-an-invalid-character-line-1-position?forum=sqlsetupandupgrade
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Sofiya Li
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Multi-Hypervisior Manager support for Windows Server 2012 R2

Hi,
I am attempting to connect to a Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V and am getting the following error message.
"Unable to Connect to host hyper01"
I have tested and can connect to a Windows Server 2012 without issue. Checking the documentation for support and whilst Windows Server 2012 is not supported I wanted to ensure I wasn't making an error.
If it is indeed not supported at this moment, is there a viable alternative?
Many Thanks
Tristan

Hi,
Windows 2012 R2 is not supported by MHM 1.x. Please take a look at http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vcenter-multi-hypervisor-manager-11-guide.pdf, page 9, "vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager Software Requirements" section.
For you convenience I'm pasting the list of supported third-party hypervisors:
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012
Microsoft Hyper-V for Windows Server 2012
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
Microsoft Hyper-V for Windows Server 2008 R2
Microsoft Hyper-V for Windows Server 2008
Regards,
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Cannot Print in IE11 on Terminal Server 2012

I am having an issue with printing with IE11 in Terminal Server 2012.
Issue-
The print preview shows up as blank, and when I hit print, nothing happens(the print window never shows up). I can print from other applications fine. Additionally, this is only affecting one user on my terminal server. Everyone else is able to print out
of Internet Explorer fine. I have tried launching IE with add-ons disabled and the problem exists in both 64/32 bit IE. I have rebooted my terminal server. The user is still unable to print from IE. I have checked that enhanced IE security is off.
Nothing seems to be working here.
Any suggestions?

Hi,
According to your description, this just occurs to particular user profile. Please check if there is a Low folder existed in following path:
"%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Temp
If it does exist, take these steps to apply the integrity level:
1.Open a Command Prompt, and then click Run as administrator.
2.Type following command and press ENTER:
ICACLS "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Temp\Low" /setintegritylevel (OI)(CI)low
3.Restart the computer.
4.Print or print preview a Web page in Internet Explorer.
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