Questions tagged [windows-server-2019]
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Windows 2019: can't figure out why my drive is full
On a Windows 2019 Server the drive D: is 100% full (500 Gb used):
I'm trying to understand why the disk is full but I can't because both File Explorer and Total Commander reports no more than 33 Gb used:
It's also strange that WinDirStat reports…
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Shutdown Event Tracker showing on every login on Server 2019
I took control of a new VM running Windows Server 2019 (Datacenter) recently. Since that time, on each login to the server (via RDP) the Shutdown Event Tracker shows asking for information about an unexpected shutdown.
Checking the Event Viewer…
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Automatic installation of updates on Windows Server 2019
On a freshly-installed, non-domain-joined Windows Server 2019 (with desktop experience) VM, the ability to change Windows Update installation settings seems to have vanished, with the "Some settings are managed by your organization"…
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Install Microsoft Edge on Server 2019
The irony of this is off the scale. I'm clearly bored as I know the answer to this but I'm intrigued what's going on here.
Brand new install of Windows Server 2019 evaluation. Only configuration change made is to turn off IE Enhanced Security…
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How to run Linux Docker Container on Windows Server 2019?
There are already very similar Q&A regarding Windows Server 2016, but it remains unclear to me.
We have installed Docker Enterprise in version 18.09.6. We did manage to run Linux containers in experimental mode using LCOW. But experimental mode is…
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Windows Server Datacenter Edition - Unlimited Virtual Machines
Need some clarification on the following.
Datacenter Edition description lists:
Can be used as virtualization guest: Yes, unlimited virtual machines,
plus one Hyper-V host per…
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Force a domain controller to re-register AD DNS records without restarting netlogon?
In the past, I've been in a situation troubleshooting the dynamic registration of AD specific DNS records from domain controllers against a 3rd party DNS server. As far as I'm aware, the netlogon service is responsible for these registrations and…
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Switchless Networking Configuration for Two Directly-Attached Nodes?
I have two Windows Server 2019 Datacenter Edition servers, each with RDMA-enabled Mellanox ConnectX‐4 Lx 25GbE DA/SFP NICs. I've directly connected them with a 1 meter SFP28 copper cable.
How can I get them to see each other?
The cards try to…
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Windows server 2019 install not showing GUI options
I've downloaded the latest ISO (December 2019) for Windows Server 2019. When I go to install on a new server the list of install options only includes the core non-GUI install options.
How do I install Windows Server 2019 with a GUI (desktop…
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Corrupt (?) ReFS causing blue screen when drive is mounted
On Windows Server 2019, I have an 8 drive Storage Spaces pool that contains many volumes, only one of which is ReFS formatted. (The rest are NTFS.)
My server recently spontaneously started blue screen looping in the middle of some very heavy FS…
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Can I use Windows Server 2019 Essentials as a Stand Alone WebServer?
I looked around a lot but the only thing I find is the statement from Microsoft: "Functionality is limited on Windows Server 2019 essentials" and comparison Charts comparing the Standard and DataCenter Editions...
So what exactly is limited in…
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Microsoft Storage Spaces Write-Back Cache exists on HDD-only single-tier parity disk?
I created a parity storage space on 3x external USB 4tb HDD attached to a Windows 10 1809 machine. I then moved those HDDs to a Server 2019 1809 machine and added 1x additional 4tb HDD.
I noticed there is an existing 32mb write-back cache in this…
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Nested Virtualization and CSV issues in Hyper-V server Cluster Failover
I have 3 Windows server 2019 VMs,virtualized on Windows 10 pro. (MAIN HOST)
server 1 is AD/DC/ISCSI target/DNS/DHCP.
server 2 and 3 formed a failover Hyper-V Cluster and this cluster hosts a Windows 10 Pro x64. the cluster uses ISCSI to connect to…
user299093
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Very poor network performance with Server 2019
We are having major performance issues with Server 2019. Read and write performance is very poor compared to Server 2016. we installed a number of servers on customer sites to replace old servers and all customers have complained about opening files…
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What is the purpose of the System Data Archiver feature?
I am looking to remove unnecessary roles and features from Windows 2019 systems
and there is a new feature named System Data Archiver which is installed by default.
The official description says:
Provides services to collect and archive Windows…
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