windows-server-2008-r2

Windows Server 2008 R2 – RDSH – Registry bloat with Samsung Universal Print Driver

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I had the exact same issue and can confirm it is fixed in the new version of Samsung Universal Print Driver 2 (2.50.5) . I was also running 2.50.2 and the key in question was using 275MB. Simply uninstalling the old version and installing the new version on the server (I did not update any … Read more

Why is it called Windows Server 2008 R2? Why not simply call it Windows Server 2010?

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One guess: To remove the psychological barrier to upgrade. If you call it R2 then it looks like a Service Pack (which it is to some extent), whereas if you call it 2010 then it looks like a huge new version with massive incompatibilities, which will make people very reluctant to update.

Why is 1 of my 24 CPUs Pegged at 100%?

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As others have already pointed out, we can see from that screenshot that the CPU that’s working so hard is spending all its time in kernel mode. (The red color.) Running Powershell as administrator, type: Get-Process | Select Name, PrivilegedProcessorTime | ` Sort-Object PrivilegedProcessorTime -Descending The process at the top of the list is the … Read more

Anonymous access to SMB share hosted on Server 2008 R2 Enterprise

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You did everything correct with the exception of the local account accessing the share cannot be on both systems. Essentially, if the non-domain account running your application is called “administrator” then you must not have a local account on the domain server named “administrator”.

Program does not run properly as Scheduled Task

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I believe your problem has to do with either the permissions of the account being used to run the task, or the context of the account as exists when trying to run the task. Test for Console Session Requirement It’s possible your .EXE must be run in Console session (aka Session 0) on the computer. … Read more

What are the implications of exceeding 4 GB in a Windows Event Log?

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Other than the awful performance and ridiculous wait times when you have to load a 4 GB log and the hell it will be if you ever have to search through such a monstrous thing, not much. I think the largest one I’ve seen in my environments was 10 GB, and although I gave up … Read more

Connecting to specific session using remote desktop

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Note that mstsc.exe has no (documented) options to supply a session ID. But once you have logged in to the Remote Desktop Session server, you can change the session you are connected to by issuing tscon <session id> /v See MS KB 321703 for details on tscon. Alternatively, you might use tsadmin.msc and the “Connect” … Read more