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How to recover a “Lost” command window (W2K8 Core)

For a project that I am working on, I have just started working with W2K8 Core, which is administrated via the Command Line, and NOT for the faint of heart.

The following “notes” are being shared during my adventure:

  • How to recover a “Lost” command window

I was REALLY surprised with how difficult it was to find a quick answer to this is, either via Google or on Microsoft, but I finally found “it”…

“To recover, you can press CTRL+ALT+DELETE, click Start > Task Manager, click File, click Run, and type cmd.exe.
Alternatively, you can log off and log back on again.”

– The Log “Off and On” did NOT work for me.

– Andrew
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Problems with Robocopy on W2K8

Has anyone had problems getting robocopy to copy from one partition to another on W2K8? I have setup a script that copies files from a W2K3 machine to a W2K8 machine without issue.

But then I try and do a similar copy from one internal HD to an External USB drive, no files are copied!

I already know about the new “Security” related issues that were introduced with Vista and W2K8, and I have tried previous versions as well!

If you have any thoughts or ideas, they would be greatly appreciated!

TIA,

– Andrew
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Dynamic IP on NIC during AD/DNS Setup Issue

When setting up a Active Directory domain, dcpromo.exe can include the required DNS installation, but the Wizard may warn you that you have one NIC adapter that is NOT set to static.

This is generally caused because both IP4 and IP6 are installed by Default and both need to be set I found a quick and dirty on-line/web based utility that can help you convert the IP4 to IP6 address:

<http://ip-lookup.net/conversion.php>

An alternative approach is to just Disable IP6 for the NIC, since to take advantage of IP6, the rest of your networking infrastructure also has to support IP6 (Gateways, Routers and Switches).

Hope this helps!

– Andrew
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Activation Error – 0x8007232B, DNS name does not exist

In some cases when you are trying to Active Vista or Server 2008, you might get the following error:

Activation Error - 0x8007232B - DNS name does not exist
Activation Error - 0x8007232B - DNS name does not exist

and this is due to the way that both Vista, Server 2008 and Windows 7 handle registration.

In these cases, your SysAdmin needs to have setup a KMS (Key Management Server), and then hasto use the MAK (Multiple Activation Key) that was provided to your company.

For more information on this topic, see Microsoft’s Volume Licensing website.

If you have NOT setup a KMS, but do have a MAK, then a simple work around is to go to:

Control Panel > System > Windows activation and click “Change Product Key”

and enter the key that was provided.

Source Info:

Hope this helps!

– Andrew
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Setup WHS on VMWare Server (2.0.1 b 156745)

The setup of this VM is actually very easy, with a couple of key things to note…

  • Use the Default “Microsoft Windows 2003 Standard Edition (32-bit)”;
  • Make your HD Capacity at least 65GBs (recommend 70GBs);
  • Make the HD a single file (File Options > “Allocate all space now”);
  • Make the HD a IDE Drive (Virtual Device Node > Adapter: IDE 0 > Devise: 0);

Then sit back and wait, which takes about an hour…

Do not forget to run Windows Update after the base install.

NOTES:

If you do NOT set the “Virtual Device Node” to IDE, the Setup program will ERROR saying it cannot find a disk.

If you allocate a disk size lower then 65GBs you will get an Error message during the GUI setup installation.

Hope this helps!

– Andrew