#windows-server-2008-r2

Resolved: Windows Server 2008 R2 – How to copy a scheduled task #fix #programming #solution

Windows Server 2008 R2 – How to copy a scheduled task

I would like to create a new scheduled task that is extremely similar to an existing task. It would be a pain to write down or type out all the settings.

Is there a way to copy an existing task to create a new one?

Answer [by Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007]: Windows Server 2008 R2 – How to copy a scheduled task

Once you have a task created you can right-click it…

Resolved: Overcoming the 1024 character limit with setx #solution #answer #development

Overcoming the 1024 character limit with setx

I am trying to set environment variables using the setx command, such as follows

setx PATH “f:\common tools\git\bin;f:\common tools\python\app;f:\common tools\python\app\scripts;f:\common tools\ruby\bin;f:\masm32\bin;F:\Borland\BCC55\Bin;%PATH%”

However, I get the following error if the value is more then 1024 characters long:

WARNING: The data…

Fixed: Windows Server 2008 R2 grinds to a screeching halt during file copy operations #development #dev #programming

Windows Server 2008 R2 grinds to a screeching halt during file copy operations

When my Windows Server 2008 R2 machine is performing any large disk operations (copying 10GB files from one drive to another, copying similar file over network, merging HyperV snapshots, compressing large files), performance of the whole machine slows down terribly, everything becomes unresponsive. This is noticeable…

Resolved: ZFS Like Alternatives on Windows #fix #development #programming

ZFS Like Alternatives on Windows

Conceptually, and I don’t think I am alone here, I love the concepts of ZFS. You can create one big disk, everything is stored on multiple drives, and you can grow and shrink the pool and drive at any time. Plus, the disks don’t need to be same etc.

What I hateabout ZFS is that, best I can tell, its only truly stable form on Solaris running on Oracle (formerly…

Solution: Is Branch Cache worth considering as a replacement for DFS-R #computers #solution #fix

Is Branch Cache worth considering as a replacement for DFS-R

We have a small stub office that currently has a single server 2003 domain controller, and a DFS-R copy of the file store held at our main office. We probably replicate about 100Gb of data, I would guess about 20Gb maximum is actively used at both ends. We have (relatively) slow ADSL links between sites.

Replication mostly works quite…

Fix: Windows Server 2008 R2 – 180 day evaluation vs. 10 days + 5 re-arms #programming #development #dev

Windows Server 2008 R2 – 180 day evaluation vs. 10 days + 5 re-arms

The content on the Server 2008 R2 Trial Software page states that it can be evaluated for upto 180 days, however on a test machine we installed last week, it’s requesting “re-arming” every 10 days, which seems to be do-able a maximum of 5 times?

How do we get it to last more than 50 days, as it’d be a pain to have to rebuild the…

Fixed: Roaming Profiles: Simultaneous Logins of Same User #development #programming #fix

Roaming Profiles: Simultaneous Logins of Same User

I am administering a Windows Server 2008 R2 environment that is using roaming profiles and folder redirection. The client machines are running Windows 7. Due to the nature of the business, users rarely logoff and frequently have logons on multiple machines at once. This obviously creates a lot of problems with “last writer wins” conflicts and…

Fix: Disable restart after update prompt for server 2008 R2 #answer #development #fix

Disable restart after update prompt for server 2008 R2

I run server 2008 r2 as my desktop OS.

I am trying to disable the annoying restart prompt that comes up after installing updates. The most I can postpone it to is 4 hours.

I have tried disabling “Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations” and enabling “No auto-restart […] for scheduled Automatic Update installation” in Computer…