Can I enable pinging on Windows Server firewall?

I've recently installed Windows Server 2008 on one of my servers as I'm able to to connect through Remote Desktop but I'm having trouble pinging. Would I have to open a special port on my firewall to be able to ping my server?

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How to make restoration of corrupted Excel 2007 file?

Hi there, When I open an excel file the following error message is displayed: “The file may be corrupted, located on a server that is not responding, or read only”. Since this happened whenever I open any excel file, the above error message is again displayed, I must also mention that I am sure...

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How to remove specific lines from a text files using either vbs or bat.

We have a text file that is a result of an export from an application we have. We use the following bat file to rename and remove blank lines from it based on the way it exports the export options/format cannot be changed. I would like a way to add to this bat file a method to remove specific lines...

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AS/400 Netserver

I am trying to implement data exchange between and AS400 and a Windows server using the AS/400 NetServer (QNTC). What steps are necessary to setup and activate the connection? Where can I find examples of CL programs that do file transfers.

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Can I run Windows Server 2008 with only 1GB of RAM?

I'm about to get a Windows 2008 VPS that has about 1GB of RAM. But before I purchase it, I wanted to ask if I could actually use a server with only 1 GB of RAM. For the most part, it's going to be used for development work (running 5 websites on IIS 7, .NET 3.5 and SQL 2008 Express). I'm thinking...

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ldifde utility on Windows Server 2003

Using ldifde utility I want to transfer below mentioned things from one domain (SVM.com) to other domain xyz.com or Export the OU from one domain and export it to other domain through ldifde -f output.ldf utility I export the domain and when I want to import to other domain through below mentioned...

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Exporting user information from Active Directory to openldap

I have Installed OpenLdap on Ubantu and Now I want to export username and password from AD and import it into openldap. How do we do this?

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How to perform an unattended Windows Server 2008 installation

Would I be able to perform an unattended installation of Windows Server 2008? This is mostly going to be used for a virtualization environment so I don't want to build a RIS infrastructure. Is there an answer file mechanism? Can I load the answer file automatically from the network?

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How to check the integrity of a Windows Server 2008 backup?

Is there an easy way to check the integrity of a created backup with Windows Backup in Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. Yesterday, I tried to restore several files from a backup I created last week and Windows Backup said the file was unreadable. I think is due to the network share where the files...

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Why does the system time on Windows Server 2008 server continue to increase?

I've noticed that the system time on my Windows Server 2008 server is increasing continuously. In order to keep fixing it, I have to shutdown and reset the time. I've already tried to change the battery but the problem is still happening. As of right now, we can't access the Internet to synchronize...

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Installing Crystal Reports for .NET 4.0 on Windows Server 2008

We've created a project with Visual Studio 2010 / .NET 4.0 using Crystal Reports. But when we try to publish it in Windows Server 2008, it's not working. After doing some searching, we were able to download an installer on Visual Studio 2008 but we can't find it on 2010. What are we missing?

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Page Faults in Windows 2003 server for java instances

In our environment we have windows 2003 server and IBM Websphere and we are seeing lot of Page Faults for java process also the RAM utilization is only 33% (11 GB of 32 GB available). We are have paging file size of around 3GB. Our objective is to achieve less page faults for java processes and...

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Images are being blocked on IIS 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

I have several images that are hosted on my default website on IIS 7. When I try to browse them, IIS blocks the images for some reason. Why is it doing that?

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Scheduling Windows task every minute on Windows Server 2008 R2

Over the next few weeks, I need to schedule a Windows task to run a script every minute. Most of the time, I don't need the script to execute anything. But when it does need to, I want it to start the job as quickly as possible (one minute intervals). Now, the UI of the Windows Scheduler is...

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Having trouble connecting to default administrative share in Windows Server 2008

I currently have a Windows Server 2008 that I've been trying (for a few days) to connect to the default administrative share: "\\servername\c$". I'm able to connect to it using the Administrator account. But when I use my user account that is a member of the Administrators group, I can't connect....

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Maximum number of TCP connections on Windows Server 2008

We're trying to run as many connections as possible in our server that's running on Windows Server 2008. To support our Comet-style application, it's written in C#. All the connections just need to be open (and stay open). From what we're looking at, we're limited to 65K of simultaneous open...

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Event ID 34 Application Event log message

Application freezing up for users. Informational message in application event log: The description for Event ID ( 34 ) in Source ( Oracle.xxxx ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You...

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Getting an error message with ASP.NET MVC application in Windows Server 2008 R2

I've recently installed .NET 4 on Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 and I keep getting this 500 Internal Server Error with an ASP.NET MVC application. It was running great on 3.5. I have custom errors turned off in web.config but no detailed error is showing, just the internal error. Anybody have an idea...

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Connecting Windows Server 2008 with a CLI

Does anyone know of a way to remotely manage / administer Windows Server using CLI? If so, what's the process to get this done? I know with Windows Server 2008 Server Core, it's easy with CLI to connect servers but I'm looking at it's administration capability. Thank you.

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Installing PHP in IIS 7.5 and Windows Server 2008 R2

I'm having a ton of trouble installing PHP for IIS 7.5 / Windows Server 2008 R2. I've done a ton of searching but can't find any x64 bit for download. Can anyone help me with setting up PHP? A friend of mine told me to use ISAPI...would that work?

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