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Right I’m new to windows server all together!!
I’m trying to set up phpbb on a windows server 2019 database I install php in c:/ drive root folder
And MySQL server !!
I set up a new db in MySQL workbench/ I set environments !! I know because I used MySQL workbench I don’t need to do it in phpmyadmin (I believe)
But I upload that to the wwwroot folder I think it’s called anyway and I can see that if I go to browser and type localhost/phpmyadmin and can see my php_db but trying to install phpbb forum I have in the wwwroot folder I get a ton of errors and no install page
I’ve tried to google a dozen times how to go for the labyrinth or ways to get through the process and km still stuck !!

Hi all

I have recently installed Windows server 2025 standard OS onto a hpe proliant dl20 using intelligent provisioning..it installed fine and I was able to sign in and connect to the Internet with no issue

Only problem now is that windows update will not work..it's constantly saying it has encountered a problem and to try again later and check if I have an Internet connection

I have checked tls settings, certificates, time and date and region are correct..all required services are running..but I still can't get it to search for updates...any ideas?

Thanks

Hi Guys, I am working on a new file shares on our Brand new file 2025 server, having some performance issues when opening MS project files from a win11 computer on a remote office. Remote offices are connected with our AutoVPN IPsec tunnels. Network latency is around 34Ms..As tested, there is no network performance issue..

So, Long story short, when I configure SMB share permission as Everyone read only access for the file shares, the speed of opening project files is good. Takes about 5-7 seconds... Seems copying files directly is also good via SMB from a remote office...however once I set smb permission to everyone full Control or give Change rights, the performance of opening project files is degraded, opening the same Ms project file can take 30 seconds....I know the Ms project needs to have autosave etc can showhow affect performance..I wouldn't thought it degraded this much?

Tried SMB compressor didn't help with opening the project file..

Also, I noticed the performance was fine in the beginning after I created SMb share, after for sometimes, it is getting slow...I feel like there are some weird SMB caching somehow affect this performance....on the file shares, I already set no file caching under Advanced sharing options..

Any tips you can possibly share that I could give a try?

Hi, normally when you disconnect from your session ans you are logging back you should use the old sessions but I have observed that it creates a new one. So i have one disconnected and one active with the same user.

It happens with a local but also with a domain account so is not gpo at domain level who could do that ….

Also i know there is a local policty which can be disabled and let you have multiple sessions but is not configured at all. If i enabled that policy to restrict having multiple sessions, it works for this issue, but it is like a temp solution

The only common thing is that the servers are terminal servers

Any ideas? The issue is from months ago

Title: DHCP audit log size — what's your sweet spot for ~250 scopes?

Hey everyone,

I'm planning to tune the audit log settings on our Windows DHCP

servers and wanted to get a sanity check from the community before

I commit to a number.

Our setup:

- Windows Server DHCP, hot standby failover mode

- ~250 active scopes

- Mixed environment (corporate, manufacturing sites, guest networks)

- IPv4 only, no IPv6 yet

The default MaxMBFileSize of 70 MB feels way too low for our scale,

and I've already seen the logs roll over faster than I'd like for

forensic/troubleshooting purposes. I'd like enough retention to go

back at least a couple of weeks if we need to chase down a lease

issue or investigate a rogue device.

Currently leaning toward:

- MaxMBFileSize: 1024 MB

- MinMBDiskSpace: 1024 MB

- Path moved off C: to a dedicated log volume

A few questions for those running similar or larger environments:

1. What MaxMBFileSize do you run in production? Did you hit anygotchas at higher values?
2. Do you ship the DHCP logs off to a SIEM / syslog collector, ordo you just rely on the local files? If you ship them, do youstill keep large local retention as a fallback?
3. Anyone hit the "DHCP stops handing out leases when log is full /disk space below MinMBDiskSpace" scenario? Curious how youmonitor for that proactively.
4. For those running hot standby failover like us — do you sizelogs identically on both nodes, or differently based on whichis primary?

Appreciate any war stories or just a quick "we run X MB on Y

scopes, works fine." Trying to avoid both extremes (default 70 MB

loss of history, and runaway disk usage).

Thanks!

Hi,
ich verzweifle, villeicht finde ich hier ja Hilfe.

Ich habe Zuhause einen Telekom Speedport Smart 4 (Flur,Arbeits- und Wohnzimmer) und eine zusätzlichen Telekom WLAN AP (Schlaf- und Badezimmer) im Mesh laufen.
Dazu habe ich einen Domain-Controler
Solange ich DHCP über den Telekom Router laufen lassen funktioniert das.

Jetzt habe ich mir auf dem DC ein Hyper-V mit einem PI-Hole angelegt. Da der Speedport immer IPv6 macht und ich meine Geräte zwingen will über den PI-Hole externes DNS zu machen, habe ich auf dem DC zusätzlich DNS und DHCP installiert.
Im DHCP haben fast alle Geräte eine feste IP, der wird Hauptsächlich zum festlegen von IP, Gateway (Speedport) und DNS (DomainControler), für sowohl IPv4 und IPv6, genutzt.
Auf dem DNS ist ein Forwarding zum PI-Hole eingerichtet und ich sehe da auch anfragen.
DHCP darf DNS erstellen, ändern, löschen und auf den DNS wird alle 7 Tage aufgeräumt.

Nun das Problem:
Schalte ich am Router das DHCP ab und bin mit WLAN über den Speedport verbunden, klappt alles 1a.
Ist die Verbindung über den AP erhalte ich keine IP. Er baut zwar Verbindung zum WLAN auf, hat aber logischerweise kein Internet.
Ich habe 3 Alexa Eco-Dot in der Wohnung: Arbeits-, Wohn- und Schlafzimmer, sowie einen Fire-TV stick im Schlafzimmer. Alexa in Arbeits- und Wohnzimmer funktionieren, Alexa und Fire-TV im Schlafzimmer funktionieren nicht.
Auch Mobiltelefone / Tablet funktionieren am Speedport 1a und brechen den Stream/Video ab kurz nach dem Verbinden mit dem AP

Es scheint mit dem Telekom-AP zusammen zu hängen, aber der hat als Mesh keinerlei Einstellungen und selbst als Standalone kann man nur WLAN-Settings setzen.
Entweder können das die Telekom-Geräte nicht (was richtig doof wäre) oder ich übersehe was?

Hilfe!

Every patch tuesday the same dance: did this CU break DHCP again? RDS? NTLM? Built a scraper that pulls r/sysadmin, r/WindowsServer adjacent subs, r/ActiveDirectory, MS health dashboard, bleeping computer, a handful of patch blogs every 4–6h. Tags real regressions (KB + component + concrete breakage), dedups across sources.

So instead of doomscrolling 4 subs and 3 blogs the morning after, you get one ranked list.

What other server related sources should I be pulling? Specific MVP blogs, mailing lists, MS tech community boards?

Can drop the link of the tracker in the comments if anyone wants to try it out

EDIT: Added json api and sources on all regressions, thanks for the feedback!

I have migrated a domain from domain.local to domain.de, I cleaned sites and DNS but still get a error message like that:

Anyone here how can tell me, where I can find this leftovers?

Die dynamische Registrierung oder das Löschen einer oder mehrerer DNS-Einträge, die mit der DNS-Domäne "domain.local." verknüpft sind, ist gescheitert. Diese Einträge werden von anderen Computern verwendet, damit diese Server entweder als Domänencontroller (wenn die angegebene Domäne eine Active Directory-Domäne ist) oder als LDAP-Server (wenn die angegebene Domäne eine Anwendungspartition ist) ermittelt werden können

Mögliche Ursachen für den Fehler:

- TCP/IP-Eigenschaften der Netzwerkverbindungen des Computers enthalten falsche IP-Adressen der bevorzugten und alternativen DNS-Server.

- Die angegebenen bevorzugte und alternative DNS-Server werden nicht ausgeführt.

- DNS-Server, die primär für die zu registrierenden Einträge vorgesehen sind, werden nicht ausgeführt.

- Bevorzugte oder alternative DNS-Server sind mit falschen Stammhinweisen konfiguriert.

- Übergeordnete DNS-Zone enthält falsche Delegierung auf die untergeordnete autorisierende Zone für die DNS-Einträge, bei deren Registrierung ein Fehler aufgetreten ist.

BENUTZERAKTION

Beheben Sie die oben angegebenen Fehlkonfigurationen

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Verzeichnisserverdiagnose

Anfangssetup wird ausgeführt:

* Die Verbindung mit dem Verzeichnisdienst auf Server DC wird hergestellt.

Auf dem Server DC ist bei der Attributsuche der LDAP-Suchfunktion ein Fehler

aufgetreten. Rückgabewert = 81

Der Host DC konnte nicht zu einer IP-Adresse aufgelöst werden. überprüfen

Sie DNS-Server, DHCP, Servername, usw.

Edit:
after long time of not finding a solution, I solved it toady with simply rerun rendom /clean

I have been struggling immensely with adding VMS to the domain for it, so I decided to just nuke it from orbit and reinstall. I am unsure of the .domain name though, if its just for a home lab would .local be ok?

**TL;DR: Small business running SQL Server 2016 on EverRun (EOL July 13, 2026). Need to upgrade software ASAP. Planning a hardware upgrade later. Looking for advice on the best path forward.**

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Hey everyone, looking for some community input on our infrastructure upgrade path. We're a small wholesale fragrance distributor in Miami (~20 users).

**Current Setup:**

- HPE ProLiant ML350 G9 (purchased 2017, ~$62K total investment with EverRun)

- Stratus EverRun 7.9.3 (fault-tolerant virtualization)

- 2× Xeon E5-2650 v4 (24 cores total, but EverRun only presents 21 vCPUs)

- 44 GB RAM (running at 73% utilization)

- 6× 300GB HDD in RAID 5 + 1× 800GB SSD

- Windows Server 2016 Standard (Volume MAK)

- SQL Server 2016 Standard (Server+CAL)

- Applications: Macola/Synergy ERP, KnowledgeSync, SSRS, IIS

**The Problem:**

- SQL Server 2016 reaches end-of-life on July 13, 2026 (less than 2 months away)

- No more security patches after that date

- Compliance/insurance risk if we don't upgrade

- System has been experiencing service crashes every 2-3 weeks

- EverRun eats 12-15% of CPU overhead and costs $2,400/yr in support

**Our Plan (2 Phases):**

*Phase 1 (NOW — $8,919):*

- Buy Windows Server 2025 + SQL Server 2025 licenses with 20 CALs each

- Use Microsoft downgrade rights to install 2022 versions (EverRun 7.9.3 only supports up to Windows Server 2022)

- In-place upgrade on existing hardware

- Keep EverRun for redundancy

- This is within our approved $17K budget

*Phase 2 (LATER — TBD budget):*

- New HPE ML350 Gen12 servers (2-node Windows Failover Cluster)

- Drop EverRun entirely

- Upgrade to 2025 versions using same licenses (no additional cost)

- NVMe or SSD storage

- HPE iQuote is showing ~$134K for a full 2-node cluster with HPE-branded SSDs which seems very high

**My Questions for the Community:**

1. **In-place upgrade vs clean install?** For going from Windows Server 2016 → 2022 and SQL Server 2016 → 2022 on EverRun, should I do an in-place upgrade or build a new VM and migrate? Any gotchas with EverRun?

2. **SQL Server 2022 vs 2025?** We're buying 2025 licenses for downgrade rights, but installing 2022 for now. Anyone running SQL Server 2022 on EverRun 7.9.3 successfully?

3. **HPE pricing reality check.** HPE iQuote shows 960GB NVMe drives at ~$15K EACH. Is this normal? The full 2-node cluster quotes at $134K. For a 20-user Macola/Synergy ERP environment, is this overkill? What would you recommend for Phase 2 hardware?

4. **EverRun vs Windows Failover Cluster.** Anyone migrated from EverRun to WSFC? How was the experience? Is the failover as seamless? We're currently getting crashes every 2-3 weeks and wondering if EverRun is part of the problem.

5. **Third-party drives in HPE servers.** HPE says using non-HPE drives can void the warranty. Has anyone actually had warranty claims denied for using Samsung/Intel enterprise NVMe drives in ProLiant servers?

6. **Cloud vs on-premise for ERP?** We looked at Azure (~$22K/yr for HA) but our ERP (Macola/Synergy) is designed for on-premise. Anyone successfully moved Macola to cloud? Was it worth it?

7. **Licensing sanity check.** For a 2-node failover cluster: 2× Windows Server licenses but only 1× SQL Server license (passive node is free). 1 set of CALs covers both nodes. Is this correct?

Any advice, war stories, or suggestions are welcome. Thanks!

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**Environment:** HPE ML350 G9 / EverRun 7.9.3 / SQL 2016 / Macola ERP / 20 users / Miami

**Budget:** $17K approved for Phase 1 (software). Phase 2 hardware TBD

Hi, everybody I am quite in a dire situation right now. I'd like to ask a question because we have our Windows Server 2016 Server as a VM in proxmox and the problem is that after the Windows Boot Loading Screen its just black screen, no login page. We can still access the other VMs like FileServer and such but only this. Is there a way to fix this or have somebody encountered this? Is there a way to copy the files there to a USB because we really need the database for our daily operation. The previous IT's did not set a backup or snapshots of the VM or database. Thank you

Hello guys, how are you? I would like you to help me solve a problem.

I have a Windows Server on my server machine, and because of power outages it restarted unexpectedly. Now it is stuck on the startup screen with the spinning dots, and it stays like that.

Is there any solution to this problem, please?

Im starting a premed and biology course in college and I do not have a laptop yet. Im really only comfortable with windows laptops. For me, speed and battery life are most important. I dont have a price range yet. What would yall recomend i get?

Estou tentando salvar um PDF pelo Adobe Acrobat DC que está compartilhado na rede por um servidor de arquivos Windows Server 2019, porém ao clicar em salvar, ele aparece a mensagem "O documento não pode ser salvo. O arquivo pode ser somente leitura ou outro usuário pode estar com ele aberto. Salve o documento com outro nome ou em outra pasta.". Pede para que eu salve com outro nome, mas no meu caso não é possível.

Vi em outras postagens que tem pessoas que funcionou desativar a pré-visualização do windows e deu certo. Porém são em somente 2 computadores da empresa que o erro acontece. Como faço pra resolver isso?

Everyone, please go to the feedback hub and upvote the creation of a native WAC app. This has been asked for since WAC came in to creation, but now with the push for more native Windows apps now would be a good time to get this to happen:

https://aka.ms/AA10y4ef

I did some searching, and it says for the DNS address to be the domain controllers IP< and the loopback address for the secondary. I am trying to add another VM to join this domain but its giving a message that AD could not be accessed. On the client device I have the IP of the domain controller as the DNS, but no luck.

Upgrading Windows Server 2019 → Windows Server 2025 is consistently failing during setup rollback with:

0xC1900101 – 0x20017

“The installation failed in the SAFE_OS phase with an error during BOOT operation”

The upgrade starts normally, copies files, reboots, then fails during the SAFE_OS / BOOT phase and rolls back to Server 2019.