r/WindowsServer

I am experiencing performance and user experience issues with a bare-metal installation of Windows Server 2025 24H2 running on the following hardware:

• Server: Supermicro SYS-521C-NR
• Processor: Intel Xeon Platinum 8558U
• Memory: 128 GB RAM
• Storage: 2 × Intel 960 GB SSDs configured as an Intel Virtual RAID 1
• GPU: NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000

Users connect exclusively through Remote Desktop Services (RDSH). Compared to Windows Server 2019, they report that everything feels noticeably slower. For example:

• Opening context menus is slower.
• Opening folders takes longer.
• Sometimes there is a noticeable delay between typing and the text appearing on screen.
• Adobe applications perform significantly worse.

User profiles are managed with FSLogix.

When I check Device Manager under Display adapters, I see three devices:

1. Microsoft Basic Display Adapter with a 2006 driver (based on the hardware ID, this corresponds to the ASPEED BMC graphics adapter).
2. Microsoft Remote Display Adapter, which I assume is used for Remote Desktop display redirection.
3. NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000.

In Task Manager, the RTX PRO 4000 appears as the GPU, but its utilization is always around 0–1%.

I also performed Google's WebGL/rendering test, and it reports that rendering is being performed by the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter instead of the NVIDIA RTX.

Is it possible that Remote Desktop sessions are using the ASPEED BMC graphics adapter instead of the RTX PRO 4000?

If so, how can I configure Windows Server 2025 so that Remote Desktop sessions use the NVIDIA GPU and provide performance comparable to what we see on Windows Server 2019?

Has anyone experienced similar performance issues with Windows Server 2025 24H2 in an RDSH environment?

Hi guys I’ve just received my first thinkpad ever and excited about the upcoming but it was DOS version and I installed the windows 11 pro myself. now I want to activate it but the official activation seems to cost 200$, which is a lot, so is there any recommendations regarding finding cheap license to activate.

I need help installing the network and Ethernet drivers on the Windows Server 2025 I installed on my PC. I downloaded the drivers for my motherboard, forced the installation with pnputil, and got error code 28: "Driver not found."

I wanna create a server with 50 users

Currently I'm using RDP wrapper with windows 11 and 12 users but it's very slow

After purchasing Windows Server we have to buy CALs but they are too expensive

Need alternatives or suggestions like wrapper but for Windows Server

Where does BGinfo get it's IP address info from?

I am running a Windows 2019 servers (PDC) in Hyper-V, it has only 1 physical NIC in, and the NIC and it's IP address info checks out, even ipconfig /all show the correct info, but BGinfo shows (DHCP) which nearly gave me a heart attack this morning! LOL

Thanks,

I work in a company where we develop several Intanet Applications. Some of them are distributed into a shared folder while a lot of them use ClickOnce.

Code Signing Certificates has changed over the past year, so that you need a USB key in the computer that needs to sign the application, which effectivly has pulled the certificate from 4-5 developers so that only our public production application gets signed correctly with our company cert.

I've been poking around with enrolling a Code Signing Cert from a Windows Server 2025 with the Certificate Authority installed

I've also installed both the Root Cert in the domain as well as adding the CSC into the Trusted Authors..

But SmartScreen ignores it all...

I then tried adding the ClickOnce website into the Trusted Intranet Zone, which also didn't help in regards to warnings and untrusted file alerts....

So, can it really be true that the ONLY way to fix SmartScreen is by disabling it using GPO ?

Why isnt a CSC from the CA on the Domain enough to trust an Intranet Application ?

We have an ancient Windows Server 2008 R2 that's used as a DC and file server. Using GPME, it is correctly auto-mounting the shared folder as S: when someone logs onto a client. But a second file share, W:, is also being auto-mounted that is not needed, and I cannot figure out where it is coming from. The share being mounted is one that users should not be accessing. This is happening on all our Windows client computers.

In MCSE > User Configuration > Preferences > Windows Settings > Drive Maps is used to mount the S: drive. There is no entry for the offending W: drive.

There are no startup scripts that I can find.

I can override the share mounted as the W: drive to a safe location by adding a second entry to GPME Drive Maps with an action of Replace. But when I remove this second entry, on the client, the offending W: drive returns.

Help! I should mention that we're a church, and I'm the volunteer IT department, and I know just enough about Windows Server to be dangerous. I know that we need to replace this ancient server, but that requires $$ that we don't have.

Brian
Accidental IT

Hi Guys,

We have a local Windows Admin Center server managing all local Server Cluster VMs.

To enable Windows Admin Center server's MFA or SAML SSO function, I suppose I need to register our WAC tenant to Azure Arc?

Would it have any impact? Would it bring or publish the whole WAC to Azure Arc with all of our VMs? Dont think we need this feature yet,,..As we only want to have a SSO/MFA part for Admin Logins to WAC Web Admin for now.

Any solid guide that I can follow?

Thanks,

John

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Hi,
I’m setting up a Windows Server virtual machine in VirtualBox for school labs (Active Directory, DNS, users, groups, etc.), but I’m stuck at the login stage.
The VM boots successfully, but it stops at a black screen saying:
“Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to unlock”
The problem is I cannot get past this screen.
I have already tried:
Input → Keyboard → Insert Ctrl+Alt+Del
Host key + Delete
Neither option works. It stays on the same screen and never brings up the login prompt.
Has anyone dealt with this before? I need to access the server to continue configuring Active Directory for my lab works
Any help would be appreciated.

TLDR: I need to configure a Cisco Firewall running FTD (not FMC) to authenticate admin logins using MSCHAPv2. Security is the objective here. I have Windows NPS running and AD running on another VM. I can get the Firewall to authenticate with CHAP/PAP, but not MSCHAPv2.

I know there are a lot of variables and I feel like an actual guide (not AI...it hasn't worked out well so far lol) would be most beneficial here, but open to any help or advice anyone wants to give.

I can ping both AD and NPS servers and traffic will pass on the 389 and 636 ports. I sniffed the traffic and can see the handshake, but the it appears AD is killing the session. I am having a hard time finding the actual error response on AD (I don't manage it, but know the admin) and would think that it would tell me exactly why it's not working.

I know it's vague, but any tutorials on setting up any of the above would be absolutely most appreciative.

TIA

How ?

Olá a todos, peço ajuda aos amigos, pois esse problema parece sem solução. Estamos migrando do VMware para o Nutanix e tudo estava indo bem até chegarmos nos servidores Windows. A primeira migração pareceu tranquila, todos os serviços subirão, mas o servidor windows server 2019 perdeu a ativação, temos o serial original, mas o Windows não ativa por nada. Na solução de problemas, clico em troquei de hardware recentemente e tento logar com a conta microsoft, mas no final do processo recebo o erro: Opa, algo deu errado. Provavelmente o que aconteceu foi nossa culpa. Tente novamente.
Já tentei o comando slmgr.vbs -ipk ABCD.... slmgr.vbs -ato. OBS: A licença é original mas a empresa que nos vendeu já fechou. Essa é a VM mais simples de todas, só roda um serviço de videomonitoramento, não está dentro do domínio e só possui o usuário administrador. Ela não nada de especial, nenhuma configuração especifica.

anyone have experience rollback after windows server 2012 R2 June patches?

It is azure-arc enabled and all the required Azure TLS certificate imported.

Checked CBS log, it show

ESU: Checking IMDS
ESU: Trying to Check IMDS Again LastError=HRESULT_FROM_WIN32(12002)

ESU: Checking IMDS
The chain does not seem valid

what is the issue here?

Edited: It was always working in previous months, issue start happen during June patch

Same as title flag

Genuine question.

So from the last 3 weeks , many users are facing system hang issue in event logs explorer.exe or settings.exe showing crash.our environment is hybrid AD + intune, dont know where the gap is as this issue is spreading. Can anyone help

Hi. I am rebuilding my homelab some and rebuilding my AD Server. I am looking to move my DHCP from a Windows Server VM to my router but one thing that is getting me is DNS registration. I know that Windows DHCP handled this for me but if I move it to a third party DHCP server how can I get non domain clients to register in Windows DNS Server? I know that Domain clients will register fine (From what I have been reading). If it helps I am running OpnSense with DNSMASQ for my DHCP Server.

Hi all,
I have the issue, that on one of our 10+ sites, users are getting the message "unexptected network error" while working on the network share, which is located in site A. The users are located in site F. Between the main site A and any other site B-Z, there is an IPSec Tunnel with Sophos XGS firewalls.
Also the main file server is located in site A with an DFS partner in site F.

While the error message on a client appears, the UNC-path is working fine. The network share is mounted via group policy. There is no time-based problem or old cable problem, as the problem is on many workplaces in site F.

Could this be an issue within communication between AD-Server and Fileserver on main site A? Both are on same network and work as virtual machines with windows server 2019 installed.

In AD sites and services, the site F is not configured, as there is no AD-server onsite.
In DFS-management, I see 4 sites, but the site F shows in the connections tab as "Unknown", whereas any other site shows with its city-name.

Also the replacement of firewalls to newer ones on any site, didn't fix the problem.

Could you please help in investigating this issue?
Thanks guys.