Activating Windows Server 2016 Evaluation Edition

If you try to active evaluation edition Windows server 2016, I must a error message: This Edition cannot be upgraded.

There is only one way to fix this issue: PowerShell

Why Migrating to Windows Server 2016?

With Windows Server 2016 now available almost a year, you may be wondering whether a migration to the new OS is the best move for your organization. Although migration may be  costly but the upgrades to security and file sharing procedures may deliver enough ROI to your organization to warrant a change.

ESRV.EXE – Application Error

“ESRV.EXE – Application Error”

“The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000142). Click OK to close the application”

Solution:

How to disable Autoconfiguration IPv4 Address

Although you are sure that all IP configuration you have entered are correct, you have Duplicate IP address and 169. IP address on your network card.

Run > cmd > ipconfig /all

You may see the following issues:

The solution;

View Active Directory (FSMO) Roles

If you want to find out which Active Directory holds FSMO roles, all you should do is to open CMD and type “Netdom query FSMO”

Here is the result

C:\Documents and Settings\Sonat>netdom query fsmo

Schema owner                Sonatdc01.sonat.local

Domain role owner           Sonatdc01.sonat.local

PDC role                    Sonatdc01.sonat.local

RID pool manager            Sonatdc01.sonat.local

Infrastructure owner       Sonatdc01.sonat.local

The command completed successfully.

How to Install Second Windows 2012 Domain Controller

If you have a Windows 2012 domain controller, it is easy to add second domain controller to your system.

Follow the steps in the link https://moonstarit.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/windows-2012-ad-installation/ until the deployment configuration

If you followed, you then have to choose “Add a domain controller to an existing domain”

How to run Sysprep on Windows 2012 Server

I am sure that those have experience on windows 2003 or Windows 2008 servers, even windows XP, Vista and 7, know this feature.

Basically, you can run this application for two reasons. One of them is that if you have cloned server OS that means second server has same SID which original server has and another one is that you would like to create an image server file and then you want to clone it.

How to add your Windows 2012 server to existing Domain

It is really simple. If you have a domain controller in your organization, joining a Windows 2012 server to your existing domain is similar adding a Windows 2003/2008 server

Log in the server with local admin account and change the IP address and give it a static IP address.

And then open Server Manager Dashboard and go to Local Server

Windows 2012 AD Installation

How to install Active Directory on Windows 2012 server? That is the question I am trying to explain. Windows 2012 has new infrastructure and new architect. Let’s explain this lesson.

I have Windows 2012 standard edition installed on my virtual environment. First screen after the installation has been finished, you will see Server Manager Dashboard as I see here

How to install Windows Server 2008

If you installed Windows 2008 before, you will see that installation windows Server 8 has same steps.

Quick look to hardware requirements;

• 1 GHz or faster processor
• 1 GB RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
• 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
• DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

Installation Steps;