Win SVR 2008 standard X64 machine shutting down without warning

[Guest Andrew Hodgson]

Hi all,

 

I have just promoted our first W2k8 DC on the network. This was going

well until the following morning, when at around 09:00 it decided to

shut itself off. There was no warning about this, and it was as if

the system had crashed, because although there was no blue screen, the

console was displaying nothing, and nothing was happening on the

machine at all. We rebooted it, after holding the power button for

around 5 seconds, and we were asked whether we wanted to start Windows

normally, or in safe mode etc. We choose normal, and everything comes

back up fine.

 

There is nothing in the event viewer, apart from a couple of warnings

about the network teaming as the system starts up again.

 

The system is a Dell Poweredge 1950, running W2k8 X64, with the

dcpromo utility being ran, DNS and DHCP also installed. We also

installed the Dell Openmanage utilities, as well as the latest

Broadcom teaming software from Dell.

 

We ran the same configuration in the test lab, and the machine was

still running after a couple of weeks - but with far less usage

obviously.

 

I am wondering whether I need to do anything regarding adding

licenses? I was told by our volume licensing rep that the

activation/product key determined what we got, and I couldn't find a

license manager in the system unlike on W2k3.

 

Anyone seen similar before?

Andrew.

[Guest Meinolf Weber]

Re: Win SVR 2008 standard X64 machine shutting down without warning

 

Hello Andrew,

 

Do you talk about the server license itself or about TS licensing manager?

For the server itself, go to control panel, system and scroll down to the

end of this window. Here you have the option to change the key or activate.

You can only activate if you have added a license key there.

 

For TS licensing open server manager, add role, Terminal server, next, next,

check TS licensing, next, choose domain or forest and database location and

install.

 

Best regards

 

Meinolf Weber

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> Hi all,

>

> I have just promoted our first W2k8 DC on the network. This was going

> well until the following morning, when at around 09:00 it decided to

> shut itself off. There was no warning about this, and it was as if

> the system had crashed, because although there was no blue screen, the

> console was displaying nothing, and nothing was happening on the

> machine at all. We rebooted it, after holding the power button for

> around 5 seconds, and we were asked whether we wanted to start Windows

> normally, or in safe mode etc. We choose normal, and everything comes

> back up fine.

>

> There is nothing in the event viewer, apart from a couple of warnings

> about the network teaming as the system starts up again.

>

> The system is a Dell Poweredge 1950, running W2k8 X64, with the

> dcpromo utility being ran, DNS and DHCP also installed. We also

> installed the Dell Openmanage utilities, as well as the latest

> Broadcom teaming software from Dell.

>

> We ran the same configuration in the test lab, and the machine was

> still running after a couple of weeks - but with far less usage

> obviously.

>

> I am wondering whether I need to do anything regarding adding

> licenses? I was told by our volume licensing rep that the

> activation/product key determined what we got, and I couldn't find a

> license manager in the system unlike on W2k3.

>

> Anyone seen similar before?

> Andrew.