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Recently we faced a strange issue while connecting a Windows server 2012 R2 to domain, connection was failing with network error. I was able to ping to the domain, as well as the domain controller. While troubleshooting the issue, I stumbled upon a gem called c:\windows\debug\netsetup.log. It was throwing an error 'NetUseAdd to \\<domain controller>\IPC$ returned 1231 Seems like the machine was having issue connecting to the share. I tried  the "Net view \\sharename " command and got system error 53. Now the root cause was confirmed, the machine was having trouble accessing shared drives How do we solve it? Actually the solution was pretty simple , you need to install 'client for Microsoft networks" in the network adapter of the server. Somehow it got uninstalled from my VM's adapter and created all this trouble. Installed it back and was able to add the machine to domain!!  

If you have been using Windows Server OS for a while, the one thing that will strike you most when you login to a Windows server 2012 is that there is no start button!!.. What??..How am I going to manage it?? Microsoft feels that you really dont need a start button, since you can do almost everything from your server  manager or even remotely from your desktop. After all the initial configurations are done, you could also do away with the GUI and go back to server core option.(In server 2012, there is an option to add and remove GUI). So does that mean, you need to learn to live without a start button. Actually no, the start button is very much there .Lets start looking for it. Option 1: There is "charms" bar on the side of your deskop, where you will find a "start" option. You can use the "Windows +C" shortcut to pop out the charms bar Option 2: There is a hidden "start area"in  the bottom left corner of your desktop...

This article gives a brief about the various editions of Windows server 2012 available: If you are purchasing or downloading the ISO, there are only two editions of Windows server 2012 available . They are   Windows Server 2012 Standard Edition   Windows Server 2012 Datacenter Edition As opposed to windows server 2008,  there is functionally no difference between both editions, ie clustering, hyper v etc possible in both. Also there is no hardware limitations between the editions. Only difference is in the virtualization rights. While standard edition licenses upto 2 vituial instances , Datacenter provides license for unlimited virtual instances. There are other flavors of the OS that are available through OEM. Given below are the details : Windows Server 2012 Foundation server  Windows Server 2012 Essentials  Windows storage Server 2012 workgroup Windows storage Server 2012 standard Windows Multipoint Server 2012 Standard...