Windows Server 2008 R2 articles, fixes and updates - October 2011

This list contains all of the known Microsoft Knowledge Base articles, howtos, fixes, hotfixes, webcasts and updates of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 that have been released in October 2011. The list is daily updated.

• 2249169 Active Directory Rights Management Services deployment Q2249169 KB2249169 October 27, 2011
• 2533362 Hyper-V settings hang after installing RemoteFX on Windows 2008 R2 Service pack 1 Q2533362 KB2533362 October 26, 2011
• 2565916 Registry policy that sets up registry permissions under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node does not work Q2565916 KB2565916 October 25, 2011
• 2618425 "0xC0000010" error and Http.sys intermittently ends TCP/IP connections in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 Q2618425 KB2618425 October 24, 2011
• 2601517 You cannot back up a clustered print server if there are 15 characters or more in the computer name of a Windows Server 2008 R2-based cluster node Q2601517 KB2601517 October 24, 2011
• 2584475 "Error IOCTL_SFFDISK_DEVICE_PASSWORD" error message when you try to apply password protection to an SD card in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 Q2584475 KB2584475 October 24, 2011
• 2524737 Error message "Windows SIM was unable to generate a catalog" or "Parameter count mismatch" Q2524737 KB2524737 October 23, 2011
• 2634832 Shadowing a Remote Desktop Session with FQDN may fail Q2634832 KB2634832 October 20, 2011
• 2634534 MSInfo32 Displays "Not Available" for "Installed Physical Memory (RAM)" Q2634534 KB2634534 October 19, 2011
• 2634445 Timeout Error While Trying To Join Node To Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Cluster Q2634445 KB2634445 October 19, 2011
• 2546583 W2k8 R2: Administrator on RDSH gets Error in Licensing Diagnosis: Licenses are not available for this Remote Desktop Session Host server... Q2546583 KB2546583 October 19, 2011
• 2531138 Remote Desktop server certificates are renewed two times a day despite being valid for one year Q2531138 KB2531138 October 19, 2011
• 2530309 Internet Explorer Group Policy Preferences do not apply to Internet Explorer 9 in a Windows Server 2008 R2 domain environment Q2530309 KB2530309 October 17, 2011
• 2617157 Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 crashes if a command prompt or a PowerShell console is opened and closed many times Q2617157 KB2617157 October 14, 2011
• 2545635 You experience disk I/O performance issues on a computer that has an Intel Westmere-EX processor with at least 8 sockets and that is running Windows Server 2008 R2 Q2545635 KB2545635 October 14, 2011
• 2615327 You cannot cancel a shrink operation on a volume in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 Q2615327 KB2615327 October 13, 2011
• 2614122 Windows Server 2008 R2-based computer may stop responding when dynamic VHDs that are created on the computer experience high I/O activity Q2614122 KB2614122 October 13, 2011
• 2600484 Certain user folders are absent from the user profile in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 if the folders are excluded from the roaming profile Q2600484 KB2600484 October 13, 2011
• 2599521 An IEEE 1394-compatible device does not communicate with a Windows 7-based or Windows Server 2008 R2-based computer that is not the IEEE 1394 bus manager Q2599521 KB2599521 October 13, 2011
• 2598526 Client computers do not obtain an IP address when they request a DHCP lease from a Windows Server 2008 R2-based DHCP server Q2598526 KB2598526 October 13, 2011
• 2585233 "Stop 0x000000AB (SESSION_HAS_VALID_POOL_ON_EXIT)" error when a client logs off from a Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services session Q2585233 KB2585233 October 13, 2011
• 2583905 Slow performance when you copy more than 10 gigabytes of data to a Blu-ray disk in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 Q2583905 KB2583905 October 13, 2011
• 2582284 New VPN connections establish a session that has a smaller MTU value than expected in Windows Server 2008 R2 or in Windows 7 Q2582284 KB2582284 October 13, 2011
• 2578764 Black lines appear in an application window that is displayed by using DirectX and GDI in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 Q2578764 KB2578764 October 13, 2011
• 2569339 Some security events do not log the name of the user account that makes Local Security Policy changes in Windows Server 2008, in Windows Vista, in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 Q2569339 KB2569339 October 13, 2011
• 2563210 SMB connection is reset if you cancel a file operation over a network connection in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 Q2563210 KB2563210 October 13, 2011
• 2552033 "0x00000044" Stop error on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Q2552033 KB2552033 October 13, 2011
• 2549311 You cannot access a DFS share by using a valid user account in Windows Server 2008 R2, in Windows 7, in Windows Vista or in Windows Server 2008 Q2549311 KB2549311 October 13, 2011
• 2479169 "Word did not save the document" error message when you try to save a document in Windows 7, in Windows Server 2008 R2, in Windows Vista or in Windows Server 2008 Q2479169 KB2479169 October 13, 2011
• 2028827 The applications that use the TDI driver for network traffic may stop responding in Windows Server 2008 R2 or in Windows 7 Q2028827 KB2028827 October 13, 2011
• 2620393 EUDC fonts are not printed correctly in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 Q2620393 KB2620393 October 12, 2011
• 2619256 AD RMS deployment fails in a Windows Server 2008 R2-based domain environment that has SQL Server Pre-Release (codenamed "Denali") installed Q2619256 KB2619256 October 12, 2011
• 2618837 GDI objects are not displayed correctly on multiple monitors in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 Q2618837 KB2618837 October 12, 2011
• 2618535 USB HID keyboard incorrectly reports the previous auto-repeat scan code in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 Q2618535 KB2618535 October 12, 2011
• 2618517 Numeric or special characters are displayed incorrectly when you use a font that can be rendered vertically in a Korean version of Windows 7 SP1 or of Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Q2618517 KB2618517 October 12, 2011
• 2618190 You cannot access a shared file by using the SMB Version 2 protocol because of a race condition in Windows Server 2008 R2 or in Windows 7 Q2618190 KB2618190 October 12, 2011
• 2618115 You cannot activate an RD Licensing server or install RDS CALs automatically by using Windows PowerShell in Windows Server 2008 R2 Q2618115 KB2618115 October 12, 2011
• 2616776 DNS Server service does not use root hints to resolve external names in Windows Server 2008 R2 Q2616776 KB2616776 October 12, 2011
• 2616471 You may be unable to print to an IPP print queue in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 Q2616471 KB2616471 October 12, 2011
• 2607930 Slow performance when an application retrieves a file on an SMB share by using the HTTP protocol in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 Q2607930 KB2607930 October 12, 2011
• 2604521 An update is available to update the country codes of Curaçao, of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, or of Sint Maarten (Dutch part) in Windows Vista, in Windows Server 2008, in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 Q2604521 KB2604521 October 12, 2011
• 2603262 "Index was outside the bounds of the array" error when you use the GPMC snap-in to view the detailed settings of a GPO in Windows Server 2008 R2 or in Windows 7 Q2603262 KB2603262 October 12, 2011
• 2603203 The REAgentC command does not disable WinRE on a Windows 7-based or Windows Server 2008 R2-based computer that has spanned volumes Q2603203 KB2603203 October 12, 2011
• 2601456 Device Manager does not display a drive after you hot-swap the drive between slots on a PCI-E switch in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 Q2601456 KB2601456 October 12, 2011
• 2560452 You may be unable to access SMB shared files or printers on a remote server in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 Q2560452 KB2560452 October 12, 2011
• 2554746 MSMQ service might not send or receive messages after you restart a computer that is running Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 Q2554746 KB2554746 October 12, 2011
• 2492806 A Windows Vista-based, Windows Server 2008-based, Windows 7-based or Windows Server 2008 R2-based computer that shares some files and some folders may not respond to file share requests Q2492806 KB2492806 October 11, 2011
• 981761 An optical drive that supports DIPM does not enter a low power state when it is installed on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Q981761 KB981761 October 11, 2011
• 981620 You cannot print a Web page by using an IPP printer in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 Q981620 KB981620 October 11, 2011
• 979745 The legacy Vista-style green progress bar shows when you start or restart Chinese Traditional HK version of Windows 7 Q979745 KB979745 October 11, 2011
• 977336 You cannot migrate or import the Hyper-V role and the RRAS role service by using the Windows Server Migration Tools feature in Windows Server 2008 R2 Q977336 KB977336 October 11, 2011
• 304736 How to extend the partition of a cluster shared disk Q304736 KB304736 October 11, 2011
• 980027 A Windows Server 2008 domain controller or a Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controller cannot allocate new ports when Server for NIS is running Q980027 KB980027 October 10, 2011
• 979158 Files do not go into the Recycle Bin when you delete more than 1000 files at the same time in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 Q979158 KB979158 October 10, 2011
• 978949 The HBA APIs return the wrong device names for the HBAs and their external peripherals in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2 Q978949 KB978949 October 10, 2011
• 977615 A hotfix is available for Windows Services for UNIX and for Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications to incorporate a cumulative DST update for December 2009 Q977615 KB977615 October 10, 2011
• 977172 The existing PPTP connections to a VPN server that is hosted in a Windows Server 2003-based NLB farm or in a Windows Server 2008 R2-based NLB farm do not work after a new node is added to the NLB farm Q977172 KB977172 October 10, 2011
• 976781 A computer may enter sleep or hibernation before the CD or DVD burning process is complete in Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Q976781 KB976781 October 10, 2011
• 976418 After you change the SATA mode of disk devices to use the AHCI specification, the computer or certain applications randomly stop responding for 60 seconds or for longer in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2 Q976418 KB976418 October 10, 2011
• 975486 The Cluster services fail on all nodes after you shut down the cluster node that owns the quorum disk resource in Windows Server 2008 SP2 Q975486 KB975486 October 10, 2011
• 2473124 Server reboots unexpectedly during promotion to domain controller Q2473124 KB2473124 October 9, 2011
• 982615 A hotfix is available to update the Daylight Saving Time for the "(UTC) Casablanca" time zone for Windows Operating Systems Q982615 KB982615 October 9, 2011
• 981721 A portable computer display does not switch back to the internal monitor after you play a DVD on an external monitor and disconnect the HDMI cable in Windows 7 Q981721 KB981721 October 9, 2011
• 979619 Tracing is inefficient when you diagnose issues that are related to iSCSI Initiator in Windows Server 2008 R2 or in Windows 7 Q979619 KB979619 October 9, 2011
• 979374 The system becomes unbootable after you add raw disks to a Windows Server 2008 R2-based computer that has EFI enabled Q979374 KB979374 October 9, 2011
• 975858 An application or service that calls the InitializeSecurityContext function together with the ISC_REQ_EXTENDED_ERROR flag may encounter a TLS/SSL negotiation failure on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7 Q975858 KB975858 October 9, 2011
• 958685 A Windows-based portable computer does not resume correctly if you close the lid while the computer is asleep Q958685 KB958685 October 8, 2011
• 955560 Handle leaks and memory leaks occur on the Printer Spooler service when a Windows Vista SP1-based computer or a Windows Server 2008-based computer installs and uninstalls network printers Q955560 KB955560 October 8, 2011
• 951418 Stop error in Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, or Windows Server 2008 R2: "0x00000050 PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA" Q951418 KB951418 October 8, 2011
• 949843 After you put a Windows Explorer window into full-screen mode on a secondary monitor, the navigation bar does not appear on a computer that is running Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Q949843 KB949843 October 8, 2011
• 979791 A computer that is running Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7 cannot come out of quarantine if you install the System Center Configuration Manager System health agent on the computer Q979791 KB979791 October 7, 2011
• 979720 Error message when Windows Deployment Service clients cannot obtain the boot image from a Windows Server 2008 R2-based WDS server: "PXE-E78: Could not locate boot server" Q979720 KB979720 October 7, 2011
• 979539 You cannot perform all File Server Resource Manager reports, File Management tasks , and FCI- related operations on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 R2 if one or more mount points do not point to a valid volume Q979539 KB979539 October 7, 2011
• 979214 The DirSync control search does not return the deactivated linked attributes from a modified object in a Windows Server 2008 R2-based domain Q979214 KB979214 October 7, 2011
• 979155 FIX: The Taskbar is reset to the default settings when you use the "Automatically Log On" feature in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2 Q979155 KB979155 October 7, 2011
• 978898 You cannot access a volume in Windows 7 or in Windows 2008 R2 when the volume is encrypted by a third-party encryption driver Q978898 KB978898 October 7, 2011
• 978462 A computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 stops responding when you disable or remove a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM device in Device Manager Q978462 KB978462 October 7, 2011
• 978265 FIX: The memory allocation and processor usage for the Ocspsvc.exe process keeps increasing if a large CRL is loaded Q978265 KB978265 October 7, 2011
• 978206 FIX: MPEG-2 Program Stream content does not play on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Q978206 KB978206 October 7, 2011
• 978205 FIX: MPEG-2 transport streams or certain variable bit rate WMV files may not play in Windows Media Player on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Q978205 KB978205 October 7, 2011
• 978157 MPIO removes pseudo-LUN paths for external storage devices on Windows Server 2008 SP2-based servers or on Windows Server 2008 R2-based servers Q978157 KB978157 October 7, 2011
• 978055 FIX: User accounts that use DES encryption for Kerberos authentication types cannot be authenticated in a Windows Server 2003 domain after a Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controller joins the domain Q978055 KB978055 October 7, 2011
• 977832 The "Arbeid frakoblet" button does not change to "Arbeid tilkoblet" after you click the button in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2 Q977832 KB977832 October 7, 2011
• 977787 Calls to CreateActCtx fail when the calls try to set a process-wide manifest inside an IIS 7.5 application Q977787 KB977787 October 7, 2011
• 977648 An application that calls the ReadConsoleOutputCharacter function closes unexpectedly or data becomes corrupted when the application runs in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 Q977648 KB977648 October 7, 2011
• 977611 After you apply a GPO to redirect a folder to a new network share, the redirected folder is empty on client computers that are running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 Q977611 KB977611 October 7, 2011
• 977342 Link Local ISATAP addresses are not generated for the virtual IP used by the NLB feature on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 R2 Q977342 KB977342 October 7, 2011
• 976759 WFP drivers may cause a failure to disconnect the RDP connection to a multiprocessor computer that is running Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Q976759 KB976759 October 7, 2011
• 976755 A new user cannot use touch capacity to log on to a computer that is running Windows 7or Windows Server 2008 R2 after it resumes from sleep or hibernation Q976755 KB976755 October 7, 2011
• 976494 Error 1789 when you use the LookupAccountName function on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Q976494 KB976494 October 7, 2011
• 976099 VSS snapshot creation may fail after a LUN resynchronization on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Q976099 KB976099 October 7, 2011
• 976090 The On-Screen Keyboard displays the numeric keypad incorrectly after you set the default input language to Chinese (Simplified, PRC) in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2 Q976090 KB976090 October 7, 2011
• 975992 After you enable large pages for a process in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2, the process stops responding intermittently Q975992 KB975992 October 7, 2011
• 975710 Operating system deployment over a network by using WDS fails in Windows Server 2008 and in Windows Server 2008 R2 Q975710 KB975710 October 7, 2011
• 975617 An update is available for the UDF file system driver (Udfs.sys) for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Q975617 KB975617 October 7, 2011
• 975415 Error message when you pass a variant between a COM client and a COM server in Windows: "0x800706F7 (The stub received bad data)" Q975415 KB975415 October 7, 2011
• 975214 An End-User Defined Character (EUDC) font that was created in Windows XP cannot be deployed to a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Q975214 KB975214 October 7, 2011
• 975212 When you use a VPN connection that uses Smart Card authentication on a client computer that is running Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2, the computer stops responding Q975212 KB975212 October 7, 2011
• 973510 Downloaded files do not inherit the permissions from the parent folder when you use the Ftp.exe program to download files in Windows Vista, in Windows Server 2008, in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 Q973510 KB973510 October 7, 2011
• 973389 FIX: A hotfix is available allowing Windows Service for UNIX users and for Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications users to incorporate DST changes in Kamchatka, Morocco, Paraguay, Pakistan, Perth and Uruguay Q973389 KB973389 October 7, 2011
• 971736 Changes are not committed to the SharePoint server when you use an Office application such as Word or Excel to check in a document on a computer that is running Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Q971736 KB971736 October 7, 2011
• 971163 The STDIN, the STDOUT, and the STDERR redirections do not work in a WOW64 child process if the CreateProcessWithTokenW function creates the child process Q971163 KB971163 October 7, 2011
• 970413 The Win32_Process class returns incorrect CreationDate property during the first week after daylight saving time begins or ends Q970413 KB970413 October 7, 2011
• 969274 Time stamps of files on an NFS share are displayed incorrectly on a Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2-based or Windows Server 2008 R2-based computer Q969274 KB969274 October 7, 2011
• 321640 An update is available for the UDF file system driver (Udfs.sys) for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Q321640 KB321640 October 7, 2011
• 2983550 You cannot use Imjpuexc.exe to change a custom dictionary back to the default IME dictionary in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 Q2983550 KB2983550 October 6, 2011
• 982822 Some providers may receive an incorrect password value from the OLEDB32 component if the password in the connection string is blank in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 Q982822 KB982822 October 6, 2011
• 982614 Description of the cumulative update for Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Unified Communications Managed API 2.0 Core Redist 64-bit: May 2010 Q982614 KB982614 October 6, 2011
• 981983 Cluster resources do not fail over automatically to other nodes when nodes cannot connect to the rest of a network in a Windows Server 2008 R2 failover cluster Q981983 KB981983 October 6, 2011
• 981936 Lots of the Event ID 476 events are logged when you use the Ntdsutil.exe tool to create an RODC installation media in Windows Server 2008 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 Q981936 KB981936 October 6, 2011
• 981738 Hardware-accelerated video playback stops responding for more than 10 seconds in Windows Server 2008 R2 or in Windows 7 Q981738 KB981738 October 6, 2011
• 981621 Streaming issues that are related to Microsoft Media Foundation in Windows 7 Q981621 KB981621 October 6, 2011
• 981431 A PostScript printer does not print a document that contains multiple paper sizes correctly on a computer that is running Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 Q981431 KB981431 October 6, 2011
• 981190 The Network Policy Server (NPS) does not authenticate an EAP-MD5 request if the "name" field is empty in the EAP-MD5 challenge response in Windows Server 2008 R2 Q981190 KB981190 October 6, 2011
• 980985 Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 enters sleep mode automatically when you use a scanner to scan a document Q980985 KB980985 October 6, 2011
• 980922 Some stability issues occur when you run an application that uses the DirectWrite API Q980922 KB980922 October 6, 2011
• 980393 Two users accounts that are logged on to the same computer cannot use Windows Photo Viewer at the same time in Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, or Windows Server 2008 Q980393 KB980393 October 6, 2011
• 980382 The computer stops responding when you rename a folder in Windows Server 2008, in Windows Vista, in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2 Q980382 KB980382 October 6, 2011
• 2624495 Hyper-V Host Reports a Virtual Storage Device Error With Pass-through Disk Q2624495 KB2624495 October 5, 2011
• 982908 Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Cluster Disaster Recovery Planning Q982908 KB982908 October 5, 2011
• 982872 Windows Server 2008 R2 RD Web Single Sign On Q982872 KB982872 October 5, 2011
• 980643 Windows 2008 R2 Cluster Installation with Hyper-V Q980643 KB980643 October 5, 2011
• 980459 Windows 2008 R2 Cluster Installation Q980459 KB980459 October 5, 2011