1. Hit Ctrl-Esc
2. Type Computer Management and when you see Computer Management returned in the search results, click on it.
3. In the Computer Management window, select Shares under Shared Folders, which is under System Tools.
4. Right-click on the directory you no longer wish to share and select "Stop sharing".

   

If you see a Shared Folders window open informing you that there are open files in the shared directory when you attempt to stop sharing it, you can click on Open Files, which appears beneath Shares in the list of options for Shared Folders in the Computer Management window to determine which files are open and which user account has them open.

If you wish to close them from the server, you can, after you have selected Open Files to see the list of open files, right-click on a file and select the option to close it. You can also close all open files by selecting "More Actions" in the right pane of the Computer Management window, then "Disconnect All Open Files".

You can also see which files are open by opening a command prompt window with administrative access and issuing the openfiles command. You can open a commmand prompt window with administrator access by hitting Ctrl-Esc then typing command prompt and when you see "command prompt" returned in the search results, right-click on it and choose "Run as administrator". In the command prompt window, enter the command openfiles.

C:\Windows\system32>openfiles

INFO: The system global flag 'maintain objects list' needs
      to be enabled to see local opened files.
      See Openfiles /? for more information.


Files opened remotely via local share points:
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ID       Accessed By          Type       Open File (Path\executable)
======== ==================== ========== =====================================
27514635 Joe                  Windows    C:\..\Public\Documents\Books\Images
10066334 Joe                  Windows    C:\..\Documents\GRAA\2023\July
28185728 Joe                  Windows    C:\..\2023\Summer\Review\2023-06-26
25501373 Joe                  Windows    C:\..\Documents\MoonPoint\2023
22145930 Liz                  Windows    G:\..) (2023_07_15 23_24_31 UTC).pdf
28185729 Joe                  Windows    C:\..\Public\Documents\Books\Images
27514641 Liz                  Windows    G:\..) (2017_07_06 02_45_37 UTC).pdf
28856820 Joe                  Windows    C:\..\Documents\MoonPoint\2023
38923150 Joe                  Windows    C:\..\2023\Summer\Review\2023-06-26
22145934 Joe                  Windows    C:\..\Documents\GRAA\2023\July

C:\Windows\system32i>openfiles

If you can't determine which files are open because the full path to files is not displayed, i.e., two dots are displayed for a portion of the path, then you can add a format option (fo) to the command to display the output in a different format. E.g., if you add /fo list, i.e., openfiles /query /fo list when you query for the open files, you will then see the files displayed in a list format that will display the full directory path for each file that is open. Other format options for the display of output are table and csv. The csv option is for Comma-separated values. You can see a full list of options for the openfiles command by issuing the command openfiles /?.

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You can pemanently disable the automatic restart by changing the group policy for the system by running gpedit.msc, which you can run by issuing the command gpedit at a command prompt or by right-clicking on the Start button, choosing Run and then typing gpedit.msc and hitting Enter. When the Local Group Policy Editor window opens, navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update. In the right pane of the window, you will see "No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations". Change the setting from "Not Configured" to "Enabled".

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1. Use Ctrl-Esc to get to the Start window where you can click on Administrative Tools.
2. Double-click on DNS.
3. In the right pane of the DNS Manager window, double-click on Forwarders.
4. Click on the Edit button to edit the list of forwarders. You can then add, delete, or modify IP adresses for forwarders.
5. Click on OK once you have made the needed changes, then click on OK again. You can then close the DNS Manager window.

A DNS server that is configured to use a forwarder functions as follows:

1. When the DNS server receives a query, it will attempt to resolve the query by using the zones that it hosts and by using its cache.
2. If it can't resolve the query using local data, the DNS server forwards the query to a DNS server that is designated as a forwarder.
3. If no forwarders are available, the DNS server will attempt to use its root hints to resolve the query.

When a DNS server forwards a query to a forwarder, it sends a recursive query to a DNS server designated as a forwarder rather than an iterative query that a DNS server sends to another DNS server during standard name resolution (name resolution that does not involve a forwarder).

If you would like further information on forwarders and conditional forwarders, see Understanding Forwarders.

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PS C:\Users\User> shutdown /h
Hibernation is not enabled on this system. You must enable hibernation in order to use the -h option.

To enable hibernation, you can issue the command powercfg /hibernate on from a PowerShell prompt. However, you may see the message below when you enter the command:

PS C:\Users\User> powercfg /hibernate on
An unexpected error condition has occurred.  Unable to perform operation.  You may not have permission to perform this o
peration.

To enable hibernation, right-click on the PowerShell icon, which looks like a button with a ">_" in it, then choose "Run as Administrator" and then issue the powercfg command.

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PS C:\Windows\system32> powercfg /hibernate on
PS C:\Windows\system32>

Once you've done that, you can hibernate the system with shutdown /h.

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The Launchpad on the client computer also provides the capability to initiate a backup from the client to the server and to check on the status of the last backup of the client to the server.

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• Client Computer Backups
• Folder Redirection
• File History Backups
• Users
• Company

If you have a second internal drive or another partition on the primary drive you can move the folders with these steps.

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MD5: 5ee4c7ad57248b5e791dcfd39d9e54e3
SHA-1: 1f3fbf9cd23f864a2acc6b7a6a8e6a9eb94b5c52

I was then able to verify those hashes with postings from Server 2012 Essentials RTM (SHA-1 from October 11, 2012) and Server 2012 Essentials RTM Page 2 (MD5 and SHA-1 from December 8, 2012) postings at My Digital Life Forums , which gave me the confidence to use that .iso file for the installation of the server software, since the hashes matched ones posted for the 2012 version of the software distributed by Microsoft. Such hashes are commonly used to verify that a file is exactly the same as it was when provided by the original software developer and has not been modified.

When I installed Windows Server 2012 from the DVD I burned from that ISO file, I was able to use the product key I had.

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