On servers with restricted access to the internet you can mount the Windows Server 2019 ISO and run the following PowerShell command:
1Add-WindowsCapability -Name Browser.InternetExplorer~~~~0.0.11.0 -Online -Source <Drive>:\sources\sxs\

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After migrating some scheduled tasks to a new Windows Server 2016 Core server I discovered that the Backup-GPO cmdlet was throwing an error. Backup-GPO: The data is invalid. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007000D) I used this quick PowerShell script in order to determine which GPOs in particular were having an issue. …

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While scripting a report; I came across an error about being unable to connect. I examined the server in question and found the server service was not running. I tried to start it but it stopped immediately with the following error in the system event log: Windows could not start the Server service on Local Computer …

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There is no direct upgrade path from Windows Server 2012 Essentials to Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard. These are the steps I performed as a workaround. Transition to Windows Server 2012 Standard Open Windows PowerShell as Administrator, and then run the following command. dism /online /set-edition:ServerStandard …

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I was unable to install Silverlight on a Windows 2003 server, it failed with error 1625. I took a look in the %TEMP%/SilverlightMSI.log and found this entry: This installation is forbidden by system policy. Contact your system administrator. This was strange as we don't have any GPOs to restrict software and UAC …

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I was unable to start SQL on one of the nodes of our 2008 R2 clusters. The resource status would show as Online Pending and then eventually fail. It turns out that the SQL Browser service was disabled on the node. After enabling it, SQL started up immediately.

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We're currently deploying Lync 2010 and needed to provision some certificates for the Edge server from our internal PKI environment. The Lync certificate wizard was used to generate the request and when it was submitted to the CA we got this error: Denied by Policy Module 0x80094800, The request was for a certificate …

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Recently we had an issue with our OCS 2007 R2 edge server.The OCS services refused to start and the server was very sluggish in general. After some troubleshooting it was determined that some of the services would start if the network interfaces were disconnected and performance also returned to normal. Odd but it was …

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I was building a new server in the DMZ and got the following error when attempting to add the WSUS role. After doing a bit of research it turns out that WSUS is not included in the binaries for 2008 R2 and either needs to be downloaded from Microsoft or an existing WSUS server. Since this server has no internet …

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