Windows Server 2003 is a Microsoft server operating system released in April 2003. It is the successor to Windows Server 2000 and is based on the Windows XP codebase. It was succeeded by Windows Server 2008.
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Convincing my Users to upgrade to Windows Server 2008 R2 or 2012 [closed]
I am a co-op student doing my internship and I have been given the dreadful task of upgrading people's Windows Server 2003 or older versions to Windows Server 2008 R2 or higher. However, most users ...
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Can the Hyper-V role be installed on Windows Server 2003?
Is it possible to run Hyper-V on Windows Server 2003 as the host OS? The only documentation that I've been able to find is about running Server 2003 as a guest.
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Can I download windows updates automatically during the night?
I would like to download the windows 2003/8 updates during the night. Is it possible ? But How ?
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GPO errors filling up event viewer
there have been a few issues with the server i have been working on i check the event viewer and it is filled with the errors below i was not sure how to go about fixing this i looked in the path ...
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How to give certain system access without giving local admin access?
I am seeking advice on how I can accomplish the following tasks without giving certain groups local admin rights on the servers.
Ability to query the status of all the Windows Services
WMI access
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None of the cipher suites supported by the client application are supported by the server
I am getting this error in my server's windows event log:
An TLS 1.0 connection request was received from a remote client application, but none of the cipher suites supported by the client ...
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How do I manually demote a Domain Controller that is past the tombstone lifetime when I cannot log into it?
I have two domain controllers. One is failing replication. It has past tombstone expiration, so I have read it must be demoted and re-promoted.
I cannot log in to this server anymore, because of ...
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Strange permission issue on Windows 7
To setup the scene, I have one of my users for whom roaming profile is enabled as well as folder redirection. My issue is that the user cannot open some files in the redirected folders (AppData, ...
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HP MSA1500 - getting past the 2TB limit?
I currently have (7) 300GB drives in the MSA1500. This is configured with RAID 5 which results in a 1.8TB drive, about 1.6TB formatted. I still have 7 more empty slots in the enclosure that I would ...
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New external NTFS drive can't see some random full-access files…as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
My backup script is randomly failing to be able to see (via perl's -s $filename: $! gives No such file or directory) some files during verification. The files it can't see have identical privileges ...
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What might cause DIR $file to report “File not found” when DIR $dir shows the same file just fine?
I can DIR a file and it doesn't exist, but DIRing its directory, or a file in the same directory as it, works fine.
Is this a hardware or software problem? If it's hardware, is it the drive or ...
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desktop delivery controller host farm disppear after reboot [closed]
We install Desktop Delivery Controller in Window Server 2003 R2 64bit SP2.
When the Server is reboot, Our created farm on that server is lost.
How can we solve that problem ...?
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Server 2003 dnscmd.exe access denied (not server 2008)
The only topics I can find on dnscmd.exe access denied are all "when we upgraded to Server 2008 this error started". Well, I'm using Windows XP client and Server 2003 and getting this error. I can ...
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Windows Server 2012 Ess beside Server 2003 Std (DFL 2000) without domain migration (yet)
I have Server 2003 Standard (not R2!) running as the sole server on a network of XP clients, with the domain forest level at 2000.
We want to put a second server on the network running a trial of ...
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Memory leakage threat on vmware esx that runs on server 2003
I run ESX on server 2003 with two virtual machines (A and B).
Suppose that "A" uses a chunk of physical memory. After I shutdown the virtual machine "A", what happens to the data of "A" in the RAM of ...
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Setting up a sonic wall to allow remote acces to two servers
I am adding an exchange server to our network and I want to be able to remote into the server from home.
Right now we have a file server which we can already remote into. We use the public ip address ...
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Why don't Windows 7clients in a 2k3 domain network give admin access to domain admins
I've recently (I know, we're way behind the times) started adding Windows 7 (Ultimate) clients to a 2k3 AD network. Previously everything was running Windows XP SP3.
In XP SP3, after I joined a ...
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Desktop Delivery Controller Farm disappear automatically and lost [closed]
When i restart Desktop Delivery Controller Server on windows 2003 64bit ... sometime Desktop Delivery Controller Farms are disappear automatically when server start up .. please answer what services ...
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windows server 2003 redirect accounts browsers from accessing a url [closed]
hello I am new to Windows Server 2003 are there any way to redirect an account or group in the domain that I have created to different URL while they accessing it in their browser for example if an ...
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ColdFusion Server crash after thousands of HTTP requests
We are running ColdFusion 8 on a windows server 2003 VPS with an API that exposes student records to a partner API through a connector. Our API returns around 50k student records serialized in XML ...
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Emails from another organization are being returned
We are running Exchange 2003 on a Windows Server 2003 server. In the last week or so, one outside organization has started getting errors when sending to us.
The log from their end when sending a ...
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IIS6 Not Serving PNG
Have a website being served by IIS6 that gives a 404 File Not Found error any time one of the new sets of images (all PNG) is requested.
The MIME type is defined and permissions on the files are the ...
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Why won't mutliple identical 56k fax modems work in Windows?
I've just installed two identical fax modems into a Windows Server 2003 Standard server and for whatever reason, the first one works fine and the other doesn't. They both create virtual COM ports and ...
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disabling anonymous ftp on windows 2003 server enables unencrypted passwords
While doing some web development work on a website for a client I realised that their server (windows 2003 VM) has Anonymous ftp enabled. This is not something they want.
I'm attempting to turn it ...
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How can I set the Interval of a performance protocol under 1 second with Windows Server 2003?
I want to determine the utilization of the NICs of our server, while very small videos are transferred.
The smallest interval which I can set in Performance Monitor is a second. Unfortunately, I ...
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What to use instead of FTP
I get this question all the time from people who run Windows-based web servers. FTP, while ubiquitous, has numerous flaws shortcomings, not all of which can be solved simply by slapping SSL/TLS on top ...
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Restricting access to network shares including local adminstrators
I am currently setting up a network share. The permissions are working well. Users are unable to access folders unless they are within a certain active directory group.
My one issue is with local ...
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How to run a Scheduled Task as NetworkService in Windows Server 2003? [duplicate]
How do i configure a scheduled task to run as NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService in Windows Server 2003?
Background
Even though the account is known as NetworkService, the full name is NT AUTHORITY\Network ...
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shared files or folders being locked by administrator
I have a user who uses a share folder. the folders are in 2003 windows server.
she started to complain about files and folders which she cannot rename or move.
I checked the open files under Shared ...
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“Discovery failed” message trying to install hp ProLiant Support Pack 8.30 on DL380 G4
I'm getting the exact screenshots shown here, and followed the directions there despite the model difference. The BIOS had a different serial number for some reason, but it was an alphanumeric string ...
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Blank screen when mstsc /admin to Windows Server 2003 EE
Previously I had no issues with connecting to the console session on Windows Server 2003, but today for some reason I get blank screen after I enter username, password and press Enter. There's simply ...
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Change IP dynamically on Windows server [closed]
I wrote a program that can change IP in linux-kvm dynamically. That means after each Linux machine runs on linux-kvm for the first time will go and change that VPS IP.
I want to know, what should I ...
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IIS - Overuse of memory is normal? [closed]
I have two servers running Asp.net applications. Sometimes applications are too slow and memory usage seems exaggerated.
Specifications:
SERVER #1
OS: Microsoft Windows 2003 R2
Memory: 4GB
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Access service recovery count
I am looking for a way to access a services' recovery count in Windows 2008 and 2003. From services.msc on the recovery tab you can set actions on first, second and subsequent failures. I would ...
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Where do the Windows to a scheduled task go when the server runs them?
My server at work has some scheduled tasks that run every night. They run when no user is logged into the system. They run batch files which open MS-Access databases with macros inside. ...
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Freqeunt Failure Audit errors on web server (MSSQLSERVER)
We have detected a lot of Failure Audit errors (MSSQLSERVER) on our Web Server for.
Something like Login failed for user 'sa'. [CLIENT: 74.208.102.175]
For more information, see Help and ...
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How to schedule a task to run every x-minutes on Windows Server 2003 R2
How to add a scheduled task that should run every x-minutes on Windows Server 2003 R2.
I have followed many suggestion from the web, but I always end up with some interruption after 1 or 2 runs.
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Sever 2003 R2 boots up however it freezes before the login prompt
I have a 2003 R2 Standard Server that crash and would not reboot because of missing NTFS.sys file was missing. I repaired that and the system starts to boot and gets past the Windows animated screen ...
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TCP Congestion Window on Windows Server 2003
After reading this blog post by Ben Strong, I started looking on the internet for information on how the Initial Window size could be manipulated on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (R2, 64bit in case it ...
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Some workstations/servers on the domain respond with IPv6 instead of IPv4 addresses, even though IPv6 is disabled across the board
Earlier this week I've noticed some issues on my network. For example when I ping my machine (from my machine) using the hostname (or FQDN), I see a response from an IPv6 address.
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LLMNR Disabling possible issues?
For security reasons my company needs to disable LLMNR and I just want to find out if anyone's had issues with this? I understand that its just one step above DNS (similar function) that is used ...
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For how long can a client be shutdown in AD?
We are setting up a training environment to be used after summer holiday. Management wants us to set up clients now before the vacation. Since the clients are to be shipped away, they will be off line ...
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.NET Framework 4.0 on Windows server 2003 [closed]
A colleague of mine just told me it is not a good idea installing .NET Framework 4.0 on a Windows server 2003. He said the servers behave strange. Is there something on it or he just playing me for a ...
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KB2600100 won't install on Windows Server Enterprise 32bit [closed]
I've tried installing KB 2600100 multiple times and I keep coming across this error. Any ideas?
Action: Install patches
Entering Function: HotIron::Main::Run
Entering Function: ...
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Procmon gracefully stop
Following this entry: exe files being deleted
I was able to setup process monitor to be run from the command line and to log to file.
The issue is that the log file get corrupted upon system restart. ...
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Windows DHCP server not sending all options
I'm facing a strange problem with Windows Server 2003 and its DHCP server. Here is my scope and its related options.
However when I look at the traffic using Wireshark, here is what the server is ...
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Increasing vCPUs for Server 2003?
I have a VM running Server 2003 and SQL Server 2008 on VMware ESXi. Can I safely assume this configuration can cope with a change to the number of vCPUs? Are there better solutions to address the ...
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What steps should I take before I retire an old 2003 PDC
I have a Server 2003 in my environment that was a PDC. I want to decommission it but want to be sure it's safe to do so. I have transferred FSMO roles from it to a new Server 2008. I have moved all ...
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RPC SERVER is unavailable
windows 2003 is getting this error. restart the machine or just the network connection fix the problem.
date and time is the same one.
tcp/ip is started and running
remote registry is running
the ...
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Best practices for giving right to different groups on catalogs of domain Server 2003 AD
If you have folders like SuperiorFolder and Sub1, Sub2, Sub3, Sub4, Sub5 folders under this.
And you have Group1, Group2, Group3, Group4, Group5 who shall have access to different rights among these ...
