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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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 ...
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w2k8 AD recover dns data from demoted domain controller
Someone tried to replace their two win 2003 DCs with two new win 2008 DCs by replacing them one at a time (demoted win 2003 DC2 and replaced with 2008 DC2, then demoted 2003 DC1 and replaced it with ...
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How to stop explorer.exe from keeping folder handle open?
I have a windows 2003 server machine, a working process running on it. What's the working process doing is compress files under certain folder, move the compressed files to other backed-up folder and ...
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Migrating 2003 Server to New Hardware
I'm in the process of Migrating a Server 2003 installation to a completely new server with different hardware. I want the process to go smooth but am not sure where to start. So a few questions.
Is ...
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How to find out if an Active Directory user is being used [duplicate]
We have a number of accounts that are members of the 'Domain Admins' group in Active Directory. Many of these are service accounts and many will probably be redundant.
I need to clear out any ...
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File transfer slows down the server response
We are on Win server 2003 and we transfer the files across the same intranet either using CuteFTP or through mapped drives. The problem here is the file transfers start fast and get slower as time ...
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Windows Server 2003 SP2 shutdowns suddenly failing/needing hard reset
The last two times I've reset this server, once via remote desktop and once via the Windows Update nag window (also over TS), according to the event log the shutdown has proceeded normally (up to the ...
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How to make full system backup in windows server 2003?
I´d like to know how to full backup windows server 2003 system. I was told that 2003 backup tool cannot make such a thing as opposed to windows server 2008.
Thanks.
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how to connect to a server by name instead of IP address?
I'm trying to make it easier for users in a small office network environment to connect to an office server running Windows Server 2003. Currently, users map network drives using \IP_ADDRESS\DRIVE. ...
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Remotely Detect Windows Server Service Pack Level
One of our web servers just failed PCI-DSS compliance because the vuln. scan detected the OS was Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (obviously very outdated!).
My question is how did the vuln scan ...
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eventid 11156 registered with some errors
Got this error when I started my windows 2003 server
When I saw the event viewer I got message as "The system failed to register pointer (PTR) resource records for the network adapter....." with ...
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Running SpinRite on SAN attached LUN with NTFS corruption
Got a customer that has an issue with NTFS corruption that is popping up on SAN attached storage. The LUN is RAID-10 (4:1 spindle ratio). The machines are Windows Server 2003 (64-bit), and they are ...
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Looking for a server 2003 to 2012 upgrade path
Looking for a complete upgrade path from a 2003 R2 domain to 2012. Would like to transfer fsmo roles and also upgrade sql from 2005 to 2010 or later and exhange 2003 to 2010. Ive been looking on here ...
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Group Policy Preferences not showing up in Win2k3
I installed the Client Side Extensions and rebooted the server. I'm still not seeing Preferences in the Group Policy Object Editor only Software Settings, Windows Settings, and Administrative ...
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Hiding print queue document details
Is there anyway to hide printer queue from users? We have 4 printers in windows server 2003 dc and clients are win XP and Win 7 . We have to keep the printed documents in the queue so that the manager ...
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trouble shooting the connection between systems by using telnet? [closed]
I have a windowsystem called "A" and Linux system called"B" .Our application software is client -server software. So in this scenario server part of application is resding in a window system and ...
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Get app pool to run php under Administrator user in IIS6
I hope someone can help here. Please note I am not a server admin but my current hosting company can't seem to solve the issue. I have root access and can get around the server, but am in no way an ...
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Setup for a DNS Server?
Our DNS is being hosted by someone at the State Department of Education. They told me to just set up the DNS with forwarders. Do I also need to set up a forward lookup zone? Our goal is use this with ...
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Which Exchange scenario should I choose
We currently have a Windows 2003 domain and an Exchange 2007 server integrated into the domain. Since the power goes out often in the current building, we would like to move the Exchange server to the ...
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How come identical name and authentication between two windows PCs on same network works?
My Experiment
So I set up a simple network with Two computers. Both on the same Work group.
I created a LOCAL user 'A' with pasword 'A' in Computer 1.
And then I created an identical named LOCAL ...
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LSASS.Exe using 100% CPU usage on SBS2003
LSASS.exe is using 100% CPU usage on my SBS2003 DC.
For the life of me, I can't figure out what's causing it. I've checked the event logs and found a few things. I can't see if any of it is related. ...
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Disabling Server 2003 Wonderware App Server Page File on VMware
There are so many threads on whether you should mess with the page file or not. This scenario describes a unique circumstance that is real world in my production enviornment. The conclusion I've ...
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Server infected with Backdoor:Win32/Caphaw.D virus, need script to clear shortcuts [duplicate]
Ask here Server infected with Backdoor:Win32/Caphaw.D virus
The virsu hiding all of the folders and replace it with shortcut.
These are the setting in shortcuts.
C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /C start ...
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Server infected with Backdoor:Win32/Caphaw.D virus [duplicate]
The virsu hiding all of the folders and replace it with shortcut.
These are the setting in shortcuts.
C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /C start cmd.exe /C if exist "\\server\folder\hAoix.NCf" start "" ...
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Windows 2003 Exchange 2010
Currently working through a test of an Exchange 2003 to 2010 upgrade.
Couple of questions, that i seem to find varying answers on...
I have a 2003 DC, a 2012 DC, domain and forest functional levels of ...
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MySQL Server on windows 2003
I'm running windows 2003 on HP proliant D360 G3 server having MySQL 5.5 I'm having 2 GB ram in it but I can see MySQL is only consuming 200mb ram & around 900mb swap size, why is it so ?
My ram ...
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I wanna know on which server my site is hosted? [closed]
I wanna know on which server my site www.teleone.in is hosted.Shared or dedicated.how can i know ?
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How to check WSUS server updates downloaded size?
How can I check the updates size which were downloaded in WSUS?
For example I need to check the updates size downloaded of April 9, 2013 for new 26 updates.
And how can I locale the new updates on ...
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How to config two different ip and gateway on two different NIC
Sorry for my poor english in advance.
I don't know how to config my adapters for this specific situation as i explain below.
i have two NICs, one for web server and internet vpn and another for ...
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Windows Server 2003 User Login logger
This concerns my Computer Aided Engineering Drawing (CAED) lab.
There is a main server running Windows Server 2003 and clients running XP.
We students map a network drive to \\seg-fs[user] with ...
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How to reduce or shrink the MFT (Master File Table)?
I have a dedicated windows server 2003 with more than 3 millions of files, recently I created a new partition to separate the website files from the OS.
Later I reduced the site of the OS with some ...
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Citrix Receiver failed to login [closed]
I have setuped Citrix Desktop Studio Express 5.0 and publish an exe application.
Then I installed Citrix Receiver on my iPhone and windows server 2008 and want to execute the exe application on ...
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A safe middle-object connect both mobile app and company network to prevent data stolen [closed]
The company network is high-security and should not connected to the Internet directly.We have a mobile app and want to connect to the company network.So we want a safe middle-object to connect both ...
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Lookup of objectsid slow in ACL view
We have a performance problem in with active directory 2003: reverse lookup of object sids, particularly in ACLs and quotas, is very slow. Looking up user names in a long quota list may well take ...
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Granting access to a virtual machine?
I have an internal website running on IIS 6 that denies access to everyone except for a few select IP addresses. This is set by going to "Directory Security -> IP addressees and domain name ...
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Windows Server 2003 / IIS: How do I set up a folder to run as a website? [closed]
I am trying to install a open-source web help desk on my VMWare Server 2003 Enterprise Ed., and I have already set up the server with several roles (DNS, DHCP, AD, and App. Server). In order to ...
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How to tell the Task Scheduler MMC to remember the column widths of the History?
Using the Task Scheduler MMC on a Windows Server 2008 R2, I'm facing something that is very annoying to me:
The History window of a task does not remember the column widths, thus making it rather ...
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Server 2003 folder permissions not inheriting correctly
I've got a folder that only certain users can access, everything worked fine until today (could have been wrong before today but today is the 1st I've heard of a problem). When I check the folders ...
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Changing Idle time for server 2003
I have a user using quickbooks 2013 remotely from her house. She logs in to our server and will be working but if she idles for too long the server makes her log back in. Normally this would be ok ...
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Can I safely delete old user folders in Windows Server 2003?
I have a Windows Server 2003 machine. When I delete a user, their folder remains in the Documents and Settings. Is it safe for me to delete those folders if I don't need any of the data in there? Or ...
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Mail bouncing back
I am getting a lot of mail bounced back mails. The bounced message says:
We cannot accept email from IP 213.42.234.186 without a DNS PTR
record. Contact your ISP/HSP to set up a PTR record for ...
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No internet for clients pcs on Windows server 2003 domain
I have just set up new windows server 2003 server domain. My server is set as dhcp,dns server and active directory. I have also set forwarder on dns property as my router address and isp's dns ...
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Windows Server 2003 Restarts after bootscreen
Im working with a dell server with windows server 2003, after installing SQL Server, the system restarts after bootscreen everytime.
On options menu (when you press F8) I disabled "restart on ...
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How to use procmon for debugging? [closed]
I have been fighting with an error that I believe has to do with my 64bit application trying to use a 32bit dll. After asking around someone recommended that I look at procmon for the cause, but I am ...
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Remote desktop user print to another user printer
I have windows server 2003. What permissions is required, to user bob can print on printer who is attached to computer where sits alice. Of course, booth users are connected to server.
At this moment ...
