Questions tagged [windows-server-2003]
Windows Server 2003 is a Microsoft server operating system released in April 2003, and reached End Of Life on July 14, 2015. 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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What is a good SSH server to use on Windows? [closed]
In my spare time I remotely support my wife's office via VPN into a Windows Server. I am about to purchase a wireless broadband service which doesn't support VPN.
I don't want to open up the remote ...
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How Often Do Windows Servers Need to be Restarted?
A little background: We have several Windows servers (2003, 2008) for our department. We're a division of IT so we manage our own servers. Of the four of us here I'm the only one with a slight amount ...
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How can I get a list of shared directories on local Windows server?
If I have a Windows server (typically 2000, 2003 or 2008), is there a simple way to list all local directories shared on that server?
I can find the shares themselves easily enough, but I would love ...
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PowerShell? Do you use it? Can you show me some cool system administration things I can do with it? [closed]
I keep reading everywhere that PowerShell is the way of the future. When it was first released I did a whole bunch of virtual labs, but since then I still haven't used it in a production environment. ...
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How to identify who/what uses a Windows 2003 server?
How can I determine if a Windows 2003 server is still being used by anyone/thing, and if it is, what it is being used for?
I'm drawing a blank on what else to check other than event viewer to see ...
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Suppressing the "reason" for shutdown on Windows Server
How can I suppress giving a reason for shutdown on a Windows Server host?
Specifically, on 2008 R2, but all versions back to 2003 and up to 2012 would be appreciated.
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Is there an equivalent of SU for Windows
Is there a way (when logged in as an administrator, or as a member of the administrators group) to masquerade as a non-privileged user? Especially in an AD environment.
e.g., in the Unix world I ...
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Do you run antivirus on your Windows servers?
Here's an argument that I've had at over a dozen companies:
Should you install an antivirus client on your Windows servers?
Obviously, you should not install AV on your SQL Server. I think there is ...
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Increase number of allowed remote desktop connections
Windows Server 2003 allows 2 non-console and one console remote desktop connections. Is there a way to increase the number of non-console sessions allowed?
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How to do a post-mortem of a server hack
I have a Windows Server 2003 SP2 machine with IIS6, SQL Server 2005, MySQL 5 and PHP 4.3 installed on it. This is not a production machine, but it is exposed to the world via a domain name. Remote ...
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How do I determine what my DHCP server is?
I have a sad network left behind by some careless administrators - I am in the process of figuring out exactly what services are running where, not excluding the possibility that some services are ...
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Can Robocopy be made to skip open files?
We are using Robocopy to redistribute files which arrive via FTP in a drop folder. Ideally we want Robocopy to leave files alone if they are still being FTPd.
Having tried various switches, Robocopy ...
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Active Directory Health Checks
I've had some Active Directory troubles lately was was wondering what checks I could do on a regular basis I could do to ensure everything is working optimally?
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How to remotely reboot a hung server
I'm trying to remotely reboot a hung 2003 server.
The server is pingable but I cannot remote into it.
psshutdown does not work
shutdown -i does not work
What can I do now that the server is back ...
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Windows File and Folder "Attributes" A or C
In Windows Server 2003, in the "Attributes" column of windows explorer, some files have "A" or "C" or "AC" or others. What do these mean?
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Difference between profile and home path
What's the difference between a user's home path and their profile path in Windows Server 2003?
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Why should I start to replace Windows Server 2003?
Windows Server 2003 is a very good operating system from Microsoft, and we're relying on it on a daily basis.
I have heard that I should replace it by something "newer" and more "modern".
Why should ...
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Why does my server play an E minor arpeggio through the PC speaker every five minutes?
I'm running Windows Server 2003. When I log on to the server using Remote Desktop (from Windows XP) it plays an E minor triad - long E, G B G E - through the PC speaker.
We've tried setting Remote ...
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How can I see what version of SSL a web server is currently using?
I believe I have disabled SSL 2.0 on my web server (Windows Server 2003). To make sure that it is now using SSL 3.0, how can I check this?
What is the correct way to disable 2.0 and enable 3.0 on a ...
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How do I take ownership of a folder when access is denied and the security tab is missing?
I have a Windows 2003 Standard x64 Server with SP2.
After deleting a large number of folders from a folder, the OS is reporting "Access Denied" on any attempt to read or manipulate the folder. When ...
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How to tell what computer has a file open on a network share?
Environment:
Windows XP sp3,
Windows 2003 server
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We have several dozen kiosk machines each with the same logon name who occasionally and briefly a file on a share. The rate is several ...
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Unable to Share Data between Amazon EC2 Instances for Windows
I have two Amazon EC2 Instances running Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6.0.
Both the instances are created in the same region and have the same Security Group.
I enables icmp for all ports and connection ...
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What causes duplicate ACK records?
We're reviewing Wireshark captures from a few client machines that are showing multiple duplicate ACK records which then triggers retransmit and out-of-sequence packets.
These are shown in the ...
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Windows IIS Authentication not working with FQDN but is without it
I have an Intranet website, not internet, and whenever I go to
http://mysite
The website accepts my integrated authentication of the logged in user on the computer/client via IE.
if I go to the ...
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Is there a reason to upgrade Internet Explorer on Windows Server?
I never use Internet Explorer on my Windows Servers. Is there any reason I should upgrade Internet Explorer (version 6 or 7 to 7 or 8)?
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How can I visualize hard disk space with millions of files?
We have a hard disk that is 600 Gigs and nearly full. It's been filled up with 18,501,765 files (mostly small 19k images) and 7,142,132 folders. It's very difficult to find out where exactly all the ...
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Schedule reboot at the specified time
How to schedule a Windows server to reboot at a specified time?
It's about a Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.
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MySQL Startup Error - Root element missing
I have had MySQL installed for about 2 months on Windows Server 2003 R2. On start up we get presented with an error that says "High Severity Error - root element missing" followed by another high ...
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What ways there are to backup repositories for Windows VisualSVN?
At this moment we are using Visual SVN and we are backing up the entire repositories directory for visual svn. This backs up the entire data for each repository inside our svn engine. I am curious ...
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What does "Default Server: Unknown" mean for Windows nslookup
I'd like to solve a question with your kind help, about nslookup on Windows. Please see my CMD commands below(run on WinXP SP2).
C:\>ipconfig /all
Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . ....
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How to add SSH key to PuTTY Agent at startup in Windows Server?
I need to add a private SSH key to Putty Agent (pagent.exe) every time a Windows server starts up -- before a user logs on interactively. The key is to be used by a service.
If it was a regular user ...
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How do you monitor the health of a mirrored disk in Windows?
I have a Mirrored Dynamic disk on my Windows 2003 Server. How do you monitor the health of the volume?
Is there a way to have the server send an email when there is an issue with the volume?
Is there ...
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How can I tell if Windows is running in Safe Mode?
I have a Windows server that will sometimes reboot into safe mode after updates. I'm working on that issue but what I'd really like to know is how can I check to see if Windows is running in safe mode ...
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Querying DNS for CNAMEs for a server
Is there a way to query our internal DNS entries to discover all the CNAME entries that point to a particular server?
Edit: We're a Windows environment, Server 2003.
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Session Cache is not configured... why?
I'm running (trying to run, actually) Apache 2.4.2 on Windows Server 2003 R2 32 bit (plus PHP 5.4.5 and OpenSSL 1.0.1c, but I don't think that matters), and I'm getting the following line in the error ...
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HTTP Compression on IIS 6.0 (Windows Server 2003)
There are many things you have to do/consider when you want to enable HTTP compression on IIS 6.0 (Windows Server 2003).
Can somebody please provide a comprehensive list of the actions you have to ...
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What does a warning icon on a conditional forwarder mean in Windows DNS Manager?
The icon for one of the conditional forwarders on an Active Directory DNS server I manage has a standard warning icon (yellow triangle with exclamation point) overlay (all names have been changed to ...
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Clean up Active Directory [closed]
Does anybody know of any useful Tools for cleaning out Active Directory on a Server 2003 domain? I want to clean up old computers, etc, and prefer a free tool.
I have a lot of devices that I know ...
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Server monitoring? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What tool do you use to monitor your servers?
is there a free, open source server monitoring tool like Nagios that runs on the MS stack? It will need to be able to detect ...
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How do I move Windows Search and Index Service databases to another drive?
On one of our older Windows 2003 Servers we need to run the Indexing Service and Windows Search. The problem is that the windows.edb file has grown quite large.
I want to move these and related files ...
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Is it recommended to log off from Windows when finished working on a server with RDP?
Is there any impact on the server performance in case I don't log off after having used Remote Desktop Connection?
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How do I delete a locked file in Windows?
I'm moving some files around on the server (Windows Server 2003), and there's a locked file that no one seems to have open. How do I delete this file?
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Run a command on Windows startup (not login!)
How do you tell Windows to run a command on each system startup?
I have a large number of servers on which I will need to run a command on system startup that makes a non-persistent configuration ...
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Move Active Directory from 2003 to 2008
Im not a expert admin in Active Directory so I'm in need of some help.
At my work, we have bought a new server with the 2008 server OS. And the old AD domain controller is run on a 2003 server.
The ...
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Security Group vs Distribution Group
Within our AD set-up there are a lot of security groups, but only 1 distribution group (that a previous admin created).
Both types of group contain lists of domain objects (users in the one I was ...
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How do I deal with the removal/eradication of an unknown worm on our network?
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I'm pretty sure our small network has been infected by some sort of worm/virus. It seems to only be afflicting our Windows XP machines, however. Windows 7 machines and Linux (well, yea) ...
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Seizing FSMO roles from dead Windows Domain Controller
I've seen other questions and documents about doing this, but there are some things that still confuse me. Here are the documents and questions I've seen:
Retire a Dead Windows 2003 Domain Controller
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Migrate AD DS Server 2003 to Server 2008 R2
I would like to get a couple opinions
Found this article online and wanted to know if it is good to follow
http://www.msserverpro.com/migrating-active-directory-domain-controller-from-windows-server-...
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Windows scheduled task fails to complete with error code 0xc000013a
I'm using Windows Server 2003 and have a scheduled task that fails to complete. The task is set to run a Windows Command Script (.cmd) at 3pm each day. The script runs a program that extracts some ...
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How safe are Windows Active Directory Schema Updates?
I'm trying to get a better understanding about how Active Directory handles Schema updates, specifically how safe the procedure actually is given how critical AD is and given the range of situations ...