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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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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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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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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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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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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Windows clients XP and 2000 “Log spooler information events” through GPO

I have some clients (XP and 2000) on which I would like to enable printing of documents on local printers. Therefor I need to enable "Log spooler information events" on the Advanced Tab of the Print ...
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One of five services sharing an account gets logon failure

We had a recent servercrash due to power failure. Five servers went down instantly (no soft shutdown). After getting the power back, we restarted them and everything works well except that now the ...
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Time on a few 2003 servers constantly fall out of sync with PDC

I'm currently trying to shore up the server time across my entire AD domain. The domain has one PDC which hosts all of the FSMO roles and three off-site "backup" DCs (which all get their time from PDC ...
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IE does not do 302 Redirects, it works in Chrome

We just change a URL to include a "_" in the middle of the URL. After the change was made, IE does not do 302 Redirects and keeps it in a loop. The page works perfectly in Chrome. What could be issue ...
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https requests being handled by wrong web site?

I have a windows 2003 server running IIS6 that has two web sites. These sites are basically the same, but one is a staging site and the other is production. I have noticed that when I submit a ...
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Global Security Group AD Issue

This is on Windows Server 2003. I created a testgroup and add the testuserA on it. When I created a folder that has permission for testgroup, i try to log in to the testuserA's computer, and ...
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Net 2.0 Framework Service Pack 2 Issue

I'm trying to install .Net 2.0 Framework Service Pack 2 on a Win 2k8 server which currently has .Net Framework 2.0 SP1, .Net Framework 3.0 SP 2 and .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 installed. When I try to run ...
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How can I install an SSL certificate for all users on a Windows 2003 server

I'm not particularly familiar with Windows Server, so please bear with me. I have about 10 users that all use Terminal Services to login to our Windows 2003 server, each with different user accounts. ...
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Remote Desktop Connection slow to Server 2003

I am experiencing massive slowness remoting into a server 2003 via remote desktop connection to a terminal server in another office location. The location where I am remotting into from has a fast ...
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Unable to access https after updating IE 6 to IE 8 (Windows 2003)

I've recently updated our server with the latest windows update available. I also disabled the enhanced security since it was hindering the terminal service user ability to use the browser. When I ...
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Microsoft DHCP assigning the wrong DHCP Opition

We have DHCP installed on our Windows 2003 domain controller and we have DHCP setup to register devices in our DNS instead of letting them self-register. On a Windows workstations and laptops we ...
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Different services call the same executable

We are currently participating in an end user testing on a training environment. The program in question runs three services: Communication, Scheduler and Printing. Now what baffles me is that all ...
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How to restrict the user and allow to access particular folder in Windows Server 2008 R2?

Thank you for your time to look at this issue. We have Windows Server 2008 R2 and we are working on an ASP.NET web service. This web service will create directory/file, execute and delete and will ...
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Error with DCHP and wireless router

So I have a user who is connect to are network that keeps getting booted off the internet and are server. In event viewer I see these to messages every time it happens. ...
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Networking and wireless router help

I have 2 questions that I`ve been hitting my head on We have a network with 24 users. The network is behind a sonic wall and are server is behind the sonic wall with the rest of the network Are ...
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Route RRAS traffic through a proxy

I have a VPN server up and running on a windows server 2003. All the users are able to connect to the server and NAT their IP (use server IP and internet). I was wondering if I could route all the ...
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Strange authentication prompt behaviour in IIS 6 & 7.5

I am working with 100s of IIS 6 & 7.5 virtual web servers all joined to a domain that too is mixed 2k3 and 2k8r2. There have been no recent changes but every few weeks there are numerous login ...
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Application Usage by the user through Windows Server 2003

I'm working in an computer institute, I'm planning to create Different users, so that they can access application through server. For example: for S/W testing I will create a separate user. They have ...
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Access point RADIUS config using wrong user

I've configured a RADIUS server in IAS for my wireless access point. My client can't connect to it because it's not using the right user name for authentication, it's using my email address. Our ...
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Merge registry key by .vbs using GPO /computer configuration

We have bought Team Viewer corporate, and need to deploy to our infrastructure, it includes Windows XP SP3, and Windows 7, our domain controller is Windows 2003 SP2, the setting of Team Viewer was ...
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Upgrading Windows Server 2003 Domain Controller with dfs to Windows server 2008

Is there special requirement for handling the DFS service before upgrade? So far all documentation entails upgrading Domain Controller and nothing with DFS. I came across this MS article "Migrate a ...
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Understanding Windows 2003 Error Reporting

Normally when an application crashes I can extract the technical details which will lead me to a crash dump file that I can analyze. ( example here ). However one of our applications keeps crashing ...
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Event id 5723 netlogon when joining a new pc to domain

Is there any reason I would get the event id 5723 when joining a new windows 7 professional notebook to an existing windows server 2003 domain? The notebook eventually did join successfully but that ...
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2003 Server Dell 840 — Upgrade options?

I have a client (several clients, actually) running 2003 server. I want to provide them with an inexpensive hardware backup (whole-box). One of my clients has a Dell PowerEdge 840. I was thinking ...
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Server 2003 can not see xp machines on network

I am tesing a few things and one of the things I need to get passed is this problem i`m scartching my head on. I have server 2003 being used as a terminal server but we are getting rid of that and ...
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Windows 2003 Server: Removal from docking station policy privilege

does anyone know whether "Remove computer from docking station" privilege has any other meaning than the self-explaining title? I have bunch of servers with this privilege enabled and assigned to ...
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Retrieve information with snmp from windows server 2003

I enable the SNMP service from the server and when I ask, for example, the System Name I have got an answer. But as soon as I asked for something more important like the space available on disk, I ...
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Unable to map web folder to drive letter - Windows Server 2003

I've tried multiple techniques to map a Sharepoint web folder to a drive letter but nothing works. I installed webdav so that I can view web folders. I added one to Network Places. It opens. I ...
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Client will not join domain

I have run into a rather strange problem concerning remote installation. We are setting up a training environment with server 2003 and XP clients using WDS with a homegrown automated installation ...
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NTBackup skips files inconsistently

I've got a server that runs a full ntbackup once a week. Every week, it will log about a dozen files with the following messages: WARNING: Portions of "\OBJECTS\SERVER\STORAGE\DOCS101\SomeFile.000" ...
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Run a single website with same header on different ports iis6

How can I run one website on different ports, but with same header? The website should listen two ports also not on SSl.
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Configure IIS7 subfolders to work using a web.config file

I am having troubles to configure IIS 7 to work as I expect. I have been looking for solutions for some months but I don't get it working... At my wwwroot folder i have 4 subfolders (each one for a ...
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Cannot Connect to Server Shares on RRAS VPN Server

I am referring to an already answered question at: Cannot access server shares over VPN I am having this same issue described here, however, the answer posted is not helpful enough. I used the ...
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RADIUS authentication using wrong login credentials

I have a RADIUS auth AP that used to work and I don't know what changed. My auth server is IAS on a 2003sp2 DC. I look at the logs and I think I have a clue: the username my clients are attempting ...
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The logical drive has failed and cannot be used

msa1500cd from ADU device error report : The logical drive has failed and cannot be used. All data on this logical drive has been lost. Can I save or extract the data? I have a total of4 logical ...
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HTTPS site not available externally

I have got a Windows Server 2003 box running IIS6 and a website that i want to set up for HTTPS. I have added the SSL cert to the site and confirmed that the site is available internally using ...
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MMC Cert Manager Plug-in is making LDAP connection to external site, why?

I'm trying to figure out what is causing 5 of my servers to attempt to connect to an external LDAP server. I inherited these servers when another employee left the company. As far as I know these ...
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Upload and Metabase.xml on windows 2003 server

I'm running a classic asp application on a windows 2003 server. The application need to uplad some file from the client. Sometimes they get the 400 error bad request. So I beginned to look if there ...
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Unexpected two consecutive event id 6009 in logFile windows server 2003

i'm analizing a log file from windows server 2003 i have found two consecutive logs with eventID 6009. Between this logs and after the second, there aren't other any logs like 6006, 6008 or similar ...
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After {Account lockout duration} time passes, can users login if {Account lockout counter} >= {Account lockout threshold}?

After {Account lockout duration} time passes, can users login if {Account lockout counter} still exceeds {Account lockout threshold}? Or do they have to wait until the reset of field "Account lockout ...
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Nx session works from Windows 2003 but not windows 2008

I have Nx session profile that works fine on windows 2003 but not on Windows 2008r2 If I change from Custom (start terminal) to Gnome on my Windows 2008 r2 it works but this will open the gnome ...
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After getting disconnected RDP connection from server 2003 unable to connect again

Sometimes i get disconnected from my Windows Server 2003 VPS (mostly due to internet outages). When i try to log in after that i get the following error message: This Computer can't connect to the ...
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Windows server 2003 won't start mysql

For serveral days I've been trying start MySQL on Windows. I have no problems installing it as a service but can't start it with the following command: > net start mysql However, I can start ...
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Problems running control to create serial port activex from web site

I have an asp.net web page, with embedded Java which registers activex control used for client serial port printing. Error message = "Errors on this webpage might cause it to work incorrectly." ...

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