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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Backing up Systems Locally and Offsite
I have 25 computers in a business office that right now are being backed up locally to a server. I want to also back these systems up to a remote server. Is their an ideal way to do this? My biggest ...
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Two user folders under documents and settings
Currently I have a terminal server setup on windows 2003 server. Recently I have had 2-3 users login and it creates a new user for them under documents and settings that has the domain suffixed. I ...
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Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.0 SP2 not installing successfully on SBS 2003 SP2
I recently installed WSUS 3.0 SP2 on a Small Business Server 2003 SP2 (x86) server.
Following the installation, the WSUS Server Configuration Wizard is supposed to run automatically.
Instead, the ...
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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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Certificate Error on Server 2008 R2 Event ID 6 and 13
I have two DC, one is a Windows Server 2003 (certificate server), the other is Windows Server 2008 R2.
The Windows Server 2008 R2 has the following events in the event viewer.
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Need to push or setup rdp to and pc's to domain
I have about 8 PCs and I need to add them to the domain but I am out of the office for a few weeks. I would need to remote into these computers that I know. How can I RDP into a computer that is not ...
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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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Migrating Local Users from Server 2003 x86 to Server 2008 x64
I'll try to spare the sob story, but we have an FTP server we are trying to migrate from Server 2003 x86 to Server 2008 x64. This server has hundreds of FTP users, users that ONLY log on via FTP.
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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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Looking for upgrade path from 2000 domain to 2003
Windows 2000 Domain, we want to upgrade it to 2003. Once domain is on 2003 we want to put a 2012 member server running SQL 2012 and also keep the 2 demoted Windows 2000 Servers.
3 Windows Servers ...
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Script to Uninstall MS Updates by Date
I'm in a situation where I need to uninstall all windows updates before a certain date to troubleshoot a strange bug. I found several vb/ps scripts to do this
remove single update
However I'm ...
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Extend time range to shutdown command
Is it possible to extend the valid range to the DOS shutdown command in Windows Server 2003? The help shows a maximum time-out period at 600 seconds...
Thank you!
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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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Random servers in Citrix servers suddenly bluescreens (mostly 0x0000008e and 0x0000007e)
I'm responsible for a Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 farm. Starting Friday 30. November, my servers started to crash randomly. So far we've experienced 80 crashes, so it's obviously becoming an ...
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Enable Recovery console from a batch
I want to enable the Recovery Console on a lot of Windows 2003 servers.
I want to automate this so I don't have to manually do it on hundreds of servers.
The recovery console install process seems ...
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Downgrade small law firm from DC to samba or workgroup?
I've got a law office of about 12 attorneys and 22 total users. Their email is hosted (Kerio), the workstations are XP Pro with Office 2003 (soon to be replaced with win7 boxes with Office 2010) and ...
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Stop File Replication Services
I am running File Replication Services on Windows 2003 on Server A. This replicates with a few other branches.
Basically, I need to stop A from replicating, but without making the change in DFS ...
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Windows Server 2003 does not open the files (don't have extension ex: .doc, .pdf, etc.) [closed]
Windows Server 2003 does not open the files (don't have extension ex: .doc,.pdf etc).
How can I change the cache memory because it is too low for users?
Please send me a reply as soon as you can.
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USB-drive goes to “sleep”
We have a temporary training envirnoment consisting of two identical (bar the names) 2003 domains. Second server in each domain is the handling the backup with Symantec BackupExec 2010. We are using ...
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How to integrate CAC card with Windows Login
Does anyone know how to integrate the DoD CAC card with the Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 Login Process? I want my users to be able to insert the card into the reader and just enter their pin to login ...
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How to create running live server images Windows 2003 Server?
We have Windows 2003 Server (Oracle, Exchange 2003) running on old hardware and these are very critical servers. My company is not investing in IT department.
I am looking full server live IMAGE on ...
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Windows VPN always disconnects after < 3 minutes, only from my network
First, this problem has existed for almost two years. Until serverfault was born, I pretty much gave up on solving it - but now, hope is reborn!
I've set up a Windows 2003 server as a domain ...
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Setup was unable to validate logged in user
I'm trying to upgrade SQL Server 2000 to SP4, so I can upgrade it to 2008 later, but I'm getting this error. I tried with windows login that have administrator privileges, and with sa password as ...
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Deploy VPN to users
I have to deploy a VPN settings to 100+ plus users.
There must be a better way than doing it manually. I’ve had a look at CMAK but that doesn’t have the option of having a preset username and ...
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Can low bandwidth affect application performance served via Citrix even if the application isn't refreshing the screen much?
We have a Win32 application being delivered via Citrix that is accessible from both internal corporate LAN and external internet facing locations. We are seeing some behavior I wouldn't expect though. ...
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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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Default.aspx not being served automatically, 404, Server Error in '/' Application
windows-server-2003, IIS 6, ASP.NET 4, Documents Tab, Default.aspx not being loaded, 404, Server Error in '/' Application
The only file listed in the documents tab is default.aspx.
When I browse ...
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Internal+external interfaces with multiple default gateways on Win2003
I'm trying to set up several web servers for a load balanced cluster and need to have each server connected to the internal network (for load balancing) as well as to an external network (Internet - ...
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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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Push files from server to clients once
We have gotten into a sort of predicament. We have set up a temporary training environment. Two domains with roughly 100 clients in each. Part of the training is using a map application on the client. ...
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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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Where in the registry can I find the OS Name for Windows 2003?
I need to be able to read the registry and find the Edition of Windows 2003. I can find the edition of Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 by looking into:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows ...
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Robocopy Server 2003 does not support the /mt option
I am doing a rather large transfer (8TB) from inside our network to another network share. Most of the files are ranging anywhere to .1 MB to 15 MB. The machine that I need to do the copying on is ...
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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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Is window's SIDs in AD case-sensitive?
Is security identifier case-sensitive? How I can check this?
Thanks!
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How to lock down internet use on server 2003
I have a bunch of users that need to use the internet but I want to limit what websites they can get too.
I know u can go to IE and just select the diffrent websites but my users also use fire fox ...
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Maintain Windows File Shares When Logged Out
I have a Windows 2003 Server that connects to several Windows File Shares on other machines. I copy files to these file shares using some Scheduled Tasks that call a batch script. My issue is when the ...
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Kill / Run Processes Remotely on Network
We have fairly small windows (XP/7) based network of about 15 machines. I have developed a few software applications that we use internally which are updated regularly. To update the software, the ...
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How can I test domain credentials against multiple machines simultaneously?
How to test domain credentials against multiple hosts in a subnet/domain taking into account that WMI is allowed for remote access and no firewalls on local machines are enabled?
I need something ...
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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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How do I debug the cause of a network outage on Windows Server 2008?
I have a website running on a Windows Server virtual hosting service (Godaddy). I run a website that gets about 200 visitors a day and a teamspeak server and that's it. I am new to Windows Server ...
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Finding printer names, driver and ip addresses off backup image
I just installed a fresh copy of server 2003 and I totally forgot to write down all the ip addresses and printer names to re add them to the new server. I was in a rush due to getting nail with that ...
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WSUS patch segregation [closed]
how do i white list and black list MS patches as i need to install it on my client servers. We don't have the resources/test bench to test each patch against our builds. what is the best way to ...
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Formatting an HP ProLiant DL380 G4
I have an old HP ProLiant dl380 G4 server whose hard disk needs to be formatted. Unfortunately, I cannot seem to do so. For one, it doesn't seem to be detecting any Hard Drives attached to the Server. ...
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How to extend system drive in Windows Server 2003
I have virtual machine (VMware vCenter 4.0) using Windows Server 2003. I would like to extend C:-drive. I can see the unallocated space in C:-drive (disk management). How to do that in Windows Server ...
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Why do I see a heap corruption error from lsass.exe on domain controllers after installing Google Apps Password Sync?
We're moving to Google Apps and have just installed Google Apps Password Sync. We have yet to roll this out to users and are experiencing some problems.
Occasionally after a user changes their ...
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Uninstall unknown software via group policy.
I'm wondering if this is an possible through group policy.
Is possible to define a list of allowed programs and have the rest automatically un-installed when a user logs off/on their computer?
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Replacing a file server, will links break?
I'd like to replace a file server we use (actually a couple of them) because it's a 2003 server. I'd prefer to have 2008r2, because I can expand disk volumes on the fly.
My question is, can I take ...
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IIS6: How to troubleshoot a 404 error in an ASP.NET application?
I have an ASP.NET application on a Windows Server 2003/IIS6 that refuses to run for some reason (it's the Xerox Centre, if that info helps). It has been working flawlessly before though on this ...
