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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windows server 2003 feature install is asking for amd64 folder and evntagnt.dll file [closed]
I wanted to turn on snmp feature on windows 2003 R2 Standard X64 Edition Service Pack 2.
My problem is that turning on that feature requires a cd labeled: Service Pack 2 CD-ROM
I Downloaded it from ...
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Active Directory management tools for medium sized forest (less than 1000 users) [closed]
What are good AD management tools for AD forests with less than 1000 users and 3 domains across three locations?
Specifically looking for:
-Bulk users creation
-Security groups management
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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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IIS 6 not displaying http://example.com; only http://www.example.com
I inherited an IIS6 server.
For some reason, the person who set it up didn't enable it to have http://example.com and http://www.example.com go to the same place. If you go to http://example.com it ...
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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
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Copying a file to a user directory using a group policy on Windows Server 2003 with Win 10 clients fails
I have a network of around 100 Windows XP boxes, plus a number of Windows 10 ones, in a Windows Server 2003-hosted Active Directory. There's a tender in process to replace both the clients and the ...
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Use 2008 R2 and 2003 server domain and LDAP with Windows 8.1 and Windows 10?
I have two server domain one with Windows Server 2003 server and other Windows Server 2008 R2.
With this can I use Windows 8.1 and 10 clients to connect with domain and apply policies?
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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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Is it possible for a Scheduled Task to run as NETWORK SERVICE?
It is quite simple to set up a task to run as a SYSTEM, but when setting it to NETWORK SERVICE it show "Access is denied" error message.
Is there any way to get this working? (The problem is that I ...
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How-To: Properly Migrate IIS6 Default Site Directory (inetpub) to Another Partition
Question pretty much says it all. I didn't have control of the installation and configuration of the web server. Inetpub was deployed to the C: drive on the machine...I need it to live on D:.
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how do i find application name using GUID from error in event viewer on Windows Server 2003?
A Windows Serve 2003 machine logged an error in Event Viewer with the COM+ Event System, saying it could not marshal the subscriber for a particular subscription and then gave the SID/GUID, which is:
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How do I configure SQL Server 2005 to accept a connection to a private or internal IP address on a private network?
I'm in unfamiliar territory, but here's the scenario:
I have an application server and a database server, and both are on a private network. How do I allow connections from my app server to the ...
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How can I get my service dependencies to be parsed without restarting the server?
We had a service set up with HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\servicename\DependOnService of other services set to this one service. When I would shut down the one service, all ...
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Domain Controller computer name does not use FQDN
I've been experiencing some network issues on a domain controller. Ended up having to reinstall the TCP/IP stack which ended up fixing most of the issues. However, I'm having replication and GPO ...
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Automatically disable the "Manage Your Server" screen on Windows 2003?
Is there a line I can add to my login scripts or something with GPO to prevent the "Manage Your Server" screen from showing up when I log in to a Windows 2003 Server?
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Making Active Directory changes atomic
I've got a Windows 2003 Active Directory infrastructure, and there are times (such as when terminating an employee) that I want instantaneous propagation across both of my AD servers. Currently, I ...
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replicate old file server machine from 2003sp2 to 2012r2
I just read this great post:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2014/11/05/migrating-file-server-from-windows-server-2003-to-windows-server-2012-r2.aspx
I was wondering if i could achieve a ...
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lsass.exe memory leak on windows 2003 server
In the past month or so I noticed that lsass.exe has started to leak memory, getting to 500MB+ of ram in under a week after reboot. Before this I had never noticed it using any significant amount of ...
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DHCP server that can detect and handle rogue IP addresses
We have recently migrated to a Windows2003 DHCP server. Our network is a bit of a mess with a melange of static and dynamically assigned clients (unfortunately, some with incorrect subnet masks). ...
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"Bad Gateway" when connecting to old IIS servers over SSL through NGINX reverse proxy
I am trying to set up an NGINX server as a reverse proxy to make it possible to connect via TLS 1.2 to an old IIS server that is limited to TLS 1.0
Connection on port 80 works fine. But I get 502 ...
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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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Windows 2003 shutdown instead of reboot
I've got a very strange problem. On the net I can only find problems with Server 2003 pc's, that reboot instead of shutting down, but in my case... (go figure) it does the opposite. When I choose to ...
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SQL Server Windows Authentication fails after tonight's security updates: The login is from an untrusted domain
We have the following setup:
One Domain Controller (DC, Server 2003 R2 Standard x64)
One SQL Server (SQL, Server 2008 R2 Standard x64)
some clients.
All machines are in the same domain. All user ...
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Batch file to install an application package from server to all clients on schedule
I am having an application package which I need to install on 500+ users workstations in a production environment. I don't have any SMS tool or software distribution tool to deploy that I need to do ...
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How can I deliberately fragment specific files? (NTFS)
This may have been asked but...
I'm trying to profile the impact of file fragmentation on one of our business applications. What's the easiest and cleanest way to cause a 20GB file to fragment into ...
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Windows 7 + TLS problem
We are facing a problem with many client. They are unable to access our website (which requires SSL) when they use Windows 7 and TLS 1.0 is enabled in browser (wither Firefox or IE). Website is ...
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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 failure",...
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WINS Server interfering with DNS?
First of all, many apologies for my lack of knowledge in managing an active directory, but our network is a bit outdated and I don't necessarily have been trained in the field, however I'm the IT. We ...
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Change MYSQL Port on Windows
I need some assistance changing the port that MySQL is running on.
So, according to http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/option-files.html
MySQL first looks for conf in WINDIR\my.ini, WINDIR\my....
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Windows DNS: dnscmd.exe with IDN zone names
I've automated some tasks for a client who is a web hoster.
One of these is automatically creating DNS entries in Windows DNS server.
Client has recently started to take IDN registrations (domain ...
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Mac OSX 10.6 leaves open files on Windows Server
We've got several Mac OS X 10.6 clients who connect to our Windows 2000 & 2003 File Servers - No Active Dir, just file shares.
I'm finding that the Mac clients keep lots of connections open on ...
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Delete Emails older than X days in Exchange 2003
How can I delete emails for a specific email account older than X days in Exchange 2003 from the server? I would like to do this from the server, not from the outlook client.
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How can I check the expiry details for many SSL certificates deployed on Windows 2008/2012 servers
We have 300+ Windows servers for .NET hosting purposes and a lot of SSL certificates imported on these servers. Can we pull the certificate expiry details for all servers from a single Windows/Linux ...
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Stop WSUS from rebooting a server
Our IT department is rolling out a set of patches via WSUS this weekend and will reboot all of our Win2k3 servers on Sunday. Due to production work which must continue uninhibited, we cannot allow ...
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Active Directory Users in a group to use different DNS forwarder settings
We have a Windows Server 2003 AD DC running here in our office, and I was wondering if it's possible to group some employees to use a specific DNS forwarder, and some to use a different forwarder? I ...
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Windows Server Event Log Collection and Analysis
Does anybody know of a good tool to collect and analyse the application logs from a number of different Windows servers running on VMWare? All servers are on the same domain.
Ideally the tool would ...
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In need of Disk Signature change method - Windows Server 2003 Enterp. x64 SP2
OS: Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition SP2
I'm trying to change some Disk Signatures in order to recover a cluster.
I'm following this guide from Microsoft:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-...
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IIS application pool failed to respond to ping
I have been investigating a problem that occurred on a Windows 2003 server a few days ago. there are about 15 app pools, and within a few minutes, they all produced the error below in the system log:
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I can't find firewall on Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
I Just want to open the 1433 port for SQL Server locally, please I dont know who config this server so when I try netsh firewall , prompt saids "the command not exits" by the way routing and nat are ...
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Copy files and folders by specific days of the month
I'd like to create a batch file to copy the files and folders by specific days. For example, 15th and 30th of the month(not 15th to 30th) copy the files and folder to another location. How can I write ...
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DHCP failing to update DNS, no Active Directory
I have a DHCP and DNS server, running Windows 2003 SP1. I configure everything according to this Microsoft Technet article "Using DNS servers with DHCP", but it does not work. Note that the client is ...
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Shrink NTFS Partition Windows 2003
We have an iSCSI target provided by a CentOS server attached to a Windows Server 2003 Standard box, formatted in NTFS.
My question is this - I know we can resize the backend block device fine (LVM et ...
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How to host Windows Server 32-bit on 64-bit hardware?
We have a Windows Server 2003 (32-bit) image and we would like to host it on a 64-bit machine. I tried restoring the image on the server but it didn't work (I assume it's because of different ...
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Will enabling non-delivery notifications cause more spam?
In the past we received a lot of spam email. The past year it was a lot less and we would like to keep it that way offcourse.
We are a construction company and we receive a lot of construction ...
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Temp files created in every folder in Windows Server 2003
So we have some folders which are shared over the AD Domain (Windows Server 2003). It was just noticed that in 2 of those folders (which contain only Excel and Word files), whenever a file is opened ...
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Server 2012 R2 RDS Session Hosts can't mount shares from 2003 host using SMBv1
I know SMBv1 is bad and 2003 is critically outdated and should not be in production, but this is for a client environment where they control this file server and have shown no interest in upgrading it ...
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Windows 10 client does not get a temporary CAL form Win 2k3 TS
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Windows 10 client is not getting issued a temporary CAL to connect to a Win2k3 TS.
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Win2k3 Terminal Server, Per Device CAL mode
No available CAL's atm, I expect it to issue a temporary ...
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hMailserver: Secure SMTP SetUP - Trusted Cert Issue
I'm trying to configure hMailserver with a 3rd party SSL cert. I'v
1) Installed the SSL key & cert
2) Placed the hash named CA and intermediate in to the \externals\cs folder
Now, the connection ...
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How to configure basic authentication in IIS SMTP Server?
I feel like this is a stupid question but:
I have a test environment set up where I need to enable SMTP basic authentication with IIS. I have a Win2k3 r2 server as a DC in its own windows domain ...
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Why could it be that the FreeSSHd service is running on Windows Server yet I cannot connect from the client machine?
FreeSSHd is installed on Windows Server 2003, not on the C: drive but on another drive, D:. When I command-prompt to the D: drive and type in ssh, it tells me ssh is not recognised.
I added myself as ...
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