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 do I have to configure on my server to increase security from default?
I am setting up a Windows 2003 machine to host a website, are there any settings that I should pay special attention to in regards to security?
In other words, is there dangerous default setting I ...
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How do you diagnose a server temporarily freezing?
I've got a situation where a windows server (Windows server 2003), that can only be accessed using remote desktop or citrix, appears to freeze temporarily.
What is the best way to monitor this system....
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How can I restart a windows service remotely using a script?
I have a Python web application running in a CherryPy server, which is running as a windows service. I have a batch file to deploy this application, but I'm still having to remote desktop in to the ...
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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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Move from 2003 to 2008 Microsoft Clustering Technologies
I'm currently supporting a Windows 2003 R2 system that's using Microsoft Cluster Service and Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1.
My organization is planning on moving to Windows Server 2008 and I would like ...
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Any reason to use Windows Server 2003 over Server 2008?
For a unit test server (TeamCity Agent) - is there any reason to choose old (and reliable?) Win2003 SP2 over Server 2008, assuming both are available and the machine is decent?
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Running an .exe from an .asp file using wscipt under Windows Server 2003
[This was originally posted at stackoverflow.com but might be more suitable here and I'm sure it's a server configuration issue. Apologies if this is considered bad form.]
As part of our database ...
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Transferring 2003 terminal server licenses from one server to another [duplicate]
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Can you help me with my software licensing question?
Does anyone know how to transfer terminal server licenses from one windows 2003 server standard edition to another.
Any ...
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HP Universal Print Drivers Incredibly Slow
We recently migrated to a Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Server (SP2) as a print server. For the most part, we found that it wasn't too hard to get both a x64 and a x86 driver for the printers we ...
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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 move SSL cert between Windows Server 2K3 machines on IIS 6
I am attempting to move an SSL certificate (issued by Network Solutions) from one IIS 6 / Win2k3 server to another. Exporting it as a pfx file allowed the transfer, but the certificate seems to fail ...
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Installing IIS on Win Server 2003 without the installation CD?
The title says most of it.
I have a VM running Windows Server 2003. While setting it up, I didn't install IIS. Now I need it and the installation ISO I installed from is on another machine that I don'...
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