Windows 2003 Server
Windows 2003 help and discussions.
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Win2K Terminal Services
by Guest nl- 0 replies
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How can I log the sessions when a user is logged on? Also, can terminal services be setup that the user can only log on from only one computer? Thank you. Nereida
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Redirect Folder
by Guest jmsanjose- 1 reply
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Hi, I need redirect folder to folder between two hard disk like command subst but with folders. ¿Is it possible?. Thanks
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Downgrade and then Upgrade?
by Guest Hank Arnold (MVP)- 2 replies
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I have been having a disagreement with some admins who say that they were told by a consultant that if they buy a Windows Server 2008 license (you can't get 2003 licenses anymore), that they can downgrade it to install Windows Server 2003. This I buy. However, the consultant has said that they can later "upgrade" to Server 2008 with the same license. I have said that I can't see MS Letting me,in effect, buy two licenses for the price of one. I say that, while it is possible to do it with Open Licenses, it can't possibly be what MS intends and violates the license agreement. Anyone know what the facts are? Any links to "official" MS documents? -- …
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2008 server: repair boot environment - how?
by Guest Alwin- 6 replies
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Hi all, I admit, I messed up a quite important server. Originally it was Windows 2008, for some testing / cloned its system partition (Norton Ghost) and installed Windows 2003. Some time later I restored Windws 2008 over 2003, and since then the server does not boot any more. Strange: if I insert any OS CD (tried some: 2003 Server, 2000 Server, even XP ...) and boot, the server boots the CD, displays the normal "Press any key to boot from the CD" prompt, and if I do *not* press any key it will after some time skip the CD boot and - boot Windows 2008 server from the Harddisk. I'd prefer it to boot without the helping CD, of course :-) Questions: * wha…
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Unix fileshareing - which exact version of Server 2003?
by Guest justmark- 1 reply
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I'd like to retire one of my old Redhat servers (used only as a fileserver) by keeping my old Unix files on a new Windows 2003 server. I see that R2 is supposed to allow this, but I seem to be missing something in the translation here. Is this available with the 32-bit standard version and if not, which version(s) will do this? Thanks!
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Permissions required to restart services
by Guest susan- 2 replies
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I have a situation in which I want a couple users to be able to do these things (on a WIndows 2003 server): Log on remotely and restart 2 specific services The remote logon works, but I can't figure out how to grant them permissions to restart selected services. (If I make them members of the local Power Users group, they can restart the services, but I don't really want them to have all the other "rights" that go along with being a Power User.) Thanks
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DHCP Server in 2003 - Reservation Sort Order
by Guest Bob- 4 replies
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Hi, Is there any way to sort the "reservations" in the dhcpmgmt.msc? It seems to sort them on last in, last displayed. Thanks, Bob.
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Net Time Question
by Guest NewsPig- 4 replies
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Hello, I have a problem with daylight savings time on my domain My server is showing the correct time Login scripts include a net time to set to the server when the script runs the result is current time at server xhrs local time x+1hr and the pc sets it's time to 1hr from the server. I'm lost
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NLB and Port 135
by Guest Derek Da Silva- 1 reply
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Hello, I am using NLB to load balance two servers on my DMZ. My firewall reports port 135 is being blocked when I attempt to query or setup NLB using the NLB Wizard in Windows 2003. How do I disable NLB from using Port 135 to discover the hostnames of the servers in my NLB cluster? Thanks, D
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Chkdsk error in DPM
by Guest r.danjou@easternbank.com- 1 reply
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I keep getting this on a particular volume and sync jobs keep failing. The Operation failed since DPM was unable to access the file/folder \\? \Volume{5XXXXXX-0dbd-11dd-9f7a-806e6f6e6963}\Program Files\Avaya\IP Office\Monitor\XXX 20080521 020004 (14).txt\ on dpmserver.somecorp.XXX.com. This could be due to the file/folder being corrupt or the file system on the volume being corrupt. (ID 2036 Details: The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable (0x80070570)) Recommended action: 1) Run chkdsk on the affected volume and then run synchronization with consistency check. 2) If running chkdsk does not solve the problem, and the server indicated above is a prot…
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Upgrade from 2003 R2 Std to Enterprise
by Guest Dabwang4363- 3 replies
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Hi all, could someone point me in the way of some clear instruction on how to do this upgrade please? The server runs ISA 2006 and some other GFI software. thanks Nigel
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Win2k3 licensing issue
by Guest Pickle- 2 replies
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Recently I came across a Windows 2003 server licensed in per server mode with 5 CALs in which almost 50 users had open sessions and open files. How can this be possible? (I also had to start the license logging service to see the 5 CALs, otherwise, where can I see them?)
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Domain Server Re-install
by Guest David C- 1 reply
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We have a Win 2003 SBS server that has too small of a boot partition (C drive) so I think we need to re-install the OS and expand the partition to use the entire drive. When I re-install the OS can I use the same domain name and will workstations need to re-join the domain? Also, is there any other way around this or other options for me? Thanks. David
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Windows 2003 Server R2-DHCP strange
by Guest bgreg- 1 reply
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I was setting up new server in a small environment and domain controller has 2 nic setup for internet access. Inside card set to:IP 192.168.01 SM 255.255.255.0 D/G none DNS 192.168.01 Outside card set to: ip 10.10.10.11 SM 255.255.255.0 D/G 10.10.10.1 Linksys Router DNS 4.2.2.2 (public DNS server) DHCP Range 192.168.0.10-192.168.0.254 DHCP- Server01.office.local NAT - Internal connection 192.168.0.1 and automatically assign addresses 192.168.0.10-192.168.0.254 External connection 10.10.10.11 …
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NTFS and MS Access DBs
by Guest TKE402- 2 replies
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Hi, I have several MS Access DB's that are in a folder that is Read/Execute for Authenticated users. No one can open the DBs. If I change the permissions to Read/Write/Execute than it works because the DB lock file needs to be written to the folder that the DB is located. Is there anyway around this? I do not want the users to have read,write, execute to that folder. All they need is read and execute. Thanks, TKE402
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Using external NTP time source to set time on W2k3 svr in a domain
by Guest dbright19- 12 replies
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The time on our servers (and domain) is about 5 to 8 minutes fast. I am trying use an external source to set time in a domain environment. I have been having problems following the directions in the following article: How to configure an authoritative time server in Windows Server 2003 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;816042 I have two w2k3 standard edition SP2 servers. One server is the PDC, but when you type net time, it is pointing to the GP server. On the GP server it points to itself. I have made all suggested changes in the above article, and tried different time servers. I even tried using the command line: net time: / set…
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Can't Block/Hide Particular Drive with GPO
by Guest Kardon Coupé- 4 replies
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Dear All, I've setup up a custom ADM to block all drives on a system, except the Z drive which is mapped to a folder for the person to be able to save out... All the Drives get blocked, except the E drive (well the Z drive is visible, but that was intended) I'm using the value of '01111111111111111111111111' or 33554431 decimal, which is correct, right? Why would the E Drive be visible in 'My Computer' ? Regards Paul.
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Cygwin problems on Vista Ultimate, problems not had on Win2k3SP2
by Guest qa4ever- 2 replies
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Hi Vista gurus We're using CYGWIN_NT-6.0 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) We were successfully using it on Win2k3SP2 but on Vista ultimate it is not working as previously. When we start our application in the cygwin command prompt window, it is not doing anything but just times out after awhile, terminating the process started. The cygwin is setup to use the inetd account with certain user rights that we used on Win2k3SP2 successfully. We wonder if on Vista we need to setup cygwin any differently in regards to user rights and accounts, enironment variables, network access etc etc.? Many thanks for any solutions, ideas, tests, workarounds etc., QA4Ever
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Windows Server 2008 Resource Kit tools download?
by Guest Stacey- 1 reply
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Some one mentioned to me that the tools had been available for download from the microsoft site, but, when they needed to download another copy they could not find anything at microsoft to download site. Should there be a download section for the 2008 tools, as there is for the 2003 resource kit?
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add a disk to an existing RAID 5 array on windows 2003 server
by Guest JimRBG- 3 replies
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I'm working on a server that needs to expand the hard drive capacity. The system is a Dell 2950 server. It currently has 4 x 300gb drives configured as RAID 5 array. There are 2 spare drive bays open to add drives to. If I just add additional drives, say 2 more 300gb drives, do I just go into computer management, disk management and partition the additional capacity as a new drive? How should I approach this. I do not want to reformat the existing drive and re-install the OS. Thanks, Jim
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Win2K3 Server Gateway settings
by Guest BBW- 1 reply
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This is more of an IP settings question vs an ISA question. I have my 2K3 servers point to my ISA 2K Internet gateway and it works great. I just added another Internet ISA 2K6 gatway to the network. So on one of my servers, I added this gateway's IP in addition to the original gateway. Now the server has 2 gateway settings. I can RDP to it from the Internet through the ISA 2K gateway, but can't do it from the new ISA 2K6 gateway. If I put the 2nd gateway first in the server gateway settings, I can access it from the Internet through the ISA2K6 gateway My big question is there a way to have the server receive connections from both Internet gateways …
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Relog dropping samples
by Guest Ken- 0 replies
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From two Windows 2003 R2 servers, I have logs saved with the following counters: Processor/%Processor Time Physical Disk/Average Disk Queue Length Physical Disk/Avg Disk Read Queue Length Physical Disk/Avg Disk Write Queue Length Physical Disk/Disk Read Bytes/sec Physical Disk/Disk Write Bytes/sec SQL Server/Transactions Per Second If I attempt to convert the log files to csv format, it returns zero samples. SERVER 1: C:\relog LoadTest_10-06-08_ETS_000002.blg -f csv -o ets.csv Input ---------------- File(s): LoadTest_10-06-08_ETS_000002.blg (Binary) Begin: 10/7/2008 10:50:24 End: 10/7/2008 16:32:26 Samples: 2053 Output ----…
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Task Scheduler 0x80 on Windows 2000
by Guest Paul- 0 replies
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Hi, We have problems with scheduled tasks failing on windows 2000. A reboot solves this but we cannot get to the bottom of the problem. It's Sp4 and there's no Human Interface Devices service. I've tried making jobs with the AT command, assigning runas service and bath permissions and pretty much worked through a lot of search results. It seems to be about every 7 days it fails. Can anyone shed light on this? There is nothing in event logs (app and system). Task log attached, job names aren't actually xxxxxxxxxx lol. "xxxxxxxxxx.job" (runxxxxx.bat) Started 06/10/2008 23:45:00 "xxxxxxxxx.job" (runxxxxx.bat) Finished 06/10/2008 23:49:14 Result: T…
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Do You Really Think You Can Neglect Your Windows Registry?
by Guest jeremiah wright- 1 reply
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Windows registry, a database of files stored to decide how the operating system and the other program are going to work. The proper management of registry files gives out optimized performance of programs. Windows registry is important file system you cannot ignore to let it unmanaged. The poorly performing system, every time it has to go through the start up check option of those files which are never to be used. You need a cleaner registry to stop this nuisance being repeated over and over. Often you uninstall a program and you are some times prompted like "These are certain no longer in use; however some programs may need it. Would you like to delete. If you…
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limit offline files
by Guest John- 3 replies
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What is the recommended practice for allowing offline files from a shared file server? I have one user that has huge amounts of data set to be available offline and I suspect this could be a problem. Is my suspicion warranted? I think if everyone was doing it it would be even worse so why allow one to do it... client xp pro sp3 server 2003 r2 latest sp...