Windows 2003 Server
Windows 2003 help and discussions.
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Tool to scan files on fileserver??
by Guest hslbz@hotmail.com- 9 replies
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Hi all, We are thinking about archiving old files from our fileserves to cheaper storage. To check whether this is usefull I would like to see how many files (for instance older then 1 year) we have on our fileserver. So I just need a very simple tool (or something) which scans a partition I choose with the settings I set and then tells me how much GB is not modified in (for instance) 1 year. does anybody know such a tool? (extensive search didn't give me a result:( Regards, Mike van Gestel
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server generates Delayed Write errors copying Very large Files
by Guest Phil Lewis- 13 replies
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Apologies as this turned out to be rather lengthy.... I run a development engineering lab for a financial services company and we are running into a rather peculiar but very troubling problem on some of our performance servers when copying, moving or backing up very large files, i.e. files greater than about 52 Gigabytes in size (yes GB not MB). Primarily these are SQL Server database files but we also see the same problems copying or relocating large Virtual Server Hard Drive files of that size or larger. The problem is actually an old one that I think has not been dealt with, the end result for us on Windows Server 2000 and Windows Server 2003 R2 is th…
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XP Sp2 Machine logging on to wrong DC
by Guest JasonCat- 4 replies
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I have an XP sp2 machine that takes about 20 minutes to log on. I have a multi site enviornment. When this pc logs on, it is logging in to our DC in Canada, instead of the DC here in the main office. This is why I am assuming the logon takes so long, because its going over a slow 768k WAN link. This is the only PC with this problem. When I boot the pc in safe mode with network support, it logs on fine, and to the correct DC. How can I make it use the correct DC for logging on? DNS is correct, and it is getting the correct ip address. Removing the pc from the domain, and rejoining did not help.
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Windows 2003 Does not boot
by Guest Diane Walker- 9 replies
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We have a Windows 2003 Standard Edition that has been running. All of sudden, the server does not boot up. When the server boots up, it boots up to the blue screen of death. Is there a way to boot up the server without reinstalling the operating system? Thanks.
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Re: infratructure preparations for Windows 2008 domain upgrade
by Guest PA Bear [MS MVP]- 5 replies
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Re: infratructure preparations for Windows 2008 domain upgrade [Forwarded to a few Windows Server-specific newsgroups via crosspost. microsoft.public.windowsupdate newsgroup is about Windows Updates, not upgrading Windows.] jprstokato wrote: > According to technet article 'Prepare Your Infrastructure for Upgrade' - > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771461.aspx, there are no > prerequities to executing adprep / forestprep, and adprep /domainprep > /gpprep in the schema / infrastructure master.... > > In our previous upgrade from 2000 to 2003, it was advised that replication > was disabled from this server during the schem…
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DCPROMO a server
by Guest Scott Micale- 8 replies
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I am looking to decommission one of my domain controllers running Win2K3 server on it. It is 1 of 3 server in this child domain. Can I just DCPROMO it and be done or are there steps I need to take prior to DCPROMO'ing it?
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The server was unable to allocate from the system paged pool
by Guest Kelvin Ng- 8 replies
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One of my Windows Server 2003 log with a lot of event ID : 2020 & 333 & suddenly server seems like freeze, i have to restart server to solve this problem. it happend on 18/01 & 02/02
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Recommended Partition Size
by Guest Richard Perry- 8 replies
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I would like to see what other's are doing for creating partitions on Server 2003 with Server 2008 in mind. Typically, I create a C drive for OS and Applications (16 GB), and leave the remaining disk space as a D drive for user/application created files. In the past, space limitations on the system drive has been a concern when the C drive was 6, 8, or even 12 GB depending on the flavor of Windows Server running. Building out a new Server 2003 box, with the idea of upgrading to Server 2008 shortly after RTM, and that this would be a single purpose server (file or print or application), what would the recommended size for the system partition be? …
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Folder Security
by Guest 116- 6 replies
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I am trying to secure a folder, only giving rights to a group. I have added users to this group and set the permissions (Admins and Group). But with out the EVERYONE there I can not seem to gain access. After adjusting, I have reset ALL permissions. Help David
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How do I temporarily disable a domain controller (without turning it off!)
by Guest KingCronos- 4 replies
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We have two web servers in an offsite location. One is a domain controller that is used by the web services on both boxes. I hope to install a new seperate DC, and to test that web services can use that, I want to disable the box that doubles as a web server and DC. Obviously, as it is hosting websites, I do not want to switch it off. Is there an easy way of doing this? Thanks, KC
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Problem with roaming profiles
by Guest Gorge Lucas- 7 replies
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Hi, I have a customer who has a roaming profile. This is setup excatly like all my other customers. What happens is the server goes offline for 1-3 seconds for no apparent reason and syncing occurs. When this happens, they lose all their icons on the desktop, quicklaunch etc. This is a SBS 2003 R2 server. There is nothing wrong with the server from what I can see. It's not going down at all. Any ideas?
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Expanding a partition - DiskPart.exe
by Guest Mike Bailey- 7 replies
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I have an HP Server with a Raid5, three hard drives in teh array, two drives - C and D. Both my drives are filling up and it's affecting performance. I've cleaned up all I can. I want to add an additional drive to the array this weekend. I have documentation on using the HP Array Configuration Utility to add the new drive into the array, but am stuck there for then adding that new space to the C and D drives. I have downloaded DiskPart.exe from Microsoft and am reading through the documentation. It's a little confusing to me right now and I'm nervouse as a cat about attempting this. Can anyone help me by listing the simple steps (commands) that…
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Help! I changed the Logon properties for Remote procedure Call (RPC) service & can't change back.
by Guest W- 7 replies
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Help! I changed the Logon properties for Remote procedure Call (RPC) service & can't change back. Hi Sorry for the dramatic subject... I hope it’s a fairly simple thing... Basically I changed the Logon properties for the RPC service on our PDC from the original Network Service account to use the Local System account. I did this to see if it would fix an error I was having with another service not starting citing a dependency group failed to start & the only thing in the dependency group is the RPC. So... I thought if I changed the Logon credentials and it worked I'd have a better clue as to what was wrong... (That probably sounds very irrat…
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Fail-Over Server
by Guest Saurabh- 5 replies
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Greetings !!! I have a very simple query. I want to have one main server and 2nd backup server. Now, how i can mirrior my data from one server to another server ? And how to setup, so when if my primary server fails to boot, my nodes get the connectivity AND THE DATA from backup server. Looking for a kind help. - Saurabh Vasa
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VMs do not start ANY services after migration from XenServer to Hy
by Guest asklucas- 4 replies
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Hi Folks, I'm using XenServer 4.x for almost a year now but want to migrate to Hyper-V RTM for a number of reasons. Moving the VMs (W2k3 R2 SP2) from XenServer to Hyper-V works well, different methods are possible (SC VMM 2008 Beta P2V, Ghost Corp. Edition, other tools). However, the migrated VMs boot enormously slow on Hyper-V. It takes 30 minutes to hours until the logon screen, again 30 minutes to hours until logon completes. However, explorer.exe doesn't start. In taskmgr.exe and compmgmt.msc I can see, that not a single service was started, not even eventlog! I haven't found any information on the web with a similar behaviour of Windows! It …
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Sharepoint
by Guest Stevens- 3 replies
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About 4 days ago I noticed an error message in my Application Event log from Sharepoint Services that there was not enough free space available and the tracing service has temporarily stopped outputting trace messages to the log file. I found the log files at C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\Logs. At this location there are lots of logs 30 - 40 meg. each. They all contain the same message, '07/10/2007 08:18:14.98 OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0AD4) 0x0AFC Windows SharePoint Services Timer 5uuf Monitorable The previous instance of the timer job 'Config Refresh', id '{CBECAB1F-4C74…
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Help!! I need to delete the Windows Update files.......
by Guest AllenM- 7 replies
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My C: drive is nearly full with less than 600 MB free space left. And it is all of the Windows Update downloads. I only use 2x18 GB SCSI drives mirrored for my OS and all I basically have on C: is the OS and system programs. Buy my Windows directory is using about 14 GB of the space. C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB823182$ Can I delete these? Or move them to another volume in case I need to uninstall (highly unlikely) these updates? I know I will not be able to use Add/Remove programs to remove once I get rid of these but this is my only option. thanks in advance and apprecite any quick post back.
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network share
by Guest uanmi- 7 replies
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We do a backup overnight of our network shares. The problem is what to do about files being created and accidentally deleted by a user during one working day? This has happened again and undelete does not see the file on the server or the client. Is there a way to ensure that files on network shares can be restored using an undelete application either on the server or the client? Volume Shadow Copy appears to be xcopy wrapped up. It recommends using it only once per hour, so what happens if someone creates a file and accidentally deletes it during this 1 hour period? Is this really a usable solution or just wasting CPU cycles? I would like to know mo…
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Group Policy By User
by Guest Grant- 8 replies
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I am running a server with Windows Server 2003 Standard. I have Active Directory setup as well as Terminal Services. I have 5 users who will be logging in through Terminal Services and I would like to limit what they can do. I know that this can be done with Group Policy but how can I set it up so that I can still log in through Terminal Services without having the restrictions applied to me?
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Restrict Shutdown?
by Guest JT- 5 replies
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Is it possible, using GPO's, to restrict users from shutting down their workstation but allow them to restart? It seems you can only restrict shutdown and that removes the restart command as well. We want to prevent users from shutting down at night. Countless emails and warnings and people still shut down their systems. But we want the option to allow them to restart in case they are asked by our department through the day without requiring a user excluded from the policy in having to do so. Workstations: XP Pro, Win2k Pro all patches security updates. 2003 native AD environment. Thanks
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Too many processors
by Guest AnytimeAnywhere- 7 replies
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I have a Dell PowerEdge 6300 with 2 dual core Xeon processors. According to the Device Manager, I have 8 processors. I can just remove 6 of them or is there a better way to get Windows to detect the correct number of processors? Thanks, John
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Windows Server 2003 Logging
by Guest IshmaelDS- 9 replies
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I need help finding a good log software. I have an issue with my 2k3 server that is not being caught by the event viewer. This server is running a Progress DB so I need it to be rather lightweight but fairly intensive as well. I'm not sure what the issue is, The system says it's rebooting but it doesn't reboot physically. When I log in it asks me why it shut down as it would from a unexpected shutdown and the event viewer says that it shut down but there are logs in the application viewer from seconds after the unextected shutdown and when i arrive at the server it's been less then 30 seconds and the system is back up with the DB's loaded. It's very odd. I…
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Unable to logon due to Domain being unavailable.
by Guest Steve Audus, Chaucer BEC, Sheffield UK- 4 replies
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We have a set of teachers laptops, that we have reinstalled Windows XP Pro Sp3 on, and joined the laptops to the domain, and moved the laptops into the correct OU. But when staff take thier laptops home, they can nolonger logon to thier accounts, because the domain is unavailable. They used to be able to, and i am no aware of any changes to the Group Policies that would stop them. I am really stuck on this, can anyone help? Thank you.
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Mapping search drives
by Guest Paul0426- 8 replies
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I'm used to novell where search drives can be mapped based on the user logon script. How do I map search drives in 2003 server? -- Paul
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move license to different machine?
by Guest Gary Karasik- 6 replies
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Hi, Question: Can an activated W3K3 license be moved to a different server? Situation: A client with a W2K3 site license has bought a business with a stand-alone W2K3 server. The want to move the newly-purchased server to the site with the site license, "de-activate" it, then license it for use under the site license. They then want to use the "old" license at a different location not covered by the site license. Can this be done? And if so, how? -- GaryK