Windows 2003 Server
Windows 2003 help and discussions.
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User login
by Guest qq- 8 replies
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Hi All, I want to run a login script file for certain users. How can I know these users has login to domain? How can I track these users' login status? Thanks in advance,
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Tool to move files between dates
by Guest Cyborg- 8 replies
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Hi, I need to archive files from one server to another that are between certain dates and if possible keep permissions, is there such a tool?
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Verifying Windows Server 2008 backup
by Guest Dominick- 8 replies
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I have my first Windows Server 2008 system online int he network, and I have Backup installed and operational. What I have done in the past, not that sophisticated, is I have a batch file form my workstation that would do an appropriate DIR command for every server and PC in our network, so I could tell by size and date if backups ran the night before. Took about 10 seconds to peruse the batch file output. But now, I notice the new backup grabs the disk drive and uses it as a dedicated resource -- it does not even show up in File Explorer. So how can I determine remotely whether the backup worked or not?
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Question Folder Structure Best Practices
by Guest Guy- 8 replies
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I have two partitions on my disk (W2k3 machine). The first is the SYSTEM (OS)partition and the second DATA. I was wondering if there are any best practices of organizing the folder structure of the second partition D/\Apps??? D:\Programs??? Thanks
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Safest Way to Invoke Remote Script Synchronously
by Guest Will- 8 replies
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What is the safest way to invoke a script remotely on a Windows host synchronously, and retrieving a return code to the caller at program termination? Because the target system is in a no man's land, I do not want to open up RPC port, and God forbid with have to involve the abomination that is DCOM. I want something extremely simple and special purpose, with good authentication features on the program server. What are my options? Commercial software is okay. -- Will
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Print Migrator
by Guest blankmonkey- 8 replies
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Is there any support for this? I am trying to use version 3.1, and it is failing, I suspect it is because the cab file gets to large (I have over 300 printers). I know because after the cab is created, I can't mauanlly extract some files, while I can others. Not sure where to bring this up, in case there is a fix, or a feature for 3.2 Since it is not working, does anyone know how to backup or migrate printers? manually??
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Best way to replace a server and do clean install
by Guest Jack B. Pollack- 8 replies
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We will be replacing our old Win2K3 Server with a new one shortly. Not only is the actual hardware antiquated, but the OS has been experiencing many problems over the last year and I look forward to a clean install. Since I am doing a clean install instead of some type of migration all of the users will have to be manually re-added to the domain. There are only 14 users so this is not a terrible task. My concern is that when I try to add the old user to the new domain it will create a new user account for them on their local machines and that all of their personal settings and desktop etc will be "lost". Am I making this into a bigger project then it really…
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Uninstalling Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition trial
by Guest Rachael12321- 8 replies
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I took a class that required Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition. I didn't have any unusued space and I only have one partition, so I installed the 180-day Evaluation Edition included with my textbook in an alternate file path on the same partition as Windows XP Professional. After this, I found the following FAQ website and statement: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/bb430832.aspx "Q. If I installed Windows XP Professional on a server running the evaluation version of Windows Server 2003 R2, will Windows XP Professional be removed when the 180-day limit on the Windows Server 2003 R2 software is reached? A. Yes, if you installed th…
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Client OK but can't ping
by Guest dan- 8 replies
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I'm trying to use Remote Desktop Connection to connect to a client (from the internet, not internal). If I use the client's IP address I succeed, but if I use the client's computer name I fail. Upon further investigation, if I remote into my server first (Windows Server 2000), then try to ping the client, it fails whether I use IP address or computer name. If I look in the forwarding zone of DNS on the server, the record correctly maps 192.168.1.212 to RWWS1, which is the client I'm trying to reach. Where should I look for the root cause of my problem (not being able to RDC to the client with the computer name). The client functions perfectly on the netw…
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Windows “Scheduled Task Wizard…..”
by Guest SmithSmith001- 8 replies
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Windows 2000 Professional. How to schedule a job which runs from 25th of the month to the end of the month every day once at 7.30 am? I am not finding the way to schedule one job to meet the above requirement. Alternatively, I am scheduling 7 jobs to run 25th to the end of the month (31st). Any suggestion? Thank you, Smith
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Windows Server 2003 Service Pack2
by Guest gsmith@gbmc- 8 replies
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Hi, I installed Windows 2003 SP2 on my server. After I installed the SP2, I could not use terminal services to get to this server. I performed numerous steps and still could could not terminatl service to this server, however I can get out to another box on the server. I deleted the sp2 and terminal servies worked again. Any suggestions?
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cna I remove these folders?
by Guest Shahin- 8 replies
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Hi, We have a widows 2003 server in our network (member server), the C drive is almost full can some one tell me if it is safe to remove these folders: C:\windows\MEMORY.DMP C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles C:\WINDOWS\ie7updates C:\WINDOWS\$hf_mig$ Appreciate any help. Thanks, Shahin
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Hello, my WINS/DHCP/DNS/File server is running Windows 2003 R2 X64 SP2 plus all patches. I keep getting this in my event viewer - not sure what to do. We only have on lan segment 10.10.10.x 255.255.255.0. MRxSmb event ID 8003 The master browser has received a server announcement from the computer AYZ-CONF3FB that believes that it is the master browser for the domain on transport NetBT_Tcpip_{37A96983-F545-44C9-B933-A213316A3500}. The master browser is stopping or an election is being forced.
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Export users from AD
by Guest Miha- 8 replies
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Hi guys, I need a script that will export all users (with e-mail addresses) from AD that have Exchange mailboxes into a .csv or plain text format. It needs to be a script (not manual export) so that will run automatically with scheduler. How can this be done? Thank you in advance. Regards, Miha
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remote server installation
by Guest Michael- 8 replies
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I will be setting up a small office remotely and a server. we have a working WAN link on our network and also we have a desktop support person at the other end to assist with the server setup - what questions should we ask to determine the tasks required? Thanks
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Hardware Change
by Guest Jez- 8 replies
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I have a windows 2003 DC/EXCH single server and the hardware is life expired. Would like to do a straight swap. What would you reccomend is the best path? I was considering a backup exec backup and restore...
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Damage cause by employees managing server
by Guest talkinggoat- 8 replies
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Does anyone know of any statistics or articles available regarding how companies that allow their non-qualified employees to manage their servers, networks and desktops cause more damage than good... or something like that?
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Disk quota in server 2003
by Guest simon bratt- 7 replies
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hi Firstly i cant tell if i have server 2003 R2 or not, i can tell i have server 2003 SP2 How can i check. Im asking because my main problem is i cant find "File Server Resource Manager" in add remove programs so i can use dirquota.exe utility i know where is should be in windows componants.... management and monitoring tools. surely im on R2? Thanks
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Server error messages every 30 hours
by Guest samizza- 7 replies
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This problem started two weeks ago and occurs after the server has run approx. 30 hours. The errors seem related and all seem to occur with a couple of minutes of each error. Once the errors occur, Event Viewer messages repeat every few minutes (for hours) until I reboot the server. After rebooting the server, it will run fine with no errors, Event Viewer, for another 30 hours or so, before repeating the same errors. The server is about 3 yrs. old. and up until now, I've never had any type of problem with this server. I haven't installed any new software on the server and its scans clean (AV and Spyware). The errors that occur, in Event Viewer, are Applic…
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Adding a Site Reference
by Guest Redleg6- 7 replies
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I need a reference that will tell me how to add a site to a Win2003 domain.
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Windows 2003 crashing when enabling /3GB
by Guest Massimo- 7 replies
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I've been working a cluster of two Windows 2003 Enterprise SP2 systems, which run SQL Server and are also domain controllers for a local domain (it's an hosted environment, so only two servers could be fitted there). The two servers have each 18 GB of memory, but run the x86 Windows version. The /PAE switch is enabled on those systems, in order to take advantage of all that memory; today, we tried enabling the /3GB switch too, to give SQL Server some extra memory... but then the systems started behaving erratically, taking hours (literally!) to start up, even more time to log on, showing plenty of errors in the event log about almost everything crashing…
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Windows 2003 server memory limit
by Guest Phil Loper- 7 replies
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Is there a 4MB memory limit on Windows 2003 server? I just upgraded a Dell PE 2850 that had 1GB RAM to 9GB and all the memory shows up in BIOS, but in Windows it only shows 4GB. Is there something that needs to be changed in Windows to see all the RAM? TIA.
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CRC error in RAID - which drive died?
by Guest Hunter_Thompson- 7 replies
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Hi Everyone, I recently was asked to look at a server that was giving disk {CRC} read errors. It is setup as a Virtual Machine {VM ware} server. I was instructed to break the raid (raid-0), perform a low-level format of the three Sata drives that were in the raid array, and then recreate the raid, reinstall Windows Server 2003 (R2) and the VM ware images. The instructions given to me to low-level format the drives should format around any bad sectors on the hard drive. I did all of the above, and now we still get the CRC error. So it seems one of the drives needs to be replaced, but I don't really want to have to buy 3 new drives when only one is d…
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Losing Static IP address
by Guest Kirrin Jones- 7 replies
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Good Day board, Hope I can get a fix for this. I have a service that acts as my DC, DNS, DHCP, Exchange server. Now when I enter a static IP address into the NIC, during the course of the day if I should check back the properties of the NIC, its set to dynamic. This also happens if I restart the server, when it comes up it takes a very long time to give me the login window and when I do log in and check the NIC properties, they are set to dynamic. Needless to say all or most of the services fail until I enter the static IP address and then restart the services. Can anyone give me an idea why this is happening? Thanks.
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Hardware RAID or OS RAID?
by Guest geek-y-guy- 7 replies
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Hi All: I have built up a number of 1U servers that have always had some flavor of Adaptec controller chip on the mobo, allowing me to configure RAID0, 1 or 5 in BIOS, and usually I will set up a mirrored array in BIOS and walk away for a few years <g>. Call me lucky but I haven't had a single U320 SCSI or even any SATA drives fail yet...powersupplies seem to die faster than drives in 1U servers. But, the one limitation of BIOS-controlled RAID mirrors is that if a drive fails, one needs to shutdown, swap in a new drive, reboot to bios and rebuild the array. I've experimented with Server2003 mirroring on some testbed servers and haven't had any pro…