Windows 2003 Server
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Cannot make firewall changes after implementing SP2
by Guest Brewhaus- 7 replies
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We have never had a need to worry about this issue until now, but after installing SP2 on our Windows 2003 SBS system, we cannot use the Internet Connection Wizard to make changes to the firewall settings (we also cannot add new users, but that can be discussed separately). I have read that ICF is replaced by Windows Firewall in SP1, and have tried to disable ICF on the network connection, but the option is not there. When going to the Advance tab, I show Windows Firewall, with a Settings button, but when clicking the button I receive an error- "Windows Firewall cannot run because another program or service is running that might use the network address t…
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Remote Desktop Connection W2K3
by Guest DaveG- 7 replies
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Hi all Today I have reinstalled our Domain server due to fatal problems. Same softeware and disks as always used. Now I cannot access the server by remote desktop. I have never had a problem in the past. Installed on the server. Windows 2003 Active Directory Exchange 2003 SQL 2005 Yes we have a do everything server and only the one, normally very reliable. What I have tried. 1. Activated RDP in the Remote tab of System Prpoerties. No extra user Selected as I always connect as Administrator. 2. Tried to connect from both XP and Vista stations, both worked in the past. 3. Googled like crazy for solutions, nothing seems to work. What actually h…
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Shutdown a server using the power button
by Guest Artificer- 7 replies
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I have a windows server 2008 standard computer at home and I am using it as a home domain server. I don’t want to use a keyboard or monitor on that server. Everything works fine but the shutdown button. In order to shutdown the computer with it I have to first press ctrl-alt- del and then press the shutdown button. How can I make it to shutdown with a single button click?
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Login Script - System error 85
by Guest Marc S- 7 replies
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I am running a basic Login script in Sysvol to map a few mapped drives thru the Net use: \\server\folder /persistent:yes command. After the first logon, the next consecutive logons give me System error 85 has occurred. The local device is already in use. The mapped drive is there, but there is an error in the script. Is there a better way to re-map drives on each Logon?
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2003 Server and domain upgrade from Server 2000
by Guest Eddie- 7 replies
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Hello, I am planning to upgrade 2 DC's running 2000 standard to 2003 standard r2. These servers are the PDC and BDC of the domain and the only servers still running windows 2000 left in the domain. I've been running in mixed mode for a couple of years and have upgraded all other servers except for the 2 DC's. I am also running an exchange 2003 server in this environment. I have download the following document http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325379 should these instructions be sufficient for what I want to accomplish? Thanks, Eddie
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File Server Migration
by Guest Arsenal2003- 7 replies
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We want to migrate our old file server to a new server running 2003 R2. The main objective is to keep all mapped drives/printers and UNC paths the same as the old path from the client perspective. All the current mappings have been made manually not via a login script. I tested the File Server Migration Toolkit in a lab. While the data and permissions migrated flawlessly, sometimes the mapped drives did not resolve on the client side. Do we have to use DFS to accomplish the above objectives? Has anyone else had a similar scenario? Too eventually I will have another server to perform the same task on. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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server booting up really slow
by Guest Jason- 7 replies
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Is there a domain controller update for windows server 2003 r2 standard edition that helps with slow boot up process. It takes up to 8 minutes to get to the login screen. Sometimes it just gets stuck on preparing network connections and you have to hold down the power button to power off the server and then it will boot up in 8 minutes usually the second time
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Recover RAID 5
by Guest Juan García- 7 replies
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My primary Windows 2003 server domain controller has crashed, is impossible to recover it (I had a problem with two disks), I would like to know some tool that permit to recover 'some' data accessing physically to disk-to-disk mode in another controller. Is this possible??? Thanks in advance.-
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NTBackup Hangs at Shadow Copy
by Guest Chris White- 7 replies
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Having a real real nightmare with this now. My backups just wont run on my Windows 2003 R2 SP2 server. I go to create a normal backup using the wizard on NTBackup, then when I set it to run it just hangs on "Preparing Shadow Copy", hangs the NTBackup app, cranks the processor to 50% and thats it. I had a real issue the other day when 5 backup schedules all did this during a day and ramped the processor to 100% for hours. I've tried searching the net for solutions to this but its hard due to the nature of the error. Logs are empty in the backup logs, Event Viewer shows the Backup "Begin" event then nothing. Scheduled task viewer hasn't had errors in …
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Strange Netdiag errors, member server intermittantly loses contact with DC???
by Guest Conrad Goodman- 7 replies
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Dear All I have a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory domain, one member server is constantly losing it's connection to the Domain Controller. For example, in a 10 minute period here are the outputs of the netdiag tests: C:\Documents and Settings\administrator.DOMAIN>netdiag ...................................... Computer Name: PROXY01 DNS Host Name: PROXY01.DOMAIN.co.uk System info : Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 (Build 3790) Processor : x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 11, GenuineIntel List of installed hotfixes : KB921503 KB924667-v2 KB925398_WMP64 KB925876 KB925902 KB…
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Windows Server 2008 32bit / 64bit
by Guest rmaher07- 7 replies
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I know Server can support both standards. Are there two different copies of server available, 32 & 64 or does 1 dvd/cd do both? We are looking to implement either Windows Server 08 Standard or Enterprise.
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My Documents Flder Redirection glitch
by Guest dcraige27- 7 replies
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We have our users configured in active directory with their home directories mapped to \\server\share\username using drive letter P:. We are using the proile tab of the users' properties. We use the Home folder section of the profile tab as follows: Connect P: to \\server\share\username We also have each users my documents redirected to the P:\My Documents. When the user browses to the \\server\share, they get access denied if they try to access another user's home folder, so we have confirmed the permissions are correct. We have found 2 users in the past few weeks whose My Documents have redirected to another user's My documents and they could …
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Migrating "up" from XP Pro
by Guest Gary Richtmeyer- 7 replies
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I work with a small business that has a PC (Dell Optiplex 320, SATA, no raid) running Win XP Pro which is used to simply hold files that are shared among their 8 users in a simple workgroup. It's a pretty straight-forward file sharing environment; they're even using the simple file sharing technique. However, their business is growing and they will soon have 13 users, which exceeds XP Pro's 10-user limit, so they will need to upgrade to a Windows server environment. (Linux and other non-Windows OSes are not an option.) My challenge is that I'm not very familiar with the Windows Server arena other than casual reading of various announcements and the …
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Windows Server 2003 R2
by Guest 2Sweet- 7 replies
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A server is running Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition. Can i install/upgrade Windows Server 2003 R2 Std Edt over Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition?
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scheduled reboot - assign reason?
by Guest Cindy B- 7 replies
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Hi- Hopefully someone has a quick idea for this... We are implementing a weekly reboots of all enterprise servers - attaining this by using scheduled tasks. My questions is: Is there a way to add the reason for the reboot? I'd like to designate it as maintenance, so when monitoring servers - we don't always have to check the reboot maintenance schedule to see if it is planned or unplanned. OR.. when I run: c:\windows\system323\shutdown.exe -r -f -t 01 can I designate planned instead of unplanned? thanks for any suggeston you might have? Cindy -- Cindy B
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DFS Question
by Guest Filipe Matias- 7 replies
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Hello, We have a client that is placing 6 new servers on their network in diferent branches. They have a share that they always want to be exactly the same on all servers( if they update it they want to replicate for all servers). Can DFS be used for this? Thanks
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Help interpreting performance data
by Guest Brion- 7 replies
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Hi Everyone, We have a server that is running very slowly and we've been unable to pinpoint what the problem is. By the time we realize it is running slowly, it's already too late to do any advanced troubleshooting because it's sooooo slow that it's basically unresponsive and the only option is to reboot it. It comes up fine, but then a few days later starts acting up again. This time I was able to get a screenshot of Task Manager before it became unusable. I transcribed some of the entries from some of the executables that looked suspicious for one reason or another. I didn't even bother to copy the CPU numbers because CPU utilization is very low…
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Exchange 2003 into an existing 2000 network
by Guest David- 7 replies
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Hi peeps, I will be installing a new exchange server into a 2000 domain which already has an exchange (2000) server in. I've found this migration document on the internet http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Migrating-Exchange2000-Exchange-2003-Hardware.html but my query is doing the adprep on the existing domain controller (2000 server) is that going to cause and future problems or will it be ok in the log run. David
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Event 578 and KB 821458
by Guest Smurfman- 7 replies
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I am writing to inquire about KB 821458 related to event id 578 being logged for an administrator account generating an audit failure for SeSecurityPriviledge The KB says that this is expected behavior - are there options to stop this event from logging? or Is it just safe to ignore it? Any feedback would be useful. This event is on a Windows 2003 Server - Web Server IIS6 Thanks J
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Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 setup error
by Guest Ilya Sazonov- 7 replies
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1. HP DL380 with teamed adapter 2. Windows 2003 R2 SP2 3. Setup Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 and i get errors (up to 4) in System event log: Event Type: Error Event Source: DCOM Event Category: None Event ID: 10016 Date: 21.05.2008 Time: 9:08:31 User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Computer: VS1 Description: The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Launch permission for the COM Server application with CLSID {DA3111BC-1BD7-4884-A535-8470D36028F7} to the user NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM SID (S-1-5-18). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool. For more information, see Help and Support Cente…
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Does DNS Replication issues cause user issues?
by Guest Brad- 7 replies
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Recently our corporate office created a VPN tunnel between our PDC and one of their servers. Our server is running Server 2003, DHCP and DNS. Everything was working fine (user permissions, users seeing printers etc..) until corporate made this change. I ran netdiag and while I don’t have the exact error message, my DNS server 192.168.7.2 reports back fine, but then it says there is a fatal error connecting to corporate’s server, 192.168.1.7. Would having this DNS error cause user problems inside my network? I did add a new user a couple of days after this change and while his permissions are set correctly, he is unable to access any of the share drives o…
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Slow copy from NT Domain to AD Domain
by Guest Mark- 7 replies
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I have an NT Server, SP6 that resides on an NT Domain. It copies large (1GB) files to a AD Member Server that resides in another domain (obviously) - and furthermore the DNS servers for BOTH domains reside in the AD Domain. There are no DNS servers in the NT Domain. To assist with this somewhat - we use host files on the NT Server to direct traffic. When I copy a file within the NT domain the copy speed is avg of 500MB+/s When I copy a file across from NT to AD domain the copy speed drops to 20MB+/s Help. I need to speed this up.
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Antivirus
by Guest Stephen- 7 replies
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This may be an odd question but are there any free antivirus solutions out there for Server 2003?
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SyncToy not copying files? Win2003R2 Server Std.
by Guest Calab- 7 replies
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When I do a sync, all the files go where they are expected. I then delete a few files in the target folder and sync again. No files are moved. I'm using "echo", so missing files should be moved over to the target folder. I am also running this as Administrator. I've tried both SyncToy 1.4 and 2.0 beta with the same results. Left folder (source): C:\MyData Right folder (target): D:\Backups\MyData SyncToy action: Echo - This should replicate any file changes found in C:\MyData into D:\Backups\MyData. File changes in D:\Backups\MyData should NOT propagate to C:\MyData SyncToy options: - Files to include="*" - Check file contents is checked - Act…
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Offline Files
by Guest -Draino-- 7 replies
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Hi all, I am not sure why I would want to use offline files? Scenario is as follows: On my local workstation I have my document folder that I write and change files. On my server I have folder redirection enabled. If I change files on my local workstation they change on the server as well. If my server goes down I still have a local copy on my workstation. If I make any changes while the server is down....so what, they will get copied when the server comes back online.....right??? Am I missing something?? D -- For The Best Web Hosting Money Can Buy Go To: http://www.serverpoint.com/1028.html