Windows 2003 Server
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Upgrading Domain Controller with Standard SP1 to R2 - fails
by Guest Roberto R- 2 replies
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Recently i have been upgrading all the servers to R2 with the exception of DCs. Upon upgrading one dc it prompted me to update the schema which i did with adprep /forestprep. After i ran the setup to install R2- it asks for product key to enter (so it can update the old standard to standard R2) after i enter my R2 key it comes back with invalid key. Very strange since this same product key works on all other standard servers equipped with Standard SP1 that i converted to R2. I did a little investigating to see if this only happened on that specific dc, so i try to upgrade another different dc to R2 and after i enter the product key its says invalid. I veri…
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Windows rights management
by Guest Rob- 0 replies
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Is there any requirement that the files that are protected by WRM actually sit on a Windows file server? Can they sit on a SAN with LUNs presented to the Windows server or a NAS with CIFS shares? Thanks.
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stripe-unit size for Windows 2008/ Exchange 2007
by Guest Thinkpad21- 3 replies
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Hi, On a Windows 2008/Exchange 2007 SP1 Mailbox CCR Cluster ( Local disks with RAID ), what is the best/recomanded configuration for the stripe-unit size. Thanks !!!
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Beta License getting ready to expire what now..?
by Guest RJ- 0 replies
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Ok I hope I'm not alone in this... I have the Beta 6001 build of Windows Server®2008 Standard and the product key I was given when loaded is about to expire. I went through my MSDN account and got a key generated for OS, however thekey is not being accepted as valid. I called support, they said they do not have a key for Windows Server 2008, there is an issue with this and they are aware of it. They suggested I call an activiation number to have my activiation extended, the people on this number had no idea as to what I was asking about. My question is simple, How do I go about getting a new product key w/o uninstalling and reinstalling the OS..? …
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Everything went read only on NTFS
by Guest Brian McGrew- 0 replies
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Over the last weekend I tried to do a 1.5TB data migration from an old server to a new machine using xcopy. I didn't know about robocopy at the time. The old server is running Win2K3 ES. The new server is running Win2K3R2 ES. All the data copied but when it hit the destination all the permissions on the files were either gone or wrong. So I turned the shares on the older servers back on and figured I'd try it again this coming weekend. The problem is, on the OLD servers, all the data, files and folders has been set to read only. This is on two servers. Right clicking and going to properties won't let me remove the read only. Well, it acts like it's re…
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IPP vs smb print server
by Guest OM- 1 reply
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Hi, We are thinking using IPP as the primary printing protocol for our print server. Can anyone advice if there is any disadvantage compare with traditional smb printer server, e.g. administration and management? Thanks in advance.
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Scheduled Task Email Alert
by Guest Jose- 3 replies
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Is there any way to get notified by email when a windows scheduled task fails / succeeds. Please let me know either using a 3rd party software or scripts / batch files.
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WDS Server Management Rights
by Guest Andy504- 0 replies
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Hello, I currently have setup a working WDS server. I am a network administrator with domain admin rights and have no problem connecting to the services with the MMC snapin. Ideally we want the desktop support staff to connect using the MMC and manage the images instead of a net admin. When I have the support staff connect the MMC snapin says it cannot find the service on the selected server. It works when I add them to the local admin group on the server. It is not a desirable practice to add them to the local admin group on the server. WDS will be installed on some domain controllers in the smallers which do not have local groups. Ho…
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Robocopy and specific network adapters
by Guest Steve- 0 replies
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Hello I am setting up a script for robocopy and wondered if there is a way to tell robocopy to use a certain network adapter. I have dual adapters on both servers and want to use one from each connected to a gigabit switch (not connected to the network) for the file copy. I was thinking that I could specify the ip address I am using on each one like so. robocopy "\\172.21.1.200\file" "\\172.21.1.201\file" Would this be the proper way to specify the network adapters to use? The other adapters will be on the company network, while these 2 will not. Thanks Steve
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Printing from a PC outside domain
by Guest JohnBates- 14 replies
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I have a situation where we have 3 production stations that all have their own domains and on each there is a Printer attached to one of the PC's and shared. I have 1 mobile station that has a single PC on it that is used by each of the 3 prodution stations as needed. It is a stand alone workstation not joined to any of the 3 domains but... They occasionally need to print from the mobile station which has no printer of it's own. Is it possible to print from a computer that is not part of a domain to a printer that is part of a domain? If it helps - all 3 of the production stations are clones of each other including IP schemes. The mobile station has…
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Windows Server 2003 DNS Server question
by Guest MrHanMan- 1 reply
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We have a DNS Server running that is getting errors in the event log about being unable to connect to a domain controller. The thing is, we don't have a PDC, yet the server is set to join a domain. Does a DNS Server running Windows Server 2003 need to be a member of a domain, or can it be just in a workgroup? I checked the Configure Your Server log, and it was initially setup as a Domain Controller with Active Directory, but those were later removed along with the DNS server. The DNS server was immediately reinstalled, of course. Based on this information, I'm pretty sure it can be safely removed from the non-existent domain, but I would like to wait for co…
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Server not displaying the correct amount of memory installed
by Guest robbo- 3 replies
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Hi, I have installed 2gb of RAM into a HP DL380 G3 server running Windows 2003 standard version, but when I look at the system proerties through control panel it only shows 768mb of memory, I have run the HP Management agent on the server and looked at the config for the DIMM's and it displays all 4 slots have 512md sticks installed. is there a way of getting the OS to display the correct amount of memory installed? Thanks
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ABE not working
by Guest Bill- 1 reply
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no matter what I do, ABE appears to do nothing that it claims to do....anyone else have this issue? no matter how I set this up, you can still see all the folders that you have no rights to access. I am trying to to hide folder names that the users have no rights to. thanks, Bill
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Add Printer to All Users?
by Guest Kathy Meegan- 3 replies
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Hello, We don't use roaming profiles. We are testing out using a Windows print server, however, we found out that the Windows printers are dependent on the user profile of the logged in person. So the help desk can't install printers logged in as themselves because when the user logs in the printers aren't there. Is there any way to get around this so that printer installs would be workstation associated and not associated with a particular user? We are also concerned about when a user logs into a workstation other then there own they won't have any printers. Could printers be associated somehow to "All Users" or the workstation so that whoever l…
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Runas not running
by Guest future2Bunknown- 5 replies
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When I run "runas", it shows me " attempting to start xxx.exe as user "xxxx"" then nothing happens. No event reported. If I run "runas" from the context menu, the explorer crashes. Event ID 1002 (winlogon) is reported: "the shell stopped unexpectedly and explorer.exe was restarted". Secondary Logon service is running. Any help is appreciated.