Windows 2003 Server
Windows 2003 help and discussions.
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Page File Usage
by Guest EricPaul- 0 replies
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I'm in a quandry over page file usage... I have a Windows 2003 server that has 4GB of RAM. Using performance counters it seems that the Pagefile has been set by the OS to 3.2 GB. I am getting Virtual Memory errors and the page file is filling up, but there is still RAM available. The page file will be full but task manager still shows that there is roughly 3GB of RAM available. I know the system always uses some virtual memory but it seems odd to run out of virtual memory before you run out of real RAM. Has anyone else had a problem like this? Am I missing something?
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Win2K3 - R2 hanging problem.
by Guest abckid- 0 replies
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Hi, I have installed a new Win2K3 - R2 Server as member server of the domain; with roles of File Server and Print Server. We have folder share for users on the server and all users are mapped to this share. Folders have rights as per different groups and users. The problem is that sometimes the response for users accessing the files on the server is very slow. Its fine normally, but suddendly the access to any file or while saving it hangs for sometime and gets back normal. There are no sort of errors in the event viewer or any sort of performance issue. I have enabled the File screening option to block audio, video and installer files as per bui…
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Secret Sector Backdoor / Security Breach
by Guest Security.Concerned.User@gmail.com- 3 replies
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Hello everyone, Recently I've realized that Windows XP Pro (SP1) secretly writes data to hard-disk sector(s) that were beyond its installation-partition boundaries; at that time I used a basic Windows XP installation on a 3-GB partition, and the rest of the harddisk was unformatted, for all Windows cared. I should also mention that my WinXP partition is formatted on FAT32, but I am capable of accessing NTFS partitions, if need be, using NTFS4DOS, (which I didn't). Obviously I was only able to have discovered that with an MSDOS-run Disk Editor capable of accessing all 160 million sectors of my 80GB hard disk, and making a text-based datafile containing se…
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Slow Auto Logon in Windows XP
by Guest news.microsoft.com- 0 replies
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Hi all, I have a problem for slow auto logon without any domain (just a workgroup) for running in Fujistu P7230 notebook. After loading the personal setting, it has to wait almost 1 minutes to load the desktop icons. I have tried to delete the profiles and use other accounts to auto logon and it still does not help. My method for auto logon is change the registry key to autoadminlogon key to 1. And if my machine does not has any slow problems if I do not set any auto logon. Please advise. Thanks, Ivan
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Hi We currently have machines (mostly winxp and linux) setup using static ip addresses, manually configured on each computer. We now want to implement DHCP and use reservations for all the PCs. However, we want to use the IP addresses they are already on (we can see these in DNS). What we need is a list of these IP addresses along with machine name and MAC address so that we can put them into the dhcp reservations, either manually or via some sort of import/export utility. Does anyone know an easy way around this ? arp -a seems a bit unreliable and doesn't give us machine name. thanks
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Conditional Tak Scheduling
by Guest jeff- 2 replies
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I'm looking for a way to start a scheduled task based on the existance of a file or (condition) is this possible...scripting...third party tool..etc...?? Advice, suggestions, example....much appreciated... Thanks
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Upgrade to 2003 SP2 R2
by Guest Stijn- 3 replies
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Hello, We have a W2003 SP2 server. We have the original CD's of W2003 SP1 R2. Can we use this CD2 to upgrade to SP2 R2. Thanks in advance
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Tweak Windows XP
by Guest depp1111@gmail.com- 3 replies
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Blog about optimizing, repairing and tuning Windows XP. If you want to improve reliability of your operating system or you just need some useful tips visit this blog: http://online-windows-xp.blogspot.com/
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security log file size
by Guest inenewbl- 1 reply
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Hi all. I have set the security log size to 4194240KB. But it seems my security log file size would not exceed 506MB. Why is this so? Any way i can solve this? Thks in advance.
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W32Time Log
by Guest Erik Larsson- 0 replies
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Hi all, I'm working on a server system that uses NTP/w32tm to synchronize its clock. That part works fine for me. The problem is that I need to log, in my application, when a time-sync is done and the current offset. I also would like to log the wait time. My solution to that was to turn on the debug log and parse that file every time something new is added. I can then search for the strings a need to log in my application. This thing is that I can't parse the file in my application. When a open it in notepad it's ok. It seems to be in Unicode. But when a try to read it with fgetws/fgets and some Unicode conversion it will just be foobar. So my question. …
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configuring multihomed server
by Guest runner7@fastmail.fm- 0 replies
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I would like to know if you need to have RRAS services installed and/ or a configured routing table on a multihomed Windows Server 2003 server. Is it possible to just use 2 or more network adapters on the server without the server having to be configured as a router? Any help or links to documents about this would be most appreciated.
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Print Servers on VMWare
by Guest JayDee- 0 replies
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We are looking to set up a few print servers with as many queues as possible - we expect light utilization of most of the printers (a few documents an hour maybe). According to what I've read in Microsoft's "Print Server Scalability and Sizing Technical Overview" document, having upwards of 1,500 (or even 2,000) queues on a server should not be a problem. I'm thinking about using a VMWare virtual server instance to perform this function, and I have not been able to locate much on the internet regarding the relationship between VMWare and high-utilization print servers. If you know something (warnings, etc), please let me know! Thanks... - JmD
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Services List
by Guest SmithSmith001- 1 reply
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Can you please show me the link in the web for a list of services used by Windows XP Professional (SP2 is installed)? Thank you, Smith
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Postive feedback on extending my primary partition using DELL's ExtPart Utility
by Guest sbs newbie- 0 replies
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I got a DELL PE 4600. I am using a Perc 3Di RAID Controller with dual channels. On one channel I have my OS running on a mirrored RAID 0 (2x 36GB) On the second channel I have a RAID 5 striped set (5x73 GB) that includes a hot spare. I've just added a new drive to my RAID 5 array and need to extend the primary partition. I do not want to use the new drive as an extended partition. I'm not looking for suggestions as I have already posted this and got some great feedback on it. What I am seeking is some success stories on anyone who has used DELL's ExtPart utility to extend the primary partition. I've talked to DELL and I got mixed feedback and also they say we do …
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MIB's
by Guest SuperSlueth- 0 replies
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does anyone know where I can get a MIB that will monitor hard disks i'm try to get the disk free space as a percentage of the total disk space and use it in snmp.
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ad prep fix question
by Guest locc- 3 replies
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the question is refering to the following http://www.petri.co.il/windows_2003_adprep_fix_for_e2k.htm I don't know if I need the fix or not, but will it hurt anything if I do run this fix? In other words, I can run this without actually needing the fix and it will have no ill effects on the domain. I am currently in a 2000 domain, with one DC and several member servers and an exchange server. Basically from what I read and researched apply adprep fix. run adprep /forestprep run adprep /domainprep join 2003 server and run dcpromo demote 2000 dc join 2nd 2003 server and install exchange move mailboxes from old exchange to new exchange Please let …
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Profiles
by Guest aja44- 0 replies
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I work in a school environment and have many labs and each lab has different model computers. I would like to configure a user profile that will load based on the computer they are logging into and have that profile locked so that they cannot update or change anything. I have created GPO's that disable the ability to change the backgrounds and save, removed Picture and Fax viewer from displaying the ability to set an image as a background when the kids right click on it and have disabled the context of Internet Explorer so that the students cannot right click on an IE page and set that image as a background. But somehow, they still manage to find a way …
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can I network and older server with a new sysrem
by Guest Mark- 4 replies
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We just bought 2 huge ( well I thin they are huge) servers with W2k3 + Terminal Services and a Server with SBS 2003 and Exchange 2003. Question, Can our outdated older Server, with W2k3 and 5 licenses be networked with the new domain, and turned into a usable workstation. Or must it be reprogrammed with something like XP Pro? Is there ting we can do with the old 5 W2K3 licenses onboard, or do they just sit there? We'd like to make it just a networked workstation.. Thanks..in advance. Mark
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ntp time server
by Guest kjs- 5 replies
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I have a 2003 server that is the active domain controller. I want it to be the btp authoritative server to give out time to clients. I want it to get time from an external source. I followed Article ID 816042 and my server still does not get time from an external source. Am i missing something?
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Volume Shadow Copy -- Client Side API
by Guest ShahM802@gmail.com- 0 replies
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Hi I am in the process of updating/migrating our home brew Document management system from netware to microsoft. In the process I we ( the development team) realized that microsoft has a technology that would provide a feature similar to novell's "salvage file" feature. This is a huge part of our application and is a major plus for our end users. My question is, is there any client side api for returning the "previous versions" of a file so that I can list them within our application? i'm looking for functionality that is similar to the "previous version" tab that is available through the client side file properties dialog. Thanks in advance.
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Ntbackup error specified media not found & invalid drive & no acce
by Guest hmatthews- 4 replies
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Hello, I have three servers that exist in a DMZ and I use the Kanguru data bank (external hard drive) as the place to store the data. There are two drives and I have 156GB free space on one drive and 212GB of free space on the other; the file system is NTFS and it's attached via USB to server 1. Server 1's backups are running as they should for daily and weekly but server 2 & 3 are failing with the following issues. Server 1 - Windows 2000 SP4 - has the Kanguru attached via USB and is working correctly. Server 2 - Windows 2003 SP2 - not running as scheduled and when I try to run it manually it tells me that the destination is not valid or th…
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Server Licensing
by Guest Fustrated- 1 reply
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Hello I have just moved to a company that purchased, in 2005, several Server and Exchange CALs under an eOpen agreement. This agreement is now showing up as expired in the eOpen website. Does this mean we are now no longer eligible to upgrades and support but we still on the licences. Or to stay legal do we need to upgrade the licences? Many Thanks Neil
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group policy drive mapping
by Guest Kelly Armitage- 9 replies
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I have a question that should be simple yet I always have issues mapping drives using group policy. I connect to server 2003, joining the domain on a windows xp pro pc. On the server I have group policy set on the OU which contains my user. Under windows settings / logon I have a simple script to map a drive. the drive maps yet disconnects eventually requiring me to log off and on to re-run the script. (or mapping the drive manually) and i cant understand why such a simple thing is such an issue for me. the script file is called logon.bat and the batch file looks like this NET USE z: \\server01\archives$ /PERSISTENT:yes can anyone make any sug…
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Folder Permissions
by Guest M T- 0 replies
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The diagram below depicts the scenario. A level 1 folder contains an access db. This db automatically creates the level 2 & 3 folders. I want users to be able to use the db to create the level 2 & 3 folders, but once created, I do not want them to be able to delete, move, or rename the folders. They should, however, be able to add files to the level 2 & 3 folders, as well as edit/rename/modify/change any file in these folders. Is this possible? What would the permissions be? Level 1 Folder |_____ Level 2 |_____ Level 3 |_____ Level 3 |_____ Level 2 |_____ Level 3 |_____ db.mdb (Users are using Windows XP SP2.......I can only…
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Changing Server IP Addresses.
by Guest Rich B- 0 replies
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Hello, I have two DC running Windows 2000. I have gone through the steps to prepare the 2000 servers for two new 2003 DC's. There were no problems with the preparation of the 2000 servers or the installation/promotion of the new servers. I have DNS installed and I am in the process of copying the DCHP and WINS databases to the new servers. We have over 100 thin clients over a very large geographical area that do not use DHCP so what I would like to do before I decommission the 2000 servers is to change the IP addresses of the new servers to the old servers and visa versa. Does anyone know if there are any problems with doing this? -- Rich