Windows 2003 Server
Windows 2003 help and discussions.
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Slow XP logon times
by Guest Aaron- 6 replies
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Had a Windows 2000 AD domain with 2000 pro clients using roaming profiles. Insalled a few XP machines and they are taking up to four minutes to logon to the network using roaming profiles. Installed a new 2003R2 server and moved FSMO roles. Still kept the 2000 server as a domain controller with the 2003 server. I can logon with no wait at all on the XP machines if not logging in as a roamin profile user. Only when logging in with credential of roaming user does the XP logon times take so long. DNS is pointing to the new server first and the profiles are kept on the new servers. What could be taking the XP pcs so long to long in compared to the quick…
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A Question about Scripting
by Guest Asif Razzaq Attari- 3 replies
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I have a question about Windows scripting to create bulk users, I am unable to find newsgroup related to scripting. Where I post my question related to scripting. -- I like Microsoft Newsgroups, Which provides help me. Thanks you Microsoft
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Block Level drive copy
by Guest freedom rock- 2 replies
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Is there a utility that works with Windows 2003 that would allow me to do a block level copy of a disk from one server to another? I have to replace a server, and the data drive has millions of small files on it. It takes 14+ hours to copy the data using ROBOCOPY and it's only a 64 gig volume. Thanks Dan H Canton, MA
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RSHSVC question
by Guest freedom rock- 0 replies
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I'm trying to get rshsvc from the Windows 2000 resource kit to work on Win 2K3, but I'm running into problems. When I try to send a remote command from one host to another I get a "Access Denied" message. The instructions are a bit sparse, and I have tried with a hosts.equiv, and a rhosts file that I've tried in several folders with no success. Does anyone know where the files should be located? Can I use IP addresses in the files instead of domain names? Thanks Dan H Canton, MA
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Help and support missing
by Guest Alang- 5 replies
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Windows 2003 server SP2. Just found Help and support is not there. Got the message "Windows cannot open Help and Support because a system service is not running. To fix this problem, start the service named 'Help and Support'" I found the microsoft KB article at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937055 and followed the instructions but on the second command I got this "C:\WINDOWS\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Binaries>HSCUpd.exe -i HSCmui.cab Error (hr = 8007041d): The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion." Also the third command line refers to hscsp_e3.cab where the file I have is hscsp_s3.cab. I am not an expert. The sy…
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Date changes too late - at 00:10:00
by Guest Beebob- 0 replies
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On a 2003 server running MS-SQL the internal clock changes the date 10 minutes past midnight. The time is running correct, but from 00:00:00 to 00:10:00 the date is "yesterday". The server is part of a NT4-domain, and the "Windows Time" service is running. On some of the other servers and PC's in the network we're running the K9nt time service, but not on this particular server. Other servers - independent of the K9nt service - is changing the date correct. Any suggestions ? Jorgen Beck-Bang IT Administrator
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recommend ftp host?
by Guest Neil Jarman- 1 reply
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Hi, Can anyone recommend a host with large storage which allows me to backup systems via ftp? I have tried with 2 companies so far (ixhosting and siteground) both offer large spaces (300 & 500 Gb resp) but the former demands all files be linked to web (?) and the latter restricts storage of many filetypes to 5Gb so both are absolutely NO USE whatever for backup. Can't afford to rent a dedicated server - this has been suggested already! Cheers, NEIL:
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How to logon when local server is unavailable?
by Guest chris.wilkins10@virgin.net- 1 reply
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Hi All, I'm setting up a Domain controller and file server for our three branch offices connected by a VPN. Each office will have one of each in each office. Number of users in the office are 35, 22 and 6. The aim is to have a pair of servers (DC and File server) in each office to act as backup for the others if a local DC becomes unavailable. There is one domain ie. 'mydomainname.local'. I was planning to place the DNS server on the same PC as the DC. My question is. If one of the office the Domain controller (with DNS server installed) fails. What is the best set up to allow users in that office to still logon to one of the two remaining DC's in the other …
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I am new to our Applications team at work and I have struck a strange issue on one of the servers holding the application I look after. The problem is...when I try to create a new SQL ODBC connection or try to configure a SQL ODBC connection, the whole box terminates itself. It just disappears. I have tried re-installing the windows service pack 1 which didn't resolve the issue. I have also tried re-installing the MDAC on this box which made no difference. I have a test version of the server running same OS and Service Pack and has the same applications installed onto it. This test box works fine. I have tried copying over the SQLSRV32.DLL file from the t…
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Server 2K3 on a laptop...in Virtual PC
by Guest Wm.Holden- 2 replies
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Here's my situation: I'm a college student taking courses on Server 2003. The only machine I have to put it on is my Gateway MX6453 laptop, which is running Vista Business. I have Virtual PC 2007 and have Server 2003 Enterprise Edition running on a Virtual machine allocated with 25 GB of disk space and 1 GB of memory. Problem: Drivers, drivers, drivers. Question: Which ones do I use? All I can find are the XP drivers for my equipment. Are these compatible with Server 2003, are the drivers based on the same principles like Windows 2000 and XP? Thanks for reading this...any replies will be appreciated.
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frd*.tmp files for folder redirection
by Guest D Waz- 0 replies
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I am having an issue with Home Folder redirection. After 3 years of using this, we have begun to have an issue where the entire contents of the redirected folder (using AD folder redirection) are being replace with 0 KB files with names of frd*.tmp. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Access Is Denied - HELP!
by Guest Dave Durand- 3 replies
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Scenario... Two forests, one domain (parent only) in each forest. User accounts are in DOMAIN1 and I have some disk shares in DOMAIN2 that I'd like to grant access to. First off there is a trust between both domains. The trust isn't transitive but I'm assuming that is because neither domain has any child domains....please correct if I'm wrong. Each side of the trust is configured with Domain-wide authentication. To grant the permissions, I created a universal group on DOMAIN1 and put my users in the group. On DOMAIN2 I created a domain local group and put the universal group from DOMAIN1 into the previously created domain local group on DOMAIN…
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Quota Manager - "Account Unavailable"
by Guest lforbes- 0 replies
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Well I am usually pretty good about deleting the files before I delete the user. However, I now have a collection of Quotas with "account information unavailable" because I have deleted the user. I do click "delete" but often it takes about 4 min to view the files which is a bit ridiculous. I can't just take control of the upper folder because it contains all my users. I also have it showing 1kb when there is "nothing" in the Quota File/Folder list to delete? I am thinking of doing an xcacls run to see what folders don't have users. Does anyone else have any other suggestions to get rid of these quotas? Thanks Lara
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Moving DC/Exchange to new Site
by Guest Rick- 2 replies
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Looking for some expert advice here on a move that I am going to be making. Trying to avoid any problems. We are in the process of keeping many roles on one server to spreading them out. In the process we are moving production into a data center. All are running 2003 r2, fully patched. Exchange is 2003 as well, fully patched. Site 'Main' in AD. 192.168.2.0 network Main office we have 3 servers. Server A - DC/DNS/GC/Exchange/File (All Op Masters) Server B - BES Server C - DC/DNS/GC/Print Site 'Data' in AD 192.168.8.0 network This is the new Site Server 1 - DC/DNS/GC Site 'Branch' in AD 192.168.4.0 network Server X - DC/DNS/GC Nothing happening …
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Using Virtual Pc with Windows server 2003
by Guest Bill Y- 1 reply
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I've installed Virtual Pc onto my Pc and have installed Windows svr2003 std. When I run svr 2003, and go to gpedit.msc try to make a change in Windows Setting for lets say password length, (want to change it from 7 to 10) its shaded in gray. Actually everything looks to be shaded in gray. Why can't i make changes. I've installed Virtual Pc in order to try things here before doing it live on my Server. need Help. thanks. bill
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ntbackup does not overwrite used tape
by Guest tree leafs- 0 replies
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Hi, setup a scheduled daily backup using ntbackup, however, it seems unable to overwrite a used tape even though in job setup it is opted to do so. In the report, it says: cannot locate the specified media or backup device. What was wrong and how to fix it? thanks in advance,
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How to logon when local server is unavailable?
by Guest chris.wilkins10@virgin.net- 0 replies
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Hi All, I'm setting up a Domain controller and file server for our three branch offices connected by a VPN. Each office will have one of each in each office. Number of users in the office are 35, 22 and 6. The aim is to have a pair of servers (DC and File server) in each office to act as backup for the others if a local DC becomes unavailable. There is one domain ie. 'mydomainname.local'. I was planning to place the DNS server on the same PC as the DC. My question is. If one of the office the Domain controller (with DNS server installed) fails. What is the best set up to allow users in that office to still logon to one of the two remaining DC's in the other …
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Windows 2003 R2 Server Searching
by Guest Chad Guiney- 0 replies
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I have noticed a problem when I use the search tool in Windows Server 2003 R2. I was going through the server searching for all *.jpg files and when I did it pretty much took the server down to a crawl and I had users calling me one after the other asking why the server was so slow. What is going on when I am doing the searching? I have checked the indexing service in administrative tools and it is turned off and I have the option to not use indexing in the search options. Where else could the problem be?? Thanks in advance.
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The Backup File Contains unrecognized data and cannot be used.
by Guest Techdewd49- 0 replies
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I’m currently in the process of testing a Disaster Recovery Plan. The plan consists of total loss of hardware, and restoring recent backups to different hardware. I have a server setup with similar volume info and the same version and release of server 2003 std. sp1. I receive the following error message while running NT Backup(Restore Wizard), The backup file contains unrecognized data and cannot be used. I’m trying to restore a backup from the Hypothetically (lost server) to the new (New Hardware) Server. I’ve run the backup on the current server and tried to restore to the new server, but keep getting the same error message. Can anyone point me…
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Need help with Spooler service crashes
by Guest RMGilmore- 3 replies
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Our Windows sewrver 2003 X64 Spooler service keeps crashing (around10 times a day) Event log shows 7031 sc query spooler = WIN32_exit_ code = 1067 Dr Watson below. Application exception occurred: App: C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe (pid=1140) When: 9/28/2007 @ 10:35:43.703 Exception number: c0000005 (access violation) *----> System Information <----* Computer Name: IBM User Name: SYSTEM Terminal Session Id: 0 Number of Processors: 2 Processor Type: AMD64 Family 15 Model 65 Stepping 2 Windows Version: 5.2 Current Build: 3790 Service Pack: 2 Cu…
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login slow
by Guest Newbie- 4 replies
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Hello, We have Windows 2003 server ans ISA 2004. One user takes about 3~5 min. to login to server, but other users use same computer only take 10~30 sec. i.e. user01 uses ws01 or ws02 to login ~ 3 to 5 minutes user02 uses ws01 or ws02 to login ~ 10 to 30 seconds user01 and user02 have same settings. Thanks
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terminal server session director
by Guest Phill- 0 replies
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We have two terminal servers network load balanced with session director configured. The idea with session director is that if a user logs on and then disconnects then when he next connects the user will be directed to his disconnected session. We have an issue in that it does not work all the time. Not sure if it's linked to the subnet that the user connects from. There is nothing mentioned about this but from observing what happens plus the users connect in the office and then from remote sites, it maybe a factor. Has anyone else used it and had similar issues and perhaps fixed it. I have been through all the articles I can find on TechNet plus the whi…
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getting an updated resource kit tool
by Guest Scott Klassen- 0 replies
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I was directed to a new version of the acctinfo.dll ADUC addon, with increased functionality, by an MVP. He said to get it from a TAM. Only problem is that we're a mid-sized business without an enterprise contract, so no TAM. I called PSS and was forwarded to a rep in India who didn't have a clue what I was talking about and wanted to charge me for a support call to look into it. Anyone have a better idea where I can get the updated tool version? acctinfo2.dll Version: 1.0.0.1125 Date: 21/08/2007 File size: 335,872 bytes
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recommendations for newbie Win2003 server admin
by Guest Steve- 0 replies
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I'm hoping someone can point me in the direction of a good book or web site. Am looking for a foundation of understanding Windows 2003 Server user groups. I have recently set up a Win2003 file server as part of a corporate domain with domain users. The domain is controlled elsewhere. All domain users currently have read and write access to a shared directory. I would like to set up a group of domain users that have read/write access and restrict all other domain users to just read access. I need to be able to understand how to do this as well as how Active Directory works. Any pointers would be really appreciated. Thanks...
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How to install recovery console in Service Pack 2 of Windows 2003?
by Guest guillermo_bcn2- 2 replies
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I try to install the recovery console in Windows Server 2003 Service pack 2 and i receipt and error, is similar to this " the version of the OS is newer than the installation files, process aborted". How i can install the recovery console in 2003 SP2? Thanks.