Windows 2003 Server
Windows 2003 help and discussions.
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What's the best way to manage the user profile?
by Guest Holstein- 0 replies
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From time to time, we have some users loses profiles, and have to re-create or restore from the backup tape, especially it happens when multiple users log in one computer, or one user log in multiple computers. So just wondering what the best way to manage the user profiles? Our environment: Server: Windows 2000 server SP4 Workstation: Windows 2000 SP4 with UPHClean installed. thanks
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Server 2003 Enterprise Licence Issues
by Guest Martin- 2 replies
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Hi Guys Not sure whether this kind of thing is adddressed in this group or maybe I could be directed to a better one. Here is what I wanted Server 2003 Enterprise Edition 64bit From this I wanted to run virtual servers which the MS web pages say you can do included in your Enterprise Edition licence. Now, I bought the (hardware) server and the reseller sold me a copy of Enterprise OEM which only came with 64bit media and licence key. He did know I wanted it to run virtual servers at the time of placing the order. He's a gold partner. Now when I have installed it and wanted to set up the virtual servers he claims that afterall Microsoft won't all…
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Drive mappings in logon scripts...
by Guest Jake- 3 replies
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Hi, Shares are supposed to be hidden when its name is terminated with a dollar sign. However when assigning drive letters to shares in logon.bat scripts everybody is able to read everything. How can we avoid this..? regards jake
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Windows Server 2008
by Guest Meinolf Weber (Myweb)- 14 replies
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Hello me.compositor@gmail.com, Check your time, you are posting in the future. Best regards Meinolf Weber (Myweb) Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. > Is anyone aware of the condition whereby when windows boots to the > desktop it intermittently takes a great deal of time to become > responsive or often not at all? >
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Authentication tracking
by Guest Jim- 0 replies
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Hi, I have a 2k3 Server (std, sp2) with couple of 3rd part apps to track application usage (web, ftp, etc.). Within the application there is a file that has a hard coded username and password. The user who's username and password is being used within the app, has his account locked out when he changes his password. The developer does not recall where he might have placed his credentials (BAT, CFG, etc.). There are no services running using his account. I believe that this server sends the authentication request to run the file/app/process but eventually times out. I have checked the Event Viewer but I am not sure if this application or process h…
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Policy Problems
by Guest Charlie Brown- 0 replies
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I am attempting to correct the local Group Policy on a DC running Windows 2003. I am following step 2 of the following KB http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/933994 My policy is suddenly missing the entries which does not allow the network connection to come up, unfortunately group policy will not allow me to make changes while the network is down...I seem to be stuck in a loop with this one. Is there anyway I can force add the Administrators group to the correct key?
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unable to run terminal services application as domain user
by Guest RossB- 1 reply
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I wish to publish an application using citrix/terminal services on 2003 server. The issue is, I can run the application on the server using an admin account, but not using a domain user account. Error message is "run time error 31037, error loading from file". I have run a Process Monitor session in the background, but cannot see any file/registry permission issues. Are there any suggestions on what I should look for?
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Permissions for Administrative alerts
by Guest Patrik Lundin- 2 replies
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Is it possible to give normal user accounts permissions to send administrative alerts without placing them into the administrators group ? I looked all over the group policy editor but couldnt find anything that would allow me to do that, couldnt find anyhting on a google search either. If not what would you suggest as good replacement for this functionality that we can install ? We use it mainly for sending short messages when people are logged into the server through remote desktop. Thank you PL.
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Disk Quotas to Group..
by Guest LamSoft- 2 replies
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Is it possible to set Disk Quotas to Group rather than Individual User, because I am going to set more than 100 users disk quotas, if I have to set it individually, it is time costly.... In addition , that File Server is running Windows 2003 Server (not R2 and SP2), in Standalone mode (not joined to AD) Thanks.
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Downgrade BDC to simple server
by Guest Jean Paul Mertens- 4 replies
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Hello to all, I have a problem with a BDC (windows 2000 server) who does not see that the PDC (SBS 2000) is back on-line. I have got my PDC crashed,and for some reason the NT-Mirror had stopped some time ago. I have taken the PDC out of the network, and the BDC took over the security with no problem. I have put my (early stopped) mirror disk as master and restored alle backups so that the PDC is ok. I have put the PDC back in the network and had to disconnect (temporary set them to workgroup) all workstations and servers from the domain and then reconnect them to the domain. So far so good until I tried to do the same with my BDC but he keeps saying that there…
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CPU load due to having drives on a server compressed.
by Guest aengus- 9 replies
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Hi, A drive on a Windows 2003 server is compressed and a user is reading and writing files on that drive over the LAN from his desktop computer. Which computer is doing the processing associated with compressing and decompressing the data? Is it the server, or the user's desktop machine? Thanks, Aengus.
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what locks station without screen saver setting?
by Guest runner7@fastmail.fm- 1 reply
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I have been working at an SBS 2003 station as an admin and the screen locks after 1 minute of inactivity. There is no setting set in the screen saver to cause this, and I cannot figure out how it is happening. Can anyone give me a clue? Thanks for your help.
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DHCP problem
by Guest yifli- 18 replies
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Hi, My Windows XP Pro with SP2 box couldn't get DHCP offer when I tried to boot it from network. But it does not have problem with getting DHCP offer from the same DHCP server after the OS is up and running. I looked at Windows Network Monitor when I tried to network-boot the machine, I saw the machine sent a DHCP request and the DHCP server replied with a correct DHCP offer, but somehow the machine did not get that offer. Could anyone help me out? thx Yifei
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Installer always request high privileges to install but i don't configure it anywhere
by Guest ita.acco- 3 replies
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Hi all, in the last days i've rebuild from zero a small domain that i administrate. Now, i'm configuring the client but each time that i try to install something appears the pop-up that asking me to enter name and password of an administrator otherwise i can not install the software. It could be right IF i've set up that option via Group Policy, BUT i didnt!! So how can i install software with "normal" users?!? There are others points where i can configure that behavior further groups policy?!? Any help will very appreciated! Bye
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ntfs drive not correctly detected
by Guest Steffen Heil- 1 reply
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Hi I do have an external 400gb harddrive with usb2.0. I formatted it with windows xp as one partition with ntfs. Now I connected that usb drive to my windows 2003 sp2 32bit server, which told me, that would be a 80gb full harddrive. If I plug it back to windows xp it works quite fine. What can I do? I assumes 2003sp2 would accept large drives? Regards, Steffen
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system state backup
by Guest Steffen Heil- 1 reply
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Hi I need to backup a windows 2003 DC. If I do a systemstate backup, I requires about 1GB. Storing 1GB every day is quite a lot. However I don't seem not to be able to do incremental backups of the system state. How is this done correctly? Regards, Steffen
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read only on Longhorn Beta
by Guest Greg O- 0 replies
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Hello, On the Longhorn Beta when I share a folder it seems to revert to read only. I think it still allows files to be changed in it from across the network, but when I look at the folder on the local server it has read only ticked. I untick it and hit apply, it is then unticked. If I close the properties window of the folder and immediately reopen it the read only box is ticked again. I'm getting ticked off by this, pardon the pun. For example if I back up into this folder from another server the size of the file does not grow when I look in this folder in Windows Explorer. Then if I untick read only the size of the backup file suddenly jumps to the righ…
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MS Critical Patches - Reboot - Did not reboot.
by Guest Neil- 6 replies
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Hi, I applied couple of critical patches from April till now as the previous admins did not install any of these patches. But, one of my domain controller (which holds the Global Catalog) was rebooted after the patch install. Reboot command got issued, but it did not time out when I tried pinging with a -t for almost 30 minutes. So, I thought something is wrong. I tried RDP in again and could not. I have noticed this RDP problem cropping up from sometime in October of last year, when I applied patches and after that I could not RDP onto the server. I will have to reboot the server twice to get in through RDP again. Well this is not my main concern, b…
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The Semaphore Timeout Period Has Expired
by Guest William McIlroy- 2 replies
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My C# program is trucking along, reading and writing, reading and writing. Suddenly, and without warning, it is diverted by an exception, as follows: The Semaphore Timeout Period Has Expired. Sounds like the horse I bet on came in last. Obviously, a semaphore is a fancy Ivy League computer science department amalgamation of a counter and a critical code lock. My program does not use semaphores. But, I bet Windows does. What in heck is going on here? How many other creepy things, like this unexpected OS hallucination, must I deal with? And where? -- William McIlroy
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Server restarts after you choose Shutdown
by Guest Heath- 9 replies
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I was shutting down and powering off a few servers today and two of them would not shut down. I tried multiple times but each time they restarted instead. What could cause this?
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VSS and Open Files
by Guest Rick- 2 replies
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How does VSS handle open files, i.e. Word, Excel thanks Rick
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Terminal Services, Active Directory, Domains
by Guest DiFFeReNT- 3 replies
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I have a computer running Windows Server 2003 that I want to setup to be used exclusively as a Terminal Server. Basically I need to allow: a) Macs on the local network to remote desktop into the server (PC- only apps) and b) PCs/Macs outside the local network (WAN) to remote desktop into the server (access same two apps) It has to allow multiple users to be connected simultaneously. In addition, all terminal services users need to be "locked down", so only the two applications can be accessed, and the rest of the system can't be tampered with. After a failed Group Policy experiment, I now know that I need to use Active directory to setup security measures,…
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LSASS Memory Issue
by Guest Chris Daley - Dwebs Ltd- 9 replies
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Hi, Bit of an odd one this, we have two windows 2003 standard edition sp2 boxes, both had been up for around 30 days, then they were rebooted for the last lot of windows updates. When they came back online i started to notice the lsass process using large amounts of memory, currently after 10 days sitting at over 400mb. One box is the primary domain controller the other is a secondary, both run IIS and various other applications. I haven’t found as yet a way to reduce the amount of memory in use. Has anyone else seen this recently I did a google and a couple of people reported the same issue in July but didn’t find a solution.
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Download Windows Server??
by Guest Jeff- 2 replies
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Hey I wonder if there it is possible to download a tryout version or something of the Windows Server 2003 R2. I've checked at microsoft.com and it looks like they have removed this option. It is not available in the page showing the available tryouts... I just thought it could be a good idea of me to install it on a pc I got at home, and then set it as domain controller and put some of my other pc as members in that domain... My boss wants to me to do some network administration at work, so I thought maybe it could be a good idea to set up small network at home.. Where I can test different scenarios without worrying about crashing the entire server f…
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can not start Windows 2003 server. Pls help
by Guest yifli- 4 replies
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The screen of 'Preparing network connections....' is sitting there forever. What can I do? Yifei