Questions tagged [windows-server-2003]
Windows Server 2003 is a Microsoft server operating system released in April 2003, and reached End Of Life on July 14, 2015. It is the successor to Windows Server 2000 and is based on the Windows XP codebase. It was succeeded by Windows Server 2008.
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What is a good SSH server to use on Windows? [closed]
In my spare time I remotely support my wife's office via VPN into a Windows Server. I am about to purchase a wireless broadband service which doesn't support VPN.
I don't want to open up the remote ...
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things to check prior to moving all FSMO roles to a new domain controller before decommission original old domain controller
need to move a domain controller, the first in the forest that holds all the fsmo roles, to another location in a clients building. it will require turning off this dc, call it dc1 for this question. ...
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How to do a post-mortem of a server hack
I have a Windows Server 2003 SP2 machine with IIS6, SQL Server 2005, MySQL 5 and PHP 4.3 installed on it. This is not a production machine, but it is exposed to the world via a domain name. Remote ...
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What are the popular (free?) options for application deployment? [closed]
I manage a small school network with about 150 machines. I am looking for an easy way to deploy software to all the machines without having to visit each one.
I've used Symantec Ghost to get the ...
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Copy NT user accounts between servers
I've created about 50 user accounts on a Windows 2003 Server, and I'd like to copy those accounts to a new server, is this possible? I'm not using Active Directory.
Patrick
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How Often Do Windows Servers Need to be Restarted?
A little background: We have several Windows servers (2003, 2008) for our department. We're a division of IT so we manage our own servers. Of the four of us here I'm the only one with a slight amount ...
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How to identify who/what uses a Windows 2003 server?
How can I determine if a Windows 2003 server is still being used by anyone/thing, and if it is, what it is being used for?
I'm drawing a blank on what else to check other than event viewer to see ...
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Is there an equivalent of SU for Windows
Is there a way (when logged in as an administrator, or as a member of the administrators group) to masquerade as a non-privileged user? Especially in an AD environment.
e.g., in the Unix world I ...
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What ways there are to backup repositories for Windows VisualSVN?
At this moment we are using Visual SVN and we are backing up the entire repositories directory for visual svn. This backs up the entire data for each repository inside our svn engine. I am curious ...
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How do you monitor the health of a mirrored disk in Windows?
I have a Mirrored Dynamic disk on my Windows 2003 Server. How do you monitor the health of the volume?
Is there a way to have the server send an email when there is an issue with the volume?
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Do you run antivirus on your Windows servers?
Here's an argument that I've had at over a dozen companies:
Should you install an antivirus client on your Windows servers?
Obviously, you should not install AV on your SQL Server. I think there is ...
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Unable to Share Data between Amazon EC2 Instances for Windows
I have two Amazon EC2 Instances running Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6.0.
Both the instances are created in the same region and have the same Security Group.
I enables icmp for all ports and connection ...
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Querying DNS for CNAMEs for a server
Is there a way to query our internal DNS entries to discover all the CNAME entries that point to a particular server?
Edit: We're a Windows environment, Server 2003.
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Monitor a Windows Server using SNMP
How hard can this be? I want to get the current CPU performance from a remote Win 2k3 machine. I need to use SNMP because the machine is behind a firewall.
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I understand networking/can ...
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Expire Files In A Folder: Delete Files After x Days
I'm looking to make a "Drop Folder" in a windows shared drive that is accessible to everyone. I'd like files to be deleted automagically if they sit in the folder for more than X days.
However, it ...
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