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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Dynamic ARP Entries turning into Static ARP entries
I recently acquired a client that has a strange ARP caching issue on one of thier servers.
I have a server that will eventually start turning it's dynamic ARP entries into static ARP entries. This ...
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What does tracert make NETBIOS work on Win7?
This is really strange - I have a workaround for this (read on), but I'd love to know why it works.
I had a VPN setup working fine with a WinServer2003 server and a Vista client.
Then I setup a new ...
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Re-importing (Virtual) Foreign Disks on Windows 2003
I have a virtualized Windows 2003 Server machine with one basic disk (boot drive) and three Dynamic disks. The machine is running in an VMWare ESXi server.
I had to remove the three dynamic disks ...
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Active Directory account lockout policy not working on Macs
I am running AD on Windows Server 2003 and made sure our account lockout policy is set to 5 attempts before an account gets locked. It works on any Windows computer running XP/Vista/7/8, but the ...
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How do I fix a custom Event Viewer Log that merges automatically with the Application log?
I am trying to create a custom event log for a Windows Service on Windows Server 2003. I would like to name the custom log "(ML) Startup Commands". However, when I add a registry key with that name to ...
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Windows Server 2003 IPSec Tunnel Connected, But Not Working (Possibly NAT/RRAS Related)
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I have setup a "raw" IPSec tunnel between a Windows Server 2003 (SBS) machine and a Netgear FVG318 according to the instructions in Microsoft KB816514. The configuration is as follows (...
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Server 2003 Missing NETLOGON Folder
I've just started working for a new company where there was perviously no-one really managing the IT environment, and it's quite a small company that has only one Domain Controller (plus other servers ...
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Windows Server 2003 terminal server extreme logon times
For the past week my users have been experiencing extreme logon times. They are generally in the 20 minute range or more. I will lay out my research below to see if anyone may know how to find the ...
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MFT corruption on non boot drive. What could happen?
I have a server that is reporting some error messages related to NTFS corruption.
It reports that there is possible corruption within d:\$mft
However I have not come across any corruption, or ...
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Time on Windows Server 2003 off by ten minutes
I have a DC server that runs a network of about 20 computers. This is also the DC and pushes out the time to all the client computers.
However the time on the server is 10 minutes fast and is causing ...
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(Virtual) Windows Server console: Black screen
When connecting to our virtual Windows 2003 Server (SBS 2003 SP2) via a normal RDP session, everything works fine. However, when connecting with /admin to get to the console session, the following ...
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W2K3 CA server gone offline, how to clean my AD?
We have decommissioned an old W2K3 DC server, on which was a CA installed.
The CA wasn't really used (no PKI infrastructure), just was here as a test.
After the server 's gone offline, I have several ...
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Use 2008 R2 and 2003 server domain and LDAP with Windows 8.1 and Windows 10?
I have two server domain one with Windows Server 2003 server and other Windows Server 2008 R2.
With this can I use Windows 8.1 and 10 clients to connect with domain and apply policies?
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How to check what process or application is deleting a file without using Process Monitor? (Windows Server)
Currently I'm having an issue with a piece of software that makes use of specific files (which are basically xml), sometimes stored on a file share and sometimes stored locally.
Every so often one of ...
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Network Load Balancing 2003 to 2012 R2 Upgrade
We currently have a 3 node windows 2003 NLB cluster running in Multicast mode, for a IIS web cluster. We want to upgrade to 2012 R2. About 15 sites/IP addresses total.
Can you run 2012 R2 nodes in ...
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