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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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 can I get a list of shared directories on local Windows server?
If I have a Windows server (typically 2000, 2003 or 2008), is there a simple way to list all local directories shared on that server?
I can find the shares themselves easily enough, but I would love ...
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PowerShell? Do you use it? Can you show me some cool system administration things I can do with it? [closed]
I keep reading everywhere that PowerShell is the way of the future. When it was first released I did a whole bunch of virtual labs, but since then I still haven't used it in a production environment. ...
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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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Suppressing the "reason" for shutdown on Windows Server
How can I suppress giving a reason for shutdown on a Windows Server host?
Specifically, on 2008 R2, but all versions back to 2003 and up to 2012 would be appreciated.
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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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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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Increase number of allowed remote desktop connections
Windows Server 2003 allows 2 non-console and one console remote desktop connections. Is there a way to increase the number of non-console sessions allowed?
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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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How do I determine what my DHCP server is?
I have a sad network left behind by some careless administrators - I am in the process of figuring out exactly what services are running where, not excluding the possibility that some services are ...
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Can Robocopy be made to skip open files?
We are using Robocopy to redistribute files which arrive via FTP in a drop folder. Ideally we want Robocopy to leave files alone if they are still being FTPd.
Having tried various switches, Robocopy ...
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Active Directory Health Checks
I've had some Active Directory troubles lately was was wondering what checks I could do on a regular basis I could do to ensure everything is working optimally?
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How to remotely reboot a hung server
I'm trying to remotely reboot a hung 2003 server.
The server is pingable but I cannot remote into it.
psshutdown does not work
shutdown -i does not work
What can I do now that the server is back ...
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Windows File and Folder "Attributes" A or C
In Windows Server 2003, in the "Attributes" column of windows explorer, some files have "A" or "C" or "AC" or others. What do these mean?
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