Questions tagged [windows-server-2003]
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How can I setup a Ubuntu virtualbox on win 2003 and access it from the internet?
How can I setup a Ubuntu virtualbox on win 2003 and access it from the internet?
I'm new to the virtual concept ( and networking ) and I can't connect to my virtual Ubuntu machine from the internet.
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Auto defragmentation of SSD
I added a SSD to a 2003 server. I heard there is some kind of auto defrag in windows which is disabled for SSDs from windows 7 only.
Is there a way to disable the auto defrag in Windows 2003 Server?
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How to set up backups for MySQL databases a windows server?
I am new to MySQL, I have used MS SQL Server up to this point, so forgive my ignorance.
We are hosting on a Rackspace dedicated server and they can set up nightly backups on a directory. Currently, ...
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How to change the icons to default to xls format?
I have installed both Microsoft office 2007 & Open office 3.2 on my windows 2003 server.
The icons when I check shows up in the open office format even though it opens up using Microsoft office ...
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Windows 7 doesn't connect to mapped drives at start up
We are testing Windows 7 (32bit version) and logon to a windows 2003 domain that runs a logon script whichs maps our drive letters. We have no control over the domain. Of our 7 test users, 5 ...
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Assign hostname to IP without editing hosts file
I need to addhosts temporarily and multiple times to Windows and would like to be able to do so without having to constantly edit the system32\drivers\etc\hosts file, since the changes only need to ...
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How to manually run Windows Update for Windows 2003?
I'd like to manually run Windows update without accessing the Windows update web site. Could you give me a hand?
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Unlocking a PC inside a network environment
Sometimes I run against the problem that someone has locked its PC but I need to look and see if I can reboot that PC.
Is there a remote way to unlock the PC without logging out the user that is ...
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Set the standard size and list view for windows file open dialog permanently
On a windows server 2003 system (I guess it would be the same solution on windows xp) the standard file open dialog of the operating system is used by most software, for example firefox.
Many times I ...
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how can I add the http command to netsh?
In the msdn docs for ssl configuration, there's this command:
netsh http show sslcert
But on my machine (Server 03) I don't have httpcfg command (looked in many places), netsh doesn't have the http ...
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Remote desktop to Win2k3 server starts new session
I use RD to connect to a number of remote servers over a VPN. This VPN can sometime drop out unexpectedly and then it seems to be a lottery as to whether I can connect back to the same RD session I ...
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Windows Server 2003, file downloads
I'm having problems downloading a file to a Windows Server 2003 machine. The file is of type .msi. When visiting the page I get the following message:
Internet Explorer cannot download <filename&...
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remote desktop on microsoft windows 2003: licensing issue
it seems that I can't connect with remote desktop to a Windows 2003 machine cause of licensing issue.
I understand that if I connect only with one user it should work, what's the problem?
When I try ...
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Clicking program tab on Taskbar in server 2003 brings two windows
This is a crazy problem.
I am using server 2003 as my development machine.
When I click a "program icon" (Don't know if that is the right word) in the task bar, sometimes it will bring the program I ...
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Address Linux VMWare Guest by Hostname
This question is very similar to this one, except the host machine is Windows Server 2003 instead of OSX.
Essentially I need to be able to SSH (via cygwin and/or PuTTy) from the host machine into a ...
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W3c Markup Validator on Windows 2003 with Apache
OS = Windows 2003 (latest sp / hotfixes etc)
Perl = Active Perl 5.8.9 Build 825
Apache 2.2.11
Followed the following How-To:
http://validator.w3.org/docs/install_win.html
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How to find out an unknown PC Server's IP without Monitor
I have a PC Server running but without a monitor. The OS is Windows Server 2003. I can connect my laptop to its network interface. How can I find out its IP?
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Windows 7: Using schtasks to run on a WinServer2003
I need to run several scheduled tasks remotely on a WinServer2003 machine. When my OS was WinXP-32 it worked quite fine with a command like "schtasks /run /s \\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx /tn ScheduledTaskName".
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Change eval 2k3 licence to a tech net licence
Am currently using the free 120 eval version of Server 2003 that come with the MCSA MS Press books. Awkwarly my studies have progressed less quickly than I hoped (I blame the Bad Idea Bears) and the ...
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How may I use other server features on Windows Home Server without breaking it?
I am hoping to run some virtual machines, IIS, SQL Server, MOSS, and Team Foundation Server on my HP MediaSmart Server 495, probably not all at the same time. There is a frightening warning message ...
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Standalone mounting utilty for Windows Server 2003 x64?
I am in need of a mounting utility that can mount ISO images virtually to a machine that is a standalone application without an installation.
I know of Magic Disc and Daemon tools but they both ...
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Outlook 2007 and Sharepoint Services Issue
We have a Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS 3.0) Project Management site on one of our Windows 2003 servers.
We are trying to give our users access to forms showing them the status of their requests ...
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Windows vs Windows Server
How does Windows Server differ from any other Windows, say Windows XP?
Does it have an inbuilt server of some kind? I can always start a server on any Windows machine, so I don't understand what ...
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Microsoft DNS and Hosts with Multiple IP Adresses
I'm running a Microsoft DNS Server for AD. One of my Servers has two NICs and hence two IP Adresses (192.168.0.10 and 192.168.1.10). The IP Adresses are intentionally in different Subnets, the 1.10 ...
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Remove Windows server 2003 from my laptop that has both Windows 2003 and Ubuntu
I need to uninstall the Windows 2003 instance from my laptop which has both Ubuntu and Windows server instances installed on it. I am unsure if this is possible and what would be the best method to ...
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Where do I find the shutdown reason notes for Windows Server 2003?
Where can I find the shutdown reason notes for Windows Server 2003?
I sometimes fill these in, but I never see them again.
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How may I transfer my media from a Maxtor OneTouch drive to WHS?
I have a great deal of music on my OneTouch, which I would like to stream from my new HP Mediasmart EX490 to my XBox 360. Using the Windows Home Server console does not seem to be any help? I may ...
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Is it possible to set a more generic process affinity (automatically)?
I know with start /affinity X where X is a hex-number bit-masking the CPUs to be used a process can be started to use certain CPUs only. However, is there a possibility to state something like "start ...
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FileZilla Misreports File Sizes
I have the task of downloading some backups from our hosted web site and the backup are quite large, 4,755,281KB, yes it's over 4GB. I installed FileZilla and navigated to the remote directory and it ...
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Preventing Keystroke Hijacking
Is it virtually impossible to prevent keyboard Hijacking either at home or even at work? I mean you can't block anyone from hijacking your keystrokes at work or home or both correct? If there are ...
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Most efficient way to get a large directory listing over network
I'm searching for specific files on a Windows 2003 server directory that contains thousands of files. The directory is part of a network volume that's mounted on my Mac.
Right now I'm using find:
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The value of default gateway & DHCP server [closed]
Is the value of default gateway & DHCP server the same for client computer?
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Changing the pagefile.sys location on virtual servers
We currently run 3 physical servers on VMWare 4.0 that manage around 13 virtual servers. The virtual servers have varying numbers of cores and memory in addition to being connected to a SAN. In ...
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Install Windows Server 2003 in VirtualBox without an iso?
I need to run a server 2003 VM from server 2008 on VirtualBox. I only have access to a network share containing the windows server 2003 installation files, but unfortunately no iso or physical disk. ...
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Windows - Check folder size of specific list of folders
I've been trying to establish a way to retrieve the folder size of around 5000 folders, which are contained in a folder with a total of around 15000 folders.
So for example:
Parent folder
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Can't start program by PsExec on windows server 2003 64-bit
I ran PsExec on a windows server 2003 32-bit machine to remotely launch a program on a windows server 2003 64-bit machine. The program is a win32 program with dependency to
msvcr80.dll, msvcp80.dll, ...
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Which Version of Windows? XP or Server 2003
I need to decide between the two. I don't plan on using IIS or anything, I'm going to be running Glassfish, maybe a remote torrent server, and maybe some sort of VNC or remote desktop server.
Is it ...
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Play video on windows 2003
I'm not able to play a video on windows 2003 :-( I installed every well known codec packages on internet without luck.
I'm trying to play it with the divx player.
I have no image and no sound. It ...
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Sharing a folder with Win 2k3 - Only allows localhost
I have a mostly new install of Windows 2003 Standard Edition SP2, and I'm trying to share a folder on the network. The instructions here, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324267, describe the steps I ...
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How can I reset administrator password on Server 2003 that's running in VMWare on a Mac?
I've got a virtual machine for Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition that I don't know the password for. It's running on VMWare for Mac.
Any ideas how to reset/retrieve the password?
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HP MSS EX485 no drives lights, no physical drive found
My HP EX485 stopped working about a week ago. It has one factory Seagate 750GB and 2 WD 1.0 TB drives with the factory processor.
I removed all but the factory installed Seagate 750gb, Barracuda ...
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Verbal windows shutdown/startup
The question is for both windows xp and server 2003. Especially the latter takes ages to shutdown and startup and doesn't give information on what it's actually doing. Is there a way to get it to be ...
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Windows 2003 R2, msiexec with /qn option failes to install
Hi I am running typical issue on msiexec, when i try to install a .msi component with /qn option it is not installing ?
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Can't connect to a win2003 pptp vpn if the cisco vpn service is running
I have a PPTP VPN set-up on a windows 2003 domain controller. Every attempt to connect to the VPN from a client running XP sp3 fails with a 619 error. Googling around I've found a 2006 thread on ...
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how to install TightVnc via remote command prompt
How can I install TightVnc via remote command prompt? my server: Windows Server 2003 and I don't have any access in my RDP.
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When would a persistent route not be an active route? [duplicate]
I've added a persistent route to our Windows Server 2003 box using "route -p add". After a reboot the "route print" gave this:
Active Routes:
Network Destination Netmask Gateway ...
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How can I get rid of the annoying windows' automatic update needs reboot popup as non-admin?
While this answer may help if you're an admin, it doesn't help at work. So is there a way to get rid of this message without having to bother your admin?
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ASUS EAH5450 Graphics Card (ATI Radeon HD5450 - 1 GB DDR3) on Windows 2003? Anybody got it to work?
I've just bought an ASUS EAH5450 Graphics Card (ATI Radeon HD5450, 1 GB DDR3) for my main system, but I haven't been able to make it work under Windows 2003 (my OS in that system).
When I plugged the ...
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Change language for Windows server 2003
I'm currently working in Spain for the week and am having to setup IIS on Windows Server 2003. However the box we've been given is in Spanish which makes it very hard for me to understand.
Is it ...
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Cannot Connect To VMWare Guest OS Using Either RDP or VNC
I have a PC (Windows XP SP3) with VMWare Workstation 7 installed.
The VMWare hosts Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition R2.
RealVNC (4.1.3) is installed on both OS'es. Both of them use Hamachi2. ...