Windows Server 2003 Questions


Push out a normal.dot template to Active Directory/word 2003 users.
How can we push out a normal.dot template to all Windows/Word 2003 users? Can we push it out with the installation or after the fact? Is there a guide or a step by step on this?

Answer Question   |  October 19, 2010  4:00 PM
Active Directory, Normal.dot, Windows Server 2003, Word 2003
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9,815 pts.

Can we view fragmentation of Windows server 2003 systems remotely?
Can I query several active directory desktops and see fragmentation levels and possibly schedule it to defragment?

Answer Question   |  February 1, 2012  3:57 PM
Defragmentation, Windows 7, Windows Defragmentation, Windows Server 2003
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9,815 pts.

Active directory 2003 Full backup procedures.
We need to run a full AD backup. This will be for disaster recovery so it needs to be comprehensive and work from scratch.

Answer Question   |  October 24, 2010  3:24 PM
Active Directory 2003, Active Directory backup, AD, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Windows Server 2003
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9,815 pts.

Snow Leopard users authenticating against AD – How?
on the network to our Windows 2003 AD server? How about home directories and other mapped network drives? 

Answer Question   |  October 19, 2010  3:22 PM
Active Directory, Mapped Drive, Snow Leopard, Windows Server 2003
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9,815 pts.

Sharepoint on Windows Server 2003
I have been using sharepoint server for few years. now if i give my server name in ie,its not opening

Answer Question   |  October 25, 2010  6:11 AM
IP address, Server ip, SharePoint, Windows Server 2003, WINS server IP addresses
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5 pts.

Virtual Server converted to Physical server; Windows Server 2003 & HP Bladesystem C3000
Hi, Has anyone done it before? Convert a virtual server to a physical one. The OS is Windows server 2003 on HP blade system C3000. I will like someone that has done it to tell me how to go about it.   Thanks WaleAde

Answer Question   |  October 19, 2010  10:31 PM
HP BladeSystem c3000, Physical Server, Virtual Server, Windows Server 2003
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5 pts.

Getting an error message after defragmenting Windows server 2003
I defragmented my hard drive and now I can not boot into Windows server 2003. I am being told my NTDLR is missing. What can I do?

Answer Question   |  February 1, 2012  8:35 PM
Boot failure, Defragmentation, Hard drive failure, Hard drives, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 error messages
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1,110 pts.

Fix an incorrect IP address on our DNS server
We are running 2003 server and dns for the network. A website changed its iP address and we still have the old one cached. How can we fix this? Ipconfig /flushdns on the client and server did nothing nor did restarting the dns service on the client and server.

Answer Question   |  October 14, 2010  5:47 PM
DNS, DNS server, DNS Server Configuration, IP address, IP Address Allocation, IP address conflict, Windows Server 2003
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9,815 pts.

Push out .exe file via GP on Active Directory
I have a exe file I need to push out VIA active directory. How can I convert it to a msi installer? Can I deploy exe files or a Bat file that calls the exe?

Answer Question   |  December 13, 2010  5:37 PM
Active Directory, AD, Group Policy, Windows Server 2003
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9,815 pts.

Automatically wipe the backup tape before a job runs
automatically have the drive wipe the tape before beginning the backup job? We run into full tapes if someone forgets to erase the tape

Answer Question   |  January 3, 2011  5:35 PM
Backup, Backup and restore, Brightstore, Tape Backups, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Backup
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9,815 pts.

Memory tracing on Windows server 2003
How do we set up memory traces on a Win 2003 server? I want for it to monitor the system over a period of a month and give us a baseline on memory usage, maximums and more so when I upgrade the machine in a few weeks I have data that says there was a [...]

Answer Question   |  November 12, 2010  3:29 PM
Memory management, Windows Server 2003, Windows server 2003 upgrades and migration, Windows Server Management
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1,110 pts.

setting up Windows server 2003 to 2008 vpn
How do we set up a windows 2003 to 2008 vpn for the rest of the network to transfer files via? What else needs to be purchased? Do we need additional licenses?

Answer Question   |  October 6, 2010  4:59 PM
file sharing, VPN, VPN configuration, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008
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1,110 pts.

NTVDM hard error
in sybase on windows 2003 after taking the backup(dump and load) the following error was there “NTVDM HARD ERROR” bkup script is isql  c: i bkup.txt >log.txt edit log.txt data is dumped and loaded without any problem. I think the problem while executing edit command. server — windows 2003 3.06GHz  1GB RAM THANX IN ADVANCE [...]

Answer Question   |  October 6, 2010  9:17 AM
Backup and restore, NTVDM, NTVDM HARD ERROR, ntvdm.exe error, Sybase 12, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Backup
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35 pts.

Blocking password changes until audit is complete
Tell me how would it be possible for our organization to block password changes until our audit can find who has weak passwords? How can we find out current passwords using Windows 2003?

Answer Question   |  October 6, 2010  8:17 PM
Audit and compliance, Password management, Password policies, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Group Policy
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755 pts.

Creating an index across Windows server 2003 share
Can we create an index across our share on a windows server 2003 so users can quickly search for files in the share? Clients are Windows 7.

Answer Question   |  October 4, 2010  2:27 PM
File Share Permissions, File sharing protocols, Indexing (information management), Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server Folder Management
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1,110 pts.

Checking licensing on Windows Server 2003
how to check cal licensing on server 2003

Answer Question   |  October 1, 2010  2:19 PM
Windows Licenses, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server Licensing
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5 pts.

Folder Redirection Windows Server 2003
Hi I want to disable a particular folder in application data being downloaded onto a terminal server using Group Policy. Is this possible? If so, how can i do it? Thanks  

Answer Question   |  November 20, 2010  1:55 PM
folder redirection, Folder Redirection Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 administration
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5 pts.

Connecting my server to the internet
I have server 2003 and I want to add clients to it to access the internet. The problem seems to be that my isp is a dhcp and won’t allow me to run a dhcp server what happens is that none of my machines can access the internet is there anyway for my systems to [...]

Answer Question   |  October 1, 2010  11:37 PM
DHCP, DHCP server, Internet service providers, ISP, Windows Server 2003
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10 pts.

Testing DNS Server
Testing the DNS server for issues on Windows 2003. I am seeing websites sometime return incorrect ip addresses. Can this be a DNS cache issue? How can I troubleshoot it?

Answer Question   |  October 1, 2010  7:44 PM
Cache, DNS, DNS configuration, DNS errors, server testing, Windows Server, Windows Server 2003
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755 pts.