RAID 5 configuration on Dell PowerEdge 2800 hard disk failure
Using DELL Poweredge 2800 with a Raid 5 configuration of 2 hard drives capacity 85GB Ultra 320 SCSI. Hard disks have been showing failure. I tried to bring the hard drives ONLINE by FORCE option provided in the utility manager to configure RAID and got the hard drives up but couldn’t login to windows server [...]

Answer Question   |  March 17, 2009  5:57 PM
Backup, Dell PowerEdge 2800, iSCSI, RAID, RAID 5, RAID configuration, Restore, Windows Server 2003

deny ipods dhcp
Hi, I want to deny ipod users DHCP. W2K3 Domain with AD. Any ideas how to stop them? thanks guys.

Answer Question   |  April 23, 2009  2:29 PM
Active Directory, DHCP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server Permissions, Windows Server Security

windows server 2003 forgotten password
how do i login to my administrator account in windows server 2003 if i have forgotten the password and i don’t have another existing account???

Answer Question   |  March 14, 2012  1:30 PM
Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 administration, Windows Server 2003 security, Windows server administration, Windows Server Authentication, Windows Server Login Scripts, Windows Server Permissions

Windows Server 2003 forgotten password
How do I access Windows Server 2003 if I have forgotten my admin password?

Answer Question   |  April 19, 2013  6:09 AM
Administrator password, Forgotten password, Password, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 administration, Windows Server 2003 security

Windows Server 2003 on HP Pavilion dv5-1002au
Hi,I have HP PAVILLION DV5 1002AU laptop with windows vista home sp1 operating system at a time of purchasing.now i am trying to install windows server 2003 but my laptop is not supporting any other OS.also drivers are not available on net. is it possible to use external hard disk & install another operating system [...]

Answer Question   |  February 3, 2010  5:55 AM
HP Pavilion dv5-1002au, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Installation, Windows Vista, Windows Vista Home Premium

VMware for Windows Vista (Virtual tool)
Hi, I have HP PAVILLION DV5 1002AU laptop with windows vista home sp1 operating system at a time of purchasing.now i am trying to install windows server 2003 but my laptop is not supporting any other OS.also drivers are not available on net.customer care also told me that it is not possible to install another [...]

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2009  2:52 AM
HP Pavilion dv5-1002au, VMware, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista

Microsoft Access 2003 slow on Windows Server 2003 Enterprise
Recently one of our servers was upgraded from Windows Server 2003 Standard edition to Enterprise. We run a MsAccess2003 system on the Servewr, both backend as well as front end. Performance on the Enterprise system becomes visibly slow when process larger volumes of data at speed! Has anyone had a similar experience?

Answer Question   |  November 16, 2009  10:33 PM
Access 2003, Microsoft Access 2003, VB 6, Visual Basic 6, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition

Is Outlook required for OWA?
Server 2k3 Exchange 2k3 – Do I need to install Outlook on my Exchange server in order to use Outlook Web Access? Blackberry techs say Outlook causes conflicts with Blackberry Professional Software and Outlook’s go to go.

Answer Question   |  March 17, 2009  7:45 PM
Blackberry Outlook, BlackBerry Professional Software, BPS, Exchange 2003, Outlook, OWA 2003, Windows Server 2003

Synchronize clocks with server computer
Hi, I have a network setup using Windows 2003 Server with about 10 computers. I synchronize all the clocks to the server computer. Most of the computers are showing the correct time but 3 of them are exactly 1 hour behind. I ran net time in the command prompt on the ones that aren’t set [...]

Answer Question   |  March 19, 2009  2:22 PM
Clock Synchronization, Date and Time, Network Time Synchronization, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP

Primary Domain Controller damaged
Hi, I have a network with one domain controller and the controller is damaged (Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt. Windowsssystem32configsystem. I try to a repair but when it gets to load windows it crash with a code 16 error message. I think my only option is to re-create [...]

Answer Question   |  March 17, 2009  7:42 PM
Domain Controller, Primary Domain Controller, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 administration

Windows Server 2003 print spooler
The following question was recently sent via e-mail from a user: Windows Server 2003 (SP1) print spooler service is giving me an error every time I try to print: Error Event ID:7031 The Print Spooler service terminated I’ve tried restarting and it seems ok until I try to print again.

Answer Question   |  March 13, 2009  7:20 PM
Error Event ID 7031, Print spooler, Print Spooler Service, Windows Server 2003

SQL Server replication fails after renaming Subscriber database
Running SQL Server 2005 on Windows Server 2003. Can the subscriber database to my publication be renamed? Experimented with renaming a test database but replication failed. Thanks. Moderator Note: This is a user submitted question

Answer Question   |  March 14, 2009  6:08 PM
SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2005 replication, SQL Server Publisher/Subscriber, SQL Server replication, Windows Server 2003

Can ADMT v3 be used as an export tool?
Can the Active Directory Migration Tool v3 be used as an export tool? And then used to import to a new domain without having to configure a trust between the domains. Thank you. Moderator Note: This is a user submitted question

Answer Question   |  March 13, 2009  6:07 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory migration, Active Directory Migration Tool, ADMT, Windows Server 2003

How to locally authenticate users using PPTP on a local PIX firewall
I need to locally authenticate users using Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) on a local PIX firewall. Once the users have authenticated, I need them to connect to a Windows 2003 server which is hosted at a remote location securely with encryption or some sort of tunnel. I have already got the authentication working, however, I [...]

Answer Question   |  May 27, 2009  10:27 PM
Authentication, Datacenter Server, Firewalls, Network firewalls, Network security, Networking, PIX, Point-to-point tunneling protocol (PPTP), PPTP, Tunneling, Windows 2003 networking, Windows Server 2003

How can I stop a domain controller being a domain controller
I have 2 domain controllers and I would like to stop on of them acting as a DC as I think there are some conflicts. Is it possible to do this?

Answer Question   |  February 10, 2012  11:25 AM
Domain Controller, Network administration, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 administration

AD DHCP leases and renamed computers not be cleaned up.
We currently rely on DHCP to update DNS.(Note: DNS Scavenging isn’t enabled b/c it has removed needed records in the past)….. We often run into problems where renamed computers have their old computer name record remain in dns b/c the lease never actually expired. This creates tons of orphaned records in DNS. Does anyone have [...]

Answer Question   |  March 23, 2009  7:31 PM
Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, DNS Records, DNS Updates, Windows Server 2003

Setup new 2003 Domain Controller seperate from current NT4 PDC
Small Company – 10 users at each Site. Site A and Site B have no active directory relationship. (Seperate forests) Site A has two NT4 Servers (PDC and BDC) and a 2003 Server connected to the domain. No internal DNS at Site A. Site B has two 2003 Servers as Domain Controller and DNS. Site [...]

Answer Question   |  March 30, 2009  7:15 PM
Active Directory, AD replication, DNS, DNS replication, Domain Controller, NT4 Server, Windows Server 2003

How to find out IIS 6 error
Hi, I have a multiple website and all website work fine, these day my one website is not working. How can I resolve this issue. where I can find error log.

Answer Question   |  March 16, 2009  9:34 AM
IIS 6.0, IIS errors, Security logs, Windows Server 2003

SQL 2000 db transactions/sec
What number of SQL 2000 database transactions/sec would be of concern on a system? Windows Server 2003, 4GB RAM, 2CPU (dual core). Thanks for the guidance.

Answer Question   |  March 11, 2009  2:25 PM
SQL Server 2000, SQL Server database, SQL Server Database Transactions, SQL Server performance, SQL Server performance tuning, Windows Server 2003

0x8007F0F4 error code when installing Windows Server 2003 security update
When trying to install Security Update for Windows Server 2003 , it fails with the following Error Code: 0x8007F0F4.

Answer Question   |  March 10, 2009  1:47 PM
0x8007F0F4, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 error messages, Windows Server 2003 Security Updates