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Windows Server 2000 is one of the four editions of the Windows 2000 operating system line, and is intended for use on server systems. It is the most basic server edition available in the Windows 2000 line. Released on 17 February 2000, it is the successor to Windows NT 4.0 Server, and was succeeded by Windows Server 2003.

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Windows Server 2000 is one of the four editions of the Windows 2000 operating system line, and is intended for use on server systems. It is the most basic server edition available in the Windows 2000 line. Released on 17 February 2000, it is the successor to Windows NT 4.0 Server, and was succeeded by Windows Server 2003.

The primary difference between Windows 2000 Server and Professional editions is Server's ability to run server services such as WINS, Active Directory and DNS services. Additionally, Windows DNS System was first introduced in Windows 2000 Server.

Notable differences between Server and Advanced Server or Datacenter Server include:

  • The standard Server variant does not support clustering
  • Advanced and Datacenter variants support Physical Address Extensions, allowing for up to 8 GB RAM in Advanced and 64 GB in Datacenter, as well as allowing for additional CPUs
  • TCP/IP load balancing is available in Advanced and Datacenter variants, and not in Server
  • Separate Advanced and Datacenter variants ("Limited Edition") were released to support IA64 CPU architecture, no such editions were released for Server.
  • Fault tolerance, failover and load balancing functionality are available in Advanced and Datacenter variants, but not in the standard Server edition.

More information is available at the Wikipedia article on Windows 2000.

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How can I migrate local users/groups from old Windows 2000 server to new Windows 2003 server?

On a Windows 2000 box I have setup local users and one group for the purposes of ftp sites for our clients to transfer files to their own site. We are now moving to a different server running Windows 2003. I would like to be able to transfer the…
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Publish from Visual Studio to website causes "access denied"

I published a website using VS2005 to Win2k Server. No errors were generated. When I visit the page, I see this error: Failed to start monitoring changes to 'E:\path\to\bin' because access is denied. I logged in to the box with an Administrator…
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Old Pentium 4 server - should I put it to use?

While cleaning up junk left behind by the sysadmin before me, I came across a Pentium 4 server in good working order. Prior to the installation of our current (dual Xeon) DC, it was used as the DC/fileserver. It has a COA sticker for Windows 2000…
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.DLL error when installing firmware for Dell PE2900 PERC 5/i RAID

I'm installing a new RAID firmware version (2.5.0) for a Dell PE2900 which has a PERC 5/i RAID setup. When I run the installer, it gives the message "The procedure entry point RegDeleteKeyExA could not be located in the dynamic link library…
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Reset Directory Permissions for File Migration

I just built a server 2003 based domain to replace an old, broken server 2000 domain that I "inherited". Now that I'm trying to migrate my users data from the old file server to the new one, I'm running into a severe problem. Let me preface this by…
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Windows Server 2000 hardware question

I’m the resident IT Guru for a Non-Profit and we have an Exchange server that has issues and I’m wide open to any suggestions. The server is an older DELL PowerEdge 1400 with 1GHz Processor, 512MB RAM, and a 20GB SCSI HD, running Windows 2000 SP4…
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How can I find users that have been inactive since before domain functional level was raised to 2003?

I'm trying to weed out inactive accounts, and have discovered that the majority of accounts have been inactive since before our domain functional level was raised to 2003. The lastLogonTimestamp attribute is on all of these accounts, and…
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Prevent access to user documents for users logging in from terminal server

I am fairly new to administrating servers, but I have been charged with the task of working out remote access to the company's network. The general plan is to connect through a VPN to a terminal server connected to the network. The users will then…
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Adding a new Domain Controller to existing Domain

I have a Windows 2000 server and I want to add a Windows 2008 Server server to the forest. Do I add the Windows 2008 server to the domain before running DCPromo or do I leave it off the domain?
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Updating our network

Where I work we have the following setup: ActiveDirectory Server (windows server 2000) - Adserver01 Exchange Server (exchange 2000)- (windows server 2000) - Development01 SQLserver (sql server 2008) - (windows server 2008) - Sqlserver02 Fileserver…
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Changing the network address of a Windows 2000 AD domain

The situation: Two formerly completely separate Windows 2000 AD domains need to be connected to a common router. (The reason why is not important.) Unfortunately (for me), both domains currently have the same network address, which is (say)…
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Same internet connection is fast on Windows 7 Pro, slow on Windows 2000 server

in my company we have an old Dell running Windows 2000 server and ISA Server and it's our Internet gateway / firewall. Our current Internet connection is an ADSL and it's fairly slow (about 1 Mb/s in download, even slower in upload). But now we have…
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Windows Server 2000 DNS Forwarding

Im using windows 2000 Server, and I need to forward all the requests to the example.com site to another DNS Server. How do I do this?
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Windows AD dcpromo /demote, who gets the roles?

I've got three Windows servers running Active Directory: Two Win2000 Servers and a Win2003 Server. For a long time there was only one Win2000 AD server, so it probably has all the roles (although I haven't actually checked yet). When I demote the…
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Things to be aware of moving from Windows Server 2000 to 2008

I've not realy worked with Windows Server since 2000 Advanced Server and I'm about to purchase a 2008 (standard) server for a project that I'm working on, are there any specific things I should be aware of?
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