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.

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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Network bandwidth usage per process Windows Server 2003

Is there freely available analog from Microsoft to monitor network bandwidth usage per process on Windows Server 2003 as this is implemented with Resource Monitor on W2k8? What I need to know is how much traffic generates particular process.
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What does a developer need to know about Windows Server?

I am a certified .NET Developer, and I do a lot of Sharepoint development at work. Adding/editing/deleting users requires using AD and of course, anything to do with the site structure in Sharepoint has a relation to IIS. As a developer, what do I…
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Manage a Windows 2003 Active Directory Domain with PowerShell?

Can you manage a Windows 2003 functional level domain with the Active Directory PowerShell modules? The modules were introduced with Server 2008 R2, so they don't work on Server 2003, but I have read about doing this with the AD management gateway…
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Can a Second Domain Controller, with buggy hard drive hardware, cause a corruption to Active Directory?

We have a new Domain Controller that holds all FSMO roles. We also have two old hardware servers, about 4-5 years old each, set up as secondary Domain Controllers (or better described as Domain Controllers that are DNS servers too not holding any…
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Windows Server 2003/Terminal Services - DLL Caching?

Does Windows Server 2003 cache specific DLLs on a per-user basis when in a terminal server environment? Back-Story: We recently had to update some DLLs for our application, and a couple clients are still experiencing the issue that the update was to…
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Unexplained periodic humps in system CPU usage on W2K3E

We have a Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise 64-bit server running a custom workload suffering from an odd performance problem. The pared-down version below suffers from a smaller hump, but it's qualitatively the same. We've reduced it down to a simple…
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FreeBSD Host ZFS on Root Running VirtualBox with Windows Server 2003 Guests Very Slow HD Speeds

Here is my setup: I am running a Dual Quad Core Xeon 2.0Ghz with 16GB of Ram and 2 x 2TB WD Green drives with FreeBSD 7 that has ZFS on root. The Hard Drives are in a ZFS Mirror. I am running VirtualBox 4.0.14. I have 2 Windows Server 2003 Guests…
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Installing IIS on Win Server 2003 without the installation CD?

The title says most of it. I have a VM running Windows Server 2003. While setting it up, I didn't install IIS. Now I need it and the installation ISO I installed from is on another machine that I don't currently have access to. I know the…
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Should i go native or with ESXi server?

At this moment, my server is a plain 64-bit amd, running windows 2003. I wanted to run another virtualized OS on top of it using virtualbox. Then I saw that vmware ESXi is free! I always ignored that because I thought it would be extremely…
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remote command execution on Windows 2003 server

I have a single command that I would like to execute on a remote Windows 2003 server. I have tried wmic, which works, but the only way to display standard output is to redirect it to a local file, then list the local file (kind of clunky). I have…
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Can a virus spread through a network share used by an RDP connection?

When connecting to a Windows Server (2003 or 2008) desktop through RDP from a local Windows (7 or XP) PC with networks shares enabled (usually, the local C: disk will be shared with the remote server), is there a real chance that a virus infects the…
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Change MYSQL Port on Windows

I need some assistance changing the port that MySQL is running on. So, according to http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/option-files.html MySQL first looks for conf in WINDIR\my.ini, WINDIR\my.cnf ....etc....... None of these files exist, not…
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How can I prevent Terminal Server Users from restarting the server after an Automatic Update?

We have a Windows Server 2003 terminal server, and our IT department does not want to disable Automatic Updates. The problem is, when an update gets applied that requires a reboot, users get a popup about it and can hit Restart Now to reboot the…
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How to get list of banned IPs from Filezilla FTP Server for Windows?

Filezilla FTP server provides with a ban of ips after a certain amount of attempts. How I can get the IPs being banned.
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Is there a Windows 2003 Server Service Pack 3?

I am about to request a hotfix for Windows 2003 Server. As far as I am aware there is no publicly available Service Pack 3. However on the hostfix request page I see this: I am guessing this is a mistake?
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