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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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Receiving error "A new record cannot be created. Node is a CNAME DNS record." when adding an MX record to Windows Server 2003 DNS

we're trying to add an MX record to a Windows Server 2003 DNS server and getting the following error: "A new record cannot be created. Node is a CNAME DNS record." The domain is xyz.com. We create a new MX record and leave the "Host or child…
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determining free memory from command line on Windows

I would like to monitor the free memory on four machines each running Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 64-bit. Each box has 31.7gb of RAM. I would like to periodically run a command line tool so I can collect the output and later make charts with it. I…
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how can I test if a particular port is open on a server, particularly 1443?

Trying to open a hole on a windows box to access sql server. How can I test to see if the port is open (without using sql to test a login etc.) I'm looking for a more generic way of testing w/o involving sql server just to isolate that problem of…
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how to know who is accessing my system?

Is it possible to know if anyone is accessing any of folders or drives in my system(32 bit windows 2003)? I mean shared folders or non-shared folders, anything. And once if we know, how to deny access to particular host. For shared folders i know…
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Seamless Remote Desktop Connection

My employer provides us with the ability to work from home using the Citrix MetaFrame remote desktop software. For the most part, I have no complaints; however, I was wondering if anyone knew if it is possible to do seamless remote desktop…
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"Workstation" and "Server" Services Keep Stopping

On one (or more) of our Windows Server 2003 R2 servers the "Server" and "Workstation" services keep stopping. There's nothing in the event viewer that would indicate why (no errors). I recall seeing it once on one server but after I started the…
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How do I change the default character encoding in IIS on Windows Server 2003?

When validating my web page using the W3C Validator, I noticed that although I specify ISO-8859-1 encoding in my HTML, the web server seems to be specifying UTF-8 encoding in the HTTP headers. I've looked everywhere but I can't seem to find a way to…
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Is it possible to connect a DOS pc to a windows 2003 domain

We are in the process of upgrading our domain from windows 2000 to windows 2003. We have a few old DOS machines that need to be able to access a share on a server on the domain. We are using MS Lan Manager 2.2a, and everything works fine on the 2000…
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When do you really need an organizational unit in Active Directory?

I have to grant some permissions to a certain user in Windows Server 2003 Active Directory that will only be active on a certain collection of users. The initial thought was to just have an OU that we would allow this particular user certain rights…
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Force windows 2003 session to log off (RDP)

We have a number of Windows 2003 machines that we RDP on to. Naturally, a lot of people forget to log off, and simply close their rdp window - which causes the max number of sessions exceeded error. I was just wondering if there was a setting I can…
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Disable windows file shares without losing share config

Background We're currently upgrading an old app from running on Windows Server 2003 to running it on Windows Server 2012. Users and other systems communicate with this system via HTTP (i.e. users accessing the website), FTP (files to sync data from…
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Can't access some clients using w32tm /stripchart - error: 0x800705B4

I'm trying to track down a time synchronisation problem. I've got a DC in a remote branch. w32tm /dumpreg /subkey:Parameters reveals Type = NT5DS and the Type means its sync'ing with the domain, I understand. I've checked using: w32tm /stripchart…
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How should I remove users from Administrators group without Active Directory?

Context: I am a new junior sysadmin and I have inherited a small office workgroup of about 12 windows machines, production and backup fileservers, and a sql server. All user accounts on the fileserver are members of the Administrators group. I…
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Any reason to use Windows Server 2003 over Server 2008?

For a unit test server (TeamCity Agent) - is there any reason to choose old (and reliable?) Win2003 SP2 over Server 2008, assuming both are available and the machine is decent?
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Is it possible to "roughly" approximate the amount of time chkdsk will take on Windows Server 2003?

I know there are a number of variables at play with this question... so I'm just looking for an approximation. Is it possible to calculate the amount of time a 'chkdsk' will take for a Windows Server 2003 platform? In this specific case I'm using a…
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