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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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How to configure basic authentication in IIS SMTP Server?

I feel like this is a stupid question but: I have a test environment set up where I need to enable SMTP basic authentication with IIS. I have a Win2k3 r2 server as a DC in its own windows domain called testdom.local. I also have the MS pop3 server…
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MS SQL 2005 - Backup "being used by another process"

I'm trying to create a backup file of a database in SQL 2005. When I try to execute the backup operation I get an error saying "cannot access this file, it is in use by another process". Any advice on what I have to do to get this working? Thanks!
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Linux in AD: Supported enctypes for Windows 2003 AD

In the MIT Kerberos implementation that comes with most Linux distributions, I can define what encryption type I want to use for ticket requests. I am not a Windows guy, but apparently, Kerberos as a whole offers a lot of options here and Windows AD…
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PPTP connection fails during handshake

A user located on the other side of the planet has troubles connecting to our PPTP VPN. The VPN is a regular windows server 2003 VPN and works fine for most users from the US, but for this specific person, it doesn't connect at all. The login window…
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Replace Server 2003 DFS Root Drive

I am looking to replace a drive on a server for more capacity. A DFS root resides on this drive. The new drive will have the same drive letter. DFS is not configured for replication, just for centralizing share names. What's the best procedure to…
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How to permanently delete data off Windows 2003 server?

One of our clients requires that at the end of the contract we "securely" delete all data from the server (including SQL Server). I think I need to deal with this in two parts. 1. SQL Server Data: The client data is stored in 2 SQL Server databases,…
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Problem with mydomain.com no prefix

Short question is. I have a domain name mydomain.com, we have a company website hosted on an IIS server 2003 configuration. Going to the address bar and typing www.mydomain.com will show my website properly. Typing mydomain.com into the same address…
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Accessing network share in explorer on different domain not prompting for credentials. Access is denied

I'm accessing a machine on a different domain in Windows explorer. When I navigate to the machine (ie. \MACHINENAME), I'm able to see all the shares on that machine. I'm not prompted for a username/password. As soon as I try to access one of the…
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Clone Windows 2003 SBS Machine without turning it off

I'm a junior sys admin at a small firm and i just recently have been assigned to a new customer. I went through the normal learning process of getting to know the relatively simple network structure and the requirements of the company. I come…
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What can make windows fileshares slow without affecting ping latency, remote desktop, cpu usage or disk access?

I've got a server named Babylon. It's running Windows Server 2003 SP2 and lives in the midwest. I can ping Babylon from remote machines in the same building by hostname and IP. The latency is <20ms. I can ping Babylon from machines in another state…
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Motherboard fried on Windows RAID 1 System, do I have to reformat?

A faulty power supply fried my motherboard and I need some help. I had a spare motherboard lying around and hooked it up to one of the hard drives to see if I could just continue chugging along. Unfortunately Windows continues to BSOD with error…
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How to get the TO email in the smtp log

Is there a way to get the TO email address in the smtp log on Windows Server 2003 Exchange? We have about 14,000 email addresses in our databases, and send out about 100 emails a day to customers. A lot of customers go for months or years between…
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missing PTR record for one of my domain controllers in Active Directory Integrated reverse lookup zone

Just realized that one of my domain controllers, that is also a global catalog, is not listed in the reverse lookup zone with a PTR record, it is not there. The other two domain controllers are there. There is a valid Host A record though in the…
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Back up Windows 2008 SBS to iSCSI disk

I've almost no experience with SBS 2008, so please excuse my noob question! SBS 2008 only has the most basic backup utility built in as far as I can tell (similar to Vista), and it will only back up to physical volumes. I've read that you can set up…
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How to create dynamic volume in stripe configuration, aligned to 1024?

I am trying to create a software stripe setup with two physical disks (underneath they are 128K stripe, RAID5 for each). I've read that one can use diskpart, but I am unable to come up with a command that works. This is on Server 2k3 SP2. I was…
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