Questions tagged [windows-server-2000]

Microsoft Windows 2000 Server is an operating system for use on server computers.

Windows 2000 Server is an operating system for use on server computers. It was produced by Microsoft and released to manufacturing on December 15, 1999 and launched to retail on February 17, 2000. It is the successor to Windows NT 4.0, and is the last version of Microsoft Windows to display the "Windows NT" designation.

Three editions of Windows 2000 Server were released:

  1. Server
  2. Advanced Server
  3. Datacenter Server

The latter was both released to manufacturing and launched months after the other editions.

Resources

Windows 2000 on Wikipedia

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Native C++ or .NET for Business App?

Here's the deal: I'm in the process of planning a mid-sized business application that absolutely must support Win2k. AFAIK, official .NET support for Win2k was scrapped a while ago (IIRC, it stopped at version 2.0). Now, I already wrote (ages ago)…
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How can locked files be monitored on a WIN 2000 server

I'm interested to know what would be the best way to monitor locked files/open file handles on a win 2000 server. I am interested in a general system report that could show locked files or handles over time (over the course of one night, for…
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RunDll32 Problem on Win2k with Visual C++ 2008 Express Compiled DLL

First off, I'm not a C++ programmer (but I am learning). I have finally managed to modify and compile some C++ source code using Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition. I've tried to get the same code compiled in the full version of Visual C++ 2003 without…
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Windows Service started, but process killed

I am running a Windows Service on a Windows 2000 machine. Sometimes the executable for this service dies, but the Windows service is still listed as "started" in the service manager. In this situation the restart behaviour defined for this service…
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Windows 2000 Server and .NET 3.5

For reasons that I won't get into here, I will be doing some new development a Windows 2000 Server with a SQL Server 7 database. The existing website housed on this box is running Classic ASP and I will be developing some new capabilities that I…
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Getting GD2 to work on Windows 2000 SP4 (PHP 5.1.6)

I have tried everything.. GD will not enable! Essentially, I have extension_dir="C:\PHP\ext" extension=php_gd2.dll I've added c:\php\ext and c:\php to my windows path variable. I copied php_gd2.dll to my system32 folder.. I've scanned my entire INI…
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Silly SSL cert question for Windows 2000/ASP/IIS

I've got an ssl certificate for what I think is my domain and I want to apply it to two separate applications in that domain that run under ASP classic in IIS on Windows 2000. I have the following stupid questions: Are certificates issued for URLs…
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(IIS/Win2000Pro) Granting Registry read rights to IIS user?

Okay, so I'm running a small test webserver on my private network. I've got a machine running Windows 2000 Pro, and I'm trying to run an ASP.NET app through IIS. I wrote it so that the webpage would use the registry to store certain settings…
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Removing Interdev from an IIS 5 (Windows 2000 Server) virtual directory and replacing with FTP

I've got a few sites on a Windows 2000 box that are still using Interdev/HTTP updates. I'd like to convert those to be FTP only and remove the Interdev update capability. How do I convert these with minimal disruption? I.E. How do I remove Interdev…
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Secure FTP for Windows 2000 Server

Can someone recommend a secure FTP implementation that works well on Windows Server 2000? I'm uploading files into virtual directories and web applications under IIS and the existing provider, obviously, isn't secure or encrypted.
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Connect to IIS metabase on a remote 2008 server

I have written a bit of code that inspects the iis metabase to see what sites are installed and where their virtual directories are kept. THis code runs fine when run locally on the server. I am trying to extend it so that it works remotely. The…
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Old-School Windows 2000 Printing, or When is a Port Name a Computer?

A few years back, another clever programmer set up a VB.NET service to print to one of the server's installed printers. The job queried a database table to see if it had any print requests, which specify the file to print and the name of the…
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Out of Memory Error - Classic ASP & VPASP Shopping Cart

I have an older Windows 2000 server running IIS 5. I have a number of websites installed on this server and one particular customer is running into an interesting error. He is using a VP-ASP Shopping Cart. Microsoft VBScript runtime error…
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SQL Server 2005 Installation on Windows 2000 Server

We want to install sql server 2005 on Windo ws 2000 Server. We are able to install database service engine, analysis services engine and integration services. But we are unable to install workstation components like SSMS. Does anybody faced this…
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Get active processes through Java on Windows 2000 Pro

I want to get the name of all active process on a Win2000 machine. I know that "tlist -s" is the command, but to use this, the "tlist.exe" has to be extracted from the Win2000 CD-ROM. I also know "tasklist" only works on XP or greater. I am running…
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