Questions tagged [windows-server-2003]

Windows Server 2003 (sometimes referred to as Win2K3) is a server operating system produced by Microsoft, introduced on 24 April 2003.

Windows Server 2003 (sometimes referred to as Win2K3) is a server operating system produced by Microsoft, introduced on 24 April 2003. An updated version, Windows Server 2003 R2, was released to manufacturing on 6 December 2005. Its successor, Windows Server 2008, was released on 4 February 2008.

According to Microsoft, Windows Server 2003 is more scalable and delivers better performance than its predecessor, Windows 2000.

On 13 July 2010, Windows Server 2003's mainstream support expired and the extended support phase began. During the extended support Phase, Microsoft continues to provide security updates; however, free technical support, warranty claims, and design changes are no longer being offered. Extended support is expected to last until 14 July 2015.

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How to view Windows Event Log remotely with limited privileges

To debug some code, I would like to view the Windows event log of a remote machine (target is Windows2003). With mmc.exe I can add the event log for a remote machine, but only if I have sufficient permissions. For this remote machine, they do not…
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I have two machine.config files on my server, which one do I edit and how do I verify they are being used?

I need to do some performance tuning and need to modify the following settings: processModel, httpRuntime, and connectionManagement. Simple enough I suppose, but I'm not sure which of the two machine.config files to edit, or do I edit…
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ASP.Net - It is an error to use a section registered as allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level

Getting this error on an intranet application we have running in our development environment, and I'm not sure where to go/look for a solution. The application used to work fine, however it is run on a shared server with another team of developers…
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Installing PHP 5 on Windows Server 2003 - %1 is not a valid Win32 application

I am trying to install PHP 5 on a Windows Server 2003 environment with IIS 6 After installing PHP, and making the necessary changes in IIS, I get the following error %1 is not a valid Win32 application. The server is not 64bit, it is 32bit. I have…
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Printers not available unless shared

We are using classic asp to call a C# dll and in the C# dll we are using System.Drawing.Printing.PrinterSettings.InstalledPrinters to get a list of availabe printers. If the printers are not shared they will not show up when a user trys to print.…
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does favicon 404 affect performance

We have been noticing a lot of 404 errors being thrown in our Coldfusion CFIDE server monitor, and it took us a while to find out that things like missing favicons are causing these errors. We use a custom 404 template page, which contains some…
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winhttpcertcfg: Granting certificates with for windows service user

I'm stuck with granting client certificates in Windows Server 2003 with winhttpcertcfg :( My cert is correctly installed in LOCAL_MACHINE\My keystore and I granted it with winhttpcertcfg.exe. So everything looks good to me: WinHttpCertCfg.exe -l -c…
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Automate services restart in windows server 2003

I have a Jboss service in Windows server 2003. Is there a way to schedule the service to restart automatically on a daily basis?
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What's the easiest way to deploy an ASP.NET MVC 3 project to Windows Server 2003?

Is there some kind of deployment wizard I can run and have it install just the things it needs to run right onto the server end point? Do I have to build the project using VS2010 on the server? If I can't get this thing deployed today I am really…
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How can I run sqlcmd.exe from an ASP page?

As part of our database revision control (and auto-installation) procedures we need to be able run sqlcmd.exe on various .sql files from within an ASP page. The code I'm using to do this is: Dim cmd : cmd = "sqlcmd -S " & DATABASE_SERVER & " -U " &…
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netstat says 443 is open, but I cannot connect to it with telnet .. why?

I've built a self hosted wcf server, using wsHttpBinding. I'm running Win 2003 server R2 SP2. If I configure it to listen on http://localhost:443/MyService, everything works fine. I can connect to http://localhost:443/MyService with Internet…
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Load balancing error with WCF service - NLB

UPDATE 3: I created a Visual Studio 2008 test project and tried to create a service reference to shared site WCF service reference and received the following error: There was an error downloading 'http://apps.mydomain/MyService.svc'. The…
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SHA256 not working even after hotfixes

Ok, so we have a Windows Server 2003 machine with SP2 and both HOTFIX KB 938397 and KB 968730 installed. When we try to use the SHA2 certificates (SHA256) The following things still happen: • Such a certificate can be imported in the certificate…
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Install ASP.NET 4.0 alongside ASP.NET 2.0 on IIS6

I've read where you create a new application pool, one for 2.0 sites and one for 4.0 sites. But there is no option I see when creating a pool to configure the framework. My problem is I have several 2.0 sites running as the Default Web Site. I…
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How do I cluster an upload folder with ASP.Net?

We have a situation where users are allowed to upload content, and then separately make some changes, then submit a form based on those changes. This works fine in a single-server, non-failover environment, however we would like some sort of…
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