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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Parse logs on Windows Server 2003 to find user actions

Platform: Windows 2003 with Perl I am looking into how to cut the user Id out of the IIS log file. Then find out what that user did. Uploaded file, CWD.. things like that. There is [uniqu_ID]User ID. How to retrieve that Id and search for what it…
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Hudson+Git clone failure

We had Hudson set up with Git + OpenSSH on Windows Server 2003 Enterprise and it was working fine for a while. Then suddenly, it started to hang during a clone at 12% always, we suspected maybe the files had gotten too big. (It is still working fine…
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Mixing .NET versions between website and virtual directories and the "server application unavailable" error Message

Backstory Last month our development team created a new asp.net 3.5 application to place out on our production website. Once we had the work completed, we requested from the group that manages are server to copy the app out to our production site,…
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Python version compatibility with Windows Server 2003

Which versions of python are compatible with Windows Server 2003? I'm using 32-bit (x86) Can versions 3.x be installed? Why I'm asking is because I've installed Python 3.5.2 on Windows Server 2003 and when I try to run it, it gives me an error…
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Certificates: Cannot find the certificate and private key for decryption Error when sign

I work in company with many servers and Pcs for developers. Servers are win2003, PC developers Windows XP. In a server Win2003 named preiis01, in preproduction environment, other people in company install a client certificate using any other user…
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ASP.NET session issues on a production server

This is a pretty vague question as I've had no luck reproducing my issues outside of our production web server and am unsure if my two issues are even related. My application server is running Windows Server 2003 and is public-facing. The ASP.NET…
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Using Robocopy to deploy sites

I want to be able to quickly deploy updates to a site that is fairly busy. For smaller sites I would just FTP the new files over the old ones. This one, however, has a few large dll's that regularly get updated and while they are copying the site is…
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Gotchas: Upgrading from single servers to web farms

Our company currently runs two Windows 2003 servers (a web server & a MSSQL 8 database server). We're planning to add another couple of servers for redundancy / availability purposes in a web farm setup. Our web sites are predominately ASP.NET, we…
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Classic ASP / IIS6 / Win2003 Server can't communicate with TLS server

Sage Pay today ended their exemption for sites to use SSL3 when communicating with their payment / authorisation servers. TLSv1 is now required. We have a Windows Server 2003 box running IIS6, and two sites written (sadly) in Classic ASP. The box…
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How do I programmatically get a list of locked files under a folder structure?

Following up from this question: How can I unlock a file that is locked by a process in .NET, how do I programmatically get a list of files that are locked in a particular folder and its subfolders? I'm using Windows 2003, .NET 3.5, C# 3.0. Update:…
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Relative path not working when website is deployed

I have a website that has a relative path to a stylesheet that looks like this "/stylesheets/main.css". Now this works fine when I run the site in Visual Studio. But when I deploy the site to our Windows Server 2003 the path stops working. If I go…
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MSMQ on Win2008 R2 won’t receive messages from older clients

I'm battling a really weird problem here. I have a Windows 2008 R2 server with Message Queueing installed. On another machine, running Windows 2003 is a service that is set up to send messages to a public queue on the 2008 server. However, messages…
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How Do I Get The Resource DLL Code Samples In The Windows SDKs To Compile And Run?

I am currently trying to build a Resource DLL on on Windows Server 2003 and 2008. I am currently working with the Resource DLL code samples supplied with the Windows SDKs, and I can't get them to work. On Windows Server 2008 I succeeded compiling…
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SOAP requests fail with MEX Binding

I have an odd problem with some services. I am not the developer I am the sysadmin. We have some SOAP services running in a development environment. Some SOAP services started to fail. Here is one example. These are both coming from the same web…
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How do I secure a folder used to let users upload files?

I have a folder in my web server used for the users to upload photos using an ASP page. Is it safe enough to give IUSR write permissions to the folder? Must I secure something else? I am afraid of hackers bypassing the ASP page and uploading content…
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