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Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition

jonathon123449 — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:17:30 GMT

I have just recently bought a belkin F5D5005 Pci network card gigabit, i went onto the windows 2003 OS and when i goto Add New Hardware it shows up the belkin being their but it isnt letting me install the driver it keeps on saying Access denied just under the name of the device and yes the cd that came with it has the .ini files for 2003, can anyone help me ??? im setting up my own network.:D:)

Much Appreciated

Difference between Windows Server 2003 editions

Kingpin — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:53:52 GMT

Could someone enlighten me with a short text of the differences between
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition
Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition
Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition with SP1
please? Thanks a lot.

Installing Win2003 server Enterprise edition

joedotm — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:54:36 GMT

Hello,

I have a G330 Altos Acer server;
Windows 2003 Server Enterprise (2 CDs);

So I begin the installation, F6, choose the required from the Floppy, etc... then PC restarts: instead of continuing the installation, it restart the installation from the beginning after rebooting.

Pls advise.

Thank you

disk management in server 2003

thekidunknown — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 06:15:15 GMT

i've got a hp dl380 server which i used the SmartStart disk to create one array of two disks for mirrorerd system disks, and another four disks for a RAID 5 array.

in case you dont know, the Smart Start then prompts for the OS meida to be use and performs install.

Ive just looked in Disk Management to create a volume on the unallocated space, but when selecting New Volume from the menu only Striped is active all other options are grayed out.

I a member of the Administrator group, so rights should nt be an issue.

Can anyone help, as ive been unable to find any refernce on TechNet.

Thanks

exchange 2003

kuz1 — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 09:13:55 GMT

I currently get my hosting company to deal with my email. by installing exchange, will i be then hosting my own email? or will it still be going through my hosting company. and would i be right in saying that exchange will only allow email in that are only from recognized clients or is thier a filter for that... could someone give me a real quick overview of exchange and why i would use it. thanks in advanced kuz

Windows Mobile auto logon to Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services?

Archo X — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:03:12 GMT

I am trying to get a bunch of handheld device setup so they can auto-logon in terminal services. In Windows Mobile you can't edit the termserv connection details so I can't store a password there. We also have other machines that connect to termserv with their own credencials, so I can't set termserv to always use a predifened user account.

I've tried a number of google searches and so far I've come up blank. Anyone have any ideas on how to make this work?

Edit: I just figured out one way to make it work. :w00t: I set up another RDP listener on the second NIC and set connections on that NIC to auto-logon. If anyone has a better idea than that I'd still be interested in finding out.

Cannot add default printer

Kyoshu — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:53:15 GMT

Hello all,

hope that I can get some help on this, as I have needed up with nothing everywhere else. Windows Server 2003 with Terminal services. Users are able to add the printer, but get the error "Default printer cannot be set" at the end of the add printer wizard. also, users are unable to set printers that they are currently connect to as default.

Only happens to none domain admin users and only on Windows Server 2003 terminal servers. Users are able to connect and set printers as default from our Windows 2000 terminal servers.

any help you can give would be very appreciated.

Oscar

Group Policies and My Documents

allsorts59 — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 05:48:41 GMT

Hey All,

I am new to Windows Server and am trying to navigate my way around it without causing too much disruption to my colleges.

Our current setup is to have My Documents defaulting to a shared data storage area, and each user has a private directory which is accessed through a mapped drive.

This is causing all sorts of problems with people saving files. Now I know that this is just a training issue, however you know what people are like with new computers and all that.

We are trying to promote a sharing environment where we don't need to have private directories and everyone works from shared team directories., however in the meantime we want to "reassure" the staff that there data is safe and secure due to the nature of some of the information that.

Does anyone know if you can remove My Documents and just work with mapped network drives? I know we can change the target of my documents but I just wondered if we could go down this avenue.

Or indeed if anyone had any solutions that were better than this?

Also does anyone know how to change so that display settings are no longer locked and can be changed by the user logged in?

Thanks guys

Tom

[help] Map Network Drive as Client real Hard disk

roy2019 — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 02:42:30 GMT

I have a windows 2003 server
and serveral Windows Xp Professional as clients

I had share a drive from windows server 2003
and I wish to use the Client to Map the shared Hard disk drive as my Windows XP drive

how to make the network drive as local hard disk drive?

the picture show basic mapping drive
example

Can group policy in a server forest

allsorts59 — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:10:38 GMT

Hi All,

We have 3 windows 2003 servers for email, FAp and ISA. These are part of a network of companies that are all linked to one organisation that installed and configured them. They run the forest and their server run windows server 2003 as well.

What i was wondering if that could the server in the company that installed them be applying group polices to our servers to chagne certain behaviours, or settings and/or stop us from modifying settings ourselves.

And another query regarding public folders. As we are all part of the same network, under all public foldrs in outllok 2003 we can see every public folder for all the other organisations.

Is there a way that we can hide all of this and then only show our own public folders. OUr public fodlers are hosted on the companies server, and i have a sneaking suspicion that if we moved them to our own servers, and this might solve the problem?

Can any one help?

Thanks

Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 Release.

RichieUK — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:25:52 GMT

Details and download here:
[url]http://forum.tweaks.com/forum/Topic212555-59-1.aspx[/url]

Can I delete fdeploy.dll locally to prevent folder redirection??

peter_k — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 04:18:19 GMT

I have a corporate laptop, and I want to disable the folder redirection for
"Application Data" and "My Documents". Both are redirected to a network
drive, and this drives me nuts. "My Docs" is not really a problem, coz I
could put my data elsewhere on my HD, but "Application Data" redirection is a
major pain in the a**e (I don't know whether it's the way the admins deployed
it or it's just the way it works, but everytime I logon while not connected
to the network I loose all my customized settings of firefox, ms office apps,
and wifi, to name the three that frustrate me most).

So after some googling and getting to know more about GPO etc. than I ever
wanted to know, I still didn't find a clean way of doing this on my laptop.

The "brute" solution I invented myself would be to manually set the folder redirection to its default settings in the registry and then to delete fdeploy.dll to prevent
GPO to change it again, but I have some questions re this method:
- would this effectively stop the startup script changing it again?
- can admins figure out that the redirection doesn't work on my laptop?
- can they then change it again and copy fdeploy.dll again on my machine?
- how can I prevent this? (e.g. a script that runs at startup before the GPO
scripts and that deletes fdeploy.dll each time?)

Or is there a better way to accomplish my goal? e.g.
- changing fdeploy.ini or {...}.ini files, but this is apparently a local
cache, that can be overwritten?
- disabling fdeploy.dll / changing settings through the registry?
- ... other suggestions ???

Thanks a lot for your help.

Something's wrong with disk drive

parpat08 — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:34:13 GMT

I have a dimension 3100 computer, and I keep trying to upload music, and pictures from CD to my computer but when I insert the CD into the disc drive it starts making intermittantly groaning noises, and does not show anything.

When I try to access the CD's through My Computer, as soon as I double click the icon my computer freezes.

Also, after I put in the CD, when I try to open the disc drive again, it takes a long time making groaning noises.

Please help!

Password problem

william5g — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 05:21:16 GMT

I was asked to help a small school where my kids used to go to school. They have a small network that was set up by one of the parents. They are using W2003 server on the main computer. The problem is that the one parent got mad at the school and then moved. He was the only one with the password. Is there any way to get past this?

If there is no way to get past the password thing, I considered reformatting the drive, except I would like to use XP Pro. Is there anything I would be giving up by switching to the XP OS?

Additional Domain Controller/DNS server

sundaysales — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 01:11:37 GMT

Hi - I'm new here and this is a bit long but please bear with me :D

I need some help in adding a second Windows 2003 Domain Controller in my network.

I have recently set up a new Windows 2003 domain. To simplify the setup imagine DC1 is in Subnet A and there is another Subnet B, currently without a DC.

The first DC is also the Global Catalog (for obvious reasons) and the Primary DNS (not Active Directory-Integrated)

To protect the nework in case the first DC goes down (or in case the link between Subnet A and B goes down) I am planning to promote a Windows 2003 member server in Subnet B as the 2nd Domain Controller. This 2nd DC will also function as a GC and DNS server.

My objective is to set up a 'redundant DC' such that if 1st DC goes down all users should still be able to authenticate without problem using the 2nd DC.

DNS in 1st DC is currently set to Primary but I'm ok to change it to AD-integrated if this is a better setup for my 'redundant DC' requirement. I know FSMO roles etc is a different story - but let's leave them for now.

I have scoured the internet about how to do it and there are a lot of general suggestions but I'm after the correct sequence to perform as I don't want to stuff things up. The 3 ways I can think of are below.

I would highly appreciate any input or help that anyone can provide. Thanks :)

Option1

In the Member Server..

Note: Preferred DNS server IP is set with the IP Address of the 1st DC

Install DNS service

Configure it as a secondary DNS of the Domain

Verify DNS records are replicated

Change Preferred DNS server IP with the local IP (itself)

Run DCPromo and set up server as additional DC

Set 1st DC as Alternate DNS in 2nd DC

In the 1st DC...

Set 2nd DC as Alternate DNS

Option2

In the Member Server..

Note: Preferred DNS server IP is set with the IP Address of the 1st DC

Run DCPromo and set up server as additional DC

Install DNS service

Configure as secondary DNS of Domain

Verify DNS records are replicated

Change Preferred DNS server IP with the local IP (itself)

Set 1st DC as Alternate DNS in 2nd DC

In the 1st DC...

Set 2nd DC as Alternate DNS

Option 3

In the 1st DC...

Change DNS type as AD-integrated

In the Member Server..

Note: Preferred DNS server IP is set with the IP Address of the 1st DC

Install DNS service

Configure it as another AD integrated DNS of the Domain

Verify DNS records are replicated

Change Preferred DNS server IP with the local IP (itself)

Run DCPromo and set up server as additional DC

Set 1st DC as Alternate DNS in 2nd DC

Back in the 1st DC...

Set 2nd DC as Alternate DNS