Tag: Windows 2003 Server
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Virtualize an aging server
If you’re like most businesses, you’ve got a few aging servers in your infrastructure. They are probably running legacy applications you can’t afford to upgrade right now and as long as things still work, you’ve taken the “don’t fix it if it ain’t broke” approach to them. Problem is that the hardware these servers are…
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Fixing stubborn DNS errors on SBS 2003
Windows 2003 Small Business Server (SBS) has wizards for configuring all sorts of settings during the initial server setup. Unfortunately changing those settings without the wizard later can be a hassle. This is the story of an SBS server which was originally setup as a gateway router with two network interfaces (WAN/LAN) only later to…
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Win2k3 Blacked out Logon Screen Fix
I recently had a Windows 2003 Server installation that ran out of disk space on the operating system partition due to known problem with Symantec Endpoint Protection 11 virus definitions (KB2007111509244948). After fixing the Symantec problem, my servers logon screen remained strangely messed up. The logon screen was completely blacked out with only the blinking…
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Allow or deny DHCP by MAC address
I recently found this little gem on petri.co.il and subsequently discovered its origin at the DHCP technet blog. MAC Filter Callout DLL is a free dll file which allows a windows 2003 DHCP server to check a requesting client’s MAC address against a list of allowed or denied hosts before issuing an IP address.