Is there an easy way to update over 1000 Windows hosts with an additional permitted manager? I have tools to remotely run scripts on hosts, but it is a little bit difficult to filter out specific hosts, and you end up having to type each hostname into the program then add it to a list of hosts to run the script on. I have scripts that will update permitted managers, and other SNMP settings in [...]

I’ve got a website running Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6 and I’ve got an SSL certificate. Our website order form is encrypted with that SSL certificate, but the login form is not. Is this something that needs to be fixed in the code behind the page or can it be fixed in the administration of the server or the installation of the SSL certificate? Asked by joystick You don’t need to add any code [...]

I’ve got an old win 2003 VM (VMware) on a blade cluster of VMs that I’m moving a considerable amount of files to our new DFS array. There are two main folders with about 1.7 million and half a million smaller files (letters, memos, and other smaller files) respectively. Total size is ~420 GB and ~100 GB. We’re using the gui version of robocopy on the server to copy the files. We had initiated a [...]

We’re having a strange problem that we can’t fathom out. We have inherited a 2003 FFL/DFL domain that has a mix of 2008 R2 and 2003 DC’s. The Workstation Admins group was in Builtin\Administrators, not great I know. We removed said group from the elevated permissions only to find it had returned the next day. Checking the permissions on the group Builtin\Aministrators only Domain Admins can affect it, as it should be. We used the [...]

Our IIS server was recently patched with the latest Microsoft Security Updates and since then, I am unable to enable the “Run WWW service in IIS 5.0 isolation mode” setting. This setting was enabled prior to patching and somehow changed during the updates. I have tried both using the IIS Manager console and the adsutil.vbs approach to change it. Either way, after resetting IIS for the change to take effect, when I go to verify [...]

Our web site is working great for 99.99% of our users, but a few people (all of whom use Internet Explorer) are running into an error. Most pages on the site load fine, but for one specific page (the same page for all affected users), all they get is: Internet explorer cannot display the webpage It doesn’t matter whether the page is accessed over http or https – it fails to load either way. Every [...]

Within our AD set-up there are a lot of security groups, but only 1 distribution group (that a previous admin created). Both types of group contain lists of domain objects (users in the one I was looking at). What is the difference between a Security Group and a Distribution Group? Asked by SteB Security groups can be associated with ACLs, whereas distribution groups can’t. Both security groups and distribution groups can be mail enabled. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc781446(v=ws.10).aspx [...]

Is it possible to run IIS7/7.5 on Windows Server 2003? Asked by David Merrilees No, since IIS4, the IIS version has been tied to the OS version. IIS7, specifically, has many hooks into Server 2008 features that don’t exist in Server 2003. So even if you were able to force the installer to complete on 2003, IIS would not work. Upgrade to a newer OS, or live with IIS 6. Answered by HopelessN00b Check more [...]

This feels like a stupid question, and one that should (although I can’t find it) have been asked before. I have a shared folder on a Windows Server 2003 R2 setup. We do NOT use AD, just local accounts. What if a user is deleted from the server, what happens to the files that (s)he owns in a shared folder? Will they be left with a link that points to a now non-existing user or [...]

I am trying to provide taskpads to few admins to operate on few tasks delegated to them at OU level.I ran into the following problem; lets say i delegated access to the admin on OU X and which is ability to modify groups such as sample group X1 , he must be able to add any users from OU X to the group X1. The issue here is while testing i found out the admin [...]