Recently I have performed a password change on the default domain
administrator account.  Before the change was made last Friday I made sure
to find all services and scheduled tasks in our network that were using the
domain admin account and changed them to use their own service ...

I am unable to connect to port 445 on a WIndows 2003 SP2 DC. We do not have
the firewall enabled. Nestat shows the system listening on TCP port 445 but I
do not see any service listening on UDP 445. I see both TCP and UDP on our
other DCs just not this one.

I am running SBS 2008 with uptodat patches. I have a problem with the SBS console that when I go to Computers tab under Network, the Security Status column shows Not available for all the servers and all of the client computers are shown as Critical. However, client computers are ...

Dear Colleague,
I need to request a Server Authentiction Certificate for ISA 2006 server, I
go to web browser http://<root ca server/certsrv, at web page click Request a
certificate, click Advanced certificate request and next Create and submit a

Hi Team,
On couple of machines running on 2003 server. We find security log
file getting quickly filled.
In our enviroment we have to preserve 90 days of log, but it gets

I have to harden some Win2k3 servers joined to a domain.
I've found several hardening gudes and I'm applying a series of
security measures.
Someone suggests to disable administrative shares, but I am hesitating

I'm putting up my first w2k8 r2 server and when I try to install a program
or try to move/delete files in the filesystem I get the access denied
despite the local administrators group seem to have sufficient rights and I
am a domain admin.

I'm looking for a whitepaper, blog, or anything on how to configure the
firewall to allow local IPv6 traffic but block public RDP, file sharing etc.
when an IPv6 tunnel is active.

our certification authority (Windows Server 2003) currently contains
quite a lot of pending/failed requests. As those requests
unnecessarily enlarge our certificate database, we would like to
permanently remove them. As the MMC-SnapIn doesn't offer any

      what if a pc/user has a GPO and a Security configuration template
file applied at the same time ( from the Security and Analysis mmc )and
there is a conflict of settings.
for example the template states 2 password history and the GPO states 10

Background:
I am running windows 2003 domain controllers.
My CA is loaded on a Windows 2008 Server.  It was originally a Standard when
the CA was loaded, but has been upgraded to Enterprise.

We're currently running Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Pro
workstations. I'm new to network administration and I'm in the process
of creating shared folders on our server so our users can store their
data. I was able to map a network drive for myself and a couple of

Running Win2k3 R2
We have a user with admin rights and we've noticed a couple times now that
his account is locked out. We're thinking this is due to invalid logon
attempts. Is there a quick and simple way to track who is attempting to

I have a dedicated win server and it would save considerable amounts of time
if I could unzip directly to my website. Not only can I download much faster
on my webserver but also uploading a website file by file could take 10 or
more minutes at a time for what I'm doing.

I'm new to 2003 so bear with me...  I've reset a users password and now he
can log on, but he does not have access to his 'My Documents' or any of the
shares on the server.
I've reset a few passwords before and had no problem.  Anybody any idea what