We are running 2 2003 Domain controllers, 2 2003 Terminal servers and 1 2000
Fax Server.  We have purchased a new server and trying to decide in between
Windows 2003 Server or 2008.   With 2008, will we have any problems with AD
and the 2000 Server?  We are running in mixed mode. ...

We have only widescreen monitors now and I'm installing 2008. I'm amazed that
it doesn't seem to have generic support for widescreens and only goes up to
1280x1024. Also, there seems to be no provsion to prevent the screen from
stretching the none widescreen image thus distorting ...

If I have System State Backup, is it necessary to backup c$\WINDOWS\ntfrs ?
What kind of problem can occur if this folder is deleted?
Thankyou in advance!
FM

i have a Windows server 2003 SP2 machine, that i am trying to upgrade to R2.
How ever the SKU for The new and old versions is different, which means i
need to use the first disk, to upgrade the install.
How ever when i select upgrade and allow it to prepare to restart for the

Hello,
Is the Technet DVD 100% the same then the Original One?
My Customer wants to install 4x Windows Server 2008, but the Licence and
original DVD from Microsoft will come in about 30 Days.

tried to install w2k8 on an Asus P5Q Pro for testing.
First setup loads its drivers  and shows the black screen
with the green bar moving.
After that it continues with the greyish screen.

After installing Windows Server 2008 and using uit for a short period of
time, I have discovered that the file amager worked a couple of times and
then stopped working. Whenever I attempt to download from Tewchnet a program
or program key it tells me that the file manager has ...

My backup system fails on backup dhcp.mdb, file opened.
Is there any command I can schedule to backup dhcp database to a file and
then my backup system can backup that?
Obs.: DHCP Server is a DC too.

Many years ago when Windows 2000 Server came out I setup our interal AD using
our public domain name [say domain.com] as the internal domain name as that
seemed to be the recommended way at the time? In any case, since then it
became clear that it would be better for our internal ...

IU am trying to installa Windows Server 2008 (x64 and x32) on the foplowing
syste,:
Intel Pentium D 930
ASUS P5WDG2-WS

We're in a relatively new Windows 2003 Server environment w/ WinXP
wrkstations.  We have 1 user (that I'm aware of) that periodically loses her
server connection (mapped drives disconnect).  She's then forced to reboot.
Any ideas?  How can I troubleshoot this?

One of my LANs has 2 servers(both DCs) running Server 2003. I am looking to
update to Server 2008 soon and am wondering whether to install 2008 over the
top of 2003 i.e. an in-situ update or whether to back up data, wipe the
server and install 2008 fresh and then restore? No ...

I have an Intel S3000AH Motherboard and want to used the Embedded RAID (LSI).
Raid's configured all's fine, however there are no signed 64-Bit drivers for
Windows Server 2008 64 Bit that I can find.

I need to do testing of tape drives on Windows 2008 using both the tape
vendor-supplied driver, as well as the default Microsoft driver
(6.0.6001.18000).  After installing the vendor-specific tape driver, how can
I remove that vendor-specific driver, and use again the default ...

I hope someone can give me some advice. I'm trying to set up windows server
on a Dell PE2950 G2, Dual Core Duo processor, 4 GB RAM, PERC 5/i RAID
controller one single RAID 1 volume 146GB x 2 SAS HDDs and it just stops on
the main blue setup "Windows Setup" screen, totally frozen ...