I opened the licensing tool in control panel,  attempted to update the
licenses to 5 which came with the server software, but got a
"You do not have access permissions"
I am logged on by the domain administrator account... what other top level

I've been trying and failing to setup a fax server on one of my Windows
Server 2003 Standard Edition's computers.  I can find step by step
instructions for SBE Server, but those don't seem to match Standard edition.
I have a fax modem on the server and would like to have about 12 of ...

Every time I try to install Framework 2.0 a message appears, saying "Setup
cannot continue because this version ... is incompatible with a previously
installed one."
Well, I tried to get rid of the previous installed one by using the "Windows

havn't messed with 2008 much yet... I need to get a simple smtp server
running on server 2008... is this still a part of IIS as it was in 2k and
2k3? or something else now? Just figured I'd ask before poking around.
thanks.

I am about to start looking into server 2008 deployment.... will be adding
2008 images into an existing image deployment system (MDT + WDS) and I first
want to find out about automation options for adding features and/or roles
to a base 2008 installation... eg. I would like to ...

I have a working copy of Vista. I tried to install Windows2003 Server on top
of Vista, but failed when I didn't have the 2003 driver for my storage
controller. Now, when I boot the computer, I get the "Windows Boot Manager"
screen with two options, "Microsoft Windows Vista" and ...

I have looked into the group policy to set things like which drives users
can see and which things appear on the start menu and such, but I can't
figure out how to customize it on a group level.  I.E.  My power uses should
be able to see C: drive for instance, but standard users ...

when I boot a newly set up Windows 2008 test server, I get an error like
"DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"
Well, while I don't like this message much I admit that I probably
messed up things myself by using imaging software (Ghost) to restore the

1) If you boot into winPE and partition and format the drive, then run a cd
install of windows 2003 or 2008 and install on the existing, already
formatted partition, does the OS installation re-do or modify the
filesystem? change NTFS permissions?

I am not sure if this is the right group and I appoligize for the
cross post but I am really in need of some help.
I stepped into a site that needs to upgrade the hardware and software
of their current Domain. The hardware is ancient (9+ years old) and

Is it possible to remotely and silently install the File Server Resource
Manager on 2003 R2? I have approximately 200 servers of which 150+ were not
built with R2 slipstreamed in, and we now need to enable FSRM as we have an
issue with users storing iTunes on their server. I ...

I have an eval copy of Server 2008 Standard running on a clients new server
which will need activating soon - we are happy that it will do what they want
so I can shut down there old server. I purchased an OEM licence for it but it
will not allow me to use the product key saying ...