When I look at the DHCP leases on my Windows Server 2000 standard, I see the
first ten leases taken up by IP assignments to things like
sip810a3b.mydomain.com. Can anyone help me understand what these entries are
for? thanks.

I saw an error on my Windows Server 2003 machine, id is 19, source is
Appmgr, and the description is: A critical error has occurred in the
main operating system. The server is now running a backup operating
system. Contact your system administrator.

Could somebody point me to general performance optimization techniques
(whitepaper) for any Server Application as well for the Operating System
called "Windows Server 2003" . I.e. not a specific microsoft server app but
a general client-server app. In terms of how to optimize ...

Trying to install HP Color LaserJet CP3505 on a clustered print server -
Windows 2003 SP1 (using both the print server wizard and/or printui.dll).  I
am getting the error "Unable to install HP Color LaserJet CP3505, Windows
2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003, x86 driver.  ...

Hi All, I'm a trying to set up Exchange Server 2003, but every time my only
client machine tries to connect using Outlook XP it hangs and then displays
"The connection to the Microsoft Exchange Server is Unavailable". If I turn
off the Windows Firewall on the server it connects ...

Good Day folks,
Im hoping someone can help me. First let me start by saying that i am
not a server admin. I am helping a friend set up a 2k3 SBS standard
server.

Windows Server Gurus,
I want to create a RAM DISK on Windows Server 2003.
I.e. I want to use part of my 2GB available RAM, lets say 512 MB, to create
a disk volume accessed as for example R:\  when the system is up and

Good Day folks,
Im hoping someone can help me. First let me start by saying that i am
not a server admin. I am helping a friend set up a 2k3 SBS standard
server.

Have two windows 2003 Domain Controllers.  The original DCs is flaky and
needs to be rebuilt, hence I need to move all it's roles to the other DC.
Whats the order of work to do?
I understand it to be

I want to remove a 2nd Server 2003 off our domain to upgrades drives and
install OS again. It is installed as a 2nd domain controller.
How do i remove it successfuly and then return it again after the re-install
process?

Does anybody know of a way of moving file screens from one server to
another? I know how to move the file screen templates and file groups using
the “filescrn template export & filescrn filegroup export” commands. Our file
server crashed but we were able to bring it back online ...

first of all I not sure I should be posting this here so please bear
with me and suggest other groups name if I am wrong.
On the same network, I have 2 subnet:
1 is 10.3.29.X/24 with its gateway

I recently stepped up to administrate a small Windows Server 2003
network including one server and two rooms of 16 computers.  Each room
is on a different subnet.  The problem I am seeing is that network
users don't appear to authenticate properly.  Login's take 2 - 3

Okay, this is the scenario:
I have two location, NC and FL.  NC is a new company that aquired a
company in FL.  NC wants a server with Exchange and also wants FL to
be on that same domain and be able to send email through that Exchange

Hi.  These questions are just to try to get a handle on what some of
this stuff means in Windows Server.  Any help would be most
appreciated.
Is the Built-in container which contains the default groups the same