Anyone know of any tools that will allow me to extend the 2003 Server
system/boot volume? I inherited a server from someone who obviously thought
10Gb was always going to be sufficient.and, of course, I'm rapidly running
out of space due to service packs, etc. Neither Symantec's ...

I have a Windows Server 2003 development server that we use to hose a
bunch of internal web servers.  The box is about 4 years old but does
the trick.
A developer on my team wants to install .Net frameworks 3.0 and 3.5.

OS: Windows 2000 Advanced Server
SP: Told it was SP4 but not sure
Problems: (1) On reboot hangs at "Preparing network connections", (2) Does
not allow me to boot in Safe Mode (by pressing F8 when prompted).

At work they have been doing a method of security for a long time
(described below) and the manager is adamant that this is the way it
should be done. I suspect that it stems from the NT4 days and with
everything on the network now 2000+ and the domain at 2000 functional

Nobody likes red errors in the event log. They have a habit of worrying one

DCOM got error "The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled
or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. " attempting to

I created a TempTestou where I have my test machine sitting and created a GPO
named test for desktop and it is not working.  I configured settings under
user configuration ->Administrative Templete ->Desktop and applied. How do I
link the test gpo to the machine which is under my ...

When do I need to use the /3gb switch? or the /3gb /userva=3030?
read somewhere that I need /3gb only when my box has between 1gb to 4gb
physical memory only.
anything above 4gb I do not need any switches.

I have a windows 2003 ENT x64 Server that has sharepoint 2007 installed on
it. The issue that I am having is page.sys will not remove it's self after
being moved to the D:\ drive.The registy entry under:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\ Memory

I need to restart a service from the command prompt. The program will not
run again if I use net stop and then net start unless I do a full reboot. I
have tested this with the services mmc and found that if I use the restart
button it all works fine, so I would like to put that ...

Hi Guy,
I have a windows 2003 R2 32bits with win xppro clients and roaming profiles
configured. it's work very well.
Today i change a win xp desktop to a win vista business notebook.

We are using
Windows Server 2003 - EE - SP2
SQL Server 2005 - EE - SP2
MySQL Server 5.0

I have a virtual machine that has 4GB ram.
When i add the /3gb /USERVA=3030 switch to boot.ini
the system behaves very slow with nothing running on the machine.
When i take these switched out, the system behaves normally

 We recently replaced our Win2K SBS server with a Win2003 R2 SBS Premium
server. Ever since we a lot of Event 565’s in our Security Log (see below)
which we never got on our Win2K server. Our users are not seeing any errors
on their end.

Currently running a 2003 domain with XP clients. I was under the impression
that being in a domain made the PDC the time source, which all XP clients
sync with using the W32TM service.
However I have noticed that some PC's seem to be losing the time? I am

I installed the above on a new server which comes with 9 gig ram, but it
shows only 3 gig ram.
How do i go about troubleshooting it ?