Hi, is there a tool which allows be to monitor and log whether a port has
been used on a Windows 2003 server?  We have opened up a port on our remote
firewall to a server and just want to log the access on this port.  Our
firewall can't do this :(

is there a way to push XP sp3 from a 2003 server?

We have a Dell Poweredge 2900 server running SBS Server 2003.
Randomly client computers will freeze for a few seconds (3-10) when
doing anything from opening a program, to trying to open a file in
Excel.  Anything that requires the network.

some windows 2000 pc   can't  map to network drive using net use \\xxx\xxx or
using internet explorer tools-map network drive.
the error msg invalid user name and password but it can login to domain and
can connect to other member  server share drive but not the dc share drive

We have all our servers behind the firewall, all clients are on the
other side of the firewall and are secured from the internet by
additional firewall which blocks Windows file sharing etc. We want make
posible for our coworkers to access our fileservers and other services

I have a Dell PowerEdge 1850 with a 67GB RAID-1 set runing Windows
Server 2003
The C drive is 12GB and I want to extend it to 20GB
I can blow away the D and E drives and recreate them later

I've got a Windows 2000 server that does not play well with USB2 devices.
It will go as far as mounting a USB2 drive, but if you try to read or write
to it more than just a little bit, it has issues.  If you do a quick format
on it, it wil fail.

I need a report to show users' logon/logoff time each day.  I need this for
one office now.  The users are under a few different OUs, due to GPO.  How
can I do that?  GUI or script?
Thanks.

Ntbackup seems not to start properly 30 to 50% of the time.
I have a simple script running from scheduler. The script runs as
expected, however, the ntback command in it does not always run
properly.

Does anyone know what are the recommended values for performance
counters in Windows system. I'm not talking about the most obvious
ones like Disk Time, Processor Time or AverageDiskQL.
I tried googling for it but couldn't find any source that would give

I have a Windows 2003 server network with over 100 pc's on and wish to use
remote desktop to support them but not by logging the user off.
Suggestions please.
Cheers

Hi - I hope this is the right place to ask this.
I need to migrate applications between two web servers.  Currently there are
a large number of local computer accounts on the old machine.  I want to
transfer all or most of those (with passwords and groups) to the new machine.

Hi, I want to give a set of developers access to view a Window 2003's event
viewer logs remotely using an MMC snap-in without granting them
administrator access to the server?  Does anyone know how/where I grant
those specific rights?

Colleague of mine wants to remove laptops from his organisation and go
with thin clients. No probs there. He has only 1 physical server, and
would like to upgrade to windows 2008 at the same time. Is 2008
running DC, and terminal services a supported configuration ? Would

Currently I have Vista installed on my main computer, but I'm about to do a
dualboot installation with Windows 2008 Server on a dedicated drive.
Are there any issues I need to be aware of going into this or is this a
straight forward process? Currently using Vista Ulitmate 32bit, ...