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Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative ver...

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At times when working from home/remotely is becoming increasingly important, your Samsung Electronics smartphone with DeX or Motorola smartphone with Ready For might be the answer. Now Crosscall have a solution and you can even use Android Desktop mode on other devices too.
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Security updates for Microsoft End of Life operating systems..

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Windows Server 2003 R2: "The active directory is rebuilding indices please wait..." Message While Logging

byJinish KG
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While rebooting windows server 2003 server , it's showing "active directory rebuilding indices please wait" at startup. It took a little while for this process to complete and once we logged on not all the services were started so another reboot is required to start the all services normally
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Undeleting Objects in Active Directory

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Learn about cloud computing and its benefits for small business owners.
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How to install and configure Carbonite Server Backup

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Windows Server 2003 - Have you migrated?

byLee Osborne
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On July 14th 2015, Windows Server 2003 will become End of Support, leaving hundreds of thousands of …
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How to 'upgrade' your Windows 2003 server to 2008 R2 for file servers

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With the withdrawal of support for Windows Server 2003 this summer, many clients face the issue of …
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Connecting PHP on IIS 6 (32 Bit) to a remote MS SQL 2008

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I know there are lots of articles out there about how to connect PHP to MS SQL. But I was having …
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I've always wanted to allow a user to have a printer no matter where they login. The steps below …
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Reusing Terminal Server Licenses on a new server

byCoralie Crumrine
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You have a server running Server 2003 and have applied a retail pack of Terminal …
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Windows SteadyState for Standalone Servers

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Recently, I had the need to build a standalone system to run a point-of-sale system. I’m running …
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Configuring DHCP server from command-line

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Many of us need to configure DHCP server(s) in their environment. We can do that simply via …
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Numerous times I have been asked this questions that what is it that makes my machine log on so …
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VSS Backups Failing: Resolve VSS backup issues on Windows servers

byashwynr
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This may not be a text book method to resolve VSS backup issues but it seemed to have worked on few …
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Free Windows Event log monitoring to SNMP traps or Syslog

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I guess it is not common knowledge to most Wintel engineers/administrators: If you have an …
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Resetting Forgotten Domain Administrator Password

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Within the dynamic life of an IT administrator, we hold many information in our …
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Removing Failed DC Data From Active Directory

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In this article I will be guiding through the process of removing a failed DC …

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