Microsoft - Windows - 2003 - Miscellaneous

Microsoft Download - Windows Server 2003/2003 R2 Retired Content download retired Windows Server 2003 content as a PDF.

Check for volume errors in Windows Server 2003 vrfydsk.exe en chkdsk.exe
Microsoft Storage: Fact and Fiction

Windows Server 2003 Security Guide

HOW TO: Troubleshoot DVD Problems in Windows Server 2003
Share permissions

Description of the contents of Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2003 software update packages describes how update branches are arranged for Server 2003/XP and describes why you shouldn't delete the (contents of) %windir%\$hf_mig$.

List of updates in Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 list of updates

Recommended hotfixes for Windows Server 2003-based server clusters

Time synchronization may not succeed when you try to synchronize with a non-Windows NTP server in Windows Server 2003

The Windows Server 2003 redirector component limits the number of files that can be open at the same time to 16,383, even when multiple connections are pooled in DFS

How to implement Windows Server 2003 Access-based Enumeration in a DFS environment

Update is available that fixes various Volume Shadow Copy Service issues in Windows Server 2003 (kb891957) inmiddels vervangen door A new Volume Shadow Copy Service update is now available that fixes various Volume Shadow Copy Service problems in Windows Server 2003 (kb913648).

An update is available to optimize the way that the Shadow Copy Client accesses shadow copies in Windows Server 2003 and in Windows XP (kb903234)

I'm now putting KB 891957 on all Windows 2003 servers that I deploy.

The backup process may fail and a time-out error may occur in Volume Shadow Copy Service writers (915331) zit in SP2.
The backup application stops responding when you perform a backup that uses a volume snapshot in Windows Server 2003 with SP1 (kb923628) zit in SP2.

Requestors that are coded as single-apartment COM applications will not work with the Volume Shadow Copy Service most of the time on a Windows Server 2003-based computer niet in SP1/SP2.

Seeing VSS errors?
Shadow copy problem
Problem with Shadow Copy
Issue with VSS on W2K3
"Backups.......I don't need no stinking backups"....whatever!

Er is een VSS-updatepakket (Volume Shadow Copy-service) beschikbaar voor Windows Server 2003 (kb833167) zit in SP1.
A Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) update-2 package is available (kb887827) zit in SP1.
Time-out errors occur in Volume Shadow Copy service writers, and shadow copies are lost during backup and during times when there are high levels of input/output (kb826936) zit in SP1.

Working with the Windows Server 2003 Volume Shadow Copy Service
Best Practices for Using Volume Shadow Copy Service with Exchange Server 2003