Windows server 2003 activation network settings

You might be rebuilding an exchange server for christmas! I sypathize with you. But if you have some spare hardware you can drop an image and get it going and maybe get the server rebuilt today, but if the registry probles are too deep or you have other issues besides hard drive failure, you might be boned. What sort of equipment are you running. What make server is it? Most known brand Servers offer diagnositics to troubleshoot any problems you might have, check on the manufacturers website for any tools you can use to establish the cause, it might just save you a lot of work I had a similar issue at our sister company.

The UPS would run for awhile and then kick out completely no notification or anything and the server would reboot, it eventually corrupted everything so badly that I had no choice but to do a complete re-installation.

This is a great reason to have everything locked up in a cabnet and NO ONE else is allowed access to it! Had this happen on an XP workstation recently. In our case other machines on the network couldn't see it, network scans weren't hitting it except Spiceworks for some reason.

Nothing in the logs to explain why it happened, but the machine was fine after we rebooted it and no problems since.

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Therefore, Basic Authentication mistakenly prompts you for a user account name and password. As the user, you are typically not aware that certificates are being validated, and you may be prompted repeatedly during the validation of a series of certificates. The following methods are listed in the order of the most preferred to least preferred, with the most preferred method appearing first. Avoid using Basic Authentication on the proxy server. To do this, configure the following list of CRLs to be unauthenticated on the proxy server:.

If you receive the error message described in the Symptoms section of this article when you try to activate Windows, click the Telephone button in the Activate Windows Wizard to activate Windows over the telephone. Turn off certificate revocation in Internet Explorer to permit Windows activation to succeed. To do so, follow these steps.

Click the Advanced tab, and then clear the following check boxes in the Settings list:.