Windows 2000/2003 Security

IIS security question-please help

Rob - 20 Jan 2007 2:21 PM - 2 messages

Hi, I have 2 websites on a IIS machine (Windows 2000 server). one of them is open to the public and another one should be only accessable for inside the network (LAN). What has to be done in order to secure it, so peolpe from ...

Prevent unwanted emails from being sent out.

Dan - 19 Jan 2007 9:30 PM - 3 messages

I have a windows 2000SP4 server with 5 win xp sp2 clients. I have exchange 2k on the server. For some reason i cant send emails to the att.net domain, I get an email saying my ip is blocked. I have a virus scanner on all my ...

audit facility in Windows 2000

adrian - 19 Jan 2007 8:21 PM - 2 messages

Can the audit facility be configured to report activities performed under the system administrator account ? ...

Where can I get poledit.exe for windows 2000 pro?

Sam Dillon - 19 Jan 2007 5:41 PM - 5 messages

Hi, I just reinstalled my Dell with the factory restore and I wanna set up some policies. Poledit.exe is not on my PC or my Dell reinstall disk. Where can I download it please? Sam ...

Unable to take ownership of directory

Joe Grover - 19 Jan 2007 4:38 PM - 3 messages

I'm not sure what happened, but one of my techs was assigning permissions to a folder created by a user, and now we are locked out of it. The Security tab is not available under any logon. I have tried the following: ...

Unexplained Failed Logins

James B - 18 Jan 2007 6:37 PM - 7 messages

Hi, While reviewing our system Security event log (Win2K SBS) I found 3 failed login attempts that appear to have occurred at the server itself. The problem is that according to the alarm system log no one was in the building for ...

Backing up user accounts

Chris - 18 Jan 2007 4:17 PM - 6 messages

Anyone if user account info (Not Active Directory) can be backed up from one Windows 2000 machine and restored to another? What I am looking to accomplish is to have a machine on standby where I could quickly restore a user base to a backup machine should my primary ...

Account Lockout

adiga.yaa - 18 Jan 2007 8:54 AM - 2 messages

My laptop i changed domain password and i mistyped the password my account is locked after that in server my account is unlocked but i am not able to login into my laptop I am working out of our network and i am useing VPN to connect ...

Lose my product key

Sam Wishka - 17 Jan 2007 10:06 AM - 2 messages

I Lost my windows product key. I must install or reinstall windows2003 , I have already one server it is running windows 2003. How can I find the product key on this server Thanks, Sam s**@wishka.net ...

Anti games

WCNW - 17 Jan 2007 9:51 AM - 4 messages

Dear Mdm/Sir, Please Help ! May I know, How can I totally restrict a Windows 2000 desktop computer to play games ? Thank you very much ! Reg, William ...

Password Complexity

Sam - 16 Jan 2007 4:28 PM - 3 messages

If I enable Password Complexity in Domain security policy, it forces users to setup a password, which meets at least 3 out of four criteria. We are not ready for it. Is it possible to change this requirement to pick 2 out of 4? Or ...

Administrative rights on specified domain controller

Ilya - 16 Jan 2007 8:10 AM - 10 messages

Hi I have domain with many DC, i want to grant some user administrative rights only on specified DC, not for entire domain. I have read KB240267 ("Administrators cannot be restricted in Windows 2000" - [link]). It's impossible for Win200, and what ...

Read security policy

Ilya - 16 Jan 2007 8:06 AM - 2 messages

Hi All! Is it possible to grant ordinary user permission to read (not edit) security policy on specified object (local, domain, OU)? Thanks Ilya ...

Can't reset Read only attrib

Bikini Browser - 15 Jan 2007 7:44 PM - 4 messages

hello everyone... Somehow I managed to set a parent folder to the read only attrib. Now all the users folders and documents are read only. I checked the box to take out read only, and then to clear all the ...