Roles windows 2003

Finally, Guy bets that if you test drive the Network Topology Mapper then you will find a device on your network that you had forgotten about, or someone else installed without you realizing!

Rather exotic perhaps, but if you do need to support clients who need audio or video services, then there is a separate Windows Media Service to install through Add Remove Programs, Windows Settings. The Windows server does all the processing, and the clients connect from a machine which essentially becomes a dumb terminal. You will also need to install Terminal Service Licensing on one of your servers. The main question is which mode will you run terminal? Remote Desktop for Administration or Application mode.

Also search websites for scripts to make any non Microsoft applications operate in multi session mode. Group Policy. There are Group Policies just for Terminal services, e. Do not let users accidentally Shut Down the terminal server when they think they are shutting down their own machine! By default every user can access a terminal server, perhaps you wish to change this. When you launch this tool it analyzes a users effective NTFS permissions for a specific file or folder, and takes into account network share access, then displays the results in a nifty desktop dashboard!

The fact that it is now built in and installed by default is in an indication of its more robust nature and greater importance. There are lots of components and technologies to understand and configure to make a successful RAS server:.

Also be aware of other roles that are better deployed on their own server, for example, Exchange Server or File and Print server. Make it your reflex to install DNS on domain controllers. How to Configure a Server: File Server Role Unlike the above roles, file servers should be member servers, installing Active Directory here would be a disadvantage. New feature — Shadow Copies File servers have always combined well with print servers. The Dumpfsmos.

This tool is can be used to verify change certain aspects of the Active Directory. You can view the schema master role owner in the Active Directory Schema snap-in. You can view the domain naming master role owner in Active Directory Domains and Trusts. A list is displayed similar to what is listed below. Results may very depending on the roles the particular Domain Controller may hold.

If you receive an error message, check the spelling of the commands as the syntax of the commands must be exact.

Remember that in the acronym FSMO, the word Flexible means that you can move the role to a more suitable domain controller. As a matter of planning strategy, decide if this move is a short term fix, or part of a long term transfer of role. Another consideration is do you want all the roles on the same Domain Controller.

The answer is probably not, for example, best practice suggests that the Infrastructure master should not be on a Global Catalog. If the Global Catalog server and Infrastructure Master are on the same server, the Global Catalog no longer updates information. You can either just accept this peculiarity, or research why it thinks it knows best and does not need to replicate. This is only a problem in a multi-domain forest. Finally a minor consideration, have you the correct rights, for example, do you have access to an account, which is and Enterprise Administrator and Schema Administrator.

While the hardest FSMO master to find is the Schema Master, the reason being you first have to register the schema snap in with the command: Start, Run Start, regsvr32 schmmgmt.