Welcome to my Windows Server 2003 tutorial website!  Here you will find visual, step-by-step guides that can help you on your Windows Server journey.  Everything has been tested personally, on a default installation.  I cannot guarantee that the guides will always work, but they should on most configurations.  Articles prefixed with "MS KB:" are links to Microsoft Knowledgebase articles ( http://support.microsoft.com ) that I have written.

Please keep yourself and your networks up to date on security patches
Visit http://www.microsoft.com/security/ for more information

IIS

• Setting up Perl for use with IIS 6.0, step-by-step
• Setting up PHP (CGI) for use with IIS 6.0, step-by-step
• Setting up PHP (ISAPI) for use with IIS 6.0
• Enabling ASP support in IIS 6.0
• Setting Host Headers in IIS 6.0
• Backing up your IIS 6.0 Metabase
• Setting up SSL with a SelfSSL certificate on IIS 6.0 - Updated 6/14/2005
• MS KB: How To: Serve WAP Websites (.WML) Using IIS 6.0
• MS KB: SMTP Does Not Appear in the IIS Manager
• Enabling ASP.NET support in IIS 6.0

Shell (GUI)

• Setting up the usage of Luna and other themes on Windows Server 2003, step-by-step (unsupported)
• Setting up the usage of DirectX and graphics acceleration on Windows Server 2003, step-by-step
• Disabling the Shut Down Tracker
• Not Requiring Ctrl-ALT-DEL at logon
• Disabling Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration

General

• Enabling sound on Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition, step-by-step
• Disabling Error Reporting on Windows Server 2003 (and Windows XP), step-by-step (not recommended)
• Creating a new user on Windows Server 2003, step-by-step
• Enabling the CD burning service in Windows Server 2003, step-by-step
• Disabling Automatic Updates in Windows Server 2003, step-by-step
• Applying Extra Security Using the Group Policy Object Editor (several tutorials with-in)
• Finding your new hard drive (assigning letters)

Terminal Services

• Enabling Audio Redirection for Remote Desktop and Terminal Services
• Enabling Remote Desktop

Active Directory

• Adding a user to Windows Server 2003's Active Directory
• Adding a computer to Windows Server 2003's Active Directory
• Adding a Windows 2000 computer to Windows Server 2003's Active Directory
• Adding a Windows XP computer to Windows Server 2003's Active Directory
• Creating the first Windows Server 2003 Domain Controller in a domain

Volume Shadow Service

• Setting up and Using the Volume Shadow Copy Service

  • Setting up Shared Folders

  • Setting up the Volume Shadow Service

  • Restoring Previous Versions

FrontPage Server Extensions

• Setting up and using FrontPage Server Extensions

  • Installing FrontPage Server Extensions

  • Setting the default (global) settings in FPSE

  • Extending a website for use with FPSE

  • Adding an FPSE user to a website

More to come....when I think of what to add :-)

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Visit my "What Works and What Doesn't in VPC 2004" page, available here.

The following are Windows Server 2003 FAQ sites:

• Kristofer Gafvert's (MVP) site - http://www.ilopia.com
• Larry Samuels' (MVP) site - http://home.earthlink.net/~larrysamuels/WS2003FAQ.htm
• http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/

And some Windows XP MVP help sites:

• Mark Salloway's XP Resource Center
• Kelly's Korner

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