Windows 2008 Server driving me nuts

28 Nov 2007 11:06 PM

JJ Jones

Help. I'm not an expert. We currently have an old server running
Windows 2000 server sp4, with about 20 users. It's fine for our
rather simple needs, except it is now dying slowly.

So we bought a new high horsepower server and have loaded Windows 2008
Standard Server. More or less fine and dandy, until I started to try
to get Active Directory going. Jeesh.

This is mostly a simple file server server. Nothing fancy. Any easy
way to just migrate the old Active Directory on our Win 2000 server to
the new Win 2008 server?

What I've done so far is to create a new domain. But it has nothing
but complaints. We get our DNS off of our router, but Win 2008 seems
to be demanding that it be on the stupid server. ???

Internet Explorer is HORRIBLE!!! It has security set on HIGH, and
won't let me change it, even tho I"m administrator. Its HORRIBLE. A
stupid message pops up about adding the stupid webpage to stupid
"trusted sites" every time I go anywhere. ARGGGGGGGHHH.

Then I tried to enter an active directory user. None of our users
have passwords, since this is just as a simple site. NO WAY!!! Must
have yet another stupid ()&(^*)*&&*) ing password.

Yes. What the world needs now, is yet another password, tra-la-la-la.

Then it rejects every stupid password I give it becasue it doesn';t
meet some idiots requirement for a "strong" password?

Why does Microsoft have this COMPULSION to force security down
everyones throat? this isn't fort knox. We don't need strong
passwords. How do I change that?

Sorry to sound irrational, but Microsoft is really F-ing up a rubber
duck. This should be EASY. Why is it so freeking hard? Why do I
need a PhD in Active Directory to set up a new server that we want to
be exactly the same as the old server? F--- the new features.

Anybody have any advice?

Thanks.

29 Nov 2007 1:12 PM

Joe D

youre frustrated and complaining because you have absolutely NO idea what
youre doing, and you have zero experience or understanding. so its likely
that no one will help you.

go read some books and get educated then come back and describe your
problems in the same way that you would want to hear them.

and fyi... YOUR environment might not need the security features, but guess
what? most of the world DOES. and those are the people that have asked for
these features over the years. youre in over your head, and youre asking how
to do an active directory migration?!?!? good luck!

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"JJ Jones" <jamesjonathanjo***@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:364513a2-c5c1-4423-a4ab-de1b06bfcc1c@b40g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> Help. I'm not an expert. We currently have an old server running
> Windows 2000 server sp4, with about 20 users. It's fine for our
> rather simple needs, except it is now dying slowly.
>
> So we bought a new high horsepower server and have loaded Windows 2008
> Standard Server. More or less fine and dandy, until I started to try
> to get Active Directory going. Jeesh.
>
> This is mostly a simple file server server. Nothing fancy. Any easy
> way to just migrate the old Active Directory on our Win 2000 server to
> the new Win 2008 server?
>
> What I've done so far is to create a new domain. But it has nothing
> but complaints. We get our DNS off of our router, but Win 2008 seems
> to be demanding that it be on the stupid server. ???
>
> Internet Explorer is HORRIBLE!!! It has security set on HIGH, and
> won't let me change it, even tho I"m administrator. Its HORRIBLE. A
> stupid message pops up about adding the stupid webpage to stupid
> "trusted sites" every time I go anywhere. ARGGGGGGGHHH.
>
> Then I tried to enter an active directory user. None of our users
> have passwords, since this is just as a simple site. NO WAY!!! Must
> have yet another stupid ()&(^*)*&&*) ing password.
>
> Yes. What the world needs now, is yet another password, tra-la-la-la.
>
> Then it rejects every stupid password I give it becasue it doesn';t
> meet some idiots requirement for a "strong" password?
>
> Why does Microsoft have this COMPULSION to force security down
> everyones throat? this isn't fort knox. We don't need strong
> passwords. How do I change that?
>
> Sorry to sound irrational, but Microsoft is really F-ing up a rubber
> duck. This should be EASY. Why is it so freeking hard? Why do I
> need a PhD in Active Directory to set up a new server that we want to
> be exactly the same as the old server? F--- the new features.
>
> Anybody have any advice?
>
> Thanks.