The Microsoft Performance Team posted a great article on how to troubleshoot svchost.exe, here is the link
The part of the registry where the services load into the generic process is:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Svchost
With SBS 2003 there is a ‘Transition Pack’ to grow out of the 75 user cap or move your servers (ie. Exchange or SQL Workgroup) to other dedicated servers. Here are links for the SBS Transition Pack. When installing the Transition Pack, make sure that the media is newer than the version you are upgrading to (ie. if the media is Transition Pack R2, then you must uninstall Windows Server 2003 SP2 before installing).
Microsoft Documentation - link
Moloy’s Blog on the Transition Pack - link
SBS page - link
You can use WSUSUtil.exe (found in \Program Files\Update Services\Tools) to move the downloaded update files (if you are storing them locally) and reconfigure WSUS to use that location for future updates. The procedure is this:
wsusutil.exe movecontent [path to new location] [name of log file]
If you so desire, you can also add the -skipcopy switch to reconfigure WSUS without physically moving the existing files.
To see the full information on the WSUSUtil, visit the TechNet page for it here.
With Windows XP there isn’t a native way to manage power settings via a group policy setting. With Vista and Longhorn server this is now managable. Here is a link to the Energy Star website for a downloadable tool with an .adm file and a client application.
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=power_mgt.pr_pm_ez_gpo
mstsc -v:servername /F -console
Here are some examples of shortcuts to type from Start –> run
Password policies can only be applied to domains and not to individual OUs in Server 2000/2003. The article below explains why (see the section entitled “Establishing Local Security Accounts Manager (SAM) Password Policies”): http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Longhorn-Poised-Provide-Multiple-Domain-Passwords.html
Some good news is that Longhorn will change this limitation.
