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Digging Up the Past Installing Windows 2003
tl;dr - Check out the links at the bottom when you need Windows Server 2003 install ISOs
Sometimes in a Pentest or Red Team engagement you find well-kept up-to-date environments, sometimes you find old systems, and sometimes you find unpatched Windows 2003 servers with MS17-010 waiting to greet you with open arms.
When it’s a case of the latter, being able to setup a environment locally to test and work through planned actions (especially for more stealth focused scenarios) is a very nice capability.
I ran into this scenario recently and had an surprisingly hard time finding the Windows Server 2003 install ISOs that I craved. If you run into a situation where you need these ISOs then check out the following links to get them directly from the source (Microsoft 💲)
Oh and Windows 2k3 is druuuunk when you first install and run a systeminfo
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