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I thought I had seen it all.....

cj_berlin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:03:05 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 08/28/2008 at 03:03:05 AM by cj_berlin
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That's what I was meaning.

deleting temp internet files

dkumar — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:40:10 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 08/28/2008 at 01:40:10 AM by dkumar
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Create a small batch file to clear up internet /temp files on user loging off. I guess it will work as the same you are trying to do.

Screen Saver does not work on client station

dkumar — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:28:30 -0500

There are 11 replies, with the last one on 08/28/2008 at 01:28:30 AM by dkumar
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Install GPMC and then check for Group policy inheritance on all the containers that you have created. and also use RSOP to check client side, which policy are applied.

Note: Check the path of your screen saver. It should be accessible with all the users.

Backup Exec 11d - Oh woe is me.

Curt — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:56:44 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 08/27/2008 at 11:56:44 PM by Curt
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Emergency Undelete

Can not see computers in My Network places

planzone — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:01:42 -0500

Hi,
in a windows 2008 Domain. I can only see computers that are at my physical location in the network places. I cannot see workstations or servers from other physical/geographic sites from my site and vise versa each site can only see their own. We are all within the same domain. I can ping these workstations and servers by name and replies with no problem. Also verified the dns entry for these machines are registered in dns. the dhcp scope is pointing to the correct wins/dns servers.

Computer browser is running on the server that i am trying to display all the computers on. I assume netbios is wroking it seems to stop working as it leaves our respective locations.

any hints tips or tricks?

Perhaps make certain the computer browser service is running on the PDC? I notice that service is disabled by default.

Using Server Core in production?

NMDANGE — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:59:05 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 08/27/2008 at 9:59:05 PM by NMDANGE
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We have deployed Server Core on all of our Active Directory domain controllers. The hardest part was getting it working on older hardware where the drivers weren't in the box.

Dell provides the ability to run their Server Update Utility within Server Core to update drivers and firmware, which is nice.

Can't say I really miss the gui - except to be able to set the NIC to 100 MB Full Duplex instead of Auto-detect. Everything can be done remotely via MMC that needs to be.

why separate PDC emulator from GC?

glenn_faustino — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:45:36 -0500

There are 14 replies, with the last one on 08/27/2008 at 9:45:36 PM by glenn_faustino
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Thanks for clarifying Willem...[:)]

Nice thread.

DNS Zone with same name in two AD Partitions

Edwardthe1st — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:01:53 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 08/27/2008 at 9:01:53 PM by Edwardthe1st
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This happened to me once before a couple years ago. If I remember correctly, I ended up deleting the duplicates, restarting DNS, forcing replication, and then changing the replication scope on the desired zone. Have you seen this article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/867464

It's the one I followed when originally confronted with this issue back then.

HTH [:)]

Catrophic coffee pot problem

don2007 — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:51:38 -0500

There are 15 replies, with the last one on 08/27/2008 at 8:51:38 PM by don2007
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After I suggested J B Weld, I thought about it's contact with the coffee. I had sealed a coupling on a steam pipe with it and the heat coupled with the pressure (about 4 psi) didn't melt it, so I don't think it would kill you any faster than the caffeine itself.

However, to be safe, apply the J B Weld on the top side of the metal piece. Don't forget the teflon tape.

Inherited new SBS 2003 Exchange Server

jsollars — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:29:36 -0500

There are 15 replies, with the last one on 08/27/2008 at 8:29:36 PM by jsollars
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That sounds logical to me. My biggest concern right now is just getting them over to the Exchange server and it sounds like POP3 may be simplest way to go. I can then work on the VPN access later. Thanks!

Opinion: Do you name virtual servers differently?

sixdoubleo — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:32:42 -0500

There are 9 replies, with the last one on 08/27/2008 at 6:32:42 PM by sixdoubleo
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Thanks Dean...that helps and is inline with what I was thinking.

Personally I've always felt it was a question of who you're naming for. Are you naming for the ease of the administrators or for the ease of the users? I tend to go with the latter.

Further, as an ex-programmer, I never try to hard code variable details into names. So things like "Data2k3" really send my OCD flying. I don't like product-specific names in servers either. ("Email" instead of "Exchange", "DB" instead of "SQL", "WEB" instead of "IIS", "VirusScan" instead of "McAfee").

I guess I've just cleaned up too many networks that had hard-coded names that were no longer valid.

New Virus' I've met

wobble_wobble — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:36:13 -0500

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deandownsouth — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:42:20 -0500

There are 10 replies, with the last one on 08/27/2008 at 4:42:20 PM by deandownsouth
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Originally posted by allan67

How about this for an idea
We use VM ware to create virtual citrix servers which in turn deploy virtual desktops to all our clients. You could run an entier organisation from 1 server if it was beefy enough (and u were a total fruit cake)

The theory behind this seems sound. 2 data center mosters which hosts your virtual production servers and 2 virtual 64 bit citrix XenApps servers. Which, with enough memory could deploy desktops to over 500 thin clients

A lot of companies do just that. Although I'm of the 'scale diagonal' verses scale up or out. I have seen some clients who put together a couple of massive 8-way or more servers and run a lot of VMs to scale up and then some put a lot of 2 socket 1 or 2 U rack servers in a rack to scale out. I prefer 2 socket multicore blades and 2 or more blade enclosures with lots of redundant pieces. It's quite amazing what you can do with a pair of HP C-class (or equiv.) enclosures and VMware.

UCC/SAN Certificates

clarinathan — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:41:41 -0500

There are 6 replies, with the last one on 08/27/2008 at 4:41:41 PM by clarinathan
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Yes, that would do it as far as I am concerned.

I know what you mean. I spent a day trying to figure out some OCS design a couple of weeks ago and i was getting different info from people within MSFT..... ;)

Cheers
Nathan

Can't remove mailbox...

clarinathan — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:40:05 -0500

There are 7 replies, with the last one on 08/27/2008 at 4:40:05 PM by clarinathan
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Glad you got it sorted.

Realistically 3 weeks is not that long. Deleted Mailbox retention is very often set to 30 days.

Cheers
Nathan

Remove 2003 server from Exchange Org

cj_berlin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:21:16 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 08/27/2008 at 4:21:16 PM by cj_berlin
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http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Remove-Exchange-server-entire-Exchange-organization.html

Compile Vb Script

bjohler — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:11:25 -0500

I was wondering if anyone in this group has much experience with compiling a .vbs into a .exe.

I recently ran across a program called ScriptCryptor Compiler. The URL is
www.abyssmedia.com

It has some neat features such as encrypting your source vbs script via blowfish into a exe.

I was just wondering if anyone has used this software or something else similar? And what there experience has been.

Thanks
Brian J

Policy "applied" but not "enforced"

curtmcgirt — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:56:26 -0500

There are 9 replies, with the last one on 08/27/2008 at 2:56:26 PM by curtmcgirt
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yes. looks the same in both scenarios.

Windows 2008 Workstation

JamesNT — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:56:12 -0500

There are 5 replies, with the last one on 08/27/2008 at 2:56:12 PM by JamesNT
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quote:

For the most part, boot time is a meaningless benchmark. Many people who claim "d00d, it boots SOOOOO much faster than my old system" are seeing that simply because their old system was bloated with crap and the new one is not.

Nonetheless, since I like benchmarks, here you go.

I actually agree with the first statement.

Nonetheless, I feel the same way as the second statement.

Hence, why I asked. :)

JamesNT

where to change the primary SMTP address

rmardo — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:46:55 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 08/27/2008 at 2:46:55 PM by rmardo
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thanks Nathan. the first link was a big help. :-)

2008 TS in a 2003 Domain - Schema Question

dlevine — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:37:21 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 08/27/2008 at 12:37:21 PM by dlevine
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No - you should not have to update the schema... but you will certainly need to use the Windows 2008 group policy templates for the 2008 TS systems... As you are seeing the 2003 GPT's won't totally cut the mustard..

DIsable DDNS Registration

dlevine — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:15:44 -0500

Hiya -

I have a 2008 server that is single homed, but has an aliased IP address along with its primary one.

I really do not want the server to register this aliased IP in DNS< but it keeps doing so.

I have cleared the checkbox "register this connection's address in DNS", but it keeps on doing it... is this something that requires a restart?

I came across an article, but it is specifically for 2003, and I don't know if this applies to 2008 as well?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816592/

Thanks!

D

Printing Issue

FAQS — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:57:05 -0500

not sure where to post this but here I go ...a silly question

whenever I print from a microsoft technet site even I pick printer friendly option plus I print in landscape ...when the doc is printed the lines on the rigth hand side of the page is cut off ...so I miss out data ..

how do I go fixing this ....???

Helplz

Windows Storage Server - Why/Why Not?

brbandeira — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:48:03 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 08/27/2008 at 11:48:03 AM by brbandeira
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The ability to dynamically expand RAID really is a hardware funcion.
All my problems lie on the Windows Storage Server just because of the updates.
We might buy another NAS next year and the use of regular Windows 2003 or 2008 Server will be mandatory. No Windows Storage Server.
I am also studying how can we install a regular 2003 Server on my HP NAS, so the Storage Server is removed.

About using the SQL along with the Storage Server, just don't go there. When I said about running SQL alone, I ment using a regular server to run it.

It is a very good idea to check for some Tape Libraries. I don't know where would I be without the one I use.

VB Script to enable WMI Windows Installer Provider

SAPIENScripter — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:22:54 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 08/27/2008 at 10:22:54 AM by SAPIENScripter
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Are you trying to automate adding a Windows feature? If so this should help: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/222444

WMI - Win32_NetworkLoginProfile Inconsistency

SAPIENScripter — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:17:55 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 08/27/2008 at 10:17:55 AM by SAPIENScripter
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Do you get the same results if you use WBEMTest? What information are you not seeing that you think you should?

Integration with Novell

Rambler — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:35:32 -0500

Hello everyone.
I have virtually zero experience with Novell networks and I need to integrate Windows 2008 terminal server (and possibly DC - will explain later) to an existing Novell network with NDS/eDirectory.

1) how to enable users logging on to the Win2008 TS to use their user accounts/credentials from the Novell network? Will installing Novell client be sufficient? (and then connecting normally via RDC?)

2) there also might be a Win2008 DC - I've read and downloaded MSDSS (Microsoft Directory Synchronization Services) and tried to install it on a W2k8 DC in a lab env. But MSDSS required Novell Client installed prior to MSDSS installation. So I've installed latest Novell Vista Client (successfully and I haven't found any specifically for Windows 2008), rebooted and tried to install MSDSS again. Unfortunately it complained again about missing Novell client and refused to install. I found no relevant info regarding MSDSS for Windows 2008 while googling.

Any help will be appreciated.

SAN Certificate - CA

MadCow — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:17:24 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 08/27/2008 at 09:17:24 AM by MadCow
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You welcome bro!

Our friend Mr. M. doing hotel Cal.

jaxdave — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:13:39 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 08/27/2008 at 09:13:39 AM by jaxdave
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Righteous!

Netisfaxtion v8

jaxdave — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:09:52 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 08/27/2008 at 09:09:52 AM by jaxdave
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I have had success in the past with the product. I agree with Joe in that it is a good product and to spend the little extra on a good fax board.

Mail Flow between EX2003 and EX2007 in Remote Site

clarinathan — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:51:08 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 08/27/2008 at 08:51:08 AM by clarinathan
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Ok, so to start with you will install Exchange 2007 in site A.

You will create a routing group connector between the Exchange 2007 RG and the E2003 routing group in site A.

Mail flow will work as previously in that it will still route between the e2003 routing groups.

Next i assume you will implement Exchange 2007 in site b.

At this point you will disable minor link state updates and then create a RG connector between the exchange 2007 routing group and the Exchange 2003 RG in site b.

Again mail flow will still work, how it flows exactly depends on the costs you give the connectors although mailflow between 2007 servers will always flow direct from one to the other not via 2003.

Then you will decommission Exchange 2003 in one of the sites and mail flow will still function over the 2003 to 2007 RG connector.

Cheers
Nathan

ISA 2006 monitoring

Sakal — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:16:36 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 08/27/2008 at 03:16:36 AM by Sakal
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thanks..thats it...microsoft done very bad job with this but its better anthing than nothing :)

Text Messaging Abbreviations

sixdoubleo — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:33:22 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 08/27/2008 at 12:33:22 AM by sixdoubleo
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Why can they learn this BS, but there literally is not a kid on the planet who knows the proper usage of "there, their, they're" and "your, you're"?

Solving event ID 1058 and 1030 userenv errors

djc6 — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:14:22 -0500

There are 65 replies, with the last one on 08/27/2008 at 12:14:22 AM by djc6
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Originally posted by dmarelia

Do you see the gpt.ini file there? Can you open it? If so, then I suspect your problem is a network timing issue

I came across this comment by dmarelia while searching for the source of the elusive event IDs 1030/1058 problem. You got me thinking to see what was the difference was networking-wise between clients exhibiting the problem and those that weren't. I was getting a "The system cannot find the file specified." error within the 1058 Event ID, but I was able to access the gpt.ini file without any problems once logged in.

What I discovered was that in my case, it seems to be a driver issue! I was seeing this problem on Dell Latitude D630 and Dell Optiplex 745 computers. I noticed the BROKEN computers had Broadcom 57XX Gigabit Integrated Controller driver v10.26.0.0 dated 3/6/2007.

The WORKING computers had an older version, 9.52.0.0 dated 5/15/2006. I put the older driver on the previously broken computers, and now I can log in with Group Policies properly applied! I've logged in numerous times and the polices are applied error-free, which is not something I've encountered in a while.

The above two drivers are the only two versions listed on Dell's site for these computers. I tried the latest drivers straight from Broadcom, v10.78.0.0 dated 3/19/2008 and they didn't work. I was still getting errors applying group policies.

Its unfortunate that I may forever be dependent on a 2+ year old driver, but I hope this information might be helpful to someone else.

literary opinions?

Lisa — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:10:12 -0500

There are 5 replies, with the last one on 08/27/2008 at 12:10:12 AM by Lisa
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Originally posted by Doug G

The authoritative answer is at http://www.venganza.org/

Hilarious! I think they're onto something! [:)] I am now a believer!

Outlook Client Config HELP!

Curt — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:07:38 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 08/27/2008 at 12:07:38 AM by Curt
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First off, welcome to the forum. We really like to help people here.

To start, make a hostheader for the server:port in IIS and then create a Cname in DNS.

Can you get to CRM via the web client on the Vista workstations?

Using the setspn tool which you can download from Microsoft can you see the SPNs in active directory for SQLServer and the CRM Server?

Does the CRM server resolve in a nslookup query and can you telnet to it on 135 and 5555?

Imagex question

glenn_faustino — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:32:01 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 08/26/2008 at 9:32:01 PM by glenn_faustino
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Thanks Johan.

And Welcome to the forum, you'll like it here...[:)]

Glenn

Long database names in SharePoint

Curt — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:05:05 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 08/26/2008 at 5:05:05 PM by Curt
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Glad to help. I like to work on the files in a SQL Query and I had noticed that the long names were truncated when I attempted to use them without the brackets. Just want to help the accidental DBAs here on the forum. We are all in the same boat and with the explosion of Share Point, we all will be accidental DBAs.

James Summerlin gave a good talk on SQL at the forum meeting.

VMWare and TS Snag

RTHJr — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:18:56 -0500

There are 6 replies, with the last one on 08/26/2008 at 4:18:56 PM by RTHJr
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I have come across that Vista's NLA is seening the real NIC and the virtual NIC. And since the virtual NIC is a different "network" NLA assigns that NIC as Public be default and then the overall lockdown of the Vista machine is Public. This means protocols are turned off on your regular NIC because NLA does the most stringent lock down of all network locations. Vista cannot run separate NLA "profiles" and only applies one location "profile" to the entire machine regardless of the presence of Private connected NICS.

The Intrusion Detected Warning Alert Was Signaled

JSCLMEDAVE — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:38:52 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 08/26/2008 at 3:38:52 PM by JSCLMEDAVE
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Great Link! THANK YOU!!

It all makes sense now.

The specified network name is no longer available

mitachu — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:35:28 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 08/26/2008 at 2:35:28 PM by mitachu
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Old post alert!

I've just had this problem whilst trying to copy a folder containing 149Mb of data from my physical test server into a build of a Server 2003 machine within VMware living on the same physical box, an HP ML110.

My VM was networked using bridging. I turned off TOE on the physical NIC and rebooted the VM. Whilst it was down I changed the networking to be provided by NAT and it's working just fine.

Adding additional root targets

Edwardthe1st — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:34:33 -0500

There are 6 replies, with the last one on 08/26/2008 at 2:34:33 PM by Edwardthe1st
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Wow, I didn't think about that. Thanks for bringing this up, in case I get asked I can refer to this post. In our case, I don't think it will be an issue since I and the other DA will be the only ones responsible for creating additional links.

Tallest skyscraper almost done

wobble_wobble — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:49:14 -0500

There are 10 replies, with the last one on 08/26/2008 at 1:49:14 PM by wobble_wobble
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A friend mine has just had her boyfriend move there for 2 years work - they have discovered those things and a few others. Flats are big but expensive. Cars are big. Couples can't live together.

The last one seems to be a biggie with her!

HP MSA 2000i vs. Dell MD3000i

ukinahan — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:39:46 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 08/26/2008 at 1:39:46 PM by ukinahan
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cool thanks Joe!

Idea for first camera

joe_elway — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:31:02 -0500

There are 20 replies, with the last one on 08/26/2008 at 11:31:02 AM by joe_elway
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I saw nice results from the 300 F4 in the hands of others last week. Stick a 1.4X on it and you still keep AF and get nice reach. It is pricey though: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/129188-USA/Canon_2530A004_Telephoto_EF_300mm_f_4_0L.html

But it's nothing compared to my lottery dream lens: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/542293-REG/Canon_2746B002AA_EF_800mm_f_5_6L_IS.html

Removing old DCs, adding new DCs, and certificates

ADBasic — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:02:01 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 08/26/2008 at 11:02:01 AM by ADBasic
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OK, I have some additional concerns. When I go to install certificate services on the new domain controller, I get the following message:

"After installing Certificate Services, the machine name and domain membership may not be changed due to the binding of the machine name to CA information stored in the Active Directory. Changing the machine name or domain membership would invalidate the certificates issued from the CA. Please ensure the proper machine name and domain membership are configured before installing Certificate Services. Do you want to continue?"

This seems to suggest that demoting or removing the old DC would invalidate those certificates. The continued functionality of those certificates is critical to our daily operations so I must be sure that they will continue to work.

Also, one of the old DCs is the root CA. I need to install certificate services on the new DCs so that they can take over for the old ones.

I get several options when I go to install that service. I can install it as an Enterprise root CA or Enterprise subordinate CA. I don't think I want it to be a subordinate because when the old DC goes away, there will be no root.

Can you have more than one Enterprise root CA or just one? Thanks

Backing up Exchange 2007 with UltraBac 8.3

aval — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:50:21 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 08/26/2008 at 10:50:21 AM by aval
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OK I was able to do a file-by-file backup w/o encountering the problem I did before.

First thought would be that I inadvertently selected the E:\ drive (the drive letter of the external hard drive), except that the screen shots taken during the operation clearly show that this is not the case.

I still was not able to restore the mailbox (except to alternate location).

- I made sure the "Restore over.." option was checked in Exchange.
- I left out the Public Folder this time.

UltraBac rep gave me a number to call. Something to do next week...

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OK, called UltraBac, got it to work.

I needed to:

1. Dismount the Mailbox database.
2. Allow the database to be overwritten by a restore.

The restore then succeeded.

To test this, we deleted all the messages of a certain user. Now, experienced Exchanges admins (and even someone like myself who is not but has read a bit on the subject) know that you could get these messages back without restoring the entire DB from backup. Even so, I had to test it somehow and couldn't come up with a better idea (short of zapping the entire Exchange server and rebuidling from scratch).

Despite trying several times, we (the Ultrabac guy on the phone and myself) could not get the messages back into the users mailbox.

He had me delete the log files on the server and then restore - this worked. He explained that in "real life" you could move the log files elsewhere, restore and then merge the log files (if I understood correctly). This took us about an hour and 30 mins.

I can't complain about the helpfulness of UltraBac tech support: first rate.

There are some things I think they need to do though, like getting a 800 number for tech support. Not that this was a problem: they agreed to call me back.

Also, it does look like some of the URL links that they have the software (in the error messages) no longer lead to anything on their website.

So I'll keep evaluating and we'll see.

I am now OFFICIALLY a studio photographer<g>

Mark Minasi — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:35:01 -0500

There are 10 replies, with the last one on 08/26/2008 at 10:35:01 AM by Mark Minasi
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Originally posted by rmardo

US$255 for the rest of us!?

what about downloading them instead as podcasts? :-)

As the page says, I haven't got the staff to support it. In my experience, some sites produce some excellent audios... all of which are easily downloaded on the various pirate sites. As Claus said, some sort of DRM would be necessary, and honestly I've not run into anything that's safe.

Besides, even if IF there were a way to do it, I'd still charge a fair amount of money for the download. The idea is that you're not paying for the CDs, you're paying for the months of research and, with hope, the organization and accessiblity of the material. For example, a seat in a two-day seminar runs around $1000 (that's about 20 euros right now), and clearly most of that doesn't go to the coffee, donuts, copying costs of the seminar book and rental fee for the meeting room. It's the same story here.

In any case, I didn't post to sell the sets -- I was just happy that I'd figured out a bit of studio "how-to." Learning keeps the brain alive and all that.

Windows vista online status

wim — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:23:44 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 08/26/2008 at 10:23:44 AM by wim
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I actually do have two since i have wifi and a normal nic. Examining the status reveals it is the correct adapter.

However, i was more interested in the mechanisme behind it. What makes the systray icon decide when your online?

SMB 2.0

joe_elway — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:37:24 -0500

There are 6 replies, with the last one on 08/26/2008 at 09:37:24 AM by joe_elway
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You might want to look at some alternative ways of doing things, e.g. Sharepoint (I originally looked at this for international teams), Riverbed Steelheads/Citrix WanScaler or server based computing & centralised serivces/data storage.

Cyberwar

Mark Minasi — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:34:58 -0500

There are 32 replies, with the last one on 08/26/2008 at 09:34:58 AM by Mark Minasi
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[quote
This has, on a smaller scale, been tried, and here's what happened: The bad guys found ways to lay their hands on the Cheerios and then actually sold them to those wretched 'uns who'd not been getting paid for months.
[/quote]

Arrgh. Never underestimate the human ability to make the worst out of something.

Newsletter #72 is up

Mark Minasi — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:27:02 -0500

There are 11 replies, with the last one on 08/26/2008 at 09:27:02 AM by Mark Minasi
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Seems I keep hearing about better Windows patching technologies with every one of the past four or so service packs, so for all I know it MIGHT be faster.

How to write a correction email

Mark Minasi — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:25:58 -0500

There are 27 replies, with the last one on 08/26/2008 at 09:25:58 AM by Mark Minasi
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Of course Rich! Just send it to the Complaint Department.

No Desktop, ....Any ideas?

craigroyston — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:50:01 -0500

There are 8 replies, with the last one on 08/26/2008 at 08:50:01 AM by craigroyston
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I was able to fix this problem last night. Using the Recovery Console would not work, I kept getting errors anytime I tried to access any directory. Here's the resolution:

-Boot PC with BartPE boot disk
-Rename c:\windows\system32\config\system to systemold
-Rename c:\windows\system32\config\software to softwareold
-Browse to c:\system volume information\_restore\{GUID_STRING} \RP###\Snapshot
-That directory holds the backup registry hives for System Restore
-Copy the System and software Registry hives to the c:\windows\system32\config directory, and rename to system and software
-Reboot and back to desktop

Now I just have to clean it up and it's finished.

Thanks for all the suggestions, they got me going in the right direction.

-Craig

Adding an attribute

Edwardthe1st — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:11:28 -0500

There are 7 replies, with the last one on 08/26/2008 at 08:11:28 AM by Edwardthe1st
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Thanks. For something continuous, I suppose the script could be .vbs that is made to read from a text/csv file (username, attribute and value) and write to the value in question?

2008 in 2003 domain

wim — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:46:43 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 08/26/2008 at 03:46:43 AM by wim
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If you want to do it for testing purposes why not using the builtin hyper-v (remember, update it first with the latest) and then create a test domain? That way you won't interfere with your production environment. If you need to have a more real life situation later on you can still use your virtual environment to make a pilot server. Give the server it's own OU so you can test any group policies without messing up production.

Remote Access your System

winmail — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:29:49 -0500

There are 32 replies, with the last one on 08/25/2008 at 11:29:49 PM by winmail
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hmmm ... not sure why my suggestion for vncscan.com was deleted as a commercial product when there are at least 3 others in this thread. Not really offended but just thought that I'd call out the inconsistency.

I thought that suggesting products was the topic of the thread.

DFS Problem

Edwardthe1st — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:01:58 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 08/25/2008 at 9:01:58 PM by Edwardthe1st
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Just a guess at this point. Have you checked to see if anything is hiding out in the registry on the problem server? For example, what do you see under the following:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Dfs\Roots\Domain\DFS

Do you see a value listed for "RootShare"?

WDS with Ghost?

geemail — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:18:32 -0500

There are 19 replies, with the last one on 08/25/2008 at 7:18:32 PM by geemail
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Rhonda,

Hello.

I will try to explain a little more clearly.

Within the 3Com Boot Image Editor, if I choose to modify my existing "mba.exe" file, I can add several choices to the PXE Boot Menu. Within those choices, you can add an entry for "Boot from Hard Drive" and make that the Default choice. Then, I add a second entry, "pxeboot.com" which is my Custom WinPE image.

The clients will boot, F12 and get the selection of 1. Hard Drive or 2. WinPE Custom. If they choose Hard Drive it will boot locally. If they choose WinPE Custom, it fails to loads and returns to the choice menu.

If I remove the PXE Boot Menu, and just set the clients to boot using PXEBoot.com without making a menu in the Boot Image Editor, the clients will boot to the WinPE Custom without a problem.

Hope this helps, kind of hard to explain in words...easier to visually show someone the setup.

Thank you in advance

kevin Mitnick's interview with Forbes.

jadgate — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:49:57 -0500

There are 11 replies, with the last one on 08/25/2008 at 5:49:57 PM by jadgate
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As someone who has recently obtained the CISSP, my thoughts:

Yes, a person who holds a CISSP would not make a good hacker. After all, part of the cert is to agree to abide by a code of ethics, kind of a Hypocratic Oath for IT security - do no harm to the network you are employed to protect and you are even held to a higher standard of ethics than your employer requires, if it is different than the CISSP standard. I would argue that ethical and hacker are mutually exclusive, even though there are groups out there claiming to do that.

The CISSP is described as a mile wide and an inch deep. The scope is broader than just social engineering activities (which I did study as prep for the cert at a local community college), but you look at physical security, law, ethics and DR and business continuity as well, or at least required to have a basic understanding of how they fit into the security picture (e.g., all the security features in Vista are useless if I have physical access to the box).

I would agree that the CISSP is more management focused than on day to day operations security. However, the very existence of CISSP points to the need to get a way from day to day fire fighting and having a long term game plan and strategy (and working within an organization to implement it). Hackers aren't known for being organizational team player types, after all. It's easy to throw bombs at the establishment, but much harder to run things effectively, once you control the reins (reminds me of some right-wing politicians in this country).

For ops security, SANs is the gold standard in training (sometimes described as drinking from a firehose) not Mitnick's training course. However, I think that you only benefit from SANs after you've spent at least a couple of years in the trenches.

For my money, I think all the action is going to be in application security over the next couple of years. It's the most difficult to do and implement well, since it is so close to layer 8 (the end user).

Jim

eSata Backup

timberk — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:38:59 -0500

There are 5 replies, with the last one on 08/25/2008 at 4:38:59 PM by timberk
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While the DC would be the slowest, it also has the smallest amount of data to backup with the File server having the most.

Based on your post, the File server sounded like the best choice. It would depend on the hardware specifications and workload of each machine, as well as the business requirements of the environment in question. A moderately to heavily loaded mail server in a business that is relying on email to function, may not be the best choice to run the backups from...........

~tb

How to convert a .WIM to an .ISO

Rhonda — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:24:26 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 08/25/2008 at 4:24:26 PM by Rhonda
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In the BDD or MDT (the new BDD) updating the deployment point will create a .iso for you. Have you created a deployment point? updated (not update files only) the deployment point? What type of deployment point are you working with?

EAP Exchange 2007

MadCow — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:07:49 -0500

Lab envourienment.

Have Exchange 2003 on Member Server.
2 CAS/HUBs on member servers
1 Mailbox Server Exchange 2007 on a DC

Created 3 Accepted Domains and Created Mail Policy for them....

now when I create a new user with mailbox using exchange 2007 mmc it is only been assigned the default email address and not applying the other 3 email policy's. the mailbox is set on automatic update based on EAP.

Advise Please.

Thank you

Switching regex

DonJones — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:57:37 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 08/25/2008 at 11:57:37 AM by DonJones
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Ah - I didn't spot that. The reason why the step debugger is so valuable!

Microsoft revamps licensing for VM's

deandownsouth — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:10:39 -0500

There are 6 replies, with the last one on 08/25/2008 at 11:10:39 AM by deandownsouth
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i don't know why I found this funny, but Paul DeGroot used vis-a-vis twice! Must be the cold medicine.

Seriously, anyone surprised? I figured it wouldn't be as straight forward as it should be but then again, you choose to run Windows, you agree to both edges of the sword.

Windows 7

DennisMCSE — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:14:10 -0500

There are 50 replies, with the last one on 08/25/2008 at 09:14:10 AM by DennisMCSE
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Just saw this article on Windows 7:

Microsoft settles ado over Windows 7 name
http://searchwinit.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid1_gci1326032,00.html?int=off&Offer=SUNwitd8228

Time Sync Issue

jltuttl — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:27:26 -0500

There are 8 replies, with the last one on 08/25/2008 at 08:27:26 AM by jltuttl
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OK I thought I would leave a quick update. Creating a GPO that configures time synchronization and applying it to all the machines in the domain seems to have solved my problem except for our 2000 servers. I suspect I'll have to schedule a maintenance window and unjoin/rejoin them to the domain. Thanks for your responses.

DFS-R woes :-(

Tray — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:50:30 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 08/25/2008 at 07:50:30 AM by Tray
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Not necessarily. Check the folders for files in conflict folder (it may have moved them all there). One on server, I have seen it not use the pre-stage files and had to resync the entire folder down the again.

--Tray

Update XP WDS WIM image

Tray — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:47:41 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 08/25/2008 at 07:47:41 AM by Tray
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Ralph:

Package Manager only works on Vista images not XP images. Ralph unfortunately, you would have to deploy the image, add in the updates / patches and then recapture it.

--Tray

MS server software supported in virtualization

robsanders — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:28:42 -0500

There are 5 replies, with the last one on 08/25/2008 at 05:28:42 AM by robsanders
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One thing to note is that functionality within Windows Server 2003/2008 is actually not supported (according to a Microsoft representive in the UK). That means that f.i. virtualizing print servers is not supported, also the removal of the 90-day clause doesn't apply to this use case. It's good that the announcement cleared some issues, but it introduced a lot of new uncertainties.

But I have to agree with Mark, this hasn't stopped enterprises in the past and it won't now.

New Sysinternals Util

glenn_faustino — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:48:15 -0500

There are 9 replies, with the last one on 08/24/2008 at 10:48:15 PM by glenn_faustino
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Cool!

Thanks for the link.

Glenn

Even the Nigerians are tired of scams

don2007 — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:35:45 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 08/24/2008 at 9:35:45 PM by don2007
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I've known about credit card and banking scams by Nigerians for about 10 years now. Olu Agbi, just like any true politician, wants to blame the victims. He can forget about it right now. It won't work.

It's almost as bad as the people who wanted to blame the Katrina victims for living in the path of the storm.

Access denied to some cookies

don2007 — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:02:05 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 08/24/2008 at 9:02:05 PM by don2007
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http://eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=1509&eventno=2343&source=Userenv&phase=1

That's what eventid.net says about ID 1509, source Userenv. To me, it doesn't match your problem but you may find something that I missed.

Very hitting cartoon

Xenophane — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:23:32 -0500

This made me giggle and squirm at the same time.
http://wulffmorgenthaler.com/default.aspx?id=930e6c96-730b-4d6a-ab63-6569635bf820

New Canon Being Tested

clarinathan — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:31:52 -0500

There are 5 replies, with the last one on 08/24/2008 at 4:31:52 PM by clarinathan
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ooooh, a 50D now that sounds more than tempting..... and with a 300 F4 hmmmm.

Maybe next year...

Exchange 2007 in a Win2K3 domain

clarinathan — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:26:16 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 08/24/2008 at 4:26:16 PM by clarinathan
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Yes that would be fine.

ExMerge doesn't see mailboxes in RSG

jaxdave — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 11:16:07 -0500

There are 6 replies, with the last one on 08/23/2008 at 11:16:07 AM by jaxdave
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I have seen in times past with my legato product that when I restore to the RSG sometimes it just does not restore correctly . I then rebuild index files specific to legato. perform the restore to RSG once again and it works. Maybe you have something similar happening . Just another thought here.

New life

mjbarry — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:53:02 -0500

There are 18 replies, with the last one on 08/23/2008 at 01:53:02 AM by mjbarry
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That's Voonderbar! Congratulations!

Admin account lockout

mm_0_mm — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:31:16 -0500

There are 5 replies, with the last one on 08/22/2008 at 3:31:16 PM by mm_0_mm
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If you scroll down in the description of the Event 672 do you see a Client Address?

NTBackup on Server 2K3R2

wobble_wobble — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:37:05 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 08/22/2008 at 12:37:05 PM by wobble_wobble
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Jerry,

SBS has wizards that are actually pointing to various VB scripts within the SBS Server. The only way to get a similiar version would be to 'borrow' the scripts from an SBS box, but I think they only report into the SBS Backup Monitoring Window.
You could copy the scripts and modify them to fit your server though.

I don't have the path to hand, but its withing your User ( The admin) profile where the backup reports are kept.

Exchange 2003 Management Tools on 2008

NMDANGE — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:12:32 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 08/22/2008 at 12:12:32 PM by NMDANGE
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A version for Vista was released very recently which may work for you:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3403d74e-8942-421b-8738-b3664559e46f&displaylang=en

Copying files

shanimal — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:06:47 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 08/22/2008 at 12:06:47 PM by shanimal
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I've been using Vista Enterprise here at work and I've never had any problems copying. Maybe you should try the Robocopy GUI?

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/05/08/microsoft-robocopy-gui-free-download/

Event ID 1085 - Client-side extension script

fphayes — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:50:28 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 08/22/2008 at 11:50:28 AM by fphayes
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Many thanks for responding. All my scripts are located in the NetLogon folder. I double-checked the scripts.ini files for each policy and they all point to the NetLogon folder. However, you bring up a good point. I am not sure when these error messages first appeared. I believe that at the time, I was modifying several policies that I had inherited as a sysadmin. For example, I removed one policy and modified another to include the policy of the one that I had deleted. I also created, then deleted, then recreated a policy which involved a vbs script to change the localadmin account name on users' computers. At the time, using the GPOtool I found that the versions had gotten out of whack. I corrected this issue. But perhaps there is some old stuff left behind. I have triple-checked the policies themselves and cannot find any references to any scripts no longer used. I've checked permissions as this was brought up in other internet sites, and I have tried deleting and recreating some of the GPOs. On the local side of things, one of the client side extensions on my computer, appmgmt.dll won't re-register. Any further guidance would be appreciated.

New to the IT field

MadAmosMalone — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:47:34 -0500

There are 11 replies, with the last one on 08/22/2008 at 09:47:34 AM by MadAmosMalone
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Not much I can add here that others haven't already said. Welcome to the forum and welcome to the IT field. I've been working in IT for about 16 years and I always learn new things. If money is an issue with training then you're on the right track joining forums like this one. There are a lot of people eager to share knowledge in places like this.

firewall policy for X server

Rambler — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:36:01 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 08/22/2008 at 09:36:01 AM by Rambler
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Have you also tried allowing all ICMP traffic? I see no connection, but there's not much to the fw.

TLS Over SMTP Exchange 2007

NMDANGE — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:28:04 -0500

There are 15 replies, with the last one on 08/22/2008 at 09:28:04 AM by NMDANGE
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eTrust supports SAN certificates, and provides one specifically for Exchange.

Some things I learned

Mark Minasi — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:28:41 -0500

There are 11 replies, with the last one on 08/22/2008 at 08:28:41 AM by Mark Minasi
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I never doubted that; I'd just had the impression that color balance, saturation etc were "reversible" and sharpening wasn't.

VMWARE Converter Enterprise

deandownsouth — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:16:17 -0500

There are 9 replies, with the last one on 08/22/2008 at 08:16:17 AM by deandownsouth
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"could I not just upload my Server images into the ESXi datastore - do they need to be converted?"

No, these need to be converted. So you just need to run VMware Converter and point it to the .vmx file for the VM you want to convert, choose the option that includes ESX, and it will do the conversion.

As far as the differences between the Enterprise Edition and the free version of VMware Converter, as far as I remember, the only difference is with the the cold clone ability-and that is only because VMware moved away from a Knoppix boot disk and to a Windows PE, which incurs a license cost.

MDT 2008 - Error while updating deployment point.

arwidmark — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:50:31 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 08/22/2008 at 03:50:31 AM by arwidmark
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The only time I have seen this error is when the servername in deploy.xml is incorrect (like if you have copied the distribution share to a new server and did not update deploy.xml)

deploy.xml default lcoation is C:\Program Files\Microsoft Deployment Toolkit\Control

Laptops can be seized at the U.S. border

joe_elway — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:46:52 -0500

There are 58 replies, with the last one on 08/22/2008 at 02:46:52 AM by joe_elway
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quote:
Originally posted by Mark Minasi

I heard something on NPR about a month or two ago about how Americans are all -- left and right, red and blue -- are creating societies for themselves where they never have to hear a dissenting opinion, and that it's not a good thing.

There's a notion in science called "hormesis" that says -- I'm greatly simplifying -- that if you don't sort of poke your immune system a bit on a regular basis, then it becomes weak and thus that's led to the increase in autoimmune diseases in the past forty years. (It sounds possible, but I have no idea.) I wonder if we're not all becoming a bit "hormetic" in our politics as well?

There was some author on the Daily Show a little while back who was promoting his book on the subject. He realised it was going on when he looked for a neighbourhood that fit his pofile, e.g. state of houses, lawns, people being visible or not, etc. Then he discovered everyone had the same political profile.

Sharing folder on Windows 2008 server

jkaisto — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:09:35 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 08/22/2008 at 12:09:35 AM by jkaisto
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Thanks it is working with elavated rights, but I would like to have full share permission instead of read share permission. The other possibility is to give full permission to certain user account?
I'm running 2008-64 bits

Windows 2000 <-> Windows 2008 Trust Relationship

kgazow — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:01:19 -0500

I am in the process of deploying a Windows 2008 + Exchange 2007 environment which we will be migrating our enterprise into. We have deployed the Windows 2008 domain in Server 2008 mode, and are attempting to create a trust relationship between the two domains and get an ADMT 3.1 instance rolling to start working on a migration. On the Windows 2008 side, we were able to get the trust created, however the trust cannot be validated on the Windows 2000 side. Here are the odd symptoms we're seeing:

1. Cannot access resources on the new domain from the old DC's
2. CAN access resources on the new domain from old domain member servers and workstations
3. Cannot validate trust on Windows 2000 side
4. CAN validate trust on Windows 2008 side
5. Multiple errors showing up in the event log
a. NETLOGON 3210
b. NETLOGON 5722
c. NETLOGON 5721
d. NETLOGON 5719
e. LSASRV 40961

Any thoughts on this? Anyone else run into this kind of problem?

Remote Web Access for MAC Client

DonJones — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:20:52 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 08/21/2008 at 6:20:52 PM by DonJones
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Not necessarily. The VPN itself secures the connection; simply being able to connect to the SBS server via a VPN is no more dangerous than connecting to the SBS server on the LAN. That is, users will be able to do whatever their permissions allow. The fact that they're connecting via VPN isn't inherently more risky.

Manage XP/2003 Scheduled Tasks from Vista

sixdoubleo — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:48:39 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 08/21/2008 at 5:48:39 PM by sixdoubleo
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Yep. The Scheduled Tasks MMC doesn't seem to want to manage XP/2003 boxes. It gives an "insufficient permissions" error. Yet I can manage Vist/2008 and do other administrative tasks on the XP/2003 boxes from the Vista machine.

Round Robin DNS

cj_berlin — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:49:15 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 08/21/2008 at 4:49:15 PM by cj_berlin
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Hi and welcome to the Forum.

Do your clients connect by FQDN, NetBios name... or maybe by IP address [:D]? If it's netbios (i.e. TSFARM as opposed to tsfarm.myinternal.domain) the clients might be ending up using WINS and not DNS.

If you go up to five you will need a load based load balancer anyway. 2X comes to mind, although, if you'll be using 2008 there's the TS Gateway.

HTH

Mac's abilities unknown to me

DonJones — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:28:06 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 08/21/2008 at 4:28:06 PM by DonJones
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So let me make sure I understand completely:

You have a file server, running Windows. You want to back it up to an external drive, and for speed reasons you want to use Sata II drives in an eSATA enclosure. Cool.

Some folks who have Macs at home may need to take those drives home in order to get files off of them in an emergency.

The main problem then is the drive interface. The older G4-based Macs likely only have a FireWire 400 interface; the newer G5s typically came with FireWire 800. So FireWire 400 is your lowest common denominator in terms of the Macs.

My only suggestion then would be to have some FireWire enclosures that the eSata drives could be swapped into - assuming you can find such an enclosure.

My alternate suggestion would be to use a multi-interface enclosure. For example, a Drobo supports FireWire 800; you could potentially put FW800 cards into your servers to use for backups. The Drobo also supports FW400, meaning your older G4 users could access the files. Drobos support SATA II drives internally.

If FW800 in your servers isn't an option, you could add a DroboShare, which gives the Drobo a GB Ethernet connection. Perhaps setting up a private network containing only the three file servers and the Drobo could serve as a high-speed backup - not eSATA speed, but better than USB or FW.

Finally, as a last suggestion, you could use your eSATA enclosure to do the backups, and provide you Mac users with an eSATA->USB2 interface. Those exist (http://www.addonics.com/products/io/aau2esa.asp); they obviously won't get eSATA speeds, but since they're only reading a few files that shouldn't be a deal breaker. Or, several companies (http://www.buy.com/prod/cavalry-500gb-7200rpm-usb-2-0-esata-dual-interface-external-hard-drive/q/loc/101/205844199.html) make enclosures with both eSATA and USB2 interfaces - again, USB2 is slower, but should be okay.

Hope that helps. If it were me, I'd probably look at the Drobo+DroboShare route and a private "backup LAN," since that lets three servers share the one external drive. The Drobo could then directly connect to the Macs via FW400, FW800, or USB2, whatever the machine has.

Receive Connector

MadCow — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:18:47 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 08/21/2008 at 4:18:47 PM by MadCow
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Awesome, Thanks.

Unable to create ODBC connection

ccoates — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:30:31 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 08/21/2008 at 3:30:31 PM by ccoates
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In Win 2003 the Oracle ODBC Driver is installed when you install the Oracle client.
I installed that client on the 2008 server and the driver is not showing up

Canon Still Rules

Polymath5 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:18:24 -0500

There are 7 replies, with the last one on 08/21/2008 at 3:18:24 PM by Polymath5
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At least $20K for sure. That's really just one 1DsMIII and an 800 f5.6 and a bag to put them in LOL (ok not quite), but you can bet they have a lot more than that on hand!

That guy isn't hungover. He's looking into his bag and realizes he grabbed the wrong kit. He brought his laundry to the arena and is praying someone will lend him a camera. (or shoot him)

DNS and DHCP on the same server

aval — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:37:36 -0500

There are 14 replies, with the last one on 08/21/2008 at 2:37:36 PM by aval
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quote:
Having DNS without a DC is pretty rare in the Windows world.

What about the DNS servers out on the Internet - the root servers for example. I imagine that most of these are running BIND?

Anyone know anyone that uses Windows DNS for this - ISPs for example?

Just curious.

Admin account lockout

JSCLMEDAVE — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:17:42 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 08/21/2008 at 2:17:42 PM by JSCLMEDAVE
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Moved to http://web2.minasi.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=28285

Getting "SKU is not found" error.

Isaac — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:07:27 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 08/21/2008 at 2:07:27 PM by Isaac
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Douggg, you hit the jackpot.

The system time was set correct on the Vista itself but, I checked the BIOS on the troubling workstations and guess what? BIOS was 2 days ahead, a technician changed them for an unknown reason.

Thanks alot guys.

Fowarding to Oustide Address

itechsolutions — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:19:10 -0500

There are 7 replies, with the last one on 08/21/2008 at 12:19:10 PM by itechsolutions
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There are no other websites besides the default SBS ones. I want to make sure that the files on the other drive on the server would not be accessible in any way by opening port 443. The Web Site is forced to use SSL only.

kite surfing & TS Fay

MrEclipseguy — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:30:55 -0500

There are 8 replies, with the last one on 08/21/2008 at 11:30:55 AM by MrEclipseguy
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True, True Mark..

2.5" SATA Flash Drives, 64 GB!

mitachu — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:51:06 -0500

There are 35 replies, with the last one on 08/21/2008 at 10:51:06 AM by mitachu
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Tidy, eh?

Project Service

itechsolutions — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:28:35 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 08/21/2008 at 10:28:35 AM by itechsolutions
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Thanks, I think I found what I was looking for in GTD add-on to Gmail. You can use your gmail for a Task list.

Backup options, SAN, NAS, LCR

aval — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:23:27 -0500

There are 6 replies, with the last one on 08/21/2008 at 10:23:27 AM by aval
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quote:
What are you using for backups on your non-Exchange servers?

NTBACKUP - either directly to tape or to disk and then the servers with tape drives (not all have them) bakc up that data via mapped drives.

Not one more word about UAC

JamesNT — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:55:35 -0500

There are 31 replies, with the last one on 08/21/2008 at 09:55:35 AM by JamesNT
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MS already has added this to their campaign.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/webcasts/windows-uac-compared-to-linux-sudo.mspx

JamesNT

Server in a Box ???

ukinahan — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:07:56 -0500

There are 9 replies, with the last one on 08/21/2008 at 09:07:56 AM by ukinahan
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Cool thanks for the feedback guys!

Hosting site on IIS6 through Static DSL

Mark Minasi — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:34:08 -0500

There are 5 replies, with the last one on 08/21/2008 at 08:34:08 AM by Mark Minasi
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Doug's point is VERY valid, thanks -- Cox does that to me every time they re-assign our IPs. And host headers are the way to go... I host a dozen sites on a single IP address with IIS6. (As documented in my book.)

Powershell 1.0 - Excel Automation

hugopeeters — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:32:07 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 08/21/2008 at 08:32:07 AM by hugopeeters
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The method is described here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb223513.aspx

So you just have to specify the values for each parameter, separated by a comma. And then probably debug the errors you get back to tweak it a bit. Try something like this:
Workbooks.OpenText("C:\Temp\Excel\Input.txt","xlWindows",1,"xlDelimited","xlDoubleQuote",$False,$False,$False,$True,$False,$False,((1,1),(2,1),(3,1),(4,1)),,,,$True,)

Changes to Licensing to help virtualisation

Mark Minasi — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:16:11 -0500

There are 6 replies, with the last one on 08/21/2008 at 08:16:11 AM by Mark Minasi
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Arrgh. Well, at least you won't have to do it again. This licensing thing is kinda out of hand.

Attachment Size - which setting overrules ?

cj_berlin — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:49:02 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 08/21/2008 at 07:49:02 AM by cj_berlin
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Gavin,

as to storing and creating messages, the setting closer to the user overrules, i.e. User overrules global.

Between the SMTP virtual server and SMTP connectors, the more restrictive setting *in the mail flow* will apply, that is, if VirtSrv is restricted to 10 and the connector to 5 you can send max. 5 (passes connector) and receive max 10 (does not pass connector).

If the mailflow settings are more restrictive than the store settings, you can create and "send" a message but it won't leave your organisation.

If the store settings are more restrictive than the mailflow settings, you can send whatever the store allows but won't be able to receive more than that. Instead, the external sender gets an NDR from your Exchange.

Makes sense?

quote:

I'm not using connectors/virtual server

How do you send your mails out then?

HTH

Multiboot win2k8 server => drive letter changes

Tom Decaluwe — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:36:01 -0500

Hi all,

In the past we have been configuring all our servers with multiboot installing what we call a SPARE OS on a small C partition and a SYSTEM OS on a larger D partition. This allowed us to boot the servers into a windows OS environment no matter what Software issues would hit the server and ensures we can always easilly and quickly access the data on the server.

I still believe it can't hurt to have this setup on a windows 2008 server.

I have been experimenting with this and it works fine, BCDedit is great to manage the multi boot environment once you get a hang of the commands.

There is only one strange thing I have noticed. The active booted partition always gets the C: as drive letter.
- When i boot my spare os, the small partition is active and the small partition recieves the C: drive letter.
- When i boot in the system os, the large partition gets C: as drive letter.

This has proven to be annoying for some software packages i use.

Any ideas if you can make the spare os C: partition and system os D: partition stick in a dual boot scenario?

Tom

Web Site and requirements

Xenophane — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:01:46 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 08/21/2008 at 03:01:46 AM by Xenophane
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You could look at joomla as well..

DFS replication and Server 2008 standard edition

wlazara — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:03:02 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 08/20/2008 at 9:03:02 PM by wlazara
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In case you're wondering:

DFS Cross-File Replication
As organizations expand to include more users and servers, whether they are located in one site or in geographically distributed sites, administrators find it increasingly difficult to provide users with intuitive, fast access to the files they need. Administrators who manage remote or branch offices face additional challenges, such as limiting network traffic over slow wide area network (WAN) connections, ensuring the availability of files during WAN outages or server failures, and ensuring that branch servers are backed up correctly. To help administrators address these challenges, the Distributed File System solution in Windows Server 2008 provides two technologies, DFS Namespaces and DFS Replication, which, when used together, offer simplified, fault-tolerant access to files and WAN-friendly replication.

DFS Replication uses remote differential compression (RDC); this protocol can make a significant difference in minimizing the volume of replicated data that passes over the WAN. Servers running Windows Server 2008 Enterprise or Windows Server 2008 Datacenter enable an additional function called cross-file replication. Cross-file replication is used to further reduce the data that is transmitted across the WAN by using a heuristic to identify when a file exists on the sending computer and not on the receiving computer, but similar files exist on the receiving computer.

Instead of paying for the bandwidth required for replicating entire files each time a change is made to the file, you can employ DFS cross-file replication to use portions of files located on the destination server that are similar to the replicating file at the source server to minimize the amount of data transferred over the WAN. If large files, such as Microsoft� Office PowerPoint� presentations or disk image files, are to be replicated, cross-file RDC can lead to significant reductions in the amount of data that traverses the WAN and have a positive impact on both bandwidth costs and performance.

Cloning (making a copy) of a VM in Hyper-V

mikepiet — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:17:37 -0500

There are 9 replies, with the last one on 08/20/2008 at 4:17:37 PM by mikepiet
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It's pretty simple.

1. Navigate to C:\Users\Public\Documents\Hyper-V\Virtual hard disks

2. Right click on a VHD that you want to clone and select Copy, then past. The new cloned VHD will copy here as "vm name-Copy". You can now rename the VHD as you need.

3. Next, just go back into the HyperV console and create a new Virtual machine and when it comes to the disk creation selection, choose the option to use an existing hard disk file.

4. That's it. You might want to run NewSid on it.

It's not as elegant as VMWares cloning function but it's worked great for me. It's also the purported way that MS clones VMs for testing. At least according to this thread...

http://forums.technet.microsoft.com/en-US/winserverhyperv/thread/67c4c555-14fd-4164-bf5b-59ce883c8b18/

Good luck! I just found the export\import function to be too slow and cumbersome.

Michael

Exchange supported in HyperV

ukinahan — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:25:31 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 08/20/2008 at 3:25:31 PM by ukinahan
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Long Overdue...
Hopefully VMWare will get the job done there soon also.

Sender ID filtering

crackerjack — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:50:09 -0500

Exchange 2003 SP2. I currently have Sender ID filtering set to "attach for further anti-spam processing" but like everyone I get clobbered by spam while waiting for Microsoft to publish the next IMF update. I'm considering setting Sender ID filtering to Reject. My concern is how the SMTP Virtual Server will handle email from domains that don't have SPF records. Will Sender ID set to Reject only accept email from domains with valid SPF records or will it use other checks such as MX and A records that match the source IP?

For example, it appears that Yahoo has no SPF records and with my current settings test messages from my Yahoo email account are blocked by IMF. If I archive blocked messages I can see it gives messages from my Yahoo account a SCL rating of about 75%.

Is setting Sender ID filtering to "Reject" a good idea or should I leave it as is so IMF makes the final decision?

Converting from PolicyMaker to GPP

dmarelia — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:27:25 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 08/20/2008 at 1:27:25 PM by dmarelia
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Jeff-
I would not be surprised if folks out there are doing this manually but I don't have references. The key change (in fact, I think the only change) between settings storage in PMSE vs. GPP is that they changed the GUIDs for each type of policy. So, in SYSVOL, if you compare two GPOs--one set with PMSE and the other with GPP, you would see these different GUIDs. That being said, I haven't seen this firsthand and am only going by what MS has said. You could probably easily test this and see for yourself. the good news is that both products store their settings in XML files rather than the arcane storage formats of some of the other MS extensions.

Video: Don't tick off the wrong people ...

MrEclipseguy — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:26:53 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 08/20/2008 at 1:26:53 PM by MrEclipseguy
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r1CGF5MBP0&NR=1

Crikey, Watch as this Predator marks it's teratory... Could not resist this video came up a few seconds after watching the first. [:D]

Deploying First CAS in X2003 Org

clarinathan — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:34:41 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 08/20/2008 at 12:34:41 PM by clarinathan
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Hi,

Yes absolutely that is fine.

To be honest, although the above is exactly correct, it is very conservative, and I have never had a problem with installing the Hub and CAS roles at the same time.

Cheers
Nathan

Link speed & Duplex

Mark Minasi — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:21:19 -0500

There are 7 replies, with the last one on 08/20/2008 at 12:21:19 PM by Mark Minasi
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Looks nice, thanks Hugo -- and welcome!

Rights to move object between OU's

sixdoubleo — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:42:12 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 08/20/2008 at 11:42:12 AM by sixdoubleo
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Thanks for the comments guys. I'll just find a different way around this issue.

Sigmatel Drivers on SP3

RobertB — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:17:50 -0500

Hi, anyone know of a way to install SigmaTel HD audio drivers on SP3? Or better yet anyway to slipstream them in using nLite or something?

I can find some stuff on various forums, but it sounds a little much and I trust this one more [:)]

Autodiscovery and Exchange certificates

NMDANGE — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:08:57 -0500

There are 5 replies, with the last one on 08/20/2008 at 11:08:57 AM by NMDANGE
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SAN = Subject Alternative Name
It allows a certificate to be usable on multiple DNS names. (e.g. www.domain.com and domain.com, or email.domain.com and autodiscover.domain.com)

HUB NLB for Inbound Mail

ledson — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:57:13 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 08/20/2008 at 10:57:13 AM by ledson
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Outbound mail does not go through a NLB cluster, it uses each Hub transport server independently (you can prefer one over the other by setting cost values on the connectors). Incoming SMTP is supposed to be configured to connect to the NLB IP, and for NLB to work as it's supposed to, both Hub servers should be configured identically.

Luke Edson

Virtualisation for Exchange? Worth it?

deason — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:42:42 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 08/20/2008 at 10:42:42 AM by deason
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Also read this;

http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/2008/02/16000-exchange.html

This shows that in theory you could facilate the Windows OS upper limits for Exchange by running multiple Exchange OS instances on your ESX host.

Of course with ESXi Free you will not obtain all of the enterprise level benefits of ESX so beware

DC, DNS and DHCP on same server

Ratjabalala — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:29:00 -0500

There are 10 replies, with the last one on 08/20/2008 at 10:29:00 AM by Ratjabalala
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Is it true you not supposed to used DNS and DHCP on the same server?

VOIP Suggestions

Mark Minasi — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:12:35 -0500

There are 6 replies, with the last one on 08/20/2008 at 10:12:35 AM by Mark Minasi
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I've heard that once you sign up for Vonage, it's impossible to cancel the service. Dunno if it's true.

And I've said this before, but the only reason we do something as silly as conducting a channel-oriented communication (telephone) over a packet-switched data network (the Internet) is because most countries have state-run telephone services whose prices are artificially high (the joy of monopoly) to provide a hidden tax.

Enjoy it now, kids... eventually those gov'ts will just start out-and-out taxing the Internet.

Deploying Group Policy Using Windows Vista

JSCLMEDAVE — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:46:22 -0500

James gave me this great link which has answered several questions that I have had this week. Thanks James!

Also note that "RSAT will work on Vista SP1 or 2008, but you can use it to manage 2003" - Justin S

AND

GPMC Removed From Vista SP1

Deploying Group Policy Using Windows Vista
With the introduction of Windows� Vista�, you can now use Group Policy to centrally manage a greater number of features and component behaviors than you were able to do in Microsoft� Windows Server� 2003. The number of Group Policy settings has increased from approximately 1,800 in Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 to approximately 2,500 in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. This gives you more than 700 new policies to help you manage desktops, security, and all other aspects of running your network. This document will help you sort through the new and updated features available in Windows Vista, and it provides a number of best practices to help you deploy Group Policy.

Exchange Backups

allan67 — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:16:08 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 08/20/2008 at 09:16:08 AM by allan67
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Well first off. I get an error with the backup realted to the GRT options (restore individual mail boxes) It's a general XXX
I have seen in the manual that if ur Media server (backup server) is 32bit and your target exchange target machine is 64 bit then this option wont work. Our scenario is that our meida server is 64bit and exchange runs on 32bit so my first question is, is this the reason why GRT wont work?
Secondly to test restores of mailboxes i created a new storage group, new mail box store and dumped a test account in here, logged onto the test account sent a few emails, all worky worky fine. Then, back into my backup server ran a backup of this specific storage group which worked fine (although with the GTR error) Deleted the store off the server and then ran a restore to see if i could get the mailboxes back. When i run this i get the following error:
The job failed with the following error: Unable to attach to a resource. Make sure that all selected resources exist and are online, and then try again.
Is the resource my backup (which if it is the case is in the drive and online) or is it the target exchange server?

FQDN on Send Connector

MadCow — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:38:13 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 08/20/2008 at 08:38:13 AM by MadCow
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I figured it doesn't matter what the machine name is ...all matters is the CN name which should be an A record in your DNS.

UnInstalling Windows Features using PkgMgr in MDT

jiveturkey — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:23:12 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 08/20/2008 at 07:23:12 AM by jiveturkey
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Nice - that's EXACTLY what i was looking for.
Looked all over MS's site...
Thanks, Steve!

Mark - Add this to the list of useful things PkgMgr.exe can do:)

Outlook 2003 on VPN

allan67 — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:38:43 -0500

There are 6 replies, with the last one on 08/20/2008 at 04:38:43 AM by allan67
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spot on Tim :)

Need Help for GPO

danlaw — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:12:53 -0500

Hello Guys,

I need so help here.

Basically i cant figure it out how to put a website as the wallpaper.
I already enable the active desktop.
What else do i need to activate or modify?

Another thing is how can i block USB Pendrive by using GPO?
and how do i prevent like those flash games.
I don allow user to play games during work.

Thank you.

Terminal Server user profile location

Playwell — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:55:38 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 08/20/2008 at 03:55:38 AM by Playwell
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Manually does not do the trick indeed. Sounds a lot like the default profile has been compromised, did you do something with that in the last year?

SCR

clarinathan — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:39:15 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 08/20/2008 at 03:39:15 AM by clarinathan
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Hi,

Yes that makes sense although obviously when running at DR you would not have redundancy with only one node.

ex2007/ol2007 - update from MS on broken netbios

clarinathan — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:28:21 -0500

There are 11 replies, with the last one on 08/20/2008 at 03:28:21 AM by clarinathan
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Thanks for the update
That is interesting!

FSR not replicating! help please!

wkasdo — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:22:38 -0500

There are 5 replies, with the last one on 08/20/2008 at 03:22:38 AM by wkasdo
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> I was hesitant on doing the Enable Journal Wrap Automatic Restore set to 1 on it since I want the second DC to replicate from the first, not other way around.

The one where you set D4 is the master. Have it any way your like! How long does it take? Depends on how large SYSVOL is, and on the quality of the network. If you have a small network, it should not take more than 15 minutes. While you are doing D4/D2 users will not be able to log on reliably.

Word of warning from experience: make sure you really follow the KB to the letter. It is easy to mess it up.

NT4 PDC locks up every 3 or 4 days

wkasdo — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:19:49 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 08/20/2008 at 03:19:49 AM by wkasdo
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Consider moving the PDC to a still-working BDC.