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don2007 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:20:55 -0500

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To our US firends: Anybody using NetworkSolutions?

don2007 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:15:03 -0500

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I didn't even know that Network Solutions offered hosting services :)

Me either.

Windows Internals Book 5th Edition

glenn_faustino — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:33:43 -0500

Good News...the new Windows Internals book is out!

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963901.aspx

and a channel 9 interview with Mark and David Solomon

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Mark-Russinovich-and-David-Solomon-Windows-Internals-5-Released/

Glenn

Archive .OST for user leaving organization

58sniper — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:10:40 -0500

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In Exchange 2007, you can do an export-mailbox in Exchange Management Shell, and dump the entire mailbox to a .pst file for the user. There are some prereqs to doing this, but you should have the setup configured anyways, as this is a fairly common task. YMMV

Dell order fullfillment

wlazara — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:09:01 -0500

There are 17 replies, with the last one on 07/03/2009 at 7:09:01 PM by wlazara
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No issues with laptops or desktops (we only order Latitudes and Optiplexes though). Everything received within a week, and that's basic ground shipping.

There are multiple exchange servers matching the

wlazara — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:07:23 -0500

There are 5 replies, with the last one on 07/03/2009 at 7:07:23 PM by wlazara
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Just getting around to this one, was gonna point at L&F! Glad you got it sorted...

-Wes

Outlook Anywhere for non domain member client

wlazara — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:02:33 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 07/03/2009 at 7:02:33 PM by wlazara
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(I have used Outlook for years on my non-domain machines at home)

This is also how hosted exchange works... Clients obviously aren't members of the hosting company's domain, but Outlook Anywhere (and RPC over HTTP as it used to be called) makes client connections a snap...

rdp client and printer mappings

aval — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:39:45 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 07/03/2009 at 5:39:45 PM by aval
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Yes, I notice this does "pollute" the EV with dozens of entries.

Short of installing (on the servers) all the drivers used by clients, I'm not sure you can get rid of them. Other than using space that could be used to signal possibly more important issues, and, of course, clients not being able to print from within a TS session (which may not even be an objective) I don't think any harm is being done.

I suppose one could increase the size of the log if it was being filled up with these entries.

BTW, what do your co-admins have to do "manually everytime"?

Operations Manager 2007 R2 GA

arek73 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:21:44 -0500

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Thanks Aidan. We are (finally!) getting ready to move away from MOM 2005.

Home

arek73 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:40:23 -0500

This is the best way I spent 90 minutes recently:

http://www.youtube.com/user/homeproject

It is a great reminder for all of us that it is up to us to make a change. It is never too late to start. It's all about balance and giving something in return.

We teach this our daughter all the time: share your toy with your friend and let your friend share her toy with you. That way, you will have twice as many toys to play with.

Claus, look out

NSFEddie — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:46:52 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 07/03/2009 at 1:46:52 PM by NSFEddie
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< mounts soapbox >
Like all True Believers: "My mind is made up, don't confuse
me with facts that I will not acknowledge. "
< dismounts soapbox >

Win PE virualization question

anthony — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:45:12 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 07/03/2009 at 1:45:12 PM by anthony
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Thanks Aiden. I wonder if it would be possible to just get all the .inf's and associated files and have a disk with the drivers for this situation. The recovery environment allows the addition of drivers within the interface. But I'm not sure it will allow you to modify the PE environment like the gentleman states in the article.

What I ended up doing was this:

1. Used IDE Controller1 and added a CD-Rom pointing to the ISO I created that had my 2 drive images on it. (OS & Data)

2. Used Bare Metal Restore and restored The C:\ Drive. Worked well but was very slow compared to other file copy's I've done. It was like 10mb per sec, instead of 90 or so. But it eventually finished.

3. Booted the OS, and let it install all the new hardware. Re-boot.

4. Booted again, installed the integration components to the VM. Re-boot again.

5. With the integration components installed (and SCSI drives appearing now) that allowed me add a new drive, and to just run a restore within the VM of the data partition from within ShadowProtect.

6. Do some final cleanup mapping the correct drive letter to the data partition, getting the IP address set back to static, and we are back up and running.

Not bad for my first Hyper-V P2V restore. But man, it was a bit frustrating because I'm so new to Hyper-V.

My next project is to install a vurtual instance of SBS 2008 on this server.

Win2008 & WSUS Role

MadCow — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:44:19 -0500

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Thanks guys thought so ...

Setup Security.inf template

reza — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:20:26 -0500

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Thanks

2010?

DennisMCSE — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:07:54 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 07/03/2009 at 1:07:54 PM by DennisMCSE
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As far as I know, there have been no dates discussed yet. But I would assume it would be roughly the same time frame as in 2009, around mid to late April. Need to wait for all the other big conferences, TechEd, WinConnections, etc., have been posted so we can work around it and make sure Mark, Rhonda, etc., will be available. They don't always post those conferences this early I don't think.

Did Microsoft Listen to Rhonda

Rhonda — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:14:09 -0500

There are 10 replies, with the last one on 07/03/2009 at 12:14:09 PM by Rhonda
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Up to this point MS has always used .wim image files. vhds are brand new and I dont think they are ready for prime time yet. If anything MS has some work to do with vhds and the maintenance of them once you start using them as a deployment image. Some groups (WDS) have embraced the use of .vhd but others have not and I think with good reason at this point. We'll just have to wait and see what they have in store for us.

Mountpoints

Bbacoyiannis — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:28:52 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 07/03/2009 at 10:28:52 AM by Bbacoyiannis
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Thanks Joe, I will attempting my first GUID this afternoon, and our plan is to move to CSV when it is release in OCT.

Toys

ccahill — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:09:18 -0500

There are 11 replies, with the last one on 07/03/2009 at 10:09:18 AM by ccahill
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Car, dirt road, nice car, cute girl, Shoe commercial?

Chuck

SBS 2008 File/Permission Issue

spam spam bacon spam — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:27:32 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 07/03/2009 at 07:27:32 AM by spam spam bacon spam
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quote:
Originally posted by Mirage

Hey All!

I have a question, and maybe it's a dumb one,

Please ask all the 'dumb' questions you can. It's my job here to ask the dumb questions, and I'm not getting here to the forums enough; so any help I can get with this is appreciated!!![:p]

quote:

(snip) but when I direct the destination to be the local disk (as a test, I'm trying C: and E:) I get the following error:

E:\ drive is a read only location and is not a valid destination.

Just a thought to ponder, probably not your issue, but is it working if you try to direct the destination > removable media drive? I'm wondering if the Symantec product is "trying to help" by not allowing backups to either (local) location(s) OR to and from the same source>destination?

And yeah, I guess you can tell I don't trust what some error messages "really mean..."
[:D]

Phew - MVP Renewed

ebrux — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:23:13 -0500

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Originally posted by JamesNT

Congratz, Aidan!

JamesNT

Ha! Very good, James. Very good....

Good job, Aidan. I know I learned a LOT from you when you talked about Microsoft HyperV at MinasiConn. I had NO idea they were that far along. Very good information....

Internet Content Filtering

itechsolutions — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:40:18 -0500

There are 5 replies, with the last one on 07/02/2009 at 7:40:18 PM by itechsolutions
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http://www.opendns.com/ is a free filter based online. Its a nice concept.

Anyone try "Morro" yet?

itechsolutions — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:31:48 -0500

There are 6 replies, with the last one on 07/02/2009 at 6:31:48 PM by itechsolutions
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Its not a bad thing that its basic. Just reporting my findings. :)

l2TP over IPSec, Probably a newbie Question.

don2007 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:13:11 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 07/02/2009 at 6:13:11 PM by don2007
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Could the server be looking for an SSL certificate instead, even though you are using ipsec? Just a guess.

Child domains

wkasdo — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:03:19 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 07/02/2009 at 5:03:19 PM by wkasdo
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check your DNS setup. Then, check it again ;-)

What's the error?

Win 2000 Native to 2003 Domain Level Performance?

wkasdo — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:01:30 -0500

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There will be no performance impact whatsoever. Go ahead!

ISA + Exchange question

Nitin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:00:11 -0500

We will be using the opportunity from migrating from 2003 - 2007 by getting better hardware and new colocation. Here is the current setup -

CURRENT -
Colocation provider1 - 1Server
Active directory is virtual(FSMO), has two network cards - one is host only and one faces world.

Exchange 2003 is virtual(Both FE+BE job, ie, holds malibox as well as serves OWA). Has two network cards, host only and world facing. This has certificate installed for the world facing IP.

NEW-
Colocation provider2 - 1Server

ISA2006, two network cards - One facing world, one internal.

Active directory - One network card - Internal IP

Exchange 2007 - One network card - Internal IP. Installed typical(hub, transport and mailbox)

WHAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED SO FAR -
a) ISA 2006 has VPN connected to RRAS of old server. They communicate well and for all practical purposes, all servers mentioned above are talking to each other as if in same facility.
b) In new server, exchange 2007 has been setup properly. I tried moving a milbox from 2003->2007, it works. I moved it back to 2003 as of now.

WHAT IS REQUIRED
a) Seemless transfer from old 2003 to new 2007. My old 2003 has FQDN as server.domain.com (certificate installed). My new 2007 has FQDN exchange.domain.com

b) Since ALL outlook clients are connecting via RPC/HTTPS and are setup with server.domain.com, how will this transition take place? ( I cannot go to each outlook and setup esxchnage .domain.com - should I make dns to point to exchange when a client asks for server?

c) My ISA knowledge is limited to proxy only. How do I publish the OWA and RPC/HTTP on this new server (so that server.domain.com is actually exchange.domain.com)

d) What certificate should I buy? How does certificates work on ISA- Should I buy for server.domain.com or exchange.domain.com

e) I have approx 10 clients in far flung areas who check mail by https://server.domain.com/exchange. Its not possible to educate them. What changes I do (in dns and ISA) so that the above is actually served by new exchnage 2007

Thank you

Old User Accounts

aval — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:28:36 -0500

There are 8 replies, with the last one on 07/02/2009 at 4:28:36 PM by aval
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Or if you prefer the command line:

dsquery user domainroot -inactive 90

I imagine this is simply the query being run in the background via the GUI.

The Joeware tool might still be best though, because it takes into account (IIRC) a factor (that I cannot recall...) that might cause the above query to miss some accounts. "LastLogon~~TimeStamp~~" attribute not being replicated to all DCs or something?

OWA users need to reauthenticate when opening emai

daveyd — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:10:35 -0500

There are 6 replies, with the last one on 07/02/2009 at 4:10:35 PM by daveyd
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OK, I added https://mail.mycompany.com to the users Intranet Sites and added mycompany.com to override cookie setting and always allow. She was able to browse to her OWA folders for a couple of seconds then it kicked her back to the FBA logon screen. It seems like some sort of timeout issue....but doenst not happen with everyone and does not happen to my account when I use her PC

Edit..I just tried from my account and get the same thing...every email I try to open from OWA, I get the OWA logon screen

Connect wireless access point to network

cj_berlin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:53:22 -0500

There are 13 replies, with the last one on 07/02/2009 at 3:53:22 PM by cj_berlin
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Cool. On to the next one [:D]

Terminal Services Profile Path

cj_berlin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:51:10 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 07/02/2009 at 3:51:10 PM by cj_berlin
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Rob,

could you please describe in more detail what steps you undertook and what results you expected that you didn't get? IOW, what do you mean exactly by "still get the old profile"?

Thanks

What does GPUPDATE do?

TrainSignal — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:09:09 -0500

There are 20 replies, with the last one on 07/02/2009 at 3:09:09 PM by TrainSignal
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You're welcome, and that's a great idea. We've started to have technical reviews on many of our newer courses and I'll make sure it becomes an more integral part of the process in the future.

I'd like to extend an offer to individuals in the forums: if anyone is interested in being a technical reviewer or beta tester for new Train Signal offering please contact me.

iPhone as admin tool?

Polymath5 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:39:56 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 07/02/2009 at 2:39:56 PM by Polymath5
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Thanks guys. I know it won't be the same as lap/desk. But for a quick and dirty check I'm hoping it will be be handy when I need it!!

Facebook

arek73 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:05:11 -0500

There are 48 replies, with the last one on 07/02/2009 at 2:05:11 PM by arek73
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You've nailed it Evgenij. Enough said.

Edit for spelling.

Mail in Queue ....

MadCow — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:54:20 -0500

Exchaneg 2007 MBX Server.

MOM server shows me this ....
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb232109.aspx

but there are no mails in the Queue. Have 2 HTS running both are clean.

ESX i vmware forces vendors away from "free"

matthewcrp — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:42:32 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 07/02/2009 at 1:42:32 PM by matthewcrp
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Veeam Backup and Replication still supports ESXi just not ESXi FREE. ESXi just has to be licensed for Veeam Backup to work at this time. Here is a Blog post detailing this.

http://veeammeup.com/2009/06/new-veeam-essentials-bundle.html

-Matt

ESX 3.5 Update 4 - Can't create VM

Dave Sweatt — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:44:29 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 07/02/2009 at 12:44:29 PM by Dave Sweatt
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I had the exact same thing happen. For the life of me I have no idea why the iso wouldn't work but then would after booting to another iso.
Strange.

Windows Connections 2009 in Vegas

Curt — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:20:19 -0500

Well, we all know that Spring is a busy time for the MVPs and the Dynamics people and the Minasi Forum.
I was looking at the brochure for Windows Connections 2009 and it had a part about a tax reduction.

So I took a look and it's very attractive for us to go this year in November..

So it looks like several of us can go if we fit the requirements.

Hotel Rates and Flights are down as well, so mabye we should start planning to go and take in the sessions of Mark, Rhonda and Steve and the other worthys. A plus for me is that the SharePoint sessions can be attended for the same price.

Sweet. This makes all Windows IT Pro writers able to go.

Nice for the gov. to understand geek fest.
[:D]
Anybody in?

Education deductions.

http://www.irs.gov/publications/p970/ch12.html#en_US_publink100021128

Travel Expenses
You can deduct expenses for travel, meals (see 50% limit on meals on this page), and lodging if you travel overnight mainly to obtain qualifying work-related education.
Travel expenses for qualifying work-related education are treated the same as travel expenses for other employee business purposes. For more information, see chapter 1 of Publication 463.

How to enable Forms Authentication in IIS7 on 2008

Curt — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:01:00 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 07/02/2009 at 12:01:00 PM by Curt
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http://windowsitpro.com/articles/print.cfm?articleid=40821

This is subscription based and is an article from Kevin Laurghs.

Here is a piece of it.

Before I explain the various problems with forms authentication technology, it�s important to remember that the technology is designed primarily to work with Internet access from public kiosks to front-end servers. Most problems arise when you try to deploy it in other environments.

Single sign-on (SSO) isn�t supported. Forms-based authentication will always redirect invalid requests to the logon form; therefore, you can�t expect to authenticate to your network and then bypass the logon form.

Because Basic authentication is required on the servers that are enabled for forms-based authentication, those servers must be able to authenticate users, which means they must have remote procedure call (RPC) access to the Active Directory (AD). You need to take that into consideration when configuring front-end servers that are in a demilitarized zone (DMZ) because you�ll need to open RPC ports in the firewall to allow authentication to occur.

If you use a load-balanced front-end server farm, you must enable forms-based authentication on all front-end servers. Additionally, you must ensure that users are always directed to the same front-end server during a session. Failure to do so will cause the users to see the logon page much more often than they�d like. This occurs because the symmetric keys are per server, so a cookie encrypted by one server that�s enabled for forms-based authentication can�t be decrypted by another server, even though it, too, is enabled.

Don�t implement forms-based authentication on front-end servers and back-end servers, or you�ll constantly be interacting with a logon page.

CRM ports with SQL, AD and Exchange

jadgate — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:25:21 -0500

There are 6 replies, with the last one on 07/02/2009 at 11:25:21 AM by jadgate
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Curt, et. al:

See here:

http://web2.minasi.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=31526

I had questions along the same lines re: Sharepoint and the need to open port 445, which gives us pause where I work. Microsoft has provided us with some strategies for keeping malware at bay (mostly adhering to a strict patching regime), but there are enough systems in our internal network that aren't kept up to date patched (OS or apps) for whatever reason, and usually only takes 1 infected system for a worm to spread on these ports in an internal network.

Jim

Cannot find KB917021

JSCLMEDAVE — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:56:47 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 07/02/2009 at 10:56:47 AM by JSCLMEDAVE
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You may try this method to extract the file.

http://web2.minasi.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=25373

I just re-read your post. I misunderstood what you were trying to accomplish. You are trying to get it into the WSUS DB so that you can push it out there rather than an MSI via GP.

My appoligies...

Moving WINS from NT4 to W2K3

DennisMCSE — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:10:39 -0500

There are 6 replies, with the last one on 07/02/2009 at 10:10:39 AM by DennisMCSE
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Looked at the current WINS database and it actually looks cleaner than I thought. So found an article about "Migrating WINS from Windows NT to Windows Server 2003" (http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-5081463.html). So if I finish cleaning the database and just copy the files from the WINS directory on NT4 to the WINS directory of W2K3, it will just convert the old database to a W2K3 WINS database? Anyone tried that?

Also, while cleaning out the old database, noticed some entries that look like junk, but part of the names are usernames. The records types show up as one of the following: 0Dh, 6Fh, C5h, 6Bh, 93h, 88h, 7Ch, etc., are they OK to clear out? Can't find anything on what the records are for.

so many rundll32.exe process

don2007 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:47:49 -0500

There are 7 replies, with the last one on 07/02/2009 at 09:47:49 AM by don2007
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C:\Tally7.2\tallylicserver.exe

C:\Tally7.2\Tally72.exe

O23 - Service: Tally License Server (NT) (Tally License Server) - Unknown owner - C:\Tally7.2\tallylicserver.exe

According to the URLs below, the entries above are considered malware & should be removed.

http://www.prevx.com/filenames/51422456807242322-X1/TALLYLICSERVER.EXE.html

http://www.prevx.com/filenames/X218553916653626878-X1/TALLY72.EXE.html

Vi3.5 management suites- Vizioncore or??

regnak — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:48:52 -0500

There are 10 replies, with the last one on 07/02/2009 at 07:48:52 AM by regnak
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Hi,
played with VMware Data Recovery last weekend and am not really impressed. I can get more value with other vendor products. Searching the communities tehre are bugs around snapshots and the experimental file level restore really makes this look like a version 1.0 product. I'll keep watching as the de-dup is really good but I'm having a really hard time justifying the additional cost for Essentials Plus when competitors have a suite of products I can buy in for less. Still, competition is good!

As for management - I love the vCenter 4.0 options, lots more detail and the alarms and range of issues it can alert on - used to have to script all these in 3.5 - really worth the upgrade time to get them! Want to know if open snapshots exist, no problem, there's an alarm right there.....!

Mike

Odd DNS Issue

tomo999 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:09:15 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 07/02/2009 at 04:09:15 AM by tomo999
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All our DCs are AD integrated DNS servers, and subdomains are resolved using the DNS Suffix Search List.

From further investigation it looks like this might be by design. When a query is sent for "software.applicationtype" our DNS servers do not hold the zone for "applicationtype" and so they send the requests out to the root hint servers. The root hint servers reply with a "No such name" response which is passed onto the client. The client then tries the next zone in it's DNS Suffix Search List and resubmits the request (e.g. "software.application.domain.com").

However, if the root hint servers are not available the DNS server responds with a "Server Failure" request which then, for some reason, prompts the client to give up on the request. The client never attempts to append the DNS suffix search list.

It is all logical and makes sense really. It looks like we might have to re-design our DNS solution! That will cause me a headache :(

Latest Effort: Designing a Hyper-V Solution

wlazara — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:00:17 -0500

There are 16 replies, with the last one on 07/02/2009 at 02:00:17 AM by wlazara
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I'm sure Dell doesn't. At least not officially... but supposedly broadcom does as of version 1.21. So hopefully Dell will be on board before too long. This isn't a production box, just playing around for now :-)

no way to create desktop icons?

wlazara — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:48:36 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 07/01/2009 at 11:48:36 PM by wlazara
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Kept playing around... Still can't find any centralized place as in previous versions of windows (and the current win7), however I did notice that the ability is there on the taskbar to right-click on various things like Computer and select "Show on Desktop."

How to calculate per user necessary resources

Curt — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:51:56 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 07/01/2009 at 8:51:56 PM by Curt
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Sorry for getting to this late.
Busy on the Dynamics Trail.

800 users. Yes it's alot.

Dual quad comes to mind for procs. 32 GB of Ram but allow for expansion. I would go with 64 bit SQL server and have the server designed correctly.

The questions are reports and remote users.

Bad VPNs , switches and lots of network traffic will be other issues to look at.

File drvmain.sdb preventing SP2 update

Mickey — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:14:12 -0500

There are 10 replies, with the last one on 07/01/2009 at 6:14:12 PM by Mickey
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Hi, I had the same problem with a machine that just refused to run the XP SP3 update, complaining that the file c:\Windows\AppPatch\drvmain.sdb was being used by another app.
I tried the following with a positive result.

Configuration screen, "Automatic Updates" check box on : "automatic download, but I will decide when to install".
After the yellow icon showed up with the XP sp3 update, I disabled "automatic Updates". I did not run the update.
Then I first restarted the computer.
The yellow update icon appeared again.
Then I ran the XP sp3 update, and there was no more problem with the dvrmain.sdb.

I hope this will be a help for those who encounter the same problem, and maybe/hopefully also for those with with the XP sp2 / dvrmain.sdb issue.

It should be an easy way to solve the problem.

good luck [:D],

Mickey

Revinetix Backup?

jeannewil — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:33:54 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 07/01/2009 at 4:33:54 PM by jeannewil
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Hello James,

I own a reseller firm and we have been with Revinetix a few years now. I have satisified clients using this product. If you would like a reference, please contact me. We also resell at a discount from their prices. My only complaint, is they do not adjust their drives costs as drive prices change. I have voiced this to them many times.
:(

quote:
Originally posted by Endaar

Hi All,

I'm at a point where I'm looking to replace BackupExec as our backup solution. I was cold-called by Revinetix and looked at a demo of their product, which looked really good. This is a D2D2D appliance with agents for pretty much everything out there, with no per-server license fee. Support is also based in the US.

Anyone using or familiar with the product? Thoughts?

Thanks,
James

Need to mass change Local Group Policy

wkasdo — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:00:29 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 07/01/2009 at 3:00:29 PM by wkasdo
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If your computers are domain members, a regular group policy could solve it because it overrides local policy.

Best time (if there is one) to reboot EX server

Perfessor — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:35:15 -0500

There are 5 replies, with the last one on 07/01/2009 at 1:35:15 PM by Perfessor
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HAH!! I won't see 2010 till 2020 is out!

Death of the Celtic Tiger

wobble_wobble — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:45:27 -0500

There are 26 replies, with the last one on 07/01/2009 at 11:45:27 AM by wobble_wobble
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azxNL-T3IFQ&NR=1

found this while looking for the 'never met a nice South African' song.

Network Policy Server Logging

downtime — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:43:20 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 07/01/2009 at 10:43:20 AM by downtime
Quote:
Right, I found this excellent IAS Log viewer:

http://www.deepsoftware.com/iasviewer/index.html

Connect Request: The client could not be authenticated because the EAP type cannot be processed by the server.

OK, now I know WHY it's being rejected, it was an error on the client side (authentication was set to PEAP, not Smart Card or other certificate).

Works perfectly now [:D]

OSD Image Deployment Problem or Missunderstanding.

Neptune — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:27:48 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 07/01/2009 at 10:27:48 AM by Neptune
Quote:
Now that R2 is out this is now supported...I wasn't smoking CRACK after all!!! [:p]

Skype

leobis — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:06:42 -0500

Hi All,
I am a newbie on ISA 2006; in this regard I would like to know whether is possible to block Skype (the newest release) communications by using ISA 2006; if so, how can it be accomplished?
Thanks in advance
Leonardo

2 New MS Data Centres Opening July 1st

jaxdave — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:23:10 -0500

There are 5 replies, with the last one on 07/01/2009 at 09:23:10 AM by jaxdave
Quote:
Sweden is taking over the EU as well correct ?

Vista - services

leobis — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:45:26 -0500

Hello everybody,
After uninstalling the vmware on my pc, some entries of this application are still present in Services(under the admin tools menu) of my Windows Vista SP2 PC (speciafically it's about the VMware DHCP service, and the VMware NAT service).
On the application log of the Event viewer these services are reported with an error icon stating that the above services have not been started due to the lacking of the related files (moreover f I try to start these services manually I got an error 1068 in which is reported that the dependancy service or group failed to start).
Does anybody know on how to get rid of the above services smoothly?
Thanks in advance
Leonardo

remote control on W2k8 TS

Rambler — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:47:09 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 07/01/2009 at 06:47:09 AM by Rambler
Quote:
Hm, we have this problem again.
This time, it doesn't matter what admin account (local/domain) I use, remote control fails with any of the following symptoms:

1) when I select remote control and pick the keyboard shortcut, screen blinks, stays black for about 1-2 seconds, then return to my admin session with no message and the user I tried to remote control gets disconnected!!

2) when I select remote control and pick the keyboard shortcut, I get an error message simply stating Access denied. The user I tried to remote control is either disconnected or can continue his/her work.

Besides that, I don't know if that's normal, but the tsadmin.msc console is terribly slow (at least compared to the W2k3 one).

This is happenning on all our terminal servers. Googling didn't reveal much. I can't believe there aren't other people with this problem.

Anyone?

Oracle Kills Virtual Iron

drexciya — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:47:45 -0500

There are 6 replies, with the last one on 07/01/2009 at 04:47:45 AM by drexciya
Quote:

quote:
Originally posted by DennisMCSE

So Oracle goes out and buys Virtual Iron last month. Then this month they shut it down???

http://bit.ly/15ijRl

This is a bad thing. In my opinion Virtual Iron was the nearest competitor of VMware.

SMTP Error #4.4.7

lbilotta — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:46:13 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 06/30/2009 at 11:46:13 PM by lbilotta
Quote:
Sorry the issue

I want to be able to have a two way domain trust between DomainA and DomainB and be able to send email between the two domains.

Vista network problem, connecting to W2K DC

don2007 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:56:20 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 06/30/2009 at 7:56:20 PM by don2007
Quote:
I was told that IPv6 can't be disabled in Vista but I haven't verified it.

Car is in the shop

MrEclipseguy — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:41:59 -0500

There are 15 replies, with the last one on 06/30/2009 at 6:41:59 PM by MrEclipseguy
Quote:

quote:
Originally posted by spam spam bacon spam

[quote]

You know you just gave me heart palpitations, right?

Here. You can see what I mean:

I plug my server directly into the wall outlet.

Didja' feel that in your chest?

That 'skip'?

Whew! Scary, huh?

[:D][:(!][V][B)][:0][:0][:0]

Nuff said, I promise to get the oil changed on a regular basis from now on... [:I]

Suggestions for my new test lab?

NSFEddie — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:35:25 -0500

There are 42 replies, with the last one on 06/30/2009 at 6:35:25 PM by NSFEddie
Quote:
We used to have COMPUSA within a 30 minute walk, but now it's a
15 minute drive via the Interstate to a Microcenter store. I
picked up a PC Power & Cooling 610 watt PS at a reasonable price.
My assistant is training for swim team prelims this week, plus her
obligatory hour of music practice. She gets her driving permit later
this week, assuming she passes the test OK.

no noodles please

spam spam bacon spam — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:10:04 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 06/30/2009 at 6:10:04 PM by spam spam bacon spam
Quote:

quote:
Originally posted by wobble_wobble

Nope, they copied me....

http://web2.minasi.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=20207&SearchTerms=whiskey,soup

Last post on the page!

Joe.

I am soooooooooo going to have to try your recipe.

But....I'm not a good cook, and as such, my improvisation skills are lacking.

So, do you THINK I can forgo the water?

I'm not sure I have any; and I hate running out for just 1 ingredient.

akthy

CA on a DC or Member Server

NMDANGE — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:00:25 -0500

There are 6 replies, with the last one on 06/30/2009 at 5:00:25 PM by NMDANGE
Quote:
The main difference between standalone and enterprise is that an enterprise CA can automatically approve certificate requests. Best practices say you should have an offline standalone root CA and then an enterprise subordinate CA (or possibly more if it's a large deployment).

See http://www.ucertify.com/article/comparison-between-stand-alone-ca-and-enterprise-ca.html
and http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc758301(WS.10).aspx

Root CA in Production - Windows 2003 Ent.

MadCow — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:22:23 -0500

I was able to deploy Root CA in the lab running on a Member Server Windows 2003 Enterprise. All went cool. This was one one forest with one domain

Now its time to deploy in the production.

We have 2 domains in a forest. Domain A and Domain B.

I will/wantto install the Root CA in Domain B.

I will use this to assign certificates for our WiFi Users using Windows 2003 RADIUS/IAS.

Are there are areas I need to look out for or any specific config .....any tips are welcome??

Thank you.

Group Policy error on DC

Harj — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:17:13 -0500

There are 13 replies, with the last one on 06/30/2009 at 2:17:13 PM by Harj
Quote:
Hi,

Post a netdiag /v and a dcdiag /v from the problem machine.

It's a head-scratcher....the solution

collier — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:39:49 -0500

There are 12 replies, with the last one on 06/30/2009 at 1:39:49 PM by collier
Quote:
I thought it was really interesting and I actually appreciate the life and personality that was put into it. If you dont have anything nice to say about the extra time and effort that was put into this thread then just move on - dont criticize people for taking the time to be thorough (let alone somewhat entertaining at the same time). I generally come on forums to read, and since this wasnt YOUR problem I dont see why you'd be in such a hurry to get an 8 word answer. None of us are here to troubleshoot our cars, so clicking on this thread means you're here to learn something about a subject you're probably not familiar with. Had this been posted on a forum that focuses on this kind of thing, being succinct might have been a lot more appropriate. In this case, I dont think it was.

Cool thread, spam. I enjoyed it.

System Event ID: 5719

g_merlino — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:18:11 -0500

There are 8 replies, with the last one on 06/30/2009 at 1:18:11 PM by g_merlino
Quote:
Any thoughts? :o)

Do not have permission to view or edit

planzone — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:16:50 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 06/30/2009 at 1:16:50 PM by planzone
Quote:
Nope

Outlook redirection

runswithsizzors — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:29:40 -0500

There are 7 replies, with the last one on 06/30/2009 at 12:29:40 PM by runswithsizzors
Quote:
Sorry it has been a long time since I have been back to review this. What we ended up doing is keeping roaming profile and split up redirection of My Documents, Desktop and Application Data. That really helped with users logon times. Next year we are making policies to keep those profile size down, and we also limited the size a profile can be. That should make some end users angry. HA! They will get over it when the complaints of slow logon is less. Which will be great.

Thanks for all the information!

Event ID 5014 and 5004

NikolasE — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:32:50 -0500

2 Domain Controllers one Host and One VM

I keep getting this error on VM Domain Controller on event viewer DFSR.

The DFS Replication Service is stopping Communication with partner CY-DC1-2K8 for Replication Group Domain System Volume due to an error. The Service will try the connection periodically. (Event 5014)

After this error shows up i get the the Event ID 5004 few seconds later which says.

The DFS replication Service has successfully established an inbound connection with CY-DC1-2K8 for replication group domain system volume (Event 5004)

DFSR is only being used for Sysvol Replication.

I read the following articles but not sure it applies to me since my error is 9033.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverfiles/thread/d27bd902-034e-4230-9516-0ede42308193

Event ID 5014 with error 9033 (The Request was Cancelled by a shutdown)

Anyone knows more?

.

MSDOS Script, Folder problem

jbarrett — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:26:04 -0500

There are 7 replies, with the last one on 06/30/2009 at 09:26:04 AM by jbarrett
Quote:
Hi CJ

I'm sure you know the expression "cant see the wood for the trees", your a genius thank you so much, it seems to work now.

Dooooh a real Homer moment. - SMILES.

Cheers
Jerry

Live Mesh

NSFEddie — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:58:41 -0500

There are 5 replies, with the last one on 06/29/2009 at 3:58:41 PM by NSFEddie
Quote:
sometimes I am the definition of "resistance to change"...[:D]

PLEASE HELP!!! IP ADDRESS CHANGE

gulam — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:42:04 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 06/29/2009 at 3:42:04 PM by gulam
Quote:
Thanks for your replies, i will check the services.

I am testing from the server and am getting this problem.

Gulam

2008 Failover Cluster

philrobeson — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:34:50 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 06/29/2009 at 3:34:50 PM by philrobeson
Quote:
I fixed this...here was the problem and solution:

Problem: A co-worker added a Windows 2008 Enterprise Server (R2 with SP2) to a cluster, and then removed that server from the domain, and then quit and left.

Solution: Removed "Failover Cluster" from the Features on 2008 (requires reboot)...removed the server from the domain and then replicated the DC's...after replication, rejoin to the domain...then add "Failover Cluster" in Features and then you can build a new cluster.

Remote Access with Hyper-V Server

timberk — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:44:34 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 06/29/2009 at 2:44:34 PM by timberk
Quote:

quote:
Instead of going through a list of changes to make for security and remote access to Hyper-V, this does it in about 30 seconds...

I used HVRemote to configure a W2k8R2 Server Core Hyper-V host in my test environment. Very slick. This script is definetly one of several missing pieces needed when trying to deploy Server Core as Hyper-V host.

~tb

Remote DeskTop Lock-Down

Michael — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:12:30 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 06/29/2009 at 2:12:30 PM by Michael
Quote:
OK..sorry for the lack of info..it was end of day Friday.
I want to lockout the windows features and allow only the desktop short-cuts to the users, without locking the administrator account.
I have done this for my Terminal server accounts that are domain base setup. Not something I do very often but have made it work per user. I can use the Policy Editor and restrict access but it restricts me too. I have a short-cut to the Policy Editor that I can turn it off when I log in, just thought it would be nice to have access per account on the stand-alone server.
Thanks,
Michael

FC/SAN advice for 2-node cluster

cj_berlin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:05:21 -0500

There are 10 replies, with the last one on 06/29/2009 at 2:05:21 PM by cj_berlin
Quote:
Just found this page. Heck, I'm doing storage for however long and missed it until today!

I'm NOT saying I'm gonna join that movement, but some of the stuff is def worth reading :)

http://www.baarf.com/

Changes nothing Re my above statement, though.

Useful Sharepoint Links

jadgate — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:42:42 -0500

There are 5 replies, with the last one on 06/29/2009 at 1:42:42 PM by jadgate
Quote:
I've seen a few links to this site on the forum, I just came across this today. It's not Sharepoint-specific, but it does have a lot of Sharepoint related content:

http://www.codeplex.com/

Jim

Script to check RDP connection

shadowman — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:16:17 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 06/29/2009 at 1:16:17 PM by shadowman
Quote:

quote:
Originally posted by Rambler

You manually connected to each of those 600 servers? My condolences :)

No to only 40 very important Citrix servers. I'am not stupid, the other servers were script by a script created by one of my fellow co-workers ;). That script checks if the server pings and if the admin$ is reachable, then It will report that to a excel sheet. That script saved me a lot of work. But we also have an DMZ enviroment (super restricted), over 120 firewalls in there, which each it's own compartiement, depinding on the confidentially rate of the server In some of the enviroments, you even cannot create drivemappings from one server to another. That will hopefully change in the near futher.

New home, and weekend getaway

Curt — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:06:15 -0500

There are 11 replies, with the last one on 06/29/2009 at 1:06:15 PM by Curt
Quote:
Enjoy it but as for me, I missed the Green too too much.

Ten years of the southwest is enough for me.

It can get cold up the canyon. Hope you get up to Flagstaff in the winter.

ICA client on Windows Terminal Services

ajbritton — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:00:39 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 06/29/2009 at 12:00:39 PM by ajbritton
Quote:

quote:
Originally posted by wlazara

it will work just fine

Thanks wlazara. I'm just waiting on confirmation now from the application vendor that they will support such a configuration.

Presentation about vSphere

arek73 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:45:30 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 06/29/2009 at 11:45:30 AM by arek73
Quote:
Thanks for posting.

Best mail archiver?

Dave Sweatt — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:29:34 -0500

There are 43 replies, with the last one on 06/29/2009 at 11:29:34 AM by Dave Sweatt
Quote:
Sorry for the delay, been really busy. We're really really small, 200 mailboxes we limit to 300MB each, and just wanted something to keep archives for compliance\eDiscovery purposes so went with the Datacove. It does use journaling, but probably due to our size haven't seen any performanxce problems at all. We paid 8300.00 for 500GB on-disk storage with an AIT-2 worm drive we archive to nightly. Since Jan we've only used a half a tape (45GB compressed) We really haven't done much with it except set it up, moved along and check it now and then. But like I say, we're definitely not an enterprise class level Exchange shop by any means.

Looking for feedback

bobster — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:37:42 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 06/29/2009 at 09:37:42 AM by bobster
Quote:
Bummer! I thought there would be more comments. Maybe I should have said I was looking for comments regarding the questions to my recent post.
[:D]

Bill Gates's new patent

lacrosseboy — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:00:26 -0500

There are 5 replies, with the last one on 06/29/2009 at 08:00:26 AM by lacrosseboy
Quote:
The new blue screen of happiness?

win7/2008r2 RTM set for July 13

joe_elway — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:37:45 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 06/29/2009 at 03:37:45 AM by joe_elway
Quote:
What MS has said is OEm partners will have it then. The rest of us that have subscriptions ... it might be a little later. I suspect a few weeks as the prep for the massive download requests.

Licensing question

Rambler — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:39:01 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 06/29/2009 at 02:39:01 AM by Rambler
Quote:
In what mode is the TS licensing server operating (workgroup/domain/enterprise)? I'd check out if the TS (GMITS02) can locate the licensing server (GMIDC01). Or just point it to the licensing server directly in the TS configuration on GMITS02 (change license server discovery from Automatic to specify a computer).

Problem with SP2 on 2008 - TS related

vinnithebear — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:22:11 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 06/28/2009 at 11:22:11 PM by vinnithebear
Quote:
Just got the same problem: Vista+SP2+Event 1035 in logs = no access to Remote Desktop.

But thanks to process monitor I've found a solution. I added FullControl permission to HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\RCM registry key, restarted Terminal Services service and viola! Remote Desktop is working again.

70-290 Question - Creating computer account AD

opensores — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:24:11 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 06/28/2009 at 10:24:11 PM by opensores
Quote:

quote:
Originally posted by wkasdo

That's a really bad trick question. It depends on the security settings on the OU, and you should read from this question that the default computer container is excluded. But assuming all this, D is the closest answer. H is wrong, because a local account cannot be used to create a domain account.

Yeah, this is straight from a Microsoft Press 70-290 exam preparation book. Its seems as though they want you to infer from the "consider all steps in the process" sentence that this is not just an account creation but also an immediate domain joining process. If the question was worded more appropriately it would make it clear that you should immediately join the server to the domain after the creation of the AD computer object. Then it would make sense that answer (H) be included since it is true that you need to have local administrator rights on the server in order to join it to the domain right? Or is it that a computer account is "generic" and without attributes such as the operating system version until joined to a domain and that they expect you to infer that it is to be immediately joined to the domain from the "create a Windows Server 2003 computer account in an OU" sentence? Whatever the reasoning it seems a bit much to expect someone to infer so much from that.

Problem with resource calendars

chamezzzz — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:32:12 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 06/27/2009 at 5:32:12 PM by chamezzzz
Quote:
No worries, I have been there a couple of times myself!

July 13th

aed — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:01:14 -0500

There are 8 replies, with the last one on 06/27/2009 at 2:01:14 PM by aed
Quote:
Congrats on the job Claus! Knew your talents would be put to use.

Sharepoint and TCP Port 445

lady_mcse — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:36:47 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 06/27/2009 at 09:36:47 AM by lady_mcse
Quote:
Wish I could help, but I've done no exposure to the outside world yet. I'm still learning ...

Creating an AD replica for testing

Dave Sweatt — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:34:53 -0500

There are 6 replies, with the last one on 06/26/2009 at 4:34:53 PM by Dave Sweatt
Quote:
Search around, Rhonda did a whole session on something like this I believe and there should be references and maybe a link to a how to. Haven't seen the presentation but it should be great info.

Clustering 2008

Playwell — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:34:48 -0500

There are 9 replies, with the last one on 06/26/2009 at 4:34:48 PM by Playwell
Quote:
Just reinstall the OS as well is my advise. You'd never know what you come across further down the road.

32Bit + PAE or 64bit?

Wiseman82 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:58:26 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 06/26/2009 at 3:58:26 PM by Wiseman82
Quote:
If you have the enterprise edition of SQL (and Windows Server), AWE can be used to access memory above 4Gb. The best option is always going to be 64bit though.

I'd run IIS on a different server if possible. You might be able to run on x64 and still be able to use the 32bit ODBC drivers, but it depends on the app. If the app is a .NET app and it's complied for any CPU it will run in 64bit on an x64 server and won't be able to use the 32bit ODBC drivers. If the app is a pure 32bit app, it should be able to use 32bit ODBC drives on an x64 machine.

Slow network when using Ghost

Tray — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:53:30 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 06/26/2009 at 11:53:30 AM by Tray
Quote:
John:

Make sure that you are not multicasting with Ghost. If you do not have your switches to handle multicasting you could potiently be flooding your switch with multicast traffic thus slowing down your LAN.

OpenDNS

joe_elway — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:48:41 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 06/26/2009 at 11:48:41 AM by joe_elway
Quote:
Yeap. We use it as our external DNS for production machines.

Exchange 2007 Cross Forest Migration - Shared Cldn

bobster — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:43:14 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 06/26/2009 at 10:43:14 AM by bobster
Quote:
You will need to provide permissions to the shared calendars from the second forest.

So just as you share the calendar out in a single forest, you do the same just use the second forest name.

For example

UserA - first domain (FQDN is UserA@first.domain.local)(Netbios name is first\UserA)
UserB - second domain (FQDN is UserB@second.domain.local)(Netbios name is second\UserB)

When you are in the permissions section for UserA to grant permissions, you just enter in second\UserB and then give level of permissions.

Authentication Error

lady_mcse — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:05:20 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 06/26/2009 at 10:05:20 AM by lady_mcse
Quote:
Have you visited the alternate access mappings page, as the error suggests?

Here's a link to more information on them. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263208.aspx

SQL Server 2000 - install question

Curt — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:56:30 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 06/26/2009 at 09:56:30 AM by Curt
Quote:
Thanks for helping us in the Licensing Swamp.
Good Post.

Scripting NTBackup on Server 2003

cj_berlin — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:42:30 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 06/26/2009 at 08:42:30 AM by cj_berlin
Quote:
Or our own David Wiseman (Wiseman82) has got a scripting archive on his website where you can also post your own stuff.

Exchange Support and Virtualisation

Jazzy — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:19:30 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 06/26/2009 at 08:19:30 AM by Jazzy
Quote:
Have a look at this one: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc794548.aspx

Network Build Up First Documentation

NikolasE — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:14:03 -0500

My Test Lab Network Documentation Build Up

Other Tasks for My Network which are considered but didn�t typed them here since i will be writing a book at the end :) are ......

Desigh the Number of Domains
Desigh the Naming scheme of Worskstation and Servers
Desigh Users and Groups
Diagram of Network Created (Indicating Speeds of Connection and other) OK
My Network is managed by Centralized Administration Team
Apply GPO when Necessary
Disaster Recovery Plans
OU Administrators Consideration

===================================================================

Network Build Up 24/6/09

CY-DC1-W2K8 As Forest Root Domain for Forest Mycorp.local

Server ML150G5
S/N XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
P/D XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

2 Available Free Bays for SATA Disks for Scale-UP of Disk Space when Needed

Disk Size 230 GB Raid 1 2x230GB SATA Spare Number: XXXXXXXXXX
C: Partition Only since its DC Basic Disk
Mem Dedicated 2 GB Although Server has 3 GB 1 GB is Dedicated to VM CY-DC2-2K8
Setup Windows 2008 Standard 32 BIT SN : xxxxx.xxxxx.xxxxx.xxxxx.xxxxx.xxxxx
Local Administrator Password : XXXXXXX No need to create reset Disks since it applies to local Administrator account only (SAM Database)
Changed Time Zone to Athens
Disable IPv6
Change Computer Name to CY-DC1-2k8
Install Drivers Chipset, VGA, Null
Update Windows Full. (Including SP2)
Disabled Firewall for all Profiles
Windows Update Options (Check for Updates but let me choose whether to to download
and install them )

In this time i must Create Image of CY-DC1-2K8 before promote it to DC (Acronis) So i have the image of Stardard alone Server. In Case of Disaster Recovery .

IP 192.168.10.200
Subnet 255.255.255.0
G/W 192.168.10.254
Promote to Domain Controller. Forest Root Domain
Forest Fuctional Level 2008
Domain Fuctional Level 2008
DSRM Password pls check csv file for CY-DC1-2K8 also for The DcPromo Process Check Unattended File Export.
IP 192.168.10.200
Subnet 255.255.255.0
G/W 192.168.10.254
Preffered DNS Him Self
Setup Reverse Lookup Zone. To all DNS Server for This Domain.
Setup Forwarders. First 192.168.6.108 / Second 192.168.5.108
CY-DC1-2K8 is GC, Integrated DNS and DC.
Belongs to Default First Site Name

Rename Enteprise Administrator Account to Supercoach with same pass XXXXXXXX
Create New Enteprise Administrator Account Supercoach1 with a pass XXXXXXXX

Domain Admin Accounts or Enteprise Admin Accounts Password should change once per Month

Supercoach and Supercoach1 are Enteprise Admins.

Created a Domain user Account Called Administrator. Account is User Cannot change Password,
Password never Expires, Account is Disable.(Security Policies)

Created ITStaff Organization Unit
User1 is Member of the ITStaff OU and he is Domain Admin. Any changes must be first
Notified to the Enteprise Admins.

Created ITStaff Computers Organization Unit
Created ITStaff Laptops Organization Unit

Created Managers Organization Unit
User2 is Member of the Managers OU
Created Managers Computer Organization Unit
Created Managers Laptop Organization Unit

Created Users OU with Sub-OU called Accounting , Marketing, Sales.
Member of the Accounting OU is User3
Member of the Marketing OU is User4
Member of the sale OU is User5

Create TS Organization Unit and inside Greate a GLTSGR containing the Terminal Services Users

Default Password for all Domain Users is XXXXXX
Users must change Password on First logon because of the Domain Password Policy. and Notify
Domain Administrator which then should Type Passwords to Excel Format and Deliver it to
Enteprise Administrators.

Domain Password Policy Should not be changed stick with Default Settings but for Test Enviroment
i have removed them and set them to

Enfore Password history set to / Not Defined
Maximum Password history set to / 0 Days
Minimum Password history set to / 0 Days
Minimum Password lenght set to / 0 Characters
Password must meed compelxity set to / Disabled
Store Passwords using reversible Encryption / Disabled

Install WSB and Schedule it to System Volume C: to 5 External Disks 5x500 GB at 12:00 PM Every Night.

Mon Disk1 / Tue Disk2 / Thur Disk3 / Wend Disk4 / Fri Disk5

2 X 500 Disks Will be Used for System State Backup 1 Original and One Copy. (Is it Possible to Copy the SystemStateBackup to Other disk? Will wbadmin will detect it?)
System State Backup will be run Manually at 9:00 PM until I automated the process

After 10 System Backups Stored on my External Disks i will have to Delete that Oldest 5 Ones.

Event Viewer Logs, DCDiag Results , Dcpromo unattended File , Initial Configuration Task RepAdmin Results, Export of Updates if occurred and other Daily Task or Changes will be Export and saved to c: Drive of CY-DC1-2K8 Folder Called mycorp network and machines setup and must be copied to External HDD for redundancy. WSB will backup these logs since are included in System volume C:

Same Backup Schedule will Occur for CY-DC2-2K8 also.

CY-DC2-2K8 Additional DC for Domain Mycorp.local
------------------------------------------------
Install virtual Pc and SP1 for Virtual Pc 2007 in order to promote CY-DC2-2K8
Disk Size 60GB (61440MB)
C: Partition Only since its DC
Mem Dedicated 1024 MB since it takes from Host Machine

Local Administrator Password : XXXXXXXX

Changed Time Zone to Athens
Disable IPv6
Change Computer Name to CY-DC2-2K8
No Drivers Needed Since its Virtual Machine
Disabled Firewall for All Profiles
Full Updates and choose to (Check for Updates but let me choose whether to to download
and install them )

In this time i must create or copy image of virtual Windows 2008 CY-DC2-2K8 before promote it
CY-DC2-2K8 to DC (Acronis)

Promote CY-DC2-2K8 to Domain Controller
Additional Domain Controller for Domain mycorp.local
DSRM Password pls check csv file for CY-DC2-2K8
Leave Replication Process at least 1 hour to Work okay. (Since they are on the Same Site)
Changed Preffered DNS to it self.
Alternative use DNS ip of CY-DC1-2K8
IP 192.168.10.201
subnet 255.255.255.0
G/W 192.168.10.254
Preffered DNS 192.168.10.201
Alternative DNS 192.168.10.200

Check Event Viewer for Errors Done OK
Run DCDiag Done OK
Run Repadmin /Replsummary Done OK
Documented OK

CY-DC2-2K8 is Additional DC , GC, Integrated DNS
Belongs to Default First Site Name

Prepare to Setup CY-TS50-2K8 As Terminal Server on Virtual PC
Disk Size 60 GB (61440) Although i use this Size for Testing Purposes.)
Partition C: Only since its Terminal Server
Mem is 512 since am running VM on my Toshiba Laptop
Read Book Terminal Services Resource KIT i followed the Settings from There.

Documentation of Performance.

ML150G5 Running Windows 2008 Server 32 Bit DC Integrated DNS GC + VM Windows 2008 32 Bit DC Integrated DNS , GC

Physical Memory Used 48% (Server Can be Scaled Up Adding 1 GB which 32 Bit Windows Support) 25/6/09
Check Performance Monitor for Additional Performance info
Results at 25 /6 /09 are OKAY.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
25/6/09
Sync Time of CY-DC1-2K8 which holds the PDC Emulator Role to an External NTP Server

ntp2.usno.navy.mil

Read Documentation how to Sync Forest Root Domain with External NTP for More info.
Test Results Sycn OK

Created a New Ou Called Guess For Guests that may need to join Domain for Limited Time
Created 5 Guest Accounts Called

Guest1 Guest2 Guest3 Guest4 Guest 5 with Default Password XXXXXXXXX

For Every OU I in the Domain mycorp.local a group have been created.

Example for Managers OU i have created a Group Called GLManagerGR
GL = Global GR = Group
Same Applies to Other Groups

Each user in OU is added to the Group inside its OU and new Users will ensure will be added if necessary.

Created Cy-TS50-2K8 As Terminal Server

Full updates
Disabled firewall for All Profiles

Setup Static IP

192.168.10.210
g/w 192.168.10.254
subnet 255.255.255.0
Preffered DNS 192.168.10.200
Alternative DNS 192.168.10.201

Locally Username and Password is Administrator pass = XXXXXX

Joined on Domain

Installed Terminal Services
Installed WSRM
Installed Plug and Play Redirection for Desktop Experience
Grace Period starts from 25/6/09 119 days left.

Added Group GLTSGR to Remote Desktop Users of CY-TS50-2K8 in order to Have Access to Terminal Server.
Pls Read Terminal Services Resource Kit Book about Setup of Terminal Services.

Settings have been Record and Documented also. (Default Settings for Now)

Performance Server ML150G5

25/6/09
Performance Processor between 5% to 7%
Memory from 49% increased to 53% 57%

CY-DC1-2K8

IP 192.168.10.200
Subnet 255.255.255.0
G/W 192.168.10.254
Preffered DNS 192.168.10.200
Alternative DNS 192.168.10.201

CY-DC2-2K8

IP 192.168.10.201
Subnet 255.255.255.0
G/W 192.168.10.254
Preffered DNS 192.168.10.201
Alternative DNS 192.168.10.200

CY-TS50-2K8
IP 192.168.10.210
Subnet 255.255.255.0
G/W 192.168.10.254
Preffered DNS 192.168.10.200
Alternative DNS 192.168.10.201

This is a Test Documentation i used for my Network Enviroment.

Every Day there will Be Daily Tasks Reported for Each Server. This Documentation is for the Build up of the Network at 24/6/09

What are your Daily Tasks for AD? Any Extra Info i must typed Here.

Thanks and Again sorry for the Big Reading Topic.

Strange lake creature

Polymath5 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:20:53 -0500

There are 8 replies, with the last one on 06/26/2009 at 07:20:53 AM by Polymath5
Quote:
Aidan: I used a Speedotron 2400WS head in a fresnel spot. Dialed down a bit to balance with the daylight. Gobo's and scrims to match the way I saw the light in my head. Pretty much any shot I do, I see the light I want the model in, and try to make it happen. I know I was using the 70~200 f2.8 ISL, not sure off the top of my head the FL used. f5.6 at like 60th sec. Like you, I prefer to push to the right and bring it back.

Arek: Thanks! Nope, I have NO talent for painting. But I do lend a hand when it comes to peeling the paint off :-) It feels so strange, like one is peeling off skin. Fortunately, good looking skin is underneath!

Ultan: I Have fun with both! Do computers before the models wake up! LOL

VB script for finding unused computer in AD

coolsreez — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:17:34 -0500

I would like to be able to run a report that would show me a list of all laptops and desktops in active directory that have not logged into the domain for the past 7 months, and to also show all laptops and computers that are disabled. If the report could show computer name, date of last log in, and site location it would be a help.

Can anyone please send me the script for getting the above result..
Any help would be appreciable...Thanks in advance.

Sree

TS on Member Server.

NikolasE — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:53:11 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 06/26/2009 at 04:53:11 AM by NikolasE
Quote:

quote:
Originally posted by JSCLMEDAVE

I am also pretty sure it has to be set to per-user for reports as well, per-device uses WMI to gather info..(?)

Little help here guys...

What do you mean? Didnt couch it

Domain Controller Replacment

Pieter — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:03:01 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 06/26/2009 at 04:03:01 AM by Pieter
Quote:
This is what I did :

(actually it was an upgrade from Domain Win2003 to Win2008 (first DC with Win2008 in a Win2003 domain), transfer of FSMO, transfer DNS-WINS-DHCP services, removing old DC and renaming the "primary" DC)

Starting point
- Domain Functional Level = Windows Server 2003

on DC-NEW (Win2008)
- install, dcpromo, dns (,wins and transfer DHCP from DC1 to DC-NEW)
- transfer FSMO from DC1 to DC-NEW
- Time sync (DC-NEW=PDCe) with external time source (modify firewall if necessary)

on DC1 (Win2003)
- demote DC
- stop/cleanup DNS server (srv-records, nameserver)
- (stop/cleanup WINS server, and deactivate DHCP)
- change IP address settings (IP, DNS server, WINS server)
- rename DC1 to MemberServer1 and move it to the desired OU
- remove object DC1 from "Site and Services" - don't know why it didn't desapear automatically

on DC-NEW (Win2008)
- change IP settings (same IP as DC1 had before)
- check A and SRV records (ipconfig /registerdns and nltest DSREGDNS)
- change name :
* netdom.exe computername DC-NEW.domain.com /add:DC1.domain.com
* netdom.exe computername DC-NEW.domain.com /makeprimary:DC1.domain.com
* reboot
* netdom.exe computername DC1.domain.com /remove:DC-NEW.domain.com
* ADUC : Go To domain.com/System/File Replication Service/Domain System Volume (SYSVOL share)/DC-NEW, change name to DC1

Some tips
- force replication of AD, DNS, SYSVOL, WINS, ...
- give it time
- Verify and verify and verify

see also
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc794951.aspx
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=316826
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc794951.aspx
http://www.petri.co.il/windows_2003_domain_controller_rename.htm

Iesacls.inf template

reza — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:35:15 -0500

Hi all;

Can anyone explain what the purpose of the Iesacls.inf template?

Thanks

Flie away little linux box, fly...

ukinahan — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:03:50 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 06/25/2009 at 9:03:50 PM by ukinahan
Quote:
lol nicely done...

NTP on multihomed system

don2007 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:00:12 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 06/25/2009 at 8:00:12 PM by don2007
Quote:
Make some tests.

From a command prompt, run:

C:\>net time \\time.nist.gov /set /yes

Substitute any time server you want. If it doesn't work, disable the internal NIC & try it again.

Windows 7 upgrade program nears launch

Mort — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:24:45 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 06/25/2009 at 4:24:45 PM by Mort
Quote:
Yeah I figured they would limit the heck out of it. But if your buying for yourself in the near future and don�t have MSDN or Action Pack it is a cheap way to eventually get win7.

Tim

WDS and XP image

Xenophane — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:27:46 -0500

There are 8 replies, with the last one on 06/25/2009 at 2:27:46 PM by Xenophane
Quote:
Arrgghhh... This is getting on my nerves... Finally got it to install XP, sysprep it, upload the image to the server.. What happens... First boot after mini-setup XP loads for 3 seconds before the PC reboot...

WEb Server Specs

Douggg — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:08:45 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 06/25/2009 at 2:08:45 PM by Douggg
Quote:
Seems to me we had an SQL app with a printing problems also. We were also told to increase the RAM on the server. Seems to me that fixed the problem.

Douggg

Internet Integrated spell check

MrEclipseguy — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:50:16 -0500

We are looking for an integrated spell check tool. One that will underline words that are incorrect just as the MS product only for web based forms. It must be compatible with IE and Firefox at the least, and must be able to automatically check the spelling instead of the user having to envoke something in order to run the spell check. Oh yea and it must be medical terminology. [;)]

Anyone have anything that they have used for a situation like this?

We've found alot of plugin's and applet's but nothing that will auto spellcheck as the user is typing.

New Toy

wo1fe — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:06:35 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 06/25/2009 at 1:06:35 PM by wo1fe
Quote:
Model: Honda CB 750 K
Year: 1982
Category: Custom / cruiser
Rating: 71.4 out of 100.
Engine and transmission
Displacement: 748.00 ccm (45.64 cubic inches)
Engine type: In-line four
Stroke: 4
Power: 77.00 HP (56.2 kW)) @ 9000 RPM
Compression: 9.0:1
Bore x stroke: 62.0 x 62.0 mm (2.4 x 2.4 inches)
Valves per cylinder: 4
Fuel control: DOHC
Cooling system: Air
Gearbox: 5-speed
Transmission type
final drive: Chain
Physical measures
Weight incl. oil, gas, etc: 256.0 kg (564.4 pounds)
Chassis and dimensions
Front tyre dimensions: 3.25-19
Rear tyre dimensions: 4.00-18
Front brakes: Dual disc
Rear brakes: Expanding brake
Speed and acceleration
Top speed: 200.0 km/h (124.3 mph)
Other specifications
Fuel capacity: 20.00 litres (5.28 gallons)

Run SCW with Exchange 2007 SP1

aval — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:43:10 -0500

There are 8 replies, with the last one on 06/25/2009 at 10:43:10 AM by aval
Quote:
No, W2K8 doesn't have SP2.

I might add that this is a test machine that does not necessarily have other updates - perhaps a .NET SP or update is at the root of this?

TSGateway for Application access on Win2008

MadCow — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:24:52 -0500

I have a test scenario helping a buddy here .... know a very little about TSGateway. Reading on it ....

We have ppl on remote locations not on our domain. We want them to open their RDP put in the WAN IP and come through/to our TSGateway and access an application sitting in the DMZ.

I was reading that I can self assign a cert for now.

Question ... is .... do those users have to be on the domain????

Once all done I don't want to create my own CA so I will be looking for third part Certs. When I request a third party cert for my TSGateway Server ...do I copy that same cert to all the pcs in the remote locations ... How would this work???

Advise Please.

Thanks,

Problem with Shared Folders for XP Users

Xenophane — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:24:12 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 06/25/2009 at 10:24:12 AM by Xenophane
Quote:
If you have intermittent problems, always check for installed Symantec products first :)

802.1x EAP Types

downtime — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:54:54 -0500

Dear all,

I am currently testing 802.1x wired authentication using Windows Server 2008 IAS (NPS). My current authentication method is:

Microsoft: Smart Card or other certificate.

According to the DC event logs, I'm being authenticated using EAP.

My question is should I be using Protected EAP (PEAP)?

Microsoft Online Services Directory Sync?

jaxdave — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:48:15 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 06/25/2009 at 09:48:15 AM by jaxdave
Quote:
I am actually looking for a utility that will sync an existing customers active directory to an HMC 4.5 setup. All the tools that I have been able to find so far point me to the "admin center" of the the mother ship Microsoft. Am I missing something here...

There has to be a tool that I can point and existing AD to a hosted environment (not hosted by Microsoft) that we stood up to see if they want to get into the hosting arena. In case you are wondering, I did call Microsoft and in order to speak to support n about hosted messaging and collaboration 4.5 one needs to have a Premier Support ID. Ummmm .. yeah I don't happen to have one of those lying around.

Printing at Home

vaccarom — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:58:41 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 06/25/2009 at 08:58:41 AM by vaccarom
Quote:

quote:
But to answer the original question, could you not give them admin rights for the time being so that they can install the drivers and they would have to hook up the printer via USB?

That's what I do now. But going forward when the new laptops arrive, they don't want (unless I have to) give them admin rights for a brief time.

Manage Windows Vista/7 GPO on a Windows 2000 domai

SilverRS8 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:54:14 -0500

Hi,

Does anybody know if it is possible to manage GPOs for Windows Vista or Windows 7 clients when they are in a Windows 2000 domain? Can't find this information anywhere.

Frank

Beware of Gulls

joe_elway — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:57:37 -0500

There are 15 replies, with the last one on 06/25/2009 at 01:57:37 AM by joe_elway
Quote:
Thanks, by the Gannet colony it isn't really sea air that you smell and it aint soil you're standing on ;)

TS Cerificates

jamesy281 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:11:41 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 06/24/2009 at 6:11:41 PM by jamesy281
Quote:
Thanks for the reply but I have already sorted it - it was actually in the wrong store.

PC slow to come back from being locked

don2007 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:33:45 -0500

There are 10 replies, with the last one on 06/24/2009 at 5:33:45 PM by don2007
Quote:
If you can abandon Symantec forever, that would make life easier.

WDS and sysprep

Rastor728 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:12:14 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 06/24/2009 at 5:12:14 PM by Rastor728
Quote:
If the image was prepared from a "Volume Install" CD or Image, it won't like the ID number on the tag of each computer.

If it was prepared from a different version, such as XP SP1 that was upgraded through SP2 and 3, it still may not like the older tag number, and the same in reverse a new SP3 Retail may not like the older SP1 tag number.

If possible, prepare the image from a Volume Install image/disk, and then keep using your volume license key. As long as the computer has a local tag or you haven't over installed your Volume License count your systems should be just fine (plus you don't have to activate the volume images).

Another tool to make it easier is Microsoft Desktop Deployment Tools (Lite Touch) will help you to script and automate the image process.

PS: If I am wrong, it isn't my fault-it was the one-armed man....lol[}:)]

WSB

NikolasE — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:58:58 -0500

Anyone Tested if on Physical Machine 2008 32 Bit Standard i can use WSB to backup it while it has VM(Virtual PC 2007) Open With another 2008 Server 32 Bit. I care about if Physical backup will be okay while it has VM open. I know that VM must be backuped Separate.

Since its only DC i use 1 Partition Only.

NikolasE — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:47:52 -0500

There are 5 replies, with the last one on 06/24/2009 at 4:47:52 PM by NikolasE
Quote:
I read some Articles about moving the PageFile on Different Physical Disk and not Same Partition. First it does not change Performance and second causes problems? I dont know exactly what problem will cause but i will stick with the Defaults. I dont have other disk since both are Used for RAID1

Read this Article

http://www.petri.co.il/pagefile_optimization.htm

Service Pack 2 Disaster

Mirage — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:57:45 -0500

There are 10 replies, with the last one on 06/24/2009 at 2:57:45 PM by Mirage
Quote:
Hi Wobble and Joe,

Here is what happend, after installing the same SP2 file on my DC:

1. The Service pack decompressed and the first status bar went all the way, it took awhile as expected, but it went all the way.
2. The status bar reset as it continued to install, but instead of taking awhile (10 min?) for the status bar to reach 100%, it took about 2 seconds.
3. The install logged me off, and completed steps 1 of 3 and 2 of 3 with out a problem.
4. The system rebooted on its own.
5. Instead of going to step 3 of 3 of the update, the system displays a black screen, the mouse cursor is on the screen and responds. It stays there for about a minute before rebooting.

I never have a chance to log in after the service pack install is run. Safe mode, Safe mode with command prompt, Safe mode with Networking, Last known Good Config and Normal boot do not work, always with the same result.

I havent contacted Microsoft yet, Im in the process of doing more research first. I'm currently looking at MSExchange.org to see if there are any issues.

group policy only updates with gpupdate /force

jecker — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:01:21 -0500

There are 7 replies, with the last one on 06/24/2009 at 1:01:21 PM by jecker
Quote:
Sorry for the delay; I just had a chance to work on the troublesome computer. Changing the local policy to "always wait for network on startup" seemed to work. Thank you everyone for your help.

Buy a song for 80.000

wim — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:48:40 -0500

There are 23 replies, with the last one on 06/24/2009 at 12:48:40 PM by wim
Quote:
found this:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/08/big-music-will-surrender-but-not-until-at-least-2011/

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/15137581/the_record_industrys_decline

XPe Pros & Cons

vaccarom — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:25:43 -0500

Is there an disadvantage to run XPe? My users just need Internet, Word, email. I do like the write filter feature.

Broken Authentication

browndawg74 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:15:13 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 06/24/2009 at 11:15:13 AM by browndawg74
Quote:
I am able to authenticate to the website on the server, but if I try to authenticate to the sharepoint website on a different computer. I get this message in my web browser.

You are not authorized to view this page
You do not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials that you supplied.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Please try the following:

Contact the Web site administrator if you believe you should be able to view this directory or page.
Click the Refresh button to try again with different credentials.
HTTP Error 401.1 - Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials.
Internet Information Services (IIS)

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Technical Information (for support personnel)

Go to Microsoft Product Support Services and perform a title search for the words HTTP and 401.
Open IIS Help, which is accessible in IIS Manager (inetmgr), and search for topics titled Authentication, Access Control, and About Custom Error Messages.

How to add user with identical logon name

SAPIENScripter — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:55:34 -0500

There are 7 replies, with the last one on 06/24/2009 at 10:55:34 AM by SAPIENScripter
Quote:
It probably could be done, but certainly not easily or efficiently. The one-liner is great, but you would need to manually edit the file so that only the accounts you want are added to the group and I get the feeling this doesn't work into the overall process.

RTM set for July 13

wlazara — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:51:44 -0500

http://bink.nu/news/windows-7-windows-server-2008-rtm-set-for-july-13th.aspx

Can't wait to get my hands on it.

Reformat HD after taking a look at ESXi

aval — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:40:43 -0500

There are 5 replies, with the last one on 06/24/2009 at 10:40:43 AM by aval
Quote:
OK, I just went ahead and installed ESXi on a IBM X Series x3350 server.

It's a model certified or tested, or whatever, for ESXi 3.5 so there were no problems.

I do notice a message about it being in evaluation mode for 60 days and then registering for a product license. Now, it this just a matter of registering? I thought ESXi was a free product?

Anyway, I'm rebooting right now and I'll take a look at configuration later (at this point I was not prompted to configure an IP address or anything).

Don't let your Share Point server self destruct.

arek73 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:26:51 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 06/24/2009 at 09:26:51 AM by arek73
Quote:
Thanks for the info, Curt! Forwarding to our collaboration folks :)

"Movie"problem in VMWARE 6.0.3

aval — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:24:45 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 06/24/2009 at 09:24:45 AM by aval
Quote:
No, it's not specific to 6.0.3 because I've just encountered it again in 6.5.

And this is after I've been able to make movies of what I'm doing on the screen, so I know it has worked in the past (with 6.5).

In fact, I was just watching the movies I made when testing the "personal home folders on server being renamed to "Documents" when accessed from Vista" problem (I could see the point where the folder was renamed).

Now, it's not working again!

Stranger yet, just yesterday, with a Vista guest, I started capturing screen activity right after booting the guest machine, around the instant the VMWare logo appears and when the initial Vista progress bar displays (green bars going from left to right).

I can replay that, but once the guest is started... black screen.

Tried to replay the resulting .AVI file on a different computer altogether but it looks like you need a special codec for that.

Move Disconnected MBX from Exc2003 to Exc2007

tomo999 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:56:00 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 06/24/2009 at 08:56:00 AM by tomo999
Quote:
You could script the creation of the 1000 users, then use the Reconnect Method to reconnect the mailboxes to those accounts;

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/may06/hey0516.mspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa143855(EXCHG.65).aspx

Why is Exchange 2K7 (EMC) so slow on laptop?

aval — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:43:44 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 06/24/2009 at 08:43:44 AM by aval
Quote:
1. I'm not running more tha one virtual processor.

2. This is what happened when I ran the script (just keep filling the screen until I exited by the X):

[img]http://umxm8g.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pu0uNi9mjGEZVxxzHriigekF-vjPfcW_7FGh3OM-M85pg-NBZJUoSntWWin7lOksxUbzqTiRdVV33zkUCqGXoM83G4Hkr-YBI/GAC1.png[/img]

etc, etc, :

[img]http://umxm8g.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pgois4Lp_lRwQhQOKWw36iC2whQFUEpdl1ukmRXiN89oGx4xKnCo7q_Pka1loEYVd7PzZvySV9uHWUw9wxfwYZm2FPk6lwx6w/GAC2.png[/img]

Yet another holiday!

lacrosseboy — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:36:11 -0500

Today is "National Go Fly a Kite Day"...

There are many outside of IT who have this feeling about us everyday!

It's also National Forgiveness Day so we have to forgive them.

WAS EventID 5013

tomo999 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:29:01 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 06/24/2009 at 07:29:01 AM by tomo999
Quote:
Would this explain it?

http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=1013&eventno=3187&source=W3SVC&phase=1

SharePoint 2007 - Distribution Lists, Templates

spam spam bacon spam — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:53:43 -0500

There are 14 replies, with the last one on 06/24/2009 at 02:53:43 AM by spam spam bacon spam
Quote:

quote:
Originally posted by lady_mcse

I think this was Backup Exec 9 or thereabouts, and it had this wunnerful little checky box for backing up the whole server, all disks ... who'd-a-thunk that meant back up the disk yer backin' up to? Ooops. At least it didn't take me THAT long to figure out why the jobs were barfing. But was definitely a "whoa, that was stupid" moment.

My story is eeeerily similar. [:D] I backed up my "entire server" and that included attached drives [where previous backups were ~~hiding, with a malicious grin~~ residing...] I love checky boxes, too. Except when I hate them.

Reminds me of the classic cartoon line:
"I hate you, instant hole"

Mark and Riley Interview . Quite Good.

ebrux — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:25:36 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 06/24/2009 at 12:25:36 AM by ebrux
Quote:

quote:
Originally posted by Curt

I really like this interview. It's not short and that's good because it's them in reality. Being themselves.

Very true. I kinda felt like they were at one of our Forum Meetings...just chewing the fat....

Good stuff...

Outlook Security Error

itechsolutions — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:25:07 -0500

There are 5 replies, with the last one on 06/23/2009 at 5:25:07 PM by itechsolutions
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So I called MS on this one, It started working after about 5 hours with them, we think it came down to the wizards in SBS 2008. Have to run connect to internet and import a certificate from the SBS console. I guess doing this from IIS will not work right (In this case at least). Just a note for anyone going to deploy SBS 2008 make use of their wizards.

Convert an OVF VMDK to VMDK

cj_berlin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:06:15 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 06/23/2009 at 5:06:15 PM by cj_berlin
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Originally posted by CaryRW

And, unlike others in the past, I am getting errors trying to import it.

Cary,

what errors exactly are you getting?

I wouldn't ask you to POST the converter logs here (as I very often type and read on mobile) but maybe you could provide them for DL or send them to someone who would care to take a look (me, if all else fails, but there are others on here who know more about this stuff)...

FWIW,

How COMPLETELY delete network printers?

ScotH — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:38:08 -0500

There are 13 replies, with the last one on 06/23/2009 at 4:38:08 PM by ScotH
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Great idea with loading the Default User hive! I found the old printers, and now I'll work with those. Don't know why I couldn't see them with the local Administrator account (that became the Default User account with Sysvol), but maybe it's an MS quirk. Anyway, I'll post something when I'm fairly certain about the solution.

Transformers 2 - Great Special Effects!!!

JSCLMEDAVE — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:30:35 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 06/23/2009 at 4:30:35 PM by JSCLMEDAVE
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Originally posted by Xenophane

Where can I get the Megan fox glasses ?

If you drink enough Tequila you will get the same effect.