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We need to start using Citrix in our organization.  We are starting with a very small farm (one server) and then expand if this works for us.  We have a brand new server with Server 2008 r2 64 bit installed.  I installed Xenapp 6.5; configured...

I started receiving this error message a week or two ago. Not sure if this is the result of a new MS patch or not. Google search online did not reveal any solution or lead. Any ideas folks?

Service Details:
Event Log Module Status: 0
The...

Assinged packages run just fine.

Advertised package pop up with a reminder.  The reminder takes the suer to the Add New Programs.  Selecting the advertised program brings up the program download manager.  Time estiment is 49+ minutes, progress...

I have 2x Dell servers (PowerEdge 2800 / 2900) and I have used Dell System Builder DVD's to install the operating systems.  The operating systems are Server 2008 32 bit and Server 2008 R2.  I have noticed that the Open Manage admin tools are not...

Hello,

I have a Windows 2003 terminal server which crashes every day between16:00 to 18:00 o´clock with a blue screen.

In Memorydump following information available to the crash:...

I've run into a strange Lync client problem.

I've got two domains, let's call them Corp1 and Corp2. The clients are in Corp1 and the Lync servers are in Corp2.

Those who have already logged in successfully with their Lync client in Corp1...

Hi Experts,

Our main server is running Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit.
Because I heard about the security issue MS12-020, I checked the status of our Windows Updates a few days ago and was shocked to see that none were being downloaded or...

I am in the preliminary stages of planning my migration from ConfigMgr 2007 to 2012 when it goes on RTM release. The current deployment is a single (virtual on Hyper-V) server of 2007 R2 in mixed mode which supports a workload of ~500 clients, 40...

Hi Guys,

We have an installation of Kerio Connect 7.3.2 running on Ubuntu, Blackberry Enterprise Server Express 5.0.3.41 and Kerio Connector for Blackberry running on Windows Server 2003R2 Enterprise.

We can activate two handhelds both...

I have server with 64GB and windows 2008 standard R2 tell me that only 32GB useable is there is way to change it?

We have a new Hp Proliant DL385 G7 server installed with windows server 2008 R2. we accidentally installed 32bit smart start software instead of the 64 bit edition will installing the 64 bit version over top the 32 bit edition mess anything up?

Running Window Server 2008 R2. When I try to start the service I get this error here.

I don't have a AD Environment this just a Workgroup environment.

I have tried following the Link here. It does nothing. Tried updating network cards...

I am the systems administrator and our website designer is planning to host a web-conferencing server. It would mainly be used for web-conferencing.
We are fully Microsoft and I have some security concerns. The server technology they are looking...

I have a Dell R710 with boot to SAN (Compellent) and am now getting random crashes. WinDBG  shows the text below but I can't figure out what exactly to do about this.

DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (d1)
An attempt was made to access a pageable...

Hi all,

We have a vexing problem with SBS 2011 Remote Web Workplace whereby:

http://remote.exampledomain.com/remote

Does not work externally or on the local network, but does work on the server itself.

All the necessary ports are open...

I have a dell 2950 and I want to put 4 SATA disks 3 TB on it. I am not sure if it will support it.
is there any document or place where I can check if this storage is supported. For HP servers I am using HP buletin, where I can see for which...

I've set up an installation of Google Chrome through GPO using instructions I've been given and I log on as the test user and it doesn't seem to be working. I am a rookie when it comes to GPO but here are the steps I followed:

1) Downloaded...

Hello,

I have an SBS2011 Server and I have been getting the error NtFrs Error 13559 in the File Replication Service event logs…



The File Replication Service has detected that the replica root path has changed from...

We are planning to host an Ubunto BigBlueButton web-conferencing server on our network.
 To make it more secure, I am planning to create a DMZ on TMG 2010 and place it in there before publishing it to the internet.
 
I have a virtualised TEST...

Hi everyone,

I am still new to ICT, so every day I am learning more and more. Today I came with some problems with connecting a DAS from Dell (Powervault MD1200) to a Windows Server 2008 R2.

The Dell Powervault has 2 exits for a SAS cable....

I just got a used Clariion and I have reconfigured it. I disocovered the issue i am having when i went to connect to my Windows 2008 Backup server using iSCSI. I have registered the host in the Navisphere software, Created the Raid Groups, Luns...

hello,
I want users to not have access to their desktop time clock at the bottom of window-
We use windows 2003 server- most users have xp-
Then network guy knows very little-
i create the database programs-
Is there a way to disable access...

I have a varchar(max) field in my SQL Server database table.  My field has RTF characters that I need to strip out so that I can display the text only.

My SQL Server 2008 is on a windows 2003 server.

I created the function below which I got...

an online backup service I have uses WMI, which has a problem:

Failed to initialize all required classes.
Win32_Processor: Win32: cannot start a new logon session with an ID that is already in use.
Win32_WMISetting: successful
Security...

Alright, this has been mind boggling for me.

I have SCCM installed on a server and I am using a remote admin console.  Before I upgraded to SCCM SP2, I had not issues.

I upgraded the server to SP2, then my remote admin console could not see...

I'm building a Windows 2008 R2 x64 Standard box on a HP DL380 G7 server, and got trouble one unallocated drive that when you right click, there are no operation options available.

This server is with eight 600 GB SAS drives configured with...

I'm seeing an error on the desktop director that states below:

Last Connection Failure Details
Reason Registration Timeout
Time 3/22/2012 8:52 AM
User Domain\Username


I'm not quite sure what this error entails, as from searching...

All has been running normally, this just started to happen with a relatively new SBS 2011 standard Server.  I tried to RDP to the server with admin logon credientials, the logon proceeded, there was a quick flash of the welcome screen and then...

im doing a MCTS course and im trying to import some computers into active directory useing ldifde.exe code below

dn: CN=SERVER10,OU=Servers,DC=contoso,DC=com
changetype: add
objectClass: top
objectClass: person
objectClass:...

CAn someone please assist,

We have SBS 2008 / backup exec 12.5 / Buffalo Tersation Pro NAS on our network, all our data is on the terastaion in a number of shares.

We had set up backup exec backup shares and system.
after about two months...

We run MS Office Communicator 2007 R2 in our office and have been trying to determine if we can use the Share Desktop function with multiple users. We can easily add more than one user to the conference but cannot seem to share the desktop with...

Hello Everyone,

I seem to be running into a continious loop of being unsuccessful trying to image a Toughbook CF-53 using SCCM/Config Manager 2007. If I let the computer boot into Win7, I'm able to install the SCCM Client manually and then run...

I am trying to run rsop.msc on an XP machine.

Each time I run it it loads up fine but then it gives an error:

"The following error occured in C:\WINDOWS\Inf\AER_1044.ADM on line 189.

Error 64 Help string specified more than once.

The...

I am trying to migrate from SBS 2008 to SBS 2011 but the Microsoft Baseline Configuration Analyzer 2 will not detect the local SBS 2998 server. I have run the program as administrator but Start Scan and View latest report are greyed out. I have...

I'm having issue with Outlook 2007, it asks for credentials when stated.
 
This doesn’t affect Outlook 2003 and 2010 users.
On the OWA side, when going into anything under “Options” like shown in the picture. It pops a new page and prompts for...

Dear Experts,

can you please advice hot to unpack windows server 2008 64 bit, that has extension sdc.
i have tried many ways with no luck.  goole says download unpacksdc.exe and type

unpacksdc.exe w2k8.sdc destination

but it didn't work...

While running the connect to the internet wizard, it finds my server, finds my router IPs, no problem, but it ends with the message:

Windows SBS did not properly configure your email. To correct this, re-run the wizard.

I've done this...

We have a Fortigate 200a and all of our remote users connect via the Fortigate SSL VPN client.

They/we are constantly getting kicked off of the VPN. It will happen if they are using RDP, or if they are just using their laptops to run...

Hello,
I have just installed an SBS 2011 Premium server and I purchased another ten premium cals so that we can all use the Remote Desktop Services. All I received through the post was a piece of paper with a tracking id on it. I have spoken to...

What would your definition of "unauthorized user accounts " in an AD environment? Can you provide an example of the types of accounts and parameters that would flag up such accounts? Out of interest, is there any easy way to list just for domain...

Hi,

We tried setting Group Policy to map the drives for users on our network - this was so we could get rid of the logon scripts which were initially mapping drives for users.

We had problems with users drives not always mapping correctly,...

For some reason on our SBS 2011 server I cannot log in to the server, when I'm physically at the computer, with my domain username anymore.

I tried a few accounts and it won't let them either.

But if I log in remotely via my laptop or...

We created a DCP for ACT 5.6 , and then pushed it to the machines through SCCM.see that a lot of files have accumulated in the ACT Log Files foler and are not getting processed.

the Log Processing Service is SStarted and running fine.

i...

Hello,

I'd like some professional opinions regarding 2 tech specs, which one would you choose and why.

Thanks.

Hello all,
Hopefully I can explain this issue clearly. We used the swing migration method to upgrade from SBS 2003 to SBS 2011. This enabled us to maintain the old domain information domain1.local.

Current servername is...

Due to Symantec dropping CPS feature in their BackupExec product, I’m forced to look into another Real-time replication solution.  This is file/folder data only, we are not concerned with application or database integration.

We are looking at...

Hi Experts,

Our server is running Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit as our domain controller.

How can we change a domain login account name from persona to personb?

Regards,
Leigh

I'm setting up a new virtual machine on HyperV with win2k8 enterprise r2 installed on it as and set the user as a Domain administrator on Active directory on the DC and creating a new User that has the same privileges that domain administrator...

Hi,

We have a windows 2000 server at one of our branch offices.  I want to enable Terminal Server, so i can remote onto the server.

During the install it has prompted for the i386 folder, looking for tsc.001

Does anyone know where I cna...

Hi all,

I have a strange issue that I am struggerling to know where to go.

I have a terminial server in Holland that users from all over the world connect to. For somereason copying from the Holland TS server to any server/laptop in the...

Hi to all... :)

I have one, should I say, doubt that I want to clarify...
We upgraded our Active Directory domain to Windows server 2008 R2; all of our domain controllers are Windows server 2008 R2...

Now, one of most important things is...

1) I have configured the SmartHost but can't figure out where to change the port to 587

2) Isn't there a console built in to SBS 2011 that will show realtime mail flow in and out of the Exchange Server?

I have a Windows 2008 R2 Standard System.


Hardware:  Intel Xeon CPU 2 X X3320 @2.5GHZ
8 GB Ram.

Running

Kaspersky Anti Virus
Acive Directory
Domain Controller

When running a windows update, it takes several HOURS for the update...

I have Win2k8 R2 server with 4 900GB drives in RAID 5 so the physical size is ~2.7TB. It's a brand new HP Proliant DL385 G7 that doens't support EFI BIOS so I have the 2TB limit

When I installed windows it only sees the first 2TB. I created a...

Hey Experts,

I have SOPHOS Puremessage running on a SBS 2K3 server, it has been running well for over a year. Recently I started getting user complaints about spam, so I ask them to tag it as junk (block Sender) in outlook, but it keeps...

Hello Experts,

Many of our users has their email backed up as .PST since last 10 years as 2001Archive.pst, 2002Archive.pst… and so on, all the Archives files are stored on shared server space.

Now we have exchange 2010 SP1 in place with...

I'm trying to figure out why users running an application that is adding some registry values, return an access denied.

(This is an export of the key and values)
 

- I've created a small C# solution that reads a file containing these...

Hi guys

We have recently migrated to a new sbs2011 svr.

Problem:

Someone deleted the network admin account under AD that provides the roles for network administrators, if we go under SBS Console and view the users, all users that had the...

i am new to MS Lync server and my boss asked me to implement it in our organization. We have the main office where all the servers are located (AD,Exchange, SQL....). We have a remote site where there is a Site-to-site VPN connection using ISA...

What are the common kinds of "data repository" in microsoft orientated networks.

By data I am referring to team .doc/x .xls/x as opposed to "row by row" type data that youd expect to find in a relational database. For this post I'll call the...

What is the expected release date for Windows Server "8"?

A Beta version of this OS was just released.


Download Windows Server "8" Beta

Try out the next release of Windows Server, for scalable, dynamic, multitenant-aware,...

I need to move the Roaming Profiles folder from the C: to the D: drive on my server to free up space.

What is the preferred way to do this as there is no specific Wizard in the SMS Management Console and I have to keep the perms etc correct.

I have a windows xp pro computer that is part of a Windows Server 2008 domain. I have several desktop shortcuts on my PCs desktop. Yesterday the compnay owner decided to rearrange the files and folders on the server. Next thing I know my desktop...

Hey guys

Looking to do some testing for our Office 2010, Lync and Sharepoint 2010 upgrades

I have been given 4 virtual machines to use so far

3x Windows Server 2008R2s
1x Windows 7 x86

I have setup the following
1x Server as a...

Hi expert, i created and extenal data to access another database in sql, and every thign is working fine, but when i reu the list to get the data i am getting the following error
"external data invalid credentials"
note that i have full...

Hi,
We are expirencing the following error message for a number of different services:

A timeout (30000 milliseconds) was reached while waiting for a transaction response from the Spooler service.

Other services crashing are:
uxsms...

Hey,

Having an issue creating a OU on MS Server 2008 R2 Standard, the button at the top is grayed out, also the option isn't available in the New menu when you look under the action Tab.

Any help appreciated.

Getting errors in Failover cluster manager,
also shows resource online (Name resolution Not yet Available)

Here are some events, need help fixing issue


Log Name:      System
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-FailoverClustering
Date:    ...

i have one SID associated with a user . But the username is deleted from the active directory 6 months back . Can i find out user name associated with this SID

I have a new SBS 2011 box replacing my SBS 2003 server. Everything is reconnected and up and running (whew) but I cannot connect to computers/servers through the SBS 2011 remote web access page. It claims a certificate error. (see attatchment)...

I have read many articles about renaming the default windows administrator and guest accounts names for securtiy purposes. But:
1) when you can run tools like dumpsec to list all local users, is it essetnially a complete waste of time? i.e. just...

In environments that use SCCM and currently XP as the client but will in future be Windows 7 - we have a HR policy that says users can only take data onto encrypted USB. Is there any technical way to enforce this? I.e. an approved model of...

I am setting up a remote desktop solution on Windows Server 2008 R2 for external and internal access.
ssl.greenreefers.no running Remote Desktop Web Access and Gateway.
bgo-vm-116.greenreefers.no running Remote Desktop Connection Manager and...

I noticed that our Domain clients time is an hour ahead of the server. On the clients a net time \\servername /set /yes did nothing. I can do a net time \\servername and the output shows the Current time on \\servername as the clients hour ahead,...

Im using exchange 2010 , power failure last night and now i can not receive emails from anyone, however I can send emails with no problem, and all of out outlook client sync fine .

Any thoughts on what to check or test

Does anyone know how I can fix this?  This server is not an exchange server....We use a third party backup service called Revinetix.  We just upgraded to a newer software version of the client and the appliance.  Revinetix is saying this is a...

Dear Experts, I am in our new office trying to make the PCs part of the domain.  We are over a VPN trying to make the PCs part of the domain and we are getting "a domain controller for the domain cannot be contacted". The only interesting thing I...

Hello Experts,

I have found an issue across the company, as far as I'm aware, it seems to be all windows workstations get a Windows Security warning when copying files and folders from Shared Folders on our Domain Controller.



This is...

How do I list all SID's in a Windows 2008 domain? I need to list every object - users, computers etc.

Thanks!

I have just inherited an SBS 2008 server.  I suspect that when it was set up the first time many 'wizard' steps were skipped.  Nevertheless, the server has been in production now for years and I can't just 'start over' now.

My goal is to...

I need to find a password reset cd to use on a vmware esx vm. I know there is a Linux based free one that I used before.

Any Idea where I can find it. It's for a 2003 server.

server: windows 2008 R2 domain controller

Is this a good way to structure my OU's and Objects?

headquarters(parent ou)
-computers(sub ou)

accounting(parent ou)
.james (user account object)
.lynn (user account object)
-computers (sub...

After executing a command to get a remote device configuration's information I am trying to copy the output of that command onto Windows notepad. The problem is that the command displays more than 6000 lines and when I choose copy all in Putty...

hello there,

I have a terminal server which i setup. i created some users on it so that they can connect via RDP.but when they connect after 3-4 mins they get disconnected. what is the issue.please help. by the way i have another server with...

Am I right in thinking if you run ntbackup (which seems to be backing up operating system and system state) to a local drive on a server (or virtual drive on a server), that something else is coming to “sweep” it up in another backup job? I was...

So, we have installed a SAS expander card, cables (same length) and caddy with disks.  
I have power cable from backplane of caddy to m'board.
I have 1x sas lead going from port 1 on backplane to port 8c on sas card & I have the other lead...

Hi there,
I have 2 domain controllers running server 2008 ent edition x32 and from time to time netlogon service keeps on pausing.  Netlogon service would also pause in the case if any of hte server is restarted.  Help Plz.

I know this works for Exchange 2007 on 32 bit XP.

Do you know if there is a download for the Exchange Mangement tools 2010 to be used on a 32 bit XP machine.

I am trying to run the following command, which cannot be run directly from the...

Hi.

At my work we have a windows 2008 server network for our windows machines. The IT department at our comunity is in charge of the windows server. Our department has bought iPads for the workers and they have bought a Lion server to...

How from within explorer or any other non admin tools could a basic user check share permissions without a 3rd party tool? Can you do it within explorer on an XP machine to view share (not diretory) permissions on say a remote 2003 server.

I have a customer with a PowerEdge 2950 who is reporting that he is receiving an error having to do with the PERC 5/i RAID controller: "The Controller WRITE POLICY HAS BEEN CHANGED TO WRITE THROUGH.: BATTERY 0 CONTROLLER 0.
The controller write...

I have just logged onto a server running SBS 2003 with Exchange and found that the main OS drive is full. It's only a 12GB disk. Where is the best place to begin to free up some space. Right now there are only 2.77MBs of space available and it's...

I am cryng "Uncle!"  About 2 weeks ago our server quit serving.  When I dove into the problem the DNS and WINS were both missing from the server.  How they became MIA is still an unknown.  I thought I had successfully reinstalled the DNS and WINS...

Cannot get Active Directory back online.  Does not "bind" with LDAP using SPN when running dcdiag tests.  on netdiag test it can't find the server, but does register the DNS & Gateway properly.
I  founf something from MS 329887 about 'cannot...

I setup a small 2008 R2 Active Directiry server with a domain for a client with 5 RDP licenses. We secured the server by allowing access through the firewall only from specific client IP addresess. The owner wants to alow RDP users to send...

Hello,
I'm having a "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" BLUE SCREEN error on my VM, no recovery working while using install cd.
The VM has 3 disks of 256 Go, the second one has ntfs errors, I cannot run a chkdsk on it, the first disk (OS) seems to be OK...

I have a snap server 410, and somehow the permissions have become messed up on the files.  The owner of the folder is unknown,  and I cant get any rights to propagate down becasue of this.  Unfortunately, there are hundreds of folders, and...

Hi,

We recently had a problem with the raid controller on our old Dell 32 Bit Server and decided it was the time to deploy a new server solution utilising 64 Bit. We decided to proceed with SBS 2011 as it met our requirements however although...