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Hi there,
We have Lync 2010 up and running internally. No Edge server, remote access, or federation yet, so no Reverse Proxy is in use at this point. Internal IM, calls, video, sharing all work. When we schecdule an online meeting however, the...

How to renew an expired cert on a windows 2003 Domain controller.  Howto check for autoenrollment and force autoenrollment.

Hi,

Just wonder if it's possible at all to enable NLA (Network Level Authentication) on Windows 2003 Server, 'cause I can't find any information anywhere about anyone that has done it.
My problem is that when I'm at home and need to check up...

When trying to push SCCM Client to certain computers I am getting this in the CCM log

======>Begin Processing request: "1KM15ZE1", machine name: "LAB110-19"      SMS_CLIENT_CONFIG_MANAGER      3/24/2011 3:50:51 PM      4956 (0x135C)
---> Trying the...

Hi,

Have BackupExec media server (12.5) intalled on Windows 2003 Server. (SERVER A)
Installed remote agent on second server - Windows 2000 SP4. (SERVER B)

When I want to connect to SERVER B in BE to select files it says "Access is denied"....

I am trying to run a .bat file from Task Scheduler in Server 2008. I have set up my scheduled task, given it proper permissions and in the Actions Tab I have chosen "Start a Program." In the Program/script field I have browsed to my .bat file and...

How the heck do I map my shared network drives in SBS 2008? I have batch files that I have written in SBS 2003, but I do not see where we can use them in SBS 2008.

Greetings -

One of my coworkers generated a .ETL trace file from Perfmon and now we'd like to view that data... how do we do that?  What do we open and view that in?  I'm assuming that file is where the real trace data is.. the .BLG files are...

I have a problem on our network with FTMG and trying to understand the problem and FTMG mittigation mechanism.
At our network any user can make Forefront TMG unusable by using uTorrent aplication! FTMG stops accepting new connections and stops...

Hi,

I have made a change in GPO.

How to force Update group policy on all machines in the network.
Where can i see the Replication time between DC's
Regards
SHarath

Hello everyone!

I am running a Windows Server 2003 SP1 R2.  I cannot run ANY .exes files from this server, whether I try from RDP or a mapped drive, or from a UNC name.  I get the error "Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or...

I created a brand new Windows 2008 Enterprise Domain in a VM Environment with all the latest patches. After promoting the Second DC - I started noticing that servers that were joining the domain would not appear in Users and Computers.  I checked...

I'm trying to roll out a change of file extension association across the network which is running with a Windows 2000 server running AD.

I've followed the steps in this question:
...

We have a domain controller that is Windows 2000 server (standard).  A Windows 2003 server running terminal server as a member server.  We are getting a new Windows 2008 server that we want to be the domain controller and the terminal server.  Is...

Hi there.
I have problem with one installation of windows 2008 server Enterprise with Active Directory and  Hyper-V virtualization on it.
When the OS starts  it boots all the way to the logon screen, but when it's time for the logon screen to...

my event log keeps showing The winlogon notification subscriber <GPClient> took x second(s) to handle the notification event (CreateSession).
my operating system is sbs 2008 server 64 bit, this never happened previously with the old 32 bit 2003...

I have got one of my customers' servers here as it has gone crazy. It is running SBS 2003. It is generating an enormous amount of SPAM messages and from reading through many questions here is sounds exactly like a dictionary attack. All except...

When I make a change in Exchange Server 2003 (changing a user's email address, etc.) the change will take a good long time before it is reflected at the desktop. Namely, when a user is sending an email using the Outlook client and selects a name...

On our windows 2008 terminal servers i experience logon problems. Sometimes the logon time takes about 10 seconds wile other times it can take up more than 50 seconds only showing an rotating welcome.

i found out that when this problem occurs...

I had a group of users running a shared account that I am forcing them off of. They had a scheduled task running on the shared machine rwith the the shared account as the run as account They never logged off in the past. The scheduled task simple...

I am looking for a good example of a MSCS (Microsoft Cluster Server) diagram. Could you point me in the direction of either a good sample or the stencils/icons for producing a good diagram?
Thank you!
JohnD

One of my servers was breached by a member of a discharged IT company.

The security logs has the remote log-on listed, but the IP I traced to a proxy in Texas (we are in Chicago) so there is no proving this.

The intruder got in using the...

Hello,
After a hiatus from IT, I have just got back in the game, and have run into a SBS 2011 install and cannot believe the idiocy of the new GPP system. Suffice it to say, I am completely flummoxed by the new supposedly wonderful GPP system...

Hi Everyone,

Our server 2008 box keeps hanging on "Please wait for the user profile service" when logging on or off, even locally.  Occasionally while signing on and off via TS you get the message that the terminal server is busy processing...

I have a internal web site at our office. I want to have a form email the results of the employee request to a user in the office I use ms exchnage 2003. I have a form that is setup and it is ready to be used. From what i read, i have to give...

Hi all.
My problem has three parts:
First one:
When trying to assign permissions for any one member of any protected
Group the “send as” in order to be able to send  as a group on exchange 2010 , they keep say:
Active Directory operation...

Hi,
I have the exact same issue :

I want to configure multiples FTP sites or Web sites + FTP Publishing using host names (same IP). Everything is set correctly in the DNS, permissions are set on the folders, etc.

When we try to connect to...

Ok, I'm admittedly an Apple noob when it comes to Active Directory linking and mobile accounts. Here is what I am trying to do, this is with my personal MacBook recently purchased. The reason I am doing this is to learn more about Mac integration...

Hello,

We have just purchased a few new servers that have Windows Server 2008 installed on them, and I would like to replace our old servers with Windows Server 2003.  I was able to transfer all of the FSMO roles, and replicate AD and DNS on...

I have WinHttpAutoProxySvc running on most of the servers in our environment. I am trying to clean up the services and event logs and I am finding this service in my event logs repeatedly. Is this service needed, if so who/what needs it, and why...

I'm trying to change the password on an existing UltraVNC installation. There is a repeater on a server and UltraVNC clients running on client computers (I think as services). There is already a password. I would like to switch it.

When I go...

Hi.. We have Windows 2003 Server R2 as our Terminal Server and exchange Server, and we are looking to empty the recycle bin for all the terminal server users, because qe noticed that they have MP3 and MPEG files that are using a lot of MB, se we...

Has anyone seen this?  I have several Windows 2003 Server machines with remote desktop enabled on them.  After a windows update and a reboot remote desktop will no longer connect.  Another reboot and everything starts working.  This is bad for...

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...

The following script works great on Dell servers to return tag/serial number information.
How do I use a similar script to get the serial number of HP Proliant DL380 servers?

Previous network admin cannot remember the user name and password for the HP System Management tool on one of our servers.
Is there a default one or how can I reset the exisitng?

I really need to run this tool!

Thanks!

Hi experts,

A while back, I set up a 2K3 machine in anticipation of a new branch opening - the opening date got moved a few months back and now when I started it up after a few months being shut down, I am having replication problems....

Actually, I am following step 2 of the blog http://blogs.technet.com/nishants/archive/2009/05/22/how-to-setup-variations-in-moss-2007.aspx to install the multlingual files to windows 2008 R2 server.
1.Download the Windows Server 2008 Language...

this is the error that I am getting after promoting a secondary DC to active directory. I promoted it as a new controler in an existing domain. Automatic certificate enrollment for local system failed to enroll for one Domain Controller...

I have an issue with an XP Pro SP3 PC connected to a SBS 2003 domain.  When opening documents from any network share the document takes a little time to open(only a few seconds longer than normal) but the following error is logged under...

I have been using PNagent with prompting user credentials on a MetaFrame XPa farm for several years.

However, now we are moving to a Presentation Sever 4.5 farm and set the web-interface PNagent site to only accept Pass-through authentication...

ERROR MESSAGE:

Synopsis : The remote service supports the use of weak SSL ciphers. Description : The remote host supports the use of SSL ciphers that offer either weak encryption or no encryption at all. See also :...

I noticed this issue when a couple of my users could not open the out of office assistant.  I have been reading posts and trying to change settings to get this to work, but so far i haven't had any luck.  So far the only thing i have added is a...

W2003 server running SQL 2000. Open up enterprise manager or even run MMC and the error
occurs. I have the lasted and greatest SP on the box.

How do I shutdown and restart ?

Can I reainstall MMC? and how?

Here is the scenario,

User1 has an excel file open on the network. User2 tries to open that same file but it says locked by User3.

Why is it saying the wrong user has the file open? I thought it was DNS, but it displays the username, not...

The following event appears exactly every 24 hours on one of our servers
This server is a domain member already and is working OK

Server OS is Windows server 2003 , Domain is based on Windows server 2003 as well
The following is a capture of...

Running windows 2003 server - have had my domain policies set up for several years, but now al of a suddent my one OU is not gettign the default domain policy - it is being blocked. I ran a resultant set of policies on this OU and it is being...

Hi Everyone,

I need to enable Javascript on one of our Terminal Servers running Windows 2003. How do I use group policy to populate enabling Javascript instead of manually?

Looking forward to hearing from you soon and thank you very much...

Im running Exchange 2010 on a Windows 2008 R2 virtual server on Hyper-V. I have 2 sites, with 1 HUB and 1 MBX server in each site. All the Exchange servers runs on the same OS. My Schema Master is a Windows 2003 SP2. All my domains functional...

I have been trying to install SP2 for Server 2003 for the last week.  Every time, it crashes out with the 'failed to install catalog files' error.  Then 'Windows Server 2003 has been partially updated and may not work properly.' before it...

I can get to the server (different domain) by FQDNS or I.P. but not by name.  I do have a wins server in place and a static name and I.P. for it.  Any idea on how to solve the problem ?  This is what event viewer shows.

so if I type \\prntsrv ...

Need help with this script. - Adding a local user to a remote system and adding them to the local admionistrators group.  Everything but the "add to local administrators group" works.

On Error Resume Next

strComputer = inputbox("Enter...

A client's server starting rebooting by itself. When it come back up and you log on, the reason reported is...
Reason Code: 0x805000f
Bug ID:
Bugcheck String: 0x000000cb (0x8091f634, 0x80833bdf, 0x898a5ba8, 0x00000001)
Comment: 0x000000cb...

Setup:
I have a Terminal Server Farm with 1 broker\licenses server and 2 terminal servers, in development.  I have a DNS records for the Farm Name and LB being done through the session broker.  I'm trying to control everything through GP.  I...

I have installed SCCM 2007 SP2 R3 and I am just trying to deploy an OS system.   THe first thing I am trying to do is run a build and capture task using pxe boot.

I am not sure if I have setup everything as it should be.

When it runs I get...

Hey everyone,

I'm not really clear on this...I've got 3 NLB cluster servers that will beused world wide...and I've got to get the Language Packs for German, both Chinese, Japanese, and French on the servers.

I've got the Office 2003 MUI...

Hi,

I was wandering if anyone know of any best practises for the Windows 2008 r2 page file?

In Windows 2003 is was a best practise to hold the Page File on a separate non-Raid disk and to be over 1 x the memory.

Does anyone know if this...

Hi Experts,

I have a Canon iR4570 copier, which is configured to scan to the 2003 Windows Server shared folder - that's working fine.

However, I can't set it up to scan to another Shared Folder which is on another 2008 Server that we have....

I have had ongoing issues installing SP2 on a 2003 Small Business Server. On the first attempt, setup got stuck on "Running Processes after Install". I had no choice but to end the installation and roll back. After I reviewed the errors, I tried...

Hi,
I am currently using the RDWeb Access with Windows Server 2008 R2 formely TSWeb. I would like to have the tick automatically checked on the option that says "I am using a private computer that complies with my organization's security...

Hi,

We're running a RSA Auth Manager 7.1 SP2 server on Windows 2008. The server was working fine up until a few hours ago when users were no longer able to autenticate using their hardware tokens. We tried rebooting the server. The issue is...

I have exchange 2010 server which hold all the exchange roles the server operating system is windows 2008 R2, the server was working all fine till 3 weeks ago , it's just stopped updating OAB so when i create new users mailboxes they do not shown...

We have some 2008 R2 servers that cannot browse the shares of a 2003 box when using "\\server1".  It will open the shares when using "\\ipaddress" and "\\server1.domain".  I can ping the 2003 server by ip address, NetBIOS name, and DNS name. ...

Hello,
Is it safe to delete the directories in C:\WINDOWS\$hf_mig$?  The directory size is over 500MB.  I need the space on my C drive.  I noticed the names are related to windows updates.

We need to convert Windows Server 2000 sp4 DC into vSphere. Unfortunately vSphere 4.1 with Converter 4.2 (4.3) is not supporting Windows 2000 anymore (received error code 1603). So we decided first to downloaded vCenter Converter Standalone 4.0.1...

I have set up an SCCM test environment - a primary site, and a single secondary site server.

I did manage to get client push installation working, for the most part.. problem being the client is not getting a site code, and does not show up in...

I have a server that I need to change the domain name but when I tried I couldn't change it... is saying the following
 Note: The identification of the computer cannot be changed because:
- The Certification Authority Service is installed on...

Hi,

How can we run a MST file.
Cant we just double click and run?

Regards
Sharath

Hi!

We have some issues on our windows 2008 r2 Domain Controller. We get loads of LDAP events in the Directory Service logs. We recently depromoted a second win2k8 DC due to reinstallation, and these events started to show up after running...

Hi,
I am working on the SCCM OS deployment,please help me answer my querries,

•How to bypass/disable the boot authentication (to successfully do a zero-touch migration), if not possible, any workaround?
•How to decrypt the disk so WinPE and...

Hi Everyone,
I was in in the I have a Vsphere clustored environment with 3 ESXI  4 hosts. I recently put on eof the hosts into maintenace mode and found that when I tried to bring it out of maintenance mode that it experienced the following HA...

Ok so I just set up a new SBS 2008 server and 4 new dell fresh loads with windows 7. On some of the machines I get this message in the SBS console.
SBS 2008 Console - computer online: do not have permission to access information about this...

I have a client that I installed form the .exe on the SCCM server.  It lacks the Updates and Configurations tabs and has an Internet tab.  I tried the ccmclient.exe /uninstall then reinstalled but no better.  It won't pull packages assigned to...

Does anyone know if it is possible to roll out an installation of SNMP through group policy?  We need to enable SNMPon all windows machines  at multiple remote client sites.  We have remote desktop access to these systems, but do not want to have...

Hi.... I have surf control on my network to monitor internet usage, and i notice that most users have urs.microsoft.com as their number one site (amount of hits per day)

Some users even hit that site 1000s of times a day...

For example, I...

I am getting the error 4321 NETBT.
The name "DOMAIN   :1d" could not be registered on the Interface with IP address 10.13.81.88. The machine with the IP address 10.13.83.149 did not allow the name to be claimed by this machine.
(where DOMAIN is...

Hello.
I've just fininshed building a Windows Server 2003 with SP2 and all the security updates. Then adding it to my domain and I keep getting this error below.
I rebuilt the server tottaly and get the same error. I'd like to put Citrix 4.5...

I am setting up my cisco ASA for remote VPN, I configured the ASA and Server 2008.  Everything looks correct.

However when I do a AAA Test from the ASA it says Error: Authentication rejected: AAA failure

Equipment
Cisco ASA 5505 ...

Can anyone help me with this one please - I'm banging my head against the table?
I have internet access on the Server. The client PC's authenticate with the Server and can share resources, but can NOT access the internet.

Clients can NOT...

We are currently testing OCS 2007 R2, with Outlook 2007 and Exchange 2007. We also have a couple clients using Outlook 2010. We are using a self-signed cert from an internal certificate authority, which is standalone and not integrated with our...

virtual machines are mainly windows server 2003.  we're getting these errors quite a bit after the update.

Error 1:
The "vmGuestLibrary" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine.

Error 2:
The "vmStatsProvider" is successfully...

Running a Windows Server 2003 SBS, this server runs AD, DHCP, DNS, File & Print, Exchange

Recently I have been receiving a two different Service control Manager errors in event viewer. The first error is:

Event ID: 7038
Source: Service...

Hey All,

I am configuring a cisco ip phone and cisco have told me I need to have my dchp server point to my tftp sever with option 150.

So here is how it is:  dhcp server 192.168.168.6 needs to point to tftp server 192.168.168.5 with option...

Hi experts,

I've configured one server to be a domain server.
I've made a roaming profile for each user.
Every rule is working well except for the LOGON scripts.
When running with the user profile, an error message appears:
Loading your...

Hi,

I dont know what happened suddenly i am not able to ping some machines in a different location.This problem is with all machines in location A.When pinging location B no responce the same machine we are able to through ip address.

After...

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...

Hi,

Can we flushdns & Registerdns on all machines in the network.Remotely.

Regards
Sharath

We're running Exchange 2007 on a single WS2K8 box that has our CAS and Mailbox roles. Yesterday, OWA and Outlook stopped working for a user when he tried to access his mailbox. He was working  for 2 months before this happened. The user is able...

Hi,

I need to disable the autocomplete for IE, so that it cannot store passords. I tried to do a GPO but it forces me to disable to whole content page and i dont want to do that.

Can I do this though a GPO setting?
If not can I do it...

I've tried to delete and reseed the passive copy and I get this error :

ErrorMessage                     : The required log file 16729 for <db>\<server> is missing on the active copy.
                                   If you removed the log...

i have one root domain conaining two domain controllers, and one sub domain containing 2 domian controllers, 3 citrix servers and 1 DB servers. I am currently getting the error message written below on all servers except DC's.

I get the same...

Hello experts,

I am very new to exchange so forgive my newbie-ness. I've exhausted google trying to find a way to solve my problem so Im hoping some of you gurus can shed some light on my next steps. Please forgive my bungling around through...

I have been looking at several threads in this forum and many others.  But I am clueless on how to proceed with my problem.  I have a windows 2003 Native domain with two DC's.  On my default domain controller policy I have disabled SMB Microsoft...

I currently run Windows 2000 and XP clients on a Windows 2003 network and I am finding that lot of users are changing the extension of files without realising.

As a result I would like to add into the logon script - Enable the "Hide file...

I have recently setup a microsoft PKI using 2008.  I have an offline ROOTCA and an online issuing CA.  For whatever reason my 2003 ad servers are not automatically pulling domain controller certificates and I was wondering what had to be done to...

My company has a remote location with a rogue domain controller in which no one has the password for. This was set up by the my predecessor who was fired and never told anyone the password.  I want to migrate this location to our national domain,...

Hello Experts,

I have an eval version of Windows 2008 server running on a machine for testing and I am using the Hyper V service to run a virtual server within 2008. The virtual server is windows 2003. Both OS's are 64 bit and I was able to...

Where is the group policy setting in SBS 2008 to disable the workstation firewall?