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I have a windows 2000 machine that has about 200 printers installed on it.  I would like to export the printer information from the machine to a spreadsheet.  The printer name and IP address would be helpful, but really the printer name is...

Hi,

I am getting a particular error in the event log of my Exchange server.  I looked it up at Eventid.net and one person said to "Reload the DNS Zone Information".  I'm not  sure how to do that or what that even means, but I think it may be...

I got this error in my system.log file and Network become too slow.
The master browser has received a server announcement from the computer <computer Name >  that believes that it is the master browser for the domain on transport...

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 folks,

I'm installing a Cisco ASA 5510 and I want my users to VPN in using the Cisco Client and IPSec, authenticating to a Windows 2000 RADIUS Server.

This is my first ASA install, and I'm not too skilled with Windows 2000 RADIUS/AAA.  I...

I just promoted 2 new domain controllers and demoted the existing DC,  each had DNS installed but not configured before the promotion,  The DC's promoted fine but DNS would not replicate the new Dns Servers.  DNS entries were made for Primary DNS...

We're running a Small Business Windows 2000 (SP3) server.  Every 5 - 10 days we start seeing many entries in the System event log stating that "The server was unable to allocate from the system paged pool because the pool was empty" - event ID...

I need to find the key in GPO to bring down the strictness of cookies from Medium to Accept All Cookies or to enable the Advanced option and turn on "Override automatic cookie handling.

Please advise.

Windows Server 2003 with Terminal Services running.  The port is open (I pasted nmap results below for 3389) and the service is receiving connections, but immediately closes the connection after attempting to RDC.

3389/tcp open    ...

Is there a way to enable the checkbox automatically to "Use automatic configuration script" under the connection tab - LAN setting in Internet Explorer 6?

An event in the event log of our 2000 server states: "This machine is a PDC of the domain at the root of the forest.  Configure to sync from external time soruce using the net command 'net time /setsntp:<server name>'

I assume this has to do...

I have a Dell PowerEdge 2900 runing Windows 2003 Server R2.

On startup I received an error saying:

<windows root>\system32\hal.dll is missing or corrupt.

I tried to boot the server to recovery console using the Windows 2003 OS disks. ...

How does a Windows XP workstation determine which domain controller to authenticate with in a Windows 2000 server environment with multiple domain controllers. Does it send out a broadcast and the first to respond is the one it authenticates to?...

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...

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I am trying to setup a logon script so a when a user log's on he will have 5 mapped network drives.  When I googled on how to do this it seems like I need to setup a batch file first.  I know very little about creating batch files, I tried...

I keep receiving the following email on my new compaq server running windows 2000 server - can someone elaborate on how to stop/fix this error?:

The system has detected the following event:

SNMP Trap:          9006

Date time:          04/06/2006 ...

This has got to be simple but...

When I go into regedt32 to load a ntuser.dat file into the registry for editing, the 'Load Hive' option is grayed out in the Registry menu.  How can I enable this menu option?

Thanks,
Bryan Rapp

HI,

1. This is related to Active Directory.
2. This is related to REPLICATION's things.
3. I saw a reading as follows:
" Directory Partition[CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=domain1,DC=boba]. Replicated because the Replication partner is a...

I have 3 DC's and one of them is having various non critical problems so I decided to rebuild it.  The problem is when I run DCpromo I get the error "Failed to configure the service Netlogon as requested" "The wait operation timed out".  What do...

How do you import updated ADM files into a GPO ?  Do you update the default domain policy ?  Does that apply to all GPO's ?  Or can you import the specifc ADM into the GPO that you want to apply it to ?

I am trying to clean up my network by deleting unused computer names. When i try to delete a couple computer names i get:

Object <computername> is a container and contains other objects. Are you sure you want to delete object <computer name>...

Anyone know how to reset the HP System Management Homepage password?  It was set by a prior administrator and I can't get in without it. The local admin password isn't working.  My only choices are "Administrator, Operator, or User - all logins...

I need to download an i386 directory for Windows 2000 SP4.  I'm installing Terminal Services and cannot find a place on the web to download an i386 directory.  Oh, also - id the i386 specific to the Service Pack version (just curious).

JVM is crashing once in a week or two. Sometimes only once in a month. Last couple of months the problem is occurring more frequently . The memory profiles seems to be fine. I ran pmat tool from IBM on the garbage collection data and it did not...

I am setting up a new website. I assigned an A record in the DNS file to xxx.xxx.xxx.82 and did an nslookup on my machine. Fine.

I later changed the A record to point to xxx.xxx.xxx.92 instead. I have several computers all on the same cable...

I have a Windows 2000 server with SP4, which is running very slow.

Under Processes in the Task Manager, dbserver.exe is running at close to 100%. I have tried pressing End Process, but I get Permission Denied.

Can anyone tell me what this...

Hello,

Receiving this error e000e020 now on my own Server, and ironically I am also receiving this error on a customers server.  Theirs started two weeks ago and I still haven't successfully resolved this and now that it is happening on mine...

I am running dcdiag from a Server2003 box (member server) on a domain with 2 W2K domain controllers. I am getting the following message when the test fails for both domain controllers:

Starting test: frsevent
         There are warning or...

Dear Experts,

I have custom mail sending program that only works properly when I manually start its service after windows 2003 server has completed all of its loading after reboot.

Using a Command Prompt I can manually start it as follow:
...

Hello Experts,

I am trying to find out a way to query AD using the ADU&C interface in a way that will show me the disabled accounts that were disabled before a specific date.
Basically i need to know what the field or userAccountControl code...

unable to do a print screen in remote desktop when accessing a 2003 Windows Server System which is locked down so user can't do much activity on it but run an App that they need to capture info from.  This is an ongoing problem, was downgraded to...

How do i check my computer to see if port # 19638 is being blocked by an application or anything.
(it's not a router problem)
This port is mandatory for me to access the admin control panel on my website www.phileoca.com/admin

Thank you

I have a Windows 2000 file server hosting the files and folders for a large department.  We have purchased a new server for the department.  I would like to use a tool to copy the file and folder permissions, but I'm not aware of one.  The data...

I've inherited a SharePoint server that I need help getting access to the database.  I'm a domain admin and I have the account I think the sharepoint was installed as, but when I connect to the local servers instance and try to view the...

What are these errors?  How to fix?

Event Type:      Error
Event Source:      Ci
Event Category:      CI Service
Event ID:      4124
Date:            3/7/2006
Time:            8:25:42 PM
User:            N/A
Description:
Content index on c:\system volume information\catalog.wci is...

I need to make space on my computers C: drive and this log file is taking up 217megs.  Can I delete it after coping its contents to another drive?  Will this harm anything?  How about any of the other logs in this directory?  (MSFTPSVC1,...

My work has 6 domain controllers (windows 2003). It really annoys me when I make changes on one DC and my test workstation is authenticated via another DC.  When this happens, I need to wait for replication.

Is there a way to force a machine...

I am trying to mirror a network share to another server using Robocopy.  Half the files and folders work ok, however the other half I get this message:

ERROR 5 (0x00000005) Copying NTFS Security to Destination Directory

All help appreciaited!

Hi All,
hope you can help.  Running Windows 2008 and MSSQL 2008.  I'm getting the error below in the Application event log every 12 hours and 4-6 seconds (not after a reboot).  No corresponding events are in the System log.  The...

HI ,

I would like to know if there is a registry tweak to force a windows 2000 server to authenticate to a particulare Domain Controller. The reason I am looking for this is , we have a faxing software which needs a PDC emulator to...

I have a secondary zone in one of my DNS servers. I noticed this error message today
http://www.streetneeds.com/uploads/ot/expired.jpg

how can i fix this? Why did it "expire?"
thanks

Organisation buys a bunch of second hand computers.  

Valid licenses on them for Windows 2000 Professional but no CDs come with the machines.  Hard disks have been wiped clean.

OK, no problem, get a Windows 2000 Professional CD and start an...

I just configurded my Windows 2003 server standard edition to be the authortative time server for my domain.  The server is the domain controller and it also has a backup domain controller.  I recently just posted a question at.  ...

I get a "to many command-line parameters" when I run the below reg add command. Whats wrong with my syntax?

reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer" /v classicshell /t reg_dword /d 1

I have a group policy that is showing extra registry settings.  I am using a Windows 2000 domain and my pc is Windows XP SP2.  I've seen on the web that this is a problem but I'm not sure how to fix it.  One of my major issues with this is I have...

within the Properties of any services under services.msc when you choose the dependencies tab i get the follwing error msg


WMI: Invalid namespace


the 'root\cimv2' namespace is not defined in the WMI repository

Things I've tried
...

Hi,
When a user tries to log into terminal server Windows 2003 he receives: The remote session was disconnected because the local computer's client access license could not be upgraded or renewed. Any suggestions?

I have been assigned the task of writing an LDAP query in Active Directory to generate a printable or viewable report of every user, their profile path setting, and their Terminal Services Profile path setting. I know nothing of writing LDAP...

My server automatically rebooted itself today. I got this in my eventlog:
System Information Agent: Health: The server is operational again.  The server has previously been shutdown by the Automatic Server Recovery (ASR) feature and has just...

How can I tell if a user has a persistent drive mapping?  Is there a good tool to use?

I need to get a list of every member of the domain and every group they are a part of and I figure the easiest way to do this is with DSQUERY and DSGET from the 2003 Tools.  (If I am wrong, please let me know.)

If I use this command:
dsquery...

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I ran Perfmon on one our servers whilst an application was being tested on it.

Available/Mbytes memory - always high
% Processor time: Never reached above 25%
Av Disk Queue Length - low
Pages/Sec - Did spike up to 100 on several...

Can anyone point me to a removal tool or registry edit to remove sophos from an 2000 pro machine, as when I run the add/remove it tells me it can't find the path

Hi,

I have a fully patched Win2000 Server SP4 that spontaneously rebooted itself last tuesday and after it came back up, it was working fine.

Server is running IIS5 with URLScan and SSL.

After the reboot it started giving me errors like...

How do you force DNS replication from a secondary to a primary server? (not the other way arround because the records on the secondary are all there, not on the primary)

A fast response would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you!

I have a Terminal Server in Application mode.  I am concerned about users accidentally shutting the Terminal Server down using the SHUTDOWN command from the START MENU.  I used Group Policy to add a LOGOFF button, but am considering two courses....

I am trying to join a domain to the new win2000 server.  the error i get is "The join operation was not successful.  This could be because an existing computer account having name "DanielLaptop1" was previously created using a different set of...

On my Windows 2000 server, I would like to know why the following folder gets filled up with printer files:

Winnt\system32\spool\printers

I couldn't figure out why my Main hard disk was losing disk space so fast. I was told I could make a...

Windows Server 2003. A user receives "Windows cannot load the locally stored profile, ... Detail: The profile is in use by another person or process."  I haven't got the entire message, and the above wording may not be entirely accurate, but this...

Does anyone know of a third party utility that will analyze windows minidumps for windows 2k and windows xp?  (Not the Microsoft one!!!)  Thank you.

I maintain an aging Windows 2000 server. It has an 8GB C: partition. Every so often, the server hangs because the free space on C: drive was filled.

How do I move Symantec Shared folder to another drive to save space? The files currently live...

I have a single domain with 3 windows 2000 (sp4) domain controllers, and 50 xp clients. I am having a problem getting my group policies not applying. They have been working fine for a year now and all of a sudden they stopped working. When I run...

Problem: I had a bad disk sector error on DC (named DC1).  I found this error when I tried logging onto the server and I get an error indicating a problem and I should reboot into directory recovery mode to look at the event log.  The event log...

Hello,

What is the command line to disable or enable a service from the command line? I have a DOS batch file that copies files. I would like to have the first line in the batch file disable the Norton antiviris service so it doesn't touch the...

Hi

A problem i have here, which so far as far as i have got from the ISP is that it is a server problem is causing greif.

basically, a client has a mail server accepting emails on domain xxx.com.au
i have added xxx.com as an additional...

I need to use the %USERPROFILE% as part of the Destination for some files to be copied to. Unfortunatly, the Copy command can not handle the LONG names correctly so you get an invalid command error.

Is there a way around this?

EXAMPLE:
...

I took complete backup (1st option "Backup every thing in my computer) of my Active Directory Server (windows 2000), using 'NTBACKUP'.
In fact I've 2 AD servers (windows 2000) in my production network. But all the 5 roles exists in the 1st AD...

In our organization we would like all of our users to use a proxy server to access the internet. Reading online I was able to find suggestions using group policy to set this up. I figured it would be better to test it with a single user before...

I am using Windows 2000’s Paleolithic batch programming language to set environment variables and pass them along to an executable (VB, MSAccess).

I am using this in a .BAT file:

Set MyVar=ThisIsWhatIWantToReadWithEnviron
Echo %MyVar%
...

Our company is using Alcatel IP phones and Alcatel switches, however, we have some spare Cisco PoE switches. I would like to reuse those switches in our network.

It looks like this:
                                                           ...

Environment: W2K Server, all available service packs and critical updates installed.  SERVER01 is the PDC for our single-site AD domain.  One additional W2K server, SERVER02 is the only other DC and holds the Domain Naming role and is the Global...

I have a W2K Server running Citrix Metaframe 4.0  - SP4 and most patches.
About a week ago we started getting the following error when users scripts run:

net use j: \\serername\sharename
System error 87 has occurred. The parameter is...

I am trying to write an efficient batch file to do some cleanup for systems in our network prior to recreating new systems and copying some saved files over to the new computer.  

The following is what I am trying to clean up.......

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Hi all,

I have been trying for too many hours now to get GPO Software Installation working.

We have OEM versions of Office 2003. (Except myself, I have Office XP)
I am trying to install open licence versions of 2K3 Proofing Tools...

We have a Certificate server installed on our windows 2000 server.   It's just the certificate server that comes with windows.  It's been working fine for a while but we haven't used it in a year or so.   I just went to check on it so I can...

Where can I get a copy of the ADDUSERS.EXE tool - I have downloaded the W2K...

Help me please!!! I'm going insane!!

I've had a simliar problem (which I'm about to explain) in the past which seemed to just start happening for no apparent reason - but this time it's even worse!

I'm running win2k with service pack 2.
...

My print spooler keeps crashing and I am getting the following errors in my event log.

Error: 2510
The server service was unable to map error code 1727.

Error: 2510
The server service was unable to map error code 1722.  ****THIS ONE...

How do I change the number maximum number of concurrent users on my server? When I try to logon as three users it says "Windows Logon Select a user to disconnect so that you may login. There are too many users logged in."

I am running Windows...

 For the past couple of days, the following error has been popping up in my Application Log on my server - .  After this error is thrown, it is followed by about 1500 other errors all stating that "Windows cannot query for the list of Group...

Hi All,

is there anyone experience silent install software by script through GPO (eg. Java runtime or whatever)?
is yes, can post the code here?

Thanks.

this is my story...we have a WIn2K PDC, it has some security updates i need to install on it...Me being Mr Server newbie, i dont want to screw it up because im not sure if these updates may not jive well with the network (im just cautious that...

I have an in-house developed .NET application running on Windows2000 (SP4) that I suspect is causing the machine to crash.  I looked at the event log and here is the text:

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck.  The bugcheck was:...

Hello,

I have a problem connecting to a shared drive over a modem connection.

I do a
    net use j: \\hostname\sharename

and get 'System error 1231'.
It does not matter if I use the Ip address or a fully qualified hostname.

As far...

I have the Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition 10.1.6 installed on Windows 2000 server.  I tried to do a Manual Scan on its C:\ drive and it stopped reading files at 465 but the time elapsed is still running....Task Manager indicates CPU is...

Hello,

I get this Event ID 15 error "The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, is not ready for access yet. " when I attempt to do a backup using Backup Exec 9.  Ran chkdsk /f and it came up clean.  Any thoughts on where I should start to...

I'm attempting to connect to a Windows XP Pro SP2 workstation from my Windows 2000 DC using Performance Monitor.  I'm receiving an error of unable to connect to machine.


I have successfully connected to other XP Pro SP2 workstations through...

We have a client with a laptop in an untrusted domain who is running Windows XP Professional SP2.  We have established a site-to-site VPN tunnel between the client's company and our own.  We need him to be able to map a drive to a member server...

I recently added a secondary domain controller to existing network running windows 2000 server. I am receiving following msg in Active Directory Sites and Services -

"Replication Topology error: The following error occurred during the attempt...

Hello

What is the cmd to view the active directory group membership for a particular user from the command prompt?

for example
net whatever mwindu
---------------
domain admins
domain users
etc

Additionally, is there a cmd that will...

I want to disable the master browser on our client machines. I know where the registry settings are, etc, but we have about 400 client machines and I would like to do this using a GPO.

I've done it before with a script as well, but I'd like...

If someone were to delete the event logs from a computer, how could they be recovered for forensic purposes?  I believe they are kept in the C:\WINNT\system32\config directory.  Is there a backup copy somewhere or possibly a way to search the...

What is HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG\Seed and what is it used for?

Event Source:      NetBT
Event Category:      None
Event ID:      4321
Date:            12/5/2003
Time:            7:07:51 AM
User:            N/A
Computer:      IT-Supp
Description:
The name "DC name       :1d" could not be registered on the Interface with IP address 10.19.1.22. The...

I need to push printers via GPO from an MS Server 2008 to XP and 2000 clients.  I am aware that to go this route, I require pushprinterconnections.exe, which I found a reference to its location in 2003 R2, but I can't find it on Server 2008. ...

I have a client with a Win2K server running a legacy application that we need to convert to a virtual machine before the old HW dies on us. I have success converted the hard drive to a VHD image using SysInternals P2VHD application by cloning the...

I have a print server running windows 2003 (the server is a DC). Periodically (about 3 times per day) the server fails to send print jobs to printers & no printing is possible. A reboot then resolves this problem.

I have followed this through...