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I need to enable and add entries to the DNS suffix search order field on all my Windows 2000 workstations. Can anyone suggest an efficient way to do this to over 300 workstations? This is an A...
DCPROMO ISSUE THERE IS AN OPION/SWITCH WHEN RUNNING DCPROMO TO FORCE IT TO COMPLETE - HELPFUL IF THE ACTIVE DIR CANNOT FIND THE GLOBAL DC  I'M ON SITE, DON'T HAVE NOTES ITS'S SOMETHING LIKE "...
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: Star...
I found this file in my pc, I don't know what is about that.
Most of the time (about 75%) when my users logout they get the following error when trying to save their profile; "Application popup: Windows - Delayed Write Failed : Windows was unable to ...
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 f...
I have a Hard Drive which has one large partition with Windows XP Pro SP2 and a 20GB Win2k partition. I set it up to dual boot using the XP boot loader. What I would like to do is hide that 2K...
What's the command for viewing active processes in command screen?
Event Type:     Warning Event Source:     MSFTPSVC Event Category:     None Event ID:     100 Date:          4/21/2007 Time:          8:53:29 PM User:          N/A Computer:     CASASERVER Description: The server was unable to ...
I'm trying to stop a service in Windows 2000 and all it says for status is "Stopping" and has been for hours. Is there a way to force it to stop? I've tried "net stop" and it said "The service...
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...
Hi,  I have 4 sets of users, each set of users has it's own keyboard layout (english, spanish, mexican and brazilian). Currently everybody uses Spanish as the keyboard layout but we now wan...
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, pl...
I'm over my head with a DNS issue with W2K.  I'm helping a small business change their third party e-mail provider; I made the changes to MX records and CNAME records on Saturday night using t...
When loading Windows 2000 Server (approximately 3/4 through the windows 2000 splash screen), I receive a blue screen with the following STOP error: stop 0x0000007b (0x88c475e8, 0xc0000010, 0x...
Hi experts The scenario is that my client's Windows Small Biz Svr 2000 (It's a PDC without another server) had a power failure (or something) resulting in an unexpected shutdown a few days ...
A client came in earlier and dropped off a hard drive.  He says he needs information from a registry key on the drive. Is there a way to load the registry from the Windows installation on t...
I am trying to Export the settings so that I may be able to import them into several other clients. I am running a 30 station workgroup. We are avoiding a domain considering the costs involved...
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
Epox EP-8KHA+ MB Athlon XP 1600 stock 512meg DDR  running on fast (seemed problem worsened, the faster i go) ATI all in wonder 32 meg AGP ATI IEEE1394 card 2 Ultra ata100 40gig maxtor dri...
OS: W2K SP3 On startup I get the following errors in the System Event logs: Type: Error Source: Server Error: Event ID: 2508 Description: The server service was unable to load the serve...
Hello I simply want to check the folder size of a particular directory on a remote server i.e \\server1\dept I am not concerned about the number of files or their size, just the size of ...
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 registere...
How can I tell if a user has a persistent drive mapping?  Is there a good tool to use?
Upon rebooting my server I received an error about a service failing to start.  Here is the description found in the event viewer under the System Log:  Event ID:  7000  "The DS1410D service f...