I have a Windows XP machine that I have installed AutoCad on - I installed Autocad as the local adminstrator. When I log into the network as the user I get the message - Failed to Update the ...
Hi Experts,
I have been scratching my head trying to figure out a way to add domain users to the local administrators group in a batch file.
Manually you would do ControlPanel>UserAccounts>U...
how can I edit another user's registry with the equivalent setting on my own HKEY_CURRENT_USER?
I have an engineer working on a locked down Win XP Pro SP2 client on a customers network. I n...
I am attempting to install Macromedia Flash from http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer and after I press 'Yes' on the Security Warning dialogue, I get an Error message pop up saying "You...
I'm looking for a way to automate connecting to a remote computer in regedit... for example I can run Microsoft Management Console with a computer name as a parameter and connect to that machi...
I have a system service which needs to make SQL queries to a server on our domain. This service also needs to write to a local event log, as well as update the local registry. I need an accoun...
What characters does Active Directory allow in user passwords? Or, conversely, what characters are not allowed?
Hey Guys,
I've just rebuilt my desltop, now running straight Windows XP with SP2 included.
I have an MMC which I use to connect to all my servers to check Disk Management (for free space) ...
I am setting up a test environment with a ACS server, switch and a windows client. This test environment will be used demonstrate and test different scenario's for our network environment.
...
i need to find out if this is possible. logmein uses port 443 and disabling it would stop other needed https connections. thanks.
Hello Experts,
I had an Zip file, which I made a backup some years back and it was password protected, and
I forgot it. There are some recovery tools but mostly they use dictionary attack ...
Hi I recently installed Zonealarm. The Generic Host Process For Win32 Services is troubling me.
Can you please tell me what it is for ?
What does it do ?
Is it a spy program ?
What should ...
I use a program to monitor computers and I have install a software agent on the computer to be able to monitor it. I have one computer that it won't connect to the main server where the monito...
My Windows 2000 Server SP 4 keeps rebooting. Before it reboots, it displays the message
NT Authority
WINNY/SYSTEM32/|sass.exe termianted unexpectedly.
Please note that I think the fir...
I've been noticing in my firewall logs an excessive amount of outbound traffic on udp port 137 from a single workstation. This port is blocked in my firewall, so it's not getting through, but ...
This Security Event is filling up the our log. I have administrative rights on this 2000 Windows Server running IIS. This event occurs whether I am logged in or not. I have re-applied Full ...
This works:
net use s: \\10.10.999.999\it m@rl!n /user:it
This does not:
net use s: \\10.10.999.999\it m@rl!n /user:it /savecred
A command was used with conflicting switches.
I real...
We have 6000 machine objects in our AD. Only about 4000 are still valid and in use. We need to implement a system that can be automated to cleanup stale/old machine accounts by retiring them a...
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I am seeing my machine gets hanged and i wont be able to do any thing. If i press control alt del---task manager is disabled (regedit also) and i try to scan i wont find any virus or ri...
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We recently installed a few citrix servers with a web interface, allowing clients to connect using their browser to access specific applications. I have come up with an issue with...
I want to be able to force Windows 2000 machines to logoff at a certain time of day. I have found some programs that force logoff and have tried to run them in the Scheduled Tasks but they do...
Running an app on a Server 2003 box and the following security error starting appearing after the server was made a DC.
Wondering if anyone can lead me to a solution to stop this error. App ...
When I try and run my Remote Desktop Connection app to connect to any of my servers, Windows gives me the following message.
Data Execution Prevention - Microsoft Windows
To help protect y...
When I try to open my local security policy settings I get: "MMC Cannot open the file C:\windows\system32\secpol.msc This may be because the file does not exist, is not in the mmc console, or...
GooD Day Experts,
A user has no recolection of creating the sqmdata.sqm files on a network drive and they continue to sychronize upon reboot. Can anyone give me some info on these files li...
