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Hello Experts,

I am constantly having trouble with Windows Update. When I try to allow an update, specifically KB2544035, I am getting this stupid error from microsoft:
The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is...

Hi,

We are wanting to clear the Temporary Internet Files on browser exit, but the option under Computer Configuration/Administrative Tools/Windows Components/Internet Explorer/Advanced Page doesnt seem to work, and upon closer reading reveals...

we're used to RDP'ing into workstations as the currently logged in users and do admin tasks as needed. then logging out and the user logging back in. recently we decided to switch all workstations' user permissions from local admin to user only....

Experts,

We have recently installed a new wireless network which currently uses PSK to manage access. I would like however to make use of our Active Directory and authenticate users based on credentials and user groups.

On this basis I...

Hi all,
I need to create a script, which can create folders and set these folders permissions to the appropriate users either read/write/etc. I used vbscript for creating the folders, but the folders created inherit the permissions of the parent...

Hi,
I am struggling with some security settings. This applies to Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP SP2
I am running an application (database application stored on hard disc) within Internet Explorer for which I have a security conflict....

I'm curious why I sometimes find that I can access a remote share only with the IP address.
Does anyone know why?

What follows is a description of the events.
Step 1: Try to "login" to a remote computer.
    net use \\SOMEHOST\IPC$...

I've brought in a new w2k8 R2 DC into our w2k3 domain, and I'm seeing all kinds of security log audit failures, mostly kerberos.  I've found some basic information on them, but I don't understand the process well enough to make much sense of...

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...

Any know of an easy way to to view a remote computer's IE History. We are seeing some discrepancies on our CensorNet server and it seeming as though some of our clients are bypassing the proxy or some of their traffic just isn't be registered. We...

Hello,

I have tried to change some policy on the Local Group Policy editor under windows 7 Business, and now i have to reset it back to default.

I have tried with this command that use to be working with vista
secedit /configure /cfg...

I'd like to start backing up network share & security permissions in addition to the data itself.  Is there a method via script that I can use to automate the export of both the folder share permissions and security permissions to a text file?
...

The following appears in my Application event log I have two questions

1, What is it
2, If it is a security Audit Event why is it not in the Security section.

I am running exchnage 2000 on this machine which is a domain controller.

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I found somewhere on here about a utility in Windows (XP) that will display/delete all the domain cached credentials and allow you to clear them out.   This fixed a problem a PC was having on our AD domain where a user was prompted over and over...

I am trying to find an easy way to copy files in C# across servers/domains/account.  I assumed that this would be an easy task until I started researching it about 4 hours ago....

The basic scenario is this:
From my workstationA in workgroupA...

Hi,

I had a perfectly working Windows 2008 r2 NPS server that was putting phones and Macintoshes in the correct vlans via policies. The MAC addresses were put in security group and a policy made and all worked.

We have now updated our...

So I don't think it's a PICNIC (problem in chair, not in computer).  I got 1 of our multi function machines to save to a folder on the server using \\server\scanner share and my domain login credentials.  That works fine on the newer C4500.
...

When I try to force a Group Policy update (gpupdate /force) I get the following error message,

Failed to refresh User Policy. Error - The system cannot find the file specified
.  Exiting...
Failed to refresh Computer Policy. Error - The...

We are experiencing random AD account lockouts on certain user accounts major system changes DC upgrades domain split new firewall etc etc making diagnistics difficult to say the least. I have checked scheduled tasks that may be running and can...

Event Type: Failure Audit
Event Source: Security
Event Category: Account Logon
Event ID: 675
Date: 12/7/2002
Time: 12:03:47 PM
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: SERVERXX
Description:
Pre-authentication failed:
User Name:...

We need a way of tracking the creation date of user accounts in AD. Has anyone done this or have a solution for doing? We need to verify when all AD accounts are created - not just modified.

I am currently encountering an issue on a Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition, SP2 server that is running an FTP site in IIS. The Security log on this server is logging multiple Account Logon failure audits for two accounts. There is no set...

Last night I got a ton of Audit Failure event log entries.

How can I tell the type of access they're attempting from looking at the entry?

Example:

EVENT # 14330
EVENT LOG Security
EVENT TYPE Audit Failure
SOURCE Security ...

Most of our Multi Function Printers (about 8) have suddenly stopped scanning to our network share (on a Windows Server 2003 server).

I have troubleshot this for the past 5 days to no avail and EE is my last hope before having to implement...

How do I disable the Certificate warning in IE7 and IE6?

I am running an linux SME server with Groupoffice on my network and I get it everytime I go to http://myserver/groupoffice

I tried installing the certificate from the browser but the...

The message shown below is very annoying.  I figured out how to disable it completely, (for EVERY ActiveX control), but that does not seem to be very safe.

Is there anyway to disable it for only a single control and only when that control is...

Hi,
I'm trying to find out if there is any way to delete the domain account login credentials that Windows XP caches. I understand that the default is up to 10 previous login account details are cached.

I don't want to turn off caching, and...

I'm getting hundreds of events per minute in the event log / security.  I'm completely stumpted and can not figure out why this is happening.  Here's an example of the events :

The Windows Filtering Platform has blocked a connection.
...

Hi,

I have been using the following script for a while.
strComputer = "Computername"
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
    & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colComputer =...

Hello,
I am running Windows Server 2003 Ent. Edition with SP1 and running IIS as my web server. I just installed an Enterprise CA root but am having a problem viewing all certificates on the web site. I type http://localhost/certsrv and see...

We have an account created in our network for running services. At the moment the network admin wants to change the password because, someone used this account to logon interactively.  Since there are many programms running under this service...

Is there a way to audit file/folder deletions on a Windows 2003 File server?

Error: host checker did not get installed properly. your computer does not meet the security requirements

I am trying to implement an RSA securID appliance for two factor authentication. I am new to this and I am trying to configure this to authenticate to the DC using LDAP. Does anyone have a walkthrough to assist in this task? Any help would...

Howdy,

I am setting up a TS Web Access server on 2008.  I have been locking it down through GPOs.  I have made it so that the user logs in and only has the shortcuts on their desktops that I put under the All Users Desktop folder.  The problem...

Hello All Experts,
I have about 140 PC's on our WAN, all part of a a single Domain (Windows 2003). A large percentage of our users do not have Adminstrator rights, but I am hoping that there is a way for Non Admins to install Java Updates, as...

Regarding enabling SSL on LDAP using  Port 636 on 2003 active directory server for encrypted authentication for clients. What are the steps needed for this?  Is a separate CA server needed how is this feature enabled.  An appliance for single...

We have a Windows 2003 DC/CA (enterprise root in a single-tier).
We've imported a third party Root certificate (to the trusted root on the DC/CA and on the XP clients') and its intermediate certificate to the NTAuthCertificates store on the...

Hi,
Its a pretty new laptop on a network, I take it home most evenings and it is slow to boot up, savservice.exe s chewing up the CPU up to 100%, same thing happens when i bring it back in to the office nd boot up, i can kill the savservice.exe...

I'm trying to use a client's remote desktop mapped drive which is normally like \\tsclient\c to copy some files from the REMOTE computer onto the server in a logon script.

However, the major problem I'm having is that I don't want that drive...

Trying to join notebook to domain after puting administrator/ password i get this error" Computer Name Changes The following error occurred attempting to join the domain "example domain":An internal error occured. will appreciate some help thanks...

Hello my friends,

I was just wondering if using Remote Desktop in Windows Server 2003 is completely safe.  Can I Remote Desktop to another computer for long periods of time without having to worry about naughty hackers getting hold of my...

Windows Server 2008 Group policy allows folder redirection for most of the user folders including AppData(Roaming).  I  need to redirect user folders on a terminal server so all user data will be saved on a seperate drive, not the C:\ drive. ...

We are getting this message literally millions of times each day on our Windows 2008, SQL 2005 Server.

 Event ID: 4656
Log Type: Security
Event Type: Audit Success
Category: 0
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing
Domain: ADMIN...

How do I disable the Windows Filtering Platform.  I keep having sporadic difficulties with connections to my SQL server, and usually I see the Windows Filtering Platform involved.  I have disabled the Windows firewall, as I sit behind a hardware...

My client does not know the master (management console) password for Trend Micro office scan which is part of Client Server Messaging Suite. Previous network adminstrator did not record it or provide it to client. Currently we have a virus...

Hi all:

   I recently moved up to a set of AMD 3500+ 64 939 machines with Abit MoBos (Nvidia 4 chipset). After getting all my programs and configs setup in a model machine I ghosted the image to the rest. To avoid problems I didn't image...

We have a root CA that will expire soon, how we can renew it, and do we need to send it back to all end users in order to reinstall again?

Hi,

We have domain in US which is behind a firewall. We need to join the machines in offshore(India) to US domain without any BDC(ADC) in the India. What are the TCP/IP ports needs to be opened in the firewall in US.

Regards,
Jawahar. K

What characters does Active Directory allow in user passwords? Or, conversely, what characters are not allowed?

Unable to get WMI working on most XP machines.  Been at this a while now so going to try to recount everything I've tried so far.  As a test of connectivity I'm simply going into Manage - Connect to another computer - and then under that computer...

Hi All,

I've got a few problems setting up LDAP-authentication on my fortigate.

I'm asked for my DN and CN of the server but I don't know how/where to find 'em... ?


I've filled in the following but I'm not quite sure if that's...

In Windows XP Professional, when I schedule any task to be run as System whether from Task Scheduler or from schtasks command; or when I run the task manually to test it, the SchedLgU.txt log registers the next error:

-----
The specific error...

I received a new Dell server for our firm yesterday. I set it up initially to let it run for a 5 day burn-in period. I installed Windows 2008 Std SP2, hardware drivers, Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0.5 and Adobe acrobat. I have not installed...

I've got a domain testsetup, consisting of a domain controller (Win2003 Enterprise SP1), AAA-server (Cisco ACS 4.0 on Win2003 Enterprise SP1), accesspoint (D-link), Certification Authority and a wireless client. Cisco ACS and CA are on the same...

I'm trying tighten the security on the roaming profiles folder on our windows 2000 DC.

My settings keep breaking the ability of roaming profiles to create or update the profiles for new users.  (until I manually create the appropriate folder...

I'm having some problems with updating the group policy using - gpupdate /force.

The Background:
We have 6 Domain Controllers. 5 are windows 2003 server and one is a 2000 server. The 2000 is the operations master (ntserver).

When I run...

I want to set the same proxy settings for all the users in my domain. They connect on the terminal server using thin clients.

I go to User Configuration\Windows Settings\Internet Explorer Maintenance\Connection\Proxy Settings and I set the...

I keep getting these below on my domain controller.  It says it's a failure audit for Event 531.  Does this just mean someone tried to logon with a disabled account and it's logging it as a failed authentication?   It doesn't ever give me the...

I currently have 2 computers which are used for ambulance dispatch operations, which are locked down using the Microsoft Shared Computer Toolkit. In the "User Restrictions" options, I have the choice of preventing Internet Explorer from...

I get a call from a user stating that they can't log-on because their security log is full.  I save the log, then clear it.  I get another call from a different user, same problem the next day.  I get yet a third call the next day, same problem,...

Hi,

I am currently getting these events being logged every 10 seconds. This seems to occur when the user logs in through terminal services to an application server we have set up. I have checked over the user profile and there is nothing I can...

Hi Experts,

In our Windows 7 Pro system (relatively new), we keep getting this error "The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur."  Google, Microsoft, and EE searches haven't yielded much help based on the...

Dear all,

I hope you can help with this tricky one!

Scenario:
1. User exist for long time in AD (let's refer to this as DOMAIN\Username)
2. User has for long time logged on to the same PC and the profile exist on this (not roamed).
3....

HI Experts,

I have an issue with a migration I am doing from 2003 Domain Controllers to 2008 R2 domain controllers.  The migration has been pretty smooth as far as AD/DNS.  And I have not found any underlying issues with the configuration.  
...

Hi,

I was wondering how to enable File and Printer sharing on Windows 7 Through Group Policy. I have enabled the policy called: Allow inbound file and printer sharing exception.

But when I go to advanced sharing settings, it's still turned...

I've have asked several questions here at EE regarding certificates without so far having gotten any helpfull answers. Hoping to get this problem resolved, I am pasting the Events, in sequence, from the application event viewer into this question...

I have  a windows 2008 sbs installation which has wsus installed as per standard setup in sbs2008.
However the content database has grown to over 116GB of a 150GB partition.  
I have set only the bare minimum number of product updates required...

Hello

I want to get hash of all users' in windows server 2008. I downloaded pwdump6-1.7.2 and extracted that include:
lsremora.dll
lsremora64.dll
PwDump.exe
servpw.exe
servpw64.exe

I used this command:
pwdump.exe -o result.txt -u...

I re-set the password in epolicy using a password with special characters (ie. alt + 252) and it took the password ok, but when I try to log back in, I am not able to. Is there a way to reset it back to the default password or change the admin...

Hi All,

Does anyone happen to know what security risks there are using Logmein for Remote Administrators?

I keep getting a message that there is a problem with LSA Shell (Export Version).  A few minutes later Windows NT shuts down & restarts my computer.  What is the problem?

I set up Offline files on my laptop running Windows 7, 64 bit. It seems to be making my computer lock up. I turned off my offline files, tried to delete the contents of CSC folder(because it is 30GB), which worked in XP, but access is denied in...

I work for a large company and we're having an issue. We need to find a way to use our machines WITH UAC enabled. I think UAC is crap and counter productive for any IT worker.

When we try to do admin functions on machines while remoted to...

This is a Windows XP Pro SP2 computer running GroupWise client 7e.
When I go to the sent folder to see if an email has been opened, etc. by someone - as I have for years - I get a pop-up that tells me the following:

"File Download - Security...

I have a four month evaluation copy of Win2K Server so I can study for an exam.  AVG and Avast antivirus will not provide free antivirus service for Server products.  I had no luck in downloading BitDefender.  Does anyone know of a free antivirus...

I have been pulling my hair out for days trying to find online resources regarding the installation and configuration of Active Directory Certificate Services.  I would like to design a two-tier approach with one offline root CA and a second...

I read many of the post regarding this topic so please don't expect points for referring me to them. I have activated the the GPO to Force logoff when logon hours expire under a GP that I have created for testing. This object is located under...

Is there a way to manage and control your NTFS permissions via the Command line?

In otherwords what I really want to do is set a dir under C:\Program Files\* to add to the USER Group Modify and Write.

Here is a Microsoft Article on it but...

I am getting some header checksum errors when I run a network sniffer. What would cause these?

Example error: internet protocol header checksum: 0x0000 [Incorrect, should be 0x6829

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 really want this to work:
net use s: \\10.10.999.999\it...

Event Type:      Error
Event Source:      Userenv
Event Category:      None
Event ID:      1096
Date:            2/21/2010
Time:            6:41:14 AM
User:            NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer:      VSHISSVR-88
Description:
Windows cannot access the registry policy file, \\Domain Name...

Dear all,
Since a at least a week and less then a month i have a problem with my portable. The computer name of the portable is Dolphin-P2.
I use a tool named goodsync to synchronise a bunch of folders from my main workstation to synch all data...

How do you turn off Windows 7 Sync Centre / Offline Files via Group Policy on a Windows Server 2008 Domain.

i want to disable help and support center with group policy.how can i do that?

I have a security event that is filling up my log at a rediculous
rate. Over a period of 2-1/2 days I recieve about 130,000 events.

(event text at bottom)

I have SBS 2008 SP2 which was upgraded from SBS 2003 at the beginning
of the year....

I need to be able to enable WMI on all domain computers through Group Policy and also to disable Windows Firewall.  What are the steps to do this?

If I navigate to remote \\server\c$, I can set permissions on the folders. But how can I set permissions on the C$ itself? equivalent to setting permissions for the drive C on the local machine.

Through active directory I have created a group policy that controls automatic updates and windows firewall. I am now, through that policy, trying to enable the ScreenSaver timeout to 10 minutes with password protection by going to User...

HI I found these entry in my event viewer:

Event Type:      Failure Audit
Event Source:      Security
Event Category:      Object Access
Event ID:      560
Date:            3/2/2004
Time:            10:00:19 AM
User:            NT111B\IUSR_NT111B
Computer:      NT111B
Description:
Object...

I am new to ISA Server 2006 and have currently installed it into a test environment.  I initially would like to set it up as a web proxy.  I have installed the server, but have not done any customized configurations.  My knowledge of this server...

I am attempting to assist in setting up our Fortinet VPN Solution at my company.  I seem to have everything working so far (test machine can connect through the VPN tunnel over IPSec and access resources on our internal network) except that I...

My account keeps getting locked out whenever I try to connect to one specific server.

I performed a test logon.  My logon started at 13:24:05 with login script.  Here is the alockout.txt file.  I've changed some names to protect the guilty and...

Hi Experts.

Over the last two days I have seen Event ID  529 messages on our SBS 2003 Premium DC, as follows:

(ONLY 1 OCCURRENCE OF THIS ONE)
Event Type:      Failure Audit
Event Source:      Security
Event Category:      Logon/Logoff
Event ID:      529...

I have enabled auditing on a folder and set the Auditing options on the folder to audit only on succesful deletion of Folder and Subfolders, but in the Security Event Viewer i get dozens of e-mails every hour.
It seems that i get an event 560...

Heya,

We have 3 brand new Acer TravelMate 8371 notebooks, which all have the same problem:

They operate using Windows XP Pro SP3, which was loaded using the recovery disks provided with the new notebooks.
I have not touched any of the...

 Type GPEDIT.MSC from the Run box.
Navigate to User Configuration>Administrative Templates>Control Panel:Prohibit Access to the Control Panel=enabled.

Directly after you do this, make sure to remove the Read access for the Administrator Group...

Hi Experts,

I have been having an issue with users accessing an Oracle based application within a Citrix enivironment.  After much research, i discovered that if I go to the Local Security Settings>User Rights Assignment>Create global objects...