Mark Minasi's Reader Forum

Osama for President?

cj_berlin — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:07:26 -0500

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=728326

http://www.hp.com/touchsmart

rogerdodger — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:36:03 -0500

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Guys imagine playing games on lolll will be nice eeee):

A Heron

clarinathan — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:57:15 -0500

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Just here:

http://www.wwt.org.uk/centre/119/london_wetland_centre.html

TS Gateway server temporarily unavailable

ptwilliams — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:08:57 -0500

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> Flattened it and reinstalled

That often helps [:P]

NLA @ Win Xp Sp2 with Rdp Client 6.1

ptwilliams — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:08:22 -0500

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I don't think you can do this without SP3 as CredSSP was only backported to XPSP3, but will need to check as there's a hotfix to get something to work in SP2...

Resource Domains ?

ptwilliams — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:55:33 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 10/11/2008 at 03:55:33 AM by ptwilliams
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> Are resource domains, say for all servers and User Domains, for storing all your users, still a recommended practice with AD 2K3 or 2K8 ?

Generally no, although there are some instances in larger organisations with multiple domains whereby a resource forest is used for Exchange, and possibly MOSS. E2K7 has been improved to work in this configuration.

> The security boundary is considered the domain, so what benefits would you gain if your have your servers, users and dev environment in the following config, besides locking down access.

The security boundary is the forest! The domain is an administrative and replication boundary at best.

Based on your example there's no benefit; quite the opposite. You cite a very unrecommended scenario.

Firstly, development should be isolated from production. A child domain for dev is plain silly. There's no reason to therefore implement an empty root, or a resource root, with an account child. That's just extra work and cost for you.

> I know AD is multi-master, but in AD aren't you still confined to a single parent and an extensible amount of "child" domains ?

At some point there can only be one parent yes, but as the tree branches out there can be multiple parents. I assume you mean root? There are limitations on # of domains but you won't get to them, even in dev.

There's a number of misconceptions in your post. I recommend re-reading Mark's AD and DNS chapters and posting whatever questions you have here if you don't mind me saying so...

2 NICs on same AD server

ptwilliams — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:49:40 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 10/11/2008 at 03:49:40 AM by ptwilliams
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> if there are any issues when using 2 NICs on the same subnet, without NLB and on the same AD server

This isn't recommended:
-- http://support.microsoft.com/?id=175767

Why don't you team the NICs?

Can anyone recognize what these files are?

don2007 — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:56:40 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 10/10/2008 at 8:56:40 PM by don2007
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The autologon0e (that is a zero, not an O) files are Zero kb files. I don't think a text editor would help.

I'd be more concerned with the ____.exe file, the one with no name.

Local account is looking for domain controller

don2007 — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:42:29 -0500

There are 5 replies, with the last one on 10/10/2008 at 8:42:29 PM by don2007
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I thought that was funny but then I searched Google for "joining a domain through a VPN". There were a lot of hits on it, including a KB article on how to do it.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303503

Am new in Learning Terminal Services

cj_berlin — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:43:30 -0500

There are 11 replies, with the last one on 10/10/2008 at 4:43:30 PM by cj_berlin
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Originally posted by ptwilliams

Do those of you that work with the small and small-mid size businesses find the cost of TS prohibitive?

Not prohibitive but much less understandable for a small business owner. Until now, I have seen three main scenarios involving Terminal Services:

1 Publishing an app or a set of apps
2 Publishing desktop for remote users (external partners or home/road offices)
3 Publishing desktop to everyone so the client doesn't matter anymore and the actual data do not leave the datacentre.

In small shops, you hardly ever find #1 where you just see the cost of a TSCAL as the cost of publishing this particular app.

Many of them started with 2 and went over to 3 in the course of time. And here the 2000 licensing made perfect sense, from an accountant's point of view: The price of a Client/Session pair remained roughly the same regardless of the client technology involved: you either went for a thick Win2K client (costing you �400, power, maintenance) or for a thin client (costing you � 300, less power, less maintenance, but an additional � 150 for a TSCAL) so your decision would be based on the technical and organisational arguments. The cost of a switch from client/server environment to a TS-based one has been the price of the servers and Windows CALs.

And that's what makes it harder to sell TS to small businesses the way it is now - it only makes sense (from an accountant's point of view) if you go thin all the way but they usually won't want to ditch their PCs just to get TS and satisfy their CFO at the same time...

SAV does not Support 64-Bit

aval — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:55:38 -0500

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Version 10.0.2 may not be enough.

I know for a fact that version 10.2 works on 64 bit Vista Business.

I have not tried it on 64 bit W2K3-R2 or W2K8 however.

LTO3 tape & Server 2008

tmccabe — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:45:00 -0500

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installed 10 for now just to see if 10 even sees the lto drive-no go. neither does the built-in software windows backup

I am upgrading to latest greatest version as we speak.

How Did You Configure the Camera?

Polymath5 — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:40:42 -0500

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AND you can use an EXIF editor to put in some really crazy values!! 1/1000,000 sec at f256!! :-)

Canon 1000D

Polymath5 — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:36:30 -0500

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I think the auto modes are needed so the newbie can feel like he'll actually get something 'out of the box'. But I agree the marketing weasels should be kept in cages.

Canon 5D mark II

Polymath5 — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:31:54 -0500

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I've seen some video from the 5d2, pretty amazing. I do think some photojournalists will find it useful. Just use BIG cards!!

I'm sure I'll have use for it occasionally too. For a quick video it will be good.

I agree about all the other things Aidan said. Picture modes, direct to print, etc are pure rubbish.

Congress Rejected The Bail Out

Curt — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:49:13 -0500

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What I mean is there has to be some local economic activity so that core market areas do not die.
Towns need a farmer's market, Hardware Store.

OWA 2007 Hangs over ISA 2006

tonyFSMO — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:39:16 -0500

I'm going crazy over this issue, need opionions.

I have OWA 2007 configured through ISA 2006 and am using Active Directory as my Authentication Validation Method on the listener. My "Authentication Delegation" is "Basic Authentication" and I'm limiting user access to "Authenticated Users". On the CAS (OWA 2007 Server)side I have my virtual directories set to "Basic" and "Integrated Authentication".

My symptom is that after logon the page loads indefinitely and then fails. Sometimes logon succeeds only to load indifinitely when I click on a folder.

My second symptom is that if I change my user access in ISA from "Authenticated Users" to just "All Users" everything works fine, no issues. The problem of course being now ISA is no longer doing the authentication, but the OWA server is doing the authentication.

These symptoms only occur over ISA and are not an issue when ISA is bypassed.

Any ideas?

xp downgrade rights extended to 7/2009

NSFEddie — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:08:17 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 10/10/2008 at 2:08:17 PM by NSFEddie
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Mark -
Obviously I'm missing something, please enlighten me?
Ed

GOING GREEN ......

mitachu — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:35:02 -0500

There are 9 replies, with the last one on 10/10/2008 at 12:35:02 PM by mitachu
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Set any printer that has the ability to duplex to default to that

Configure power management settings centrally (Group Policy or POWERCFG shenanigans)

Shut down PCs over night (Set up a scheduled shutdown via computer startup script)

Set up and use an Intranet for sharing information (Sharepoint is free and very easy to use)

IPSec over L2TP support within Vista

aval — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:30:59 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 10/10/2008 at 12:30:59 PM by aval
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This KB article:

quote:
How to configure an L2TP/IPsec server behind a NAT-T device in Windows Vista and in Windows Server 2008

From:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926179

supposedly applies to both Home Basic and Home Premium:

quote:
� Windows Vista Home Premium
� Windows Vista Home Basic

So I'm not sure you need to upgrade to anything.

EDIT - BTW, is your VPN MS based or Cisco, or something else? Article seems to assume it's MS so if not, that could change eveything.

2008 GP's - Preferences - Printers

ianternet — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:02:12 -0500

I have used the Preferences feature within 2008 group policies to set my drive mappings ....works lovely. However, I have set up my printers within preferences but no printers are installed.

Any ideas?

Ian

Redirecting the default web page to OWA

RyanGuest — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:01:54 -0500

There are 7 replies, with the last one on 10/10/2008 at 12:01:54 PM by RyanGuest
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I've got this working now, thanks... I'll post up the exact steps I took when I'm back in the office next week!

Correct procedure for 2008 GP's

ianternet — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:00:21 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 10/10/2008 at 12:00:21 PM by ianternet
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Thanks. I was hoping you would say that [:D]

Printers not showing up in Search

FAQS — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:56:38 -0500

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Same[B)] is issue is back again .... I noticed it yesteday ...
there must be something triggering this?

Learn programming from Alice.org

DennisMCSE — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:26:12 -0500

I finally got around to reading the book "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch. He's the professor from Carnegie-Mellon who died of cancer recently. When he died, I kept hearing about the Alice project and how it was used to teach students programming by having an environment where you can create a game or create a story board, and in the process learn how to program in Java in a drag and drop environment.

I got around to visiting the Alice.org website (http://www.alice.org/) and this thing is really cool! They also partnered with Electronic Arts, the gaming company, so that you can use the SIMS characters in your storyboard (althought that won't be until version 3, which will come out next summer).

Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience.

IPSec over L2TP support within Vista

BrianMcK1970 — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:16:00 -0500

One of my users brought in her laptop for me to configure for corporate VPN access. The laptop is loaded with Vista Home Basic and our VPN environment is based upon an IPSec over L2TP connection using a preshared key. I attempted to configure this, but was constantly receiving an "Error 809" message which basically was denying me a connection. After banging my head against a wall for this for the better part of two days, one of my colleagues informed me that Home Basic is not sophisticated enought to handle this type of VPN configuration. My question is whether or not Home Premium can handle this type of encryption over a VPN connection? If so, perhaps I can convince this woman to upgrade. If not, we will either have to recommend that she upgrade to Ultimate (whice would be more expensive for her) or get her a corporate laptop (which would be an unanticipated expense for the company).

Any insight on this would be appreciated.

Skype takes all bandwidth

rogerdodger — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:06:42 -0500

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Well all settings looks good.It could be IPS prob.

A positive article about Vista

DennisMCSE — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:46:13 -0500

Not everyone thinks Vista is bad and the numbers prove it's doing good.

http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprisewindows/archives/2008/10/windows_vista.html

Deleted computer group

aval — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:27:06 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 10/10/2008 at 08:27:06 AM by aval
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OK, all is well.

The computers are all back in the group.

So the solution is:

1. Recreate computer group in WSUS management console.
2. Let Group Policy "do its thing".

Stair Step Financial Report - advice needed!

Curt — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:59:08 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 10/10/2008 at 07:59:08 AM by Curt
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Hey, there Curt here. Are you building the Report in SRS?

Windows XP Daylight Savings

aneurinb — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:33:43 -0500

Hi!

I have just applied http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951072/en-us to our Windows XP workstations and Windows 2003 server in an office in Sydney. It is basically to update the Time Database on the workstations and servers. Most workstations have adjusted there times accordingly, however, 2 have not, not matter what I do: reapply patch,change daylight settings back and forth to new settings.

Has anyone else come up agsinst this on Windows XP?

Thanks!

VLAN Question

chamezzzz — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:14:14 -0500

There are 6 replies, with the last one on 10/10/2008 at 05:14:14 AM by chamezzzz
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Paul,
Yes. You are correct. This was bad design/Communication on my behalf.
We have set up a new VLAN with the focus being for remote developers to come in and do their stuff.
I was given the Server (VM) to load - but did not realise that it was already a member of the production domain on the production LAN.
The focus of this new VLAN is to keep things seperate.
It is quite a steep Learning curve, still getting my head around the configuration, but it is oh so very very useful.

Quote of the day

joe_elway — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:48:58 -0500

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Ouch!

EHLO

Jazzy — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:29:12 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 10/10/2008 at 12:29:12 AM by Jazzy
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Exchange first tries EHLO and if that not succeeds it falls back to HELO. So you shouldn't have to configure anything.

Access Denied From Parent to Child Domain

hboogz — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:08:31 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 10/09/2008 at 10:08:31 PM by hboogz
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Thanks PT.

That's very helpful. That explains a lot.

Windows cannot access the file gpt.ini for GPO

jmyers351 — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:24:26 -0500

There are 18 replies, with the last one on 10/09/2008 at 7:24:26 PM by jmyers351
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Yes the settings are definatly applied. I did the same to my home server and it didnt seem to affect the group policies and I could not notice anything wrong with it. I guess it should be okay as long as none of the changes have affected the MYOB applications. I guess only time will tell.

I dont know what I was thinking, as I have certainly been working in IT long enough to know not to just apply fixes from random forums LOL. Guess I havent screwed anything major up in a long time so maybe getting abit complacent, perhaps abit of a wake up call.

Least it is only settings and not data! :-)

If anyone could let me know what changes are made to the system through this change and what to watch out for that would be great.

Thanks.

Default User Profile

mitachu — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:12:46 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 10/09/2008 at 5:12:46 PM by mitachu
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Looks like I'm going to have to combine the two then, eh?

Folder Redirection & Remote Desktop for Admin

ptwilliams — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:36:02 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 10/09/2008 at 4:36:02 PM by ptwilliams
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> are folder redirection (with offline sync enabled) and remote admin, in fact, mutually exclusive

Answering your question directly, and therefore possibly out of context of the original book or whatever it is you refer to, no the configuration of Remote Desktop and Folder Redirection are most certinly not mutually exclusive. They have nothing in common.

Remote Desktop should be enabled on every server you have unless you have a realy edge-type security scenario.

Folder redirection can and should be enabled in any number of scenarios. Whether or not to apply folder redirection to administrative accounts is a question for debate. All administrators should have a non-user account too. If this is the case it might make sense to exclude folder redirection for admins, but then again it might not. I'd rather have it, and quota it, myself.

Scrpit

Xenophane — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:15:36 -0500

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No problem, glad that I was able to help out :)

Can a client be forced to receive a new ip address

Perfessor — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:08:27 -0500

There are 8 replies, with the last one on 10/09/2008 at 3:08:27 PM by Perfessor
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If you just want to change the IP, you can go into "My Network", "Properties" and give it a static IP. I've never seen an IP address become corrupt though. As the others have said, most likely, something is blocking it.

Upgrading two NT4 PDC/BDC to W2K3

lwcomputing — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:49:28 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 10/09/2008 at 2:49:28 PM by lwcomputing
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It seems you are under some misunderstandings about Active Directory and NT4. They are VERY different.

First, there is no such thing as a PDC or BDC - all domain controllers are just that, DCs. There are 5 key roles - FSMO roles, one of which is a PDC Emulator, but strictly speaking that does not mean it is a PDC.

Second, you cannot make a 2000/2003 server a DC in an existing domain. The only way you can add an 2000/2003 domain controller to an existing NT4 domain is to upgrade the NT4 PDC.

If you want to go to have ANY 2000/2003 domain controllers in your existing NT4 domain, then you MUST upgrade the domain to Active Directory. That doesn't mean you have to use any of the features of Active Directory (like Group Policy; though I would certainly recommend it), but you have to implement Active Directory in at least a basic format.

You then need to understand the importance of DNS in an Active Directory domain. DNS is VITAL to a stable, efficient AD implementation. Misconfigured DNS can cause logon failures and/or delays as well as quirky problems accessing network resources. In short, your AD Domain must have at least one DNS server that supports Dynamic Updates (a 2000/2003 DNS server is typically setup) and the DC MUST point to itself for DNS (in TCP/IP Properties). Further, all clients need to point to the same DNS server and NO DOMAIN SYSTEM should include a DNS server that isn't specifically a DNS server for that domain. For external DNS resolution, you would configure forwarders on the 2000/2003 DNS server.

As for the upgrade procedure, I would start off by first creating a TEST environment. This can be done by creating an NT4 BDC in a VM and pulling it off your network. Then promote it to PDC and otherwise configure it as best you can to be the same as the existing PDC. Once you have your PDC test system setup, start by running at least one test upgrade - this will help identify unknown problems in the upgrade process as well as familiarize you with how it will work.

Once you have done the upgrade process, resolved any issues that have arisen, and are otherwise comfortable about what you will need to do, I would then create another NT 4 BDC VM and this one, burn to a DVD for archiving/backup. (Should the process fail in the production environment, this BDC can be quickly re-introduced and promoted to PDC for recovery purposes). Once you have the backup of the BDC VM, promote it to your PDC and upgrade the VM. This will help ensure the system you upgrade to Active Directory is as clean as possible and should reduce the possibility of problems.

With regards to WINS, I would probably do the latter step - having done so in larger environments in the past. Since WINS is a dynamically created database, unless you have many static entries, I would just shutdown the old system, re-assign it's IP (to be safe, prior to shutdown, CHANGE the IP of the old system in case anyone ever starts it up again) and reboot the clients.

Incidentally and to be clear, once you have an AD DC, you can only have existing NT4 BDCs and cannot add additional NT4 BDCs. Further, any attempt to promote a BDC to PDC should kill your Active Directory and you'd have to go through the process all over again.

Assigning a GC for Ex2007

Jazzy — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:53:15 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 10/09/2008 at 1:53:15 PM by Jazzy
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Yep, that's it. So this will be something like:

Set-ExchangeServer -identity Exchange01 -StaticGlobalCatalog dc01,dc02,dc05

Outbound mail Down

MadCow — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:47:04 -0500

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Thank you for your input.

The SMTP Logging is already set to MAX.

Web and Outlook pages zoom automatically

MrEclipseguy — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:11:20 -0500

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Reboot fixed it. That was freeky. Guess he was plugging in mice and monitor and hitting buttons and who knows what else.

Help adding new DNS records...

brbandeira — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:32:05 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 10/09/2008 at 12:32:05 PM by brbandeira
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You may also use DNS forwarders by configuring their DNS IP when DNS request maches their domain.

Tech-Ed Europe

joe_elway — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:22:10 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 10/09/2008 at 12:22:10 PM by joe_elway
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Am all registered and booked. Staying in Catalonia Aragorn. It's relatively cheap and available :) Flying in on Sunday night, leaving Saturday morning.

Anyone fancy meeting up? Can't do Wednesday: I've to go to the country night out.

Windows Update Agent wont install on 2003 server

thomastxiee — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:05:50 -0500

I am trying to install the Update Agent on one of our servers but it keeps giving me an error"the system cannot find the file windowsupdateagent30-x86.exe" Has anyone else run into this problem? I was thinking maybe a security setting or Windows installer corruption. Thanks for any help.

Scan to Email - Relaying via Exchange2003

cj_berlin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:44:13 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 10/09/2008 at 11:44:13 AM by cj_berlin
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quote:
Originally posted by MadCow

Thank you for your response.

No, I am not using any kind of smtp authentication, if that's what you are referring to.

... but maybe the other machines do?

Another thing that comes to mind is the destination address. If you're trying to send to a domain your Exchange is authoritative for it's not relaying but delivery so it might make a difference whether you send to user@domain.local or user.site@domain.external.tld...

rollup package 3

Jazzy — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:17:59 -0500

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Yes it sucks. But if it makes you feel better, the problem in 944752 will be solved in the next rollup pack. :)

Did you notice that RU4 is available at the moment?

http://jetzemellema.blogspot.com/2008/10/update-rollup-4-voor-exchange-2007-sp1.html (Dutch)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8b492ed2-ea92-412f-a852-3aa1c58d9499&DisplayLang=en (Download)

Windows can't associate file

SlyDog — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:01:08 -0500

There are 5 replies, with the last one on 10/09/2008 at 11:01:08 AM by SlyDog
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"also read where KB953838 can cause similar symptoms (specifically with CRM)..."

Started researching this, some people have reported similar issues... Supposedly MSFT is "working on a fix"
Good find. I'll keep my eye out for a possible hotfix.

New Message From Outlook

MadCow — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:58:36 -0500

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Here is an other just FYI ....read Shannon's Suggestion

http://www.outlookcode.com/threads.aspx?forumid=2&messageid=18235

The connection was dropped due to an SMTP protocol

cj_berlin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:11:07 -0500

There are 5 replies, with the last one on 10/09/2008 at 08:11:07 AM by cj_berlin
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837851/en-us
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/258224/en-us

RRAS using 2 Ether Cards

resources — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:43:16 -0500

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WINS using 2 Ether Cards?

resources — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:25:00 -0500

There are 10 replies, with the last one on 10/09/2008 at 06:25:00 AM by resources
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Okay that clears it for me that i should always use 1 NIC for my Domain Controller.(if not am looking for Troubles) Also i must correct the Question i posted in TOPIC (RRAS using 2 Ether)

I Set up a RRAS on my DC using 1 NIC okay thats not a problem. What i was asking was how to i setup my Dc to be RRAS using 2 Network Cards. After this posts i see its wrong and should Add a new Server , Member Server with 2 NIC acting as my RRAS
Server.

Thanks people for clearing this for me.

What�s better role distribution with 2 AD servers?

ptwilliams — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:46:26 -0500

There are 14 replies, with the last one on 10/09/2008 at 05:46:26 AM by ptwilliams
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> If every domain controller in a domain that is part of a multidomain forest also hosts the global catalog, there are no phantoms or work for the infrastructure master to do. The infrastructure master may be put on any domain controller in that domain.

Correct. It doesn't matter about GCs in the rest of the forest. All that matters is that if the IM is running on a GC in a domain in a multi-domain forest, then all other DCs in that same domain must also be GCs. If they are, there's no need to update phantoms as there aren't any. In this case the IM actually doesn't function -it checks to see if its a GC when it initiates and shuts down immediately (well after logging the event) if its on a GC. If they're not, the IM must be placed on a DC that isn't a GC.

How to "break" SYSVOL + practice fixing it?

ptwilliams — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:32:45 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 10/09/2008 at 05:32:45 AM by ptwilliams
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> How could you "break" SYSVOL so you could practice fixing it?

If you want to break it to the point where your only option is to restore it simply revert to a previous snapshot. [:P]

If you want to break it for troubleshooting purposes it's not that easy. A common issue is a journal wrap. You could try and generate one of those by severing the network so that the DCs cannot communicate and then performing a huge number of file system operations on the volume that houses SYSVOL. If you perform enough modifications to different files the USN Journal will wrap, as it's a fixed size and utilises a circular logging type of mechanism. The problem here is it's not easy to cause a 512MB file to wrap. In the past, antivirus products could do this easily for you. [:P]

You could also try making a bunch of changes to the FRS replica so that the staging directoy fills up. This is pretty easy to fix but is worth doing so you can see what happens. Note I'm expecting the LAN/WAN to be down while you fill the staging directory.

Exchange 2007 - secure out of box or SCW anyway?

Jazzy — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:23:39 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 10/09/2008 at 03:23:39 AM by Jazzy
Quote:
I agree whit Nathan. I would even say it's considered a best practice not to use the SCW. Problem with the SCW is that it's quite hard to tell what it exactly does and the changes it makes are nog good to manage.

No free busy details

wim — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:27:52 -0500

ok, this is an interesting one. Using Exchange 2003 one person has shared his calendar. When somebody wants to make an appointment they can see the free/busy information but they cannot see any details as they can with other users in the company who also shared their calendar. Now the interesting part if the user who has the problem viewing the details turns of there exchange cache in their outlook settings they suddenly can see the detail information.

We basically tried everything but the problem remains. Any fresh ideas what might be causing this and why this is linked to the cache setting?

REPADMIN, REPLMON and forced replication

resources — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:37:25 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 10/08/2008 at 6:37:25 PM by resources
Quote:
I had this situation when i was creating an additional DC for The domain xxx.local The same message was appearing when i was forcing replication between the 2 DCs immediately after i just builded the Additional DC.

I always give it sometime from now on.

file monitoring

timberk — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:19:20 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 10/08/2008 at 3:19:20 PM by timberk
Quote:
If you are running Windows Server 2003 R2 or Windows Server 2008, you can use File Server Resource Manager;

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc755603.aspx

It comes in the box and I believe will meet your needs.

~tb

Red Kites

mitachu — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:17:22 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 10/08/2008 at 1:17:22 PM by mitachu
Quote:
I love the waterfall one :)

Moving Shares on the SAME server

Michael.Gruber — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:10:09 -0500

Most people look to move shares from one server to another, but I have a "bazillion" shares on our main file server that I need to restructure and move under a single \users\ directory. The problem I have is that I need to maintain the file date/time attributes along with the ACL on both the files folders (yes there is some cross access by users) and the ACL on the shares and I need to ensure that the share location is updated in the process. I've tried Robocopy, which doesn't seem to do it, along with NETIQ's server consolidator which doesn't recreate the share, it simply copies the files to the new structure without changing the share location. All help would be greatly appreciated as I need to do this before the end of October.

External hard drives

resources — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:03:53 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 10/08/2008 at 1:03:53 PM by resources
Quote:
I got the Wester Digital 250GB. Working like smooth although what i dont like. In order to shut it down i must press the button over 2 seconds. Thats little boring.

Windows 2003 Firewall

timberk — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:00:01 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 10/08/2008 at 12:00:01 PM by timberk
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The Windows Server 2003 firewall is definetly not as intelligent as W2k8. If you enable it on a W2k3 DC, you will need to configure RPC to a static range of ports, as seen here;

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/154596/

Here are a few other ports you will have to manually open to make this work;

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555381

There is a very good discussion of this (using Windows Firewall on a W2k3 DC) in Mark's SP1/R2 book, somewhere around page 100, if I remember correctly;

http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Windows-Server-2003-Upgrade/dp/0470056452/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223481240&sr=1-1

~tb

Ex 2007 UM - Inbound FAX Service Setup

JSCLMEDAVE — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:46:35 -0500

We want to use the FAX feature found in Exchange 2007.

AD, phone system, Exchange 2007 is hosted in a NOC.

We have existing fax numbers.

We want to add individual DID numbers for all of the employees.

Inbound only. (as far as I know at this time)

Phone System is Broadsoft.

Per Nathan - I have setup unified messaging for Exchange which is used to take voicemail. I have just never done the fax bit as most people don't seem to use it. Basic idea is that you need a unified messaging server and also a gateway to connect into the phone system.

Has anyone got some hands on with this or know of any usefull documentation and or links! The use of Fax is manditory as they use it for almost all of their cusotmer transactions.

Thanks in Advance!

Blackberry Storm

MrEclipseguy — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:44:30 -0500

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/10/hands-on-with-t.html

Be interesting to see how it fares in the business world.

DHCP Export import

cj_berlin — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:29:26 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 10/08/2008 at 11:29:26 AM by cj_berlin
Quote:
How's this for a heads up:

http://blogs.msdn.com/anto_rocks/archive/2006/08/23/714685.aspx

Does the site seem slow to you?

MrEclipseguy — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:23:00 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 10/08/2008 at 11:23:00 AM by MrEclipseguy
Quote:
I too had problems earlier in the week, but all seems good now.

Google Offers 'Mail Goggles' for Drunk E-Mailers

DennisMCSE — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:19:52 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 10/08/2008 at 11:19:52 AM by DennisMCSE
Quote:
I was sober last night and had problems multiplying 2x5! [:p]

SSL for exchange 07

Brunosworld — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:10:34 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 10/08/2008 at 11:10:34 AM by Brunosworld
Quote:
I will probably need sans but not right now, I just need it for OWA.

Mastering Windows Server 2008 - ET

ianternet — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:03:24 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 10/08/2008 at 11:03:24 AM by ianternet
Quote:
Apologies, didn't spot the full thread...doh!

DNS driving me !NUTS!

jorban — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:30:10 -0500

There are 22 replies, with the last one on 10/08/2008 at 10:30:10 AM by jorban
Quote:
OK...things seem to be settling down, somewhat. I'm still showing duplicate IP addresses in the DNS database, but when I go to the individual machines, the IP addresses are different. I suppose I can live with that.

Since my remote control software appears to use reverse DNS...I have to DELETE the incorrect IP addresses in the reverse DNS table, and then it works...so all is happy in lala land...or the wonderful, wacky world of IT.

IPSec and Remote Assistance

wkasdo — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:35:31 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 10/08/2008 at 09:35:31 AM by wkasdo
Quote:
I'd make a network trace, see what is actually happening.

Error When Trying To Create a New Local User

SAPIENScripter — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:45:53 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 10/08/2008 at 08:45:53 AM by SAPIENScripter
Quote:
There are times when you can use the . with ADSI like you do in WMI, but I prefer to use real computernames. I was able to create a new local user using . for the computername, but got the error when I tried to create the user again.

Tim Bolton's first article on Win IT Pro

DennisMCSE — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:45:18 -0500

There are 7 replies, with the last one on 10/08/2008 at 08:45:18 AM by DennisMCSE
Quote:
Great article Tim!!

Discrepancy in Event Log Size

ptwilliams — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:45:00 -0500

There are 5 replies, with the last one on 10/08/2008 at 08:45:00 AM by ptwilliams
Quote:
Whoops...hit send too soon. I also believe (but don't quote me [:P]) that NT6x EVENTVWR won't let you set more than 2TB so if you want more you need to set it yourself! [:D]

Disk space is a big factor in some of these new numbers too!

Outlook 2007 and Out of Office Cannot Be Displayed

tonyFSMO — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:39:43 -0500

There are 5 replies, with the last one on 10/08/2008 at 08:39:43 AM by tonyFSMO
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Jazzy Good Information.

For anyone else that may be having an issue with Outlook 2007 remotely keep in mind your External and Internal URLs for the services noted above: Availability, OOF, and UM. These URLs can be very important if you have clients connecting to your organization over a VPN and split tunnenling is enabled. Use the "Test E-mail AutoConfiguation" feature to see what URLs your Outlook Client sees to help you determine if the client will be able to resolve the URLs through either your VPN tunnel or public Internet. If clients cannot get to these URLs through both paths in a split tunnel you will have issues, so consider your design carefully.

Watch a demo of DPM

ptwilliams — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:26:11 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 10/08/2008 at 08:26:11 AM by ptwilliams
Quote:
> Seems whenever you want to add another server software you always end up buying the core server OS as well.

Rightly so. Running multiple systems on a single server is insecure and inefficient in all but the smallest of organisations.

DPM 2007 is available now (not sure what was referenced in the URL) and is considerably better than 2006.

DPM is aimed at the enterprise though, so if you're on a tight budget don't bother looking at it. It provides two levels of backup: "online" (disk-based) and "offline" (archived to tape) and works by copying differences between an initial VSS snapshot and subsequent snapshots, therefore depending on the amount of data you want to backup, as well as the frequency, and retention of non-archived data you might need a LOT of disk-based storage, i.e. you need a proper SAN.

Note. online and offline are terms I used to describe what I'm saying and are not necessarily correct terminology.

ESX and MS AD

deandownsouth — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:14:37 -0500

There are 7 replies, with the last one on 10/08/2008 at 07:14:37 AM by deandownsouth
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Just to add to this, I have clients who not only manually add them to MS DNS for name resolution, but also create a computer account in AD and use the description field for info, usually, a separate OU is created just for ESX and Linux hosts. The reason they do this is some use AD as their authoritative CMDB and query it for various information-after all, it is a database of your users and computers.

Others load the kerberos PAM so that they use their AD credentials to logon to the ESX host.

I urgently seek your assistance!

joe_elway — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:05:50 -0500

There are 6 replies, with the last one on 10/08/2008 at 06:05:50 AM by joe_elway
Quote:
I was reading this and wondering if Palin had already gotten into a federal office. [;)] [;)] and one more for luck: [;)]

[:D]

Search Companion not working - Resolved

MrEclipseguy — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:25:11 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 10/07/2008 at 4:25:11 PM by MrEclipseguy
Quote:

WSUS Clean up problem

jamesy281 — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:15:15 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 10/07/2008 at 4:15:15 PM by jamesy281
Quote:
Thanks for the replies.

This is the main server there are no others.

I took using the GUI to mean the clean up wizard this runs fine but it only removes Declined, unapproved, ETC older than 30 days I was hoping the tool would do this instantly.

WSUS version is 3.0 SP1
OS is Win2k3SBS SP2

Games you like?

Cid — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:13:32 -0500

There are 33 replies, with the last one on 10/07/2008 at 4:13:32 PM by Cid
Quote:
PC:

I have the World of Warcraft addiction going on right now. Besides that, I love most RTS games in general. I never got tired of Starcraft - those ridiculously long 8-person free-for-all games on some gigantic map never get old, and I am definitely looking forward to the next SC game that Blizzard is working on.

I recently picked up Sins of a Solar Empire and have started to get more into that. I also couldn't tell you how many hours I've wasted on Civilization 3 (for some reason, I never could get into Civilization 4).

XBox:

Well....my 360 is currently out of commission from that lovely Red Ring of Death, but I WAS starting to get into Gears of War.

Thoughts on Linux Integration Comp'ts for Hyper-V?

timberk — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:58:37 -0500

Has anybody taken a serious look at the Linux Integration Components? They RTM'ed a couple of weeks ago:
http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2008/09/22/rtm-of-linux-integration-components-for-hyper-v-now-available.aspx

They are available at MS Connect;
https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=495

The whole process of installing the Linux IC's looks a bit hairy, for Windows admin types. I've created Linux vm's in Hyper-V, but have yet to tackle the IC's.

The only 'supported' flavors of Linux are SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with Service Pack 1 and 2 x86 Edition and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with Service Pack 1 and 2 x64 Edition.

Has anybody tried any other distros? What are your impressions?

I wonder how long before someone builds a JeOS with the Hyper-V support already compiled in the kernel?

~tb

Complete PC backup is COOL

aval — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:48:26 -0500

There are 7 replies, with the last one on 10/07/2008 at 2:48:26 PM by aval
Quote:
Also, concerning Complete PC Backup, what kind of backup media do you use?

External hard drive should be fine, but regarding DVD, and given the size of a Vista backup, it looks like you'd need at least two 9 GB disks.

Unless you use something like this:

http://www.imation.com/products/dvd_media/hd-dvd.html

But I'll bet you need a special type of DVD burner?

Or maybe a 16 GB flash drive?

http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-16GB-Flash-Voyager-Drive/dp/B000LXTUT8

What are your experiences?

Damned Rubber Feet Too!

arek73 — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:47:42 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 10/07/2008 at 1:47:42 PM by arek73
Quote:
Rub it in :)

Damned Laptop!

joe_elway — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:38:55 -0500

There are 9 replies, with the last one on 10/07/2008 at 1:38:55 PM by joe_elway
Quote:
I'm probably at around 200GB and growing.

Oh, did I mention that I also left my passport in Reading and realised it when I was in Wales on Sunday night? I drove to Reading on Monday morning from Chepstow, then back to Central Wales for 90 minutes of Red Kites and then down to Brighton for my flight home.

Anyone virtualized Exch07 in a lab or production?

Jazzy — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:32:36 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 10/07/2008 at 09:32:36 AM by Jazzy
Quote:
Hi Micheal,

I've done a lot of Exchange 2007 migrations these days and only 5% was on physical hardware. All our customers are running VMware ESX and Exchange runs just fine on this platform. Did an install on Hyper-V too but it doesn't really matter with virtualization solution you use.

By the way, you won't get "better" results in performance. Instead you have to keep in mind that VMware or Hyper-V gives a performance penalty of, let's say, 5-10%. But it will give you all the advantages of virtualisation, like hardware independence, flexibility, new disaster recovery scenarios, etcetera.

A migration to a single box Exchange 2007 server is the most simple one. Basically you have to add the new server in the existing Exchange org, enable public folder replication, move the mailboxes and remove the old server.

This is a good starting point to read: http://technet.microsoft.com/nl-nl/library/aa997617(en-us,EXCHG.80).aspx

Differences: Shared Network Storage-NAS-SAN

cj_berlin — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:03:27 -0500

There are 7 replies, with the last one on 10/07/2008 at 09:03:27 AM by cj_berlin
Quote:
Phil,

whether a device offers RAID has nothing to do with it being a NAS or a SAN, the DSS storage solution from www.open-e.com offers all three features at the same time.

In most cases you are more flexible with a SAN because it gives you LOCAL drives instead of mapped ones (you will see the difference instantly if you try to store a database of any size worth mentioning in an SMB share :) )

HTH

Strange Error

rogerdodger — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:41:36 -0500

There are 5 replies, with the last one on 10/07/2008 at 08:41:36 AM by rogerdodger
Quote:
Well guys you must hear that:when i did change the connection cable that connect the printer to the computer (parallel)prob bye bye disappear.

Exchange and Oracle integration

rmardo — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:41:47 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 10/07/2008 at 04:41:47 AM by rmardo
Quote:
exactly what we're looking for! but this one has more additions like smartcard.

thanks for the link.

scanmail for exchange and IIS7 problem

rmardo — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:40:09 -0500

hi, i am not familiar with IIS. i'm trying to make the webconsole of scanmail for exchange work and from googling i found this:


"Windows 2008 Standard 64bit Exchange 2007 IIS 7 Scanmail 8 b1307.
Just add role services:
CGI for application development"

when i checked IIS 7, the CGI is not installed by default.

normally what happens is i would configure scanmail over the network but with this new version for Exchange 2007 and Windows Server 2008, coupled with IIS 7 (scanmail supports IIS 6 out of the box) i'am unable to manage scanmail for exchange. it would tell me not found although the installed virtual website can be seen from IIS 7 console.

is the above CGI advisable to install given the problem i am having?

Round 3

joe_elway — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:38:22 -0500

There are 8 replies, with the last one on 10/07/2008 at 04:38:22 AM by joe_elway
Quote:

quote:
Originally posted by resources

Late to post but nice pics Aidan

Thanks! Hopefully I've some to rival these from this weekend. I've a dead laptop to overcome before I can process.

TS 2008 failed with 80004005

ianternet — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:11:34 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 10/07/2008 at 04:11:34 AM by ianternet
Quote:
I resurrected the group policy setting and the terminal server appears to be fine, so must be an issue with installation. As I proceed with configuration and testing I will continue to monitor and report if any more irregularities.

Ian

Hyper-V Server 2008 To RTM Today?

ptwilliams — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:10:08 -0500

There are 14 replies, with the last one on 10/07/2008 at 04:10:08 AM by ptwilliams
Quote:
> If only they would just create a version that can just bolt onto an existing Vista system. Now, THAT would be useful!

I'm with you there! With all the Hyper-V fuss VPC seems to have been forgotton. I'd like to see a client hyper-visor in R2 (or a VPC that supports x6 guests [:P])

Ubuntu 8.04 on Lenovo T61

Xenophane — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:07:40 -0500

There are 7 replies, with the last one on 10/07/2008 at 03:07:40 AM by Xenophane
Quote:
Mark if you keep coming with comments like that, we can not guarantee for your safety at the next forum meet [:D]

Block user logon to 1 computer

Playwell — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:00:29 -0500

There are 10 replies, with the last one on 10/07/2008 at 03:00:29 AM by Playwell
Quote:
Am with Paul. Denying logon rights is so much more robuust, and more clear

The World Is Still Here

Mark Minasi — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:22:54 -0500

There are 20 replies, with the last one on 10/06/2008 at 10:22:54 PM by Mark Minasi
Quote:
Ah... now I see what's going on.

First, the American economy collapses.

Then, we elect Barack and there is some Hope that Change will save us, and who knows, maybe it might.

But just a couple of weeks before the inauguration, they get the helium leak fixed and the system cooled back to the operating temperature. They start up the collider and we finally... finally! ... see the Higgs boson and we think, "ah, NOW we know how things

And the universe explodes.

SYSVOL Backlog

Mark Minasi — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:08:01 -0500

There are 11 replies, with the last one on 10/06/2008 at 10:08:01 PM by Mark Minasi
Quote:
I see a response is no longer necessary.

Cloud version of Windows OS

Mark Minasi — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:01:08 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 10/06/2008 at 10:01:08 PM by Mark Minasi
Quote:
This is ME, talking about Google in a bad way.

Whats there to Hate about Windows 2008

Mark Minasi — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:58:39 -0500

There are 7 replies, with the last one on 10/06/2008 at 9:58:39 PM by Mark Minasi
Quote:
It's funny that people hate Vista because it's supposedly (1) too big and slow, (2) too incompatible with older versions and (3) there are no drivers...

... but no one says that about 2008, which uses the same kernel. It's all about the marketing, and the press.

How do i get Limit.exe worm removal tool

don2007 — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:53:30 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 10/06/2008 at 6:53:30 PM by don2007
Quote:
Did you try either of the programs that I mentioned?

Block listed by Ironport

NSFEddie — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:49:34 -0500

There are 5 replies, with the last one on 10/06/2008 at 6:49:34 PM by NSFEddie
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We're on the Aol list but it's not worth fighting as none of
our customers seem to use it that I can determine, and I've
never gotten anything from AOL myself. Spamhaus was another
matter entirely.

Google from 10 years ago....

mitachu — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:29:17 -0500

There are 11 replies, with the last one on 10/06/2008 at 6:29:17 PM by mitachu
Quote:
I always used AltaVista before Google came along. I remember first hearing about Google and being told that it ran on Linux, this free version of Unix. I didn't really think it would catch on.

Is this my own personal 64k moment?

RDP session locks up then cannot reconnect

JSCLMEDAVE — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:36:10 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 10/06/2008 at 3:36:10 PM by JSCLMEDAVE
Quote:
Resolved Thanks to Dave and Chris

It was suspected that there may be a Secure Channel issue with that PC. We removed the PC from the Domain dropping it back into the work-group. Rebooted, then re-added it to the Domain, re-booted again.

(FYI - There "was" an additional IP assigned to the NIC that was also deleted. Should not have mattered in this case)

Since then I have not had any RDP issues at all...

Array Controller Failure ML350G5

dmcmorris — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:24:42 -0500

There are 7 replies, with the last one on 10/06/2008 at 2:24:42 PM by dmcmorris
Quote:
The firmware version (as well as hardware model) should be available in the configuration utility (usually a key combination pressed at bootup). With SATA drives, I bet you have a different controller than the E200i.

--Don

Microsoft deploying Customer Service Reps

Curt — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:27:05 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 10/06/2008 at 1:27:05 PM by Curt
Quote:
The audience is not technical.

how data processing works on the internet

Curt — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:25:19 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 10/06/2008 at 12:25:19 PM by Curt
Quote:
The Java Script standard is used for "interactive" web application reactions and responses. This really helps to enhance what we once refered to as the Client server model. In that model, some of the data was processed on the client side and then updated on the server side.

More modern applications like share point based apps rely on indexing technologies to present subsets of data through the browser and these subsets are updated by the frequency of the reindexing process and the update of List of data that are extrapulated from the main databases.

Queries are often not processed on just the SQL servers but in the Web/Application servers and some on the client "Web browser" side.

This is all along way from 1998 tech that many people in the industry are stuck with in their thinking. But the more you study modern development, you become a better systems analyist.
[:)]

Do you drive a Hybrid? Article

Curt — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:15:16 -0500

There are 11 replies, with the last one on 10/06/2008 at 12:15:16 PM by Curt
Quote:
Thank you all. And thanks Mark.

I'm Still Growing.

Wireless connection at '08 meeting

DennisMCSE — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:03:25 -0500

There are 5 replies, with the last one on 10/06/2008 at 12:03:25 PM by DennisMCSE
Quote:
Yeah, that was the other thing. I called the hotel's ISP when I was having issues in my hotel room. They told me that the hotel was setup at 10MB/Half for their wired connection. So if the wireless hub was connected to the 10MB/Half wired connection, another reason things were slow.

How to install the Recovery Console on SBS2008?

timberk — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:22:59 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 10/06/2008 at 11:22:59 AM by timberk
Quote:
Yep, Windows RE. Same tool on a 'regular' Windows Server 2008 install.

Oh, and welcome to the Minasi Forum.

~tb

Recalling Email Failures

MadCow — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:16:17 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 10/06/2008 at 11:16:17 AM by MadCow
Quote:

Yes within the org[8D]

Drive Space Reporter HTA

dkumar — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:30:04 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 10/06/2008 at 10:30:04 AM by dkumar
Quote:
Great Dear!!! Helps a lot on monitoring of disk space on critical servers.

Please let us know, What ports or services required on remote system to collect disk information (Remote registry , 445 , 139 etc.)

Public Folder Replication

clarinathan — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:02:45 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 10/06/2008 at 10:02:45 AM by clarinathan
Quote:
Take a look here and see if that helps:
http://www.petri.co.il/pf_improvements_in_exchangne2003_sp2.htm

Windows Updates

rogerdodger — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:15:18 -0500

Hi.In the last few month for some reason many Computers when trying to install the latest update they did receive the message(error installing updates).
I will give you few commands line that will help a lot.

regsvr32 wuapi.dll

regsvr32 wuaueng.dll

regsvr32 wuaueng1.dll

regsvr32 wucltui.dll

regsvr32 wups.dll

regsvr32 wups2.dll

regsvr32 wuweb.dll

These commands they must be run all one by one and good luck.
Antivirus must be stoped during running commands.

Block SP3

rogerdodger — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:04:00 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 10/06/2008 at 01:04:00 AM by rogerdodger
Quote:
http://www.minasi.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=28771
With this commands your updates will run.

quote:
Originally posted by Michael

I down loaded the SP3 Tool from Microsoft a few months ago and have used on many computers without a problem. Now the past 2 computers I have installed it on will not install the normal 99 updates? It will download them and then states - installed failed. If I change the setting in the registry that the SP3 Block tool creates and run update again it will pull down sp3 to install. I do not want to install it. Anyone have this happen?

ML

Low Hard Drive Space

slister — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:39:23 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 10/05/2008 at 3:39:23 PM by slister
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Michael
Have a read of this http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc708031.aspx

Cheers
Steve

For all you scripting gurus out there

ianternet — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:28:37 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 10/05/2008 at 2:28:37 PM by ianternet
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Xenophane is absolutely correct.

I have run into this problem, and a simple sleep 3000 in my case resolved the issue.

Ian

TS 2008 advice please re VAS, WebConnect, PDFs

ptwilliams — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:45:04 -0500

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> Thanks for the response. You are correct - we dont need VDI. I was under the impression there are versions of the two products which are not predicated on VDI (??). I guess I need to look into them in more depth. I also need to know more about TS Gateway.

Quite possibly, I'm not familiar with any of the products and simply Google'd 'em.

Re. TS Gateway, start here:

-- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731264.aspx

And also look at this:

-- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771530.aspx

> Essentially, we are looking for the best way to deploy TS 2008, given that we need reliable USB redirection (including two way audio if possible), low latency typing, excellent print optimization (as per Thinprint, for example), ActiveSync for PDAs, easy file transfer....and (hopefully) optimized graphics. Application publishing would be very nice to have, but not essential.

So TS2k8 provides a new print mechanism. It's not thinprint, but it's free and makes things a lot easier if you've got fat client clients:

-- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753853.aspx

Re. your requirements:

> reliable USB redirection (including two way audio if possible)

TS gives you the audio and can redirect supported plug and play devices. What this extends to depends on what kind of stuff you've got.

> low latency typing, excellent print optimization (as per Thinprint, for example), ActiveSync for PDAs, easy file transfer....and (hopefully) optimized graphics

Unsure what you mean by LL-typing. Depending on the latency you should find RDP much better than working locally with remote documents. Graphics...well, that depends. As for PDAs I guess that comes down to whether or not they fall into the supported plug 'n' play devices. I'll have to check that...

> Our valuers are used to zipping around on their thick clients. The clerical support staff are used to working even faster, in a high pressure business where every minute counts. We've warned them that moving to TS will be a bit slower, but management want the cost and efficiency benefits while in IT we also want the SOE and ability to provide consistent support. It is really the only way to go given other plans in the company's future. We want the change to be as seamless as possible without breaking the bank....(we fully costed Citrix and decided we couldnt stretch that far).

The thing to remember is that VDI uses RDP or ICA in most cases, therefore what does a Vista/XP/SUSE VM give you that a TS can't? You can use SoftGrid/XenAppV to virtualise apps with compatibility issues 999 times out of a 1000. TS and XenApp scale far better in terms of user numbers than a VDI implementation does.

I'd approach this by looking at TS2008 properly as the primary strategy, and only branch out to alternate strategies if TS can't meet a requirement.

While I appreciate you're not talking about many users and computers, you want to see the difference in hardware with large numbers of users on TS Vs. VDI. And lets not forget the storage costs for VDI. You'll have your "image" delats loaded for each user. If you need to implement multiple different images, for different user types, this increases considerably.

TS shouldn't be much slower. In a lot of cases it's faster as the server infrastructure and data are local, to the TS.

Internet not Working

rogerdodger — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 09:30:03 -0500

There are 14 replies, with the last one on 10/05/2008 at 09:30:03 AM by rogerdodger
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Maybe this is not the PC prob.My idea try to reset the internet explorer on the PC.
Once i saw that prob and after resetings explorer and deleting all temp files works good after.
Good luck

AV for Win2K8?

ptwilliams — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:53:16 -0500

There are 14 replies, with the last one on 10/05/2008 at 08:53:16 AM by ptwilliams
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When it comes to AV my favourite thus far, although I've not directly worked on an AV solution for a couple of years so things could have changed, is Sophos. It's lightweight, cheap and really works well.

Using GPO to change local Admin Pwds

ptwilliams — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:50:41 -0500

There are 4 replies, with the last one on 10/05/2008 at 08:50:41 AM by ptwilliams
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Yeah CUSRMGR and manually invoked scripts are possible alternatives.
Although it might be more prudent to investigate how to go about managing this across your entire business in a structured and controlled manner. What I mean is there are several positives about having a strategy, with an automated technical solution, that essentially periodically randomises the local admin password of every system in the domain(s). The big decision is whether you track the passwords in a secure manner, and provide the info. to highly priveleged users, or if you leave it completely unknown and implement an on-demand reset option should you need local admin access. This, however, usually requires a GINA modification and also requires that the machine be online...

Cross domain LDAP/AD read rights

ptwilliams — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:44:37 -0500

There are 8 replies, with the last one on 10/05/2008 at 08:44:37 AM by ptwilliams
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Sorry, the first link was not the one I intended. I intended this one:
-- http://www.rlmueller.net/IsMember7.htm

But I'm not sure if that will do what you're after either. Check it out, and if it's no good I'll go through the steps that you need to take with you.

The second is simple but that, and the links on that page, should give you a good starting point on how to proceed if taking the .NET route. I've not looked at the S.DS.AM namespace yet so can't comment on whether or not it will give you what you want out of the box. I hope it does, as it's been touted to me as the be all and end all for this kind of thing.

The crux of the issue, and why it might not be as well documented as it could be, is that you have to perform a number of queries and you can't just use a GC as a GC doesn't hold the domain local membership so you have to query at least the GC, plus a DC in each domain.

I'll try and dig out my notes and post some additional info. for you over the next couple of days.

Virus Killing PCs

RichNRockville — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 07:31:21 -0500

There are 6 replies, with the last one on 10/05/2008 at 07:31:21 AM by RichNRockville
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Rogerdoger, your correct of course but most people running Raid, usually are smart enough to not click
on those stupid antivirus2008/2009 exe files..

Hopefully, anyway..

Making documents accessible via the web

Doug G — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 03:09:25 -0500

There are 6 replies, with the last one on 10/05/2008 at 03:09:25 AM by Doug G
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You probably should include the http:// prefix in the link url.

Just to make things interesting...oVirt

jaxdave — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:18:16 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 10/04/2008 at 9:18:16 PM by jaxdave
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thanks for pointing this out to use Mark. I have a webdemo of setup with my redhat SE next week to see the ovirt and redhat virtual technology in action.

SBS 2008 migrate Vista domain profiles

stash — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:30:06 -0500

There are 2 replies, with the last one on 10/04/2008 at 6:30:06 PM by stash
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I actually ended up creating temporary local accounts, copying the original domain profiles to them, and then running the connect computer wizard to associate the temporary local profiles with the new domain accounts. Worked great!

Thanks...

Broke Networking - A Second Time

wobble_wobble — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:19:48 -0500

There are 15 replies, with the last one on 10/04/2008 at 4:19:48 PM by wobble_wobble
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DEP blocks Print Spooler

rogerdodger — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:22:20 -0500

There are 12 replies, with the last one on 10/04/2008 at 1:22:20 PM by rogerdodger
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This problem had similar a few month ago.
What i know this is a virus running into your system.Its not maybe on your server running this could one of your users computer cause your machine connected into the network.My idea is to scann all PCs for viruses and scann your server also.
When i did that with a good antivirus programme i found on a PC virus (Trojan Horse) running into that machine and causing a big damage into my server.And after deleting that She..... i came back home and relax.

Software

rogerdodger — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:49:17 -0500

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Wrong place my friend you are

SSH Sentinel Clinet 1.2 or 1.3 VPN tunnel

mitachu — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 08:38:29 -0500

There are 5 replies, with the last one on 10/04/2008 at 08:38:29 AM by mitachu
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Just noticed that the URL I provided mentioned Linux. Did you manage to download the correct version?

I tried to download but I'm getting a massive 502 bytes/sec on a 16Mbps ADSL2+ line. Yum.

Google out to save the world

Mark Minasi — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 08:10:31 -0500

There are 3 replies, with the last one on 10/04/2008 at 08:10:31 AM by Mark Minasi
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Of course not, Tim. It's the American Way!

"Wean the US off coal?" Dumbass idea. We've got plenty of it. Better answer: coal generation with carbon sequestration. THAT's what we need to work on.

If only gasoline were $15/gallon -- THEN we'd have alternative energy technology.

Server Core hardware requirements

ptwilliams — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:44:59 -0500

There are 24 replies, with the last one on 10/04/2008 at 06:44:59 AM by ptwilliams
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I wouldn't use less than 16GB for the VHD. Use a dynamically expanding disk, defrag often and compact. Nothing worse than not having enought disk to install and while that won't happen with core it will with full.

16 GB seems to be the norm for RAM in servers at the moment and 32 is sometimes the standard (it is on the project I'm on). While I agree its nice to utilise several VMs at once, the new $28 hyper-v thing helps here doesn't it. And I'm able to run two full ws2k8 boxes with 1 GB RAM each on my Lenovo T61p laptop...

Any Access Gurus out there?

jbarrett — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:41:20 -0500

Hi Guys
I need a bit of help with what I expect is a simple issue, but I cant see a solution even after spending hours on Google looking.

Regarding Static Data Cascading Combo box

I dont want to fetch data from tables to display in the combo boxes just static set options. Let me Explain.

We have a database that organises orders and deliveries for an AVON Rep.

A customer selects when they would like deleivery and we put that in the system currently with two combo boxes, Dayoftheweek and timeoftheday, fairly simple they consist of;

Dayoftheweek=
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday

And
Timeoftheday=
Morning
Afternoon
Evening

They are put in the customer table as its updated for the AVON campaign they order on, via two simple combo boxes, This required two distinct actions, not very elegant really.

I was hoping to use a cascading combo box that would show the timeoftheday when a dayoftheweek is clicked on. Like;

Tuesday..Morning
.............Afternoon
.............Evening

(the dots just space it as spaces get removed in the post)

and they would then be updatedinto the table when the timeoftheday is clicked.

It would appear to be almost impossible without adding tables and writebacks and requeries and on and on.

Any thoughts please.
Jerry.

verifier command

glenn_faustino — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:41:42 -0500

There are 5 replies, with the last one on 10/04/2008 at 04:41:42 AM by glenn_faustino
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>>>Because some idiot would check all of the boxes and (1) their system would run really slow and (2) it would crash in eight minutes, so they'd blame Microsoft for creating an unstable OS.

[:D]

Glenn

Terminal Server Printing

Xenophane — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:57:54 -0500

There are 1 replies, with the last one on 10/04/2008 at 03:57:54 AM by Xenophane
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Can you print from the local server ?

I remember from my time in the airport where we had a lot of receipt printers, that they were very sensitive about the data transmitted to them. If the data were not formatted correct, the printer would not print out anything.

Windows Server 2008 Terminal Server

ptwilliams — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:33:26 -0500

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NLA can be configured via TSCONFIG or GPO you don't need to reinstall anything. You can simply turn it off if you don't want it.

The section "How to turn on CredSSP" in the listed KB is what is required at your XP client to get it work.

Clustering mess on my hands

Endaar — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:45:28 -0500

Hi all,

I need help, some ideas, a drink, anything. :)

I have a two-node 2K3 x64 cluster with shared storage on a FC SAN. Both the servers and SAN are HP, and roughly three years old. The cluster is doing file & print, nothing fancy, and is lightly loaded. The configuration of the cluster has not changed in some time, other than MS patches, which are up to date.

Wednesday afternoon, I added a new drive to the SAN and initiated an expansion of the array to which both this cluster and another cluster are attached. The second cluster is and has been working perfectly. I'm not sure if the expansion is relevent or not.

Thursday afternoon, one of the disk resources failed. The underlying volumes on the SAN were fine according to the SAN controller. Other disk resources located in the same array on the same SAN continued to work. There was no indication at all as to why the failure occurred.

I tried to bring the failed resouce back online with no luck. Each server was rebooted, one at a time, etc. Oddly, I noticed the SAN showing an "unknown" device connected but offline; there is no way another device was connected at any point. Eventually called HP, who walked me through the usual waste of time routine of checking drivers, etc. They pretty much blew me off and told me to power down everything connected to the SAN, reboot the controller, and bring everything back up. As crazy as that was, I did so, and still had the same problem. I was then told it was a Microsoft problem, as the hardware was fine. I got kicked out of the building, so headed home to VPN in and continue troubleshooting.

By now it was midnight, I sucked it up and called MS after-hours support, put the $515 on my own credit card, and was told to expect a callback in two hours. While waiting, I happened to try increasing the "pending timeout" on the failed disk resource to 360 seconds from its setting of 180. Amazingly, that allowed me to bring the failed resource online on node #1 of the cluster. Node #2 was physically on but otherwise non-responsive, so I had no choice but to leave it like that. 2.5 hours later, I had not heard back from MS and I called to cancel the ticket.

After four hours of sleep, I got back to the office and was relieved that at least the remaining node was working properly and everything was up and running. The SAN was no longer showing the "unknown" device, so I thought perhaps the complete reboot had helped things out. I left node #2 in its vegitative state all day, afraid to touch anything. Eventually, after most of the staff had gone home, I brought it back up. At first things seemed fine.

Not long afterwards, my monitoring system started to pick up a lot of degraded cluster condition traps. I'm not entirely sure how to describe what was happening. The cluster resources were not visibly bouncing from node to node, but they were intermittently becoming unavialable for brief periods of time. For instance, trying to access a share would sometimes work normally; othertimes it would take a minute or so for the share to come up. Once it had, further access would be OK for a few minutes and then the cycle would repeat.

I shut down the cluster service on node #2, and right now everything is fine, except that I have no idea what's going on. I can't find anything in the event logs of either server that indicate a problem, and I don't see anything obvious in the cluster log - not that I know what to look for.

HP has been useless as noted earlier. And while I can call MS back and pursue things with them, I can't shake the feeling this could be a hardware problem. I don't think it's the SAN per se, as I have a number of other servers connected that are and have been working throughout. But maybe a bad FC host adapter? No clue. I'd really appreciate any ideas, thoughts or even wild guesses. Anything to give me a direction in which to go.

Thanks much,
James

WinConnections in Vegas

sixdoubleo — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:33:18 -0500

There are 5 replies, with the last one on 10/03/2008 at 5:33:18 PM by sixdoubleo
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quote:
Originally posted by dmarelia

I'll be there (speaking). Only for a couple of days though.

Cool I'll be sure to make it to one of your sessions.

Outlook adress bok <> AD external contacts

comeaux31 — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:55:12 -0500

There are 14 replies, with the last one on 10/03/2008 at 3:55:12 PM by comeaux31
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Help! I have the exact same problem.

I had previously created a Mail Contact:

First name: john
lastname: doe
email: john@bigcorp.com. Then, john@bigcorp.com sent jane@bigcorp.com some mail.

Well, then John got married and changed his name to John Smith. So I deleted John Doe from exchange/Recipient Config/Mail Contact.

Well, the ONLY user who John emailed -- Jane, still sees John Doe and John Smith. If she tries to send to john@bigcorp.com, Outlook immediately changes it to point to the John Doe account and not teh John Smith account. The mail never gets delivered.

Jane doesn't see John Smith in non-cached mode. WTF?

My question: How do you purge the mailbox? I see no option anywhere for purging mailboxes. :(

(I'm an exchange �bern�ob.)

pdf docs replaced with xls

FAQS — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:57:50 -0500

One user has is encountering the disappearance of pdf documents and replaced with same by duplicate Excel documents in her outgoing emails. This happens when the names of the files are similar.

Anybody experienced it ....????

Thank you