Recent content by Antony13

Just as an update to this, we reckon this is a result of the Blaster worm as there seems to be a lot of people with this problem as a result of the worm on other discussion groups at the moment. Unlike others though, this was caused by massive changes in the registry (especially under...

Hi all, We're running a Windows 2000 Terminal Server built from scratch and have a problem where, when you try to cut and paste or copy a file within Windows Explorer, it does not copy - no error messages, just nothing happens at all. There is one user who can do this so I thought that it has...

There's a tool called "dcpromo" which you run from the Start > Run box to create an Active Directory domain. Unless you're just playing around to learn, I'd suggest reading up on Active Directory on the many white papers available from the Microsoft website as if it's going to be a...

Found out about this new tool today, it's called Browcon and is apparently very good for resolving issues with the Browser service i.e. machines not appearing in Network Neighborhood: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=818092 Worth a look for you. Cheers, Antony

what operating system are your clients running? If they aren't W2K or above, then they'll be using NetBIOS / WINS to connect to the domain controller, not DNS so this could be the problem?

Hi, We have a setup here where we have 16 sites around the world. I have recently set up a group policy at the site level which sets a user's internet proxy settings depending on which office they are in to prevent internet traffic travelling needlessly over our internal WAN links. For some...

Ideally you want your system disk (usually C:) and your log files disk (usually D:) on 2 RAID 1 arrays and then your database on a RAID 5 (E: drive). This keeps your log files and database on separate disks allowing the system to write to both at the same time increasing performance. With 3...

NTFSDOS Professional from Sysinternals is the only way I know to access NTFS partitions from DOS: http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ntfsdospro.shtml You can download an evaluation but this read-only so you'll have to buy it to do what you want to do I think. Cheers, Antony

Hi, Wish I'd seen this a week ago, would have saved me the hassle of finding this out for myself!! Anyway, have you yet found a way to run a command repeatedly? I need to schedule a task and run it every 15 minutes but I can't use the AT command as it needs to run with a domain admin account...

Excellent! No problem at all! Cheers, Antony

This decision needs really to based on the business needs. Is administration going to be centralised? Do you want people in one office to be able to access resources in other offices? If so, these are both justifications to have just the one domain. On the flip side, if administration is being...

Hmmm, hard to tell, but what I'm saying might be applicable! The metadata cleanup only deletes the connection objects i.e. if you go into Sites and Services, go into a server, you see NTDS settings - this is what the metadata cleanup tool gets rid of so the server will still appear in Sites and...

Just had a look on our setup and the only trusts I can't remove because the Remove button is greyed out are trusts to domains in the same forest - is this the case for you? If so, you can't break those trusts with the tool as this is the way AD is designed. What was the CRBS domain? Has it been...

Are you an administrator in this domain?

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