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We're not set up that granular. Users can logon to their laptops anywhere (into their domain accounts) so they can work offsite. This is the first user who has ever had this problem thus our confusion. The backend is a Windows NT backend - and we have no roaming profiles or anything engaged.

Hi everybody, The machine involved is a laptop with Win XP Pro SP2 all the latest patches as of one day ago installed. The machine is part of a domain. The machine was on the domain, then taken off the domain for about an hour to go to a remote site. Without being connected to anything...

Hi everybody, General setup: Server - Exchange 5.5 Client - Windows 2000 SP4, Office 2000 In Outlook 2000, we have been experiencing a weird problem seemingly on random computers. When we go to a particular public folder and click on "New" to create a new entry, instead of pulling up a blank...

Hi everybody, I searched Microsoft's site and couldn't find this exact problem, so I'm hoping someone here has experienced and fixed it before. I have one user who uses webmail while out of the office. He can read his emails just fine, but when he hits reply, the window with the email itself...

Hi everybody, Recently, I reinstalled all my software on a machine from scratch. The OS is Windows 2000 and I have Windows 2000 Office Professional on it as well. I installed Faxserve 5's fax client onto the machine, and whenever I receive a fax now, I get an error complaining about not being...

Hello everyone, Recently one of our users discovered an odd Word problem associated with IE. Our software breakdown is as follows: Windows 2000 Professional SP4 Office 2000 Professional SP3 Internet Explorer 5.5 SP2 as well as 6.0 SP1 (problem happens with both) Here are the steps to...

We haven't reproduced it with the 6.31 client, but we did reproduce it with the 6.20 client. :( Ben

Hello everybody, Here's a brief description of our set up: HP Server Windows 2000 Server Citrix XP Metaframe FR2 Client: Citrix 7 We recently found that some of our users have been having trouble connecting to the server. When they try, they get a small Debug Window with the following error...

Hi everybody, We have an at job set up (via the command line) on a Windows 2000 Pro PC. The job is supposed to launch Excel, and it seems to do so - but only in the bg. The user cannot see Excel running, but when you check the tasks, it is running. Any ideas on how to make it visible? Does...

Greetings everyone, Thank you all for the help you have provided recently. Unfortunately my user's Office 2000 problems persist. When she opens Excel documents, she gets the following errors: "Cannot use object linking and imbedding" "An error occurred initializing the VBA...

Hello everybody, I'm curious if anyone has seen this before. One of our users was opening Word documents when she would get the following error message: "This document could not be registered. It will not be possible to create links from other documents to this document." When you...

I am curious if anyone knows what mechanism Word uses for it's auto-date function (when you begin to type in a date, it fills in today's date for you). Recently, a user in my group has experienced a lag in the date. For instance, if today's date is 8/11/03, when she types out the date, Word...

Thanks for the tip, unfortunately we don't have AD set up, and to do so would mean taking the box down (which we can't do right now)...I'm hoping there's an alternative. Ben

Hi everybody, We originally set up the Citrix 90 day eval. to test it out. We had users on the box and when everything seemed fine, we created the 'live' box which users then changed their connection settings to point to the new box (a Win2K P4). Recently, we discovered that when people are...

Well, the real problem is with home users. When they log in via Citrix, everyone can see their local printers at home. Is there any way to prevent that? Ben