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We have parent and child domain and a shared exchange infrastructure (2 administrative groups). Parent domain has its own exchange server and child domain has its own exchange server. However, child domain uses parent domain's exchange server as a default mail gateway. When we have visitors...

No, some workstation had SP3 installed manually and strangely enough their installation went fine. it looks like SP3 almost did not recognize IE7 or treated it as malfunctioning and tried to uninstall it. At least missing ie...dll happens when IE 7 is uninstalled improperly

We use SMS to push out security patches and Service Packs. During my recent deployment, i ran into several computers that reported C:\windows\system32\iertutil.dll missing after computers rebooted upon finishing the SP3 installation. With the iertutil.dll the users were not able to get passed...

We have about 1000 workstations/laptops to migrate from IE6 to IE7 using SMS. Has anyone migrated and now has a good migration plan? Is there a best practices for migration you can refer me to? Thank you!

Thank you very much for recommendations!

Thank you for advice! I looked at diskeeper but it looks like I have to install it on every server/computer in order to configure it for the enterprise. What version of Raxco's perfect disk are you running, theravager? How many clients do you manage with it?

What is the recommended virus outbreak threshold for servers? I am looking for the number of viruses detected in a period of time that should trigger the virus outbreak alert.

I am looking for the enterprise level defragmentation tool that allows central administration and that does not slow down server performance. Do you use a defrag tool you really like that you can recommend? Thank you!

We have 6 computers with Cisco Security Agents V4.5 and CiscoWorks management center to manage the Agents. I noticed that Cisco Agent does not allow c:\windows\systems32\lsass.exe to run thus creating the logon/logoff issues. Which rule module do i need to modify to allow LSASS.EXE? I created a...

We have 6 computers with Cisco Security Agents V4.5 and CiscoWorks management center to manage the Agents. I noticed that Cisco Agent does not allow c:\windows\systems32\lsass.exe to run thus creating the logon/logoff issues. Which rule module do i need to modify to allow LSASS.EXE ? I created...

Thank you very much for the tip. I am in the process of testing it.

Thank you very much for replying. I am not sure how to create SMS package to modify the registry. Will you please advise?

Is it possible to manage Windows startup with SMS? We have Office Communicator 2007 that starts up automatically. I am looking for a way/tool that would help me remove communicator from windows\currentversion\run for roughly 400 PCs

We have Citrix based intranet. When opening the connection to the intranet, it opens Citrix MetaFrame connection. the ISA 2006 we use for proxy purposes causes Citrix MetaFrame connection to fail with error" The configured proxy server refused to establish a connection According to this...

We have several users with multiple email boxes/accounts (user@domain1.com, user@domain2.com, user@domain3.com). Basically, the user has several accounts with the exchange box assigned to each account. The user has send as permissions and when he/she needs to send email as a the user@domain2 one...