Recent content by b5passat

We're in a Windows Server 2003 environment with mixed clients (2000, XP, and Vista). I need to implement a GPO for a standardized wallpaper which management has provided. About 10% of our users are mobile that are regularly disconnected from the network out working in the field. My current...

One thing to add... When I do an export of my OU, some users DO actually show up as plain text. My DN is NOT one of those that shows in plain text, which is what leads me to believe that this has nothing to do with permissions. Matt

I've been tasked with standardizing the address for our agency contained in AD as we're going with a standard email signature. I already have the script written to read from AD/LDAP for the signature. We (our agency) are at the tree level in AD, and we don't house domain controllers, that is...

There are numerous users in this one agency that we support whose certificates literally stop functioning, they get an access denied error when going to our secure site. The users are on Windows XP SP2. The system administrator (who is good) says that there are no group policies which are...

We were thinking of regedit, ideally we'd like to just give the user a command that they can execute and get the settings back to us. Many of the callers don't have a clue when it comes to computers, give them a gun, but don't give them a computer as they are far more dangerous with the...

We've been having a rash of users after they upgrade to XP SP2 that cannot connect to our secured site. We've been through all the MS troubleshooting for XP SP2 steps, and have looked at the router and firewall levels, nothing should be preventing people from getting to the site. They are...

The least of your problems are right there in your small test environment. You are making an assumption that NO additional software has been installed on these deployed machines over the 6 months of usage. The documentation specifically states that AI should not be used except to deploy packages...

However if you have standard hardware platforms, Ghost would still save you time there. You have your standard build and then deploy your MSI (or SMS) packages to the client as needed for jub function. At a recent trade show put on by IBM, they were touting a product called Image Ultra. If you...

I did this via a registry modification in the login script. Worked great. The sites are defined in the registry. If you really need me to find the location, let me know. It will be variable depending on which portion of the trusted sites you want to add. Matt

1. You can have them pull scripted installs (batch files) from your machine by sending them an email with a link to the bat file. We do this very commonly as SMS is being implemented currently. 2. You can set up your own SUS where you select which files you'd like published, and they go dl them...

Did you output the dumpchk file to a text file? Once you do that, go back and read the file that you dumped the log to. One of my more recent troubleshooting tasks using the dumpchk was throwing an Exception Code 0X80000003 I turned around and searched that exception code on Google, found an...

The trick is to not bother with the stop codes. Generally they are generally too broad based to tell you what is wrong. You need to read that minidump log. You really only need to install the symbols and the reader from the support\tools folder on the W2K CD. You don't need to download all...

See the Technet article at: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q254723 this will tell you how to read the minidump logs. I've been quite successful in pulling information from the minidump logs and tracking down problems from it. Matt

Network Associates has a fabulous piece of software called the Installation Designer. What you do is install McAfee on a clean machine, and set the update/upgrade locations and any scan tasks and how you want everything scheduled. Basically build yourself the "ideal" machine. Run the...

You will have to touch each machine, it cannot be done remotely. I spent a lot of time trying to come up with a method of running a program under the context of the local administrator. The Runas must be installed first as a service, and even when that is done, I didn't have much luck in getting...