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Is there a way to determine if a message you sent has been opened or viewed by the receipient without the read receipt(that the receipient has the option to send or not). Some users are saying that they just recived it when they had acutally received the message several hours before. Thanks in...

We have three servers on in each location, cannot find the tech that set it up, Is there an easy way to determine if the servers at the remote sites are PDC's or BDC's?

We are experiencing a problem with one of our locations, some machines can log on and others are getting account restriction errors. Upon checking this I looked at the event log and found several errors related to DNS such as event 4000. I tried to add a user into the active directory and...

We want to allow a certain group of users to create and name folders appropriately on the server but not have access to delete, I set the security permissions as I thought would work (using the advanced button) but when I remove the right to delete it also takes away their right to rename the...

The server works fine to log into and run the necessary applications (this is in application mode), however when logging off it hangs up at the logging off screen, we have to kill it with the terminal server manager. This happens with all users including administrator, this also happen if I try...

Windows 2003 Terminal Server hangs up when logging off the RDP Client. I did try to log on using the administrator account also as well as running the RDP client on the server. It hangs even in all these different scenarios.

By default domain users do not have rights or have limited rights to the local pc(workstation). With programs such as quickbooks you need to have some rights to the local pc. Is there a group to assign them to or a group policy to accomplish this. Right now we go to each machine and add them in...

I am looking for a way to log off all terminal server users, I cannot get these guys to log off and prevents us from getting a good backup, I would like to run a batch/script before the backup runs. Any suggetions? Bret

I have a server with 2 hard drives in a raid 1 configuration (windows raid). Is there a way of testing this. I was thinking of disconecting the main drive and trying to boot from the mirror. Should this work and what will need to be done once the test is performed.

I have a customer with a windows 2003 server (Domain), one a couple of workstations last week the loaded some applications (not sure which one exactly, some vertical application). He logged on as administrator to load the software, when he logged off and logged back in as the user (the same user...

Is there a setting to look at to determine if the server is a PDC or BDC?

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We want to have a default desktop between users, especially those who have not logged on to the PC previously. All computers are on a Win2K domain, I tried roaming profiles but they cause too many problems. We have a few applications that we want users to have access to regardless of which...

You got it, that is all it was, SBS normally sets this up properly.

I am pretty much a newcomer to dealing with exchange, I was under the impression that using a client such as outlook you connect to the exhange database and the messages are downloaded to your client, but the message still resides on the server. I have a new laptop that did have a couple of...