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hi Hope someone can help cause im stumped. I recently installed a new DLT drive as the old one was faulty. the new hardware is exactly the same as the old one. Now instead of running a backup the job fails and goes into a "hold" status. Im running win2k. in the event log I get...

hi i had a power outage and now ive got notification messages - hundreds of them on each server. i cant get rid of them. ive tried restarting the messenger service and i even rebooted one of the servers - no luck. anyone got any idea how i can get rid of these messages? cheers wayne

Hey clever people is there a way to push out a policy set up in gpedit to all my win2k workstations on an Nt domain. its easy using ADS but i dont have ADS. if i was using NT workstations it would be easy as well but im not using NT wkstns. any ideas - hope im being clear cheers

Hi Exchange creates a .mmp file in c:\Exchsrvr\WebTemp Apparently this is a dynamic file that will be recreated if i delete it. my problem is that one file is casuing my backups to fail and i want to delete it but im not sure what will happen. anyone know more about these .mmp files? can i...

thanks for the feedback. can you explain what this regfix does? cheers

hi I get "Unable to attach to \\serverame\Microsoft Exchange Directory. Access is denied." Ive reinstalled the agent. ive definately got admin permissions on the box but i still get the same error? have looked at veritas site and cant find much on that error that helps me...

hi i get the same message "There are two administrators logged into the media server" when logging in. I always thought it was because i use terminal services. anyway - i dont have a problem wiht my notifications - so i dont think that error has anything to do with it. have you...

hi anyone know of an ap that will take a snapshot of the registry and then allow you to make a change on the system so that you can compare the registries to find the exact key that was changed? i know its out there somewhere :) cheers

i had the same problem. try using new tapes. if it still doesnt work you know its your drive. i also found that using a tape from another backup server even though it was the same make etc didnt work even after a quick erase. ive been told that it will work after a full erase though - still...

hi ive upgraded a server from 8.0 -> 8.6 i am getting errors saying OFO "open file option" isnt working correctly. this was used when the box was on ver8.0 can i remove it now - will the 8.6 agent take care of open files? cheers

hi I cant delete a dir on my server. it says access denied. i went to the actual box and tried ot take ownership but the option doesnt exist in properties? the file shows 0kb. anyone know of a util i can use? ive looked in the resource kit but didnt find anything. ive also tried a del /F...

hi anyone know a way to get the username from the wkstn name? I can pick up the wkstn name easily but dont know which user is using it. cheers

hi Im trying to install a remote agent on an 8.6 server. I get the error that bexec is still running and i cant install - even after stopping the services? anyone had this problem before? it works if i reboot the server but that cant be right? cheers

every time i've seen an eval version its had "evaluation version" written across the splash screen.

hi i've got a user who has set up a personal distibution list under contacts. she has about 100 people in it. when sending to list she recieves mail back with "unable to deliver message due to the number of specified recipients of the message" anyone encounter this before?