Recent content by drew1701d

Sounds like a firewall or browser service issue to me. "I'm certifiable, not certified. It just means my answers are from experience...not a book

for some reason my Windows 2003 server is no longer launching installers when I click on ANY msi package, it acts like its going to launch then brings up the Windows Installer pop up window that you get when you feed a msi file the /? I've tried reinstalling the latest windows installer to fix...

Something cheaper than what we've dealt with (Netbackup) in the past. We've been eyeing Acronis, and looking to see if anyone still actively uses Amanda.org for windows backups. "I'm certifiable, not certified. It just means my answers are from experience...not a book

Truecrypt would be my first recommendation. With the native Encrytped File System feature of Windows 7 Professional/Enterprise/Ultimate a second. "I'm certifiable, not certified. It just means my answers are from experience...not a book

Our organization is looking for a Open Source or very cheap backup solution for bare metal Windows 2003 server systems so we can have a speedy recovery in the event of a system failure, my boss has given me a deadline to have a system back up in <4 hours but not break the budget trying to do...

I've inherited yet another router with my customer and am barely a noob with Cisco routing yet they say, be happy your still employed, our budget is tight so figure it out. So heres what i'm trying to enable. They want one of their servers accessible both ways via specific ports, think port...

We have a Windows 2008 R2 AD domain and cannot change the file associations of any files, specifically we installed Perl on a 2008 R2 member server and cant change the association of the .pl file type via the Set Associations applet other than what is there, the box is checked and greyed out...

Can't quite tell if the link you provided linney gives a solution. "I'm certifiable, not certified. It just means my answers are from experience...not a book

Yeah I already have that setting set in the administrative template of the machine and group policy settings still are not applied. "I'm certifiable, not certified. It just means my answers are from experience...not a book

We have new Windows XP Pro 64 bit workstations that I've added to our domain and appropriate OUs which have group policies that work fine on our 32bit XP workstations but do not apply at all to the 64bit XP workstations. Any help as to how to get these systems to get the group policies as thats...

Hi, We recently installed ePolicy Orchestrator 4 and have been unable to apply Patch 3 or 4 the only ones available for download on our grant page. The update looks promising then we get an error at the end saying it failed to apply the patch. Any ideas on how to get the patch applied? Thanks...

Ok, I see there is a similar post but want to vet my scenario anyways...one of our DC's crashed...now have just one DC running 2003 Standard Edition with SP1 A standby server I have is running 2003 Standard Edition R2 with SP2....when running DCPROMO it tells me I need to adprep the forest...I...

I support several networks (both with WinXP SP3 clients and Win2003 SP2 servers)and deploy some software via Group Policy. Is there a product or tool that can have the workstation detect if no one is logged on and reboot automatically so group policies can be refreshed? "I'm certifiable, not...

How can I copy her profile if its a roaming profile..the copy option is greyed out for her profile on the computer "I'm certifiable, not certified. It just means my answers are from experience...not a book

she has local admin privileges to her workstation as do all other users in her group..and all have the same release of Perl and environment variables from what I can tell "I'm certifiable, not certified. It just means my answers are from experience...not a book