Recent content by drkestrel

Is it possible to set up the Event Viewer on Win2K Server with SP4 to *automatically* archive each event viewer when, say it reaches 1024KB or when it becomes 30 days old? If so, how?

I am trying to set up a user with Terminal Services access to a Windows 2000 server (with SP4) that 1) Could not see shortcuts under \Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop 2) Could not see shortcuts under Could not see shortcuts under \Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu How could...

In terms of security, what is the pros/cons of running the SQL Server Service and SQL Agent Services as - Local System Account - Dedicated Domain User accounts with no special priviledges.?

I know I could do the following but forgotten what keywords I need to use to do it. Basically, i have a SQL Server 2000 table called store created by an SQL user called "publications". What do I need to set up for the windows user MachineName\IUSR_MachineName to run SELECT * from...

I have a Windows 2000 Server domain controller, and I intend to rebuild it on a new server. I obviously want to move the users and security group from the old server to the new server. It appears that with LDIFDE, I can't import group membership. The following attributes appears to cause...

It turns out that the problem is caused by an extra VbCrLf at the end of strLatestPackageFile. That's why it appears visually OK in the MsgBox but FileExists returns false.

This is in a WSF file. If I take out the code and put in a VBS file. Same error! Regardless of whether I use cscript or wscript to run the script on WinXP Pro SP2.

Oh, FileExists return false, but the the file indicated by MsgBox strLatestPackageFile does exists. why is this!? Do i need to escape the slash (\) or what?

I got a problem as demonstrated by thee following code. The test for FileExists returns True, and also MsgBox strLatestPackageFile also looks legitimate. However, I get "File Not Found" error when GetFile is called on the same file strLatestPackagefile has been initialised to...

According to http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xmlsdk/htm/xml_obj_iserverxmlhttprequest_7zlc.asp, MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP.4.0 support the FTP protocol, but how could I use it to FTP post a file to a remote FTP server that requires a username and password. I guess it...

Just find out that strInfoFilePath has not been initialised properly

I am using the following code to check to see if a text file exists. Log is a subroutine I wrote that logs a message to a log file. The code jumps into the If statement to indicate that the file does not exist, although if I open up the log file or look at the message box, I could manually open...

I have the following set up VNC Server: -Runningg Windows 2000 Professional SP4 -Open SSH (as a Windows Service) -RealVNC run as a Windows Service (password set whilst user Myadmin is logged on) User set up: -Myadmin -Administrator group -Mylocal -restricted user Following regiistry key set...

Event viewer revealed no errors whatsoever. The task sometime fail to do what it suppose to do non-determinstically, regardless of whether machine is suspended. For instance, on the last run of the second mailing task, the "status" is 0x16, although scheduled task did not indicate...

I have got 3 scheduled tasks: 1) one with a CMD file that use the rasdial command to dial an internet connection using 2) one with a CMD file that runs a perl script to send out an email using a SMTP server with ISP 3) one with a CMD file that use the raddial command to disconnect from ISP All...