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I have attached the dcdiag results but all tests seem to have passed ok. Thank you for the link, as far as I can tell all of the srv records are correct. Domain Controller Diagnosis Performing initial setup: Done gathering initial info. Doing initial required tests Testing server...

Both DC's are GC servers. At least the GC option is ticked on both servers settings.

I have two domain controllers and two dhcp servers. If the domain controller which holds the FSMO roles is powered off users cannot authenticate. When the dc is powered up all is fine again. DHCP is set to give out both dc's DNS to the client machines. DNS settings on both controllers looks...

I agree with mrdenny - I have used diskpart.exe on a number of servers successfully to extend disk partitions. It works almost instantaneously which can make you think that it has failed but it has not let me down yet.

I have a backup server which had an LTO2 tape drive attached for our backups. I have added an LTO5 tape drive to it. I have installed the correct drivers for the Adaptec card and for the LTO5 tape drive and it is seen in device manager successfully. Windows Backup gives me the choice of LTO...

I thought I would respond to my own post as I found the fix for this and others may like to know how to do this. Instead of mapping network shares as \\servername\share, map the shares as \\ip address\share i.e from \\fileserver\share to \\192.168.10.10\share Now the users can use a slow...

Hi, I have about 80 users on laptops, all on Windows XP SP3. Everything works fine, Folder Redirection, Offline Files etc. We have added a new complication to our way of working which I would appeciate some help with. The users sync My Documents which is redirected to a network share. At log on...

I have installed a new Windows Server 2003 onto the company network as a DC. I ran DCPromo and I thought all was well. It is also a Routing and Remote Access server for VPN as well as a DHCP server. It is to replace two aging DC's which I will demote. This will leave me with two DC's for a...

Many thanks - I will now do that. Sorry again for the question but it is not clear in Groupshields documentation.

On our new Exchange Server 2003 should I install Groupshield 6.0.2 and Virusscan Enterprise 8 or is Groupshield sufficient. I know this is basic stuff and apologise in advance. Many thanks for your patience.

Thanks wimvh, that's great and is much more elegant than the solution I stumbled onto. Create a test file which I called Y.txt and the batch file reads net share sharename /delete < d:\Y.txt. I appreciate your time and effort

I require to remove a share temporarily to keep users out of a database while it is compacted, repaired and copied. I send out the usual "please get out of the database" messages which are ignored and although we run a vbs script which is supposed to get users off of the database there are still...

Hi I am doing some DR testing and am trying to restore a complete sql server to a new server. I have been able to restore the data database files but when I restore the master database the mssql service always starts and after about ten seconds stops with the error "stopped with no error". I...

Hi I have a database containing one table. It is quite a large table. The user would like to be able to search for records using a form which refers to around 20 fields. The output should be in a tabular form. How would I go about creating a form which the user can type the data in to one or...

Dear Dustbuster Sorry for the delay in responding - this code does what it says on the tin! Very many thanks