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Hi I have a client that has a couple of 2003 dc's and we are planning on putting in a server 2008 and want to make that a dc. I know I have to run adprep beforehand but the question is do both of the 2003 dc's have to be sp2 and above?. I have an isuue with one server that does not have enough...

Thanks for the input guys but O365 is not the answer here. The question is how can I get exchange 2007 (SBS does have full blown exchange) working as a secondary mail server if it is not authorative for that domain?

We have a client who's email is hosted at Rackspace and they currently download email using Outlook and pop3, which works ok to a degree but the problem is that their PST files are huge anything upto 20 gig in size and that causes its own problems. Their HQ is in Canada but the office we deal...

Agree with Zelandakh you DC is NOT Windows 2007! Have you installed all Exchange roll ups?

Hi Thanks for the reply I really don't have a problem in paying for this if it does the job.

Hi All Does anyone have any experience of remote monitoring software, we would like to install this on our branch office servers so that it would email outages etc and have a handy one place location to check for any potential errors. We are currently trialing Kaseya IT centre, but it is not...

Thanks for your help with this TechyMcSe2k after much bashing of heads i finally got the web dev guys to write a script to call when www.mycompany.org is called, something like this.... RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mycompany\.org$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mycompany.org/$1 [R=301,L]...

I have a client that is running one of these devices on a windows client/server network the problem that i am have is that the Hub stops trusting the server on a regular basis unless i setup the server to get its ip via dhcp from the hub, now that is not ideal because i want the server to have a...

Hi Thanks for the reply, i have had some feedback from the web dev guys who say the original website used "www.mycompany.org" wherein the new site is specifically using "mycompany.org" in it's configuration so i guess that's what is causing the problem but i don't have a clue how i am going to...

I have a client who have some problems visiting their website from within their hq , the doain name for their internal network is the same as the website address ie mycompany.org, we have an a record created on the windwos dns server that points to www and that works fine they have recently had...

Well thats what i thought but initially we never ever requested an DNS entry for this box with our old isp i just kind of worked ?????

Hi guys, we have just changed our isp and since then the external host name that the sbs server is advertising on has changed to hostpublic ip address.in-addr.btopenworld.com it used to be mail.mycompany.co.uk any ideas why that would have changed and how to change it back, i have ran the...

This could be an DNS issue, how are your ip addresses assigned are they from dhcp via the home hub?, if they are set the address statically and make your primary DNS server the ip address of your dc.

Hi guys I have a problem installing sp2 on an sbs server 2003, it runs through its initial checks and then comeS up with a dialogue box saying "the files c:\windows|system32\cacls.exe is open or in use by another application" close the program or retry. I can't find any info on this any where...

We have a client who is running exchange 2003, the mx records for mail point directly at this server and all has been working fine for the past few years, yesterday the server has been flooded with email (300,000) they normally process some where around 400 email per day, they are running Sophos...