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Hello! The CD-ROM on 50 IBM X41 NetVista systems will not read CDs unless a CD is in the drive when the user logs in. (Drive is visible, it just always prompts you to put a CD in the tray). If you login with the CD tray empty you cannot access any CDs during the entire session, but if you...

Hello! You need to download the .NET beta admin tools from MS - the W2K version will not work on XP. Description of the issue: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q304718 The Beta Admin Tools...

Hello! The CD-ROM on 50 IBM X41 NetVista systems will not read CDs unless a CD is in the drive when the user logs in. (Drive is visible, it just always prompts you to put a CD in the tray). If you login with the CD tray empty you cannot access any CDs during the entire session, but if you...

XCOPY replaces SCOPY in Windows 2000 by adding additional switches (/O, /X) that copy the ACL and auditing setting. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/TechNet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/maintain/featusability/stoxcopy.asp Just run XCOPY /? to get a complete list. Pax...

IIS 5 is installed automatically when you install Windows 2000 Server. However any configuration changes depend on what you want to do with it - will it be on the Internet or only on the local network? Any special web applications? Etc. You may want to start with the MS official IIS site...

I believe this password is kept in the SAM (could be wrong). If you reboot in the AD recovery mode the SAM is available under Computer Management. But, of course, that is your problem. There are a number of password recovery tools from vendors available taht might help...

Is your Exchange server open to the Internet? My first thought would be you might be the target of an external (or even internal) spammer running messages through your system. You may want to lock down your SMTP server and allow only authenticated mail and make sure non-authenticated systems...

It depends what you want to do - many mail clients support encryption (e.g. Outlook) using certificates for individual messages. Or do you want to encrypt everything going to and coming from the server? And do you need encrypted storage or simply transmission. If the later then IPSec would...

You install the tools from the Exchange 2000 CD - start an Exchange installation on the remote system and uncheck all but the tools (Microsoft Exchange System Management Tools ). Also be sure to install the Windows 2000 adminpak.msi (on the W2K server CD or in the SYSTEM32 directory of a...

Information on removing drive M: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q305145 Information on virus scanning and backing up drive M: (don't do either) http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q298924 Pax, Richard

The new drive (usually M:) is part of the installable file system (IFS) and Exchange 2000 uses it to expose the message stores for web (OWA) and file access. If you browse to it you will see mailboxes, etc. If you don't need it it can be removed - but don't unless you know you don't need it...

Try stopping and restarting IIS - there is often an intialization problem. Be sure to refresh the view just in case. Pax, Richard

A major customer of mine is using Trend and they have had lost of problems, especially with deployment and maintenance. Not to mention conflicts with SMS and a number of specialty in-house web based applictions. I worked in their software testing lab and looked at a lot of AV software and...

Are your RAS clients registered in WINS with 21h records (the special WINS record registered by RRAS for remote connections)? If not then the problem might be RRAS improperly registering the clients. Is your RRAS server also a Domain Controller? Have you tried just deleting the record and see...

How is the server configured and connected to the Internet? If it has 2 NICs does the web site have all IP addresses assigned or maybe it was accidently changed to only the internal address? Also look for any port conflicts between the web site and the ftp virtual servers. Try disabling the FTP...