Recent content by RobertMottram

It there a rights issue. We had a similar issue where users did not have ocal admin rights to their own PC.

We support a number of Windows 2003 SBS servers and on a few of them we are having a problem with the POP3 connector and undeliverable local mail. There is an option in the pop3 connector to deliver all undeliverable mail to one user (so any unknown mail goes to the administrator). This option...

Could you use a DTS script in SQL to dump the data in the one table you need to a file then put that file onto tape? This script could be scudualed to run before a nightly backup. This would not replace the need for a full backup of the database, but if you generaly need to restore the same...

I have had exchange cached mode setup on lots of computers in a number of different environments. I have found just ticking the 'use cached mode' option has work without any issues. The only issue I have had is with Roaming profiles, but I think this is due to the way teh profiles were copied...

We have an 2003 Domain and exchange server. All the users a configured to use roaming profiles. I know how to create a default profile for the roaming users, but outlook needs to be configured for each user with the username. How do I configure the system so when a new user logs in for the...

We have SQL Server 2000 enterprise manager running on windows XP. Out of three computer 1 can connect to any SQL servers, but the other two cannot connect to an SQL server. When you try to register the server an error comes up saying Invalid attribute/option identifier. Has anyone got any ideas...

When I try an add a new slide to a powerpoint presentation I get up the New Slide page where I can choose an autolayout. The problem I have is that there should be a 'thumbnail' picture of what each of the autolayouts look like but I don't have them. This makes it very difficult to know what...

I know that when I was looking around at passing parameters I found something about this, I just can not remember where. I ended up passing everything by formula fields in the end. I will try and find the solution for you again, but it was in one of two places. Either repObj.something or there...

This is really a two part question. We are trying to create an LDAP internal address book for out firm. This will need to pull data from a number of data sources (mostly other LDAP databases, ie phone system and Novells NDS) I want to know if I can get information from an LDAP data source into...

I am totaly new to working with LDAP, but out firm is currently trying to create an internal address book, and LDAP is going to come into this in two ways. Firstly we have a number of LDAP databases (the phone system, Novell's NDS, etc) and we want to be able to pull all this information into...

I tried that as well. The problem then was as soon as the form was opened the sub main contniued to run, and once it got to the end of the sub the prgram closed. I could not think of a way to stop the procedure getting to teh end and so finishing my program

I have an application which opens on form, once the user has entered some parameters I want to close that form and open another. The problem is that if I close the first form the application stops. What is the best way to do this. I have just moved from VB 6 where this was not a problem as the...

I am using VB.NET from Visual Studio.NET. I am trying to display a report which was created in Crystal report 8. If I use the VB.NET report viewer I get a message about the database connection type not valid for the new version of the viewer. For this reason I have used the viewer which comes...

I have just moved from VB 6 to VB.NET and finding a number of things have changed. I know that most of the VB 6 functions can be called using the compatability functions, but as I write new code I think it would be better to use the new methods. The problem I am have is finding a way around not...

A brief Overview of the Class/Collection thing would be great at some point if you get time. Thanks very much Rob