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You generally require 2 name servers when you register your domain. One is primary, the name server DNS that will be Authoritative for your domain. This can be your ISP's DNS server. The second one is DNS server that internet users lookup when the primary DNS is NOT available (they can go...

Active Directory users and groups MMC in an exchange server machine has the exchange extensions that allow you to create mailboxes for users. You can use ADUG to create groups on any machine that has the admin.pak installed but you will only see the exchange extensions/eg create mail boxes on...

You should use the ISA services so you can selectively give access to diferrent users. You can use a group policy for setting the proxy settings in IE. If ISA is setup for caching, it will also save you money and would be quicker for pages already stored in the cache. Email uses ports 110...

I think you CANNOT do the pull and rebuild strategy on this one. The hard drive size is different, RAID 5 requires all drives to be same size. There should be no difference between a DC and a member server when ghosting. You said you have succesfully ghosted RAID drives. I'd like to know...

Well, the reason they are able to do that is because your default gateway setting actually exist. A default gateway by definition is the address of the router that allows them to reach 0.0.0.0 which is the internet. Normally this will be your firewall/internet router and if outgoing web services...

I use exchange 2000 but I imagine exch2003 would not be too different. In AD, when you create a distribution group or a security group that is mail enabled, any user that is added to that group will receive mail that is sent to the group. Use AD users and groups. Find the user and open...

DSrt, When you say "Because we were going to use the same domain name that was currently being used by our ISP, we could not run in parallel" are you referring to your_company.com? I cannot see any reason why you cannot use that for your AD domain (although most books will say use...

after reinstalling win 2000, did you run a restore of a full backup including system state? That should bring back your server to the state before it crashed. the 2003DC controller would contain a sync copy of ADS and should resync back the restored ADS. If that is not possible, you can...

If you are adding a new workstation to an existing windows network, check the properties of another computer that belongs to the domain (server or workstation). That is, right click on my computer (in desktop)and select properties. I will be in one of those tabs. It will show name of machine and...

Jurgen36, Thanks for the tip, I would have never suspected the power supply let alone use an oscilloscope to check it out. I am a fan. Your computer MIS-adventures fascinate me. Like you, I also work in a school (since 1989) in technical support. I've seen some very weird, can't explain it...

Thanks. I'll try them tomorrow.

I'm trying to fix a laptop with an irritating problem. IE 6 won't connect to anything that uses SSL; that is it will not find any https: sites. It will go say to hotmail but when you enter username and password it will come back with page not found just because it switches to https during...