Recent content by Stevehewitt

Hi guys, I'm a PoSH guy at heart, but I fear I can't use it for the task at hand and I know next to nothing with VBScript... I need to write a logon script that when executed under the users context will clear to null an extension attribute on their AD user object. Permissions are already set...

Hi guys, Got Exchange 2007 (MBX, HT and CAS on one VM) and a 2010 server in the same domain doing the same roles. In the middle of moving from 2007 to 2010. However we got brought by a new parent company and have moved all computer and user objects into the parent's company domain. So all...

Seems that you can't proxy with Ex2007 to a 2010 environment. Need to have a 2010 CAS internet facing box with valid SSL cert on it, DNS name etc. Put nothing into the ExternalURL field and ensure WinAuth is enabled on the ActiveSync virtual directory - voila. Steve. "They have the internet on...

Hi Guys, Exchange 2007, all roles on a single server and a 3rd party product for the SMTP gateway (MailMarshal) that's setup as a SmartHost in Exchange. Just built a 2010 box on SP2. Moved a test user across and all mail delivery works fine. All good. However we have a number of Windows Phone...

Thanks cajuntank - I'll start looking into the 3800 series. The 29xx's are excellent value for money but the stackability of the 38xx's sound like a huge advantage when looking at poor man's redundancy...! How have you found resiliance in terms of RSTP? Coming from a FC only background I'm...

Hi Guys, I have a single bus physical topology for our data network all using HP ProCurve 29xx switches. This is a fine little 10Gig backbone network for simple data (and some VoIP with CoS) and a handful of VLAN's - however on the budget given we could not deploy any redundancy. Our SAN for...

The PDC emulator gets it from the firewall so all servers would have the skew. Plus the firewall is accurate. Thanks, Steve. "They have the internet on computers now!" - Homer Simpson

Not too sure what your question is exactly... need more information about how things are setup too. No idea why you'd need IIS but you can happily add in another NIC to the new server so it can access more than one network. Describe what exactly you are trying to achieve and I'll see if I can...

Looking at the log in more detail, I'm coming to the conclusion that this is nothing to do with w32tm as there is nothing in the logs at the time that the time was changed - therefore can I assume that the change isn't from w32tm but rather something else? Any ideas on debugging this one...

Hi Guys, I have a 2008 server which is a member of a domain (2008R2 levels and DC's). Recently the time on the server skips forward by around half an hour (although it can be an hour) for a few minutes then back to the correct time again. What I've done: - Reset the W32tm config to use domain...

Hi Guys, We are a UK based, pretty much single site business with a single domain running Windows 2008 R2 for our DC's and have about 500 staff. We also use Exchange 2007, SQL Server 2005/2008 and Sharepoint 2007. All rely on AD for authentication. An American company recently brought us and...

Thanks kmcferrin, What would happen if the policy isn't set to uninstall when it falls out of scope. Would the new "Super policy" of all the apps remove and reinstall all apps in scope or just acknowledge they are already installed and therefore not do anything until I add a new update to the...

Exchange 2003 will work fine in a Windows 2008 AD environment. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff728623.aspx Steve. "They have the internet on computers now!" - Homer Simpson

Hi Guys, I have a few working group policies, each one deploys a seperate bit of sofware (e.g. one GP for Flash deployment, another for Acrobat Reader etc.). I want to have a single policy with these deployments in it rather than a GP for each bit of software I want to deploy. My question is...

Doing a cross-forest GAL requires a connection to the remote AD forest. If you don't want a site-to-site VPN then this script should allow periodic manual updates into AD for contacts. Steve. "They have the internet on computers now!" - Homer Simpson