Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

Register Log in
  • Congratulations Rhinorhino on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Recent content by tim55

  1. tim55

    Is DFS still a good technology

    We have two separate offices, both with 2003 servers and a VPN between them. In the next couple of months, 3 more offices will join the business and we then have the question of how best to share files among all the offices. At the moment, it is a bit haphazzard with a combination of DropBox and...
  2. tim55

    Keyboard problem on server install

    Luckily, a mate of mine has the disks I need and he will be in his office in an hour, so I will go over and get them. Hopefully, his disks will work! Thanks for the help.
  3. tim55

    Keyboard problem on server install

    Thanks for the reply. Would you believe it, it's a corrupt install disk! I just tried to install using a 2003 SBS disk and it worked fine. It's a proper disk, with all the holographic design on it and definitely came with the server, although 2003 was pre-installed on delivery so these disks...
  4. tim55

    Keyboard problem on server install

    I am reinstalling Windows 2003 server onto an HP Proliant ML115 after some disk failures. I have tried two PS2 keyboards and two USB keyboards and get exactly the same result: The server boots up and I can navigate through the BIOS no problem. The server then boots into the install CD and into...
  5. tim55

    Simple file transfer

    This isn't exclusively a VPN topic but it has arisen through our use of it. We need to transfer files from one office to another and have been using the VPN connection to do so very successfully. Of course, if large files are being sent then the file copy box is sitting on the desktop for a...
  6. tim55

    Restoring emails

    Thanks for the comments guys. The deleted emails cannot be found using Recover Deleted Items. A bit odd really and I can't find a way to do it from the server, so restore from backup seems the way to go.
  7. tim55

    Restoring emails

    Someone left last week and appears to have deleted all their emails and then gone into Recover Deleted Items and deleted them from there too, since from either Outlook 2010 or using OWA, no emails can be found, except for the few that have come in in the last few days. However, Exchange is set...
  8. tim55

    OWA and web server

    Thanks. I'm trying https://mail.domain.com/owa and https://ipaddress/owa and I just get Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage.
  9. tim55

    OWA and web server

    I have tried on a 2003 SBS server and I think I may have misled myself. Going to https://mail.domain.com/exchange works fine with port 80 forwarding disabled (I assumed port 80 was also needed). So, all that is needed is port 443 forwarded and it should work, regardless of the web server. So...
  10. tim55

    OWA and web server

    We have a web server, a new 2011 SBS server and one public ip address. Our router NAT table maps port 80 to the web server and although port 443 maps to the 2011 SBS server, we cannot get OWA. We can get it internally but not externally. Can this be done without resorting to another public ip...
  11. tim55

    Mail server advice

    Thanks for that Paul and of course you are right, every situation is different. But it is good to get other opinions and my thinking is probably along the same lines as yours. Tim
  12. tim55

    Mail server advice

    I am assuming that some of you at small businesses may have come across the question of do you get a Windows SBS server and then use it's own Exchange to handle your mail, or do you get a standard Windows server and then use one of the ever increasing hosted Exchange services. The issue seems...
  13. tim55

    Backup concept

    There is no more empty feeling than grabbing just the backup media you need to save your bacon, trying to restore it and something is wrong that prevents you from getting data back." Yes, I have had that and yes, I very nearly got fired over it! Thanks for the comments.
  14. tim55

    Backup concept

    Thank you that. I have done a little investigation and it seems that Symantec System Recovery is a product that addresses exactly the concern you mention and will restore to dissimilar hardware. If so, then my initial backup idea is looking better!
  15. tim55

    Backup concept

    We just backup everything on a 2003 SBS to tape every night but I was thinking of doing more to speed up disaster recovery. The idea is that all our data, on it's own drive, is backed up as usual every night, including the Exchange server data but once a week, we make a c:\ drive backup or...
See more

Part and Inventory Search

Back
Top