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After some searching I discovered an entry in the tools->send & receive->download settings... menu This allows you to specify how often the offline address book is sync'ed. and clicking send & receive all, usually causes the offline address book to be updated. There is still a problem which I...

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Hi, I have a problem where some my users Outlook does not pick up new users in their Global Address List. If I query the active directory using the address book tool, then the user is there. But if I create a new email, then click "To" and Show Names from the Global Address List, the user does...

Hi, I have enabled some users to be editors on my calendar, when I create a meeting and the other attendees accept, all the editors get copies of the response emails. Is there any way to disable this, as these people are getting their inboxes filled with loads of responses, which are only...

you can specify an IP per mac address in dhcpd.conf like so; host hostname { hardware ethernet 0a:1b:A4:EC:5C:9A; fixed-address hostname; } The dhcp server should resolve the hostname from DNS and give that Ip address to the computer with MAC...

The way I have implemented the software delivery aspect of Active Directory and group policy, is to create OUs for each department, and security groups for the software delivery. So I have OU=FINANCE OU=MARKETING and Group=SoftwareDeliveryFinance Group=SoftwareDeliveryMarketing All users in...

there are some other things I would try once the machines are showing that they have IP addresses, and you are sure the the networking config is correct, is to see whether and 2 machines are correctly arping each other. do; ping address and then quickly do; arp -a and check that an entry...

I come to this somewhat late, so I'm not sure this will be useful, but it sounds like hardware failure if you can be sure that nothing has changed on the machine. If you are running windows update, you could check to see if it has installed anything in the last few days that might have caused...

open a session to the server using the correct credentials using "NET USE" like this; net use * \\servername /u:username /p:n password then open visio, and the user will be using the username/password to open the document

yes, I truly am a twat. it was the numlock key. thanks though.

I have been using vmware, which is piece of software that allows you to load guest operating systems into a virtual environment. After a couple of hours messing about with vmware, the keyboard key mappings changed. the 'i' key now prints '5', but the '5' key is still '5' the ':' char now...

i used a brute force program to get the sa password, fortunately the person responsible chose a dictionary password. i got it from here; http://www.sqlsecurity.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=5&tabid=7

A SQL SERVER 7 machine on my network was used and abused by a user, who reset the sa password and removed the NT/Administrator user from the SQL server sysadmins group, rendering it inaccessable to any sysadmins. How can I get sysadmin privileges back on the sql server? I have tried, 1)...

One way of achieving a no-downtime transfer is use IISSYNC which is a utility that replicates iis installs from one machine to another. first step is replicate everything other than iis, where this is files, permissions, dsns, com objects that might have been installed from one machine to the...

IISSYNC failing with "An attempt was made to reference a token that does not exist" Hello, I have 3 IIS servers used in a windows 2000 load balancing setup, they are all domain controllers. One of the servers has a database that stores all the site configurations, and is used to...