Recent content by zigcoors

You can block MSN / windows messenger with Group policy. For other Messaging / chat clients you could add them to Policy to stop them running. Obviously I'm assuming your running an AD Domain.

Microsoft also have a utility called qchain for chaining of patches together - I havent used it for a while - do a search in the MS KB for it. Ian

Are you running AV on your server / PC's? Sage have a list of file extensions that need to be excluded from your realtime protection. If they are not excluded than you will find Line 50 runs like a dog :-). If Sage cannot tell you the list of exclusions then I should be able to get it for you...

Sounds like your DHCP scope is issuing the ISP's DNS server to your work stations :-). Also you might want to check that you have an rDNS Zone set up. ie IP address to name. This helps speed up resolution in AD. If you already have one - make sure there is a PTR record for your DNS server(s) Ian

As the man says its the APC powerchute software - if its any version 6 - then the Powerchute sevice hangs and wont start - stopping you starting other services. Un-install it reboot. Then download V 7 from APC, in extreme cases the server will not boot period. APC have a KB Article on how to...

I think you will need to establish VPN's between each site, so site 1 VPN to site 2, site 2 VPN to site 3, site 1 to site 3. You cannot route to a non-connected sub-net via a VPN tunnel. Ian

Cheers Mark - to be honest we can down the other DC's as the work will be carried out out of hours, so the issue of updates to AD probably wont be an issue. Upgrading to SBS 2003 would not be practical until the server has been rebuilt - as it has various file system errors, so we would need to...

I have seen loss of Network resources when the PC Clock is more than 5 mins out of synch with its DC. Your logon script maybe set to synch the time at login - but then the PC clock looses / gains time. Is the time Zone set correctly on the PC? Any W32Time events in the Event log? Ian

Sounds like you havent config'd the DHCP Options to include giving out the DNS Servers IP address. Admin Tools > DHCP > select server > Scope > Scope Options > Right Mouse Click > Configure Options Ian

you need to be a member of the Local remote Desktop Users group.... ie on the PC. if it is a necessary for all users to be able to RDP onto their desktops from a VPN, then include a command in the login script to add Domain Users to the local remote Desktop Users group. Do it some thing like...

Hi - The senario is we have an SBS2000 domain with 2 addtional DC's on 2 sites. The SBS server needs to be rebuilt due to hardware problems. The SBS server is backed up daily - inc AD. Has anyone restored an SBS 2000 server in a simular senario? The complication being the additonal DC's -...

I think you will find that store.exe is designed to use the maximum available free memory - store.exe is your Exchange store. Our 2k Exchange server store.exe often will use up to 1Gb of RAM.

I have a mailbox - that has the customary Red X through it - when attempting to Purge the mailbox I receive an error: "This operation cannot be performed because this mailbox was already connected to an existing user ID No. c1038af9 Exchange System Manager" There is is a User Account of the...

OK - you really need to do the lookup against an external DNS server for your domain. The info that you have is your internal DNS info - not the same as the rest of the world sees. Change the DNS server in the properties of your network connection to an external server, try 212.1.128.156 Ian

if i did a NSLOOKUP on your domain - would it return your SBS servers external IP address as the MX record. for example H:\>nslookup Default Server: fred.domain.co.uk Address: 192.168.10.105 > set q=mx > mydomain.com Server: fred.domain.co.uk Address: 192.168.10.105 Non-authoritative...