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I'm a network admin. I've created a %username\documents folder for all users and applied the necessary security. For most users, I make this folder available offline and I am able to include it in their Documents library. For the last two users I did this, but was unable to include folder in...

Just got to a new organisation and I need to verify that their DNS is set up properly. New York is the main site. Texas and California and Washington are the other sites. Only Texas and New York have a domain controller and DNS server New York has a DNS server with a forward lookup zone of...

I need a kick-start. I just got to a new organization, they have Windows 2008 with Hyper-V hosting an Exchange and a SharePoint server. It has a 4-port NIC card with only one port plugged into the network. I want to add at least one more connection to increase throughput. What is the correct...

I'm almost ashamed to ask this question because I've done this many times before. But something's not working and I want to make sure I have it right: I just started at a new company. They have 5 locations, and a server in each location (which are NOT running DNS). Location 1 has their main...

Whenever I attach a Word document to an Outlook email, I'm able to do it and send the email, but then when I minimize Outlook there is a window with this error: "You cannot close Microsoft Office Word because a dialog box is open. Click OK, switch to Word, and then close the dialog box." When...

I'm using the following formula to calculate discount. I put the result in a string that I use to export to a CSV file. Round (({MSRP}-{@Selling price})/{MSRP}*100,0) The problem is the result displays with 2 decimal points: 69 percent displays as 69.00 I can't format the field in the report...

I'm trying to do a select based on the value of a text field. I want to exclude records that contain the words "damaged" or "out of stock" in the item description. It could contain other text as well, so I need to search the string for those words or phrases. I've tried "is not like" and tried...

I get alert messages from our SonicWall. Lately I'm getting a few hundred every day because we're being port-scanned from an ISP in another state. I tried going in to the router in front of the firewall to add an ACL dropping traffic from that site, but the router is owned by Cablevision and...

I have someone who has given delegate to an admin, and wants to get an alert or an email whenever the delegate sends an email on behalf of her. I looked into setting up a rule on sent items, but I didn't see a way of checking for "on behalf of" in the sender's address. Any other way this can...

I'm trying to set up an automated procedure that runs a Crystal report against an Access database. The tables in Access are ODBC linked to an AS400 database. I need the linked tables to refresh when Access opens the database. Is there a script, macro, or command line option I can use to do...

I just got a new smartphone and tried to set up activesync on it, but had problems. After some research I found our since I'm a member of protected groups (domain admins, etc) that I'll have trouble synching. So, I made a second ID for admin purposes and got the phone set up by removing my...

I'm getting many 5447 events per second every few minutes on a 2008 DC. I looked through the security policies (I didn't set them up) but I don't see what could be causing these. The Windows firewall is off on this machine. Details are below, help is appreciated. Log Name: Security...

I'm trying to run crw32.exe from a macro, but the macro fails when trying to access a database. The error says I'm running the standard version of Crystal reports 11. If I go to help, about it shows standard edition. But, if I Crystal reports from the start menu, I get Professional edition -...

I'm having trouble applying SP1 to Exchange 2010. When doing the upgrade, I get this error: Organization Prerequisites Failed Error: The Active Directory Schema is not up-to-date, and this user account is not a member of the 'Schema Admins' and/or 'Enterprise Admins' group. Click here for...

I just replaced a terminated administrator. He gets a lot of email that needs to be followed up on. I want to deactivate his ID and mailbox, but I need his mail forwarded to me, and I'd like an autorespose sent to whoever sends him email saying to contact me. I tried setting up a transport...

We upgraded from Exchange 2003 to 2007 a while ago, and had a problem with public folder permissions. I'm a domain/enterprise/exchange/exchange organization administrator, but I could not access some public folders. I ended up on the phone with Microsoft, they talked me through deleting and...

I need to change the IP address on a Bossanova e-twinax print server. Bossanova was no help unless you pay them for a support contract. You're supposed to be able to http into this, tried it with no response. Also tried hooking a com cable to the comport and a PC, says I'm connected but no...

I have an email enabled public folder. When a new email is received, I'd like to send an alert to someone. Right now I could only figure out how to forward the email to someone, which is no good because I want the email to stay in the folder. Tried to create a rule to copy the email, couldn't...

I'm currently breaking up our networks into VLANS and readdressing all IP devices. For the most part, computers and servers will be on the same VLANs, but other devices will not. If I want devices on a different VLAN to register in WINS and DNS, what's the best way to make sure the devices can...

We recently upgraded to Windows server 2008 on one on our DCs, added DNS and WINS to it. Everything was fine until we had an outage one weekend. Monday had some problems with name resolution until we got everything up and running, had to turn on computer browsing on the Windows 2008 server...