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  1. MrRetro

    Outlook 2002 pst file back to Outlook 2000

    Hi all I am curious if I will have any trouble going BACK to outlook 2000 after running outlook 2002 for awhile. Basically I have had OL 2002 working for a few months and want to go back to OL 2000 but I would love to keep my pst file I used in OL 2002. Should I be doing an export or is...
  2. MrRetro

    Strange network behavior

    Hi all I have a new issue that has been popping up on one of my servers more frequently and am at a loss as to what is causing it. Our PDC loses its mapped drives for approx 20 minutes about once a week. When you dbl click the share in my computer it will say...unable to connect to h: the...
  3. MrRetro

    Cant get my head around term server licensing

    If someone can help me figure this out it would be much appreciated. I have a 2003 term server, lets say I need 100 people to access a program through this server (have the program run when they log into the machine). Do I need 100 licenses for the server as well as 100 terminal server licenses...
  4. MrRetro

    Metaframe 1.8 server french keyboard issue

    Hi all I have a user running windows in french, he uses a french keyboard which works fine on his desktop. Whenever he connects to a metaframe server or runs an app published from that server he loses his functionality. He can't hit his backspace or enter keys they just stop working. Anyone...
  5. MrRetro

    Replacing a BDC

    Hi I am curious how I would go about swapping out a BDC on a remote site. I have a BDC now in a branch that is very close to dying (blue screens on reboots). I want to replace it with another machine, but how do I get the other box configured when the old BDC is still running. Ideally I would...
  6. MrRetro

    Cookie madness

    Hello all I have a problem driving me up the wall with 2 machines on a remote site. When they attempt to log into a webpage with an ID and password the page never comes up (takes a long time resolving it) and they get a page cannot be displayed error. I can take my computer in the very next...
  7. MrRetro

    Services applet gone

    Hoping for some help on this one...After installing sp4 and rebooting I wanted to check on some services that were running. Through computer management the services applet is completely blank...as in there are no services running. Has anybody seen this before ? I have googled it and come up...
  8. MrRetro

    Moving a Paging File question

    Hello all Quick question, what is the impact of not setting the 2 mb minimum when moving a paging file from one physical disk to another ? Just curious if it is absolutely necessary and what is the impact of not setting it. thanks in advance.
  9. MrRetro

    Printer on print server has stopped working

    Hi all Hopefully someone can lead me in the right direction because Im going nuts with this one. I have a remote site with 2 computers and a Canon i860 printer, the printer is connected to a Jetdirect print server. The machines and the print server are connected to a cisco 501 router (no hub)...
  10. MrRetro

    OL 98 Signature problem

    Hi all Wondering if anyone has come across this before, a google turned up nothing. I have a user who created a new signature in his outlook to reflect an email adddress change. When he makes a new mail message the new signature is attached fine, but when he replies to an email he gets his old...
  11. MrRetro

    Changing IP addy info with a batch file

    I have 2 sites that one of my users will be travelling between, one has a dhcp server the other has static IP addresses. Is there a batch file that I can use that will change the ip address of the machine depending on where the guy will be logging in. Basically I need to do a release and a...
  12. MrRetro

    Workstation cant be pinged or accessed

    Hello all I have a laptop with win2k pro installed, it is at sp 4. The machine shows up on my network browse list but I cannot access it from network neighbourhood (gives me a network path was not found error). When I try and ping the station by name the address gets resolved to the right IP...
  13. MrRetro

    Blank desktop after logging in-explorer.exe not running

    Hi all I just finished a clean install of win2k pro and after applying the critical updates upon rebooting I am prompted to login but never get any farther (no desktop/icons). The machine just sits there with a blue background. A google returned MS KB Q256194, the symptoms are exaclty as...
  14. MrRetro

    Win2k pro slow to make network connections as user

    Hello all I have one laptop with windows 2k pro on it that is causing me headaches. We publish an app through Citrix and making the connection to our citrix server takes an awful long time as a domain user, when I log in as the domain administrator the connection is speedy like it should be...
  15. MrRetro

    Windows 2003 Term Server published App vs Citrix

    Hi All I am curious if 03 Term server is as good at publishing apps as Citrix is. I am trying to free up some cash and the Citrix licensing is pretty pricey. Does anyone out there use this in their environment and if so how good has it been ? I am just beginning to test this with one client...
  16. MrRetro

    2k3 TS and Citrix

    Hello Has anyone had any experiences with Windows 2k3 TS and publishing applications ? In our old NT environment we have had to resort to using Citrix to pump out our app to the remote locations, as NT didnt do it very well (too much overhead). Does the new version of TS do this better ? It...
  17. MrRetro

    VPN from a hotel room

    Hello I am curious how you guys get around the high speed setups in hotels. I have a few salesmen who travel and they never seem to have any success connecting back to our network through the hotels high speed internet connection (dialing in works fine). Subsequent phone calls to the hotel...
  18. MrRetro

    Veritas 8.6 backup to file confusion

    I am having a hard time finding correct information on my searches so I thought I'd just ask the experts. Is it possible to backup a server to file and have the file grabbed by another machine during a nightly backup ? I have another server I would like to backup as part of our daily backups...
  19. MrRetro

    USB and NT printing problem

    I have a windows XP pro machine with a shared printer on a usb port and have been trying to get a NT workstation to connect to it for 3 days. I know that NT does not support usb but I thought that would just be for local connections, has anybody had any success connecting to a printer this way...
  20. MrRetro

    MSsearch service

    Do I need the MSsearch service running in order for sql2k to function properly ? Is the MSsearch service much like the fast find service was ? and will turning it off free up resources on my sql box ? Could the MSsearch service be sucking all my memory. Vague questions I know but I am just...

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