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Can anyone tell me how to do this? We have just set up a new domain and want to add old domain servers to the new domain. The old is server2000 the new is server2003.

Installed new network, we have 2 campus's so we have a server in each campus. Best practises for DNS in this case? We are connected via a 3mb telstra megalink. Do I set up a DNS in each site or user forwarders? No time to read up on it, so thought one of you lovely people might give me some tips

Can anyone explain which I should be using? Or a book on the subject? There are so many settings and so many levels I am at a loss to know which to use! We want to apply polices to users but the policy needs to address computer settings such as background, prevent changes to all sorts of...

Anyone know how to do this, we are using active desktop with a particular background for different users (so we can see at a glance if a student or teacher is logged in.) This background come through ok sometimes but others only a small part appears at the top and the rest is black, is there a...

Very slow to login using roaming profile. We are a college and need roaming profiles as the users 'roam', anyone got any idea's? We don't want to keep a cached copy on the local computer as we have found this slows the system down too when there gets to be a few on there. We plan to make the...

How do you copy Group Policies from one Organizational Unit to another? I tried adding the group policy from one OU to another, but that doesn't seem to work.

Have read a few threads and people are saying don't use batch files etc. Can anyone give me a basic example of a login script that maps drives and home folders by %username% New to this, 13 years with Novell so steep learning curve! Thanks

We have managed to import users ok, we are now trying to copy over their home directories and give the path to them in the profile tab of the users properties. We can copy the data but when we try and set the home folder path we get a message saying 'the %1 home folder was not created because...

New to server 2003, Novell admin for years and years. I presume there is a way in server 2003 to distribute printers to groups of computers? We are a college and have classrooms of computers with printers specific to the classroom. Can someone point me in the right direction on how to do this?

The server is not working today, saying something about being unable to read DNS obj name, but on further investigation I find when I load intetcfg there is no configuration there at all, could the network card have died? How would it totally lose the configuration. It shows no boards, no...

Building XP Pro, installed all programs, joined to a domain. Copied the user profile to default user as I wanted all users to have access to these program. Logged in to local machine and the admin tools are not showing. Can anyone help??

Can anyone suggest a good package to use for mail. We would like something that will allow shared documents, shared calendars etc. We will be running a server2003 domain.

Where can I find this? I am told it's really good to load on and XP Pro client to manage group policies

Is there a way to filter out duplicate records in a spreadsheet?

Work in a school, changing to 2003 over Xmas. What sort of profiles should we use, we have found in the past that the more profiles stored on a PC the slower it gets. With Novell we created a local profile and then removed it on logout for students and let them stay for more static users (like...

I have been told that SUS or WUS is not reliable, anyone comment. What do people use to 'push' out updates other than the client automatic update?

Running Xp Pro 2002, I am administrator on my own machine, cannot change the time, tells me 'you do not have the proper priviliges to change the system time. Any ideas?

Just built a new 2003 server, DHCP, DNS and AD are all installed, DHCP says it's active, cannot ping from a client, I think I remember seeing something about this is one of the MCSE books. Can anyone help? Ip address's are correct, ranges are all ok.

Can anyone point me to a document that covers this?

Trying to create a list of usernames for import into Microsoft 2003 server. I have an excel spreadsheet with firstname, lastname and want to combine the first character of the firstname and the whole of the surname into one cell, can anyone help?