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Hi All, I have been tasked with carrying out an audit on our Server estate (350 + Windows Servers), trying to establish if and where they back up to. (Don't ask, just been through painful merger process and inherited a load of kit we need to support). Anyhow, what I would like to know is; is...

I have the following script, to reset the Administrator password based on membership of an OU. However, I would like to report a success or failure when the script connects to the computer. I added the 'On Error Resume Next' line to avoid the errors, but I can't see the progress of the script...

Within Active Directory, User Properties, there is the Account tab, this where you can limit the Workstations a user can log on to. The question is, is there a limit to the number of workstations you can add to this property? In User Manager for Domains it was 8. In AD I believe the limit...

OK, I feel this is a easy one for you to answer, but I can't think of an easy solution. Scenario is; I have a long list of Names(Total), a report is run on these Names(Total), the output is then another list of Names(Found). I would like an easy way of removing the Names(Found) from the...

Is there an easy way to create say 100 new user accounts with User Mnager? I need to add 100 users with a generic account name (differentiated by a number suffix), eg library001, library002 etc. It's easy to do the single user and copy, but is there someway to do 100 straight off, without having...

A client of mine uses medical equipment which dumps data to a PCMCIA card. Now she used to download the data to a laptop by inserting the cards into the PCMCIA slot. However, she now has a desktop PC and needs to read the data. Has anybody heard of or seen a PCMCIA card reader for a PC...

Ok, here is the scenario. I have an equipment database to track software licences and server hardware. I have a main table for the server hardware and three other tables listing different licences, versions, revisions, upgrades etc. The only field that links the 4 tables is the Server_Name. I...

Does anybody know of a way (macro) to save a Word document by using an item of text within that document? I write many documents based on the same template and wondered if a macro could be written that would save the document using two of the titles / fields within that document. For instance...

Here's my question, is it possible to merge two fields within the same Access table. For instance I have two Fields 'Site ID' and 'Site Number' can these two fields be merged to form data in a third column. IE Site ID=ABCD Site Number=1234 Result column=ABCD1234 I can do it easily in...

Has anyone had any experience in using a biometric device to logon onto an NT/2000 domain? Any input on the hardware or software would be welcome. Or any information on these devices would be helpful. Apologies if is not the right thread to be using, but it is on an NT network that these...

I have an Excel spreadsheet that contains in Column A dates for the current year, in columns B to G are numbers between 1 and 49 (Lottery numbers) depending on the drawn numbers for the corresponding date in that Row. What I want to do is, on another Worksheet, determine the last date on which a...

We are using Windows 9x on a Micosoft network, with Office 97 / 2000 on the client PC's. When some users logon they are getting a message up that says "Dll can unload now" with the option to OK. Has anyone seen this before? Thanks DEC

Several of our users when logging onto our NT/2000 network are getting an error 'DLL can unload now', has anyone seen this one before. I presume this comes across with the profile, but it hangs the PC. Any ideas....... DEC

Hi, I'm trying again with this thread. I tried it in a different forum and got a mixed response. What I am after is a (freeware) utility that can interrogate network PC's for installed software. I would like to audit all our PC's for licence purposes, but with an ever growing network 2,000 plus...

Does anybody out there know of a freeware auditing tool, that will run on a NT network, to report installed software on remote PC's. Ideally, I would like to have an application that will run from a server without having to install software at the client end. I am running some batch files that...

Where I work we clone our PC's with Norton Ghost. Our PC's our networked and we have user profiles enabled. Sometimes we find that when a user logs on and tries to open a Office app. it returns an error 'this application needs to be installed to run, please reinstall the application from it's...

I'm sure there is an easy answer to this one. I want to create a summary worksheet that refers back to cells in previous worksheets in the same workbook. I can easily reference the cells by typing "=NAME!C3", but I want to add a variable to that cell reference so I can change which...

After having problems with Adobe Acrobat 4.0, I had to uninstall and then reinstall, since then the Distiller PDF printer option does not work, more specifically Distiller does not show in the printers folder. Has anybody seen this before. I have tried the Adobe website, but that was not very...

Here's a plea to all you out there. Has anybody come across or installed a Braille printer. Ideally what I'm looking for is a printer that will connect to the LPT1 port on a PC and be used as a normal printer would be, given the correct driver. Even better would be the option to print / emboss...