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  1. helsknight

    MS Office license volume vs retail

    We have @40 users I just got a quote for volume license on MS office standard for $365 per license. Retail MS Home and Business which has the same products is $247 at CDW. That's a difference of $118 per license for $4720 total savings. Can anyone tell me why I should go with VL other then...
  2. helsknight

    Is sbs 2011 right for me?

    We currently have two locations connected via vpn. All servers are virtualized on ESX 3.5. Main site has 30 employees: Server 2003 DC with DNS and DHCP Exchange 2003 Server 2003 Application server with SQL 2005 Server 2003 Terminal server with Citrix Metaframe Remote site has 4 employees...
  3. helsknight

    Blocked Emails

    We recently install exchange 2003 and started to host our email internally. Previous to that we had our ISP host our email domain. We are finding that a few domains out there are blocking our emails. Examples: xxx@att.net on 4/22/2008 8:48 AM There was a SMTP communication problem with the...
  4. helsknight

    Outlook 2003 script to archive and copy to server

    Hello everyone. Total newbie with VBS. Everyone is using Outlook 2003 with Exchange 2003 server. Once a year I would like to archive the emails to PST files and copy them to a server. There is a auto archive feature but I like to take this out of the users hand as much as possible. On a...
  5. helsknight

    Word 2003 - Pop up Windows Live Id Sign in when inserting picture

    Window XP PRO and Office 2003 with 2007 compatibility pack. In Word when you insert a picture from file, a pop up windows ask you sign in with Windows Live Id. How can I disable this annoying feature? Note: Tools-->option-->edit-->track changes is uncheck. Hels
  6. helsknight

    exchange blocking winmail.dat?

    I was told sender is using Outlook. We have Exchange 2003 with Outlook 2003. Sender email user with PDF attachment. Email comes through to external spam filter (mailwise) with three attachment winmail.dat, Xam_0.rtf, and giberish name.pfd. I spoke to mailwise and they said they don't block any...
  7. helsknight

    data dir moved

    Have a MS SQL install on C drive (default) but the data dir is on the D drive. D was getting full so I did a backup of D and restore to a new drive F. F was then re-assign the dir letter D. In enterprise manager, I can't access the SQL server anymore, icon has red square (connection failed...
  8. helsknight

    Moving share dir

    I'm moving a large 100+ gig share from on hard drive to another. I need the share to retain all share/security/file. I tried xcopy and that didn't go so well because some files have problems moving, etc. What's the best way to do this. I need a tool to move all this and report which file fail...
  9. helsknight

    AD OU startup script to run once only

    I have a script I like to run once only. In AD I create an policy for the OU computer config\windows settings\startup. I think this is running everytime on startup. How can I tell the policy to just run once, if already ran disregard the script. Thanks Hels
  10. helsknight

    AD Software deployment issues

    This is a bit hairy so bear with me. We are using AD to deploy some of our softwares. After I created and activate a policy to deploy the software, some computers will install right away some may never see it. I want some form of consistences so I added this to the logon script "gpupdate...
  11. helsknight

    AD Software deployment issues

    This is a bit hairy so bear with me. We are using AD to deploy some of our softwares. After I created and activate a policy to deploy the software, some computers will install right away some may never see it. I want some form of consistences so I added this to the logon script "gpupdate...
  12. helsknight

    offline defrag didn't shrink edb and stm

    We are running out of physical space on the exchange server (1.5 gig left). So I thought the best way is to have users archive previous years of emails into PST files on their local hd and do a offline defrag on exchange 2003. after archiving all the pst files on users hd, I copy them to a...
  13. helsknight

    BAD BDR files

    This folder "C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\Mailroot\vsi 1\BadMail" is growing rather large. So my question is what are these files *.bad and *.bdr and can I delete them. Thanks Hel
  14. helsknight

    Multiple OUs for software deployment

    I'm trying to find a best way to deploy software with AD OUs. We have 3 office loc1, loc2, loc3. In AD, since i'm assigning by computer so do i use OU layers? For example in loc1, we have 3 dept admin, eng, and sale. Everyone in loc1 needs office 2003. only Admin need software A, Eng need...
  15. helsknight

    2003 SBS disable DNS and DHCP

    Can you disable DNS and DHCP on a 2003 SBS server? We have a domain controller already with DHCP. I need to use a SBS server for a test server and like to have it on the same subnet. I heard that DHCP and DNS can not be disable. Is that true? Hels
  16. helsknight

    transfer time out

    Every so often when I'm downloading or uploading (http or ftp) something online I'll get a connection time out. The sites are varies from Hotmail, Yahoo, Symantec, Mailwise, etc... It seem to have it's own threshold of data to download before it time out. The downloaded files could be pdf...
  17. helsknight

    Vista License backwards compatible with XP?

    I have a client who purchase a PC with Vista on it. Some applications is not supported by Vista yet. I faintly recall that XP license were compatible with 2000. Meaning if you had a XP license you can install 2000 on that machine. It's not dual boot or anything. So it has Vista on it, don't want...
  18. helsknight

    rejoin workstation

    I've accidently delete a XP workstation from the domain. When I try to rejoin the workstation, from the workstation with the domain admin creditial, the domain accepted it. After the reboot, when the user logs in they get an error saying that the domain controller could not be reach or there...
  19. helsknight

    Citrix and NAT

    Environment: MetaFrame XP using NAT Watch Guard firebox I've set it up so that the altaddr was the public IP of the citrix server. So externally, everything works fine. Internally, our DNS records points the web address to the NAT of the server. So when the web interface access the site...
  20. helsknight

    access deleted user's mailbox

    I have a user who was terminated. I deleted her domain account. After realizing that i haven't archive her inbox yet, created her account again. I'm not able to access her mailbox with the new account. In the system manager I can see her in box with 1000+ message and over 200mb. How can I access...

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