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Hi all, I've just posted this as a reply to another post but thought it deserved it's own post! I know I'm not alone when I say FTP in IE8 was rubbish! I enver could find a way, even with turning on all of the ftp view etc in Advanced Internet Options to get a Windows Explorer interface so I...

Hi guys, looking for some advice. I've got a customer that runs SBS 2003 on on a Poweredge 840. Internal to the server (right at the top of the tower) they have a single drive that isn't part of any RAID, that they use for backups, they have 2 of these that they swap "regularly". They were told...

Chaps, when configuring the event log properties manually, you have an option to "Archive the log when full, do not overwrite events". When trying to do this via GPO, the only option around archiving you seem to have is to archive after x days. The problem I have is my security event log (set to...

Chaps, looking for some help here before I go mental!! Basically I'm trying to get some group policy user config applied to users when they log into a particular set of servers which are in their own OU (a different OU to the users that are logging on to them), but the policies aren't applying...

hi guys, I'm upgrading some SQL 2000 servers to 2005 in a week or so. they're currently being backed up by BackupExec 10.1, and I'll install hotfix 6 to get it SQL 2005 compatible. What my question is, is do I need to upgrade the "Agent for SQL 2000" license to a 2005 compatible one, or will...

Hi guys, as part of a security audit, we've been asked to enable that the administrator account. I've found that you can do this with passprop /adminlockout But my question is does this enable lockout for the administrator domain account, or the local administrator account? Also, do I need...

Hi guys, can anyone possibly point me in the right direction here? I've installed vista ultimate and setup Media centre. I now want to view the media centre through my tv downstairs. I believe you have to have a "Media Centre Extender" to do this? I've found this...

Hi guys, does anyone know of a way that an administrator can find out what delegates are assigned to a certain mailbox, other than opening outlook and checking in there? Was wondering if there was a way to do this is Exchange System manager or Users and Computers? I've found this link, but...

Guys, I hope you can help. I've got a user with a redirected my documtents (maybe irrelevant). When he creates and edits a word document and saves it to my documents (which is actually on the server), it creates the standard word temporary files beginning with ~$ These files are hidden, and for...

Hi guys, thought I'd do a quick post telling everyone I passed the 70-297 exam yesterday with 931. It now makes me an MCSE. woohoo!! It's taken me about a year. Passed the first exam on March 30th last year and the last on March 15th this year. How happy am I :o) Paul Thomas N+, MCP, MCSA...

Hi guys, I've got the 70-297 exam tomorrow; if I pass, I get my MCSE (at last). Anyone sat this exam recently? Does anyone have any general advice about the exam? Cheers Paul Paul Thomas N+, MCP, MCSA: Messaging Network+ - Passed 70-210 - Passed 70-290 - Passed 70-291 - Passed 70-293 -...

Hi guys, hope someone can help. I've got a 2003 domain and XP desktops. Using a GPO the users My Documents are redirected to a file server. The problem I have have is folders within My Documents on the server are becoming hidden what seems to be whenever files in that folder are used. I think...

Hi all, hope you can help, this is confusing me! I have a GPO that disables the User Config > Admin Templates > Windows Components > Task Scheduler > Prohbit Browse In other words, it allows the user to browse their tasks on the local machine. I've checked the ACL on the GPO and all looks...

Hi all, I couldn't find a forum for virtual server so I thought I'd try here. I've tried loading my vmc files created with VPC 2004 SP1 into virtual Server 2005 R2 and it says they're not compatible. Does any one of a tool or a method or converting these files or is my only option to recreate...

Hi all, I've got a weird one, or at least I think it's weird! I'm going through the Exchange 2003 MS press book and in Chapter 5 it asks you to build a new 2000 domain and forest called Fabrikam.com. I'e gone through and set up 2 external trusts betwee the domains and everything seemed to be...

Hi all, for those who have this book I have a question: At the beginning on chapter 4 it asks you to build a 2k server with exchange 5.5 (so that you can create the AD connectors). The boxes are in the litware inc domain wheras the servers I already have are in the contoso.com domain. However...

Hi all, just wondering if you can clear something up. Everytime you pass a Microsoft exam, does anybody else get an email with a new MCP ID in it? Just wondering if Microsoft give an ID per exam or whether something gone wrong somewhere with my account? The exams do appear on my transcript on...

Hi guys, hope you can help. We've got a bit of a weird one going on here. we've got a mix of 2000 and Exchange 5.5 mail servers for one of our customers. Wehn we go through the Create New User wizard in AD, it gets to the "create an exchange mailbox" screen, out exchange 5.5 servers don't...

hi all, I hope someone can help me. Mcafee are being as much use as.... well they're pretty useless. One of our customers, rather than using Global updating and SuperAgents have decided to set up Mirror tasks which mirror the repository from the ePO to various servers around the globe. As you...

Hi all, I'm pretty positive that my problem isn't spyrware / adware / malware trelated which is why I'ev posted it here instead. I've run software such as Adaware, Spybot, HijackThis, Windows Defender and they all come back clean. I'm also running Mcafee VirusScan Enterprise 8.0i with th anti...