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    - domain logon issue Hello. I am having problem on a member server running Windows Server 2003 SP1. It took 30 minutes to log on to the domain after a reboot. The server seemed to be forever hanging at "applying settings..." before it finally connected to the domain. I found a lot of errors with event ID 1053, source: userenv. "Windows cannot determine the user or computer name. (The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted.) Group Policy processing aborted." ____________________ Running netdiag.ext shows some errors: Testing trust relationships... Failed Testing Kerberos authentication... Failed DC discovery test. . . . . . . . . : Failed Find DC in domain 'MyDomainName': [FATAL] Cannot find DC in domain 'MyDomainName'. [ERROR_NO_SUCH_DOMAIN] DC list test . . . . . . . . . . . : Failed 'MyDomainName': Cannot find DC to get DC list from [test skipped]. List of DCs in Domain 'MyDomainName': Trust relationship test. . . . . . : Failed Test to ensure DomainSid of domain 'MyDomainName' is correct. 'MyDomainName': Cannot find DC to get DC list from [test skipped]. [FATAL] Secure channel to domain 'MyDomainName' is broken. [ERROR_NO_LOGON_SERVERS] Kerberos test. . . . . . . . . . . : Skipped 'MyDomainName': Cannot find DC to get DC list from [test skipped]. LDAP test. . . . . . . . . . . . . : Failed Cannot find DC to run LDAP tests on. The error occurred was: The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted. Find DC in domain 'MyDomainName': [WARNING] Cannot find DC in domain 'MyDomainName'. [ERROR_NO_SUCH_DOMAIN] ________________ MS Help says: To verify that the domain controller can be contacted through Domain Name System (DNS), try to access \\mydomain.com\sysvol\mydomain.com, where mydomain.com is the fully qualified DNS name of your domain. This test also failed. ________________ I tried to connect to this server from a couple of client computers. One client is ok. The other client got the following: The Mapped network drive could not be created because the following error has occurred: The specified network name is no longer available. When I tried to connect to it via UNC, it also errored out: There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request. Sorry for the long post. Thanks for your help. TL Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 112094
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    - Server 2008 thin client requirement - Advice Hi, Colleague of mine wants to remove laptops from his organisation and go with thin clients. No probs there. He has only 1 physical server, and would like to upgrade to windows 2008 at the same time. Is 2008 running DC, and terminal services a supported configuration ? Would need to be app mode as there will be 5 clients.... I could stick a VM in Hyper-V I guess for the TS reqwuirement, just want to get people's view on the best solution. Thanks in advance. Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 112093
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    - Forcing "List in the directory" for a printer? At my office, we are currently doing some spring cleaning on our printers, rearranging some units, tweaking installations, etc. We have a label printer on the network and it's currently being shared by one of the workstations. All this is fine, and others can use the "Browse" feature to find it and access it through that machine. What bothers me is there is no "List in the directory" check box alongside the "Sharing" settings. It's simply not there. It would be useful if uses could go one place (Active Directory on our SBS 2003 server) to add printers instead of digging through two different interfaces. If I add the printer through the original workstation, however, I *do* get a "List in the directory". box. Can somebody tell me what controls "List in the directory"? Windows has so many hidden options in the Registry, I was thinking it could be as simple as adding a new value or flipping something from 0 to 1. I did find where the check box setting would be stored, at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers\ in the Attributes value for the specific printer, but setting bit 14 on and restarting the computer didn't force an entry in Active Directory. I realize I can also manually add a printer in Active Directory Users & Computers, but am not sure I can direct it to that particular workstation for the drivers. I've also browsed AD manually and have an idea which settings are needed and where, and might even try doing this manually. But what is the easiest way to accomplish this? Is the missing check box caused by an actual .dll or .exe ? Could the printer just be installed wrong? Thanks for any suggestions. Todd Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 112092
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    - Cheapest price on Windows Server 2008? What is the cheapest price anybody has found for Windows Server 2008 Standard? US or UK. Thanks ss. Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 112088
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    - No login window appears after server running for some time New IBM xSeries 3400 server running Windows 2003 R2 with all of the latest patches. Member server in an SBS2003 domain. Since going in the server has worked fine except after some period of time, we go to the console and the screen is totally dark grey. Pressing Ctl+Alt+Del does nothing -- no login prompt appears. Similarly, any attempt to connect via RDP doesn't give the login...just the grey background. This only happens after the server has been running for some time. We'll force a restart of the server and all will be fine for a day or longer (the login appears at the console and is available through RDP). Then, for no discernible reason, the problem recurs. Nothing strange appears in the event log. The only thing different between this server and other similar boxes that we've installed is the version of Pervasive SQL. This box is running version 10, whereas prior installations were version 9 or older. Pervasive professes no knowledge of the problem. I'm lost as to how to troubleshoot. -- Doug Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 112087
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    - Remote event viewer access without being a server admin? Hi, I want to give a set of developers access to view a Window 2003's event viewer logs remotely using an MMC snap-in without granting them administrator access to the server? Does anyone know how/where I grant those specific rights? Thanks, Paul Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 112081
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    - Group Policy and the Legal Message For whatever reason, when I apply the message in GPMC the computers I applied it to don't ever display the legal message before login, or at all. I have the option enabled in my GPO, and the computer is also in the OU, and I also added the computer to the list of stuff it affects in the GPMC console, but still no results even after a restart. What am I doing wrong? Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 112073
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    - SCSI Enclosure Device in Windows 2008 Hi I have a storage array that supports SCSI Enclosure Services on LUN ID 254. In Windows 2008 this appears as Generic SCSI Enclodure Device under System Devices in Device Manager. I need to send SCSI inquiry on this device but I am not able to figure out which device name I should be using. I initially thought this will appear as another \\.\PHYSICALDRIVEn but it did not. How do I find out the device name for this device? Thanks jas123 Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 112071
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    - Netmeeting Transition We want to transition our netmeeting.companyX.com server from Windows 2000 to 2003. What is the best way to do this? There are ILS locator settings, but I think if we change the IP in DNS to the new server..we may be fine (as long as it is installed and working on Win2003). Any help is appreciated! Steve Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 112067
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    - Q While discussing the development of a new backup strategy for your company, a colleague uses the term TARGET.What is she referring to? The system hosting the tape drive? The backup deivce? The data object to be backed up? The media in the backup device? Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 112058
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    - How to recognize a hardlink I wonder if and how I can distinguish a hardlink from a regular file without a dubfinder. Is there something like the inode-count on linux-ext3 on NT6? Regards Thorsten Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 112055
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    - View Processor Queue Is there a piece of software to show us what is in the processor queue? One of our servers has been throwing our monitor off stating the process queue is too large. I checked into it and found the queue length gets upto 12 when it should be around 6 or 8 at max. Although this annoynance lasts less than a minute and does not hurt production. We want to see what is queued at the time this warning is tossed by the monitor so we can determine if we need to separate roles to another server or tweak software already on the server to not use certain features. All software I have tested so far gives all running processes and not what is queued at any given moment. Thanks Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 112054
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    - bump bump Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 112050
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    - Resizing the C drive I have a Dell PowerEdge 1850 with a 67GB RAID-1 set runing Windows Server 2003 The C drive is 12GB and I want to extend it to 20GB I can blow away the D and E drives and recreate them later What is the best way to extend the C-drive. I do not want to rebuild this server as it has apps that I did not install or configure and I don't wanna have to figure them out. I have Partition Magic 8 I have Ghost 7.5 There is also NTBACKUP with ASR I thought I read that ASR doesnt restore Applications, just OS. This can't be true. If I use ghost I will have to leave the domain, ghost and then rejoin the domain (I've found in the past that ghosted when on the domain just puts the new machine into a reboot loop). The question is, if I make a ghost image of this 12GB C-drive, when I burn to the server again will it just recreate the 12GB partition or can I rezise to 20GB. Thanks Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 112046
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    - WSUS 12GB to download!! Hiya I have used WSUS for about 2/3 years without much issue. Now I notice when I synched that there were 12GB and 75 files of downloads - which seems a huge amount. So far it has taken three days and has only done 25%. I am suspicous something is not right, as I have never seen such a huge download requirement before. Just wondering if this is something for me to be concered about, as it is like it has lost all it's history and started again. My main concern if it pushed ALL updates to the clients then they would all take a few hours to install, and amy interferre with business. TIA Lewej Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 112044
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    - Problem with KB948496 Is there any known issue with the security patch KB948496, released by Microsoft in March. Each time I installed the patch on a particular "W2K3 R2 64Bits edition SP2", I can no longer be able to connect with "Remote Connection" to the Server. And if the Server in not yet in AD-Domain before installing the patch, then no possibility to add the server to an AD-Domain. Any idea how this could resolved Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 112042
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    - Migrating From NT 4 server to Server 2003 I have to migrate our NT 4.0 server over to a new server 2003 box, will I be able to install the 2003 server into the same domain name or do I need to create a new domain, if it is not possible to keep the same domain name, will I have to copy the users profiles on there desktops over to new profile when they join the new domain? Does ADMT have this fuctionality Brian Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 112036
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    - services.exe I, too, have been experiencing this services.exe leak on two different Windows 2003 server (mine and my client's). Could you tell me the program you are referring to that set the limits? thanks. Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 112033
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    - Static WINS mapping migration Done a lot of googling on this subject but can't seem to find the answers. I have a number of Windows 2003 WINS servers in a spoke/hub replication topology. There are some static WINS mappings scattered about the different servers but I'm looking to remove one particular server (call it SRV-A) from the topology but cant seem to see the recommendation way to migrate a static WINS mapping whilst maintaining 100% uptime and availability of the record. In the lab I had limited success manually readding the records statically to another owner (SRV-B), this bascially just duplicated the record on the new owner, 1 version of the records was set to infite with owner SRV-B and 1 set of records with expiration of next week and SRV-A as the owner. I then manually deleted all records with SRV-A as the owner but found that the SRV-B records would not replicate correctly. To resolve I had to delete the SRV-B records aswell and recreate. This obviously causes me an issue as by doing this I will potentially cause an outage in production while the records replicate naturally around the environment So the question is, does anyone know the recommended way of changing the owner of a static WINS mapping? Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 112030
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    - Off topic question: I have two product keys, how can I tell what software they go with? I've gotten the sleeves and the disks mixed up I think? Is there a way to tell what software belongs to what key? Thanks Kelvin Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 112028
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    - DFS Upgrade Hello guys, I have the following problem: 2 Windows 2003 Domain Controllers(to keep it simple DC 1 and DC 2). Each DC is a DFS server with replication between. Because replication was very slow, we decided to upgrade both DC's to Windows 2003 R2, so we could use DFRs instead of FRs. DC 1: Windows Server 2003 -> in place upgrade to Windows Server 2003 R2. DC 2: Windows Server 2003 OEM -> we installed a new domain controller DC 3 with Windows Server 2003 R2 and removed DC 2. So current environment: DC 1: Windows Server 2003 R2 DC 3: Windows Server 2003 R2 (both SP2) We installed DFS on DC 1 and DC 3. Everything went fine until we started to replicate the DFS Folders. DC 3 seems to work fine (We don't receive any errors in the event viewer) Unfortunatly, DC 1 logs an error with event id 4004: The DFS Replication service stopped replication on the replicated folder ... So we have now 3 folders with data on DC 3 but the data is not replicated to DC 1. We stopped the DFS replication to avoid all the 4004 errors being logged. Any ideas? Remark: When upgrading DC 1 to Windows Server 2003 R2, we got the next problem after the reboot. Windows File protection: Event id: 64005 System protected file <file path> was replace with another version. -> winsevnt.dll We didn't replace the file because R2 should be the newest and correct version, no? Thx in advance! Mike Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 112026
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    - Mounted volumes and Shadow Copy - 2003 Hi All I am trying to create a file system that uses mounted volumes within a folder structure. The file system needs to have Shadow Copies available. It appears that although I can create shadow copies for mounted volumes it is impossible for users to use the previous versions tools to restore files within these mounts. Is this correct or is there a workaround? Many thanks Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 112019
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    - All my SCSI/HBA controllers stopped to work Windows 2000 Hello, After installing another HBA-card I lost all my SCSI or HBA devices. I was installing HP MPIO for Eva 4000, when I got blue screen. I managed to restore my system to a ide hard disk. Now all my SCSI controllers say that "A driver for this device was not required, and has been disabled." if I check them from device management. Same if I try to reinstall drivers. Any idea what could cause this? Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 112018
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    - Deactivate Data Execution Prevention Hello, I have a Win 2003 R2 SP3 Terminal Server, DC and Printserver is a Win2003 SBS. The Terminal Server stops working because of some problems with the spooler service. I would like to know if I can deactivate "Data Execution Prevention" by setting it from "only neccessary windows programs and services" to "all programs/services with exceptions" (sorry, translated from german). I am not sure what services/programs are monitored before and after the change. Also the result is not clear. Currently, our programs stop responding until I start the spooler service, however, what will happen after the change - bluescreens? I know that the cause of the problem may be one of the locally used and redirected printers in the TS sessions, however, I do not know which one causes the troubel. And we have many printers, as there are 4 subsidiaries with many printers connected to the TS. The events do not tell me which printer caused the trouble, it just says that the spooler service had to be stopped. Is there a way to restart the service automatically when it was stopped by the data execution prevention? regards arno Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 112015
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    - Backup application\system\security Logs in server 2003 Hi I need to backup application\system\security Logs in server 2003 once a week, Can I do it with automatic process or program or bacth file? thanks Lior Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 112011
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    - Change email for domain Here is the scenario I have a small business server 2003 and the domain is domain.com. I need to change the domain email to thedomain.com. Right now I setup the recipient policy on the exchange server to accept mail from thedomain.com. However when I reply to a message the reply says domain.com and I need it to say thedomain.com. So what do you think? Thanks Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 112008
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    - nat/basic firewall we have a windows 2003 std server i want to turn off its firewall, which is under Routing and Remote access - IP Routing - NAT/Basic Firewall I want to turn this off and only use my hardware firewall as we have new software which uses IIS and something is blocking remote access to this from out the office although it works ok in the office Look forward to your reply Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 112001
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    - scheduler fails to start task five hours after session close Hi all, I have a strange behavior on my servers where the scheduled tasks fail to start with message "Could not start". I looked around to find a more detailed explanation message, but was not able to locate any log file. Googling for similar terms did not help either so I did a bit of investigation. Here is the setup: Servers are on a domain but are not the domain controller I open sessions onto them using Terminal Services. I logoff once I have finished a session, using the start menu. I added one task every hour on the hour that calls the same batch file with the same credentials, those of the session I opened. Here is what I observed: If I keep the session opened, the tasks run fine. If I close the session and open a new one more than 5 hours later, the first four tasks have run fine, but the last ones failed with the "could not start" message. For instance, I logoff at 9:05AM, log back in at 4:05PM, the tasks scheduled at 10, 11, 12, 1 and 2 worked but those at 3 and 4 failed with the "Could not start" message. All the servers on which this happens are under Win2003 server with SP2 applied. Could anyone help me with this? Should I post this message on another group? Thanks in advance for any help Regards Olivier Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 111998
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    - Unattend file for Server 2008 I deploy my servers using the HP Rapid Deployment Pack, which images servers using a standard answer file. My disks are a 146GB mirrored array. By default the install uses all the space and I get a 146GB C drive. I need the boot partition to be 15GB In Win 2003 I add the line ExtendOemPartition=7500 to the answer file and I get the partition size I want. I have tried modifying the answer file for 2008 by adding the size line (as seen below) to the disk configuration. <DiskConfiguration> <Disk wcm:action="add"> <DiskID>0</DiskID> <WillWipeDisk>true</WillWipeDisk> <CreatePartitions> <CreatePartition wcm:action="add"> <Order>1</Order> <Size>15360</Size> <Type>Primary</Type> <Extend>true</Extend> </CreatePartition> </CreatePartitions> <ModifyPartitions> <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add"> <Order>1</Order> <PartitionID>1</PartitionID> <Active>true</Active> <Format>NTFS</Format> <Letter>C</Letter> </ModifyPartition> </ModifyPartitions> </Disk> <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI> </DiskConfiguration> This does not work and the install stops with an error, just as the Windows install begins that says "Windows could not prepare the partition selected for installation" Any help on how to correctly modify this install file is appreciated. Thanks Chris Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 111995
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    - Windows 2008 Enterprise - OEM or Licensing Hi all, I'm just about to take the plunge with purchasing Windows 2008 Enterprise across the board (I would use standard but am worred about the 250 user max on TS Gateway... is this per server or per farm?) If I buy Licensing I presume I will have to buy CAL's as well. However, if I buy OEM I will get 25 CAL's with each copy (presumably with each copy I get 25 users, not just 25?). Therefore, as OEM is cheaper, I'm presuming by drawback is that the product lives and dies with the server? Can I still use Virtualisation if required to run up to 4 hosts on each box? TIA for any comments! Nothing is easy with licensing.... Mike Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 111990
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    - Windows 2000 migration to 2003 We have 4 DCs, each one at a different site. The main DC, with the global catalog running windows 2000 in mixed mode resides in NY. The 4 DCs are on machines that are 10 years old and need to be replaced. Ideally, I would like to replace each site one at a time.I would like to keep the same domain name. I would also like to transfer the machine name and IP address to the new server. Below are my 3 options. Which one is best. TIA 1. Use ADMT. From what I read, this tool is only usefull if the domain is different. Is this true? 2. Replace the DCs with the new 2000 machines, move roles over to the new machine and perform an upgrade to Win 2003 using ADPREP/FORRESTPREP AND ADPREP/DOMAINPREP 3. Install a new machine as a windows 2003 member server, promote to DC. -- Greg Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 111970
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    - Can't format Soft-RAID5 on Windows Server 2003 Hi, I have a noname SIL3114 4-port SATA-Controller on an ASROCK P4V88+ (VIA-chipset with 2-Port onboard sata). With RAID5-BIOS, Windows Server 2003 started formatting my 4-HD-Array but couldn't complete it ("the format did not complete successfully"). The same happens when I use the SATA-Controller with a simple BIOS without onboard-RAID functions. Neither Quick-format nor longformat could complete the format. I also tried different cluster- and volume-size with no success. Any ideas? Should I use another special format utility? Marcel Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 111969
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    - iFolder similar service on Windows Server We have whole infrastructure build on Windows 2003 Server domain. We have some SQL servers etc. We was asked to make possible for our users to access to the files from home. In Novell they have iFolder but what we need to have to make such service on Microsoft. Is there anything similar? MarcusB Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 111963
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    - chkdsk raid 5 I have been getting insufficent memory errors when I attempt to copy large pst files from our file and print server. This is also the case when I try to run scanpst (yes, I know there is no support for networked psts). My question is if it is ok to run chkdsk over a raid 5 volume? I have ran it in read only mode, but am concerned about possible corruption. Any words to the unwise on how to conduct preventative maintanance on a RAID 5 volume? Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 111961
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    - Support Tools for Server 2008 / Vista? Hi @ all, where I csn find the Support Tools for Server 2008 (not RSAT)? Or is it possible to run the Srv2003-Support Tools on Srv2008? Any idea? -- THX, Jens K. -- Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 111960
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    - DEP options greyed out in 2008 bcdedit Hello, I was having issues with a program running in 2008 so I tried a bcdedit command that I found on the web but can't seem to find any more. When I go to Data Execution Prevention under system properties, advanced perfromance options - I can't check either option even though I'm logged in as administrator. Anyone know the right command to enable it as it was? Thanks Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 111957
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    - OS almost freezes while copying files to USB harddrive Hi! I noticed this strange phenomena while copying files to an external USB harddrive. When I copy (using the explorer) a directory containing about 20 5-10 MB big files and 20 about 2GB big files from my internal sata drive to the external usb drives, then this pattern emerges: - the external HD is busy all the time (its LED blinks) - the internal HD LED is : - off for 40 seconds - then half on for 10 seconds (blinks fast, giving the impression of half light intensity, compard to full on) - fully on for 25 seconds This then cycles, until the copy is finished. During the 25 seconds when the internal HD is constantly lit, the system is almost unusable. Moving with the cursor keys thru the open start menu takes 5 seconds for each move. That is : I press the cursor down key and only after 5 seconds the highlight moves from the previously selected menu item to the next. Also starting programs takes ages (actually everything that needs access to the HD). For example paint, notepad and write each takes 10 to 20 seconds to start up. (normally they start in a second). During the periods when the HS led is not lit (or "half" lit) the system works normally. I suspected the USB driver has problems with PAE and 4GB of memory, but I booted with /noexecute and /nopae options (as recommended in MS KB 900524, giving me 3,25 GB of RAM, opposed to full 4GB otherwise) and the problem persisted. Any idea what to do ? System data: - OS : Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 x86 Enterprise Edition, Evaluation copy - mainboard: Asus P5K-E WiFi (Intel P35 based) - RAM 2 x 2GB DDR2-800 - CPU : Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 - VGA: nVidia 8800GT - WD75000AAKS SATA hard drive - WD Elements USB harddrive The volumes are all NTFS. Regards, David Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 111949
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    - Cannot terminate tasks Hello * my Windows Server 2008 currently is in an unacceptable state: I tried to access a DVD with Windows Explorer and from a command prompt but the DVD seems to be broken because it did not work to read it. Now, I cannot close both the command prompt window and the Explorer Window any more. I have tried the close button, Task Manager "kill process", and taskkill from another command prompt but the windows just don't close. On Windows Server 2003 similar cases could all be handled at least with taskkill, so how can I do the same thing on Windows Server 2008. All other services run fine. Note, this is a server machine so a hardware reset is not the solution I am looking for. /Klaus Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 111948
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    - Password expiration Hi everybody, I need to configure the password expiration for each user, on a Windows Server 2003 x64 Service Pack2. There are many different users, so I'd like to change their password expiration individually. I saw that it is possible to change, for all users, the default "Maximum password age". Is it possible to change it for individual users?? How can I do? Thanking you in advance Cheers Carmelo Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 111946
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    - regarding AD permission hello floks i dont have much knowledge about AD so could u short it out my problem pls. well i have 80 users n they cant access the RUN CMD prompt but now i want give only 5 user to access the RUN CMD i dont know how to give the access permission.and 75 would be as it is thanku Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 111945
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    - Is there any riscs by converting to native mode? Hi I want to convert my DC's from mixed- to native mode. Is there any riscs by doing it? My DC's are installed win2003, and not upgraded from win2000. I don't really know why they run in mixed mode, but they do. Thanks /Ole Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 111944
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    - 2k3 changed it's name/IP now I can't find it on the network? Fresh install then I changed the IP address, name and I went back to original name and IP now I canâ??t reach/ping it on the network from that server I can ping everything fine how I can fix this issues. Deleted itâ??s info from DHCP/DNS server still same issues? Thanks Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 111940
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    - RIS and local admin account disabled I've googled and search MS KB's and can't figure out why my local admin account is being disabled on fresh RIS imaged PC's. here is my riprep.sif from my most used image. You will noticed i have the line "EnableAdminAccountOnDomainJoin = 1" in there. However, i've tried 3 variations. Removing that line, keeping the original which is "DisableAdminAccountOnDomainJoin = 1" but chaning the 1 to 0 and 3rd is having the current line. Anyone have any suggestions? ------------------------------------ [data] floppyless = "1" msdosinitiated = "1" OriSrc = "\\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%" OriTyp = "4" LocalSourceOnCD = 1 EnableAdminAccountOnDomainJoin = 1 [SetupData] OsLoadOptions = "/noguiboot /fastdetect" SetupSourceDevice ="\Device\LanmanRedirector\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\ %INSTALLPATH%" SysPrepDevice="\Device\LanmanRedirector\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\ %SYSPREPPATH%" SysPrepDriversDevice="\Device\LanmanRedirector\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\ %SYSPREPDRIVERS%" [Unattended] OemPreinstall = no FileSystem = LeaveAlone ExtendOEMPartition = 0 TargetPath = \WINDOWS OemSkipEula = yes InstallFilesPath = "\\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE %" LegacyNIC = 1 [UserData] FullName = "%USERFIRSTNAME% %USERLASTNAME%" OrgName = "%ORGNAME%" ComputerName ="%MACHINENAME%" [GuiUnattended] OemSkipWelcome = 1 OemSkipRegional = 1 TimeZone = %TIMEZONE% AdminPassword = "*" [Display] BitsPerPel = 32 XResolution = 1440 YResolution = 900 VRefresh = 60 [Networking] [NetServices] MS_Server=params.MS_PSched [Identification] JoinDomain = %MACHINEDOMAIN% DoOldStyleDomainJoin = Yes [RemoteInstall] Repartition = Yes UseWholeDisk = Yes [OSChooser] Description ="1.GX330.BASE.OFFICE2007.3-28-2008" Help ="" LaunchFile ="%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%\templates\startrom.com" ImageType =SYSPREP Version="5.1 (2600)" SysPrepSystemRoot="Mirror1\UserData\WINDOWS" HalName=halmacpi.dll ProductType=0 Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 111937
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    - Virtual Server 2005/WSS/San Manager - No VDS Provider for Local Disks Hi all, I've set up WIndows 2003 Enterprise Windows Storage Server (WSS) guest in Virtual Server 2005 R2 with the intent of creating an iSCSI Target. The host OS is Windows 2008 x64. In WSS I have installed the SAN addon to the File Server Role and proceeded to open the Storage Manager for SAN's MMC however I receive the following error: "Unable to find Virtual Disk Service (VDS) or any VDS hardware providers installed on this computer. VDS and at least one VDS hardware provider must be installed for storage manager for SANs to be functional." I have tried setting the Virtual Machine to use both SCSI and IDE disk emulation, neither have resulted in addressing the problem. I have ensure that the VDS service is running and have also installed the SCSI Initiator 2.0 as mentioned in the 2003 R2 Deployment guide. I have also attempted to upgrade the Basic disks to Dynamic disks - same VDS error. Diskraid.exe shows no VDS providers installed. I would assume that a VDS provider would be included to allow WSS to talk to its own local disk subsystem. In fact Microsoft mentions this: "VDS uses two sets of providers to manage your storage devices. The built-in VDS software providers enable you to manage disks and volumes at the operating system level. Hardware providers supplied by the hardware vendor enable you to manage hardware RAID arrays." http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/1dbc6c24-1477-4f73-a0ae-57b4e90808d81033.mspx?mfr=true I did have an old copy of Stringbeans iSCSI Wintarget software (this company was bought out and its technology integrated with WSS) sitting around and sure enough it worked like a charm under the same configuration. Unfortunatley the Wintarget software I have is Eval only and has been discontinued. So what gives? Is WSS VDS not compatible with Virtual Server 2005 R2 or am I missing something? Thanks much in advance! Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 111936
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    - Save Quicktime Settings with Mandatory Profile Greeings, not sure if this should be with server or XP group, but here goes. I have Quicktime player installed on XP Pro machines. Latest SPacks and updates applied. In Win2003 R2 Domain, and users have mandatory profiles and run at user level. Problem is getting Quicktime settings ( in the Quicktime applet in control panel ..ver is 7.3 or thereabouts ) to stick. For example if I open up the Quicktime Applet in control panel, and want to uncheck Play Movies automatically or set Mime settings so that Quicktime is default MP3 player, I can check and uncheck these settings, however when I close the applet, the settings are lost. I need to find a way to get these settings to stick, not for the user, but for me as domain admin. The only way I have found to make them stick, is to temporarily make the Domain Users administrators on a workstation, start the Quicktime applet, make the changes, logoff and remove domain users from Workstation administrators group. I could spend the next week doing this but I think there must be a better way... I am trying to find out where these settings are saved so that I can apply them via the users mandatory profile, but have come up against a brick wall. I have tried: Registry -- setting all Apple and Quicktime locations I could find to Users Full Control <mand.profile>\Local Settings\Application Data\Quicktime - Users full control <mand.profile>Application Data\Quicktime - Users full control Setting the Quicktime and Apple folders to Users\Change permission in Program Files I have also tried copying profiles that did work on the workstaion to the server and making them manadatory profiles that are called by user accounts, but the settings are not applied...they just revert to the default Quicktime ones. Any suggestions I am stumped. I cannot figure out how to make these settings stick. I need to do this because a particular application that uses Quicktime Plugin in IE7 casue IE7 to freeze because Quicktime automatically checks for updates and this seems to cause the whole thing to freeze at 100% CPU until killed by Task Manager. Once I disable this setting in Quicktime the Web applet works a treat. Thank you for reading this rambling treatise. Time Traveller Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 111929
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    - recovery console and enable/disable Hello, I need more informatio what recovery consoles enable/disable commands do. How do they affect on windows normal boot. And I am using Win 2k advanced I post another topic about blue screen earlier today (mytime). I tried to from recovery console to disable drivers and services that I figured to be the reason for the BSOD. Indeed now I can boot to windows. But now a HBA-card driver (QLA2200) is saying that it's not possible to install drivers due that it is disabled. QLA2200 was disabled but it's now enabled as boot. I have set /sos to my boot.ini. There I can see it's loading drivers that are still disabled in recovery console. The Windows can't get cluster to work without that HBA-card workin. Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 111928
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    - netsvc in w2k3? I have some scripts using netsvc from windows 2000 resource kit. But I can't find the same utility in windows 2003 server, it's downloaded resource tools. I'm wondering if there is a similar utility built-in in windows 2003 or I have to buy the resource kit to get it (not in the downloaded version). Thanks. Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 111926
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    - Access Denied through MMC over network I am unable to connect to any servers or other workstations in my domain from my workstation. I am attempting to remotely connect via different MMC snap-ins. I get Access Denied when trying to connect to remote computers for IIS or Group Policy management. If I attempt this on other workstations it allows me to do it, so it must be some setting on my workstation. I have domain administrator rights. I was able to connect remotely fine up until about a month ago and I don't remember making any changes around the time this started happening. Any ideas? Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 111920
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    - Group policy logon script doesn't run Okay, I made a simple .bat file to map a network drive on logon and put it under the group policy in an OU I made. The script is simply net use z: \\THETEST\FXI When I run the bat file manually from any of the computers it maps the drive just fine. However, when I login the script never maps the drive. Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 111919
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    - 0x96 invalid work queue item Hey I have gotten this BSOD twice in the last 10 days on my production phone server. I have two dump files but I admit fully that i'm no good at reading them and I can't make heads or tails of them. It happened while we were rebooting the machine. There is a phone system running on it and that uses SQL server 2000 as it's reporting mechanisim. Any ideas what's going on? The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x00000096 (0x81f8b618, 0x820f6e90, 0x808b0560, 0x81f8b7bc). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\MEMORY.DMP. Here is what I get when I do a !analyze - v kd> !analyze -v ******************************************************************************* * * * Bugcheck Analysis * * * ******************************************************************************* INVALID_WORK_QUEUE_ITEM (96) This message occurs when KeRemoveQueue removes a queue entry whose flink or blink field is null. This is almost always called by code misusing worker thread work items, but any queue misuse can cause this. The rule is that an entry on a queue may only be inserted on the list once. When an item is removed from a queue, it's flink field is set to NULL. This bugcheck occurs when remove queue attempts to remove an entry, but the flink or blink field is NULL. In order to debug this problem, you need to know the queue being referenced. In an attempt to help identify the guilty driver, this bugcheck assumes the queue is a worker queue (ExWorkerQueue) and prints the worker routine as parameter 4 below. Arguments: Arg1: 81f8b618, The address of the queue entry whose flink/blink field is NULL Arg2: 820f6e90, The address of the queue being references. Usually this is one of the ExWorkerQueues. Arg3: 808b0560, The base address of the ExWorkerQueue array. This will help determine if the queue in question is an ExWorkerQueue and if so, the offset from this parameter will isolate the queue. Arg4: 81f8b7bc, If this is an ExWorkerQueue (which it usually is), this is the address of the worker routine that would have been called if the work item was valid. This can be used to isolate the driver that is misusing the work queue. Debugging Details: ------------------ WORKER_ROUTINE: +ffffffff81f8b7bc 81f8b7bc ?? ??? FAULTING_IP: +ffffffff81f8b7bc 81f8b7bc ?? ??? WORK_ITEM: 81f8b618 CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 1 DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: DRIVER_FAULT_SERVER_MINIDUMP BUGCHECK_STR: 0x96 PROCESS_NAME: IPMedia.exe CURRENT_IRQL: 2 LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from 8085513f to 80876ae0 STACK_TEXT: f4e69c68 8085513f 00000096 81f8b618 820f6e90 nt!KeBugCheckEx+0x1b f4e69cc4 80926d69 820f6e90 8218f401 00000000 nt!KeRemoveQueue+0x506 f4e69d48 8082350b 00000148 0047b660 01cbff80 nt!NtRemoveIoCompletion +0xec f4e69d48 7c8285ec 00000148 0047b660 01cbff80 nt!KiFastCallEntry+0x138 WARNING: Frame IP not in any known module. Following frames may be wrong. 01cbff68 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0x7c8285ec STACK_COMMAND: kb FOLLOWUP_IP: nt!KeRemoveQueue+506 8085513f ?? ??? SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX: 1 SYMBOL_NAME: nt!KeRemoveQueue+506 FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner MODULE_NAME: nt IMAGE_NAME: ntoskrnl.exe DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 45ec146a FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: 0x96_nt!KeRemoveQueue+506 BUCKET_ID: 0x96_nt!KeRemoveQueue+506 Followup: MachineOwner --------- kd> lmvm nt start end module name 80800000 80a6f000 nt M (pdb symbols) c:\windows \symbols\server2k3\exe\ntoskrnl.pdb Loaded symbol image file: ntoskrnl.exe Image path: \WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe Image name: ntoskrnl.exe Timestamp: Mon Mar 05 05:00:26 2007 (45EC146A) CheckSum: 0025704C ImageSize: 0026F000 Translations: 0000.04b0 0000.04e0 0409.04b0 0409.04e0 Tag: REAL: Windows Vista/7 Free DVD (Limited Time) w/ free Alienware Tag: 111918

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