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    - FSRM - Screen on userprofiles creates .tmp files when blocking We've implemented a screen on our User's userprofiles directories. Whenever FSRM blocks a screened file type it creates a .tmp file in its place (in the userprofile). Obviously, this creates space issues. Anybody seen or heard of this before. Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 110016
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    - restrict access to file share by computer We are using W2K3 Standard R2 SP2 as a file server. We grant access to the share using share permissions and NTFS permissions and all works as it should. We would also like to restrict which computers a user can access the share from. User A has access to the share from Compter A but User A is denied access to the share from Computer B. So far we have been unable to do this. Any ideas would be appreciated. Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 110015
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    - Adding user permissions to multiple subfolders Hello, This is a problem that I frequently run into and hope I can get some advice on. There are some shared folders, that have sub folders with non inheriting permissions (different set). I'll try to illustrate this with the following example: Folder name Data has read only access for User A, B, C and so on Subfolder DivisionA under this folder has full access for A (and no other access) Subfolder DivisionB has full access for user B (and no other access) And so on... Now I have user C who A, B, C ,etc report to asking for permissions to subfolders DivisionA, DivisionB Is there a way to add the access ACLs for user C to all subfolders without manually going into the permissions for each folder? Also, if someone can recommend a tool to report all ACLs in a folder structure that would be appreciated as well. Thanks in advance Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 110013
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    - Event Viewer Problem x64 Standard. DC to which FSMO roles were recently transferred. WSUS console installed recently and then removed. (Don't know if this applies.) Now, when going to any event log type getting "The interface is unknown" and no events are showing. (Worked fine until, apparently, the uninstall of WSUS console.) Have now moved all FSMO roles to another DC but not tried demoting and promoting again. Any insight appreciated! Many thanks! Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 110010
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    - Cannot see installed x86 print driver on x64 print server We've got a x64 2003 R2 print server that we're adding x86 drivers to. We downloaded a Xerox Workcentre 255 PS WHQL driver and added it to the server for our 32-bit XP clients. When we attempt to configure a printer with it, under the advanced tab, when we try to select the driver from the pull-down, it's not there. It's visible in the Print Server properties dialog but not from the printer properties side. Couldn't find a Group Policy that may be blocking this. Anyone have any clues? -- Sandy Wood Orange County District Attorney Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 110009
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    - What is Windows registry (Registry Keys) Find this tutorial and more on http://thedotnetsource.blogspot.com Reason of this project: I wrote this tutorial in order to help the hundred of programmers searching on the web for Windows registry. This is an like introduction, if you are seeking how to use and deploy the registry keys with Vb.net, just see the next tutorial (It'll be tutorial 6). In this tutorial I'll show what is the windows registry system and why use it. Project details: 1- What is Windows registry and why use it 2- How to read, write and change the registry 3- HIVES and their use 4- Definition of registry values 1- What is Windows registry and why use it. You can compare the Windows registry to a database. It stores informations related to Windows and other installed application on your system, but also Hardware. Think now if someone need to change the computer name via programming. How can he do this? Programmers can think of files (text files) to store the computer and windows information. But when file get big and heavy, Database will be more secure. And then they had (Windows builder) the choice of a database "Windows Registry". Microsoft Dot Net Frame 1.1 and higher have implemented a great solution for registry on their classes. This will replace the hard work and long lines of code that programmers have to write if they are using Visual Studio 6.0 for example. 2- How to read, write and change the registry Windows has a wonderful tool on it, named "Registry Editor". But you won't find it, unless you open the System32 folder on the Windows folder. But we can easily run it through the execute command it the start menu. Just type "regedit" (without quotes). Now the registry editor will open. Please before doing any changes on your registry make a backup. To do a windows registry backup: File > Export > Give a name for the file and select the All option box. The backup may block your pc from working for a short period of time. You'll see that there are 5 folder. Those are the main folder (named hives) and you can't add another main folder. Now you can select any folder and right click on it, then add a new sub-folder or value. By selecting any folder and right clicking, you'll find a list of action that you can do. If the action is blended (made not selectable), then either it's impossible or you don't have the rights to do this action. You need administrator rights to change registry keys. 3- HIVES (main registry folders) and their use The registry is split into a number of logical sections named "hives", those are the top main folder that can added, edited or renamed. They all start with "HKEY" prefix. HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT Stores information about registered applications, such as Associations from File Extensions and OLE Object Class ID's tying them to the applications used to handle these items. HKEY_CURRENT_USER Stores settings that are specific to the currently logged-in user. The HKCU key is a link to the subkey of HKEY_USERS that corresponds to the user; the same information is reflected in both locations. On Windows- NT based systems, each users' settings are stored in their own files called NTUSER.DAT and USRCLASS.DAT inside their own documents and settings subfolder. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Abbreviated HKLM, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE stores settings that are general to all users on the computer. On NT-based versions of Windows, HKLM contains four subkeys, SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE and SYSTEM, that are found within their respective files located in the %SystemRoot% \System32\Config folder. A fifth subkey, HARDWARE, is volatile and is created dynamically, and as such is not stored in a file. Information about system hardware drivers and services are located under the SYSTEM subkey, whilst the SOFTWARE subkey contains software and windows settings. HKEY_USERS Contains subkeys corresponding to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER keys for each user registered on the machine. HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG Contains information gathered at runtime; information stored in this key is not permanently stored on disk, but rather regenerated at boot time. 4- Definition of registry values Binary Value REG_BINARY Raw binary data. Most hardware component information is stored as binary data and is displayed in Registry Editor in hexadecimal format. DWORD Value REG_DWORD Data represented by a number that is 4 bytes long (a 32-bit integer). Many parameters for device drivers and services are this type and are displayed in Registry Editor in binary, hexadecimal, or decimal format. Related values are DWORD_LITTLE_ENDIAN (least significant byte is at the lowest address) and REG_DWORD_BIG_ENDIAN (least significant byte is at the highest address). Expandable String Value REG_EXPAND_SZ A variable-length data string. This data type includes variables that are resolved when a program or service uses the data. Multi-String Value REG_MULTI_SZ A multiple string. Values that contain lists or multiple values in a form that people can read are generally this type. Entries are separated by spaces, commas, or other marks. String Value REG_SZ A fixed-length text string. Binary Value REG_RESOURCE_LIST A series of nested arrays that is designed to store a resource list that is used by a hardware device driver or one of the physical devices it controls. This data is detected and written in the \ResourceMap tree by the system and is displayed in Registry Editor in hexadecimal format as a Binary Value. Binary Value REG_RESOURCE_REQUIREMENTS_LIST A series of nested arrays that is designed to store a device driver's list of possible hardware resources the driver or one of the physical devices it controls can use. The system writes a subset of this list in the \ResourceMap tree. This data is detected by the system and is displayed in Registry Editor in hexadecimal format as a Binary Value. Binary Value REG_FULL_RESOURCE_DESCRIPTOR A series of nested arrays that is designed to store a resource list that is used by a physical hardware device. This data is detected and written in the \HardwareDescription tree by the system and is displayed in Registry Editor in hexadecimal format as a Binary Value. None REG_NONE Data without any particular type. This data is written to the registry by the system or applications and is displayed in Registry Editor in hexadecimal format as a Binary Value Link REG_LINK A Unicode string naming a symbolic link. QWORD Value REG_QWORD Data represented by a number that is a 64-bit integer. This data is displayed in Registry Editor as a Binary Value and was introduced in Windows 2000. This tutorial doesn't contain any source. See http://thedotnetsource.blogspot.com for the latest tutorials and updates. The Zip file contains: -The readme.txt file -The tutorial.txt file Still have question: Go to our blog (http://thedotnetsource.blogspot.com). Select the tutorial post. Post a comment describing your problem. Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 110005
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    - Cannot see domain computers Many times I cannot see the domain computers from windows explorer and other times I can. Where can I look to see where this is changed? We have mostly Windows 2003 servers and XP workstations. Thanks. David Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109995
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    - WAN Network Addresses and Long Reach Ethernet Questions Hi there, Just a bit stuck on this and wondering if anyone can help me out. We are in the process of setting up another server solution in a second data centre. We are trying to joing to networks running on different IP addresses using a long reach ethernet connection between the two sites. We are in the process of getting the cabling put in but i am not sure on the network addresses to use to connection the two. We could take an address from our first solution and and put it on the end of the LRE conenction in the data centre but that would mean everything would be broadcast out over the lRE connection. The company i am working with suggested setting up a private network address range at either end of the connection. I am not sure exactly how this would work. Could anyone help clarify this. If i put 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2 at either end the two machines that are connected would be able to talk but how would the other machines on the different addresses at either end talk? Would i need to allocate private IPs for all of the machines on the network to get them all to talk? Should the LRE connection at our existing solution go into the 2nd network card of one of the servers or into a switch? Bit stuck on this as things are complicated as i think the switch has got several different VLANs on it. If i put it into the machine directly i'm thinking we are going to struggle to talk to anything apart from that one. Sorry for all the questions but i'm a bit stumped! Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109987
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    - defrag for users there is a method for enable defrag for domain users? Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109984
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    - WSUS Setting question Does anyone know why the 'Allow Basic authentication (password is sent in cleartext)' checkbox on the Proxy Server Tab of the Update Source and Proxy Server settings in Options does not remain checked. This is only happening on my newer Server 2k3 R2 Enterprise X64 edition SP2 Server. I have two WSUS servers one for two seperate AD Forests and the other Server is Running Server 2k3 R2 SP2 Standard 32 bit. My syncs fail on the new one until I recheck that box and immediately do another sync. Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109981
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    - connecting to the CONSOLE using mstsc command using - instead of / Server 2003 SP2 Hi, This one should be a no-brainer: Will the following commands do the EXACT same thing? mstsc /console mstsc -console I have some colleagues here who insists using mstsc /console & say mstsc -console is wrong. I've used mstsc -console for years and never had a problem. Yes, I have looked at the help associated with the command using mstsc /? and mstsc -? In fact, if this command didn't accept the "-" it would fail. Please help me settle this guys. Thanks Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109979
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    - Apple Macs connecting to SMB file shares I have several apple macs (10.4 & 10.5) connecting to files shares on our 2003 R2 server (which is a domain controller). They can connect fine using AFP (but files get truncated) and if I try to connect them via SMB you get several different errors relating to permission access or can not mount the volume but connecting via AFP is fine our via a PC. Now.......yesterday I setup a test share on the 2003 R2 domain member server, SMB connections worked perfectly. The share and folder permission were exactly the same as the original file server? I have tried also creating a new GPO and binded the macs to the domain and set the GPO to KB555652 which changes the digital signing of communications. I would prefer to keep the file shares on the main file server. Any ideas? Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109959
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    - Grovel.exe error nothing on the web can anyone help..?? Dear All Every time we restart our RIS server Grovel.exe fails. The error is really simmilar to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939383 (but not quite the same) 2003 SVR running SP2 APPLICATION LOG Category. (100) Event ID. (1004) Reporting queued error: faulting application grovel.exe, version 5.2.3790.3959, faulting module grovel.exe, version 5.2.3790.3959, fault address 0x0000fecc. SYSTEM LOG Category. None EVENT ID. 7034 The Single Instance Storage Groveler service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 1 time(s). Has anyone seen this as there appears to be nothing out there. Kr Paul Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109954
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    - windows 2003 server group policy setting to disable windows system Can anyone help me to tell how to set up group policy setting on windows 2003 server to disable systems sounds all the network computers. waiting for any help Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109952
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    - Server 2008 Administrator permissions Hello, On a Windows Server 2008 DataCenter edition box, we've made a new user called ServerAdmin and put it in the Administrators Group. Now, the original Administrator account works fine, but the ServerAdmin account has issues. If you right click on My Computer and try to go to Manage, it says permission denied. If you simply try to open the C drive, it says permission denied. Yet, I can go into the properties of the C drive and change them, after assigning ownership to the Administrators group. But even after changing the ownership (and yes Administrators group has full control on the drive) I get the permission denied error when trying to access the drive. Since the original Admin account seems fine, it must be require something other than simply assigning users to the administrators group and having them act the same or what? Any help is appreciated! -B Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109949
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    - WinServer 2003 - Tired of italic font introduced with SP2 I am tired of *everything* being in italics in Windows Server 2003 SP2. As I access it through Remote Desktop, I cannot even use ClearType, so using apps strains my eyes more than necessary. Is there any way to get rid of it and use a normal font instead? Cheers ss. Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109946
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    - Hyper V and Guest with intermittent RDP connections I have a Dell 2950 running server 2008 X64 that is giving me a heck of a time getting guests to run properly. The first issue is RDP coonections seem to drop on the host for no reason, a reboot clears this sometimes. I removed the host machine from the domain and that seemed to fix that problem along with a limited connectivity error I was getting on the hosts brodcoms NICs. I have two 2008 guests and two 2003 guests and all four of them have this limited connectivity issue. They can be added to the domain and can access the internet but RDP sessions are intermittent. I disabled the firewall on all the guests with no luck. On my host server I have one NIC dedicated with a static IP for RDP, when I installed the hyper v role I only checked the 2nd brodcom nic for it to use during the install so I cannot figure out why the network connectivity is so flaky. Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109945
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    - Windows rights management Is there any requirement that the files that are protected by WRM actually sit on a Windows file server? Can they sit on a SAN with LUNs presented to the Windows server or a NAS with CIFS shares? Thanks. Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109932
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    - Server Hardware Lif Cycle Life cycle of a server? How often to replace them? -- Eric S. Powell Network Administrator Hascal, Sjoholm & Co, P.S. Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109925
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    - Beta License getting ready to expire what now..? Ok I hope I'm not alone in this... I have the Beta 6001 build of Windows Server(R)2008 Standard and the product key I was given when loaded is about to expire. I went through my MSDN account and got a key generated for OS, however thekey is not being accepted as valid. I called support, they said they do not have a key for Windows Server 2008, there is an issue with this and they are aware of it. They suggested I call an activiation number to have my activiation extended, the people on this number had no idea as to what I was asking about. My question is simple, How do I go about getting a new product key w/o uninstalling and reinstalling the OS..? Thanks Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109920
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    - RPC dependant services wil not run I hope someone can enlighten me a bit as I have been unable to find a solution: I am running a Win 200 advanced server which cannot recieve updates except manually either on line or via WSUS. I am also running Terminal server with about 6 clients connecting who seem to be unaffected. BITS and several other services which list their dependency as the RPC service will not run most commonly with the "Error: 1068 the dependency group or service failed to start" the following services have other errors as well and will not run: Removeable Storage,--( error: 1083 the executable program that this service is configured to run in does not impliment the service) Routing and Remote Access, --,( error: 1083 the executable program that this service is configured to run in does not impliment the service) System Even Notification, --,( error: 1083 the executable program that this service is configured to run in does not impliment the service) Windows Service Pack installer service, --( Could not start... ...The service did not return an error. This could be an internal windows error or a service error.) I have looked everywhere for a solution to this but can find no documentation on how to approach this. Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109916
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    - Everything went read only on NTFS Over the last weekend I tried to do a 1.5TB data migration from an old server to a new machine using xcopy. I didn't know about robocopy at the time. The old server is running Win2K3 ES. The new server is running Win2K3R2 ES. All the data copied but when it hit the destination all the permissions on the files were either gone or wrong. So I turned the shares on the older servers back on and figured I'd try it again this coming weekend. The problem is, on the OLD servers, all the data, files and folders has been set to read only. This is on two servers. Right clicking and going to properties won't let me remove the read only. Well, it acts like it's removing it but really does not. And, the attrib command will not let me remove read only. What the heck did I do and how do I fix it??? Thanks, -brian Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109915
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    - WDS Server Management Rights Hello, I currently have setup a working WDS server. I am a network administrator with domain admin rights and have no problem connecting to the services with the MMC snapin. Ideally we want the desktop support staff to connect using the MMC and manage the images instead of a net admin. When I have the support staff connect the MMC snapin says it cannot find the service on the selected server. It works when I add them to the local admin group on the server. It is not a desirable practice to add them to the local admin group on the server. WDS will be installed on some domain controllers in the smallers which do not have local groups. How do I give the support staff rights to manage WDS without giving them any type of Admin rights? Appreciate your help. Andy Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109910
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    - Upgrading Domain Controller with Standard SP1 to R2 - fails Recently i have been upgrading all the servers to R2 with the exception of DCs. Upon upgrading one dc it prompted me to update the schema which i did with adprep /forestprep. After i ran the setup to install R2- it asks for product key to enter (so it can update the old standard to standard R2) after i enter my R2 key it comes back with invalid key. Very strange since this same product key works on all other standard servers equipped with Standard SP1 that i converted to R2. I did a little investigating to see if this only happened on that specific dc, so i try to upgrade another different dc to R2 and after i enter the product key its says invalid. I verified with microsoft that the key is correct. Has anyone ever had this issue? any solution? thanks Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109909
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    - Robocopy and specific network adapters Hello I am setting up a script for robocopy and wondered if there is a way to tell robocopy to use a certain network adapter. I have dual adapters on both servers and want to use one from each connected to a gigabit switch (not connected to the network) for the file copy. I was thinking that I could specify the ip address I am using on each one like so. robocopy "\\172.21.1.200\file" "\\172.21.1.201\file" Would this be the proper way to specify the network adapters to use? The other adapters will be on the company network, while these 2 will not. Thanks Steve Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109904
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    - Windows 2003 Domain, domain computers clocks off by an hour I just upgraded from a windows 2000 domain server, to windows 2003. The member computers on the domain all run windows 2000. For some reason all the computers on the domain are exactly one hour slow. When I run the following command via netlogon net time \\s3a-56dmz01.s3a-upland.mydomain.com /set /yes the 2000 computers all sync however they show the time zone as +7 as opposed to +8. I've gone through and verified everyones time zone and that of the server. The windows 2003 domain controller (s3a-56dmz01) is set up to sync with an external time server as per kb 816042. Any one have any ideas on this ? Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109902
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    - Move Roaming profiles All, What is the easiest way to change the roaming profile path for a large number of users in one go? We need to perform a upgrade on the server that currently hosts the roaming profile and need to change the path on approx 300 users. Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109897
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    - Scheduled Task Email Alert Is there any way to get notified by email when a windows scheduled task fails / succeeds. Please let me know either using a 3rd party software or scripts / batch files. Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109894
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    - Windows Server 2003 DNS Server question We have a DNS Server running that is getting errors in the event log about being unable to connect to a domain controller. The thing is, we don't have a PDC, yet the server is set to join a domain. Does a DNS Server running Windows Server 2003 need to be a member of a domain, or can it be just in a workgroup? I checked the Configure Your Server log, and it was initially setup as a Domain Controller with Active Directory, but those were later removed along with the DNS server. The DNS server was immediately reinstalled, of course. Based on this information, I'm pretty sure it can be safely removed from the non-existent domain, but I would like to wait for confirmation. Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109885
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    - Why do clents and my new E2k3 server that exists in the root forest I have a root domain 'parent.com'. I have a child domain 'child.parent.com'. Lately I've been noticing on my router syslogs that some of my XP clients on parent.com have been hitting the child ADC over tcp 389 and 88. Also, a new E2k3 server I built on parent.com last week is hitting/receiving traffic over tcp 3268 & 389 to/from the child ADC. Shouldn't this traffic be directed to the parent.com ADC/GC? I've also noticed that the E2k3 server is sending Echo requests to the child ADC about every 10 mins. I've checked my 2 parent ADC's and they are both GC's. Any help would be appreciated. Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109882
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    - Moving a Terminal Server Licensing Server Hi all. Looking for a quick answer: I have a client with a Terminal Server with TS licensing installed on the TS itself. Because the TS is malfunctioning, we are replacing it, but before doing so we need to install TS Licensing on the domain controller and migrate the licenses. Can anyone tell me the easiest way to do this so as to ensure we don't lose the previously activated licenses? Thanks in advance! Jamie Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109881
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    - Windows 2003 Backup Question This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0217_01C88FEB.6DCD3270 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This may be a simple question.... I have a Windows 2003 SP2 machine, and I had a question about backup. When I do a scheduled backup every night, it gives me a file say = backup1.bkf. The first night it works fine. But, on the second night, it also again backup up to backup1.bkf and = just adds to that file. What I would like to have happen is night1 backup to backup1.bkf, then = make a new file say backup2.bkf, the next night backup3.bkf.=20 Is there any way to do this? I tried Append or replace backup selection, = but it always saves to the same file. The only way I have found is to = rename the file manually everynight. thanks! ------=_NextPart_000_0217_01C88FEB.6DCD3270 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.6000.16608" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>This may be a simple = question....</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I have a Windows 2003 SP2 machine, and = I had a=20 question about backup.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>When I do a scheduled backup every = night, it gives=20 me a file say backup1.bkf. The first night it works fine.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>But, on the second night, it also again = backup up=20 to backup1.bkf and just adds to that file.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>What I would like to have happen is = night1 backup=20 to backup1.bkf, then make a new file say backup2.bkf, the next night=20 backup3.bkf. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Is there any way to do this? I tried = Append or=20 replace backup selection, but it always saves to the same file. The only = way I=20 have found is to rename the file manually everynight.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>thanks!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0217_01C88FEB.6DCD3270-- Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109878
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    - Help needed, our windows 2003 server is crashing! Hi, our production server, Windows 2003 Server (x64), has become unstable for some reason. I have no clue how to retrieve any more information about why it is crashing except from the event log.. could anyone please help me? -- The reason supplied by user blabla\Oscar for the last unexpected shutdown of this computer is: System Failure: Stop error Reason Code: 0x805000f Bug ID: 3 Bugcheck String: 0x0000001e (0xffffffffc0000005, 0xfffff800012c121f, 0x0000000000000000, 0xffffffffffffffff) Comment: 0x0000001e (0xffffffffc0000005, 0xfffff800012c121f, 0x0000000000000000, 0xffffffffffffffff) --- The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x0000001e (0xffffffffc0000005, 0xfffff800012c121f, 0x0000000000000000, 0xffffffffffffffff). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\MEMORY.DMP. -- I can also see some frequent "System errors" in the event log. Error code 000000000000001e, parameter1 ffffffffc0000005, parameter2 fffff800012c121f, parameter3 0000000000000000, parameter4 ffffffffffffffff. How do I proceed? best regards, oscar Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109877
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    - Windows 2008 & Win XP Client blues - Network name cannot be found Hi, everyone! I've just installed Windows 2008 Enterprise in a Virtual PC 2007 virtual machine. The server is set up as a PDC with it's own domain forrest, and has a DNS server. DNS resolves Ok, but I have 2 major issues. 1) If connecting to/from WinXP / Windows 2003 computer, the network share is visible, but I cannot copy files. The operation fails after a few seconds, with the "Network name cannot be found" (or "is not available") error. This works OK, if the client is Vista, so I presume it's a SMB 2.0 issue. Any hints on how to force the w2k8 box to use SMB 1.0? 2) From the w2k8 box, I cannot browse to www.microsoft.com, www.mozilla.com, and a few other international sites. DNS resolution works fine (ping is ok), website is found, but I get stuck on the "waiting for response". Local (in my country) sites work fine; everything works fine from other computers in my main domain. Help would be appreciated. Regards, Sigmund Jakhel Integrum IT, Slovenia, Europe Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109872
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    - New SBS 2003 R2 server does not respond to ping I have just added a new SBS 2003 premium server to my exisiting 2003 server and have assigned the new server the DC role. Eveything seemed to be ok apart from GPO that doesn't work the old server and the clients are all expecting it to come from the old DC, so I ran dcdiag and it reported that the new SBS DC does not respond to ping and gave Win32 error 11010. I have checked and I cannot ping from the command line on any client. Everything else works fine on the new DC all help appreciated. Regards PJ Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109870
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    - Excessive entries in Event Viewer! Hi All, Our Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (SP2) logs this message with an interval of several (5-15) minutes: The description for Event ID ( 1 ) in Source ( Heartbeat_Sent ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: Heartbeat_Sent. I am not a win admin expert, and (extensive) google research of the above did not turn up much. I was able to get some limited info on the use of AUXSOURCE flag, but no idea what the Heartbeat_Sent source is. Please help. Thanks! Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109866
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    - Hyper-V, RAAS woes. . . Please help My Hyper-V Guests cannot traverse through NAT to gain internet access. I followed the guide by John Paul Cook linked her http://sqlblog.com/blogs/john_paul_cook/archive/2008/03/23/using-wireless-with-hyper-v.aspx Here are the steps I took. 1. Install Windows 2008 Server 2. Setup static IP on physical network card 3. Deploy Hyper-V roles 4. In Virtual Network Manager created an internal only network 5. Define the newly created internal network with IP: 192.168.1.1 Subnet 255.255.255.0 6. Deploy RRAS 7. Configure NAT 8. Pointed public interface to the physical network card 9. Pointed internet network to the internal network 10.Disable firewall on host in relation to the internal network Guest OS receives DHCP from the RRAS Guest OS is able to ping 192.168.1.1. Guest OS is able to resolve internet DNS name. Guest OS cannot traverse through NAT to the internet. My primary goal is to enable Guest OS(s) ability to reach the internet. But I have no idea whatâ??s wrong with my configurations. Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109864
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    - NTBackup fails, Insufficient memory available I've got a Windows Server 2003 sp2 DC, patched completely up to date. Over the past few months I've been having an intermittant problem with it failing with the message "Insufficient memory available". It writes an 8017 message into the Event Log. The server only has 512mb, but the only function it servers is backup, and typically the is over 150mb available. I've checked out kb828402. I have a later version of NTBackup, so the hotfix won't install. NTBackup version 5.2.3790.3959, which includes the hooks for backing up Exchange. I've also tried the jsiinc.com tip to deallocate the tape. The job still fails every three or four days. Any ideas? Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109862
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    - Installing Windows Server 2003 32bits or 64bits Hi to MCP and the Experience Pros out there, my company have just purchase a HP Proliant ML350 Server G4p - quad 3.2Ghz Xeon, 4GB Ram, 2x725Watts power supply, 5X72GB HDD with RAID hardware. I have to install either Windows Server 2003 with 32 bits or 64 bits, i did some research for 32 and 64 bits, i found out that 64bits can fully utilize the physical memory and so on, but overall, i am still blur about it. 1. can any Pros out there give me some advantage and disadvantage of 32bits and 64bits? 2. this Proliant Server have RAID hardware, from what i heard, it says that RAID 5 can auto backup and recreate data files if one of the harddisk break down, can anyone explain to me know how to configure RAID? thanks in Advance! Regards, ViNC3 Server Pros Wannabe -- Message posted via WinServerKB.com http://www.winserverkb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/windows-server/200803/1 Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109860
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    - IP settings disappear This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0035_01C88F87.2B23C2E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Greetings, Freshly deployed server (Win2003-SP2 x64 Std). I'm having an issue where I set static IP settings for a NIC, hit OK and = they are set correctly. Later when I re-open the NIC's properties, the IP settings are all = showing as back to the default DHCP settings. IPConfig, registry and any WMI query or script all show the static IP = information I entered is indeed being used by the NIC. Even after a reboot... static IP is in-use on the NIC, but open the = network properties window of the NIC and it shows all set to DHCP. This post below describes the same issue, however their fix didn't = apply. My path and system variables are correct. http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/Windows/microsoft.public.windows.serv= er.networking/2008-01/msg00293.html TIA, Kirk Lashbrook ------=_NextPart_000_0035_01C88F87.2B23C2E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.6000.16608" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DVerdana size=3D2>Greetings,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DVerdana size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DVerdana size=3D2>Freshly deployed server (Win2003-SP2 = x64=20 Std).</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DVerdana size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DVerdana size=3D2>I'm having an issue where I set = static IP=20 settings for a NIC, hit OK and they are set correctly.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DVerdana size=3D2>Later when I re-open the NIC's = properties, the IP=20 settings are all showing as back to the default DHCP = settings.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DVerdana size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DVerdana size=3D2>IPConfig, registry and any WMI = query or=20 script all show the static IP information I entered is indeed being = used by=20 the NIC.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DVerdana size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DVerdana size=3D2>Even after a reboot... static IP is = in-use on the=20 NIC, but open the network properties window of the NIC and it shows all = set=20 to DHCP.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DVerdana size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DVerdana size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DVerdana size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DVerdana size=3D2>This post below describes the = same issue,=20 however their fix didn't apply. My path and system variables are=20 correct.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DVerdana size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DVerdana size=3D2><A=20 href=3D"http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/Windows/microsoft.public.wind= ows.server.networking/2008-01/msg00293.html">http://www.tech-archive.net/= Archive/Windows/microsoft.public.windows.server.networking/2008-01/msg002= 93.html</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DVerdana size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DVerdana size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DVerdana size=3D2>TIA,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DVerdana size=3D2>Kirk Lashbrook</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DVerdana size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DVerdana size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DVerdana size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DVerdana size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DVerdana size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DVerdana size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0035_01C88F87.2B23C2E0-- Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109857
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    - PKI - Certificate enrollment using non IE browsers For a Win2K3 based PKI infrastructue, is there a third party add on to support non IE browsers for enrollment. For Example MAC / Safari ? Or can the enrollment pages be modifed which i am guessing is not possible due to the fact they use XEnroll and Active X Controls. Thanks in advance. -- Patilp Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109856
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    - Ntbackup Failure Hello, I am running a scheduled NT backup nightly job on two data partitions. I am getting a very intermittent error that has become increasingly more apparent. I am backing up to a USB 2.0 external drive on a file share attached to another server on our network. I get this error in the NT backup log: Error: E: is not a valid drive, or you do not have access. Error: An inconsistency was encountered in the requested backup file. Error: F: is not a valid drive, or you do not have access. ---------------------- The operation did not successfully complete. ---------------------- Can someone please advise me what I can do to fix this issue? -- Thank you! Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109855
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    - Any network performance impact by MSMQ hi all, THank you for your help in advance. I am not familliar with MSMQ. But I just found out there was a MSMQ with AD Integration installed by a third party program product support. In fact, before finding this happen, there have been some strange things happening. Some of the PCs were freezing (or slow) for couple minutes some times a week. Besides, when the only a promary DC rebooted, the client lost the domain connection (but we have a secondary one running), which this never happened before. Any ideas or inputs? Thank you for your help! Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109854
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    - Windows is running really Slow Need some help. I have a newer computer running windows 2003 stand. ed. with exchange server 2007 and acting as a web server. The computer ran great for 6 months. Did not change anything. Now the computer runs great for about 15 mins to an hour from boot up. Than gets real slow (really Unresponsive) than speeds up for a little than slow, fast, slow. anythoughts on what it could be? if you need more info let me know thanks Todd Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109851
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    - New upgraded 2003 lost share connection after a while Hi i have recently upgraded my windows 2000 DC to 2003 sp1 STD server (he is my master domain) Now at every 15:00 pm (give or take) all share and printer become unavailable to all my XP sp2 client (all map drive) !! MAP DRIVE DISCONNECTED i can ping the server i can access the server in remote using dameware i CANT do \\ServerName\ it says Network path not found Firewall is not activated when i reboot the server its all ok again until 15:00 pm ... (symantec endpoint is installed on the dc) thanks for your help. Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109847
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    - IPP vs smb print server Hi, We are thinking using IPP as the primary printing protocol for our print server. Can anyone advice if there is any disadvantage compare with traditional smb printer server, e.g. administration and management? Thanks in advance. Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109846
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    - multiple servers on one box? Can anyone tell me if it is ok to run Live Communications Server, a web server and SQL 2005 on the same box? TIA, Jim Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109836
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    - Printer Server and Client Drivers This might be a shot in the dark, but we recently created a new windows print server running on Server 2003 R2, to take over for our aged server 2000 print server. All the queues seem to work and you can print to the printers on the new server just fine. However, we have a very simple script that runs on various machines to add a default printer. This script has always worked just fine with the old server, but when we change the script to point to the new server (just replacing the server name because the print queue names are the same on both) we sometimes (NOTE I said SOMETIMES) get a script error of "The remote procedure call failed". Also, if the script fails, and you run it manually after finishing the logon (the script is a logon script) then it will generally work fine. We went round and round on this and finally ran a packet sniffer on the traffic. One thing we noticed is that one the failed attempts, the client seems to be trying to download a printer driver from the new server. Hard to say from the packet capture if it was successful, but we HAVE determined that even though the new server has a much newer print driver, the clients always use the older driver they apparently downloaded from the old server. We've also received occasional reports of people adding printers from the new server and not getting a driver properly. My questions are this: 1.) Is there anything I need to do to allow the print server to download drivers? Is there anything (permissions etc) that could interfere with that? 2.) If a client has an older driver than the one the server has, will it attempt to download the newer one? If so, how often will it attempt it? Every time it tries to add the printer? Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109835
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    - Paused NETLOGON Service The Netlogon Service comes up as PAUSED after every reboot, (fyi: Win 2K3 SP2 only domain controller.) Have to manually RESUME service. Any suggestions? Thanks in advanced, -D$ Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109833
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    - Single Label Domains Options Hello, I have a single label Domain on a windows server 2003 enviroment with exchange, doesnt have a .org or a .com at the end. How am i able to convert it to a .org or a .com. We are having DNS issues and need to fix this issue. The dns issues that we are having are DNS related and microsoft has reported that Single Domain is causing this issue, thanks Tag: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. Tag: 109829

Hi there all, I finally was able to get my Windows Deployment Services
2008 running, took forever to figure out that if you separate step 1 from
the other steps you can actually have 2 unattend files, d'oh. At any rate!
I'm trying to see if there is anyway to do a few fairly simple things the
'first time' and only the 'first time' the system boots up after the Windows
Deployment Server deploys Server 2008 to it.

Basically I want it to Install all updates via Windows Update, remove a
Specific Name Server from the IPv4 settings and clean up all of the files
left over from the WDS installation.

I checked the script repo and I didnt see any way to install 'all updates'
from Windows update. I dont want it to enable Windows update on an ongoing
basis, just a one-time download & install.

Thanks,
Andy

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Re: Trying to do a few things the first time a computer boots. by Pegasus

Pegasus
Fri Mar 28 12:39:38 PDT 2008

"Andy" <aweaver@ee.net> wrote in message
news:Oh6urXQkIHA.1208@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Hi there all, I finally was able to get my Windows Deployment Services
> 2008 running, took forever to figure out that if you separate step 1 from
> the other steps you can actually have 2 unattend files, d'oh. At any rate!
> I'm trying to see if there is anyway to do a few fairly simple things the
> 'first time' and only the 'first time' the system boots up after the
> Windows Deployment Server deploys Server 2008 to it.
>
> Basically I want it to Install all updates via Windows Update, remove a
> Specific Name Server from the IPv4 settings and clean up all of the files
> left over from the WDS installation.
>
> I checked the script repo and I didnt see any way to install 'all updates'
> from Windows update. I dont want it to enable Windows update on an ongoing
> basis, just a one-time download & install.
>
> Thanks,
> Andy

You're probably thinking of the "RunOnce" facility. Have a look
on Google, or check the registry for this key.

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