IBM NetVista Monitor
We have three IBM NetVista systems that no longer function. However, we believe that the flat panel monitors, if seperated from the rest of the system, can still function. Is it possible to recover these monitors and use them as monitors for working computers. Thank you for your time.

Answer Question   |  February 13, 2006  5:41 PM
Hardware

Print job hung in deletion
Hi All: I currently have a print job hung in ?Deleting printing? which is what is actually stated in the ?Status? field. The printer in question is an HP-G95 which is connected to an HP JetDirect 170X. All users connect to this printer using the Standard TCP/IP Port configuration and thereby using local print queues [...]

Answer Question   |  February 10, 2006  4:48 PM
DataCenter, Networking, Printers, Tech support

Exchange/POP 3 service fails to start
I have server 2003 and exchange 2003 running. I have a user that requires pop3 for mail. When I reboot the server, I get a warning that ? An error occurred while starting the Microsoft Exchange POP3 Service: server instance number 1 failed to start with error 0x80040a01 When checking the services, it shows the [...]

Answer Question   |  January 20, 2010  3:37 PM
Desktops, Exchange, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server

Exchange hard drive upgrade
I have an Exchange 2003 Server that is running out of disk space. I would like to upgrade the data store hard drive without re-installing Exchange. What are the steps I would have to take to before and after upgrading the hard drive?

Answer Question   |  February 14, 2006  2:12 PM
Exchange, Hardware, Servers

Terminal Services Vs RDP
From my application, I would like to know if I’m running under Terminal Services or Remote Desktop. If I use; GetSystemMetrics(SM_REMOTESESSION) I get “true” in both environments (TS and RDP). I would like to differentiate between the two as I don’t want my APP running under TS but allow it under RDP. My app is [...]

Answer Question   |  February 9, 2006  3:57 PM
Desktops, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server

IMS conversational transactions
I am looking into IBM’s IMS SOAP Gateway to expose our IMS transactions as Web Services. 98% of our IMS transactions are conversational. I am looking for possible ways of exposing them as SOAP/Web services without acquiring WebSphere or IMS Connect for Java on the Mainframe

Answer Question   |  February 9, 2006  2:32 PM
390, DB2, Mainframe, Web services

How to Configure DNS in place of Editing Host file?
This is what we’re doing: We connect via PPTP to other networks (our clients’). Once we’ve connected thru’ the tunnel, we then launch Remote Desktop Connection to connect and log in to the remote computer. The thing is, we connect to these remote pc’s by typing the IP address of the remote computer. Our clients [...]

Answer Question   |  February 14, 2006  7:42 PM
Desktops, DHCP, DNS, Management, Microsoft Windows, Networking services, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server

Access to an EMC SAN
We are considering moving some apps from individual blades (a growing expense) to a partition of an existing, underused i520. One hang up is DASD, especially moving or reloading the terabytes of data currently held in our SAN. With the new partioning of an i5, especially when running an AIX, or Windows partition it seems [...]

Answer Question   |  July 21, 2008  12:38 PM
AIX, DASD, EMC, i5, i520, iSeries, Partitioning, SAN

Random Unresponsive & Slow WIN2K Server
I have a Windows 2000 Server SP4 that all of a sudden started becoming slow and unresponsive to client’s share access/logon requests randomly (once a month or every 2-3 weeks). If I reboot the server it’s fine until the next time. I suspected the problem to be a leak in lsass.exe. So I ran the [...]

Answer Question   |  February 9, 2006  10:18 AM
Desktops, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server

Reg. PIX firewall/Proxy Server
Hi all, Recently we have delegates from china for business purpose and they want to access their Lotus Notes mails from our office. But they are not able to connect to their servers in US as its in LAN and we have PIX as well as Squid Proxy in our office setup. But if they [...]

Answer Question   |  February 14, 2006  9:11 AM
Availability, Bandwidth, Networking, Performance management, Platform Issues

Virus scanning the iSeries IFS
Do you know of any products that will allow me to scan my IFS for viruses? If so, are you using the product(s) and are you satisfied with their performance? THANKS! for your help.

Answer Question   |  February 13, 2006  7:22 AM
Application security, backdoors, Compliance, configuration, CRM, Current threats, Database, Disaster Recovery, Encryption, Exchange, Firewalls, Forensics, Hacking, human factors, Incident response, Instant Messaging, Intrusion management, Network security, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Policies, Risk management, Secure Coding, Security, Security Program Management, Spyware, Trojans, Viruses, VPN, vulnerability management, Wireless, worms

Fixing violation errors found with CHKOBJITG
I have just begun running the command to check object itegrity on my system. I have encountered 2 basic errors – BADSIG & ALTERED. Can you please explain how I now correct these errors? The objects are basic IBM supplied code (i.e. ADDTCPLNK in QTCP library). I have no idea how these objects were compromised, [...]

Answer Question   |  February 15, 2006  7:19 AM
Access control, Application security, backdoors, Biometrics, Browsers, Compliance, configuration, CRM, Current threats, Database, Digital certificates, Disaster Recovery, Encryption, Exchange, filtering, Firewalls, Forensics, Hacking, human factors, Identity & Access Management, Incident response, Instant Messaging, Intrusion management, Network security, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Policies, provisioning, Risk management, Secure Coding, Security, Security Program Management, Security tokens, Servers, Single sign-on, Spyware, SSL/TLS, Trojans, Viruses, VPN, vulnerability management, Web security, Wireless, worms

Mac address to IP address resolution
How can we resolve IP address from Mac address and can we do this from Cisco switch 3750? We are able to track port no and associated Mac address from Cisco switch by using the command #sh mac-address-table dyanamic>, but we also want to track the associated IP address with port no. Please suggest how [...]

Answer Question   |  April 19, 2013  12:21 AM
3Com, Availability, Bandwidth, Cabling, Cisco, Ethernet, Hardware, Hubs, Network monitoring, Network protocols, Networking, Project management, Routers, Switches, TCP

Limiting User rights to SQL Server from Web Service
Hi folks I am in the early days of developing an app that has (I think) some unusual security requirements. It will be deployed eventually on an intranet. As an example, please see the following: There is a Clients table that everybody has access to. this will have the usual fields such as ID, LName, [...]

Answer Question   |  February 7, 2006  3:24 PM
Access control, Browsers, filtering, Servers, SQL Server, SSL/TLS, Web security, Web services

Sending email attachment from mainframe – MIME format
Hi, I need to email 2 flat files from mainframe as CSV files. (the data in the flat files already contains the delimiter ‘,’). The problem is, i get the 2 files attachements as CSV, but nothing in them! I feel I’ve got the MIME formatting wrong. I use IEBGENER, and the flat files are [...]

Answer Question   |  February 7, 2006  3:15 PM
390, DB2, Mainframe

Windows 2000 to Windows 2003 migration using ADMT
I have a single domain network that I run with only one computer running AD on Windows 2000 server sp4. Unfortunately the hard drive is dying and I am setting up our new PDC on a Windows 2003 server in a new forest and was hoping to use admt to migrate the user accounts with [...]

Answer Question   |  February 9, 2006  10:24 AM
Active Directory, DataCenter, Desktops, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server

Restricting # of TS Connections by Group
I am trying to configure my Terminal Server to only allow a certain number of users to be logged on by group at one time. Ex: I have 3 groups Group A – 10 users Group B – 5 users Group C – 8 users I want to make it so that Group A can [...]

Answer Question   |  February 6, 2006  12:35 PM
Desktops, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server

What type of migration is this?
It seems like an easy task! All I wanted to do is upgrade my corp system. I had a single Windows Business Server (WBS) 2003 on a high end computer. It failed all the time, due to not enough disk space & slow responce time. I upgraded to 3 new Servers to accomplish all the [...]

Answer Question   |  February 3, 2006  7:43 PM
Desktops, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server

roaming profiles
about six months ago we updated out remote site routers. well since the updats if we have roaming profiles it takes 10 min to a hour to logon. because it is downloading the my docs from the network to the local PC. does anyone know of a way around this besides turning off roaming profiles. [...]

Answer Question   |  February 6, 2006  12:31 PM
DataCenter, Desktops, Hardware, Management, Microsoft Windows, Networking, OS, Routers, Security, Servers, SQL Server

Offline Folders caching everything.
Having some trouble getting offline folders working properly under WinXP: Offline folders replicates all top level folders from a network share, not just the top level folder I select: I select a folder from servershare (i.e. serversharefolder1) to make available offline. The entire folder structure and contents under the share is then cached locally, not [...]

Answer Question   |  February 5, 2006  7:08 AM
DataCenter, Microsoft Windows, Networking, Software, Tech support, Wireless