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convert public folder IPM.POST to IPM.NOTE

i have an sbs 2003 with exchange runing on it and gut a public folder that i've created for general mail to the employee's. i've routed all mail to that folder from specific account, the problem is that the mail's arrived as a IPM.POST format mails and not like the traditional mails that is more...

View Answer   |  Nov 30 2006  6:56 PM GMT
Networking, Security, Servers
asked by drorbeny

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Accessing Mail Server

I have remote users who are not allowed on the domain... At times they need to work in the main office and log in via wireless directly to the Wirelss ADSL modem/router.. putting them in a different ip range to the domain. Internet access works well with this arrangement but they are unable to get...

View Answer   |  Nov 29 2006  4:19 AM GMT
Hardware, Networking, Networking services
asked by Arron25

  0 pts.

Database Tuning Advisor "not permitted" error on SQL Server 2005 DE

Hi! I've bought the Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition and with it comes Visual Studio SQL Server 2005 Developers Edition. I've installed it and started developing my applications, but now when I try to tune it with the Database Tuning Advisor I get the error-message: "Tuning this edition of...

View Answer   |  Nov 28 2006  10:05 AM GMT
Security, Oracle, SQL
asked by volrat

  0 pts.

SBS 2003 Monitoring No More

Running SBS2003 with patches up-to-date. I had been getting regular reports, daily and weekly, on the status of the server. These reports suddenly stopped after November 4. When I go to the Server Management console, and select Monitoring and Reports, I get the message, in the right hand pane...

View Answer   |  Nov 26 2006  2:44 PM GMT
Tech support, Security, Servers
asked by stevesz

  190 pts.

Would upgrading to a managed/faster switch help?

I have a client that currenlty has an unmanaged 10/100 24 port D-Link switch. I was wondering the pros and cons to upgrading to a Cisco 2950 10/100/1000 switch. The current (simplified) network diagram. Clients/Server----->Dlink Switch----->Linksys Router----->Internet I was thinking,...

View Answer   |  Nov 24 2006  4:44 PM GMT
Networking, Security, Servers
asked by skepticals

  0 pts.

Network documentation/Diagram

I am curious as to how others are documenting their network; both visually and configurations. I am familiar with MS Visio for drawing the network. Are there better options? What about documenting all equiptment? IP addresses? Settings? Changes? I am just using MS Excel/word to create all...

View Answer   |  Nov 24 2006  2:34 PM GMT
Tech support, Networking, Security
asked by skepticals

  0 pts.

Daylight savings - Change in politics

Greets to all, First off, where I live (WA, Australia) we have had a change in politics. We now have daylight savings starting in 1 week. The problem is as follows. Details * 3 Domains (not linked to each other) * Multiple external sites (not tied back to base) * Multiple DB systems and...

View Answer   |  Nov 24 2006  9:34 AM GMT
Hardware, Networking, Security
asked by Nephi1

  0 pts.

DLL registration without local administrator rights

Hi there We create an Excel addin using MATLAB Builder for Excel. Our IT department has taken away local administrator rights from all users of our addin. We are able to install the addin using Altiris, but how can we allow users without admin rights to upgrade to new versions of our addin? To...

View Answer   |  Nov 22 2006  11:56 AM GMT
Security, Servers, Microsoft Windows
asked by NotAnAdministrator

  0 pts.

AD - Domain Users can join computers to Domain.

Hi there, I've just discovered that anyone who is just a member of Domain Users can join a computer to our Domain. It's freaked me out and I can't see why. How to I find the "Join to a Domain" security permissison and see what groups have rights to do this? rgds Mac

View Answer   |  Nov 22 2006  1:53 AM GMT
Security, Servers, Microsoft Windows
asked by Maclanachu

  0 pts.

Allow non-power users to "safely" eject removable media.

Does anyone know a way in which I can allow out public computer users the ability to safely remove their flash media drives? I found a setting in group policy, but I can only allow admins or power users. I do not want to make the public user a power user on the local machine. The clients are...

View Answer   |  Nov 21 2006  4:21 PM GMT
Networking, Security, Servers
asked by skepticals

  0 pts.

Sharing one profile for a lab (WinXP profiles)

I have asked similar questions in the past, but I am still unclear to the best method. Windows XP workstations on a Windows server 2003 domain. My goal: Have one user account "lab" that shares a profile. I want to make changes to one profile and have it replicate to all computers. Thus far, I...

View Answer   |  Nov 21 2006  4:17 PM GMT
Networking, Security, Servers
asked by skepticals

  0 pts.

How to run MS & Win updates on USER member accounts?

We primarily use desktops/laptops with WinXP Pro over Novell network. On computers, most have USER permissions/rights. These USER accounts will not allow udpates to run. No AD (yet). Any suggestions as to how to make this happen? Do I change a program to run as administrator or change the...

View Answer   |  Nov 21 2006  2:10 PM GMT
Security, Servers, Microsoft Windows
asked by OnTheEdge

  0 pts.

Excel Spreadsheets

We developed some kind of database with excel spreadsheets to draw monthly stats for diffrent departments. It works as follows: Individual spreadsheets(formulated)feeds into a master Link spreadsheets(data) we then use Pivots for our reports. The problem that I now expierence is that: 1. The...

View Answer   |  Nov 21 2006  2:42 AM GMT
Security, Oracle, Servers
asked by joshua5

  5 pts.

hi all

last day i installed one new xp theam on my xp system. recently i noticed that "RUN" option deleted from my start menu. can anybody help me in this problem ? thanks in advance

View Answer   |  Nov 21 2006  2:29 AM GMT
Tech support, Administration, Hardware
asked by squibc4

  0 pts.

Create Domain and new exchange server

Pardon my ignorance, but I've looked everywhere for Exchange '101'. Everywhere I look starts off with upgrading and existing situations... I have a small office (10 ppl) that currently just has an application server. I would like to implement a domain controller and also have exchange server...

View Answer   |  Nov 20 2006  5:58 PM GMT
Hardware, Networking, Network security
asked by BandHSolutions

  0 pts.

User rights,

Key applications/services: Active Directory, Domain controller, Terminal Services, Dentrix. 2 Servers running Win server 2003 standard. Network Setup, server3 hosts database/application called Dentrix. Server4 hosts the client for Dentrix and is a terminal server so that remote users can access...

View Answer   |  Nov 14 2006  8:46 AM GMT
Active Directory, Security, Servers
asked by gforsythe

  75 pts.

unable to install Exachnge as part of windows small business server

I installed (as a clean re-install) Windows 2000 small business server sp3 on a server that had a previous installation of windows 2000 small business server. Everything went smoothly but Exchange was not installed. I tried to install the Exchange component several times without any error messages...

View Answer   |  Nov 13 2006  10:12 AM GMT
Security, Servers, Microsoft Windows
asked by drcalm

  0 pts.

TROUBLE IN BACKING UP XP SP2

Hi All, Recently I tried to make a back up of one desktop, after mounting system says process failed. Here I?m pasting log report of back up process ?Backup Status Operation: Backup Active backup destination: File Media name: "station01.bkf created 11/10/2006 at 11:15 AM" Error returned while...

View Answer   |  Nov 10 2006  1:08 AM GMT
Hardware, Storage, Security
asked by squibc4

  0 pts.

Shadow Copy

Currently running Windows 2003 Right now after demoting the server to just a member server role, the shadow copy service provided by Windows has stopped automatically shadowing our selected folder, if we execute manually then the copy works but the schedule we have set up dose not function. Have...

View Answer   |  Nov 9 2006  10:02 AM GMT
Security, Servers, Microsoft Windows
asked by firedude663

  0 pts.

Folder redirection issue - Windows server 2003

I configured roaming profiles and folder redirection using Active Directory on a Windows Server 2003 machine. I mapped all profiles to \server_nameprofile%username% I redirected the desktop, application data, ect. to \server_nameusers. The folder redirection works perfectly; however, when a user...

View Answer   |  Nov 8 2006  6:31 PM GMT
Tech support, Networking, Security
asked by skepticals

  0 pts.

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