USB External Hard drive and Windows XP
I have two issues which are basically the same. I have an external USB hard drive that I connect to a computer running Windows XP. Windows USB driver recognizes the hard drive and shows the drive in Device Manager but Windows does not show the drive in Windows Explorer. A customer has a USB FLASH [...]

Answer Question   |  April 19, 2013  11:58 AM
Adapters/Interfaces, Billing and customer care, Billing Support Systems, Desktops, Development, Disk drives, Fibre channel, Hardware, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server

Ipnat.sys related error on Win2003 Server
Happy 2006 to you all! One of my customers is getting a strange error since someone disabled (deleted actually!!) the Terminal Server service on their Windows 2003 Server SP1. The error that pops up is: “Windows Firewall cannot run because another program or service is running that might use the network address translation component (Ipnat.sys)”, [...]

Answer Question   |  February 23, 2006  10:34 AM
Access control, Browsers, Desktops, filtering, Firewalls, Forensics, Hardware, Incident response, Intrusion management, Management, Microsoft Windows, Network security, Networking, OS, Patch management, Security, Servers, Software, SQL Server, SSL/TLS, Tech support, VPN, Web security, Wireless

Security Testing
How do u use the ‘whois’ utility on a windows XP OS? Thanks.

Answer Question   |  January 10, 2006  8:30 PM
Access control, Browsers, Desktops, filtering, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server, SSL/TLS, Web security

Active Directory management
Movetree utliity Can this be used to just move one account to another Doamin? I have found some samples , but are difficult to follow.

Answer Question   |  January 17, 2006  11:44 AM
DataCenter, Desktops, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server

Auto eMail from within a VB 6.0 App
I’m running Windows XP and I have an app that eMails automatically. This part works fine. The question is XP notifies me that a program is trying to eMail and is this okay. How do I suppress this question to let it eMail without asking me? Thanks, Tony

Answer Question   |  January 9, 2006  3:45 PM
DataCenter, Desktops, Development, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server

Distribution Lists in Exhcange 2003
Hello everyone, Earlier today I created a distribution list in Exchange 2003 using Active Directory Users & Computers, I gave it an email address but the DL is not showing in the Globa Address List for some reason. I’ve done this before and never had any problem, but for some reason I have one now. [...]

Answer Question   |  January 17, 2006  1:39 PM
DataCenter, Desktops, Exchange, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server

DNS PTR records inexplicable appearance
I’ve met some strange DNS server behavior. A month ago I’ve renamed the domain. Today I found a PTR record containing old domain name. I deleted it, but after refresh I saw this record again. I checked DNS update requests log for the request to create this record but didn’t find anything. How can I [...]

Answer Question   |  January 11, 2006  2:35 AM
Desktops, DHCP, DNS, Management, Microsoft Windows, Networking, Networking services, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server

Joining computer to the domain and adding computer to specific OU
Hi, all! Usually when you join computer to the domain, the account of this computer is created in Computers container. I have a remote office and OU of this office in AD. That office has a local system administrator. He should be able to join computers in his office to the domain. I’ve gave him [...]

Answer Question   |  January 6, 2006  3:13 AM
Desktops, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server

Blue Screen Of Death
Hi All, I have a machine running on windows NT 4.0 service pack 6a, Its hard disk has partition c: and d: C: is a system partition and i have some Programs installed on D: drive. Recently I got encountered with Blue Screen Of Death with some reason and the mass storage device the SCSI [...]

Answer Question   |  January 6, 2006  7:31 PM
DataCenter, Desktops, Hardware, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, Software, SQL Server, Tech support

Nested stored procedures in SQL 2000
How can I use results from one stored procedure (result is a record set not a single value) in another stored procedure and assign it to a temp table in the second procedure?

Answer Question   |  January 4, 2006  5:10 PM
Desktops, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server

Unable to install SQL 2005 Developer Edition
I have been trying to install the SQL 2005 Developer Edition from the MSDN subscription DVDs. The install process claims that there are remnants of the Beta edition of SQL 2005 on my computer. I did in fact have the SQL 2005 Beta, and uninstalled it using the uninstall tool that is provided as part [...]

Answer Question   |  January 1, 2006  8:55 PM
Desktops, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server

Educating database users
Database administrators must always be prepared to handle users’ database problems and concerns — even if those users are quick to blame for every small thing that goes wrong and rarely praise when big things go right. It may be a lack of education; users just don’t understand the work involved with managing and maintaining [...]

Answer Question   |  January 11, 2006  12:00 AM
Data analysis, Database, DB2, Desktops, Management, Microsoft Windows, Oracle, OS, Security, Servers, SQL, SQL Server

Active Directory custom fields
The company I work for is a mixed environment of AS400, AIX, and Windows 2000 systems. Recently we have finally started to look seriously at utilizing the Windows AD to store pertinent information about our users and computers. The question I have is what is the easiest way to make this information available for modification [...]

Answer Question   |  January 18, 2006  2:48 AM
Altiris, DataCenter, Desktop management applications, Desktops, Intel, LANDesk, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server

Out of office reply problem
Hi all, I’m not able to get out-of-office replies in public folder. Is this a default behaviour? or please tell me how to rectify it. The server ver is Exch 2003 in native mode. Regards, Vignesh

Answer Question   |  December 26, 2005  2:06 AM
Access, DataCenter, Desktops, Exchange, Management, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, OS, Patch management, Security, Servers, SQL Server

Mandatory Roaming Profile Missing
I have a Win2k Server domain with a WinXP Pro SP2 notebook client that I am trying to get a mandatory roaming profile to work. When I log into the notebook with it connected or disconnected from the network with the NTUSER set to .DAT, I get the proper profile that is stored on the [...]

Answer Question   |  December 28, 2005  5:19 PM
DataCenter, Desktops, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server

Can’t Save or Open redirected “My Docs” after installing McAfee antivirus
I have a Windows 2003 Active Directory domain. All “My Documents” folders are redirected to the fileserver. After I installed McAfee Antivirus Enterprise, a problem developed. Users (all runiing Windows XP) cannot save or open documents from the “My Documents” folder using Microsoft Office programs, such as Outlook. For example, when they try to save [...]

Answer Question   |  December 21, 2005  4:45 PM
DataCenter, Desktops, Management, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server

Windows Server 2003 Terminal services
I am configuring a server to be used as a file server for a small office. The server will be housed off-site and will need to be accessed remotely by 3 users. Is terminal services the best remote access solution in this case? If so can the server also handle licensing or is that necessary? [...]

Answer Question   |  December 23, 2005  9:37 PM
Desktops, DHCP, DNS, Management, Microsoft Windows, Networking, Networking services, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server

Loss of access to Administrator Account and Security class
I have two serious problem with my MD’s system and need help urgently! Firstly, a secretary configured a user account for herself without informing my first and logged out the administrative account that was setup for their use. After that time, although you can still see the Administrator’s folder under “Documents and Settings”, the folder [...]

Answer Question   |  December 20, 2005  10:57 PM
DataCenter, Desktops, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Patch management, Security, Servers, SQL Server

Print Numbers in words
By using a single SQL Query Is it possible to print numbers in words. Example : To print “5,550 Dollars” in words Expected Query result : “Five Thousand Five Hundred and Fifty Dollars Only” Is it Posssible by a single query

Answer Question   |  December 29, 2005  10:11 PM
Career development, Certifications, CRM, Database, DataManagement, DB2, Desktops, Development, Functional, Lifecycle development, Management, Microsoft Windows, Oracle, OS, Performance/Load, Security, Servers, Software, Software Quality Assurance, Software testing tools, SQL, SQL Server, Tech support, Windows

Windows 98 clients randomly locked out of DC.
Hey all, I have a mix of WinXP/2000/98SE clients on a Win2K3 domain. I recently upgraded from Win2K domain to Win2K3. Prior to upgrade, there were no Win98 client issues. Every day or so, the user account logged in on a 98 box gets locked out on the DC. This is after logging in just [...]

Answer Question   |  December 19, 2005  1:29 PM
Desktops, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server