Management Questions


need to block sender
Dear All, Again I need your help in this matter. My company?s corporate mail server is hosted my one third party firm. And it?s a shared. Hosting. Let?s come to my issue. End of last week some of remote office?s users got some spam mails from unknown source. As per instruction they did rules through [...]

Answer Question   |  October 31, 2006  3:46 AM
Desktops, Exchange, Exchange security, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, Spam, SpamAssassin, SQL Server
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Server Addition
I have currently 2 servers running – SBS 2003 and Server 2003, my SBS Server does not have sufficient resources to run Terminal Services and want to add a 3rd server. What Server edition can I choose to migrate with SBS and utilise the Terminal Services on the new server? The specs for the new [...]

Answer Question   |  October 26, 2006  8:02 PM
Desktops, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server
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ODBC connections
We have a database that is specifically designed for our industry. We want to be able to export the information into a mailing list. This is the email that I received from IT. “You cannot export to an access database, but you can connect to the KIDS database with Access or with Excel query to [...]

Answer Question   |  October 25, 2006  2:04 PM
Database, DB2, Desktops, Management, Microsoft Windows, Oracle, OS, Security, Servers, SQL, SQL Server
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10 pts.

Group Policy – adding shortcut to all users desktop
I am a complete novice to group policy, so if you answer, please take me step by step. I would like to use Group Policy to add a IE shortcut to “all users – desktop”. How exactly do I do this? Thanks!

Answer Question   |  October 26, 2006  9:31 AM
DataCenter, Desktops, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server
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75 pts.

Password Synchronizing
Need your help here I set up the Password Synchronizing in the Policy document on the server and the Windows administrator set the policy scripts on the windows Login. Whe you change the Windows password it Does not synchronize the with the Lotus Notes. This means that you have to manually change the Lotus Notes [...]

Answer Question   |  October 25, 2006  7:51 AM
DataCenter, Desktops, Development, Lotus Domino, Management, Microsoft Windows, Networking, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server, Wireless
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10 pts.

Running a job in SQL 2005 by calling a batch file from a As400 CL program
Hi, I already asked this question before but did not get any reply. Anybody please help.. I am calling a job on AS400 which uses RUNRMTCMD to execute a batch file on sqlserver 2005 server. This batch file uses sqlcmd command to run a job on sqlserver. When I execute this batch file manually from [...]

Answer Question   |  December 24, 2009  10:43 AM
AS/400, Availability, DataCenter, Desktops, Development, Management, Microsoft Windows, Networking, OS, Patch management, RPG, RPGLE, Security, Servers, SQL, SQL Server
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5 pts.

VB.Net of Visual Studio.Net 2003 VS Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition
Good Day! Would be appreciate if there is solution for the following problem: - In VB.Net of Visual Studio.Net 2003, developer can click and drag a table listed in the Server Explorer from a connected database to the form. This will add OleDbConnection control and OleDbDataAdapter control to the form . Developer can also Click [...]

Answer Question   |  October 24, 2006  9:31 AM
7 and earlier, Access, ASP.NET, Database, DataCenter, DB2, Desktops, Development, Lifecycle development, Management, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Oracle, Oracle 10g, Oracle 8i, Oracle 9i, Oracle Database Versions, OS, Patch management, Programming Languages, Security, Servers, SQL, SQL Server, Visual Basic, Windows
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5 pts.

odd NIC problem
Howdy all… I have a win2k3 member server with 2 onboard Intel PRO lan connections. One is 100mb the other 1000mb. On the 100mb connection, I can set either a DHCP or Static TCP address and it works fine. On the 1000mb connection, it works fine on DHCP, but absolutely refuses to connect with a [...]

Answer Question   |  October 28, 2006  5:47 PM
Active Directory, Availability, Bind, Cabling, DataCenter, Desktops, DHCP, DNS, Ethernet, Fault isolation, Hardware, Hewlett-Packard Application Server, Hubs, Interoperability, IPv4, IPv6, LDAP, Management, Microsoft Internet Information Server, Microsoft Windows, NetBIOS, Network management software, Network protocols, Network testing, Networking, Networking services, NIC, OS, Protocol analysis, Routers, Security, Servers, Software, SQL Server, Switches, TCP, Tech support, WINS
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Windows 2003 R2 server, Deploy printers with group policy
I have a windows domain using 2003 R2 server. The network printers are setup through the printer server role and the gateway for the printers was setup as the ip address of the printer server so only printing jobs coming from the printer server will print. I am deploying printers to xp clients using a [...]

Answer Question   |  October 23, 2006  1:07 PM
DataCenter, Desktops, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server
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Remove Printers and Faxes from XP Start menu?
Does anyone know a method for removing the printer and faxes icon from the start menu in Group Policy (2003 Server) or another method. I disabled the right to add/remove printers, but I would like to remove the icon all together. Also, is there a way to disable the function keys? specficaly F9? This one [...]

Answer Question   |  October 21, 2006  12:20 PM
Active Directory, Desktops, Development, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server
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Multiple DHCP Scopes for multiple VLANS
I am using Windows Server 2003 as a DHCP server. I would like to have centralized DHCP management using the one server to give out addresses to each of the 3 VLANS. We are also using Cisco switches and I planned on using the dchp-helper to allow the DHCP packets to be forwareded to the [...]

Answer Question   |  April 19, 2013  12:01 PM
Active Directory, Desktops, DHCP, DNS, Management, Microsoft Windows, Network protocols, Networking, Networking services, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server
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Document scanning and organizing
Does anyone know of an open source/cheap document management system? (Windows-based system) I would like the ability to have a searchable database of scanned documents/photos/receipts/etc. I do not need OCR. For example, a folder name “Job1″ that I can click on and see subfolders of receipts/photos/documents/etc. And the bility to searh said folders would be [...]

Answer Question   |  October 23, 2006  11:40 AM
Business/IT alignment, Career development, CRM, Data analysis, DataCenter, DataManagement, Desktops, Development, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Outsourcing, Project management, Sales force automation applications, Security, Servers, SQL Server
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IIS Authentication Problem On 1 Virtual Server
I have 2 virtual servers setup on the same server. It’s running Server 2003 R2/IIS 6 and Sharepoint services. Both are Sharepoint sites and both were setup manually instead of using the default site during Sharepoint setup. I’m the Sharepoint administrator for both sites. I can access one of them (the first one I setup) [...]

Answer Question   |  October 18, 2006  9:57 AM
Active Directory, Desktops, Management, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server
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Creating a Domain from pieces
I’m inheriting a client who has a small number of systems spread out over various sites. All of these systems are in static IP’s from the various DSL providers. We now want to bring them all together and use Active Directory (mainly for Group Policy and Permissions Control). While I’ve created domains and set up [...]

Answer Question   |  October 19, 2006  11:31 AM
Active Directory, DataCenter, Desktops, Management, Microsoft Windows, Networking, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server
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Exchange Issues
FIRST ? DOMAIN NAME CHANGE / EXCHANGE SERVER In about a month?s time, we?ll be changing domain names. Instead of optic-cc.org we?ll have opportunityjunction.org – as our organization changes its name from OPTIC to Opportunity Junction. Anticipating this, there are some things I need to find out. Namely: what do we need to change when [...]

Answer Question   |  October 16, 2006  10:04 PM
Desktops, Exchange, Exchange security, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server
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IIS custom errors
I am trying to implement a redirection for forms-based authentication for Exchange Outlook Web Access according to KB555053. Part of the process is to modify the 403;4 Custom error, however, on this particular IIS server, the 403;4 is not in the list. The server is Windows 2003 Standard, SP1 running IIS 6.0. Where does the [...]

Answer Question   |  October 16, 2006  7:11 PM
Desktops, Exchange, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, Software, SQL Server, Tech support
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Manual / Conditional email report from reporting services
I’ve got a bit of a problem. Our company has consolidating reports, and intranet servers. One of the reports that is used quite a bit is a report delivered to warehouse management, and executives detailing orders that have been printed on a given day. I’d origionally written this report in ASP using an ASP graphing [...]

Answer Question   |  November 30, 2011  12:00 PM
Desktops, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server
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Time Zone
Is there a way you can setup a logon script for a user that does work in two different time zones? I need to know if it can automatically change the time zone while login. I have 2 team who is working for US and India. Both the teams are working from India and using [...]

Answer Question   |  October 25, 2006  3:50 AM
Desktops, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server
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Windows XP Visual style File?
I want to know if it is possible to centrally control the “look and feel” of the desktop environment of a user on my domain. I have a set of 10 computers that log in using the same name. This user’s profile is stored on the Windows 2003 Server. The workstations are XP. I noticed [...]

Answer Question   |  October 18, 2006  11:04 AM
DataCenter, Desktop management applications, Desktops, Development, Management, Microsoft Windows, Networking, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server
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