Microsoft Windows

System cannot log you on now because the domain **** is not accessible.

Hi all, This could be my worst nightmare ever. I just installed a Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition on a clients network. Configured the Active Directory, DNS, DHCP e.t.c Everything looks pretty much fine. Went over to the Client conputer running windows XP to add it onto the new domain...

Email Not Working

My Exchange 2003 email accounts are set up when the user account is used to create an account in Active Directory. It creates account for each user at insulcomp.com, map-cc.com, tsi.com and so forth. Recently the user@map-cc.com stop working from outside the company, it works inside though. I get...

LAN acces restriction for laptops on Windows Server 2003 domain

Is there any way on a Windows Server 2003 domain to prevent unknown laptops from accessing the local LAN without needing to use third party hardware and software? Software/Hardware used: LAN, Windows Server 2003

Windows 2008 Terminal Server gateway

Can I have windows 2008 TS gateway server on one server with windows 2003 terminal server on another server ? Will I lose any features if the terminal server is windows 2003? Software/Hardware used: Windows Server 2003, Terminal Server

Domain account password change Windows Server 2003 cluster

I have a domain account with elevated privigagess. When changing a password on a Windows 2003 Active/Passive cluster do you have to use cluster.exe? or can this be manually done? Software/Hardware used: Windows Sever 2003

Windows Server 2003 ISASS.EXE System error

I recently removed and re installed my hard drives from my HP server running windows server 2003 and when i restarted the server i received the following message ISASS.EXE - SYSTEM ERROR Security accounts manager initialization failed because of the following error: directory service cannot start....

Error message in Internet Explorer

When I open internet explorer, I keep getting a "FaileduserInit:undefined" message.  How do I fix this? Software/Hardware used: internet explorer

Windows Server 2003 Date Accessed information on files

I am trying to [strong]move[/strong] files based on the last accessed time of the file being 2 days, using Robocopy. I am using the /MOVE switch that deletes the file after it is copied. The script works but not on nearly as many files as I expected it to. In trying to figure out the problem, I...

Windows Server 2003 FTP / IIS 6 FTP multiple files of same name being uploaded

Just completed migrating an old NT4 FTP server to 2003. It appears that all works fine with manual uploads, but more than one of our clients has attempted to upload with an automated process - scripted or client based and had the problem where they get an access denied error message after starting...

How to combine 2 linked Excel tables in access 2003 with same field names, using query?

I have 3 employees working who have no access on their PC. they are performing their data entry in excel and I ahve linked all three tables to one access file as I have Access on my PC. I need to combine all 3 tables using query or some other method in access to create one master table. Here is the...

The IT Blog Top 10: Nov. 5, 2009

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Windows Logon

One of our users came in this morning . Tried to logon but received the following error message: "current time on this computer  and the current time on the network are different." I checked the time on our server and it was thesame. this is only happening on one users out 65 users on our...

Remote Acces at one site

I have 1 site out of 82 that cannot access the notes server by either internet or via the external ip address. They have no trouble getting on the internet. It started out of the blue on Monday Software/Hardware used: Windows XP, Windows server 2003

EMAIL From MSAcess 2007 to Oulook/Exchange Server

My mail email routine for sending emails with a .doc attachment work fine using MSAcess 2003 but don't work using MSAcess 2007 Software/Hardware used: Office 2007 OS = XP

Message: "You may be a victim of Software counterfeiting" in Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7

[strong]Hi Dear Members  ! I am Haresh Shrimali from New York . Does anyone know about getting rid of sticky & permanent Desktop Message " You may be a victim of software counterfeiting" on my Windows XP PC .Is there any 100% sure & permanent Solution to get rid of this stuff ?[/strong] ...

Windows Server 2008 Domain controller adprep error message

I am running Windows Server 2008 Domain Controller. I am trying to run a “adprep /rodcprep” command, but get the following error message. “Adprep could not contact a replica for partition DC=DomainDnsZones" Software/Hardware used: windows server 2008 domain controller

Vista cached credentials

A user brought a laptop and it was joined to our 2008 windows domain, i set him up with admin rights on his user account. He logged in just fine and did training. He know is trying to log in to his previous domain using his username and password. He gets username or password error. He is using...

The most-watched IT questions this week: Nov. 3, 2009

Here are the 10 most watched questions on ITKE: There’s some great discussions going on. Go answer a question now and take your shot at winning a TV: 1. Problem installing Exchange 2007 Management Tools was posed by Labnuke99 and answered by Mshen. 2. What Event ID was asked by Newbiepeon and...

SQL Server 2005 on Windows 2008 64 bit SP2. Installation issue

I have tried to install SQL Server 2005 on Windows 2008 64 bit SP2. I have installed SQL server 2005 and SQL server 2005 SP2, however only the SQL Server 2005 configuration tools appear. (Everything was selected to install) I have found these posts which have the same issue, but they are...

configuring a mail server using windows sbs and microsoft exchange step by step

where i can find a file discribing how to configure a mail server using windows sbs and microsoft exchange step by step for only five users   Software/Hardware used: windows sbs 2008