Windows 7 printer pop up box
Hello all, Our users have recently began to receive a pop up box asking “Do you trust this printer?” with the options to either Install Driver or Cancel.  It happens to all users randomly, not every day and not all users.  For example, we have a 10 users that get Printer A mapped, 3 may [...]

Answer Question   |  May 30, 2011  8:28 PM
Symantec Endpoint Protection, Windows 7, Windows 7 Professional, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2

Free IT Book: Why New Systems Fail
This week’s free IT book is Phil Simon’s insider’s guide to successful IT projects, Why New Systems Fail. From the back of the book, “Organizations often lack the necessary framework to minimize the chance of system failure before, during, and after beginning IT projects.” Get the know-how you need to start and successfully deploy your [...]

Answer Question   |  February 23, 2012  3:46 PM
AS/400, Business Intelligence, Channel, CIO, CRM, Database, DataCenter, Development, Exchange, Giveaways, IT Books, Linux, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows, Mobile, Networking, Oracle, SAP, Security, SQL Server, Storage, Virtualization, VoIP, Windows Server

iSeries and Windows 7 shared drives
Why is it that when my iSeries password is “ABC” my shared drives connect when I signon to Windows 7, but when I change my iSeries password to “XYZ” the shared drive do not connect? I then have to go into Windows Explorer, click on one of the drives and re-enter my password. Neither of [...]

Answer Question   |  May 3, 2011  3:13 PM
AS/400, iSeries Access, iSeries passwords, iSeries security, Shared drives, Windows 7

SAP broad question
If I am working with SAP in systems integration and doing research on common things to know…should I be focusing in on SAP Netweaver or something else? I am graduating in the spring and want to compile resources for myself and other students because we are not taught how to use the program and the different [...]

Answer Question   |  May 2, 2011  1:00 AM
SAP, SAP Career, SAP NetWeaver, Systems integration

Multiple user with different rights
I am running server 03 and 08.  I have many clients running XP.  I have restricted these clients so they are unable to get to anything on the network.  When I sit down to work on a PC, it would be nice to access resources that are not permitted to these users.  I currently have [...]

Answer Question   |  May 2, 2011  9:12 PM
User account management, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP

Create task sheduler event from command line
Can anyone speak on why the schtasks /create command seems to not be working in Windows 7? I am familiar with the “AT” command but wanted to know – if schtasks is an option then why do fail error and XML error seems to deny what should be a valid create command?

Answer Question   |  May 2, 2011  8:46 PM
AS/400 batch jobs, Command line, Scheduled batch jobs, Scheduled Tasks

Running client email with RDS
How do I run the client machines email with my spplication on the remote desktop?

Answer Question   |  May 3, 2011  5:39 PM
RDS, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP

Displaying event log through RSS
Can we display the windows event log via rss so we can display it in a feed? How can we do this off of a windows server 2008?

Answer Question   |  April 15, 2011  7:28 PM
Event logs, RSS, RSS feed, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Administration

Where should we store a copy of the Windows Server 2003 R2 installation files?
Should we store a copy of the Windows Server 2003 R2 installation files on our server? Is this good practice?

Answer Question   |  April 18, 2011  7:15 PM
Installation, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Installation, Windows Server 2003 R2

Installing Windows 2008 recovery console on windows server 2008 server
How do i install the windows 2008 recovery console on a Windows server2008 as a boot option?

Answer Question   |  April 15, 2011  7:10 PM
Boot manager, Recovery Manager, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Administration, Windows server administration

Backup Windows 7 Auto Delete Old Backups
Win 7 Pro is backing up clients on the domain but filling the backup drive quickly. What is the best way to get older backup sets deleted? Should I use a different application?

Answer Question   |  May 6, 2011  3:52 PM
Backup, Windows 7, Windows 7 Administration, Windows 7 Professional

Install fonts in windows 7 using vbs
I have clients that are going to place their fonts, usually downloaded ones into a folder. I need a script to assist me in this. Since I dont know what the fonts are called, I can’t use this one as stated, since I don’t know the .ParseName values. How do I write this so it [...]

Answer Question   |  May 3, 2011  3:31 PM
Fonts, Scripts, Visual Basic, Windows 7, Windows 7 support, Windows Server 2003

VMware on Windows 7
is windows7 vmware is exist or not? i found windows xp vmware but windows7 vmware is not available on internet.

Answer Question   |  May 2, 2011  11:54 AM
VMware, Windows 7, Windows XP

Database server setup
We have 13 stations in our office, 12 in the laboratory, both running Windows XP SP2 ( i think) and a LAN connection in the laboratory but a dedicated line with a dedicated IP address in our office. (That just mean, its a completely two different network available).I want to be able to have a [...]

Answer Question   |  May 3, 2011  5:48 AM
Database servers, Mac OS, Server setup, Windows XP SP2

Workgroup Proxy options
What kind of options are available for a workgroup environment? We have a Windows 7 PC “acting” as a file share server and other things but not being in a domain environment what would be the options for monitoring activity accross the workgroup, blocking access to websites and reporting?  Is there a hardware switching device we [...]

Answer Question   |  May 2, 2011  8:49 PM
Proxy, Proxy Server Configuration, Proxy servers, ProxyClient software, Windows 7

(Special case) Suggest what should be done to get two pc networked?
there are two locations: Home and Office both are on the same side of road and distance between the locations is 220 meter aprox. I’m having commercial land-line(BSNL) connection at Office and broadband connection on this line. I have a seamens sl2_141 wireless modem. i recently bought new laptop for home. Now have a laptop [...]

Answer Question   |  May 2, 2011  6:06 PM
Network, Network connection properties, Network connectivity, Networking

Can we use a Windows server 2003 standard disk?
Our Windows SBS 2003 crashed. Can we use a Windows Server 2003 standard disk to boot to a recovery console?

Answer Question   |  April 14, 2011  5:55 PM
Boot disk, Recovery Disk, SBS 2003, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, Windows Small Business Server, Windows Small Business Server 2003

Testing identical servers
We have two identical servers. One a production m500 server and the second a test one. We want to be able to test windows updates here before deploying to production. How thoroughly should we be testing? Is there a test plan or white paper on this?

Answer Question   |  April 13, 2011  5:43 PM
Production Servers, Test Server, Windows Updates

Generating Windows events from the event log
Can I generate windows events that appear in the event log from scripts or batch files. For example from an Windows XP system call scripts that ping remote servers and on failure generate a event.

Answer Question   |  May 2, 2011  5:35 PM
Batch files, Event logs, Remote servers, Scripts, Windows Batch Files, Windows scripting, Windows XP

Selenium test scripting add-on
Hi  Currently we use Selenium to reproduce test scripts quickly  I would like to use it to check positioning of fields as per other automated products  do you know if this is possible ? i’m expecting that there may be an addon required  much appreciated if anyone has any ideas  thank you 

Answer Question   |  May 3, 2011  3:24 PM
Scripting, Selenium, Test scripts