Free IT Book: Computer Incident Response and Product Security
This week’s free IT book is a practical guide to building and running incident response and product security teams. To win Cisco’s Computer Incident Response and Product Security answer one of these five questions and post the link to your answer in the discussion area below. Good luck! Mitigating cloud server risks during DDoS attacks [...]

Answer Question   |  February 1, 2011  5:18 PM
AS/400, Channel, CIO, CRM, Database, DataCenter, Development, Exchange, Giveaways, ITKE Contests, Linux, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows, Mobile, Networking, Oracle, SAP, Security, SQL Server, Storage, Virtualization, VoIP, Windows Server

OCS and AutoLogon BSOD Issues
Hi all, Recently, one of my clients has been experiencing issues with a BSOD (I’ll enter the stop error details below). The first referenced communicator.exe, and the second referenced Autologon.exe as being the culprits. Has anyone had any experience with these two programs causing driver faults? If so, did a reinstall of both solve the [...]

Answer Question   |  February 17, 2011  4:31 PM
BSOD, Dell Optiplex, Microsoft Office Communications Server, Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2, Office Communication Server

Problems with force a specific visual style file or force windows classic group policy item
In Server 2008 R2, found under User Config, Control Panel, Personalization When I set the option to enabled and specify the default of %windir%resourcesthemesaeroaero.msstyles the aero style will load when logging on to a Windows 7 computer, however the logon time is very slow (35 seconds). Without the group policy option turned on, the logon [...]

Answer Question   |  January 31, 2011  4:14 PM
Group Policy, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 Group Policy Objects, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows XP

SBS 2008 IIS is showing American date. I need to change it to European
SBS 2008 IIS Default company website is showing American date. I need to change it to European. Can anyone tell me how this is done please Kind Regards Shane

Answer Question   |  February 1, 2011  1:33 PM
IIS, IIS configuration, SBS 2008, SBS 2008 Premium, Small Business Server, Small Business Server 2008

how to install lotus notes 6.5.1 in windows 7 with out server
how to install lotus notes 6.5.1 in windows 7 with out server

Answer Question   |  February 1, 2011  8:30 AM
Lotus Notes, Lotus Notes 6.5.1, Windows 7

Windows Mobile Java App Customizable Dialog
OpenModalDialog does not work in Java apps running on Windows Mobile device (Java application freezes). JScript dialog does not work either (Java app ignores it). Need advice on what to use to emulate DisplayModalWindow functionality in a Windows Mobile Java application. Require a dialog with customizable text (including command buttons) to retain globalization functionality (text [...]

Answer Question   |  January 28, 2011  6:11 PM
Java, JavaScript, Mobile Application Development, Windows CE 5, Windows Mobile

How to accept user input and display the value in Excel 2007 macros
I Created an Excel macro that prompts the user to enter two cell numbers. I want to then display a msgbox back showing the cells that were entered. Problem. My msgbox shows the text in my message and instead of showing the values the user entered, it shows ‘TRUE’. Any ideas?

Answer Question   |  January 28, 2011  4:37 PM
Excel 2007, Excel 2007 functions, Excel 2007 macros, Excell 2007, Macros

Hyperlinks in forms sent from Access 2007 to Sharepoint 2007
Hi, I send files from Access 2007 to Sharepoint 2007 daily. The first column of data in the Access file is a hyperlink, and appears as one(htt:…..). When I send the file to our Sharepoint sight I would like it to appear as an image of our logo in that field, instead of the url. The link [...]

Answer Question   |  January 28, 2011  3:52 PM
Access 2007, Access 2007 functions, SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2007 interoperability

Courses to Take for QMF beginner
Is there a list of courses to take in QMF for a beginner from course one to the end? If so, could you please list them. We have SkillSoft courses through our Learning Center but they do not them in order from what you need to take first and so on.  If you could help [...]

Answer Question   |  February 1, 2011  1:09 PM
IT career planning, QMF, Query Management Facility, Query Manager

Dos Printing problem
On Linux (SuSE), there is a vb based program (exe, via WINE) that generates some reports in text format like Notepad or Dos Edit. and the same time it prints the outputs at run time. There is a DMP attached with linux (Server) and no other printers are there. The client is XP and there [...]

Answer Question   |  January 31, 2011  9:53 AM
DOS program, Samba, SUSE Linux, SUSE Linux Printing, Windows XP

Open IT Forum: How did you get into IT?
Have you always been curious with how things work behind the scenes, or did you realize later in your career that IT was where you belonged? We’d love to hear what inspired you to pursue whatever pocket of IT you’re in. We’ll give you 50 knowledge points just for sharing your story, which will be [...]

Answer Question   |  March 6, 2012  8:45 PM
Giveaways, iPads, IT career development, IT career planning, IT careers, Knowledge Points, Open IT Forum

How to delete user profiles in Windows 7
I am trying to determine the best way to delete user profiles on a Windows 7 computer. I work in an educational institution and so there are hundreds of user profiles that get recorded on each computer in the lab before too long. The built-in user profile manager only deletes one user profile at a [...]

Answer Question   |  April 15, 2011  4:38 AM
Group Policy, User profiles, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2

Joining new domain controller for Replication
Dear Experts; we have a DC running Win Server 2008 Standard X32, and we installed new Win Server 2008 R2 Enterprise X64 for redunduncy & Replication, when we want to promote the second server to a DC it give us error: shows that we have to prepare the AD for the new DC, and we [...]

Answer Question   |  April 8, 2011  2:55 AM
Active Directory, Active directory domain controller, AD, Domain Controller, Replication, Windows domain management, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Domain Controller

Lotus notes formula to extract senders email addresses
Hi I need to extract senders addresses from Louts notes Delivery failure notification emails.  So  that I can list for checking . can someone help me with a formula or script syntax I have basic notes design skills cheers..   thankyou

Answer Question   |  January 27, 2011  12:58 AM
Lotus Notes 8.5, Lotus Notes Address Book, Lotus Notes Script, Windows 7

Can I transfer a SQL license/install to a new server
We are in the process of upgrading on of our db applications to a new version. This version will require a replication server, meaning we will need a SQL server. Ether 2003 or 2008.  We will need to have a full working test environment before rolling out live with it. Can we transfer our “test” [...]

Answer Question   |  January 26, 2011  7:27 PM
License management, Licensing restrictions, SQL Server, SQL Server 2003, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server licensing, Windows Licenses, Windows Server 2003

Memory on a VMware Virtual Machine?
What is the max memory a 32-bit operating system can use for a VMware virtual machine? If the system has 8 GB and the OS sees 3.5 can we use more for VMs than the system sees?

Answer Question   |  January 26, 2011  6:21 PM
32-bit (x86), Desktop virtualization, Memory management, Virtual Machines, Virtualized Storage, VMware

Windows Server 2008 32-bit versus 64-bit for running VMware
Should I choose a 32-bit or a 64-bit operating system disk for my Windows Server 2008 that will be running VMware?

Answer Question   |  January 26, 2011  6:09 PM
32- versus 64-bit Windows OSes, Desktop virtualization, Desktop virtualization software, VMware, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Administration

Running IIS to make one virtual server
We have four Windows Servers 2003. Running IIS, can we make them all into one virtual server accessible by one ip address?

Answer Question   |  January 26, 2011  5:35 PM
IIS, IIS Server, IP address, Server virtualization, Windows Server 2003, Windows Virtualization

Shared folder access to domain users on Windows Server 2008 network
I have 4 servers and 100 clients, One of my server is file server and i created a common shared folder for all users for transfer files and folder. I have given full access to domain users but when user try to paste exe file from network, a message appear access denied. Please guide why [...]

Answer Question   |  May 10, 2011  5:16 AM
.exe, Domain Users, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server Shared Folders

Direct program in a different LPAR
If I have 3 LPAR’s. IF1, IF2 and IG3. IF1 and IF2 are primary and IG3 is backup LPAR. Now if I have to clear and restore libraries on IG3 from IF2 but my program is on IF2. Now how can I go straight in to the command CLRLIB right after tenet from IF2. But my program in [...]

Answer Question   |  January 28, 2011  11:46 PM
LPAR, MIMIX, MIMIX on iSeries, Telnet