Logon to network only works after a cold boot.
The problem is more than likely the NIC card failing and when doing a reboot the card is still powered by the pc when you do a cold start it flushes memory completely and more than likely powers off your NIC

View Answer   |  February 6, 2007  1:16 PM
DataCenter, Desktops, Interoperability, Management, Microsoft Windows, Networking, OS, Security, Servers, Software, SQL Server, Tech support

Dynamic updates to a DNS Server
Windows 2000 and 2003 DNS Server and DNS Clients

View Answer   |  February 5, 2007  6:17 PM
Access, Availability, Bind, Cabling, DataCenter, Desktops, DHCP, DNS, Hardware, Hubs, Management, Microsoft Windows, Network management software, Network monitoring, Network protocols, Networking, Networking services, Novell NDS, OS, Ping, Remote management, Routers, Security, Servers, SQL Server, Switches

Windows Server 2000 domain
you can either reserve them a space in active directory users and computers or the standard way is to just add them in the domain by joining them by hitting the domain with the pc. Just right click my computer, go to properties, then to computer name and change. You’ll see where you can enter [...]

View Answer   |  February 5, 2007  6:13 PM
Active Directory, DataCenter, Desktops, DHCP, DNS, General Directories, Lotus Domino, Management, Microsoft Windows, Networking, Networking services, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server, WINS

Windows Scheduling iSeries Data Transfer
I’m probing the deep dark recesses of my increasingly feeble memory, but if it serves me, I think the Windows job scheduler will only run .bat .cmd files.

View Answer   |  February 5, 2007  3:54 PM
AS/400, DB2 Universal Database, Desktops, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, PC/Windows Connectivity, Security, Servers, Software, SQL, SQL Server, Tech support, Web development

how to interconnect sql server with remote oracle server
I would recommend creating a Linked Server to your remote Oracle database from your SQL Server database. Look in BOL and the Net for how to. Here are a couple of links… http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=21644&rl=1 http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/ksonti/anintroductiontolinkedservers.asp

View Answer   |  February 5, 2007  11:28 AM
Database, DB2, Oracle, SQL, SQL Server

net time
Hi gforsythe, The command line statement is “net time /setsntp:servername or IP Address”. Maybe you can incorporate that into your script or put in a batch file to run at login. Hope that is useful, Dave

View Answer   |  February 5, 2007  11:15 AM
DataCenter, Desktops, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server

Controlling VPN access
You don’t really say how the laptops are connecting to the Internet, but if they are using something like Sprint or Verizon mobile cards, you should be able to set up an ACL that limits connections to a particular set of IP addresses. —JRE—

View Answer   |  February 5, 2007  9:41 AM
Access, Cisco, Desktops, Firewalls, Forensics, Incident response, Intrusion management, Management, Microsoft Windows, Network security, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server, VPN, Wireless

Keyboard quick keys stop working in Terminal Services.
It’s the shortcuts like CTRL + A etc. not extra keys on the keyboard (just to make it clear)

View Answer   |  February 2, 2007  4:21 AM
Corporate portal applications, Desktops, Management, Microsoft Windows, Networking, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server

What is NAT port forwarding?
Hi… It’s fairly simple depending on what equipment you are using for your router/firewall but here are the basics. The following are examples: You have a range of public IP addresses avaiable from your ISP 66.77.88.99 – 66.77.88.110 and your internal IP address scheme is 192.168.0.0 class C 255.255.255.0. Your work station that you want [...]

View Answer   |  February 1, 2007  9:15 AM
Access, Availability, Cabling, DataCenter, Desktops, DHCP, DNS, Exchange, Hardware, Hubs, Instant Messaging, Lotus Domino, Management, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Network applications management, Network management software, Network protocols, Networking, Networking services, OS, Ping, Protocol analysis, Remote management, Routers, Security, Servers, SQL Server, Switches, TCP

Terminal server licensing problem
ok…let me ask one basic question….have you purchased the licenses? Once valid licenses have been determined and linked, they should remain valid. More info please.

View Answer   |  January 31, 2007  12:23 AM
Desktops, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server

SQL 2005 Restore
Did you set the restore to have RECOVERY option? Without that your database won’t be available for use after restore. What’s the output like (any error message) for the restore job?

View Answer   |  January 26, 2007  9:41 AM
Desktops, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL, SQL Server

Blocking access to local Drive Win XP Server 2003 GPO
Making the drive hidden from browsing is not the same as making the drive inaccessable. Any explicit reference to the drive will always work unless you use security to prevent access as well.

View Answer   |  January 26, 2007  7:53 AM
DataCenter, Desktop management applications, Desktops, Development, Management, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server

WSUS Server multiple instances of computers listed.
Have you setup target groups using the GPO? I’ve seen multiple (albiet, duplicates only) when target groups are used. If you use the target group, don’t move them around manually or they will be recreated when they check in to the server again. Also, if you do wuauclt /resetauthorization /detectnow it will generate a new [...]

View Answer   |  January 24, 2007  5:40 PM
DataCenter, Desktops, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Patch management, Security, Servers, SQL Server, Tech support

Windows XP Policies..
There are some custom GPO settings (http://www.petri.co.il/disable_usb_disks_with_gpo.htm) that affect users with USB drives. As far as using other peripherals, there’s nothing built into XP except to restrict users from viewing these devices via GPO or using a program like devicelock (http://www.devicelock.com/) or Sanctuary DeviceControl (http://www.securewave.com/usb_security.jsp). I’ve tested both products and both are rather easy to [...]

View Answer   |  January 23, 2007  5:36 PM
Desktops, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server

Exchange Server auto-reply setup
I’m not sure you can do this in Exchange but you can have the alpha email link to outlook temporarily then set the out of office reply stating that the alpha account will no longer be serviced and everyone will need to send emails to the bravo account. That’s the quick and easy fix.

View Answer   |  January 23, 2007  5:20 PM
Desktops, Exchange, Exchange security, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server

SQL
Assuming you have a file named myFile, and a date column named dateCol, and a single-character variable named answer, the following will tell you wether the date column is within 30 days of today. I will also assume that there is a key column named keyCol and a key value variable named keyVal. SELECT CASE [...]

View Answer   |  January 23, 2007  5:20 PM
Application development, AS/400, CLP, RPG, RPGLE, SQL Server

Windows 2003 Server Crashing
Hello, Can you elaborate a bit about the crash? What errors were you presented with? If you received a blue screen did you read through the information dispalyed and make note of any error codes? Can you boot into safe mode? If so, what information can you gather from the event logs? Have you recently [...]

View Answer   |  January 23, 2007  8:33 AM
Desktops, Exchange, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server

Windows Server 2003 Web Edition Configuration
Did you remember to publish from your local file system to the website and get NO error reports? as for sql2005 you can use msde instead of full blown sql server. Also ensure that your permissions are set properly

View Answer   |  January 21, 2007  7:36 AM
Database, DataCenter, DB2, Desktops, Development, Interoperability, Management, Microsoft Windows, Oracle, OS, Security, Servers, Software, SQL, SQL Server, Tech support, Web development tools, Web site design & management

Weird Exchange Issue still hanging around
A couple of questions first … 1. Are you getting an error when you try to send? 2. Are you getting emails bounced back to the sender? 3. Are the emails just sitting in the queues waiting? Here is something to check on and this will cause you many problems with sending to certain domain. [...]

View Answer   |  January 19, 2007  1:29 PM
Desktops, Exchange, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server

Managing SQL 2000 server over the internet
If you have assigned a public ip address to your SQL Server than just connect to it with the tools you have. You would need to connect to the ip address, not the machine name. If the SQL Server has a private ip then you will not be able to connect to it by simply [...]

View Answer   |  January 18, 2007  12:46 PM
Access, DataCenter, Desktops, Management, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, OS, Patch management, Security, Servers, SQL Server