SAS type 2 audits
Hello If a customer don’t wants to execute the SAS70 type 2 audit – is there any other compliance standards that you can choose from ? That is to get the same compliance documentation/status but not execute the SAS70 type 2 audit? Is there any light version of the SAS70 standards?

Answer Question   |  November 9, 2010  8:37 AM
Auditing, Auditing (compliance), SAS, SAS 70, SAS 70 Type II audit vendor, SAS70 type 2 audit replacement, Windows, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Audit Policy, Windows Server 2008

Auditing Windows servers for low disk space on a 2003 domain.
I want to audit about 200 servers for low disk space. The servers are using Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008. What is my best bet for doing this easily? The reporting machine can be any of the servers or a XP or 7 workstation.

Answer Question   |  November 9, 2010  4:12 PM
Active Directory, AD, Auditing, Disk space, Windows, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Domain

Active directory group policy for printing permissions
We have a color printer on AD. We want normal users to only be able to print black and white and managers/exec users to be able to choose. How can we set this up?

Answer Question   |  November 30, 2010  3:18 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory Groups, Group Policy, Printing, Windows, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2

Installing Microsoft Assessment and Planning Tool on a domain controller
We are looking into virtualization and want to use Microsoft MAP we tried to install it on our domain controller and it failed. What are the prerequisites and how can I get this installed?

Answer Question   |  March 14, 2011  3:16 PM
Domain Controller, MAP, Virtualization, Windows, Windows Server 2003

Single session on 2003 Windows Terminal Server.
We have A Windows 2003 terminal server. We want each user to only have one session. If they disconnect and reconnect they need to connect back to the original session. How can we make this happen?

Answer Question   |  September 22, 2010  3:15 PM
Terminal Server, Windows, Windows Server 2003, Windows Terminal Server

Forward zone lost from additional domain controller Windows Server 2003
In our company there are Domain Controllor and Additional DC server 2003 but suddenly forword zone lost from ADC after that I cann’t join PC to that ADC please what can I do ? thanks

Answer Question   |  September 21, 2010  6:31 AM
Additional Domain Controller, Windows, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Domain, Windows Server 2003 Domain Controller

Want the Microsoft Windows 7 Administrator’s Reference?
This week’s IT book giveaway is for the Microsoft Windows 7 Administrator’s Reference: Upgrading, Deploying, Managing, and Securing Windows 7. Interested? All you need to do is answer one of the questions below and post the link to your answer in the discussion area of this question. Multiple answers mean multiple chances to win! Resizing [...]

Answer Question   |  January 8, 2011  4:09 PM
Contests, Giveaways, IT Books, NAS, Networking, Security in 2010, Windows 7, Windows 7 in 2010, Windows Server 2003

Protecting a file folder from everyone except two users
Is there a way to protect a file folder on a Windows server 2003 from everyone including domain administrators? I want this confidential file to only be accessible to the President and I. How can I do this?

Answer Question   |  September 22, 2010  3:43 PM
Confidentiality, File Protection, Security in 2010, Windows, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 security, Windows Server Security

Group policy commands
I have a domain running server windows 2003. The users can not manually change their wallpapers, They are restricted because a prior admin set a Group Policy somewhere, however I havent been able to find it yet. But the users have been been able download or open pictures and set it as their wallpaper. 1. [...]

Answer Question   |  September 20, 2010  4:54 AM
Domain Group Policy, Group Policy, Windows domain management, Windows Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP

Windows 2003 server client configuration
Using windows 2003 server running 6 PCs network. How can I prevent my children to go over the assigned logging time? In other words, How can I configure the server to log them off when their logging time is up? as it is now, they cannot log on before the time, but once their on, [...]

Answer Question   |  September 20, 2010  9:18 PM
Server management, Windows, Windows client administration and maintenance, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 configuration, Windows Server configuration

Replace normal 404 page via IIS with a helpful not found page
When a page is going to return a 404 on my website how can I install a custom 404 page that can point the users to the page they might be looking for? Using IIS on Windows 2003 R2.

Answer Question   |  September 16, 2010  5:12 PM
IIS, IIS configuration, Internet Information Server (IIS), URL redirection, Web page design, Windows, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2

System restore on Windows Server 2003 R2 what really gets resotred?
When using system restore on Windows Server 2003 R2 what actually gets rolled back? Registry, driver and how about dll files and word documents?

Answer Question   |  October 20, 2010  5:09 PM
System Restore, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2

Registry files in Windows server 2003
Where are the registry files stored in Windows 2003? Can they be modified offline with a boot disk? Can we backup and restore them offline as well? If so is this a security issue? Can someone inject a registry entry with a username and password?

Answer Question   |  August 26, 2011  3:32 PM
Boot disk, Registry editor, Registry settings, Security in 2010, Windows, Windows Server 2003

Scanning network packets on Windows server 2003
We need to capture network packets for analysis on our Windows server 2003. How can we achieve this and is there a guide to analyzing this data?

Answer Question   |  September 16, 2010  3:29 PM
Data analysis, Network Packet, Packet Analyzer Software, Packet analyzers, Packets, Security in 2010, Windows, Windows Server 2003

Active directory will not let me add email accounts when creating users
when i try to create new accounts on my domain in active directory I can make them but my active directory skips the step that allows me to add them to my exchange server and make the email account. i just installed active directory on this computer and i am able to make email account/ [...]

Answer Question   |  September 21, 2010  7:02 AM
Active Directory, Active Directory Users, Exchange, Exchange user settings, Windows, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP SP3

Should we modify our swap file on Windows Server 2003?
Should we modify our swap file on our Windows 2003 servers? I was told way back when to double the ram and use that size for your swap file. Is this still true today? Should we let Windows manage it for us?

Answer Question   |  September 15, 2010  8:11 PM
Windows, Windows management, Windows Server, Windows Server 2003

Windows 2003 Guest Account for AD. Strictly Web Browsing.
We want to set up a guest account strictly just for web browsing. How should that be configured in ad? How can we make sure that the user has no rights to other network objects? We do not want them to change the password or have any settings remembered.

Answer Question   |  September 15, 2010  5:21 PM
Active Directory, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP

Help backing up Exchange database after changing backup software to Acronis
via Exch System Mgr,(Exch 2003 on Server 2003) it shows that the database last full backup was done on 6/19/2010. Around this time I switched my backup software from Symantec Backup Exec to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10. It appears that Acronis is not able to backup the DB that same as Symantec. Can I [...]

Answer Question   |  September 16, 2010  2:07 PM
Acronis Recover for Exchange, Backup, Dell PowerEdge 2800, Exchange 2003, Exchange 2003 database, Exchange Backup, NTBackup, Symantec Backup Exec, Windows, Windows Server 2003

Domain users group management
i am having windows server 2003 enterprise edition, i want domain users to change system time,i configure group policy for user to change system time but againg user cant change time plz help me

Answer Question   |  September 15, 2010  12:59 PM
Domain Users, Domain Users Group, Group Policy, Group Policy management, Windows, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Group Policy

SQL server files/programs vanished
have domain server and sql server on network,  each backs each other up. users cannot access files on sql and some things seems to be missing on domain as well.  Older restore won’t work, it states that files unavailable. I backed up everything I could on ext. hd’s and am attempting to restore locally from [...]

Answer Question   |  September 15, 2010  7:19 PM
Data backup and recovery, Disaster Recovery, SQL Backup, Windows, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition