telnet router
There are two likely scenarios here 1) The name of the router does not have an “A” record in the DNS 2) The NT machine which serves as your DNS server is not using itself as a DNS server – check your TCP/IP configuration. Note: Just because a given machine (of any O/S) is running [...]
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| January 4, 2005 11:40 PM
Active Directory, Bind, Cabling, DataCenter, DHCP, Dial-up networking, DNS, Hardware, Hubs, Network Interface Cards, Network management software, Networking, Networking Equipment, Networking services, Routers, Security, Security management, Switches, Tech support
There are two likely scenarios here 1) The name of the router does not have an “A” record in the DNS 2) The NT machine which serves as your DNS server is not using itself as a DNS server – check your TCP/IP configuration. Note: Just because a given machine (of any O/S) is running [...]
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| January 4, 2005 11:40 PM
Active Directory, Bind, Cabling, DataCenter, DHCP, Dial-up networking, DNS, Hardware, Hubs, Network Interface Cards, Network management software, Networking, Networking Equipment, Networking services, Routers, Security, Security management, Switches, Tech support
outgoing https request being blocked
It’s hard to be certain, given that we don’t know much about your firewall setup, but I would guess that you’re on the right track, since 8443 etc. are non-standard ports. Also, I suspect that you meant “Windows proxy” rather than “WINS proxy”. As the infamous advice goes: “Contact your network administrator”. Bob
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| January 4, 2005 11:52 AM
DHCP, DNS, Firewalls, Forensics, Incident response, Intrusion management, Network security, Networking services, VPN, Windows, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Wireless
It’s hard to be certain, given that we don’t know much about your firewall setup, but I would guess that you’re on the right track, since 8443 etc. are non-standard ports. Also, I suspect that you meant “Windows proxy” rather than “WINS proxy”. As the infamous advice goes: “Contact your network administrator”. Bob
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| January 4, 2005 11:52 AM
DHCP, DNS, Firewalls, Forensics, Incident response, Intrusion management, Network security, Networking services, VPN, Windows, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Wireless
Browse List of Computers in “Microsoft Windows Network” on Windows 2000 has missing entries
You need to ensure the Computer Browser service is running on the machine you are checking from. This keeps track of the network. Look out for Master Browser clashes on your DCs which can screw this up, as well as ensuring all the machine subnet masks are ok.
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| January 4, 2005 9:09 AM
Active Directory, DataCenter, DHCP, DNS, Ethernet, General Directories, Help Desk, Implementation, IT architecture, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows, NetBIOS, Network requirements, Networking, Networking services, Norton, Servers, Symantec, TCP, Tech support, Windows, Windows 2000 Server
You need to ensure the Computer Browser service is running on the machine you are checking from. This keeps track of the network. Look out for Master Browser clashes on your DCs which can screw this up, as well as ensuring all the machine subnet masks are ok.
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| January 4, 2005 9:09 AM
Active Directory, DataCenter, DHCP, DNS, Ethernet, General Directories, Help Desk, Implementation, IT architecture, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows, NetBIOS, Network requirements, Networking, Networking services, Norton, Servers, Symantec, TCP, Tech support, Windows, Windows 2000 Server
mapped drive
It sounds like your users log on locally on the workstations. When they do that, they don’t belong to the “users”-group in Active Directory. You could map the drive and specify a user account to use for the authentication. If it doesn’t work, you could also map a network printer on the Active Directory Server, [...]
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| January 4, 2005 7:10 AM
Active Directory, Networking, Servers
It sounds like your users log on locally on the workstations. When they do that, they don’t belong to the “users”-group in Active Directory. You could map the drive and specify a user account to use for the authentication. If it doesn’t work, you could also map a network printer on the Active Directory Server, [...]
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| January 4, 2005 7:10 AM
Active Directory, Networking, Servers
Restricted access to win XP professional
You’d be best off if your Win2K server is upgraded to a domain controller using ‘dcpromo’ at the command line. Then you would add all of your XP machines to the domain you have created and restrict access on ALL of the machines according to a single set of users which exist within active directory… [...]
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| December 28, 2004 6:16 PM
Administration, Application security, Compliance, CRM, Database, DataCenter, Desktop management applications, DHCP, Disaster Recovery, DNS, Encryption, Exchange, Firewalls, Forensics, Help Desk, Implementation, Incident response, Information risk management, Instant Messaging, Intrusion management, Management, Network monitoring, Network security, Networking, Networking services, Physical security, Policies, Remote management, Remote users, Risk management, Secure Coding, Security, Security management, Security Program Management, Servers, System utilities, Tech support, Third-party services, VPN, Windows, Windows 2000 Server, Wireless
You’d be best off if your Win2K server is upgraded to a domain controller using ‘dcpromo’ at the command line. Then you would add all of your XP machines to the domain you have created and restrict access on ALL of the machines according to a single set of users which exist within active directory… [...]
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| December 28, 2004 6:16 PM
Administration, Application security, Compliance, CRM, Database, DataCenter, Desktop management applications, DHCP, Disaster Recovery, DNS, Encryption, Exchange, Firewalls, Forensics, Help Desk, Implementation, Incident response, Information risk management, Instant Messaging, Intrusion management, Management, Network monitoring, Network security, Networking, Networking services, Physical security, Policies, Remote management, Remote users, Risk management, Secure Coding, Security, Security management, Security Program Management, Servers, System utilities, Tech support, Third-party services, VPN, Windows, Windows 2000 Server, Wireless
Join domain, retain user desktop
Are you using XP on the client? This might help you http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/deploy/usermigr.mspx#EEAA Merry Xmas
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| December 24, 2004 5:20 AM
Active Directory, Desktops, Windows 2000 desktop
Are you using XP on the client? This might help you http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/deploy/usermigr.mspx#EEAA Merry Xmas
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| December 24, 2004 5:20 AM
Active Directory, Desktops, Windows 2000 desktop
Microsoft: Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT)
Hello, You can refer to the information contained in this tech note to assist you with both the planning and migration steps to move all or some of your current NT 4.0 users and computers. http://www.windowsitpro.com/WindowsMigration/Article/ArticleID/4692/WindowsMigration_4692.html Good Luck!
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| December 22, 2004 3:04 PM
Active Directory, Administration, Application management, Application software, Backup, Client management, Clustering/High availability, Database issues, DataCenter, DataManagement, DHCP, Disaster Recovery, DNS, Exchange, Exchange 2003, Exchange 5.5, Help Desk, Installation, LDAP, Lotus Domino, Maintenance, Microsoft Windows, Migration, Networking services, Outlook, Software testing, Software testing tools, Storage management, Tech support, Third-party services, Vendor support
Hello, You can refer to the information contained in this tech note to assist you with both the planning and migration steps to move all or some of your current NT 4.0 users and computers. http://www.windowsitpro.com/WindowsMigration/Article/ArticleID/4692/WindowsMigration_4692.html Good Luck!
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| December 22, 2004 3:04 PM
Active Directory, Administration, Application management, Application software, Backup, Client management, Clustering/High availability, Database issues, DataCenter, DataManagement, DHCP, Disaster Recovery, DNS, Exchange, Exchange 2003, Exchange 5.5, Help Desk, Installation, LDAP, Lotus Domino, Maintenance, Microsoft Windows, Migration, Networking services, Outlook, Software testing, Software testing tools, Storage management, Tech support, Third-party services, Vendor support
how DNS works
OK – another deep hole – just love these. Simplest answer is that there is a server (arbitrarily chosen by the appropriate admins) which is THE authority for example.com, and its associated address range 168.192.in-addr.arpa (which covers all of 192.168.x.y). note the reversing of the byte ordering for the address range. Other servers can get [...]
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| December 21, 2004 2:58 AM
Active Directory, Backup & recovery, Bind, DHCP, DNS, Hardware, Installation, Intel servers, LDAP, Linux, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows, Networking, Networking services, Servers, Storage, Tech support, Toubleshooting, Unix, Unix Servers
OK – another deep hole – just love these. Simplest answer is that there is a server (arbitrarily chosen by the appropriate admins) which is THE authority for example.com, and its associated address range 168.192.in-addr.arpa (which covers all of 192.168.x.y). note the reversing of the byte ordering for the address range. Other servers can get [...]
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| December 21, 2004 2:58 AM
Active Directory, Backup & recovery, Bind, DHCP, DNS, Hardware, Installation, Intel servers, LDAP, Linux, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows, Networking, Networking services, Servers, Storage, Tech support, Toubleshooting, Unix, Unix Servers
Load balancing on Windows 2003 server
Install IIS on the two servers, if you have not already done so, then put a simple web page on each that says “server 1″ and the other that says “server2″, each server only having one of the above mentioned pages. You should see a alternating pattern when you open new connections to the web [...]
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| December 20, 2004 8:51 AM
Layer 3-7 Switches, Windows Server 2003
Install IIS on the two servers, if you have not already done so, then put a simple web page on each that says “server 1″ and the other that says “server2″, each server only having one of the above mentioned pages. You should see a alternating pattern when you open new connections to the web [...]
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| December 20, 2004 8:51 AM
Layer 3-7 Switches, Windows Server 2003
Network Communications with different logins.
sounds like a permission issue do you users have permission to use the RPG client? Logging in locally to the machines doesn’t hand out permissions compared to logging into the domain, locally you have full control of the machine, logging in as a user may change that depending on your setup…
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| December 19, 2004 3:17 AM
Active Directory, Application software, DHCP, DNS, Networking Products, Networking services, Servers, Tech support
sounds like a permission issue do you users have permission to use the RPG client? Logging in locally to the machines doesn’t hand out permissions compared to logging into the domain, locally you have full control of the machine, logging in as a user may change that depending on your setup…
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| December 19, 2004 3:17 AM
Active Directory, Application software, DHCP, DNS, Networking Products, Networking services, Servers, Tech support
How can I resolve a GUID name to its CN Object Name?
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;325649 This will show you how to do it in reverse. You give the name and it will give you the guid. If you do this for all your sites then you should be able to match it up with your unknown guids.
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| December 14, 2004 7:46 AM
Active Directory, Bind, Distributed File System, DNS, Exchange 2003, LDAP, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows, Monitoring, NFS, Windows, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows tools/WSRM
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;325649 This will show you how to do it in reverse. You give the name and it will give you the guid. If you do this for all your sites then you should be able to match it up with your unknown guids.
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| December 14, 2004 7:46 AM
Active Directory, Bind, Distributed File System, DNS, Exchange 2003, LDAP, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows, Monitoring, NFS, Windows, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows tools/WSRM
DNS Issue in Windows 2003 Enviornment
have you tried flushing the DNS? start>cmd ipconfig /flushdns
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| December 6, 2004 2:15 PM
Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, Microsoft Windows
have you tried flushing the DNS? start>cmd ipconfig /flushdns
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| December 6, 2004 2:15 PM
Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, Microsoft Windows
Annoying policy issue…
The ability to install software is controlled by permissions on the workstations. Most applications will require administrative privledges to install applications. This can be circumvented by using tools or services (SMS for example) to perform software installation on the users’ behalf. Paul
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| December 4, 2004 4:02 PM
Active Directory
The ability to install software is controlled by permissions on the workstations. Most applications will require administrative privledges to install applications. This can be circumvented by using tools or services (SMS for example) to perform software installation on the users’ behalf. Paul
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| December 4, 2004 4:02 PM
Active Directory
How to disable idle time logout situation on our new W2K3 server
Standard operating procedure on TCP/IP network is to drop and reconnect. However, it should be transparent to the user as access to network share is supposed to be instant. A – are you using AD (Active Directory) which presupposes DNS? Delay in reconnect could be lookup problems – holdover ‘netbios’/WINS processes. B – IPX still [...]
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| December 1, 2004 4:03 PM
Active Directory, DataCenter, Microsoft Windows, Windows Server 2003
Standard operating procedure on TCP/IP network is to drop and reconnect. However, it should be transparent to the user as access to network share is supposed to be instant. A – are you using AD (Active Directory) which presupposes DNS? Delay in reconnect could be lookup problems – holdover ‘netbios’/WINS processes. B – IPX still [...]
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| December 1, 2004 4:03 PM
Active Directory, DataCenter, Microsoft Windows, Windows Server 2003
Monitor Internet Bandwidth
Use the ISA server built-in report utility, where you can define different reports to be run on f.ex. daily and/or monthly basis. ISA server will supply you with a number of reports including the one that you want. Tip: Run the report generator under a separate service account and not with your own user account, [...]
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| November 29, 2004 2:49 AM
Active Directory, Administration, Application management, Auditing, Availability, Backup, Backup & recovery, Bandwidth, Benchmarking, Bind, BroadVision, Business Objects, Call Centers, Clarify Inc., CLB, Client management, Clustering/High availability, Component Load Balancing, Content filtering, Corporate portal applications, Customer relationship management applications, Data analysis, Data center operations, Data mining/analysis, Data warehousing/Business intelligence, Database Management Systems, DataCenter, Datacenter Server, DB2 administration, Desktop security, Desktops, DHCP, Distributed File System, DNS, E-business, E-mail applications, ERP, Exchange, Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003, Exchange 5.5, Exchange Server ActiveSync, FAT and NTFS, Fault isolation, Firewalls, General Directories, Graphical User Interfaces, Handheld, Hardware, Help Desk, Information risk management, Integration/Connectivity, Intel servers, IT architecture, Knowledge management applications, Licensing, Lotus Domino, Mail protocols, Maintenance, Major Vendors, Microsoft Internet Information Server, Microsoft Windows, Monitoring, Netscape Mail, Network applications management, Network management software, Network monitoring, Network requirements, Network testing, Networking, Networking Equipment, Networking services, Office Applications, Operating system platforms, Operating systems, Outlook, PC/Windows Connectivity, Performance management, Performance/Tuning, Planning, Policies, POP3, Protocol analysis, Remote management, Reporting, ROI & cost justification, Routers, S/MIME, Security, Security management, Security products, Sendmail, Server consolidation, Server management, Server-based/Thin-client computing, Servers, Services, Software, Software distribution, Software Quality Assurance, Spam, Storage, System monitoring, System utilities, Tech support, Technical support, Third-party services, Vendor support, Virus protection, Web services, Windows, Windows 2000 desktop, Windows 2000 Server, Windows client administration and maintenance, Windows on Intel, Windows Server 2003
Use the ISA server built-in report utility, where you can define different reports to be run on f.ex. daily and/or monthly basis. ISA server will supply you with a number of reports including the one that you want. Tip: Run the report generator under a separate service account and not with your own user account, [...]
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| November 29, 2004 2:49 AM
Active Directory, Administration, Application management, Auditing, Availability, Backup, Backup & recovery, Bandwidth, Benchmarking, Bind, BroadVision, Business Objects, Call Centers, Clarify Inc., CLB, Client management, Clustering/High availability, Component Load Balancing, Content filtering, Corporate portal applications, Customer relationship management applications, Data analysis, Data center operations, Data mining/analysis, Data warehousing/Business intelligence, Database Management Systems, DataCenter, Datacenter Server, DB2 administration, Desktop security, Desktops, DHCP, Distributed File System, DNS, E-business, E-mail applications, ERP, Exchange, Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003, Exchange 5.5, Exchange Server ActiveSync, FAT and NTFS, Fault isolation, Firewalls, General Directories, Graphical User Interfaces, Handheld, Hardware, Help Desk, Information risk management, Integration/Connectivity, Intel servers, IT architecture, Knowledge management applications, Licensing, Lotus Domino, Mail protocols, Maintenance, Major Vendors, Microsoft Internet Information Server, Microsoft Windows, Monitoring, Netscape Mail, Network applications management, Network management software, Network monitoring, Network requirements, Network testing, Networking, Networking Equipment, Networking services, Office Applications, Operating system platforms, Operating systems, Outlook, PC/Windows Connectivity, Performance management, Performance/Tuning, Planning, Policies, POP3, Protocol analysis, Remote management, Reporting, ROI & cost justification, Routers, S/MIME, Security, Security management, Security products, Sendmail, Server consolidation, Server management, Server-based/Thin-client computing, Servers, Services, Software, Software distribution, Software Quality Assurance, Spam, Storage, System monitoring, System utilities, Tech support, Technical support, Third-party services, Vendor support, Virus protection, Web services, Windows, Windows 2000 desktop, Windows 2000 Server, Windows client administration and maintenance, Windows on Intel, Windows Server 2003
Moving DNS outside
I am not sure what you mean when you say moving the DNS services outside? The DNS servers you have setup now will need to remain active as AD will not work without the internal DNS service. I suspect you know that already, that is why I am confused as to what you are asking.
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| November 24, 2004 8:47 AM
Active Directory, Adapters/Interfaces, Administration, AMD PC hardware, Arrays, Backup, Backup & recovery, BlackBerry, Computer Associates, Desktops, DHCP, Dial-up networking, Disk drives, DNS, E-mail applications, Exchange 2003, FAT and NTFS, Firewalls, Forensics, Gigabit ethernet, Handheld, Help Desk, Incident response, Installation, Intel PC hardware, Intel servers, Intrusion management, Layer 3-7 Switches, Mac hardware, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, MS-DOS, Network security, Networking, Networking Equipment, Networking services, Outlook, Overland Data, Palm OS, Performance/Tuning, RAID, Remote management, Servers, Storage servers, Switches, Tape drives/Libraries, Tech support, VPN, WatchGuard, Windows, Windows 2000 desktop, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 95/98, Windows client administration and maintenance, Windows Mobile, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Wireless, Yahoo
I am not sure what you mean when you say moving the DNS services outside? The DNS servers you have setup now will need to remain active as AD will not work without the internal DNS service. I suspect you know that already, that is why I am confused as to what you are asking.
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| November 24, 2004 8:47 AM
Active Directory, Adapters/Interfaces, Administration, AMD PC hardware, Arrays, Backup, Backup & recovery, BlackBerry, Computer Associates, Desktops, DHCP, Dial-up networking, Disk drives, DNS, E-mail applications, Exchange 2003, FAT and NTFS, Firewalls, Forensics, Gigabit ethernet, Handheld, Help Desk, Incident response, Installation, Intel PC hardware, Intel servers, Intrusion management, Layer 3-7 Switches, Mac hardware, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, MS-DOS, Network security, Networking, Networking Equipment, Networking services, Outlook, Overland Data, Palm OS, Performance/Tuning, RAID, Remote management, Servers, Storage servers, Switches, Tape drives/Libraries, Tech support, VPN, WatchGuard, Windows, Windows 2000 desktop, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 95/98, Windows client administration and maintenance, Windows Mobile, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Wireless, Yahoo
Event viewer err Msg.
First off, check your default domain controller policy to sort out your incorrect SID. It’s most probably power users in the windows security settings. Static IPs won’t give you a problem unless you run DHCP as well and hand out the same IPs. Make sure subnet masks are correct. Your problem does look like an [...]
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| November 23, 2004 4:55 AM
802.11 networking equipment, Active Directory, Administration, Auditing, Biometrics, configuration, DataCenter, Digital certificates, DNS, Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003, Exchange 5.5, Exchange Server ActiveSync, Firewalls, Forensics, Help Desk, Identity & Access Management, Incident response, Installation, Intrusion management, Maintenance, Management, Microsoft Windows, Monitoring, Network security, Outlook, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, provisioning, Security, Security tokens, Server management, Servers, Service and support, Services, Single sign-on, System monitoring, Tech support, Third-party services, VPN, vulnerability management, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, WINS, Wireless
First off, check your default domain controller policy to sort out your incorrect SID. It’s most probably power users in the windows security settings. Static IPs won’t give you a problem unless you run DHCP as well and hand out the same IPs. Make sure subnet masks are correct. Your problem does look like an [...]
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| November 23, 2004 4:55 AM
802.11 networking equipment, Active Directory, Administration, Auditing, Biometrics, configuration, DataCenter, Digital certificates, DNS, Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003, Exchange 5.5, Exchange Server ActiveSync, Firewalls, Forensics, Help Desk, Identity & Access Management, Incident response, Installation, Intrusion management, Maintenance, Management, Microsoft Windows, Monitoring, Network security, Outlook, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, provisioning, Security, Security tokens, Server management, Servers, Service and support, Services, Single sign-on, System monitoring, Tech support, Third-party services, VPN, vulnerability management, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, WINS, Wireless
Schema attribute permissions recovery
Step1 (Using Adsiedit to change the permission on the address list) ================================================== 1. Install Windows 2000 Support Tools (Located in SupportTools directory on Windows 2000 CD) 246926 Folder Listing of the Support Tools Included in Windows 2000 http://support.microsoft.com/?id=246926 2. Open ADSIEdit: On the Start menu, point to Programs, point to Windows 2000 Support Tools, Tools, [...]
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| November 13, 2004 6:00 PM
Active Directory
Step1 (Using Adsiedit to change the permission on the address list) ================================================== 1. Install Windows 2000 Support Tools (Located in SupportTools directory on Windows 2000 CD) 246926 Folder Listing of the Support Tools Included in Windows 2000 http://support.microsoft.com/?id=246926 2. Open ADSIEdit: On the Start menu, point to Programs, point to Windows 2000 Support Tools, Tools, [...]
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| November 13, 2004 6:00 PM
Active Directory
decision to upgrade to active directory
If you are comtemplating moving to AD then move to AD2003 which offers a much all around improvement to AD 2000. Make sure that you follow the guide from MS for migration from NT to Win2k3.
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| November 12, 2004 12:42 PM
Active Directory
If you are comtemplating moving to AD then move to AD2003 which offers a much all around improvement to AD 2000. Make sure that you follow the guide from MS for migration from NT to Win2k3.
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| November 12, 2004 12:42 PM
Active Directory
Windows 2K3 SBS Server
Try doing a custom install. Where you pick the upgrades to install, only select the installation files that do not require them to be installed by them selves (alone). I have noticed that sometimes if all the installs are selected the computer has a problem upgrading and times out. Do only a few at a [...]
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| November 12, 2004 10:16 AM
Servers, Windows Server 2003
Try doing a custom install. Where you pick the upgrades to install, only select the installation files that do not require them to be installed by them selves (alone). I have noticed that sometimes if all the installs are selected the computer has a problem upgrading and times out. Do only a few at a [...]
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| November 12, 2004 10:16 AM
Servers, Windows Server 2003
