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I'm just installing an Administrator tool pack atm - I'm trying the one for server 2003 as I can't find a 2008 tool pack for running on XP

Hi all - I've been searching the net and given up to suck the knowlage from your brains instead... I have a 2008 domin and I have set delegate rights on the students User OU for a group which will be able to reset password for the students and do nothing more... I have followed instructions in doing this and they always stop when you have setup the delegation... it's the next bit where I get stuck... How do I make it so a teacher in the password reset group can reset the passwords? I have on a workstation opened mmc.exe and couldn't work out how to link the domain users as an object. I have on one of the servers set up the mmc but then when I saved it and ran it on a workstation it was no longer able to see into the active directory. Am I doing something completely stupid or just not finding the required instructions? any help would be greatfully received, Thanks, Dave

me thinks it's that time of the week to look for a new mobo, cpu and ram (and probly a PSU)

Sorry I can't read that properly with an avitar of Quagmire next to it - just needs a "giggidy giggidy" at the end

I'm after trying Hyper-V Server R2 (the free one) and as I don't have any spare PC's at home which are 64bit and with VT or whatever hardware it requires I was wondering if I could create a VM in Virtual PC (or VMware player or some kind of destop virtualisation product) and install and play on that?

was it traveling at 88 miles per hour?

Put some SSD's into it and then defrag won't matter

can you get the the server by name once logged on (ie \\servername\share$) if not try \\IP\share$ if ip works and name doesn't then you may have dns issues

I do have it on a piece of paper in from of me so that might be classed as cheating

run RSOP.msc on a workstation as a user who is having problems and see if there is a confilict

you can tell it to not log on with a tempory profile (Under computer, policies, admin templates, system, user profiles)

there is on server 2008 cos I ticked it the other day... Computer Config >Policies >>Admin Templates >>>System >>>>Logon : Always wait for the network at completer start up and logon

I don't have much worry about disk space - is there a way that I can set VMware to copy the VMDK and keep it upto date/syncronised??

once you get the VMDK files onto the datastore then you can right click on a host and create a new Virual Machine and when it asks about the drive use an existing drive and select the ones you just uploaded then they should just boot Also: If you always use the ISO to install the server then look at making templates and deploying from them - you'll save hours

how old is the server? has it reached a point where you can say it needs an upgrade or where you can upgrade another server and move the old server into the DL140's place?

you are spot on... it's the data drives not the OS drive i have 2 VM's atm, created a small data drive and have tried connecting vm2 to vm1's data drive - wouldnt do it turned on so turned off the vm with the data drive and tried connecting again. i have just rebooted the vm trying to get the data drive and it's come up. just had to activate drive and assign letter. i will now attempt to boot the other vm at the same time hope that makes sense //update\\ cannot power on: Unable to access a file sinse it is locked

I don't suppose you have a second one of these machines around do you? if so it might be worth swaping the hdd's between them and see if the problems move

I thought you were meant to touch metal before starting not wood? haven't used an anti-static strap but I think I would if I was working on somthing very expesive (I didn't use one when peicing together our servers so would have to be something very expesive) I think common sence comes into play with this... ie no making balloon animals before working on a computer

I think the only question that needs asking there is why are you still running 3.1?

that sounds like a very odd problem... are all other componants working fine still and it's just the motherboard/ram that bring the problems?

thanks tmcd... I will look for instructions for it and try it on a couple of test machines before trying it with a live server and one of them

I have the server on a septerate vSwitch to keep it from seeing the old server - havng to set up identialy and don't want to cause problems

I was thinking this but it can see that there is 4GB there so the bios/chipset must be set right or it would just show as 3GB or somthing

have you got your motherboard drivers and other drivers on the machine ok cos that Experiance Index looks very low for a computer with 4GB of ram and a 3GHz CPU

thanks, I was hoping that I could just attach the data drive but I'll just have to copy the data over when the time comes to kill the old box off