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Right Sorry I've been away from this for a while. Way too many things to do! Anyway, thank you all very much for the replies to date but I'm still pulling out what's left of my grey hair - here's the current situation, with a full refresh so everything is in this one post. Environment - SBS 2003, fully patched and up to date. All mailboxes set up by exactly the same "add user" process wizard on SBS Phones in question - 2 x iPhone 3GS, both fully up to date and 1 x android 2.1 handset (mine) 1 x iPhone connects to Head's account with no problem. 1 x Android connects to my account with no problem 1 x iPhone will set up and verify the other user's account but when trying to retrieve mail it gives the "connection to the server failed" message. Now then.... this last iPhone will connect to the Head's account with no problem, i just set it up this morning. No problem whatsoever. It will not connect to the users own mailbox and neither will it connect to a brand new mailbox that I just set up on the system. Same "connection to the server failed" message on both. I have been through the user and mailbox settings this morning and I can see no difference at all between the setup of the Head's and the problem user's account, same permissions, group memberships, etc. There has to be something in the user setup, or the IIS settings that I'm missing. I know now that it's not the phone that's the problem. I'm also assuming that it can't really be the IIS or ActiveSync settings at fault as, surely, there's only one setting that applies to all users? Does anyone know of a guide to checking all the relevant user, mailbox, IIS, ActiveSync, etc settings on a per user basis. There is a company that claims to be able to sort all such problems out for a reasonable flat fee, so they're my last resort, but I'd absolutely hate it if they found something really simple that was a facepalm moment for me! However, if they can do it then there has to be a simple methodology of resolving the issue. Is anyone able to offer any further suggestions? There could well be a pint or three in it for anyone who can sort this for me!

I mean, logically, it has to be the phone. All the user mailbox and account settings appear to be identical and all are set up for the same level of external access with the same permissions, etc. It can't really be anything else can it, just grasping at straws.

Unfortunately, the staff member whose iPhone does sync is the head and he won't allow anyone else to connect to his mailbox. The non-working iPhone is bang up to date re: software, so I'm informed. My money is on the phone I must say. I'd like to reset it to default and start from scratch but she won't let me.

Odd problem that I need to solve to get a teacher off my back. Two staff members have iPhone 3GS', one connects to our Exchange box easily and straightforwardly, the other one refuses point-blank. I have an Android phone (2.1) that connects straighforwardly and without fuss. Try as I might I cannot get the second iPhone to connect. It has the same mailbox settings as the other one and as my phone. It appears to verify the settings when the account is first set up but then all attempts to connect to actually fetch mail do not succeed. Both users have the same mailbox settings on the SBS box so far as I can see. In desperation, I ask here, is there anything that I can check, either on the phone or the server that I might have missed here? The teacher with the second iPhone is really miffed about this and is constantly sniping at me to sort it!

We've just bought 2 x Terrastations for use as backup devices. The plan is to use one device as the primary backup and to replicate it to a second identical unit. Both units are attached to the same network as AD devices. Can't get the replication set up. The manual says to go to the web admin screen, log into the first box, navigate to System > Backup > Replication, click add and select the source and target from the drop down boxes. This is where we fail. The source folders show up but the target dropdown either hangs on "loading" or displays a blank box. I've also tried adding the IP of the second unit to the list of "off-subnet" units but that doesn't help. The manual is less than clear, in the preamble for replication setup it states that to set up replication then LAN port 2 on each machine should be connected; I'm unclear if that means just for the setup phase or to enable replication they should be permanently connected? But anyway I've tried that option as well with the same non-result. Has anyone successfully set replication up on these devices and can offer me some advice? I'm seriously head-scratching right now.

Strange one this. One of our users with an iPhone 3GS on Orange cannot connect to Exchange on the SBS 2003 box. I've looked at the phone, in fact I have it here now, and cant see any problem with the settings. I've even deleted and recreated the account on the phone. It's not a problem on the network side because I can connect via my Android phone and we have one other user who's iPhone 3GS connects flawlessly, it's on O2. Exchange account settings are the same on all the phones. I'm out of options - is there some unrelated setting on the iPhone that I need to change? Is it an Orange issue, blocking ports or something? Basically..... HELP, please?

I have sorted it! It appears that the affected machines were rolled out containing an imaged disc but the image wasn't sysprep'd. Hence I presume the server was seeing multiple instances of the same SID and forcing a logout? Anyway, I just have to reinstall 12 machines now

Strange problem, the entire IT team has been tearing it's collective hair out for a few weeks now. In a nutshell; Win 7 PCs using IE8 to access exchange 2007 webmail within the school. Many (most, really) users find that every time they hit reply, or new message, when the new window opens they're presented with the OWA login screen and have to re-input their credentials. This is not a timeout issue as it happens even immediately after first login. Now, this does not happen to every user, we've even created new users with the same security levels as the users experiencing the problems and we can't re-create the problem. None of us who have admin rights experience the problem either. It only happens on Win 7 machines, on XP everything is fine. I've tried everything to a) recreate the fault with a user who doesn't get it and b) vice-versa, to cure the problem for those who do get it. To quote Catweazle - Nothing Works! We've tried changing all sorts of settings within IE, we've completely rebuilt a Win 7 machine, we've cleared out all user profiles, etc, etc, etc Does anyone have knowledge to share, or any ideas I can try before I go totally bald?

So what are the current thoughts about Millennium Business Systems?

As the title. Has anyone bought them? Are they reliable? Is the after sales support OK? Any comments?

Can you point me to a comprehensive admin guide for Karoshi please? I can't make head or tail out of parts of it. In particular it won't let me on the internet because it can't find a DNS server (or so it says) but it itself is a DNS server?

Having looked at the website it does look a pretty good package. And the open source free version is adequate compared to Exchange?

Thanks again. Does it have an inbuilt email server?

There's no such file on my system. I have a directory called /etc/likewise-open and the only .conf file in there is likewise-krb5-ad.conf

Not exactly cheap though is it?

Shared calendars...

I have no problem with anything that takes the fiddly (aka time consuming) bits away from me Is it possible to get at the fiddly bits if required though? How does it deal with email?

Thanks. What makes Karoshi a good choice for schools over and above, say Ubuntu server?

No, the machine is joined to the domain OK and I can view all the appropriate shares. All I want to do is to have the PC present a login screen that allows entry of the AD username and password. Currently I can only log onto the PC as the local user, albeit that once logged in the PC is a member of the domain but I want to be able to log in as the AD user.

Likewise is installed, if I open it from the System > Admin menu it tells me I'm joined to the domain but there's no option that I can see to use it as a login screen. If I attempt to log in as "other" and enter domain\username, it prompts for the password but then gives me an authentication failure.

Is there a way to set up an Ubuntu client so that the user logs in to the domain via the same type of login screen as a Windows client? I'm familiar with setting up Ubuntu with Samba, Winbind, etc but I'd like to be able to set up a box for staff to try that they can log into in a "familiar" fashion. Is this possible in any way? Or with a different Linux flavour?

What flavour Linux are you using?

All things have a plus side. I've just set up a hootsuite account to handle my Twitter feeds. First impressions are quite good I must say: https://hootsuite.com/signup

Our proxy settings are pushed out via GP, IE and Firefox read them OK but not Tweetdeck.

Mine just hangs on the "validating" screen but no other error messages and I can't get to the settings screen. I've logged a ticket with Tweetdeck Support.