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Windows Server 2008 Inside Out is great, in fact the whole range of Inside Out books have been a fantastic help to me

Thanks, I did consider DNS as a potential issue but hadn't looked into it. I'll check that out now *EDIT* Checked both DNS and DHCP, the lease is valid for another 24 hours and seems correct in both the DNS lookup entries and DHCP.... Bugger.....

Hi all, Started using iTalc 1.0.9 recently in 3 IT suites without issue but in the last week I've been getting a lot of "Unknown State" and "Host Unreachable" messages on random machines. I've patched the 3 teacher machines with the TCPIP.sys fix which has improved the connectivity a little but I still seem to be getting random dropouts across the 3 rooms. I've checked the windows firewall settings and the ICA.exe and the client have both been allowed. I'm starting to think it may be a network congestion issue, I just started a new post and some of the switch gear is quite outdated here ,there are bottlenecks at certain points of the network but they cannot be resolved just yet.... I may of course be barking up the wrong tree so any assistance would be greatly appreciated

Nope, no joy. I'm sure its not dns. DNS records seem fine and DCs are contactable from the exchange box. I've ran sfc /scannow to make sure all dll files are correct but I'm again having an issue with system attendant not starting and I'm sure thats whats causing the rest of the issues. I start the process manually and it zooms to 50% started before stopping dead and taking a further 5/10 minutes to fail out with the 1053 timely manner error *I HAVE RESOLVED THIS ISSUE* For anybody interested, I have backed up the mdbdata folder (just in case) and done a reinstall of exchange 2003 and sp2, running /domainprep first and then re-running setup. This has allowed me to remount the mailbox store and access emails again!! Phew......

Hi All, Encountered a bizarre problem with my exchange 2003 box yesterday and I'm now fresh out ideas (well good ones anyway) Had a server crash one of the DC's here yesterday, rebooted both DC's as well as the exchange box, everything was rosy until it came to starting specific processes within the exchange server. System attendant claims to have started but the information store and mta stacks services both refuse to start. Information Store returns error code 0 and then either hangs in a starting state or appears to be stopped still. Event Viewer shows a couple of different error messages Error 0x80004005 connecting to the Microsoft Active Directory and Unable to initialise the Microsoft Exchange Information Store Service The web based front end for OWA still loads but hangs when you try and login )obviously!) Any help would be greatly appreciated Exchange box is running sp2 with a couple of hotfixes installed