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Hello, again! I plan to create a system image backup for every computer (Documents/Pictures/etc are already on the server), so I entered the testing phase with a laptop first, to see if it works as intended. On the laptop I have no redirected folders, so that I may use it at any of the locations we have without needing to be connected to the network. I started using the Windows 7 Backup and Restore utility, and it works like a charm. However, if instead of clicking only the documents and libraries of my user account, I click a system image backup, all bets are off. Every time I backup the system image, my computer is the only one in the entire domain that can get any access to the network. Granted, we do have a slow network (100baseT, which I am trying to get the people with the money to change), but it shouldn't shut down all communication with every other machine. So, for you all I have two questions: 1) If this is not working as intended, and isn't just the fault of a slow network, how do I fix it? (Keep in mind, it works fine if I back up everything else, just not if I do a system image.) 2) If it is just a slow network, how do I limit my computer to take up only a certain amount of throughput? Thanks.

I fixed this a while ago, but I figured I should share the solution. It was a DNS issue, there were more than one entry for each computer that had been having problems.

This seemed like the proper place to put this thread, but if it is not please move it. =D In my domain, I have a small business server '08 with exchange '07 on it. We can send out e-mails, but we haven't received any. Which is odd, because nobody on the outside is getting NDRs. Telnetting in on port 25 works fine every from a computer on the outside. Help?

I will state the problem first, then the information I have. The problem is that seemingly intermittently a single computer will lose connection to the server. It's a single computer at a time, but it's not the same one every time. The server is a SBS '08, and we run redirected user folders. So, when a user loses the server connection they lose access to their documents, desktop, and the only DNS in the domain. In other words, can't work at all. When the server is pinged, it times out. When any other computer on the network is pinged (or even known external IPs such as 4.2.2.2) it goes through without a flaw. It will resolve itself in anywhere from 10 to 45 minutes, and I cannot expedite this to my knowledge. There are no tell-tale event logs on the clients (just things like our databse program not being able to see the database). On the server, the only errors are DCOM errors. The first registers that: "DCOM was unable to communicate with the computer using any of the configured protocols." The second: DCOM got error "2147944122" from the computer when attempting to activate the server: {8BC3F05E-D86B-11D0-A075-00C04FB68820} I can't find any reason why this would stop the ability for the client to communicate, but it happens at roughly the time that the client loses connection, and the first one continues to happen on regular intervals until the connection is restored. Also, the second error happens even when there is no problem. Recap: Client loses all connection to the server, but not to anything else. Possibly something related to DCOM, but I have no idea. Problem resolves itself within the hour. Any suggestions?

I managed to find a website that catered (mostly) to my needs. The command buttons turned out to be not difficult, and the remainder of my needs were solved through interpretation of this website. For those that want to know the answer, here it is: Option Explicit Sub doubleTap() Dim NewName As String Dim nm As Name Dim ws As Worksheet Sheet2.Unprotect Password:="secret" If MsgBox("This will make a new file in the same directory" & vbCr & _ "Do you want to make a Double Tap Quote?" _ , vbYesNo, "Save Double Tap Quote") = vbNo Then GoTo TotalEnd With Application .ScreenUpdating = False ' Copy specific sheets ' *SET THE SHEET NAMES TO COPY BELOW* ' Array("Sheet Name", "Another sheet name", "And Another")) ' Sheet names go inside quotes, seperated by commas On Error GoTo ErrCatcher Sheets(Array("DT")).Copy On Error GoTo 0 ' Paste sheets as values ' Remove External Links, Hperlinks and hard-code formulas ' Make sure A1 is selected on all sheets For Each ws In ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets ws.Cells.Copy ws.[A1].PasteSpecial Paste:=xlValues Application.CutCopyMode = False Cells(1, 1).Select ws.Activate Next ws Cells(1, 1).Select ' Remove named ranges For Each nm In ActiveWorkbook.Names nm.Delete Next nm ' Input box to name new file NewName = InputBox("Please enter the name of your quote", "File Name") ' Save it with the NewName and in the same directory as original ActiveWorkbook.SaveCopyAs ThisWorkbook.Path & "\" & NewName & ".xlsx" ActiveWorkbook.Close SaveChanges:=False .ScreenUpdating = True End With TotalEnd: Sheet2.Protect Password:="secret" Exit Sub ErrCatcher: MsgBox "Specified sheets do not exist within this workbook" Sheet2.Protect Password:="secret" End Sub This is the script I'm using. I have a button for each of the pages (IP, PS, MP, etc) and all that changes is the wording on titles and dialog boxes and the sheet reference (sheet2, sheet3, etc). This is essentially the entire script from the first website linked, aside from using four tweaks. I entered a password protection (unprotect/protect) to three places, made a goto tag (is that what they're called?) and had the first option dialog box go to that instead of "exit sub", changed the wording, and then finally I changed the "xls" format to a "xlsx", because we run 2007. If I left it as "xlx", it said it was saved in a format which wasn't correct if you opened it. As for command boxes, there is a good runthrough here. Now that I've fixed the problem, I wonder if I can make it more efficient. As far as scripting, I can find an exsisting script and mish-mash it with other scripts, using logic and kind of guess and check to see if it worked. I'll need to look up more stuff for this, but here's my new idea: Use checkboxes to denote the quotes the user wants to save, and have a single button to save them all. The naming scheme could throw the quote type (IP, DT, etc) in front of it so if you had entered "100" for the file name and checked the "IP", "DT", and "PS" boxes it would save "IP100", "DT100", and "PS100" when you clicked the single save button. So this would involve linking checkboxes into a macro (don't know how to add new objects really), and executing the code aligned with that sheet every time. I don't know programming, but I know concepts. My assumption is that this is essentially what would have to happen. When save is clicked, it checks the first checkbox. If so, it does a goto to that section of code and then unchecks it (so it doesn't do it again and again and again), if not it skips it. Then it would go to the next and so on and so forth, until it hit the end, which would "exit sub" with all of the goto tags after it. Does that sound logical? Thanks.

IT Crowd is making more episodes? I'm so jealous of you guys. I can't see them here in america.

Found this via google (GPO disable user folder link on desktop). Here's the quoted information: "I was able to fix my issue with this custom ADM template: CLASS USER CATEGORY "Windows Components" CATEGORY "Windows Explorer" POLICY "Hide User Folder on Server 2008 Desktop" EXPLAIN "Setting to remove User folder from Windows Server 2008 Desktop" KEYNAME "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\ClassicStartMenu" VALUENAME "{59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}" VALUEON "1" END POLICY END CATEGORY END CATEGORYThis worked for me! I hope it can help you, too. Alicia" Hope that helps!

Hello! So, I have an issue that I have not been able to resolve, I feel it would be better phrased with the whole scenario. The employees at my company must fill out 8-12 predefined spreadsheets every time they make a sale. They all have the same information, so I figure I'd make it more efficient and make a "master" sheet to enter the information, and then it would go to all the correct fields. Really easy with "=Master!D32" etc etc. However, then they told me they had to save them individually and send them individually. From my understanding, this requires two seperate components: saving the values to the sheet, not the formulas, and also to save each sheet individually. Add to this the desire for them to only hit buttons. So, the employees would like a button on the master sheet to save one sheet in this way, as opposed to saving them all. For instance, They enter all the information and need to save the sheet entitled "IP", "PS" and "MP", which are acronyms for different companies we use if you were curious. So on the master sheet, they click the corresponding buttons, and are brought a save screen, where they rename the file into whatever they so choose, and it saves just the sheet with all the correct values. I have googled both solutions (sans the button), but I've run into a problem. I don't understand macros in the slightest, so cannot tweak the scripts I've found to suit my cause. Also, there's no explanations that the people give. Could anyone throw a possible solution with an explanation attatched at me? It's an interesting problem I have never come across, and am curious to know what others think about it. Thanks.