Mr_M_Cox

Hi All, i need to edit a registry key to add ".old" to the end of it on a number of domain machines. Could anyone let me know how best to go about this? I was thinking GPO or script to trigger a .reg file. The key in questions is - HKU\S-1-5-20\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform needs to become HKU\S-1-5-20\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform.old Any help much appreciated. Thanks.

how would I go about identifying the correct root cert? I have already installed the cert which presents the error. It was installed into the trusted root authority folder

Could I create a whole new self signed cert just for autodiscover.domain.com and use that along side the existing one? Really cant go down the road of paying for anything.

Thanks for the reply. I want to avoid having to buy a cert. Client doesn't want to spend £. They currently have a self signed cert which covers mail.domain.com, remote.domain.com but not autodiscover.domain.com. Now when a PC, which is not on the domain, using Outlook to connect to the exchange server they get the name mismatch error all the time because it cant find autodiscover.domain.com in the cert.

Hi All, I need to add autodiscover.domain.com as a SAN to my existing self signed exchange cert. How do I do this? If I have to create a new one that's fine but some instruction would be great.

WesleyW - Thank you very much for the offer, unfortunately the file is 100GB! I am guessing that the tool you speak of is pay for?

Hi All, I am just about to have a breakdown over this one. Basically, its a long story of how I ended up here but, I need to be able to pull a mailbox (or individual mails) out of an Exchange edb file. I know there are lots of third party tools that can do it but they are massively expensive for what will be a one time use. I have seen talk online of using exchange recovery groups but when creating mine always errors. If possible would someone be kind enough to either link to or explain in here a way I can do it. I am running Exch 2007 on server 03. I don't mind how it is done but I need to retrieve these emails asap. Thanks all

Hello, I am currently working on an exchange server with around 20 users. Each user has a number of different email addresses, first name, initials, both etc. I now need to replicate all email addresses but change the domain name of each whilst keeping the original intact and just adding the new ones. So, as an example I need [email protected] to become [email protected] but without losing the 1.com address. I have tried creating a custom mail policy but it will not seem to do anything, wont even create the new policy, let alone action it. Here is the code I am using - >> New-EmailAddressPolicy -Name "Domain Swap" -IncludeRecipients AllRecipients -E nabledPrimarySMTPAddressTemplates "SMTP: %g.@*****.net" My plan was to use this with a different naming convention each time but if there is an easier way to attack this please suggest. any advice would be great, thanks.

Hi All, I am currently planning a 2 server install for one of my clients. my question is on how many CALS i need as there seem to be all sorts of answers flying around various forums. Situation is as follow. 60 user 1 svr 2012 DC 1 svr 2012 DB server hosting a couple of apps Question - how many CALS do i need for each user to be licensed to access both servers. Thanks.

Hi All, I have got three expired certs on my server which i need to renew but having done much googleing I cant get it to work. Cert 1 Issued by - domainname-servername-CA template - Domain Controller requester name - domain/servername$ Cert 2 Same as above but using Web Server template and requester name - domain/administrator Cert 3 Same as Cert 2 but requested by different user. Please help, how do I renew these? Thank you.

Spice works kid of does what i want. The other functionality I wanted to use which i should have said earlier is to give each one a ref number which links to a file in a cabinet containing the media. EG - i search for adobe acrobat writer 10 and it comes up with the record showing who has a license, where they are and what number ref the media is. Every thing I can find online is for books or movies which doesn't really fit.

Hi All, I am looking for an application which will allow me to log all my software discs and then allow me to search for a name, type or user to pull up their software. So for example, i need to know who has an adobe Premier CS3 licence, i can search for Premier or Cs3 and bring up the records Any ideas? Thanks

Hi All, Just a quick question - Can i use an Exchange 2013 license to cover a Exchange 2010 install? Thanks.

Hi All, I need to source a cabinet/box which can house a standard desktop PC. It has to be lockable and either with or without active cooling is fine. I also need it to secure it to a desk so mounting holes are required. Does anyone know any good UK suppliers for this kind of thing? Time is of the essence on this one so a company who have them in stock rather than custom built would be prefferable. Thanks all.

We dont use Kix - I was hoping to use vbs. As GPO's I dont have access to domina level group policy, only local.

Hi all, I need a script that will look at the OU membership of a user logging on and then depending on which OU their account is in it runs either bat file 1 or 2. Any ideas? Thanks all

Hi all, is there a way of ensureing that when using powerpoint 2007 I only use features compatible with Powerpoint 2003? Thanks

Dont worry about my last request. I managed to sort out the drive mapping myself. What would be nice is that if the PC name does not contain HP6 then it brings up a message box for 5 secs saying 'Patch does not apply to your PC' - bear in mind that the messaging service on all our PC's is disabled. any help much appreciated

Thanks so much for your help on this. I now have Set objShell= WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Dim strComputer strComputer = objShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%COMPUTERNAME%") If instr(strComputer,"HP6") <> 0 Then 'Call a bat file objShell.run "c:\hptest.bat" End If The problem i have now stems from the advice you gave be about UNC paths. I need it to either run from a network location using a UNC path or to map a drive first. I know I am asking a lot but how would I map the drive?

and no, it does not relate to printers. I need to run a bat file which will call an HP bios setting editor so that I can change the bios settings of every HP laptop on the network

Hi, thanks for the code, this looks to be exactly what I was after but what is the code to insert to call a .bat file?

THe HP6 is a bit of the computer name which only exists on laptops not on desktops. I need the bat file to only run on HP laptops . THe structure of the name is ******HP6*****. Had to star it out for security reasons but you get the idea. letters before the HP and numbers after the 6. Does that make it any clearer?

Thanks for the reply but WHOA! that is alot of code, do i really need it all, there are bits in there about printers and all sorts. If you could chop out the bit I can use that would be great

Hi all, I have got a .bat file which I want to run at log on, this is not a problem. The problem is I only want to run it on certain PC's that have 'HP6' in the computer name. It is not an option to only apply the script to these PC's so I need the script to do some sort of 'if computername=...' Any ideas would be great Thanks

Because I have no money for it and they dont like free/shareware. Then If i do want to add it then I have to get it approved which takes ages.