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Thanks for your reply. Would you happen to know in dfsrdiag.exe what command I should run to find out what I need? Thanks.

Hi, I was hoping someone could help me on this issue. I'm trying to consolidate one of my existing DFS replication folders into one folder which holds the latest/written copy of that folder and then STOP replication to that folder. At the moment DFS reports showing replication errors and I've realised I don't need this folder to replicate anymore as it has become obsolete (not needed moving forwards). Before I stop replication, does anyone know a Robocopy command to find out about more about the member folder across 4 DFS servers? And which of those servers holds the written/updated copy of subfolders/files? I just want to make sure when I consolidate into one folder, I have the most recent updated copy of that file. Thanks.

Great stuff! Thanks for sharing that. I'll use that link to throttle the maximum bandwidth WDS can use for multiple deployments. Thanks again. Mo

Hi guys, I have a quick question for those who have used WDS. I'm going to deploying WDS soon and we are on a single subnet (/24 range). Is there any need to create VLAN's on the switches so network performance isn't impacted for the users? I could be deploying images around 20-30 client machines at once so wanted to make sure without VLAN's setup on our subnet it wouldn't affect the users day-to-day activity (printing, accessing resources, internet etc). Thanks. Mo

Hi guys, Using Exchange 2010 SP1 and Outlook 2010 for clients. I've been asked to copy/forward ALL emails (.msg) arriving to a particular mailbox to be copied/forwarded to a network share. I believe this can be achieved by scripting - does anyone done this before and can provide me some tips? I tried to look into Rules and Alerts but what I need to do isn't on there. Thanks :-) Mo

I've ran TreeSize on both servers so the next working day I'll run it again and compare to see whether storage might be going. Hopefully results will show something clear. Thanks a lot.

Yes it is running OWA but this is also happening on the Apps Server as well. Where are the IIS transaction logs stored by default? Thanks.

Checked both system drives and all drives are disabled for shadow copies. This is only I picked up recently and starting to concern me what it could be. Anything else I could check? Thanks.

Hi all, I have a weird problem with our Exchange and Apps Server - both have system drive (C:\) and additional hard drives for Exchange database and Apps data for storage. Every day at least 500MB is being lost of storage on the system drive (C:\) on both servers. Nothing new has been installed on either server and I can't seem to find out what the this may be that building up storage over time. SQL server is installed on both servers but the Exchange logs is on drive D:\ along with the database itself. Has anyone seen something like this before? The only thing I can think of is temp files or some log files built up over time, but Exchange logs are on D drive. Any ideas? Thanks a lot.

Hi, Yeah they'll be on the same subnet as well as the host as well (same subnet). The host just got the Hyper-V role installed and then VM's taking hardware resources (storage and RAM). One VM currently is our BlackBerry server and the one I intend to roll out as a VM is a 'Management Server' where I want to migrate some resources to this VM. The resources I'm thinking about is WDS, WSUS, Symantec Protection Suite for starters - with the additional RAM I'm going to purchase I should have enough to support this. As we have 100 clients maximum, is there any need configuration changes on the physical NIC or on Hyper-V Manager? I know network performance is critical here and maybe the management server needs slightly more priority than the BlackBerry Server. Thanks a lot. Mo

Hi guys, Looking for some advice for VLAN tagging in Hyper-V in Server 2008. I'm looking to to purchase more RAM for our HP DL180 G6 base level server - At the moment it's running on it's shipped hardware (6GB RAM). Anyway at the moment it's running one VM, and want to create more VM's with more RAM. My question is with regards to VLAN tagging on the virtual switch for VM's? The current setup is a virtual switch is created from the physical NIC, and then when creating VM's we attach the 'Virtual Switch' to the VM. When I create more VM's, do I have to specify VLAN tagging for each VM in the settings option for the virtual switch? Just to confirm these VM's will be on the same IP subnet. Just to make sure I don't hinder performance between the VM's and their resources. Thanks. Mo

Hi, I have done this and fails to find the DC and the machine can't re-join the domain. Looked at the netlogon logs and states there has been logons to this domain that's not in a designated IP subnet but these are setup correctly on Sites and Services. I've removed the IP Subnet for the site, and re-created it and assigned it to DC01 but same thing happens. Performed Wireshark at the site and another site which logs on as normal and there are plenty of LDAP requests trying to send to the server but can't find the DC on the slow site, whereas other sites picks up requests, finds the DC and logs on. We've reloaded the config on the router, even rolled back a previous firmware (Cisco 877) and no success. As mentioned above it get DHCP and the relevant scope options, is able to update DNS records on the database (tested by registering and clearing old records), just problems with LDAP/contacting the DC for authentication. Restarted the DC as well but to no avail. Beginning to scratch my head on this one - any other ideas? Thanks. Mo

Also on top of that, there's nothing showing in the client logs, when GP policies were binding to the OU, it came up unable to apply policies but can see the SYSVOL folder when attempting to contact the server to apply the policies.

I have a weird problem that I've been pulling my hair out for 3 days now – one of our remote sites, and JUST this site has authentication issues when the user attempts to log in to the network, it takes around 15 minutes minimum, and then the desktop loads up. When the desktop is loaded, the LAN shows as (unauthenticated). Here is what I've done to troubleshoot the issue, or find what’s going on but to no avail at the moment: - General Investigation / Troubleshoot • Restarted router at site (/24 IP Subnet) • Can ping the DC, other servers by FQDN and via IP • Can ping other routers located in other sites – can also ping the machine from the server once booted and got IP address (by machine name) • Gets DHCP from server along with DNS details (IPConfig/all) • Tried giving it static details and tried again – Also just static DNS (both DHCP and static can ping server and back via FQDN and NSLookup queries) • Can gain access to network shares when I browse via \\servername\folder (local account) • IPConfig/release, IPConfig/Renew, IPConfig/flushdns, IPConfig/registerdns • All client machine services are running normal and fine (DHCP, DNS, Netlogon as obvious services I checked) • All machines can get out to the Internet no problem • Taken one existing machine out of domain, added to workgroup and try re-adding machine to domain (hangs for 10 minutes and comes up domain name listed is no longer available) Other things • Re imaged one machine at site via Acronis, and when attempted to add machine to domain via domain credentials, it still hangs for around 10 minutes and comes back with ‘The Domain listed is no longer available’ even though I can ping the servers via FQDN and vice versa, but I can’t still add this machine to the domain after re imaging. • After discussion with our network guru, we reverted back to an old config on the routers and still does exactly the same • Took off all group policies on the server so the OU which the computers are in have no binding policies to them (just in case it was GP that was affecting the logon times), don’t think it can be as joining a machine to the domain struggles and doesn't confirm joining so I can’t imagine this being GP related, but not binding policies at the moment anyway! What’s weird? • When I take my laptop to the site, and I plug in using the Ethernet lead from one of the machines, I’m able to authenticate fine with domain user account (existing and new accounts), and domain admins account as normal. • When I try to log at the site machines using my domain user account, it does the same for the normal users and I see a ‘Welcome’ message for around 15 minutes minimum and then logs in and LAN show (unauthenticated). • Logging in as a local account sees the LAN as normal (domain name and Internet access) What I’m going to do today anyway is take a normal workstation laptop to the site and see if I can add this particular workstation to the domain, log in with normal user credentials from the site and see how I get on. From this I can only think of 3 things: - • Machine not authenticated to the domain • LDAP requests / directory services it can’t see or talk to I confirmed with our network guy that router can definitely perform LDAP requests on port 389 and the config is the same on other sites where it works fine no problem – it just seems because whatever reason it is, it's logging in unauthenticated and therefore it can’t perform any LDAP requests / directory services including finding the user's mailbox via Outlook. That’s why I thought I reimage one machine just in case there was anything lingering around but struggles to join machine to domain (hangs and error message). Any other ideas? Lol.

Thanks a lot, one of the scan engines became corrupt. Anyway to ensure I got rid of everything, did a complete uninstall and reinstall to ensure corrupt scan files are removed. Mail flows seems to be working now - thanks again :-) Mo