jmair

I've checked about eight forum threads with this subject, for some reason they all either pointed to another thread that didn't resolve and or they just said "I blocked it using Group Policy" but didn't say how. I'm looking for how on a win 2003 server to block .exe and .bat files from usb/flash drives via group policy. Please include any templates that may be needed. Thank you kindly!

[warning - Wall of text] I feel that we have a pretty decent website. I use Joomla and it's actually full of customs scripts for our not-so-computer savvy staff. Such as, I have a shared drive on using active directory (the W: drive) for each staff member, that w: drive is mapped to a folder on the web server that is displayed under that teachers staff page as Shared Documents. I found this to be a very very simple way for staff to share files with the world. I also have a php script that pulls information from an excel spread and displays it in the Educators section of the site. This is great for a secretary who updates a Sub list so the staff can always see the most recent sub list.. Simple ideas, but functional. Instead of having individual schools for our site (as our k-12 is small) our site targets PARENTS - STAFF - STUDENTS. this sounds obvious, but you'll notice many district/school sites don't target students or don't target staff. I've also found the hardest part of maintaining our website (and we're very very small compared to most districts) is getting the staff from all areas to forward information to be placed on the website. When events will happen, when events are canceled, when testing starts or stops, sports scores, sports schedules, administrative files, employment information, photos, etc.. That's the hard part.. Because I personally don't think a full time employee could gather all the information daily that needs to be updated keep the site interesting and current. Then there's the School Board meeting info and the policy changes and of course I'm always the last to know about Bus route changes.. Anyhow, I think the site is a wonderful thing if it's updated daily by one person, but that information must come from all of the staff. Their job is to provide info and use it themselves , your job to copy/paste the info and maintain/backup the server. That's how I view it.

I've made changes to my robots.txt file in the root of my website, but it had me thinking. How can I spider myself and see what results I get? I tried my google foo, however with such a grand word as 'spider' it didnt quite get what I was looking for. So how exactly can I Spider myself?

It's only because I copy to and take files from this drive. It's my 'toolbox' of drivers, scripts, fonts etc and it holds logs I take from machines. Using the network share just adds a step sometimes. Maybe there is a GGPO option to make a mounted f drive as f$, or even from a script? I'll look into it and post if I find a solution that way in case others would want it also.

after rereading that, it may not be clear. There is currently a c$ drive and an E$ drive on several machines here. I would like to make the F drive (when I have my USB drive plugged in) turn into a F$ drive so I can be even more lazy and just //10.1.1.123/f$ into to it instead of plugging it into each machine in a lab. Using a network share would add an extra step as the data gets put onto a usb drive anyhow.

How can I add a drive share to a removable media storage device? For example, change my F drive on my machine to a F$ drive a machine so I can have access to it anywhere?

Thanks for the quick reply... I dont know what it is, but once I type out the problem and walk away, I get another idea in my head that often is the solution. There was a second raid controller that was disabled.... turned it back on and Bam, worked like a charm..

I know this is a shot in the dark, but..... We have a server with raid 5 that crashed. I make full backups (system images) weekly, and used one of those images on another machine while I got this server working. I replaced the SCSI controller, made my logical drive of the array (as a raid 5 again) and shot the weekly complete backup image at the fixed drive. Using am Ubuntu startup CD, I can see all of the system server files were placed on this server, however when the server boots, only a flashing curser shows on the top left of the screen. I've never seen this before, any ideas?

We currently work backwords when it comes to internet filtering. We only allow certain sites. This however (I feel) is counterproductive to students who then may not get 'real world' advice when it comes to using the internet. This is something I would like changed.

I've noticed that on the client machines, in Outlook, the most recent email is the last email from the exchange backup date and nothing new is coming in. Could there be some kind of time mismatch that wont allow the Outlook machines to grab the new emails?

We had a Raid failure on our Exchange 2003 server. I took a previous "image" I had and put it on another machine. All works fine (incoming/outgoing). Except, in order to get it to work on the client side, I need to uncheck the cache feature in Outlook 2003 and 2007 for it to retrieve info. Is there another way around this? For example, am I just putting a bandaid on an issue and not seeing where the problem is coming from? Let me know if you need any more info.

I agree with this. If your webserver allows php, I would add two things to your site. 1: a hidden backdoor page http://www.exampledomain.org/enews.php that would allow you to submit text to the first line of the file.txt file. 2: the php include from the file.txt, pehaps in bold red on your websites homepage. This is quite simple and I'm sure any of us could assist you if you need help with it.

I used to use Joomla with IIS but had problems getting gd to work, and when it would work it wouldn't load up images very fast at all. So I switched to WAMP Install PHP 5 Apache MySQL on Windows : WampServer I dont want to sound like a sales man, but WAMP has literally been perfect for our schools joomla site. Also, I've been able to run WAMP and IIS at the same time, as long as IIS has the site on diff ports. For example, IIS has site redirecting to internal DVR or cameras, or IIS has exchange with SSL. WAMP is also modular, so you can first build your site on your own PC, then caop and past the whole WAMP folder over to your host.

My primary question would be if I need enterprise to achieve some of the things I need. For instance, can I get enterprise just for the Exchange server and not for the Domain controller, or should the three primary servers all be on Enterprise? i.e. is there an issue of mixing them up? At the moment it doesn't sound line there is an issue. Thanks for advice and the printer 2003 server suggestion.

With all the info on 2008, I haven't been able to find the answers to a few questions I have. I hope you guys can give some quick answers, or advice. We have 1 DNS, 1 Exchange, 1 Fileserver, 1 Webserver, 1 ISA server. All server 2003. What I would like to accomplish by moving to 2008: Password policies by OUs (not just Domain wide). Multiple storageboxes in exchange. Ability to work with both XP and Windows 7 (with login scripts, group policy, remoting) What I think I need (and this is where I'm unsure) 1 x Server 2008 r2 Enterprise for the DNS 1 x Server 2008 r2 for Fileserver 1 x Server 2008 r2 for Web Server 1 x Server 2008 Enterprise Exchange - for exchange server Isa server can stay 2003 for all I care =) Does this sound correct?

Over the last week or two, several of my client machines have been freezing on shutdown. We're all on the same network, and I have NO idea what is causing it. I looked at the technet KB, but havent found anything of recent (all about 2 years old). Any suggestions will be welcome.

Would anyone know how to generate a report in Procurve Manager of traffic over a period of time? I see the traffic in real time, but I want to generate a report to see high traffic times on what areas of the network. I've been looking for a while, (google, help, edugeek search). Any suggestions would be welcome.

That looks like it's done something. Made the change to 7 switches and my main switch now doesn't seam to be going as crazy. Thank you!

Every now and again we have somebody that will plug both ends of a Cat5 into the wall. This will cause some noise and over time a lot of noise slowing down our network. There has got to be a better way to find the location of the noise other than going to every port in every building. Is there an easyish way to get the IP of the noise? Any suggestions?

We're using 2003 servers (with all XP machines) for everything right now. Our next batch of computers will be with Windows 7. Is there any advantage to going with Server 2008 to accompany the Windows 7 machines?

Alright.. found the reason. The rights aren't part of the AD groups. It's it's own thing attached to Exchange. XADM: You Receive a "Microsoft Exchange Messaging and Collaboration Services cannot be assigned" Error Message When You Perform a Disaster Recovery Operation To work around this problem, perform any one of the following: Delegate a user with the Exchange Full Administrator role to run the disaster recovery. Log on as another Exchange Full Administrator to run the disaster recovery. To log on as a user with Exchange Full Administrator permissions and delegate Exchange Full Administrator role: Click Start, point to Programs, point to Microsoft Exchange, and then click System Manager. Right-click Exchange organization name, and then click Delegate control. To add a user, in the Exchange Administration Delegation Wizard, click Next, and then click Add. In the Delegate Control Window, click Browse, and then click the user account that you are adding. In the Role list, click Exchange Full Administrator, and then click OK . Click Next, and then click Finish.

Actually, here's the exact error message. running /domainprep hasn't helped. http://www.parkcountyre2.org/shared%20documents%20of/jmair/exchangeerror.jpg

The routing service on my Exhchange 2003 server has failed. Technet says to backup my mailboxes (done) and reinstall Exchange with /disasterrecovery When I try to do this, it says I do not have sufficiant rights to do so. I'm in the Domain Admin group and part of the Exchange Full admin groups. I also switched to just administrator and got the same error. What's going on? Why is it rebelling? Do I need to stop all services before reinstall? Is there a better way to do get the routing service back into my current exchange setup?

Thank you kindly! That's the info I needed.

I have two exchange servers. One backend and one frontend for OWA. I brought home the Office 2007 disc, and thought I would try and use Outlook from home. However, I have no idea how to do this.