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A simple thank you doesn't cut it. For anyone else seeing this in the future, use ADRestore and follow this page. " adrestore -r " save me hours and hours of time. ((the real issue was for an entire OU of users, not just one.)) Thanks again Jamesb!

I have a deleted account and I need to recreate it allowing them to still access their original user folder on their computer. Can this be done?

Our exchange server has a mirrored raid with 1TB drives in them. I believe I should be able to swap the second drive with a new 4TB drive, wait a day and swap out the 1st drive with another 4TB drive. Is this going to work or am I missing something simple that will give a catastrophic crash?

Perfect guys, thanks for the info. Sounds like it's safe to block.

I have a 7meg up and down for my school of 400 users. Upgrading isn't an option for at least another year or two so I'm really trying to only allow traffic that's crucial. Doubleclick takes a constant 2-3% of the bandwidth. Any advantage of blocking it or would it break google's functionality?

Mods, feel free to delete the post if you like. I believe the solution I need is a bridge, not a proxy.

We had a second ISP drop a connection for us over 370ft away, and a VLAN back to the MDF room isn't an option. I thought maybe I could route specific traffic to a second gateway for the new ISP drop. I would like to use two NICs on one machine like a bridge, and was thinking that making a linux proxy box would be a solution. (I'm open to any other ideas though). Since this box is the only device between the new ISP and our Firewall a linux box would be as close to ideal as we could afford. Is a proxy the solution? If so, any suggestions on what I should be looking up? I have just enough linux experience to know that I should be asking here and a linux flavor hasn't been installed yet either. Any feedback is welcome. Thanks!

We are a small school and I feel like I should have some kind of assessment of our external vulnerability. (External as that's what I am mainly responsible for, I haven't found a solution to stopping staff from making bad judgments.) I was wondering how you folks go about checking your own (public side) networks? Thanks in advance for any feedback. edit for clarification: I need a way to assess security vulnerabilities for our mail server and a few hosted website servers that are open to the public.

If I change the 8081 port, their site will not work correctly. I already have a subdomain going to the port 80 site, just not sure how to simplify the other. I'm glad for the second NIC suggestion, i'll give that a whirl.

They are proprietary config servers using JBoss and Jetty. I am a fan of simple solutions and the second NIC may be the way to go. Thanks for the ideas good.

I have a 2008 r2 server that runs two web servers. The websites are targeting little kids (that sounds wildly inappropriate). One uses port 80 and the other uses 8081. I need to make it extremely easy for the kids to access the sites without typing in the full name (almost 20 characters long) on any device while on our network. I made a forward lookupzone and cname in dns for the port 80 site, but I have no idea how to do it for the port 8081 site. Any suggestions? Seams like something that should be easy to do without 3rd party software or appliance. thanks in advance!

We are currently using this with our laptops, but a device that cuts out the copy/paste and tabbing over would save the kid some headaches. I didn't know that the ipad could sheech to text directly to a word processor or to google drive/docs. I'll check that out. Thanks folks!

We have a couple students that require speech to text. Is anyone using a tablet to do this? Speech to text into a word processor (even google drive) is what we're looking for. Any suggestions before I mindlessly start buying things? =)

First I have to say that the PaloAlto firewalls are slick very powerful firewalls. I'm sure all current generation firewalls are. But they are far more complicated to manage than one just 5 years ago. Days of logging in and looking at two tabs or running a few commands are long gone. We have a port configured as our gateway. It was configured as 10.1.1.254/21 .. Changing it to 10.1.1.254/20 , routing was solved. 10.1.1.254/21 took it to 10.1.7.254 and changing it to 10.1.1.254/21 took it up to 10.1.15.254 witch encompassed the 10.1.10.10 ip. Not sure why the 10.1.10.9 worked though, I'll chalk it up to an adventure I get to figure out at a later time.

{SOLVED} The firewall Octet range wasn't encompassing the entire lan scope. Online IP Subnet Calculator for the win!

I see what you were trying to deduct. I thought you were trying to see if client to client could ping each-other on the lan side. No, their is no IP conflict (I wish their was, it would have been an easy fix).

Yes, both direction just fine.

How many times have we read/heard that issue. It sounds funny to post that as a subject but that's what it comes down to really. I have an ip that won't go past our gateway and we have no reason to believe it's the gateway (a port on our firewall) that's stopping it. 10.1.10.10 on any machine will not access beyond our network. It can ping external IPs, but looks to have no DNS issues. Once I swap the IP to 10.1.10.9 (just one off) and everything works like a charm. When the ip is 10.1.10.10 I can access any/all on our lan seemingly just fine. I have checked our DHCP and confirmed the ip is no on a DENY list and I've made sure that we don't have a conflicting IP and the event logs show nothing (no DNS issues, networking or IPv4 issues). When I call support, that handles our firewall, they can't find any rule that would block this particular IP and they believe it's on my side. Any suggestions on where to look or what commands I can run to help figure out what would be causing this problem? ((this has been going on for 3 weeks now)) Thank you kindly.

I need to first have some piece of audio hardware on the server, but from their I don't know what/how the audio is handled. 90 client connections x 2 audio channels each (youtube + system sounds as an example) would the sound card manage the potential 180 concurrent audio, and if so would a simple $40 sound card with one cpu on it do the trick? I have no idea how that's managed, and it's 100% possible that I'm over thinking this and it shouldn't matter. This will be used by k-5th graders mainly for reading and comprehension. An audio track giving sounds, " a cow goes Moooo Moooo". I would hate for it to studder once 10 kids get on and it goes " a a a cow ow ow ow go o o o ssss Moo oo oo oo Moo oo oo oo "... The kids would never say anything and the staff would never know that it's doing it.

I need to get an audio card for our terminal server. It's been 15 years since I needed to buy a sound card. What spec should I be looking for to allow multiple students steaming audio? I don't think they call it polyphony anymore...

Yes, we are on a BYOD network. Not every device works for one reason or another and I’m curious how other tech address the issue. I should note that I’m happy with the filter. It’s doing its job fine. If the device doesn’t authenticate, they don’t have access. So is it my responsibility to help all of the devices that won’t authenticate or should I have the ‘tough luck’ attitude?

How much trouble do you go through to get a device to work with your web filter if it's the device and not your filter? *Wasn't sure to post this here or in the "How do you do it" section. Here seamed more specific.

I had this happen a while back, turned out to be the account being locked out for the policy duration. It was an obvious reason but the last place we looked.

That's exactly what I needed to know. Thanks!

I have a few GPOs stat stop things like students locking machines. If I delete that GPO, will the user retain that last GPO push or will it revert to a default state (allowing them to lock their computer) for example?