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I would start with this hotfix, it cured something very similar for me last year The logon process stops responding in Windows Server 2008 R2 or in Windows 7 Andrew

Fastcopy is pretty good for this, I use it on all my overnight processes for moving data round to backups etc. Works as a GUI or loads of command line strings. FastCopy Andrew

Morning all I run a fairly simple Exchange system with three databases, students, sixth form and staff hosted on a single server. The students and staff all work fine on any platform but for some reason the sixth form students can't connect to either OWA or via activesync (but can connect directly using Outlook on an in-house workstation Win 7). The error they get remotely is "the username or password is incorrect" and this happens if they enter their username in 01abcd format or curriculum\01abcd. I can't see any difference as to why this one database is behaving differently. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where to look? This is hosted on a W2K8r2 server with Ex2010SP3 with roll-up2 installed. Many thanks Andrew

Hi I don't have access to a Windows phone so I would be most grateful if someone could please post a quick step by step guide for hooking up a Windows phone to an Exchange 2010 SP3 server so I can pinch the good bits and look intelligent in-front of all my sixth formers.... Thanks in advance Andrew

We use the X5 suite for simple Year 7 and 8 projects, for year 9 and above they use CS4 instead. TBH, with Serif you get what you pay for, cheap, cheerful but prone to a few bugs and occasionally some lost work. Andrew

Haven't used Start8 so can't directly help but we use Classic Shell on all our networked PC's and that works without issue in multi-profiled environments. Classic Shell - Start menu and other Windows enhancements Andrew

Squid and Dansguardian running on your favorite flavour of LINUX with winbind for NTLM authentication and Shallalist.de blacklists Running here supporting 1500 users with 4 levels of filtering. Total cost: 0.00p

Alternate printer delete script:- strComputer = "." Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Set colInstalledPrinters = objWMIService.ExecQuery _ ("Select * From Win32_Printer Where Network = True") For Each objPrinter in colInstalledPrinters objPrinter.Delete_ Next

On Error resume Next set objNetwork = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network") set objShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") 'Add Network printers objNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\quartz\HP Colour LaserJet CP2025n ART01" 'Set Default Printer objNetwork.SetDefaultPrinter "\\quartz\HP Colour LaserJet CP2025n ART01"

Assuming the downloaded driver has an .inf, copy the whole driver to the local PC (eg, c:\drivers\printers) and then open a dos windows using "Run as administrator" Run pnputil.exe /a /i "c:\drivers\printers\whateverthefileiscalled.inf" This will install the driver to the driver store and then install on the local PC I use this utility to preload all my drivers into my master image (but I don't use the /i switch as I don't actually want them installed...) More details here:- PnPUtil (Windows Drivers) Hope that helps Andrew

Hi Our finance system (Corero) sends out work flow emails to managers to action. Currently it goes via SMTP to our Ex2003 server which then routes to our Ex2010 server that hosts the staff mailboxes. All external email also routes via the Ex2003 to the Ex2010 server (yes it's a bit odd but we are in mid migration at the moment....) Since our staff were migrated to the Ex2010 server, any email from the Corero system is being delivered directly to the junk mail folder of each user rather than the inbox. Given the Ex2003->Ex2010 route it's taking, is there anything I can do globally on either box to stop it being flagged as junk? Thanks Andrew

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Brings back memories, there must have been about 7 different versions of ULTRIUM.NLM, each as incompatible with each other as chalk and elephants....

I fully gave in to the dark side four years ago when I took this job after finishing migrating a large site from Netware to Windows. To this day I still miss Zenworks for workstation management, GPP on steroids...

Netware 6.0 worked (apart from the awful ds.nlm that shipped with it that tore holes in NDS if your timesync was off and the NSS module that made a mess of traditional file stores if you ran NSSMU on an existing volume....) but when Netware 6.5 was released it was a much more feature rich product, and I'm still aware of a couple of small businesses to this day that are happily running NW65SP8

Off the top of my head:- DSRepair DSMerge Config DSTrace NWConfig VRepair TCPCon Plus NWAdmin32 and ConSLOW1 for the admin and Client32 on the Win95 workstations I agree Groupwise was a great product especially combined with Novell Instant Messenger, and also BorderManager as the firewall Still got several of the t-shirts, jumpers, laptop cases, suitcase from back in the day when companies had bottomless corporate entertainment budgets

Yep, exactly the same settings here with a 5s timeout and "Do not use recursion for this domain" unticked. Andrew

Just to help with your troubleshooting, I've just checked Windows Updates going through the SWGfL proxy on my 2012 servers and no issues or hangs Andrew

According to the 14 day forecast for my area it's not going to be less than 28C until the 26th July. Hopefully the air-con in my server room will continue to keep my Diet Cokes nice and cold....

Takes me back to the good old days when I was a MCNE and used to be flown out to Utah and San Jose at Novell's expense to attend Brainshare and NDA events... Used to have 30 servers over 7 sites running Netware 5, 6.0 and 6.5, rock solid OS, hardly ever gave me any problems. Servers used to be up for years without being touched etc

Rule of thumb. If you delete something, someone else will want a copy at some point.... Users are left on the system for 12 months but are disabled and visibility removed from the exchange lists. All data is archived after 12 months, users are deleted from AD but the data and .pst's are kept for another two years just in-case. Existing users home directories just roll-over until they leave which can be up to 7 years from the date of entry. Andrew

A nice fruit cake made for me by one of the teachers after I rescued their personal laptop from a bsod

Well I've just learned something today!!! Never knew you could do that...

You won't. Get_iplayer only has the PID's for programs broadcast on BBC TV or BBC Radio. I've yet to have any success trying to get embedded video out of a BBC web page. I will be watching this thread with interest though....

On the print server, open the printer in question, select Advanced and Print Processor and make sure it's set to "Winprint - Raw" I've seen numerous distribution problems with standard users when this is set to anything else Andrew