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I'm still rocking the 2003 forest and domain functionality. I was thinking of just raising them, do I go Forest then domain.. Does it matter? All 2012r2 DCs and a few 2008r2 members and 1 2008 server. Any troubles I should check for first?
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Senior ICT technician - @ £100 per day Senior ICT technician required for large secondary school/college in Huddersfield area. 2-3 month contract with a potential to go permanent. Supporting the Network Manager you will have previous schools network support experience and a clean enhanced CRB. Knowledge of 2003 server, XP, dhcp, DNS essential and ideally Moodle. Any knowledge of SIMS would be highly advantageous! Start mid August CV's to [email protected] -
One of my users (in fact the headmistress) told me today that all of her documents have disappeared from her ‘My Documents’ folder. Sure enough, they are not there on her machine, or on the server. Each user (on an XP machine) has their own ‘H:’ drive, which maps to their private area on the server (Windows 2003). By opening up the ‘My Documents’ folder, the private H: drive files can also be found. Is there any way that these files could have been misplaced somewhere else through some mappings or something? We have been having major issues with our backups recently so I have a bad feeling that I will not be able to restore all her files through a backup if it comes to that. Thanks for any advice.
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Hi, I am trying to create a macro that will collect information from particular cells in an Ecel spreadsheet (A) and copy and paste them into another spreadsheet (B). I can do this no problem, but the issue is that I want to run this same macro on a number of different spreadsheets, so that all the information get pasted into spreadsheet B. How can I do this so that the information selects the next available column or row to paste to, rather than always pasting into the same row, therefore replacing data or throwing out an error message?
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Hi everyone. In an attempt to expand my networking knowledge, I'm currently trying to setup a Windows 2003 network virtually, with one server and two XP Pro clients. I've installed Windows Server 2003 Standard and setup Active Directory and DNS. However I can't join the clients to the server, i've tried changing IP addresses, and making sure the virtual machine has the networking set (i.e. bridged/local). I'm not entirely sure what I need. All I want is a functioning server, which clients can join and I can administer my own domain, trying out different bits and bobs etc. Any help would much be appreciated.
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Hi all, I have a problem at a few of my schools, when they open up their office template some of the pictures are not displaying. All you get is a the black box with the little red cross in the corner. It seems to be profile related. On profiles it works for it will work on all computers and on profiles it doesn't work for it doesn't work on all computers. Just wondered if anyone had seen this before and if so what did they do to fix it. Thanks Spencer
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Hi All, I'm about to do the Domain Controller + DHCP and DNS role transfer from Windows Server 2003 Std. R2 SP2 into Windows Server 2008 Std. R2 SP 1, is there anything that i should be careful about ? Here's the current AD Domain details: Domain Functional Level: Windows 2000 Native (since there is Samba Server) ServerA: DC + 1st DNS + DHCP (this will be decommissioned) - Windows Server 2003 x86 R2 SP2 ServerB: DC + 2nd DNS + All FSMO Role + Exchange Server 2007 SP1 - Windows Server 2003 x64 R2 SP2 I'm afraid if there is any incompatibilities in running Windows Server 2008 R2 with Server 2003 then I could not restore the Server A from backup image (Acronis True Image backup). Any kind of help in how to run Server 2008 R2 as a DC in Windows 2003 domain side-by-side would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Albert -
Hi, I've got a Macro assigned to a button on a form which is a query output. When the user clicks on the button it reads a value from a field and subtracts 150. It puts the new value back into that field. I have done this with a Macro The Macro looks like this: GoToControl Points Balance SetValue [Forms]![frm_qry_choose_gift]![Point Balance], [Forms]![frm_qry_choose_gift]![Point Balance]-150 I'm looking to get some sort of conditional rule in there which reads the users points value and if they have less than 150 runs another Macro (or stops this Macro) that tells them they cannot continue. Can anyone offer advice getting the conditional rule in there? I could use code but for this scenario it has to be a macro. The pseudocode I want to follow is: runMacro If button1 is clicked then read guest_points if guest_points is less than 150 then run errormessageMacro else continue running the subtraction and field update to remove 150 points. Any help is appreciated, Many thanks Gareth
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Hello I'm making a batch script to do backups on a Windows 2003 server, and a key part of it is getting the day name (Mon, Tue, Wed etc) using the date /t command (as below). The script works perfectly on Windows 2000, but when ran on 2003, all I get is dd/mm/yyy - no day name. for /f "Tokens=1-4 Delims= " %%i in ('date /t') do set dayname=%%i Anyone know how/where to get the day name in 2003 please? Thankyou!
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I know from the title this is going to sound like a total PEBKAC question but it's got me stumped... We upgraded an environment to Server 2016 / W10 / Office 2016 from Server 2008 / W7 / Office 2007 One or two users complained of a text disappearing in their word docs (which upon inspection were 97-03 format). When they had a table (with text in each cell) and a cell in the middle of the table was split the text in the cell directecly next to it (to the right) disappeared and also the cell became unclickable see here for an example So my first thoght was let me see if I can make it do it, So I copied the doc to my laptop (also on word 2016) and opened it, and it displayed everything just fine. these laptops are all pretty fresh (built with MDT a few weeks ago) One teacher mentioned that it also displayed fine on another teachers laptop but I didnt see this happen so not the most reliable of sources. what are your recommdations with how to proceed here? Should I rebuild the laptop? (files are all redirected so it wouldnt take very long at all) -
Good Morning All, Is it possible to create program sets on a Windows Server 2003 R2 Vanilla network, Like in RM CC3 and CC4, you can use the RMMC to create program sets which will appear on the users all programs list. The reason I want to do this is so the resources I assign to users are organized in the correct subject folder. Can this be done via gpo? Thanks Guys, Superaz300 -
I'm having a huge problem with a Windows 2003 R2 Server and so far none of the fixes I've found online has helped. Some time ago the server stopped being able to run any of the scheduled tasks (around the time the SIMS.Net SQL platform was moved from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008 Server). I have binned all the tasks, and also removed the files in the c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\S-1-5-18\ folder and rebooted (as has been suggested elsewhere) but the problem remains. If I try and create a scheduled task I receive the following error: Error 0x80070005: Access is denied If I examine the Scheduled Tasks log file the following is shown: 0x8004130f: No account information could be found in the Task Scheduler security database for task indicated I'm absolutely pulling my hair out here as the backups aren't running anymore (amongst loads of other things I need to run!). I'm doing everything via the adminstrator account so although I feel it must be some sort of permissions issue I'm totally stumped :-( Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Dan. -
Hi, Has anyone actually used Truecrypt to encrypt their MS Windows 2003 servers running CC3? If so: Did you have any issues, or in hindsight - steps to be taken before encryption took place (excluding making backups)? Was there any slowdowns greater than say, 5 - 10% in performance? What effect (if any) has/could happen if the RAID failed ie; a single HDD failure? Restoring data - if the server has to be built from ground up - any known issues? I appreciate your help and contributions.. -
Hi I am thinking about upgrading from IE7 to IE8 with Server 2003 - but does anyone know if Polreg.msi will still work - I had some problems which I had to overcome, but it is great being able to do registry changes via Group Policy.
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Hi, I know there are millions of issues on here and the rest of the net about this but wondering if anyone has this same issue: We have always had issues with our 2600n Printers on 2003. However after messing around with bi-directional, print processor etc they do work - all 18 of them!! However now it comes to migrating to server 2008 R2 and the problem comes back to haunt us. I have tried pretty much every driver in every installation method and still no luck. The Windows 7 USB driver crashes explorer every time I print, the vista drivers don't install. Anyone have any ideas?
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Hello, Been having a bit of a nightmare with our Exchange 2003 server. The story begins like this: Over the last couple of weeks some emails sent to external recipients have not been arriving, not all of them just some randomly it seems. When checking the exchange message tracking, it tells me that the message has been transferred to the appropriate server via SMTP. So I thought I do some more checking to make sure, ran smtpdiag on the server, that came back all ok. Ran the online exchange connectivity tester, that was all ok. Ran a check to make sure our server wasn't blacklisted, nope that was fine too. As a last resort I rebooted the server last night. When I came in the next morning I was greeted by several people asking why they had lots of NDR message's, some of them dating back to November. To my surprise the messages that the message tracking had told me were delivered had actually not been delivered! When I checked the message tracking again, the results contained some extra lines with yesterdays date duplicating the sending process again with a NDR at the end! My questions are: Does anyone have an idea what happened? Why did the message tracking lie? Is the any method to guarantee a notification to whether a message has been delivered or not as NDR's did not work on this occasion. Tim
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hello all, just a quick one sorry if its been posted cant find it, i have just done a new image and each time a user logs in for the first time it requires to run the setup for about 2 mins, is there anyway to disable this or even hide it, thanks all liam
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I am beginning to upgrade my terminal servers to Server 2003 x64 so that I can get as much out of them as possible - XenApp is supposedly super optimised for x64. Anyway, the problem I can see myself having is that my redirected desktop and start menu shoretcuts won't necessarily point to the right location. For instance apiece of software on 32-bit Windows might sit in 'C:\Program Files\School Program' whilst on x64 Windows it sits in 'C:\Program Files (x86)\School Program'. What's going to be the easiest way to sort this?
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This is a nightmare that I want you all to share... One of the schools that we assist had 4 new DL380's last summer. They have been running sweetly for about 9 months. One, a dual quad Sims Server had been sitting virtually idle for the last 9 months whilst the DM played with the various upgrades etc ready for a full roll out at easter. They installed BackupExec on it and restarted, it hung on restart and displayed "Attempt" in the top left corner of the screen. I won't bore you with the technicals HP spent hours with us and remoted in from India using iLO2 and determined that there was nothing wrong with the hardware. The word "Attempt" is actually just the hardware hung at "Attempting to Boot from ...." The OS cant recognise the boot sector correctly as this has been trashed. So we decided as the database was safe on the second raid volume we would just reinstall the OS and refresh the SQL install - Good practise for the DM anyway. All good server recovered and they continued testing SIMs and SQL on it. Last Weds the school called again, this time another DL380 is showing the same error! This time it's a DC. 2 New HP DL380's turned to toast in 3 weeks! Wait... When we arrive on site (within 30 mins I might add) we are now told another server is stuck on a boot screen with just a flashing cursor! Another DC has gone down... But wait.... this is an Intel 2400 SATA Server! So suddenly the Hardware suspicions are no longer valid. So the DR plan kicks into play.... What's a DR Plan???? say's the NM Where are the backups, on a single 800GB DLT which takes about 9Hrs to run! This connected to the old Intel 2400 thats now dead! Fortunately I have a spare HP PCIx SCSI card in the car, so we can connect the tape unit directly to the target DC great! An authorative DS restore looks like the only way out of this mess, so after about 2 hours cataloging the tape (As the Veritas DB and catalogs are on the other dead server). Low and behold, there are no files to restore in the system state! Inconsistent data error. S**T, now we are in trouble.... Whilst battling with the tapes and recovery we are building the OS's again on the other failed server hello we said, where have all the desktop shortcuts gone on the other HP? The one we were hoping to transfer the remaining DC roles from... The services are all running but now the 3rd DC is about to die! WTF!!! In 48 Hrs all 8 Servers have failed, all with identical symptoms! The first you notice is the shortcuts, when these go you have just lost all of the file association section of HK_Classes_Root To accompany this everything under HKLM_Hardware disappears together along with a huge chunk of HKLM\System\CCS\System On the next boot your server and if you are unlucky your AD is History. I am writing this as so far neither HP, Microsoft or Sophos have a clue whats going on. The site has lost everything apart from it's data, all of that remains untouched. This is a virus like activity that in 20 years of Networking I have never seen. The entire domain has been rebuilt from the ground up some servers time! We made it through the weekend, and thing were looking good until about 11:00 am today when the newly built DC died with exactly the same symptoms. We yanked the plug on the core switch and isolated all of the servers from each other. So where do we go from here! I have lost the plot entirely. This like an episode of "HOUSE". Sophos has not detected anything disasterous some lightweight email viruses in the users home folder thats all. So what's is the common denominator..... The OS Server 2003 R2 SP2 Sophos These are the ONLY two components common to all 8 failures What on earth has the ability to blow identical holes in 8 system registries in the same places on 8 different servers? I have no concrete evidence yet, but after such a traumatic experience the school techies have been scanning work stations with the SAV standalone Linux tools and have cleaned up a whole rake of viruses including some conficker strains. Sophos has the following disinfection options: "Do Nothing" "Delete" "Move to quarantine" "Move to a central location" Well, it appears that the correct option for your servers is to "Do Nothing". When pushed, as to why we should not use the "Delete" option I have been told that "I don't want to do that". "It's not recommended" Why I ask? Because I believe that a false positive might result in the AV application trying to delete critical systems files or registry keys thats why! I can't explain any other possible reasons this is H1N1 for servers! I have had to make changes to the AV policies so that a system area scan is a light tickle and the user areas are agressively purged. I know that Sophos watch this board so I am being very careful what I say, but I am now most concerned that if you are a Sophos user and you have the "wrong" but "logically obvious settings" you may be in danger of following in my footsteps. I will update this thread as we make headway (or not) as the case may be. But any input however bizzare regarding the identical registry damage across 8 servers over 2 builds I would be keen to hear of them. In the mean time I think a review of your AV agressiveness on your system areas such as \Windows\NDTS, \Windows\system32\config is in order I have seen similar reports of Server Boot issues after updates recently but nothing on this scale. I have not been beaten by M$ in 20 years, but now I am worried.....
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Hi all, first time post! Apologies if this is a common question, I just can't find an answer I can comprehend fully. Basically I have just taken an ICT role in a school and have a snag, I had no real hand over going into the role so am a little unfamiliar with the networks I'm workign with. I have a "classroom" network/domain which is 192.168.1.X, it has two domain controllers/servers running 2008 R2 I have an "admin" network/domain which is 10.49.202.X it has one domain controler/server running 2003 Both networks access the internet through a Forefront server using 192.168.1.252 and 10.49.202.231 respectively. The servers on their relevant networks have some shared folders as you'd imagine, basically, how can I allow machines on my "admin" network to access a staff share on my "classroom" network? I've seen a great deal about VPN's, FTP Servers and Routing tables, but nothing definitive to sink my teeth into. Any help at all massively appreciated.
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Hey guys, Just wondering if anyone has a script to uninstall outlook 2003? unfortunately, it was installed via a .exe not MSI, so msiexec does not seem to work. I only want to uninstall outlook 2003, not the whole office suite. Just would need a script to put as a logon script!. Regards, ITman93
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Hi, We are preparing to move all of our mail boxes from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010. I have noticed that if you click on your name in the top right corner of OWA 2010 you get the option to "Open Other Mailbox", and if you right click your name above your inbox in the left pane you see "Open Other User's Inbox". Is there anyway to hide/remove these options? I know that they do not work unless you give the user access to another mail box, but I would like to hide them anyway. Is this possible? Thanks in advance, Daniel
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Hi All, Now I can't seem to find a definitive answer, or maybe I'm just not looking hard enough. I have read through alot of threads though. But anyway, here is the question: Can you use WDS on a Windows 2003 Server to install Windows 7? Cheers Tom
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Hi everyone, I'm new to the forum but i've been reccomended the site several times by a few people now. After spending much of the morning trying to sort this out and searching here and other forums for suggestions i've decided its time to give up and beg for help I have a Windows 2003 server with about 100 or so pupils and about 20 staff profiles. The user folders are set up as follows, D:\UserGroups\PupilWork\09\username\ All of the 'username' folders are shared (eg. \\server\username$) which is working fine, however I need to be able to share the 'PupilWork' folder aswell, so I've mapped it to drive V:, The staff accounts (all in an OU called staff) can access it no problem but when I try to access it with a pupils account (all in an OU called Pupils) It comes up "V:\ is not accessible. Access is denied" The folder permissions for usergroups, PupilWork, 09 and username currently state that everyone has full control. Would anybody have any idea what I'm doing wrong? Many Thanks and sorry if its not worded that clearly. Ju
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Hi all I wondered if anyone can help with the fact I have got to move an installation of Phoenix Gold from our old server (Server1) to our new server (Server2) I have no problems with installing the clients icon install etc but just wondered if anyone has gone through it already ! Many thanks in advance Kevin
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