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Hi, We have setup a radius server on Windows 2008 r2 and smoothwall express 3.0 we want to use radius auth on smooth wall and so set that up. How ever when we try and go thru smoothwall it challenges us for the username and password as it is meant to do but then it keeps on challenging us time and time again and then denies access to smoothwall. It as if the user name and password are in correct, however when we set up a radius test on our ruckus controller(it has a radius test feature) it works. Is there something we are missing to do? Is smoothwall express and win2008r2 not happy together? Do we need to MOD smoothwall in another way? Thanks in advance Stuart
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[sims] SIM.ini problem - cannot be located or is incomplete
marsdenprimary posted a topic in MIS Systems
Hi, We are upgrading our admin system machines here at school and instead of forking out over £1000 for Oneconnect to come in and upgrade them from XP to Windows 7, I thought i'd do it myself. All gone well except installing SIMS and FMS! SIMS is on our server. Gone into our S: drive, sims setups, found the SIMSInst file but that doesn't work- it says the 'Infrastructure is missing' so i tried the SIMS Application setup. All went well but on launching it, it says: The SIMS.ini file cannot be located or is incomplete which means the system cannot be automatically updated. What is going wrong? Help very much appreciated! xx -
Hi, I am having a problem with a pair of our servers both are 2008 R2 SP1 , the are used by student to run programming software through the RDP system and RD Web, they are set to pick up mandatory profiles from another one of our DC servers. Which works they get the profile the issue is that they never update. E.G. I made a change to the profile to include links to a new program set so I changed and updated the location of the mandatory profile. If a new user logs on they get the full program set if a users who has been through the process before opens the program set they only see there existing options, they can load the software if you direct them through the drive to it so the issue seems to be caching of the mandatory profile. Now on a work station normally at this point I would go to the C:/ and clear out all the store users information. But as these are running on the server and this it now critical to the curriculum , I really don't want to do this. Without being sure that it will resolve the issue not make it worse. Any suggestion? Your help would be much appreciated.
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I am setting up a backup strategy for our SIMS SQL2008 server. Am currently using the SIMS scripts to do it which is fine, but I want less data loss in the event of a failure so am putting in transaction log backups every hour (maybe 2). My question is this, which dbs do I need to backup to ensure a complete restoration is possible without loss of login usernames/passwords (this happened to us once when the server went belly up and was a nightmare). Currently setting maintenance tasks to backup the following: sims solus3_deployment_server (discover when I actually deploy it) Do I need to also back up all/any of the following? master model msdb tempdb
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Hi All, Have been experiencing some strange issues with one of our Servers a HP Proliant ML350 running 2008, it randomly switches off and starts up again. This isn't a clean shutdown and happens mainly at night, in fact its only happened twice or there about in the last 6 months during the day, but has happened 19 times during the night in the same period. Checking event viewer / system logs I'm left with "The previous system shutdown at 05:06:51 on 24/10/2011 was unexpected." looking at all other logs there is non that are even close to the shutdown times. After this, last Thursday during the night the server switched off but this time was stuck on a blank screen with "internal health problem" and "external (power supply) health problem" I was unaware of the internal health LEDs so didn't check but switching the UPS off and back on and the server booted fine. This is the first time its done this so as you can understand - quite worried! Checked temperature both with software and a temp probe. It seems to be fine, nothing over 40 degrees. All fans are running. Everything is working OK even when the server is under load. There is no scheduled tasks, but as I said before the times are completely random. I was thinking it could be a UPS problem but there is another server attached to this which doesn't reboot, and its just had a new battery. So any ideas what I could check or do? Cheers!
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Greetings, We are looking at migrating to 2008 Server this summer in order to run Windows 7 with full functionality. Its the first time i have personally done something like this and I need some advice please. I have 2 x 2003 server standard domain controllers, call them DC01 & DC02 It seems that all the FSMO roles are on DC01. DNS is installed on both servers while DHCP is installed on DC01. I want to keep DC01 as the main domain controller as its the higher spec server of the two. My main questions are.. 1. Is Server 2003 upgradeable to 2008 or will it need a re-install. 2. Assuming it is upgradeable it is possible to do it in-situ without having to move roles, demote, remove, upgrade, promote. Are there any pit falls and what is the procedure for a process like this? 3. If it isnt possible to upgrade and a reinstall is in order, whats the procedure for moving roles, demoting and re promoting. Will i still keep policies and all the other settings we currently have. 4. Is it possible to have a back up of the server in case this goes horribly wrong? Many thanks for any help you can give! James
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Hello all, I have a strange strange problem that I can't find a solution to on the internet. We have just setup a new 2008 domain, all member servers are 2k8. All client machines are win7. However, all clients are registering a forward lookup, but nothing for the reverse. DHCP is set to Dynamically update DNS A and PTR records and to discard when lease is deleted. As a test, I have set group policy to tell the clients to manually register their PTR in computer configuration > Administrative templates > Network > DNS Client > Register PTR Record but this hasn't worked either. In the (A) record, Update associated pointer is ticked. There is also nothing in the DNS event logs, so I am at a loss as to what could be causing this issue. Has anyone had experience of this issue?
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Dear all, I've recently set up 2 windows servers, running server 2008. At the login screen after your press CTRL ALT DEL it used to give the format: **OurDomainName\Administrator e.g. mydomain\Administrator However now it's for some reason giving the format: **OurFullyQualifiedDomainName\Administrator e.g. mydomain.internal\Administrator Being relatively new to windows server 2008, any help or advice would be greatly appreciated as to why this has suddenly changed. Many Thanks.
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Hi all, Looking for something that I can either intergrate to GP managment or something that is already built in that will act as a change control. Whether this be something that compares the old GP and then writes a text file detailing all of the changes that have been made and the date on which they were made, or if you get a pop up box (like is Microsoft Firewall Client) that asks you to detail your changes. Any ideas? Kind Regards Tom
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Dear all, I currently maintain a CC3 network at a secondary school, however we are in the process of planning the move to a standard Vanilla network. Could anyone lend any advice or tips on the following: - * Whats the best way to move the students work/profiles? * Is there a way of beginning this network change if we use a different subnet mask and IP range? What is the best way of getting our new servers up and running without them conflicting with our current DCs? * Should DNS/DHCP be installed on all of the new servers or just the Forrest Root (4 servers in total) * Is there a 'proper' way to set up IP addresses and Subnets or can we be quite free with what we choose? Any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks.
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Hi, My DC running Server 2008R2 has crashed big time! The disc, which was in RAID mirror mode, is unbootable. However, I can remove the disc and access all the files. I have a "bare metal" backup but this won't restore. The server is flaky even if I re-install a clean copy of Server 2008R2, so I suspect a hardware fault. I have ordered a new server but if the backup doesn't work (I suspect it is corrupt) then I have no option but to start from scratch. I am inclined to install Server 2012R2 in this case, but is there any way of extracting the data/info for DHCP, DNS, AD & GPO from the old 2008 (non-bootable) disc? Or do I have to accept that I need to start from scratch and re-build the GPOs, AD and DHCP? The school have been without their data for 3 days now :-( Dave
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Hello I am having a problem with GPMC. This started about a week ago. When I click on my GPMC I get this error. I have google'd and checked all the settings (DNS, AD settings) Thoughts... suggestions..... Thanks!
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Hello everyone, Just joined this forum after seeing it's probably the only place on the net with info about CC3 migrations! I've read through several posts on here and they've been helpful but I was hoping someone could give a little further info. I'm currently in the process of migrating a school with a 2003 server (CC3) to Windows 2008 R2 server, and trying to remove the RM software from 30-40 XP machines while joining 60 or so Windows 7 laptops to the Domain. The steps I've taken so far are: 1. Install 2008 R2 on new server 2. Updated Forest Functional Level from 2000 to 2008 3. Join to domain as DC 4. Allowed everything to sync up between the two servers 5. Transferred all FSMO roles to the new server. 6. Transferred DHCP to the new server. I'm now getting ready to completely remove all RM software and the CC3 server from the network, but before I do, could someone shed some light on the following? 1. Do I need to re-create GPO from scratch? (Already done this, just not enabled at the moment) 2. All client computers in the network have an RM login screen, what is the fastest and safest way to remove this? On the none RM side of things, there are a lot of file shares on the 2003 server, along with printers. I was looking into DFS as I would very much like to keep the old 2003 server as a member server incase of trouble with the new 2008 R2 server. How do you go about mapping normal network shares into DFS shares? And with printers, is there an easier way than just installing all the printers on the new server? I'm trying to read my PowerShell V2 book to find ways to script this, but I'm rather new to scripting and I have quite a deadline. Any help anyone could provide would be great. Even the smallest pointers and suggestions might move things along nicely! Thanks very much, Giles.
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Hello everyone, Unfortunately, we suffered a massive network failure a few days ago which meant that we lost many virtual servers, including SIMS, Tucasi, Eclipse, Sharepoint as well as a few others. We have managed to get SIMS, Tucasi and Eclipse back up and running by restoring from backups. However, I haven't got a clue where to start with restoring Sharepoint 2010. The databases have been backed up onto our DPM 2012 box and I have now re-created a new VM to host the sharepoint site. Currently, I have installed SQL 2008 R2, Sharepoint 2010 and all updates. How do I go about restoring the databases to get this sharepoint site back up and running as soon as possible? Do I have to create a new site collection and create fresh databases, which I then restore over with the backed up databases? Finally, another problem is that the majority of the databases on the DPM box will only restore to the same SQL instance as before. I have setup SQL with the same instance name, but I am unable to restore the databases because the DPM agent is not installed on this new VM. I am reluctant to install the agent at the minute just in case it causes the backed up databases to get written over therefore, losing our information. I hope that the above makes sense to someone and any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. J.Worth.
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Hi All I'm having few issues getting sysvol to replicate after I dcpromo a server 2008 machine into a 2003 domain, but having no problems with replication if I dcpromo another 2003 machine into the domain. I have noticed that the link folders within Sysvol (2008 machine) are incorrect, and folder linking path is incorrect, but 2003 is spot on. I've changed the paths using HardLinkShellExt_win32.exe, to rectify the link folder problem, but still no replication..... help:confused:, Any idea's? Thanks in advance
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We have been running RIS since I started here a good number of years ago, but after upgrading my domain controllers to windows server 2008 ent, we have been receiving the following error on RIS down; "The user you have specified is not permitted to join the machine to the domain. Would you like to proceed for now and try and join the domain later" If you click no, and then re-enter the same username and password that you used to start the RIS session it will join fine. I have tried the following: New images Blank Windows Image Different Accounts e.g. domain Administrator New RIS server Google All to no help, the RIS server is still running 2003 server as we are still using RIS image and don’t want to use the new style images. Any help would be great,
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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 think that this is the right place for this, as its a bit of a Photoshop problem and a bit of a windows problem as well as a server problem. The problem we are having is that when a user tried to open an image in Photoshop that is stored in the users home drive, they are receiving the following message. "Could not complete your request as it is not the right type of document" This error appears when using the file > open menu, when dragging the image into Photoshop and when using open with in windows explorer. This error does not appear when using the file > open as menu in Photoshop and the file opens without an issue. I have attempted various methods of fixing this issue and very few seem to have any effect. I have recreated the users profiles and work areas and tried without any policies applied and get the same issue. There are a few things that seem to work intermittently. When opening from a shared area (eg, student shared) the file works fine, no issues ever. When opening from a completely new home area, the file works for 1 or 2 users but no others (new home area is in the same location, just deleted old one and created new!). When opening form local C drive, the file works fine for everyone. I have also tried creating a completely new share and path and this seems to fix the problem, but is unfortunately not the best option when you have 750 students all with work in their areas. Copying it all over and redoing all of the permissions would take some time. The current share is, where work is the share: \\server\work\year\username (Path on Server: \\server\e$\students\work) The new share is, where work2 is the share: \\server\work2\year\username (Path on Server: \\server\e$\students\work2) Both have the exact same permissions and setup, the only difference is the 2 in the share name. Yet the net share works and the old does not. To test this I have copied a students area from the old share into the new one, re-linked the share to the user in AD and all works perfectly. This leads me to believe that somewhere along the \work\year\username path something is wrong. I have checked permissions, effective permissions for users share permissions, hidden files and for anything else that appears to be different between the new share and old and have found nothing, they are both the exact same, apart from one having a 2 in the name! The operating system we use is Windows 7 and Server 2008R2. The home area is setup as \\server\work\year\username\(this is the my documents folder, not library, my pictures ect has been remapped to the my documents using folder redirection.) If anyone has any ideas what could be causing this, any help would be greatly appriciated as I seem to be unable to find a fix to this apart from recreating the share. Thanks for any help! Joe
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I seem to recall there was talk of a client pack for XP to enable some/all of the new features that 2008 allows. Does anyone know if this has been released yet, and if so what's the download URL?
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Hi all, I hope someone can help me. I am currently trying to deploy some shared printers via group policy using Server 2008. I have a printer attached to a local machine called ART-10. I have added this onto the server, sent a test page to it and it worked fine. I then deployed it to the relevant machines. The machines pick it up, but when something is sent to print to it, it fails without any explanation, it just says it 'failed to print'. I wondered if it was because I was using a printer attached to a local machine as opposed to a printer that is attached directly to the network with its own IP address. Therefore I am not sure of a workaround. It's definintely not a problem with how I have configured the printer, as it printer fine directly from the server. Thanks very much for any assistance.
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Hi, we are running Windows Server 2008 as our DC and are now starting to roll out Windows 7, as it is only Server 2008 some of the Administrative Templates are not there e.g. Personalisation... I have download the correct (I think!) ADMX files for Windows 7 but am not sure where to place them, we use the %SYSTEMROOT%/PolicyDefinitions for the templates currently but am unsure if that if I paste them into here it will overwrite the current one? Am I able to make a folder in %SYSTEMROOT%/PolicyDefinitions and place them in there and Group Policy Management will still pick them up, or have I got this wrong? The ADMX files I have got for Windows 7 came from 'C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions' from a Windows 7 Professional machine, are these the correct one? Thanks!
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Hi Foggy Edugeekers! Since switching to 2008 we've had a rough ride getting printer deployment working- we're still set on doing it 'properly' under AD but I'd also like to be able to do it via FOG as it seems like it is a damn sight simpler to achieve than doing it via AD however it isn't quite working properly right now. We are running FOG 0.31 under buntu 10.04.2 with a 2008 AD DC and trying to deploy printers to XP SP3 machines. I've setup my printers as per the FOG user guide and when I login to a machine set to have its printer deployed via FOG I choose 'refresh printers' from the FOG menu, FOG then tells me it has installed my printer although nothing appears under Printers and Faxes. If I then look under the printer server properties I can see that FOG has successfully created the required IP port AND installed the printer driver too so I'm at a loss as to why the printer doesn't actually come up. I've tried both 'Add printer' and 'Add and Remove' printers as both a regular unpriv user and a domain admin user with the same result. It would help if I knew where FOG reports any errors with printer deployment - I can't find that under the FOG management UI. Anyone got printers deploying via FOG with a similar setup?
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I've been trying to Install sql 2008 express edition on a 2008 SP1 x64 box and I'm having real difficulty. Everything passes ok except apparently the server needs a restart before installation can continue. I restart, and the same message appears prompting me to restart the server. I've had a look around and the main cause seems to be in: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\PendingFileRename Apparently deleting any entries here can solve the issue but they're not present on the server. Any ideas?
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Good morning fellow techs, I have a problem i hope you can help me with. I am currently updating a school server from 2003 R2 to 2008 R2. The staff laptops all redirect their my documents to the server in a location such as \\servername\users$\ on the old server. I have migrated the documents to the new server which will redirect to \\servername\staff$\%username%\Documents. On the clients we take them off the domain, rename the old profile to __OldUsername, we then join the new domain, login as the users. All seems to work well. We then reboot, login as the administrator, copy the __OldUsername profile over the top of new user profile. This includes the ntuser.dat. We reboot and everything seems to be ok accept for the folder redirection. I take the profile back to the old location, which i is held in the old ntuser.bat. I have tried editing the ntuser.dat but is like a minefield. Does anyone have any ideas of how to get around this issue? Thanks
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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?
