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hi all our wsus 2008 server will not download the wsus updates, any ideas. Thanks

When using my laptop on domain, everything is tickety-boo. Go home and log in and no desktop background, no shortcuts working on taskbar or on Start Menu. And MS Outlook will not open. Any ideas on what I have wrong with roaming profiles? All laptops are the same so it is not a CSC issue (I think). Windows XP has none of these issues. Only my W7 machines. As I am entirely phasing out XP, I need a solution. Any ideas? Anyone? Did not set up this domain environment but, Folder redirection and roaming profiles look in place. Thanks in advance.

I have been having some problems (lots) with a pair of mirrored disks. These hold our user folders. I replaced one of the disks, and still have a few messages "at risk" etc. Is there an easy way I can copy off the information and user shares etc to another set of mirrored disks? (It is hard to get non-Advanced Format disks now, I would like to be able to set up on two new Advanced Format disks. The current mirror is of course a dynamic volume which doesn't make things any easier.

Hi, I've been given the task of rolling out Active Directory and Server 2008 across our multiple education sites. These are small Adult Education centres. At the moment, these use a minimum of network resources. We have a Win 2008 server at on site which hosts the shared folders and does the backups. At the same site, I'll be introducing a AD server. However this will create a single point of failure. Loosing connection to this site means that all the remote sites will loose their ability to contact the Domain Controller. So I want to put in at least one, maybe two secondary DCs at the various sites. However we don't have money for any extra servers...... So. The Million Dollar Question is, is there any reason why I couldn't install Win SErver 2008 on an ordinary PC and use that as a backup DC? The minimum spec is certainly fine. But anyother reason why not? I'd value your thoughts. Thanks for your help!

I got bored today so converted the old adm files that shutdownertron uses to the new admx format. Copy the contents of the zip file to your \\server\sysvol\domain.com\policies\policydefinitions folder. You should get shutdownertron in the list of admin templates by itself and no longer under classic templates Apologies if this has already been done by someone else but I could find it in a search Shutdownertron-admx-1.3.3214.zip

Hi all, I've just been asked by the SLTs to ask everyone what networking server system they are running so here goes in the wonderful poll format-

We have Sanako Study 1200 and are starting to use more adn more of the functions. There is an option for the teacher to collect the files the students are working on. For this I understand that there needs to be a share on the network where students have write permissions. To minimise abuse I'm going to make it a hidden share but I'd also like to stop them listing the files/reading files from the share so they don't start dumping thousands of mp3s in there to share. Does anyone have any ideas on this? My thoughts are to give them read permissions and write but not read and execute or list folder contents. The client is set to save files to a UNC path set in the tutor software on the tutors PC. Teachers then copy these files out. To keep it tidy I could wipe the data out every night. Any ideas? Anyone done anything like this? ChrisJ

Hello, I've just installed Windows 7 64-bit and applied all updates (took me an eternity) including SP1. Joined it to our domain using the Network ID wizard. Restarted. Computer boots up and is joined to domain. Computer appears in our All Computers OU properly named. I log on and all drives are mapped... ...but when i run a gpupdate /force from the command line it tells me: The processing of Group Policy failed. Windows could not resolve the computer name. This could be caused by one of more of the following: a) Name resolution failure on the current Domain controller b) Active Directory Replication Latency (an account created on another domain controller has not replicated to the current Domain controller) We don't have another domain controller. Does anyone know why the Computer Configuration settings from Group Policy aren't being applied? It's applying the User Config settings... We are running 2008 R2 as our Domain Controller

As you may know (if you've been following my posts) that over the summer we switched to a 2k8 Domain/DCs. In a continuation of that migration we are in the process of building a w2k8 print server on our VMware box. Prior to this we used Ric's Printer Scripts to install and deploy printers on a per user basis. However we are interested in using the new GPO functionality to deploy printers on a per user/machine basis. I am already aware of the fact that this method of printer deployment isn't suitable for thin clients. We plan on retaining Ric's Printer Scripts for our Citrix infrastructure. So my question is, has anyone done this? Are there any pitfalls I should know about?

Hi I was wondering if anyone was backing hyper-v up and if they have any solutions to do it. I currently run manualish backups on the server using windows server backup but we really need a full solution that does not cost the earth. I am looking at Backup exec but the hyper-v agent is £1000 per server and we would need to 2 as we run a cluster. Anyone got any solutions they are using? Cheers

Hi I work in a school and we have two networks curriculum domain and the admin domain. Untill today i've been able to just add the admin users to curriculum folder permission to allow them access. I've come back from holiday and admin staff no longer have access. I checked the sharing a security and instead of it saying "admin 13" it just has unknown account followed by the SID, I am however able to remote into the curriculum server from an admin machine. Is this an easy one to sort out? The curriculum server is running 2003 and the admin is running 2008 if that would make any difference. Any help would be great

Hi All, Currently I'm backing up a small server using Windows Server Backup, it creates a VHD for each partition and I can mount each one in Windows 7 Pro if I need to restore a file, happy days I'm wondering if I can use those VHD's to create a Virtual Machine of the server running on a Windows 7 Pro host? So far I've tried to create a virtual machine, adding each VHD as a hard disk in VirtualPC settings but I keep getting "Insert suitable media" messages Any help gratefully received

Hi guys, I've got a fault in a school that I've posted over on serverfault but not getting very far: Terminal server logs off users after 5 minutes - Server Fault Perhaps some of you have come across the problem already. The basics are that we have mixed 2003 and 2008 terminal servers. The 2003 servers are fine, but 2008 always kick off users after 5 minutes. We have removed mandatory profiles in case the v2 profiles were at the root of it, but also it gave quicker logons. I originally thought that this happened for staff only, but we've since found a domain admin with the same problem. Here is how the sessions look while a staff member is logging on: No "errors" as such, just information that the user is being logged off. No event log events created on the host at all. Anyone here had a similar problem? Thanks

I have Web Server 2008 running as a VM on VMWare. I've entered the MAK key and when I try to activate it, the Windows Activation gives me the error code 0x8004FE2F. The event log shows Security-Licensing-SLC event ID 8200: License acquisition failure details. hr=0x8004FE2F and:- Security-Licensing-SLC event ID 1008: Acquisition of Secure Processor Certificate failed. hr=0x8004FE2F Googling doesn't turn up much, apart from setting the proxy details manually in IE, which I've done. We don't have KMS. The only other option is to try phoning MS, but that's an ordeal. Any ideas? Thanks.

Hey again, Weird issue - never seen this before. I have an HP color laserjet 1500L networked via an external jetdirect card (175X model I believe). When I go to add the printer on my server 2008 box in printer management, and load the driver for the printer, I get the following: (from mmc.exe) function addrss 0x1000b994 caused a prot. fault excep code 0xc0000005 some or all property pages may not be displayed Thinking it was a corrupt driver, I redownloaded and reinstalled - no luck. Tried downloading the universal PCL 6 driver - it loads in fine, but does not actually print anything to the printer. Using the correct 1500L throws the error whenever you open the property page for the printer, on the server, and also does not print. I'm thinking it may be an issue with the driver (which is dated 2003) and with server 2008. But I can't be the only other person using these....any ideas? Thanks as always!

We have a DFS share replicated over two servers, just recently we have noticed that folders in which Word or Excel files are stored are beginning to fill up with TMP files all with random 8-digit names, 3B0EE95E.tmp. These files are present on both servers so do appear to be replicated over, but where are they coming from? Does anyone have any suggestions? They never get deleted, so just build up. My theory is that when an Office file is edited, it creates it's TMP file, which is replicated across to the other server. When Office is closed, the TMP on the original server gets deleted, but then the other server replicates its own one back across. I'm very new to DFS, but does this sound feasible?

Hello. I have limited IT knowledge. My MT4 trading platform (software app for commodities trading) cannot establish a connection with the associated servers. I have the basic VPS package through VPS9. I have installed the app multiple times, reinstalled OS, disabled firewall, all to no avail. Please advise. Thanks much!!

Anybody else having issues with the Microsoft provided HP Laserjet PCL 5 drivers? I just spun up a new 2008 print server in a VM and created the ques by hand (old print server was borked, so using the migration tool was not an option). Everything seems to work fine, but I've started getting some complaints from my users. Apparently they can print, but only one copy at a time. If they submit a job to the printer, and specify two or more copies, only the first will print. There are no errors in the print que when finished, and this only effects HP printers using the MS PCL 5 driver. After digging around, I found that it's a feature called Mopier Mode that is causing this. If the printer has sufficient memory to store the entire print job, only one copy will be sent to the printer to cut down on network traffic. It sounds like a good idea in theory, but the problem is the printer's installed options are being detected incorrectly. When the printer is added, the installed memory is reported as 128MB, a printer hard disk and duplex unit are listed as being installed, and it believes there is nine paper trays. The vast majority of these printers are Laserjet 1200 and 1300 series printers, and they all have 8MB of RAM. To make matters more interesting, the smallest amount of memory you can specify is 128MB. Color Laserjet 4600s are also effected, but there is a PCL6 driver available for those printers. When switching over to it the installed options are detected correctly, and Mopier Mode is turned off by default. So everything is peachy with PCL6. Problem is, there is no PCL6 capable driver for the 1200/1300 lasers for Windows 7/2008 Server from MS. The only option is the universal print driver from HP, and I've had nothing but issues with that. That is why I'm on an MS only provided driver kick. So my short term solution is to disabled Mopier Mode on all the 1200/1300 printers. It fixes the issue, but I'd like to fix the underlying cause of the installed printer options being misreported. Anyone else been down this road?