Windows 2012 Presentation at Spiceworld
As a sponsor of SpiceWorld, Microsoft is going to be holding a speaking session on Windows Server 2012. Because of this we have a very important question to ask. What do you want to get out of this...
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I have followed this technet article to the letter. It simply doesn't work. All I want to do is redirect my documents to a share on the server, have it create the folder automatically for new...
View ArticleNeed server advise for storage and DC?
Hello everyone, Just got a new job in another company and cleaning and setting up server side. I need few suggestions please guide. Total 30-50 employees, need to setup domain environment. I need to...
View ArticleEvent id 26 (Critical battery) on a virtualised guest os
I notice that one of our windows server 2003 std. which is a guest OS on a vmware esxi 4.1 host is reporting the following event log (see below) and I think it causes the server to shutdown the server...
View ArticleHow can I find out who dumped 40 GB of data onto network yesterday?
I just noticed our backup grew last night by 45 GB. Normally 5 Gb approx a night is the growth. I'm guessing somebody uploaded about 40 Gb of data and I want to figure out who it was. We use Windows...
View ArticleWindows Terminal Server 2012 Help
Hi all,We have just bought a new Windows Terminal 2012 Server and we are having a bit of trouble. I have installed remote desktop services and have created a RAP and CAP through the RD Gateway...
View ArticleRoaming Profiles - Load Balancing & My Docs - 1 x SBS 2011 + 3 x Server 2008 R2
OK So our setup is: 1 x SBS 2011 Std 3 x Server 2008 R2 We use roaming profiles and folder redirection to stop people saving files locally due to breakin's. The Server 2008 R2's have been joined to...
View ArticleDFS with Folder Redirection on Server 2008 R2
I've seen that Server 2008 has DFS, could I use 2 or 3 of my Server 2008 R2 machines with DFS and then use folder redirection into that folder? i.e. setup \DFS\UserData & \DFS\ProfileData which...
View ArticleEntry Level Windows Server
Hello All! I handle the IT for a small engineering firm. We have a mixed environment of Mac and Windows. I'm looking for recommendations on entry level windows servers. We have an older Xserve that's...
View ArticleP2V Server That is it own Domain
I've heard that it's not good to P2V Domain Controllers, but I have a Server it a Domain Controller and it's the only Server in it's Domain I have no idea why it's like this did not set it up. People...
View ArticleMigration of DHCP from WS2003R2 to WS2012
Hi there, I have to migrate the DHCP service from a Windows Server 2003 R2 box to a Windows Server 2012 box. I already have DHCP up and running on the new box for one scope. I would ideally like to...
View Articlebarcode font not working in remote desktop
We have a Windows Server 2008 r2 Ent. x64 hosting our accounting program. We use Remote Desktop services to access this server and work of it. The problem is that when I log into the server using the...
View ArticleAuditing Files on Server 2008
On our file server frequently someone deletes a file, or changes it, and we have no clue who it was. Is there a way to tell? Maybe some auditing in Server 2008?
View ArticleWhy are users able to install programs on Terminal Server?
I inherited a terminal server from our old IT guy. The users that can connect to it are able to install programs to the server. Is this the default setting? Or is this something he somehow enabled or...
View Articlesbs2008 unable to access websites (except Google) and RWW not working
Throughout the day the internet access has become slowly less reliable to a point where no users can access any websites. Remote workers also cannot access remote web workplace or emails via http,...
View Article802.1x Wireless - Laptops not automatically connecting
Hi, Just set up NPS to manage wireless connections in my network. Its working fine using computer authentication but I am frustratingly having to select the SSID manually on each laptop (from then on...
View ArticleServer 2008r2: Cannot connect to the internet while properly setting up IP.
Okay, so I have a server that I installed ADDS, DHCP, DNS, RDS, and IIS. I know this isnt best practice but it needs to be done this way. I have RemoteApp set up and working. I can log into the domain...
View ArticleHow to Fix Nelogon Error ID 5741
How to Fix Nelogon Error ID 5741 (Netlogon could not register the name <1B>. Reason: \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{44A2A5D4-C815-407D-8160-F15085A0DA6F}. We operate DC on Windows SBS 2003 server.
View ArticleThe String index out of range: -1 comes when there is no file pending for your d
in our server we have create one batch file , this batch file will run after 10 minute and fille move on other send server but some tome getting error. The String index out of range: -1 comes when...
View Articlereplace a Win2K8R2 print server
Our users started noticing trouble printing to HP printers when using PCL6 UPD 5.4 after a PCL5 UPD 5.6.5 driver got installed on the print server. At that time users noticed an explosion of pages...
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