rstainforth

Howdy y'all, I have been given the melodorous task of beginning an audit of our companies LAN hardware and Software licenses. This has not really been kept on top of before I started here, so I'm really starting from scratch. Does anybody know of any free, decent software utilities I can use to help with this? I've seen a few bits that purport to check and return license details from client machines, but I don't think the boss will be putting his hand in his pocket when he could be having me run around and check gratis lol

...or not, as the case may be. I have just installed the 2000 client on our two newest servers, and neither are running, albeit with differing systems (blame my boss for insisting on using 6 year old apps lol) ok, SRV1 has loaded the agent, it is showing up as a service, but I can't start the damned thing, it just returns a fatal exception and dies. SRV2 hasn't even installed completely, no service to be seen. I have tried performing repair installations, and also removing/reinstalling, but the same results on both servers. Anybody have any idea whats going on/had similar problems???? any help much appreciated.

Hi all, We recently had a system failure on our Exchange server, which we have managed to get back up and running, but when the server restarted the RAID mirror was broken. I created a global hot spare, remirrored the RAID, and removed the failed disk for testing. I have set up an identical chassis in our lab (an intel SR2300), and when I inserted the disk it failed to boot. It gets as far as the O/S selection, then reboots after selection. I can't boot into safe mode, or use the last known good. I used the recovery console to run chkdsk (with /p) which tells me the disk is OK, and also used the onboard scsi utilities to verify the media, which ran ok. So, next step was to try and run a repair installation from the Server 2003 cd, however when it loads into the text portion of the install, and asks me to select the partition for install etc there is no option for a repair, only to format, delete partition etc. Can anybody shed some light on this for me i.e. can I perform a repair some other way, or what might be causing this? I think that the data on the disk is corrupted, but I would really like to get into it and have a look at whats been going on!

Right, managed to find a fix, if not a solution....looking at the permissions assigned to the mail server in exchange manager, the allow full access was waaaaaay down the bottom of special permissions, so whatever was being inherited from the parent was meaning A/D never actually got down to it, so we added a new permission at the top of the list allowing admisnistrator full access.... et voila, I can now access mailboxes in Outlook. Would still be nice to know what was causing the issue in the first place, as I think it will need rectifying eventually.....got a nasty feeling that all is not well in Active Directory lol

Ok, the permissions are applied (usually) when I create a user in A/D, on their exchange advanced tab of the user properties. Once I've created the user and their exchange box, they are added into our spam filter, the mailbox is added onto Admins Outlook, and a test mail sent to activate the account. I'm guessing that, since I can't access boxes as I would do, that something has gotten screwed up in A/D or Exchange following last nights server outage (still not 100% what happened there, but we got it back ok lol). I need to find the ultimate parent for the exchange attributes so I can alter the permissions. I din't set up this domain, and the guy I took over from has left...I'm a complete A/D and Exchange n00b, so struggling a little with it all now lol

Hi all, After a little bit of advice, if anybody can help...We experienced a server outage last night on our exchange server, which is now in hand and being dealt with, but during the course of investigations this morning I have found some rather odd rights assigned in the exchange mailbox rights for users; I discovered that I couldn't access exchange mailboxes via Outlook 2003, and when I looked into the rights I found that Administrator had full mailbox access both applied and denied. Now then, the full mailbox access was allowed at the top of the list, and the deny was further down, and I'm sure that the rights are assigned heirarchically, so I should still be able to access the mailboxes, so I am assuming the rights are being inherited further up the chain....but I don't know where from. ANd the wierdest thing is, even though those rights are uniform across the schema, I can access some mailboxes but not others !?!? OK, so as a temporary fix, I added administrators onto the exchange mailbox store, and allowed that to propagate down; this has given me access to all the mailboxes through Outlook, however I don't want to leave this as a permanent solution. I need to find the parent that is assigning rights to the individual mailboxes in A/D, but I can't for the life of me see it! As far as I can see, there isn't anything in GP to govern this (infact, I don't think there are any exchange attributes in our GPO's anywhere), so can anybody give me a clue where to look? atm I am running server/exchange 2003 (standard/enterprise respectively) patched up last week, and it is a 2ary DC.

Hi all, just a quick note to say hello and briefly introduce myself. I work for an IT company in Leeds, West Yorkshire, as a first line support and networking engineer. I live in York, with my family, and in my spare time i like to take in movies, walk my dog, cook, and I also keep reptiles...so far we have far too many to list, ranging from diddy little geckos to great big scary snakes lol (oh, and a tarantula). Despite all this, I still manage to do a passable impression of a normal human being, and noone would ever know lol!