jondercik

use ISA server

Why use software raid? Its PITA to work with when things go bad and its slower.

yes just integrate them all.

use rules

why not disable it using a GPO?

Dude you are a moron. 2. Activation buy a volume license if you dont like it. 3. It is possible if you look hard enough. 4. Sending error reports is a good thing. How do you expect them to fix something if they dont know its broke. 5. Confirmation is good. I take it you've never accidentally deleted something. 7. Why do you have so much crap open at once.... 9. NTFS is better plus why the heck is your system partition only 2gb... 10. Your friend is stupid. It was not meant to be a server os. You want a server OS USE a server OS. 14. Its good that it tells you your running out of space. I take it you have never ran windows out of space. It doesnt like it know matter what version you are using. To sum it up though to each his own but you arguments make no sense.....

All else fails try to migrate it with P2V it might work.

More trouble than its worth IMHO. If you tell the users to save their files on the server and that you are only responsible for making sure they are available there. As far as installing programs, tighten up the NTFS security on all the directories on the standard build for your company. And as others have said use software restriction policies to set up what programs can run. This will be a PITA though. Jim

LINUX runs perfectly fine in a VM. I have 2 virtual servers running right now. Just have it install to an IDE drive and you will be fine. Easiest way. Jim

run it in vmware then

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maybe you should be doign work at work? hmm amazing idea.

RTFM. God people that ask such stupid questions without searching are really annoying.

why? XP SP2 includes alot of fixes that you may not "see". But it is a good product.

AMD

what server is the computer at location C pointed at for DNS? It should be pointed at one of the other DC's until it is promoted and gets DNS installed. Jim R.I.P. Alienware.

Even using Pentium. Trust me I did my research last year before I bought one.

Bang for the buck Alienware is less expensive than Dell. Dont believe me? Configure an XPS and a 7700m and tell me which one ends up being more.

http://pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,125190,00.asp Rest in peace Alienware. Now time for Dell to make their systems crap.

write one script that stops the internet connection sharing service at 7 and write one that starts it at 10

for you yes

The best way to do this is to have 2 separate DNS zones. 1 for outside clients, 1 for inside. Traffic coming in from the outside should NEVER have access to Active Directory. Clients on the inside should be pointed at the DC for their DNS settings. Jim

try the following commands: net user net localgroup

there is no need to wipe the drive before throwing an image on it. The only time you need to wipe a drive is when you want to be sure that no one can recover the data on it.

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