Don Juan

Seriously, I've been struggling with this problem for ages now. It's real important that I solve this problem soon, or I'll get fired! Is there anyone outthere who can help us??

Very probably.

Hi all, Hoping you can help me solve this problem with backing up the Exchange Mailboxes. We have several Windows 2003 servers. Backup Exec 9.1 is running on the same server as Exchange 2000 is running on. File backups run fine. However, the backup of the individual Exchange Mailboxes has always been a problem. In short, I think it has possibly never backed up anything. Recently it's been giving the message in the Job Status has been: 'Canceled, timed out'. Byte count: 0. With no job log! I'm thinking it might have something to with the rights of the backup exec account. When I look at the user mailboxes the full mailbox access permission is denied for the backup exec account, although it does have read and delete rights. The backup exec acount is a member of the backup operators, the domain admins and the enterprise admins. Could the problem be the fact that full access is denied? If so, how can I allow it for all mailboxes?? Please advise!!

Well, building one of your own can be cheaper, more fun and you get to know more about the server and the way everything works, which can be handy in case you get into trouble later. On the other hand you need to know what you're doing ofcourse, you could damage the hardware which could make it more expensive in the end. Buying a pre-built-one is probably more expensive and could save you a lot of time ofcourse. Seeing you don't know what all this hardware is I would suggest you buy a ready made one. If you want to know how to build one of your own I would start with a somewhat less ambitious project Try to upgrade a computer from time to time until you know the basics. Most importantly: read a lot! When I plan to buy something new, I usually start buying a lot of computermagazines and reading reviews a few months in advance. In short try to gather as much information as you can. This forum is a good start. About the tape backup option. It probably means you can have a tape streamer built in if you want to back up your stuff to tape. If it's not for commercial use or anything that important lI would not use it. Go for RAID 1 (mirroring) or better, RAID 5 (if possible) or simply use two drives without RAID and frequently copy your data from one to the other by hand or have it done automatically. You can always burn data to a rewritable DVD or CD in case oyu want to store it somewhere else. This is much cheaper and a lot less expensive. Unless you want to backup hundreds of Gigs at at a time, then tape would be better. An extra removable harddrive could also be a good and cheap alternative.

I see. Well, I've NEVER heard of anything like that - burning through another computer. I'm not saying it's not possible though, maybe if someone else knows... I don't think installing Nero on your laptop will take up a lot of space, certainly not if you do not install all possible options like designing covers, Nero mediaplayer and similar crap. But if you still really want to save space I would suggest installing Nero on the server and then accessing it through remote desktop. Although you would still have to walk to the server to put in the disc, so on the other hand you might as well just sit in front of the server. Your choice.

1. Hyperthreading technology: don't know exactly but I think something to do with enhanced capablity to run processes/programs simultaneously. Anyhow you don't need this for a file server like in your case. 2. DIMM sockets: the sockets for putting in memory modules. The more, the better. 3. Tape backup options: ??? you need to be more specific. 4. Non-hot swap: hot-swapable means you can connect and disconnect the drives while the computer is running. So with non-hotswappable drives you need to shut down the computer first before (dis)connecting them. 5. PCI-Express: new, faster kind of PCI slot for putting in expansion cards. I know PCI-Express videocards are already available, don't know about any others, but probably will be available in the future. 6. Drive controllers: the chip/connectors used to connect the drives to like IDE/ATA, SATA, SCSI. Drives need to be compatible with this. 7. Embedded 2x SATA: built-in-to-the-motherboard Serial ATA connectors. 8. Software based RAID: non-chip based RAID capability. This is therefore more CPU-dependent. RAID is used for mirroring (backup in case one drive fails) or striping (speed) or both. For this there need to be at least 2 drives. 9. SCSI or IDE/SATA: drive connectors. I would go for SCSI or SATA, these are both faster than IDE, although SCSI can be (a lot) more expensive. A lot of companies still tend to choose for SCSI because it has already proven itself.

Do not log off. Always press CTRL+ALT+DEL and then lock the computer. Only an admin can unlock it. We always do it like this.

I think there are two possible solutions to your question in regard to the installation of programs. Like silkshadow said, you could install the programs from the XP machine to a network share on the server. This would run slower but if you use a 100Mbps network (as opposed to wireless) and don't use the particular program too often could be acceptable, dependent of the kind of program. The other solution would be to simply install the program on the server and use it on the XP machine through remote desktop. In my opinion the last one would be preferable. Just don't use it for games! As for the user account credentials: you are going to have to set up a domain. Using the wizard and a little reading (or posting questions here), this shouldn't be too hard, even for a layman. After you set up the domain, added the XP machine and the user account you could use this account to log on to the domain on both the server and the client using the same credentials. In regard to your question about Visual Studio, I don't know much about that, but if you mean you want be able to program on the server while sitting in front of your XP client, you could just use remote desktop.

As it turns out, we installed the certificates under the administrator account while we should have done this under the user's account (after we added him to the admins group) . According to the helpdesk this shouldn't be a problem, we could just copy the directory 'verisign' under the admin's docs & settings to the user's. This didn't work right away, so I'm going to have fiddle around a bit more... Any tips?

What a coincidence! A am looking for something like that right now! We need to know what processes exactly are letting the CPU usage go way up every now and then.

Hi all, I have the following problem: I had to install a certificate on a computer for a employee of ours so he could log in to a certain external website. However, when he tries to log in to the website it doesn't work. I called their helpdesk and they are telling me that the error code generated on the website means that it has something to do with the user rights. Can anyone please tell me what could be the problem/solution or at least in what direction I should look? Policy, local user rights, NTFS?? We have a Windows 2003 domain and the client is using Windows 2000. Thanx!

I heard it should be possible using this command in a batch file: C:\windows\System32\rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 d:\$oem$\$1\drivers\000\xxx.inf However, there seems be something wrong with it but I don't know what. Anyone else?

Ja, ik heb precies hetzelfde probleem. Moeilijk om documentatie over te vinden ook. Heb vandaag voor de de honderdduizendste keer XP geïnstalleerd...