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OK I have a clients PC with Office 2007 (enterprise i think).... Running on a Windows Vista box. Their email's appear fine via webmail, and only one copy of each mail is on the ISP mail server. I have maximised the timeout slider to 10 minutes in Outlook's settings. There are no extra large email attachments on any of the email's. The PC is receiving multiple instances of all emails received. Even the test email sent upon creation of a new outlook account. The ISP has been contacted and reported no errors their side. Any ideas guys? Steve

Hi, We are a small IT company supporting many local small businesses. One of our clients has MS SBS Exchange Server. We are proposing to upgrade their backup solution. Currently we use a combination of NTBACKUP to a locally connected USB storage device on a 3 day rotation providing a full backup of the servers C:\ drive. As well as this there is a nightly 7 day rotation of 25 users profiles and document backed up to the local Rev drive (erratic errors are occuring due to age of the tapes) Backup Assist runs this backup. We are proposing to install a 2 TB Nas box and provide a 7 day image rotation of the server with essential files copied to an external drive connected to the server for offsite backup. Is NTBACKUP the best solution, or Backup Assist. We are also considering using Acronis Backup and Recovery, but I am unsure if this will successfully backup and restore Exchange? A colleague has also suggested using V2i protector, but i am unaware of its functionality with regard to Exhange backups too. I am aware that this software no longer is supported, but it is a cheaper solution for our client. What I basically need is a Simple and quick solution for disaster recovery to minimise the clients downtime. As a small company dealing with SBS Exchange is not part of our regualr work. Any advice will br greatly appreciated. Thanks Steve

Hi guys, I work at a small PC store where we build our own systems for resale. I am trying to cut down on build times by imaging a new build for rollout on subsequent PC's with Identical hardware. I have managed to successfully make an image with all the preinstalled software required without inputting a product key for XP home. The problem is that the activation countdown (30 day period) continues to count down on subsequent builds. Therefore I have to make a fresh image every 30 days. Is there a way of stopping this timer for future images? Our builds currently use XP home / Pro, and vista. Hope you can help. Steve