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It depends - how many users do you expect to hit this box? Sometimes it's easier to set up an all-in-one, and then migrate to a FE/BE setup later as your needs grow.

Startup is roughly kernel and smss/system process, splash screen, loading drivers (boot then other device and service drivers), loading critical services, then background wallpaper/color shows, load more services and modules/exes, display winlogon dialog box, finish loading things in background (startup items from registry, delayed services, etc). That's why /SOS is helpful, but only if you know how to read it and have an idea of "what comes next", as the last thing displayed is not always what isn't working .

Yes. The betas and RCs have worked just fine. I don't know if the RTM will do so, but I can't imagine it wouldn't. I guess we'll have to see .

if you ping <domain>.<tld> from the client, what response do you get? Also, is the DNS active directory integrated?

Fixed it. Somehow my box had decided to completely turn of script in the internet zone. I reset to defaults and then modified the template to match Vista, and viola, working again.

Well, while I understand that you need to continue running the OS, an in-place upgrade isn't foolproof and some applications may not work (they should, but one cannot assume they will). I'm going to close this down, as discussing warez software is against the forum rules, but you can look at a kb article that's pretty straight forward. You might want to consider making a VM out of the machine and doing a test upgrade in a VM before you do the real thing, though. Topic closed.

That is a question best left to the Office forums.

This isn't something you can do on a one to all setting, it's per mailbox. It's just a field in AD, so if you want to figure out which one it is (and your domain is a test one - don't do this in production without testing!!!) you could replicate it via scripts. But you won't find this feature in a GUI anywhere.

This might do the trick: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/329622

Your pirated copy is OEM, likely, or VLK. MSDNAA/MSDN/etc are actually technically retail, and keys for OEM, VLK, and Retail don't work across each other (retail only works with retail keys, OEM only works with OEM keys, etc).

No, and I've narrowed it down to Server 2008 specifically, as my Vista SP1 and RTM boxes are working again. I'll retry again tomorrow when I have more troubleshooting time, and stick to FF if I need the feature for now.

Clicking the "Forum Options" drop-down in the upper right-hand corner of the page clicks me down to the bottom of the page, rather than showing the drop-down list options. I tested in Firefox 2.0.0.12, and it works just fine. Anyone else seeing this issue with IE? OK, I just tested on IE7 on a 2003 box, and it works. But on my 2 Vista boxes, it fails the same way...

XP / 2003 x64 and Vista x64 support terabytes of memory. 32bit can only address memory space at 2^32, or 4096. It's an architectural limitation, one which only a 64bit OS can address.

Service packs are cumulative - slipstreaming SP3 over RTM should work just fine.

Did you use the Hotfix request form for that hotfix? It usually takes 24 - 48 hours, but you get an email with a link to download the hotfix and a password good for a few days.

It's almost always a video driver when this happens, honestly, so I'd say it's very likely the card driver. Dumps will help, but this seems likely.

Yeah, just did a search for "microsoft.windows.server.2008.x86.workstation.edition-ind" on google and hit a ton of warez sites. Post closed, member banned.

And Microsoft hadn't updated it's browser suite before IE7 for about 6 years, and all of the main IE devs (and most everyone else on the project) went off to do other things. IE7 was a (somewhat hasty) response to FF/Opera/Safari/other competition, but IE8 will be the first real "salvo" that isn't rushed. It'll be good, if not for standards compliance, it's also going to be the first real low-rights browser from Microsoft with good user brokering. Not sure I believe that, but I guess Linux is also THE operating system of choice with most of those same folks (not a bad thing, but probably mostly true), so they wouldn't buy Microsoft anyway. Microsoft is not targeting them (yet). You haven't been around for the last 20 years? Any market Microsoft really, really wants to win they'll do it (and sometimes laws be damned). We don't even have to look back to Netscape or IBM or anything else in the late 80s and early 90s, we can stick right here in the current decade to see that at work. You need only look at what has happened to Sony when Microsoft entered the market with the Xbox/360 up against the entrenched PS2 and PS3 - Sony is expected to lose a total of 4.6 billion on just the PS3 alone (not including the fab costs of the Cell) by the end of fiscal year 2008. The PS3 won't even make a profit per unit until late fy 2009, which means unless Sony doesn't want to recoup the costs of the unit (and I would strongly suspect they do, as they are in it for the profit) it'll have to live until 2011 or 2012, maybe later. They're entertainment division is living entirely off of TV and small device sales (like camcorders), which has been the only "good" thing out of entertainment. Heck, the Sony Games division is expected to post a loss of approximately 1.5 billion this year too, on top of that. The real kicker is that the successor to the 360 will likely be out in fy 2010, and Microsoft will probably do the same with it as well as it did on the 360 - lose money for approximately 1.5 years, and then turn a profit on the hardware. It will potentially be making money (or close to it) on the successor to the 360 before Sony can really see any profits to cover it's losses on the PS3 (without completely gouging it's reserves and eating the losses), or even think about releasing a PS4 (and taking losses on that for 1-2 years, maybe more). Tangling with Microsoft head-on is almost always risky business - if you don't disappear completely, you definitely relegate to a niche. Open source will be a different hurdle here, so we'll see how that goes - however, the more Mozilla attempts to bring down Microsoft's IE head-on, the more interesting it will be to see how Microsoft responds. They're pretty ruthless. Probably the fact that software+services will become big, and the 'net is never going away - so any portal to it that can be provided by Microsoft is not a bad thing, and a good browser is a good selling point for an OS (Safari's pretty darned good, and Firefox/Iceweasel on Linux is pretty commonplace now). Plus, Microsoft does position it's browser as an app platform of sorts, and that appeals to corporate customers who use it as such. Regardless of price, there's "money" to be made in the browser space, and Microsoft will want it's share of the pie (and others, too, but that's a different tangent altogether).

Bug Check 0x1A: MEMORY_MANAGEMENT The MEMORY_MANAGEMENT bug check has a value of 0x0000001A. This indicates that a severe memory management error occurred. What are the parameters, and do you have a complete dump (zipped up) that we can look at? This error indicates a driver failure (very critical failure, btw), and since it only happens with Media Center playing live TV it's likely the video or capture card. Just because the drivers are compatible with Vista or newer doesn't mean they're any good ...

Did you modify the installation source prior to install, using vlite or anything similar? Or is this installation from retail media?

I don't know about video, but technet always has good information.

Zip or Rar it up, and check your PM.

Not really - however, it depends on how many group policies you have, how many DCs (and how many sites), and how "clean" your DNS configuration is (and potentially the location of your DNS servers and the layout of the zones on the DNS servers). More information is needed to determine what's happening - starting with ipconfig /all on the DCs, and a quick layout of sites and DNS zones, and potentially the number of group policies applying.

No, there's no temp file. NTBackup isn't a full-featured backup solution, and while it's good at doing backups as scheduled tasks, it's a bit too limited for what you may be trying to do. You can copy the scheduled tasks, but I don't know of any way to make a template like this.

I've firewalled DCs at the host level before, but fizban is right - you have to make a LOT of holes to get it to work. A better solution is hardware firewalls throughout the network, IPSec between all domain hosts, 802.1x+Radius/IAC at switch ports and your wireless access points, and good monitoring for anomalies. Host-based firewalls are good for clients, but can be a pain on servers. I've found that 802.1x+Radius, IPSec, and hardware firewalls and DMZs where appropriate are a far better solution to keeping your network from being crunchy on the ouside and chewy on the inside.