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I was on the beta team for Office 2007 so I saw the first few iterations of the ribbon. I HATED it at first but between using it for a while and the iterations it went through before going final I started to realize how much better it is than the actual menu system in earlier versions. It honestly is much easier to use once you get used to it. And I have to agree, Excel 2007 rocks. Previously buried features have been brought into the open now, others have been made easier to use (conditional formatting anyone?), and some of the new features are down right awesome. If you're in an enterprise environment, you absolutely must stand up SharePoint Server 2007. The collaboration features are very nice and the Office integration is much tighter than previous versions making things nearly transparent. Oh, and for those of you who've hated FrontPage over the years, give SharePoint Designer a serious look. Gone are the days of replacing your code with what it thinks should be there and some serious new features have been added. It really has matured into a great editor.

First...unless your domain controller is the only server available, you absolutely should not put shared printers on a domain controller. Bad print drivers have been known to take down servers (usually just the spooler service but I've seen worse). You may be stuck in a loop where updating the LaserJet 1020 driver is the only option you have (rather than removing it). HP's drivers have been notorious for leaving things behind that cause problems later.

You can try doing a WMI query on Win32_NetworkAdapter for the DeviceID value.

Check out SubInACL. For that matter you can do it with XCACLS with a little scripting. ICACLS (found in Server 2003 as well) has built in functions for it as well.

That's how you export and import them. Once you configure the first machine you can copy the entire %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\GroupPolicy\ structure to other workstations and have those settings apply. Note that this will NOT overwrite any settings under Computer Configuration if a security template has been applied to the machine. I use this exact method for my unattended setups where I currently work because I don't have direct access to create/edit/maintain domain-level group policies.

ECC won't do you any good for that motherboard anyway. Most desktop motherboard chipsets don't support ECC as it's only intended for high-end workstations and servers (most high-end workstations end up using server chipsets). ECC is a feature you generally don't want to be without in a server environment.

No you don't. You only have to do this if you're making the 2003 server a domain controller. If it's anything other than a domain controller adprep is not necessary.

I want a video card with 512GB of RAM!!!! Honestly, it could be any number of things. You may want to check that you also have the latest chipset drivers. Does your case have adequate cooling? And lastly, are you using a quality power supply with enough juice for the system?

That's easy enough as well. For instance, if you remove 'shortcut1' then simply comment out the code that copies it and then add a section to delete it if it exists on the target machine: ;;If Exist("%USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\1. Corporate\shortcut1.lnk") = 0 ;; Copy "$vault\$Corp\*.*" "%userprofile%\Start Menu\1. Corporate\shortcut1.lnk" ;;EndIf If Exist("%USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\1. Corporate\shortcut1.lnk") = 1 Del "%userprofile%\Start Menu\1. Corporate\shortcut1.lnk" EndIf If Exist("%USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\1. Corporate\shortcut2.lnk") = 0 Copy "$vault\$Corp\*.*" "%userprofile%\Start Menu\1. Corporate\shortcut2.lnk" EndIf ;;If Exist("%USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\1. Corporate\shortcut2.lnk") = 1 ;; Copy "$vault\$Corp\*.*" "%userprofile%\Start Menu\1. Corporate\shortcut2.lnk" ;;EndIf You could even go ahead and put both lines in for a shortcut and comment out the line you don't need (note what I did with 'shortcut2' as an example). Once you get the slowdown issue figured you you can go even further and have the script check the date of the file in the share versus the date of the file on the workstation...that way shortcuts will only get copied if they're newer.

No doubt...

Just clarifying...but wouldn't that be 3.6GHz for a 100% overclock on that CPU?

LOL, what do you mean "that's not supposed to work"? I've never seen it not work.

One simple work around I can think of for the meantime would be to have your KiX script see if the shortcuts already exist, and don't attempt to copy them if they do. If Exist("%USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\1. Corporate\shortcut1.lnk") = 0 Copy "$vault\$Corp\*.*" "%userprofile%\Start Menu\1. Corporate\shortcut1.lnk" EndIf If Exist("%USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\1. Corporate\shortcut2.lnk") = 0 Copy "$vault\$Corp\*.*" "%userprofile%\Start Menu\1. Corporate\shortcut2.lnk" EndIf It's a little more code but it shouldn't take but a few milliseconds longer to run (and should get rid of the pause if the shortcuts already exist thereby actually speeding up the logon process). Have you noticed if it's one particular file or is it just that share in general? It's possible that your server may need to be defragged. Waaaay back in my early NT4 days we had a server (domain controller, email server, file server...wasn't my doing) that had a single 1GB SCSI drive in it. The drive was so fragmented that if you browsed it directly from a Win95 machine it would lockup the Win95 machine. This is when I found Diskeeper. A few days of running the (then) free version and things cleared up nicely. Back then it was a common misconception that NTFS didn't need to be defraged.

Wait a minute... First you go and do something that you know is going to break stuff? And then you want to blame it on Microsoft? Yeah, let's shift the blame. You do know that any installer, including InstallShield, leaves files behind so that it knows how to properly uninstall the application, right? "What'd you do?" "Nothing honestly, it's just the crap Micro$oft software!" <--'Cause you know it's funny when people use the $. "Are you sure you didn't do anything?" "Well, I did delete some files that shouldn't have been there to begin with!" Stories like this are what keep me in a job...

I second the Hauppage recommendation.

I did some more searching and found KB933430. I used method 3 and it's now working. Thanks for the assists!!!

Actually, I just rebooted the server and noticed an Schannel event ID 36885 in the Event Viewer. The Description is: I'm not exactly sure what's going on with that though since the server doesn't have anymore CA's than any of our other servers do.

Ok, I've got some more information. When I try to access one of the sites the following gets written into the IIS log for that web instance: 2008-05-19 14:43:40 W3SVCXXXXX xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx GET / - 443 - xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+7.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322;+.NET+CLR+2.0.50727;+InfoPath.2;+MS-RTC+LM+8) 403 7 5 2008-05-19 14:44:58 W3SVCXXXXX xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx GET / - 443 - xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+7.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322;+.NET+CLR+2.0.50727;+InfoPath.2;+MS-RTC+LM+8) 403 7 64 The sc-win32-status code 5 is "Access is denied", ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED and 64 is "The specified network name is no longer available", ERROR_NETNAME_DELETED (link). I get the "403 7 5" error if I try to access the site from the server itself. I get both accessing it from another machine. I just can't figure out why either is happening.

A domain controller doesn't have to have any of the Operations Master roles to have a Global Catalog. That's why they are listed seperately. Any DC can have a copy of the GC (it's generally recommended to have at least one per site, but research the bandwidth issues before implementing that recommendation because it will increase the amount of traffic between locations).

I've tried both on the server itself. All clients that will be accessing the site are 32-bit Windows (mostly XP with IE7 but there are some scattered Vista machines). We tested with several different 32-bit XP machines. It's not a client-end issue though because every other site configured this way works properly. Yes. Unfortunately, no. We also use Tumbleweed's Desktop and Server Validator products but it's not throwing anything in it's event log either (I've disabled Tumbleweed on the server side and the issue still persists).I don't believe that the problem is with whether or not it trusts the CA. There should be a prompt for client certificate regardless of certificate trusts (it has to ask for the certificate before it can determine whether or not it trusts that certificate ).

I'm having a problem that hopefully someone else has worked through... We're required to have all of our restricted web sites use SSL and enable the 'Require client certificates' option. I've done this without any problems in the past but I'm setting up a new server and this is first time I'm trying to set it up on Server 2003 x64. The problem I'm having is that when I try to browse to any of the sites on the box they immediately return a 403.7 error stating the client certicates are required instead of prompting for the certificates. If I attempt to browse to the site on the server itself it prompts for certs, but the cert list is empty (it works going to any other site that requires client certs). The server sits in a "DMZ" outside of the normal network, but has another firewall in front of it (so basically it sits between two firewalls). We've verified that all traffic that needs to talk is talking the way it should. Since the problem is happening locally on the server itself then I don't believe that the firewalls are the problem.

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Keep in mind that the Security tab doesn't exist on XP Home. It also won't show if he has Simple File Share enabled. If you're on XP Pro, follow these steps: 1. Open Windows Explorer 2. Click on Tools and select Folder Options 3. Go to the View tab 4. Scroll all the way down and uncheck 'Use simple file sharing (Recommended)' 5. Click on OK If you're on XP Home, see the following: http://www.msfn.org/board/lofiversion/index.php/t49800.html http://www.tweakxp.com/article37380.aspx Also note that the Security tab will display on XP Home in Safe Mode.

HPs color laser printers suck. They're dog slow compared to almost everyone elses, they break easier and the warranty doesn't cover as much as you might think. I've switched over to buying Dell laser printers because their warranty seems better. So far the quality has been better as well. They're also more cost effective than HP printers, especially when you start adding features like extra paper trays, envelope feeders, additional output bins, etc. I have a Dell 5110cn in my office that I've had for a little over a year and a half. I have yet to replace any of the toner cartridges in it (granted we don't do that much color printer, but still). The 5110cn comes standard with a network connection, 128MB memory and a duplexer. They also recently released the 3115cn MFP (printer/copier/scanner/fax) but I have no direct experience with it.

You should be able to install the R2 additions without any problems. I have "upgraded" existing 2003 Standard Edition installs before, but not SBS installs. Just make sure that your R2 disk has SP2 integrated already.