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Windows has an FTP command line utility built in.

The quotes are in the wrong place... ""%systemdrive%\install\Symantec\Symantec AntiVirus.msi" /qb RUNLIVEUPDATE=0 REBOOT=REALLYSUPPRESS" Give that a shot. And if you're loading it from RunOnceEx using the REG ADD command then it should be like this: "\"%systemdrive%\install\Symantec\Symantec AntiVirus.msi\" /qb RUNLIVEUPDATE=0 REBOOT=REALLYSUPPRESS" Also, the proper way to update the client is to grab the latest .XDB file from Symantec. See the article titled Updating virus definitions for Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 10.x and Symantec Client Security 3.0. Other methods can cause problems later down the line and aren't supported by Symantec. I use a modified version of the script they provide to auto-download and apply the latest definitions onto my Parent Server...which automatically pushes the updates out to the clients. EDIT: I found a post I'd made in a previous thread about updating SAV (without having LiveUpdate issues later):

When you have BlueSoleil installed do this: - Open Computer Management - Go to Computer Management (Local) -> System Tools -> Device Manager - Select Bluetooth Radios - Double click on your bluetooth adapter to open the properties - Go to the Details tab Once you're there give us what it says for the Device Instance Id. For instance, mine is: USB\VID_0A12&PID_0001\5&3AD090D&0&2 My Bluetooh Adapter is also from IVT, but it uses a Cambridge Silicon Radio chip, which is natively supported by MS's Bluetooth Stack.

You mean for REG ADD syntax? C:\>reg add /? Console Registry Tool for Windows - version 3.0 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. 1981-2001. All rights reserved REG ADD KeyName [/v ValueName | /ve] [/t Type] [/s Separator] [/d Data] [/f] KeyName [\\Machine\]FullKey Machine Name of remote machine - omitting defaults to the current machine Only HKLM and HKU are available on remote machines FullKey ROOTKEY\SubKey ROOTKEY [ HKLM | HKCU | HKCR | HKU | HKCC ] SubKey The full name of a registry key under the selected ROOTKEY /v The value name, under the selected Key, to add /ve adds an empty value name <no name> for the key /t RegKey data types [ REG_SZ | REG_MULTI_SZ | REG_DWORD_BIG_ENDIAN | REG_DWORD | REG_BINARY | REG_DWORD_LITTLE_ENDIAN | REG_NONE | REG_EXPAND_SZ ] If omitted, REG_SZ is assumed /s Specify one charactor that you use as the separator in your data string for REG_MULTI_SZ. If omitted, use "\0" as the separator /d The data to assign to the registry ValueName being added /f Force overwriting the existing registry entry without prompt Examples: REG ADD \\ABC\HKLM\Software\MyCo Adds a key HKLM\Software\MyCo on remote machine ABC REG ADD HKLM\Software\MyCo /v Data /t REG_BINARY /d fe340ead Adds a value (name: Data, type: REG_BINARY, data: fe340ead) REG ADD HKLM\Software\MyCo /v MRU /t REG_MULTI_SZ /d fax\0mail Adds a value (name: MRU, type: REG_MUTLI_SZ, data: fax\0mail\0\0) REG ADD HKLM\Software\MyCo /v Path /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d %%systemroot%% Adds a value (name: Path, type: REG_EXPAND_SZ, data: %systemroot%) Notice: Use the double percentage ( %% ) inside the expand string

You could add a Member Server running Server 2003 Standard Edition to handle the WSUS duties. You can have more than one server in an SBS network, you just can't have more than one SBS server (or another Domain Controller). If that's out of your budget then the document cluberti linked will help you get it working on your SBS box.

It's not necessarily about the frame rate anymore. The focus now is on features such as increasing FSAA and AF abilities. The faster speeds are needed to maintain the frame rate at the same resolution while enabling more graphics features. Do per pixel lighting takes some serious processing power.

Reregisters all of those DLLs. Occassionally, and very rarely, they can become unregistered for one reason or another. I had an issue with IE6 a while back where I couldn't get anything to open in a new window. Reregistering a few DLLs fixed the issue.

Look at the following registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders The value of "Personal" will tell you where they have their MyDocs going.

BlueSoleil will automatically disable the XP stack when you install it. It's what came with my generic adapter (which is based on a Cambridge Silicon Radio chip). I had some problems with BlueSoleil being able to push files to my Motorola V600, but it turned out I could just uninstall it and use the XP stack. It's a bit more of a pain to use (not that BlueSoleil was that easy either), but at least it works.

Correct...if he has a Cable/DSL Router. If he has his machine connected directly to the cable/DSL modem then he'll get the IP from the ISP.I do, however, recommend having a Cable/DSL router even if you only have one machine. It'll help keep the baddies out and is a better option than a software firewall.

There are several options that are pretty good. If you want to go the SUS route then what you actually want to look at is WSUS. It's much better than SUS ever was. WSUS is about the best free solution you're going to get. For pay solutions you could go with either SMS (and still augment it with WSUS) or HFNetChk Pro from Shavlik Technologies. Edit: Doh...we must've been typing at pretty much the same time. I got interrupted mid post though...

Make sure you look at amperage as well as wattage.

All the information you need is right here: http://www.nvidia.com/page/turbocache.html

You do. Just doing /renew tells it to renew the current lease of the current IP. Even doing both may not work since the DHCP server remembers which MAC address last held that IP so in all likely hood you'll get the same IP again anyway. That is unless they have the lease period set really low. I have Road Runner and have had mine unhooked for several days before and still got the same IP address when I hooked everything back up. If you want to try it though you'll have to issue both commands: ipconfig /release ipconfig /renew

Have you tried running CHKDSK? If it's telling you it has no security ID then it's possible the Index for that directory is missing and/or invalid in the MFT. This will take the volume offline while it does the CHKDSK so it'd still be as if you were doing a reboot. CHKDSK is something you should definitely run when you get ready to reboot the server though.

You should get the PC3200 even though you won't be running at that speed. Running the memory slower than it's rater for should allow you run with really tight latency timings (i.e. if it's rated for CAS2.5 at PC3200 then you should be able to run CAS2 at PC2100 speeds). Even if the board does let you run it at PC3200 speeds having extra memory bandwidth available is never a bad thing.

It sounds like you don't have permissions to the directory. Grab SubInACL from Microsoft's site. It's a command line utility that you can use to change ACL's and ownership. What you want to do in this case is take ownership of the directory...then you should be able to change the ACL's.

Then it's not really a cluster at that point, it's more of a robust "load balancer". Clustering is supposed to provide failover and uptime, not extra performance . It can still do failover as long as you make sure that both nodes are powerful enough to run all of the instances should one of them fail. Doing it that way would, in effect, give me two Active/Passive clusters instead of one Active/Active cluster. Honestly though, I wish I could add more nodes but they wouldn't spring for a fiber channel drive setup when we initially purchased 2 years ago. My budget was $50K to get it up and running...I think I did pretty good considering the budget. The initial system was two Dell PowerEdge 6600's w/ Quad Xeon MP 1.5GHz/1MB cache and 4GB RAM. With those we purchased a PowerVault 220S for the shared storage and loaded it with drives. We later upgraded the servers to 8GB RAM and added another PowerVault 220S (each database has two drive sets...one for data, one for logs...plus the Quorum drive and another drive for MSDTC). We have plans to upgrade the CPUs to Xeon MP 3.0GHz/4MB cache and 16GB RAM later this year...providing the budget is there. When we replace the systems in a few years I'll talk them into fiber channel to go with the new servers. Oh, and my other post was supposed to say "migrating from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005"...not "from SQL 2000 and SQL 2005". Doh...

Make sure you get a 7200RPM drive in that laptop. It'll kill the battery faster but something tells me that isn't your priority with this purchase anyway. The VMWare stuff can be disk intensive...as can the Exchange stuff. The faster hard drive will help it run smoother on the laptop.

I used to just use Task Scheduler to kick off an MP3. Computer's across the house now though...

Unfortunately, the only way to take it from Enterprise to Standard Edition is to reinstall the server. The upside is this would also take care of your evaluation version problem.

The MIME types are independent of the URLScan function of the IIS Lockdown Tool. If URLScan is configured to block a file type it won't work even if you setup a MIME type for it. This is where I was getting confused with his setup. You can't install the IIS Lockdown Tool on Server 2003 / IIS6...and I originally thought he was running IIS6.

MS06-002, Vulnerability in Embedded Web Fonts Could Allow Remote Code Execution KB908519 is the update for that security bulletin.

The only time it would be under what we consider "heavy" load is if the main cluster had a serious catastrophy...something that would prompt me to rebuild the entire thing from scratch. Something we consider "heavy" for our setup is about 25, maybe 35, concurrent users. Our setup is strictly for failover instead of performance. The hardware is adequate enough that we have three instances all running on one box while the other does nothing unless the first one fails (which has never happened but you never know). I'm trying to talk them into purchasing the additional SQL license so we can do an Active/Active setup. Then I'd move the two lesser used instances to the 2nd node while the 1st node runs the larger instance. I'm actually thinking about using a virtual server setup as a staging point to reinstall the physical servers. We did an in-place rolling upgrade from Windows 2000 Advanced Server to Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition...and I hate upgrade installs. We're also looking at migrating from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005 in the near future so I'd like to have it all on a clean setup.

I have a question along the same lines as this thread. I've got an older Dell PowerEdge 6400 that has Quad PIII 900/2MB CPUs, 8GB RAM and 8 x 36GB U160 10K RPM hard drives. Will this be hardware enough to run two virtual servers for a virtual SQL cluster...strictly for testing and development? I'm thinking it will be given the limited number of users that would be hitting it but I thought I'd ask people who have more experience with virtual servers than I do. I've done several clusters, just none in a virtual server environment.