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You mentioned that your MX records are up to date, from this I am presuming that you are using SMTP and email will be "pushed" to your exchange server. the first two things you need to check are your network configuration by asking someone to telnet on port 25 to your external IP address, they should be greeted by an SMTP banner telling them that they are connected - on your internal network try the same thing so you know what the expected result should be. If external people do not recieve this banner then you know its a firewall/port forwarding issue if your SMTP is ok then the second most important thing is the recipient policy. Open up system manager and navigate to recipient poolicy and double click on default policy. Check that the setting all make sense as far as your dns names are concerned etc. Also test internal email between two different mailboxes on your exchange server failing any of this

presumably because he wants to learn 5.5 or at least practice a migration, I dont think anyone is stupid enough to do an upgrade for any other reason... I hope

Look through the event viewer and go over your network configuration thoughrally to make sure all your network settings are correct. Static IP addresses, dns etc etc Pay attention to errors in the event viewer even if you dont think they are related Have you tried a clean install of windows if thats an option?

group policy can do it, if you can come up with a way of applying a group policy outside of an active directory domain?

its not dynamic though is it. If you have multiple computers building from the same unattended installation they are all going to have the same name using that method, which as you should know causes havok on networks

I searched these forums for an easy solution to automatically naming my pc during the unattended installation but didn't find anything that really helped. I'm happy to say that I have finally found a great tool that allows you to name your pc during the unattended installtion based on 1) A reverse lookup against your DNS server, this will allow you to name your pc according to what it was named prior to rebuild, providing the PTR (reverse lookup) record existed for it 2) By mac address from a text file 3) By the logged in user any many more... If this tool hasn't been covered already, then I'd recommend everyone has a look at it, it works like a charm! http://mytoolsandstuff.tripod.com/wsname.html

if you are controlling her desktop from a remote assistance request (rather than something was initiated by your pc) You do need to specify somewhere, cant remember where, that the "helper" is allowed to control the mouse/keyboard. I think once you take control that the panel on the right handside should have something to do with this??

that sorted it cheers

bumping for mail reply

set /p loguser=What username do you wish to login to your computer with: REG ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon /v AutoAdminLogon /d %loguser% /f I get an error telling me there are to many paramaters? I have also tried with inverted commas around the key and data

start - run - mstsc - options - programs alternatively... enter in your host etc and then save the connection. Then create a batch file that remotely kills the processes, something like pskill would do the job (www.sysinternals.com) and then launch the RDC connection

Im a bit confused. If your PC has a default gateway set that will allow it to access the internet, then it will be able to query a DNS server, why cant you use DNS? If you really cant use DNS, my only suggestion would be to monitor netstat (start - run - cmd - netstat) during a windows update and see what hosts its communicating with

I'm having difficulty getting my PC to join a domain during the installation. I have copied over my LAN drivers into the drivers folder and specified them in the oem drivers section of winnt.sif - when the installation in complete and it logs me into windows the NIC does work so this bit is working I beleive. I am using the nforce onboard NIC the problem is that during the install the pc cant find the domain, I've also tried pinging the IP address that was handed out to that same machine prior to rebuild, presuming that the DHCP server would assign the same IP address as it was up only a few minutes ago and I am not getting a ping reply. I can only assume that the NIC interface is not up during the unattended installation even though windows does find the drivers for it and installs them for me Any suggestions??

hey chaps, I need a quick reg fix. I want to disable the transition effects for the startmenu and windows maximise and minimise. I have managed to stop the startmenu doing its thing by exporting the desktop part of current user - control panel but this doesn't fix the minimise maximise window transition/animiation its really starting to annoy me so if anyone can post the bit of registry that I need to merge it would be appreciated

um, try it... its not like it takes a long time or it breaks anything

This may help... http://www.winzip.com/xsiteins.htm

afaik your switch for unattendswitch should be "yes" not yes also your wait for reboot should be "no" and not no try that?

The drive was a NEC 2510A I think, I flashed the firmware and its working now. Boots from DVD and DVD+RW

its a fiarly new drive - 12X DVD writer, do you think this may still be the case?

have you fiddled with the bootloader of this CD at all? Is your CD actually booting into \i386 or have you modified it so that it boots from \boot\ etc and then continues to install from elsewhere at all? A common method of "shrinking" the overall size of the CD is to start the windows install from inside windown using the /noreboot switch and use the temprary files created for the CD instead as an example... this removed additional unneeded language files etc

Hi, After succesfully creating an unattended installation CD which did everything I wanted it to do incl installing SATA drivers etc I then started adding more applications to be installed during the guirunonce phase... My unattended CD is now to big to fit onto DVD, when I asked my burning software (used alcohol, cloneDVD and UltraISO) to burn it to DVD it didn't give me any errors. My problem however is that after setting this DVD to boot it just hangs.. Gets to the stage where it says "Boot from ATAPI CD Rom..." etc and thats it, nothing, just sits there, doesn't start doing anything doesn't even scroll to the next line --- nada I installed VM Ware and tried to boot the new virtual PC by setting the DVD drive as an ISO image of the problematic DVD and the virtual PC booted and installed windows fine any ideas??

have you tried another version of Win Zip, I cant see how using a silent install would caue these problems unless its an issue with the winzip installer...