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download netmon for microsoft downloads, start a trace on a box that is having someissues and record the log, from that we can see where the time out is or why it is lagging.

you will have to reformat the disk to get it changed back

i believe superfecth it there, but turned off with the desktop experience, you owuld have to turn it back on manually

the WIM file in any DVD should conatin all the versions on Vista (minus enterprise) what version you get depends on what CD key you use, but warned any intergrated drivers that HP had on their CD will not be on the vanilla Vista DVD, so you will have to install them manually.

the WDS pxe booting files need to be run from a windows PE style environment, the machine that are under 128 megs should probably be upgraded.

i would go with an uninstall of the Service pack,

but what happens when you have ~400 shares to manage? that is why we have the xml file, the vb script pulls the users group membership and compares it to the xml file each share is noted by a corrisponding node in the xml file <SSQA0000> <DriveLetter>O:=\\Server\Share</DriveLetter> <Printer/> </SSQA0000> when a share is created an entry is created in the XML file, from there all we worry about it adding the user to the proper group and all gets mapped. just another solution to the problem

yet it runs sidebar and Aero. hopefully all skins will be disabled by default cause the video cards in our dell servers the rough equivalent of cow crap smashed flat like PCB with a VGA port on the back. None the of the desktop Experience options are turned on by default, very little is actually installed by default (no more then what is needed to server to run, you have to specifiy everything that you want to be installed on the server. @ gamehead it was going to happen sooner or later, just that 2008 is a very expensive platform for a desktop!

how many shares are you talking about? if htere is a large amount, you may want to look into creating an XML doc with the shares in it as nodes and have a vb script compare groups to the shares to see if htey match and map them from there

moved to the proper forum.

To all those who geek out on the newest versions of software , RC1 was released yesterday to testers, pick it up on Technet or here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/bb687945.aspx

once the user is logged on, run from the command prompt gpresult is the GPO that you created listed as being applied? if not run gpupdate /force from the command line and log off the machine. double check the GPO is connected to the correct out. if you have not already done so i would suggest downloading the Group Policy Management Console from Microsofts site

to create a VPN connection between the 2 server you would need to have one server (most likely your own) install Routing and Remote Access, install the VPN features and configure the remote server to connect to your VPN (L2TP would be the recommended way) From there you can download the Server 2003 resource toolkit, robocopy.exe can be found here. robo copy is very versitile in what it can do, in your case if the just want mirror some directories onto your server you can use Robocopy <source location> <destitnation location> /MIR you can add that command to the windows scheduler (add the robocopy exe then add the command line arguements) to run when it is required. depending on your connection to the other server and the number and size of the files. this could take several hours

from a command prompt, type runas to see everything that you can do with the command

make sure you are using the latest version of the ISA client found here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;DisplayLang=en

Cluberti you are right, using one of the 3 mention versions above you can intergrate what ever language layer you want for Vista onto a DVD and the user can choose what version they want from the installation menu

on the recovery partition you will find a install.wim file or a *.wim file, this will be the main installation of vista that came with your computer, it was been customized by the vendor for your PC. you can downlaod the WAIK (windows automated installtion Kit) and trying and use that to recreate a DVD of vista, the required files should all be present on your D drive

So it plays all the games you currently want it to but you still want different drivers? sorry i am confused, is it the second laptop having the issues?

i am sure for drivers to be signed they will have to be written to a standard for 2008, not saying that drivers designed for 2003, XP or Vista won't work, just that they won't be signed and probably won't offer you the reliability and preformance that you would want for a Server.

doubl check the field types for each of the fields you are entering, it is failing on the update so you are looking at a possible incorrect type mismatch, or that one of the properties is not support, for the DSn are you using OLE? Access?

you will have to go into the BIOS of that machine and set the first boot device to be the DVD drive

anything you remove from all users will be take from evey users desktop, All users is acutally just a junction point to C:\programdata if you need to remove something remove it at C:\programdata

is the machine in question using a static IP? if so just delete the incorrect record and recreate the correct one.

the problem with the recovery DVD is it is canned installed of your PC at build time, which means anything that was installed then will be installed again with that DVD, if you want a clean isntalled you will have to get a pure Vista DVD

is this a windows service? or a 3 rd party service or driver?