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anyone know of a way that I can somehow run commands (e.g. wuauclt.exe /resetauthorization /detectnow) remotely on win XP machines? thanks

I have been having trouble for a while now with two DCs in the same site not synchronizing the sys vol share. The two DCs in question are in our head office site. DC1 holds all 5 roles (PDC, FSMO etc etc) DC2 is the one with the problem. There are NO errors being logged in FRS at all. I have run authoritative restores and non authoritative restores, each time they seem to complete because event ID 13516 is logged but still there is no replication. Active Directory replicates changes almost immediately so there is full connectivity. I have also made sure that the NTFRS change journal is set at 512MB. Both servers are DNS servers and they point to themselves as the primary server, they are also GC servers. ACL on the sysvol share looks good as well, it is the same on both servers. We have another 7 sites and the sysvol share replicates fine between all of them, all the DCs in other sites replicate with DC1. Is there anything else i can check? i really need to fix this. thanks.

Is it possible to use group policy or some other method, to disable users from downloading files from the internet? We have had 81gig of downloads in a month which is way to much for our network, so we need to find a way to limit users from downloading.... thanks

inside IP's sorry i should have said that this problem is only on a LAN.

We have been having problems with out network. Our servers, Switches, Routers, and workstations randomly loose their connections for a short time then will come back up. For example we run a constant ping all day and we will get replies for say 10 minutes, then maybe 10 request time outs, then lots of replies, then maybe 5 time outs. We have replaced all our switches, and our router and it is still happening. So we think it must be a NIC somewhere causing the problem. So my question is do you guys know of any tools that let you run diagnostics on NICs over a network connection? We have about 100 computers so to find out exactly which one is causing the problem will be very very hard without the help of some diagnostic software... Any suggestions would be great, we are getting mobbed in the lunch room! hahah

We use shadow copies to help backup our data. We set it so that the server creates a shadow copy three times a day. I have noticed that on mnay of our servers (all 2003 standard) that all of the previous versions just simply disapear and there is only one (which is generally the most recent) shadow copy available. I have given the shadow copies plent of room to create the copies (20 gig actually) but at the moment i can only go back the most recent previous vesion. Can anyone shed some light as to why versions from a week ago are not there anymore? thanks

Iam having some problems installing an MSDE database. I have downloaded MSDE2000A from the microsoft website and iam running the setup from the command promt using the following command : sql2000.msi BLANKSAPWD=1 the setup starts to run fine, then it gets to a point in the installation and the progress bar starts to go backwards and the setup exits without any errors being logged or any indication that the install failed, except that in the Add / Remove programs section of controll pannel there is nothing related to MSDE installed. how can i remedy this situation?

yes they do

there is a trust but the scripts dont run... is there anything else that needs to be set up?

Short and sweet: I need to log into domainA from domainB through terminal services and have my login script that is located on domainB run. Is this possible?

our links can support the extra traffice, it would be a little slow but it would be right. Each Server in every site is the DNS server as well as the DHCP server too... i have configured DHCP to assing two DNS server addresses for the client machines. The local DNS server address and the DNS server in our head office for the seccond one. This should make the clients look for the seccond DNS server if the first one crashes again, correct?

yes the DC that crashed was also the DNS server for that site. We have 7 sites set up, about 3 of these sites are quite a distance away from the head office (two of the sites are 1 hour 30 min flight and another is a 5 hour flight away from our head office.) I was under the impression that the way we have our domain setup it would provide us with alot of redundency because if a remote server crashed the clients at that site would still be able to access the network.

We have a single domain setup with multiple sites. Each site has its own DC which is also GC. Each DC is also a DNS server for the site. We had a server crash in a remote site last week and none of the workstations in that site could log on to the domain properly. (it took then about 20 mins to logon and they didnt have any mapped drives) We use DHCP and for the DNS servers we only had the one DNS server listed, which was the DC in the site. So im thinking that thats why the workstations didnt logon properly because they couldnt find the DNS server. So in DHCP if i put in another DNS server as an alternate DNS server, (it would be the DNS server at our head office) would this let the users still be able to logon to the domain without to much latency? thanks!

this server did not hold any roles at all.

we have one domain name with multiple sites, we have recently upgraded a server, which included changing its name. Now the NTDS Settings for one of the DC of a site has gone, which means there is no replication between this site and anything else. The server in question is a DC and also a GC, it was the only DC in the site. It is even missing from the Domain Controllers Group in Active Directory, i managed to manually add it back into that group but this has not helped at all. I really need help on this, i cant understand how the NTDS settings went missing. Can anyone please suggest any fixes for this please!!! thanks

We have a network monitoriting thing call packetter, it plugs into the your router then into your network and monitors all traffic flowing through. We have been noticing that alot of inbound and outbound traffic is because of something called microsoft-ds. Does anyone know what this is? I have done some searchs on google and it seems to me that it could be something linked to a DOS attack. Can anyone explain what microsoft-ds is? thanks

I have been reading about Universal Group Caching, and just wanted some opinions on its pros / cons. From my understanding if Universal Group Caching is enabled, If a DC in a site which is also a GC goes down, users will still be able to be authenticated if Universal Group Caching, because it is refreshing the cach from another site. I suppose you would select the main site to refresh from. Is this a correct description of what Universal Group Caching is used for? And what do you guys think about this option? Just some info on our network - one domain name, seven sites with one DC in each site which is a GC, and Two DCs in our head office with only one as a GC. All servers windows 2003. Thanks!!

Iam having trouble installing WSUS on my windows 2003 server. It was instaled and working fine until my workmate had the brilliant idea of changing the drive letter that it was installed on and since then its all gone to hell. I managed to uninstall it ok, but iam getting the following error log when i try to reinstall: 2006-03-24 08:57:29 Success MWUSSetup WSUS Server Setup Started. 2006-03-24 08:57:29 Success MWUSSetup Parsing command line arguments 2006-03-24 08:57:29 Success MWUSSetup WSUS Setup: Performing Install 2006-03-24 08:57:30 Success MWUSSetup Validating pre-requisites 2006-03-24 08:57:31 Success MWUSSetup .Net framework SP1 is detected on this machine 2006-03-24 08:57:31 Success MWUSSetup Creating WSUS registry key 2006-03-24 08:57:31 Success MWUSSetup Initializing installation details 2006-03-24 08:57:31 Success MWUSSetup Initializing wizard 2006-03-24 08:57:44 Error MWUSSetup Failed to load C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL$BKUPEXECDL\Binn\sqlboot.dll (Error 0x8007007E: The specified module could not be found.) 2006-03-24 08:57:44 Error MWUSSetup GetSqlFlavor failed (Error 0x8007007E: The specified module could not be found.) 2006-03-24 08:57:44 Error MWUSSetup Failed to determine Sql type of instance. Assuming it to be SQL... (Error 0x8007007E: The specified module could not be found.) 2006-03-24 08:58:08 Success MWUSSetup Installing ASP.Net 2006-03-24 08:58:24 Success MWUSSetup Asp.Net is installed successfully 2006-03-24 08:58:24 Success MWUSSetup ASP.Net is installed successfully 2006-03-24 08:58:24 Success MWUSSetup MSXML2 is already installed on this machine 2006-03-24 08:58:24 Success MWUSSetup Installing WMSDE 2006-03-24 08:58:26 Error MWUSSetup WMSDE Installation Failed (Error 0x80070643: Fatal error during installation.) 2006-03-24 08:58:26 Error MWUSSetup InstallWMSDE Failed (Error 0x80070643: Fatal error during installation.) 2006-03-24 08:58:26 Error MWUSSetup Installation of WMSDE failed (Error 0x80070643: Fatal error during installation.) 2006-03-24 08:58:26 Error MWUSSetup PerformInstall failed (Error 0x80070643: Fatal error during installation.) 2006-03-24 08:58:26 Success MWUSSetup Rolling back Installation 2006-03-24 08:58:26 Success MWUSSetup WSUS Server installation failed. You can look at C:\Program Files\Update Services\LogFiles\WSUSMSDESetup_060324_0858.log file to determine the cause of the failure 2006-03-24 08:58:26 Error MWUSSetup Failed to copy Setup\UninstallHelper.exe to C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1.PNB\LOCALS~1\Temp\1\UninstallHelper.exe (Error 0x80070003: The system cannot find the path specified.) 2006-03-24 08:58:26 Success MWUSSetup Insert string: %1 For more information, see the Setup logs "%2" and "%3" . 2006-03-24 08:58:26 Success MWUSSetup szErrorType: Microsoft Windows Server Update Services could not install Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine. 2006-03-24 08:58:26 Success MWUSSetup ErrorLog: C:\Program Files\Update Services\LogFiles\WSUSMSDESetup_060324_0858.log 2006-03-24 08:58:26 Success MWUSSetup StringObtained: Microsoft Windows Server Update Services could not install Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine. For more information, see the Setup logs "C:\Program Files\Update Services\LogFiles\WSUSMSDESetup_060324_0858.log" and "C:\Program Files\Update Services\LogFiles\ so it looks like its having trouble installing the SQL Desktop engine. I have done many searches for possible fixes including using the MSIZap utilitty but still with no luck, anyone got any suggestions? thanks

Iam getting the following warning message in my event logs on my exchange serverv Event ID: 8284 'The Recipient Update Service could not find the Address List Root which is located in the Exchange Service entry under the attribute addressBookRoots. This might have been caused by a permissions problem. ' Im gettinga bout 4 of these messages every minute. They started happening after i added in two servers as Recipient Update Services. The user action suggested in windows help is 'Check the server permissions using ADSIEdit or LDAP support tools that are available on the Windows 2000 compact disc. Check to see if the server has access to CN=Microsoft Exchange, CN=Services, CN=Configuration, DC=..... Verify that the Recipient Update Service has been configured to use the correct domain controller/global catalog.' I have loades ADSIEdit but im not really sure on what i should be looking for in there so if anyone has any ideas on it that would help me out! thanks!!

dont worry i have already figured out how to do this!

I currently have exchange 2003 installed on a windows 2003 server. Exchange is installed on the c: drive which is a 40gb drive. We are in the early implementation stages of exchange, there are no mailboxes set up, no public folders, (except the default) its is basically just a clean install of exchange at the moment. We also have a d: drive which is 200gb, i want to put all the mailboxes and all the public stores on the d: drive as a fear that the 40gb drive will fill up quite quickly once we start using exchange fully. if i want to put all my storage groups onto the d: drive do i just need to create new storage groups and point to where i want the drive to be created? And also is it possible to move the default storgae group (first storage group) to the d: drive as well? if not should i just create more storage groups where i want them then delete the first storage group? thanks!

yes it is set via group policy, and we are doing this in a test envorinment, i know not to try new things on the live envorinment. But we have got most of it working now through alot of trial and error.. thanks for your suggestions

the wizard is telling me that all the policies are being applied sucsesfully When a suer logs in there is a desktop image that should load for them. The image does loads up, stays as the wall paper for about 10 secconds then dissapears and the user is left with the plain blue wallpaper.

ok i have changed the GP's so that they apply to specific OU's only. However now it is only applying some settings. For example the disable run setting from start menu always works. But the GP to display a desktop and also the logon scripts dont work. Well actaully the logon script worked once, but thats it. All GP's have the same settings, i havent even touched filtering this time.

im hvaing some trouble getting my group polcies to apply. Im using windows Server 2003 with GPMC. I have about 5 seperate GP's which all do different things e.g. desktop, startmenu, internet explorer etc. All GP's have the same security, that is they are disable for Administrators, domain admins, eneterprise admins and enterprise domain controllers. The problem is that not all the GP's are being applied, the logon message GP does not work, the Controll pannel GP does not work and neither does the internet explorer settings. Its so frustrating, i really cant see what else i can do. The weird thing was they all the GP's were working fine until i did a gpupdate command and now only the disable run from startmenu is the only one working. Anyone got any suggestions on this? thanks