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  1. We have 3 Windows 2000 Domain Controllers. We have purchased 2 (soon to be 3) new servers with Win 2003 R2. We would like to retire all 3 of our Win 2000 servers. What is the best way to migrate Active Directory off of these 3 servers and onto our 2 new Win 2003 servers? Are their any Microsoft KB articles, websites, books, etc that discuss this? Most of what I have found ony discuss migration from NT4 to 2000 and not 2000 to 2003. Is there any chance it would be as simple as promoting the 2003 servers and then demoting the 2000 servers? FWIW, we also run Exchange 2003. Thanks, -John
  2. I agree with the idea of not clustering DCs. It adds unnecessary overhead and complexity. DCs, by design, provide load-balancing & failover redundancy without clustering. -John
  3. I installed VMWare Server on a Dell PE 2850 (2 dual cores + 12 Gigs) running 2003 R2. We are running 2 Guests (both 2003 R2) and it runs flawlessly. They remote client is just as fast as Remote Desktop & UltraVNC. I have not used MS Virtual PC. -John
  4. My Linksys wrt54g router supports WPA-2 wireless security. Which is currently one of the best methods out there now. You have to get this update from MS to use it... http://support.microsoft.com/?id=893357 -John
  5. If you change your mind about 3rd party software, psloglist.exe from www.sysinternals.com would be a good place to start. If you want to send an email based on the results, you could use blat.exe from www.blat.net. FWIW, both of these programs are small stand-alone executables. -John
  6. Viewing area is really what I meant. I am just so surprised that 2" gives 25% more. Before doing the numbers, I would have guessed about 10 - 15%. Do you have CRTs or LCDs? -John
  7. I like to run CCleaner (www.ccleaner.com) and then reboot one more time before I make an image with Ghost. -John
  8. Is a 19" monitor really 25% larger than a 17" monitor? If the monitor is measured diagonally and has a 4x3 aspect ratio, then the dimensions for a 19" monitor are 15.2x11.4x19 and for a 17" are 13.6x10.2x17. For example, 15.2^2 + 11.4^2 = 19.0^2 To figure out the difference between the 2 sizes, I did (15.2*11.4) / (13.6*10.2) = 1.2491 which is ~ 25%. Are these calculations correct? -John
  9. You could try this free boot manager, xosl. It works great. Uncompress all of the files onto a bootable floppy disk. Boot from that floppy and run sbminst.exe. http://www.ranish.com/part/xosl.htm You can tell the boot manager to run XP by default, but thenhave the option of running DOS. With that same boot floppy, you could run sys a: c: (or whatever your hard drive letter is) to make it bootable. -John
  10. Windows 2003 Server R2 (release 2) was just released at the beginning of the year so it may be awhile. MS is probably concentrating more on Vista than on SP2. -John
  11. This may help you for one part of your puzzle. Install the RAID card and hang a couple of spare drives on it. Boot up and install the drivers. Power down, uninstall the spares and switch over the cables for the real drives onto the new RAID card. Pull the old RAID card out. Power on and cross your fingers. :-) I have no idea if this will work or not, but it is the only thing that comes to mind. Good luck! -John
  12. I am looking for a web form processing CGI executable. I would like the program to either save the results to disk (preferably in CSV) or, as an alternative, to email the results. I do not want to install PHP or Perl. I would prefer not to use ASP or ASP.NET, but will if there are no alternatives. What I would like is a stand-alone .exe program that is installed under a CGI type directory that can do this task. I would be willing to pay for this program if a free program does not exist. Any suggestions? Thanks, -John
  13. I know this is a silly question, but what is the latest ETA for Vista (RTM)? -John
  14. CSVDE looks like a pretty neat tool. Thanks for the link! -John
  15. Wow. I did not know about F7...nice tip! Thanks, -John
  16. Just as another option, especially if your batch file is not too long, you could always convert it into an AutoIt script, which can be compiled into a EXE file. http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/ -John
  17. I agree with one of the previous posters - don't run as administrator. If you must run as admin, then don't run IE. If you must run IE, then at least lower your privileges. This can be accomplished with psexec from sysinternals.com. My IE and Firefox desktop shortcuts look like this: C:\bin\psexec.exe -l -d "c:\ptogram files\internet explorer\iexplorer.exe" C:\bin\psexec.exe -l -d "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" (run them as minimized) This way, I can surf safer (not safely, just safer) with IE because psexec removes your administrative powers. I never use IE except for when a web site will not work properly in Firefox. Even then, I use a Firefox extension called IETab, which will open up a new tabbed window inside of Firefox, but it will actually use the IE engine for rendering, etc. Hope this helps, -John
  18. Instead of just a password, you might consider using encryption. You should take a look at TrueCrypt. It creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk. Or it can also encrypt an entire hard disk partition or a device, such as USB flash drive. http://www.truecrypt.org/ -John
  19. I have a Python script that I have been using for over a year that updates the XDB file. It does a lot of error checking, too. I have used it for SAV CE 8.x, 9.x and 10.x without any problems. You would have to install Python from www.python.org, so this may not be practical for everyone. I run this from a scheduled task every afternoon around 5:00 Eastern. You should verify AVPATH and TMPPATH variables. -John """ Symantec Antivirus 8.x, 9.x, 10.x Coporate Edition XDB Definition Updater Mar-17-2005 -John Taylor Automatically updates XDB virus definitions from Symantec's web site. Also, restarts services so that the new definition file will take effect. """ import sys,re,urllib,urllib2,md5,os.path,os,shutil,time,glob WEBPAGE="http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/download/pages/US-SAVCE.html" TMPPATH=r'C:\Windows\Temp' AVPATH=r'C:\Program Files\SAV' URLRE = re.compile("""href="(http://definitions.symantec.com/defs/xdb/.*?)">""",re.IGNORECASE) MD5RE = re.compile("""href="/avcenter/refa.html#md5">MD5</a>:(.*?)<a""",re.IGNORECASE|re.MULTILINE) ############################################################################################# def main(): print print "Retrieving:" print WEBPAGE local_only = 0 # Just for script development & debugging def_file = None if 1 != local_only: try: url = urllib2.urlopen( WEBPAGE ) page = url.read() except urllib2.HTTPError, e: print print e print sys.exit() except: print print "Error retrieving url:", WEBPAGE print sys.exit() data = page.split() for line in data: match = URLRE.match(line) if None != match: def_file_url = match.group(1) break print print "def_file_url:", def_file_url slots = def_file_url.split( "/" ) def_file = slots[-1:][0] def_file = TMPPATH + "\\" + def_file print "def_file:", def_file match = MD5RE.search(page) md5sum = match.groups(1)[0].strip() print "md5sum:", md5sum print if os.path.isfile( def_file ): print "File already exists:", def_file print "Deleting." os.unlink( def_file ) print "Downloading:", def_file_url urllib.urlretrieve( def_file_url, def_file ) else: # Just for debugging def_file = "vd1cd412.xdb" md5sum="52D5B99589D4D2C01E4E29A2ED2EC3B4" print "Checking md5:", fp = open(def_file,"rb") def_file_data = fp.read() fp.close() m = md5.new() m.update( def_file_data ) digest = m.hexdigest().upper() print digest if digest == md5sum: print "MD5 Hashes match." else: print "MD5 Hashes DO NOT MATCH." print "\t expected: ", md5sum print "\t received: ", digest sys.exit() # stop services srv="DefWatch" print "Stopping", srv, "service: ", cmd = r'C:\WINDOWS\system32\net.exe' cmd = '%s stop "%s"' % (cmd,srv) rc = os.system( cmd ) time.sleep(10) print rc srv="Symantec Antivirus" print "Stopping", srv, "service: ", cmd = r'C:\WINDOWS\system32\net.exe' cmd = '%s stop "%s"' % (cmd,srv) rc = os.system( cmd ) time.sleep(20) print rc # remove any older .xdb files old_xdb_list = AVPATH + r'\*.xdb' rm_list = glob.glob( old_xdb_list ) if len(rm_list) > 0: for fname in rm_list: try: print "Removing old .xdb file:", fname os.remove( fname ) except IOError, e: print "IO Error:", e print "While attempting to remove %s" % ( fname ) print # move def file to it's final destination try: shutil.move(def_file, AVPATH) time.sleep(2) except IOError, e: print "IO Error:", e print "While attempting to move %s to %s" % (def_file,AVPATH) print except: print "Unknown error while attempting to move %s to %s" % (def_file,AVPATH) print # restart services print srv="DefWatch" print "Starting", srv, "service: ", cmd = r'C:\WINDOWS\system32\net.exe' cmd = '%s start "%s"' % (cmd,srv) rc = os.system( cmd ) time.sleep(10) print rc srv="Symantec Antivirus" print "Starting", srv, "service: ", cmd = r'C:\WINDOWS\system32\net.exe' cmd = '%s start "%s"' % (cmd,srv) rc = os.system( cmd ) time.sleep(2) print rc print print "Program finished!" print ############################################################################################# main() # End of Script
  20. One reason that I would pick 2003 over XP is volume shadow copy. http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserve...DE91BA1033.mspx -John
  21. Right click on My Computer -> properties -> Computer Name -> Change button. Then see if you can choose Domain: under the Member of box. Type something in, even if it is bogus. At least it will try to join a domain. Under the current MicrowinX, I could not even get that far. -John
  22. I thought this might be the case, but after running RegMon, I don't believe this is how it makes it determination. I even disable System Restore, renamed explorer.exe to explorer_real.exe, created a (compiled) AutoIT script named explorer.exe that simply did a Run("c:\windows\explorer_real.exe"). This did not work either. I want to make just about everthing low rights, but still run programs like ADUC, Enterprise Mgr, System Mgr, etc. w/o having to type in a RunAs password. -John
  23. As an experiment, I edited HKLM\SW\MS\WNT\CV\WL\Shell and set the value from "Explorer.exe" to "psexec -d -l Explorer.exe". Now when I logon, I do not have admin abilities any more, but Explorer does not open up in shell mode any more either, but rather (for lack of a better term), "My Computer" mode. Does anyone know how I can correct this? I still want explorer as my shell, but also want to psexec it. I know I could run as a standard user instead of Admin, but this is not the point of my experiment. Thanks, -John Title edited -- Please, use [TAGS] in your topic's title. --Sonic
  24. gdogg, AD support = Active Directory, abilitiy to join a domain, etc. It would be awesome if the next rev could support it. -John
  25. gdogg, What about AD support in the next rev? -John
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