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  1. Hi All, Maybe you guys can clear up some confusion for me. In the past I have used sysprep to create images and used RIS to deploy them via PXE boot. I understand we now have a new tool called imagex, my understanding is you sysprep the machine, boot into WinPE and the run imagex to capture the image. What are the advantages of doing this versus the way I have been doing it? By the way we are deploying XP and not vista. Greg A. Profitt
  2. They are local (non-roaming) profiles, and yes we plan on migrating the machines to the new domain.
  3. Hi All, The company I just started with has domain A which is disappearing as we have purchased this company, we currently log into domain A. I have zero admin rights on domain A but we are going to create our own domain. I am assuming when the user logs into the new domain it will create a new profile. How do I move over the new local profile so it's retained at each workstation when they log into the new domain? I thought I remember seeing a registry entry to fix this. Thanks, Greg
  4. Has anyone went through all the steps of deploying XP with the new BDD/WDS setup? I'm a little lost. How has it worked out for those who have tried it? Greg
  5. Hi, I have installed the WDS tools included with Server 2003 SP2, how do I build an XP WIM file. I can't locate any instructions on how to do this. Thanks, Greg
  6. Currently we have no VLAN's at all. Corporate wants us to use the address scheme 172.18.152-159.x when we redesign our network. Currently everything is Class A, 255.0.0.0. I'm not fully sure how to segregate the network traffic, I know how to physically seperate it. How can I isolate a particular range of IP's from other traffic hitting it.
  7. HI All, I need some help. First of all i'm no network guru, I don't understanding subnetting or subnet masks. I have been given the task to redesign our network. I know currently our network is all Class A, 10.x.x.x, 255.0.0.0 addresses. We have one router which connects us to our facility in Alabama. We have a Juniper box which connects us to the Wan. The other day someone looped one of our IP phones and basically took down the whole network until I found it. We have Dell switches which I want to replace because quite frankly they suck and offer no management options. I know on a few Cisco switches we have it disabled the ports on them because of all the traffic. Alright enough complaining on to my problem. We have about 15 IDF panels in our plant, all of them have one switch and fiber connections that go into our server room. My main issue is nothing is labeled and they have ran cabling from these IDF panels all over the facility, in other words it's not a safe bet to assume they ran what would be obvious runs to the appropriate/closest IDF panel. I am assuming because of this VLANs would be very hard to implement. How can I segregate all this traffic and get everything off the Class A network scheme? I understand Class A is a big con. How are the Procurve line of switches? Any advice or sample maps would be great. Thanks, Greg greggap@comcast.net
  8. Hi All, Recently someone recommended Solarwinds for Network Monitoring. I'm looking for something that will do an automated discovery and monitor port level traffic. The company I work for has everything very disorganized. I can't tell what connect to what, etc etc. It's definetly a big mess. They have mainly all Dell Switches throughout a warehouse area, it's all on a Class A network with no Vlans. I'd like to be able to find out exactly what everything is connecting to and document it out. Doing it manually would take forever. Thanks, Greg
  9. HI All, I need some advice. In the past 5 years i've been mainly a server and desktop hardware guy. My boss wants to me to start studying more on the network side. Can anyone recommend a good beginner book, I don't understand decimal to binary or which class addresses can communicate with other classes, subnetting, subnet masks etc. I know our network at work is badly designed as a Class A 10.0.x.x network but i'm not sure where to start but I definetly need to understand basic design principals and understand ip addressing. Thanks, Greg
  10. Hi All, I need someone who is familiar with ISA Server 2004 to give me some help. We are switching from the ISA server to a Cisco Appliance. I am trying to get a list of the network setup in ISA server into a format for the Technician assisting us with the install. Apparently ISA encrypts the XML file because when I open it up in excel it looks encrypted. How can I export a listing of the firewall rules etc in a readable format? I'm assuming they do this for security and only ISA server can read the files. Thanks, Greg
  11. Hi All, We are looking for a Network monitoring tool that monitors uptime, bandwidth and other parameters for our Cisco routers, switches etc. We would like something that will show graphs of IP traffic from particular IP's etc. I'm more of a network administrator instead of an engineer so we need something that's easy to understand and setup and hopefully low cost. Thanks, Greg
  12. Hi All, I have a huge excel spreadsheet of about 400 computers and a lot of applications. I have been given the task to uninstall any application that doesn't meet compliance. We would like to do this as cheaply as possible without buying SMS, etc. I tried using MSIexec in a login script but apparently you have to know the GUID of each application. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks, Greg A. Profitt
  13. Hi, I have a question, the company I work for names all the machines the Asset Tag/Serial number of the machine using WMI. The problem is I don't know the owner of all of the machines as they have various profiles on them? Is there a script that will give me the total logins for every machine in Active Directory that is user based. For instance: Machine:JXKURN Joe Brown:426 logins Steve Smith:20 logins Mike Smith:2 logins I can easily assume this machine belongs to Joe Brown. I can't think of anyway to accomplish this. Thanks, Greg
  14. Can anyone recommend any good books for the MCSA tests. From what I hear the Microsoft books are not that great for study material. Anyone have any good practice tests or sites?
  15. Hi All, I have a quick question, how exactly do I backup Active Directory?
  16. Hi All, Does anyone know of a good affordable Active Directory Add-on that is good for inventory and license mamangement. Preferably we would like something that has some automatic and cost calculation of licenses per employee. We checked out specops but it was very expensive. Thanks, Greg
  17. Is there anyway to make my Windows install files for XP bootable now that I have created them with Nlite? I tried making a bootable cd with no luck.
  18. Hi All, Has anyone ever seen Server 2003 lose shared folder permissions after a reboot? I can share multiple folders and then reboot and the folders are no longer shared. I've never seen anything like this, any suggestions? Thanks, Greg
  19. Hi All, The RIS has been working great on our server. All of a sudden now we are getting the error "Unable to create or modify computer account" error when trying to install an RIS image. We rebooted the server recently so I am not sure what has happened. In DHCP the server is authorized and I am using a domain admin account, any suggestions? I've tried stopping and restarting the service. Thanks, Greg
  20. It definetly needs to be web based. I don't think it's hard at all I just can't find any examples.
  21. Hi, I need some help with something I am not sure how to do. I have created batch files which install network printer or printers when clicked via a link. I would like to create a page that has all of our printers listed with checkboxes beside them and a submit button at the bottom. I would like if they select multiple printers to run a different batch file based on the printers they have selected. For example Example A {X}checkbox - Accounting HP Laserjet 4200 {X}checkbox - Accounting HP Laserjet 1320 Submit - This would run accounting.bat which installs both of these printers. Example B { }checkbox - Accounting HP Laserjet 4200 {X}checkbox - Accounting HP Laserjet 1320 Submit - This would run 1320.bat which installs the laserjet 1320 only. Thanks so much for the help, if I can get some sample code that would help me out.
  22. You're still running ISA Server 2000 on Windows 2000 Server, aren't you? ISA 2004 on WS 2003 handles VPNs great. The product was almost entirely overhauled, and the management UI makes it much easier to get configuration right, and you can download the ISA 2004 BPA (Best Practices Analyzer) to check everything. ISA 2006 will be shipping soon. The big problem with your wishlist is the content filtering. Nobody provides true content filtering in a standalone product for cheap. All the free/cheap choices which claim to offer content filtering are ridiculously primitive. If you have a very small number of users, you could look at Sonicwall's low-end boxes. Otherwise, there's really nothing worthwhile available in your budget range. But if you go with ISA 2004, you can get free and customizable Destination Sets to do filtering: http://www.isaserver.bm/destination_sets.html Other must-know sites for ISA resources: http://www.isatools.org/ http://www.isaserver.org/ Actually we are running it on the Server 2003 OS. Here is one issue for example we are having. We have a big need to utilize VPN with Windows Mobile 5.0 devices. We have a bunch of Cingular PDA's. We have tried using both IPSEC and L2TP. What happens is the first time the unit connects it works fine, the next time it will not connect unless the unit is rebooted. I don't experience this problem when connecting to my old work's Cisco unit. Any suggestions? We get a generic timeout error when connecting the 2nd time.
  23. We have all kinds of issues with VPN connectivity with ISA Server. Especially with Windows Mobile devices. We would prefer it runs a Windows environment. An appliance type devices that has content filtering, VPN, Firewall etc would be ideal. Of course Cisco is eliminated based on price.
  24. HI, We are currently running Microsoft ISA Server on a box that we would like to replace. We are not too crazy about Microsoft ISA server. We would like the following and i'm looking for recommendations. It's not a huge company so we are looking to spend between 1000-2000k. We need something that supports L2TP and IPSEC via VPN, and we would like it to have some sort of Internet content filtering built in. Keep people off porn sites, etc. It needs to be rack mountable.. Thanks, Greg
  25. When attempting to use the Windows Update site and performing the Windows Genuine check I receive the following error. Validation Incomplete: Unable to Perform Validation It works like a champ if I don't use the RIS installation method. Same product key etc. It's definetly not an Active-X issue or anything like that. It's definetly something the RIS is doing or the slipstreaming is modifiying a file or something. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Greg A. Profitt
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