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    - 2 processors Hi all, Our sbs2000 server is used mostly used for printing, exchange and a sql database. The sbs2000 server has 1-xeon p4 processor, when printing the cpu rockets up to 100%! I'm thinking of placing a second cpu. Will it help in overall performance? How do I balance the different processes on the 2-xeon processors? Thxs, Erik Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171557
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    - Installing SBS2003 in virtual PC I would like to develop applications for SBS2003 and install it on my laptop with Virtual PC 2004. Has anyone done this type of installation? What problems are likely to show up? How to handle not having internet access, or internet access via wifi connection to a cable broadband? Thanks. Dan Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171548
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    - chkdsk on RAID Drives SBS2K hardware raid 6 drives in raid set. Three containers C:-10GB D:-20GB E:-30GB (approx) These are SCSI drives and are approx 3 1/2 years old, well used. I received today a run chkdsk error on drive C: rebooted, ran chkdsk /f and all seems OK no troubles seemed to show up. Since drive C runs across 5 drives (one is a hot spare) how can I check the specific health of the individual of the 6 drives may be failing? M Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171547
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    - SBS2003 basic & VPN Howdy. Does the basic version offer the same VPN as the premium? Only used to the premium version and have not seen a site that definitely answers this. Thanks. Aaron Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171545
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    - WMI status Hi all, Was wondering if anyone has ever seen this before? I have searched around on google and stuff and seems to find a few message boards...etc of people using SBS2000 of having this problem but never seem get a answer/fix. The health monitor on the server is using the default Windows 2000 Perforance Monitors. The cache, Logical Disk, Memory, Network all have critical errors. When I try to reset the monitor its goes back to critical instantly. When I checked the message all have the following message: Enumeration failed. Object not found. Data Collector is misconfigured. Just one example is one the disk monitors:: one is space less than 10. Well the drive is not even half way used so i know that there is something wrong with the monitor. Is there a way to reset and/or reinstall them so it reconfigs the collector. I have it to send me emails for the counters and now I seems to be getting around 1000 or so every morning. The server itself works flawlessly. I have not had any prolems with it as all. Any ideas Thanks Eddie Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171540
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    - Public Shared Folder Permissions Hello, SBS2K. The reason why I posted this thread in this group is because I am pretty sure this has been done by most of the users here. I am actually surprised I have yet to do it. That said, here is what I want to do. I need to create a shared folder on the server to be used by the 'Public'. In essence, the folder needs the following characteristics: 1. No one, except for the Administrator can delete the top level Public folder. 2. Users can create subfolders within the top-level folder. 3. Users can read any files or traverse and folders within the top-level folder, but the only files they can change or delete are ones they create. 4.Users can add files, but only into a subfolder within the top level Public folder. They cannot add them directly into the folder. (I am not sure if I actually want to do this which is why I listed it last) I am trying to figure out what permissions to place on this folder to accomplish my goals and have come up with the following: 1. I will create the folder within the Company folder and share it giving the Everyone group full permissions. 2. In terms of the security permissions, I was going to set them up as follows: a. Uncheck allow inheritable permissions to propagate b. Administrator: Full Control (This folder, subfolder, and files) c. Everyone: Read & Execute, List Folder Contents, Read (This folder, subfolder, and files) d. CREATOR OWNER: Full Control (This folder, subfolder, and files) I think this should cover the first, second, and third characteristics of what I need for the public folder, but not the fourth. Is this correct? Also, is it possible (or even prudent) to try to accomplish number 4? I was thinking that there maybe characteristics that are standard when establishing a public folder that I am missing here (not 1-4). If so, what are they? Maybe its b/c I haven't had enough coffee, but I always seem to have trouble working with permissions, especially, when they are granular like this. Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks, Chris Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171537
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    - logon scripts How do I edit the logon scripts? We are getting a new server and I would like to change the "Z: user folder" from our SBS2000 to the new server. Thanks Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171536
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    - New users default Internet Explorer Connection settings When one of our new domain users logs into one of workstations for the first time, their web proxy settings are being incorrectly set to http://sbs_servername We have checked our group policies and have never set them to use these settings. Can anyone make any suggestions as to where these settings are coming from and how we can prevent them? We have to manually configure the correct settings which are then stored in the users local profile, so its never a problem when they log back on, but its just very annoying when they log on to a different computer for the first time and when we get new starters. Any suggestions are most welcome. Many thanks Dan Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171535
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    - How to get rid of Dula Boot menu Hello, I installed SBS2003 on a scsi drive that i put into a computer that already had an IDE drive with windows 98 on it. When i disconnect the SCSI drive and turn the power on, it still gives me the dual boot menu. When i disconnect the IDE drive it still gives the dual boot menu sometimes and sometimes it just hangs with a blinking cursor on a black screen. How can i fix it so that it only boots from the drive that is connected to the system ? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Tony Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171528
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    - There was a SMTP communication problem with the recipient's email server Does anybody know why we get this when we try to forward some emails. It only happens on certains emails that i try to forward. SBS2000 SP4, Exchange 2000. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Tony >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients. Subject: FW: This year Sent: 3/15/2005 1:50 PM The following recipient(s) could not be reached: antoniongirgenti@comcast.net on 3/15/2005 1:50 PM There was a SMTP communication problem with the recipient's email server. Please contact your system administrator. <compexserver.compex.local #5.5.0 smtp;554 refused mailfrom because return MX does not exist> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171526
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    - WMI Status I seem to be getting lot of health monitor errors. Server is SBS2000 sp1a. The ones that I am getting are: Cache, Logical Disk, Memory, Network. The error that I seems to get on all of them is Enumeration failed. Object not found. Data Collector is misconfigured. Is there a way to reset and/or reinstall all the collectors so that the problems go away. If I manually go into health monitor and try to reset the monitor it pulls the error back up and it will not go away even after restarting the WMI service and/or the server itself. It also seems to send me a email like every min all night long. I usally will get around 1000 emails saying that I have a critical error. I have also read throught the network interface Q article that I found on technet and it didnt seems to help either. The server itself runs fine, not a single problem at all. Thanks for the help. Eddie Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171523
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    - Many unexpected outbound e-mail messages appear in the SMTP queue Hi, We run small business server 2000 and have received a corupt email which has tied up the exchange server. I have stopped the SMTP service for now. Please could you advise me if there is a patch for exchange 2000 the same as this one for exchange 2003 Microsoft ID 835735 Many Thanks Paul Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171521
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    - SBS2K SP1a Question I am attemopting to install the SP1a to my SBS2K server ot resolve the 15 user limit on the POP Mail COnnector. When I start the install I get an error saying that the install requires a minimum of 125Mb for the ClientApps share. The share "ClientApps5" exists on a 120Gb RAID array. This is not the original location, but it certainly has enough free space. Does anyone know how to get around this issue. Robert S. Clayton II Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171519
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    - <<Handy Andy SBS Chat on NOW>> CHAT: SBS Live! ** Tuesday, March 15, 7 p.m. Eastern Got Small Business Server and want to get help administering it or help others to get the most out of it? Share you SBS stories with others this Tuesday, March 15 at 7 pm; Microsoft MVP and SBS expert Andy Goodman will be there as master of ceremonies: http://mcpmag.com/chats/ To join, to learn how to join a chat, to read the rules of conduct, or to obtain a transcript of a past chat, go to http://MCPmag.com/chats. If you're using a chat program, such as Microsoft Chat 2.0 or mIRC, you can join by going to the #MCPmag.com room on the chat.mcpmag.com server. Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171516
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    - OWA Logoff Problem After applying the last Exchange 2k service pack the logoff page for OWA no longer shows up. It now gives a 404 not found. I checked the location for the page and it exists, I looked at the code and it seems to be fine. Any ideas why this page gives a 404 error? This is running on a SBS 2k machine. Thanks, Don Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171515
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    - Creating backups with ntbackup.exe onto CD (command-line cd burner Windows 2000 doesn't have cdrw support does it? I'm trying to create a backup of a folder that works off of a scheduled task. Do you happen to know a cdburner that you can run from the command line, under windows 2000? I just want to put in a CD before I leave work, and then the backup script run at like 9:00pm and then when I come in the next morning I'll just put that CD or CDRW up. I just don't know exactly how to create CD's from the command line. David Harris Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171513
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    - ISA Server We are running a 2000SB Server that is runnign ISA server, there are a number of days that we need to restart the server as everything grinds to a halt. After the restart everything works ok How can i check that out server is 100% secure and am i able to find out if other people are accessing our server from out side the organisation your help and assistance would be appreciated Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171512
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    - Set standard printers Is there a way to remove or reset all printers for all users on a Terminal Server without going into each user logon? We have just moved offices and the printers have all been moved. I would like to clear all existing printers out and reset all users with 3 options option one as default. Two of the printers are currently shared on workstations \\Workstation01\HP4PlusOffice \\Workstation02\HP4PlusWhse The other is IP_192.168.16.50\RicohAficio2232 Any suggestions would be appreciated M Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171511
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    - Uninstall xp pro and install to another machine? Hi, All, One of our user bought a new laptop (with XP home). He wants to use the new laptop to replace his old laptop which is in our SBS2000 domain. He has XP pro. installed at this old laptop by the previous IT guy. The use wants to continue to use his XP pro.. So he wants me to uninstall the XP pro. and install it at this new laptop and join the domain. I know all xp has to be activated with end user license. I have never tried this before. I don't know whether I can do this or not. If I can do this, how to do this without causing activation information confiction? Please help. Thanks a lot in advance. Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171510
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    - Lost Mail This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C52991.C1CECF00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Running SBS 2000 I noticed that we were not pulling our emails from over server when I = logged into web mail on Demon.=20 I rebooted the server and during the reboot before Exchange had finished = loading it pulled all the mail, but didn't get to the users mail box = !!!! Where will I find it ?? Thanks Mark ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C52991.C1CECF00 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2900.2604" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Running SBS 2000</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I noticed that we were not pulling our = emails from=20 over server when I logged into web mail on Demon. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I rebooted the server and during the = reboot before=20 Exchange had finished loading it pulled all the mail, but didn't get to = the=20 users mail box !!!!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Where will I find it ??</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Thanks</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Mark</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C52991.C1CECF00-- Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171507
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    - Network Adapters in Server Our Dell Power Edge 800 came with a network adapter installed, and another by itself in a box. SBS 2003, of course. The setup instructions tell me to use two adapters, but the setup poster indicates that one can use a single adapter. We have only 5 users max, and I don't know of any advantage to having two adapters instead of just one. Any input would be helpful :) Thanks, Louis Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171503
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    - Replacing NT4.0 server with SBS Server We just bought a Dell Power Edge 800 with SBS. I would like to 'demote' the NT 4.0 server (800MHZ with 256 MB RAM) to a workstation whose only purpose would be to back up files on the network, and store disk images of the workstations. The new server is not in place, and I've not connected to the Internet. It's just on the network with a single network adapter. My question is what should I do to demote the current server to lowly workstation status? As for the workstations, I plan on working on them so they will join the new server's domain. They are XP Pro and one Windows ME (which we will retire if it's a hassle). Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171502
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    - 2000 CALs: fulfillment media (ugh) I am in the process of trying to add some additional CALs to our SBS2000 system. From my understanding I need to purchase SBS2003 license and get extra fulfillment media (floppy disk) so I can add them to the system. I bought the licenses from Dell and mentioned the fulfillment media. When the licenses arrived there was no extra media, the only thing I got was a piece of paper saying I have 5 more licenses. How can I add them to the system? I have call Dell 5 times (support,sales etc) and NO ONE knows anything about this special fulfillment media. This has been very frustrating and I don't see a solution. Can I get this media from a different vendor? Am I asking for the wrong thing? Can I add the licenses without this extra media? (when I put in my original license floppies it says its already been used) Any help would be appreciated..... Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171501
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    - Cannot find number of CALS on SBS 2000 Hi. I have just inherited a SBS 2000 system and nobody has knowledge of how many sbs cals we originally bought and documentation has disappeared. I've been to About in Admin Console but where the number of licences are usually, there is only SBS (i.e. Licences: SBS) Any other methods for determining number of CALs on a SBS2k system? Thanks, Peter. Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171494
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    - Migrating Live SBS2000 to SBS2003 server Hi, we have just purchased a new Server with SBS2003. I need to migrate our existing SBS2000 with exhange and sql db applications and new workstations to this new environment. Any tips or good step by step whitepapers out there to help? thanks paddy Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171488
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    - ArcServe v9 backup question Hi, I need to urgently know about differential backups and incremental backups. We are running SBS2000 and a member file server on our domain, which is clearly taking far too long to backup due to the capacity of it. We are running CA's ArcServe V9 with b/up agent for open files and client agents. Thanks in advance. Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171480
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    - Out of office Assistant not working I have Small Business Server 2000 with Exchange 2000 SP3. All client have Outlook 2003 installed. When i enable the "Out of Office Assistant" in Outlook 2003 and i send myself an email from an external email account i do not get a Out of Office reply. The email is received ok to the exchange mailbox. What could be the problem? Is this an issue with Exchange 2000 or the Client. I have tried the "Out of Office Assistant" on two different clients both with no success. Thanks Brian Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171479
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    - Spam Blocker Recommendations For SBS2000 I need some recommendations for spam blocking software for our SBS2000 server. We have been using client side solutions, but our firm has grown to the point that we need to migrate to a server based solution. I'd like to hear from people who have had experience with this, both good and bad, and the packages they have used. Thanks for the help. Jeff Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171475
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    - <<Small biz news the week of March 13>> << If you have NOT installed XP sp2 OR you wonder WHY we need and want the firewall INSIDE of our networks listen to this TechNet Radio>> http://msmvps.com/bradley/archive/2005/03/12/38313.aspx Steve Riley: the ?perimeter for all practical purposes is gone. Every machine is becoming its own perimeter?. each individual computer must now take more responsibility for its own security?. ---------------------------- <<Patching update>> Windows 98 critical patches released MS 05-002 and MS 05-015 http://isc.sans.org//diary.php?date=2005-03-08 Malicious software removal tool released and if you don't have any 'malicious software, you'll run it and go ...huh? What did it do? No other patches for other OS ---------------------------- <<This week in the communities of SBS>> The first SBS Partner group tour kicked off in Redmond: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs/community/usergrouptour.mspx The Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 Product and Development teams have announced plans to visit 14 U.S. cities in March 2005, as part of the first U.S. Small Business Server Partner Group Tour. You are invited to attend these complementary events, designed specifically for Small Business IT consultants. Session discussions will include: ? The Small Business Customer - Data and Trends ? How Microsoft Partners are becoming successful with Windows Small Business Server 2003 ? Windows Small Business Server 2003 Service Pack 1 overview and what it means for you and your customers ? Windows Small Business Server 2003 demos ? Product strategy and roadmap These events are sponsored by local Small Business Server user groups. Join us for an opportunity to network with other partners focused on Small Business Server and to meet Microsoft product and development team members. For more information and to register, visit the Microsoft Partner Program site. http://www.msreadiness.com/sbsusergroup.asp ----------------------- Canadian IT Pro Community Summit! http://www.winternals.com/itsummit/ April 26, 2005 9:00AM - 4:30PM John Bassett Theatre Metro Toronto Convention Centre 255 Front Street West, Toronto Keynote: Growing Importance of Community for the IT Pro Presenter: Mark Russinovich This complimentary full-day seminar will provide expert, actionable insights into managing the daily technology challenges IT Professionals face. Get the answers you need, ask the tough questions, and network with other IT Professionals in your community! --------------------------- March 16th - Sharepoint and SBS Coming to a web browser near you . . .: http://msmvps.com/cgross/archive/2005/03/07/37876.aspx Event Name: Wednesdays on the Web with TS2: Conversation with a Partner Event Date: Wednesday, March 16th 2005 Event Time: 4:00 P.M. CST (GMT -6:00) Duration: 60 Minutes Description: Join us as we talk with Chad Gross, SBS-MVP about using Windows Sharepoint Services as a business application development platform to increase customer satisfaction and efficiency while providing additional revenue for partners. To register for this event: http://www.msreadiness.com/eventregister.asp?eid=1692 ------------------------------------------ Blogs of interest this week: Make me admin http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/archive/2005/03/11/394244.aspx What about the SMB space is so hard to understand? http://msmvps.com/cgross/archive/2005/03/13/38446.aspx Keeping the noise down in your security log http://silverstr.ufies.org/blog/archives/000802.html Financial Cryptography: How to Break MD5 and Other Hash Functions: http://www.financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000394.html VB6 versus VB.net http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/03/09.html How to find out if your Mail server is an open relay http://sbslive.blogspot.com/2005/03/how-to-find-out-if-your-mail-server-is.html How 'not' to speed up a XP sp2 http://blogs.msdn.com/michael_howard/archive/2005/02/23/379421.aspx Saving that email...good or bad? http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=2379096 FSecure's new root kit detector http://blogs.msdn.com/robert_hensing/archive/2005/03/10/392122.aspx --------------------------- In other news Zen worker arrested over suspected CC theft An employee at UK ISP Zen Internet has been arrested for allegedly misusing credit cards details obtained from work. It's understood that the suspect bought accounts for an online gaming service using stolen credit card details before reselling the gaming packages on eBay. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/10/zen_police/ - - - - - - - - - - DSW data theft likely to affect hundreds of thousands More than 100,000 customers of a shoe-store chain likely have been affected by a cyber break-in of the company's database, the Secret Service said Thursday. DSW Shoe Warehouse discovered the theft of credit card and personal shopping information last Friday and reported it to federal authorities, the company said. Corporate parent Retail Ventures (RVI) announced the theft Tuesday. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-03-10-dsw-theft_x.htm - - - - - - - - - - ID Thieves Tap Files at 2nd Big Data Firm LexisNexis discloses that information on more than 30,000 Americans was breached. Congress plans to begin hearings today on such problems. Identity thieves have struck again, using stolen passwords to tap personal data on more than 30,000 Americans kept by information broker LexisNexis, the company said Wednesday. (LA Times article, free registration required) http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-lexis10mar10,1,2795061.story - - - - - - - - - - Taiwan police seize suspect AMD, fake STM chips Taiwan police raided the premises of Atop Electronics on 8 March, seizing 75,000 'suspect' AMD CPU and 25,000 fake STMicroelectronics flash memory chips, local paper the Liberty Times reports, via Digitimes. The AMD CPUs are worth NT$600m ($19.4m) and the ST chips are worth NT$200m ($6.45m). http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/10/taiwan_police_seize_suspect_amd_chips/ - - - - - - - - - - Feds probe mysterious credit card charges Federal authorities have opened an investigation into a rash of mysterious $30 and $40 charges appearing on consumer credit cards around the country, MSNBC.com has learned. The charges are for the purchase of DVDs and CDs from a company named "Pluto Data Ltd." Thousands of complaints about the charges have appeared on a Web site devoted to the mystery, with consumers saying they've never heard of the company. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7150531/ - - - - - - - - - - French security researcher fined A French court has ruled that security researcher Guillaume Tena acted unlawfully in publishing proof of concept code to highlight security flaws in ViGuard, an antivirus product, from French company Tegam. Tena was given a suspended fine of ?5,000 ($6,700 or £3,480) in a case that could have big implications for security research in France. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/10/tegam_verdict/ - - - - - - - - - - Internet payment company sold customer data An Internet payment company has agreed to return the money it earned from selling a list of nearly 1 million customers to telemarketers and junk mailers without permission, federal regulators said Thursday. Utah-based CartManager International sold the names, addresses, phone numbers and purchase history of consumers who used its "shopping cart" software to make purchases on thousands of Web sites, the Federal Trade Commission said. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7149890/ - - - - - - - - - - Revised Spyware Bill Moves Ahead A key committee in the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously approved anti- spyware legislation Wednesday that includes revisions designed to make the bill more palatable to business interests. HR29, the Securely Protect Yourself Against Cyber Trespass Act, or Spy Act, is sponsored by Rep. Mary Bono (R-California). http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,66848,00.html - - - - - - - - - - Credit card flaws fuel online fraud bonanza Today's credit cards are vulnerable to online fraud because of fundamental design flaws, industry experts warned today. According to Forrester Research, the provision of all security and other functionality on a single physical card makes it intrinsically unsafe. http://www.vnunet.com/news/1161835 Congress edges toward new privacy rules http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5609324.html Senator predicts 'overdue' changes to privacy http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5608455.html ChoicePoint data loss may be higher than reported http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5609253.html FTC chief calls for ChoicePoint regulation http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7152421/ http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,66863,00.html LexisNexis Breach Fuels Data Security Worries http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_title=LexisNexis-Breach-Fuels-Data-Security-Worries&story_id=31131 - - - - - - - - - - British banks in talks to fight ID theft Major British banks may soon tighten their security in a bid to protect customers from identity theft. RSA Security has been in discussions with all of the major U.K. banks about providing them with better security for their customers, the company said on Thursday. Although U.K. banks have been slow to take up increased security measures, RSA said they are now close to acting on identity theft. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5608885.html UK banks in talks to tighten security http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39190817,00.htm - - - - - - - - - - Code to drill CA holes found on Web? A security group has discovered exploit code that could enable attackers to take advantage of flaws in Computer Associates International's licensing software. eEye Digital Security said Thursday that exploit code for the buffer overflow vulnerabilities has been published on the Web by the Hat-Squad Security Group, a band of computer security enthusiasts. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5608578.html - - - - - - - - - - UK firms haemorrhaging data to drive-by hackers The explosion of wireless networks is leaving global businesses wide open to 'drive-by hacking' and other security risks, experts have warned. According to research released today, more than a third of businesses worldwide with wireless networks are open to abuse from hackers and criminals in the street or a neighbouring building. http://www.vnunet.com/news/1161837 - - - - - - - - - - Cell phones to get virus protection Germany--Antivirus company Kaspersky Lab is preparing to release antivirus software for smart phones that use the Symbian operating system. Cell phone viruses are still relatively rare, but Kaspersky's move into mobile antivirus software shows it expects more to break out in the future. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5608794.html Authors of Bagle, Zafi and Netsky working together http://www.crime-research.org/news/10.03.2005/1029/ Virus writers wreak havoc by the hour http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39190822,00.htm Global virus epidemics run out of steam http://www.vnunet.com/news/1161826 - - - - - - - - - - Deleted computer files never truly gone What you don?t know can hurt you, especially when it comes to deleting computer files. A recent court- martial here involved an Airman who was convicted for possessing child pornography on his home computer. The Airman thought he was covering his tracks by deleting the incriminating computer files from his computer. He even tried to erase the information from the hard drive, said 96th Air Base Wing legal officials. http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123009998 - - - - - - - - - - A "breakthrough" in hacking Windows Dejan Levaja, certain security expert, in his posting to BugTraq archive at Security Focus, noted that Windows Server 2003 and XP SP2 (with Windows Firewall turned off) are vulnerable to "LAND attack". This attack is sending TCP packet with SYN flag set, source and destination IP address and source and destination port as of destination machine, results in 15-30 seconds DoS condition. http://www.crime-research.org/news/10.03.2005/1027/ [just a note here ..it's a DOS and if you have XP sp2's firewall on inside the network [which you should] it is immune - - - - - - - - - - Infection Vectors It's time to pick your favorite virus. The other day I was browsing through the top virus threats for February and March 2005, looking at the assorted nastiness, when a funny thought occurred to me: is it possible to pick a favorite virus (or virus family)? http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/306 It's time to pick your favourite virus http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/10/time_to_pick_your_favourite_virus/ - - - - - - - - - - Click Fraud: Problem and Paranoia Last week, I served on the "Click Fraud: Problem or Paranoia" panel at the Search Engine Strategies conference in New York. At one point, Jessie Stricchiola, one of my fellow panelists, tried to gauge the extent of the problem by asking the 80 people in attendance to raise their hands if they had ever been victims of "click fraud." About half of the audience members, most of them small businesses owners, raised their hands. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66845,00.html - - - - - - - - - - AT&T's Eslambolchi on software code, SOAs, security He foresees software security problems of 'biblical proportions'. AT&T's top IT leader, Hossein Eslambolchi, this week warned of security problems of "biblical proportions" unless more is done to improve the quality of software code. To help accomplish that, he is working to improve the education of software engineers under a new program at the University of California. http://computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,100309,00.html -- An open letter to the Security Community:: http://msmvps.com/bradley/archive/2004/12/12/23540.aspx Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171470
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    - OWA Times Out I'm getting complaints from my sales guys in the field that since we upgraded to SBS 2003, OWA is timing out too fast/often for them. Is there a way to change the default and more importantly, do I really want to or am I asking for more problems? Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171453
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    - Up time of server Hi, I like to know if there is a way I can find the uptime of a server I am using windows 2003 server sajan Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171448
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    - SBS2k - Outlook query All, Have SBS2k on a site, and have been asked that mail to 'A' is also copied to 'B'. Have down this in AD, keeping a copy so 'A' still gets email. Problem is, as soon as email hits 'B', a read receipt is sent to the original sender of the email to 'A'. 'B' swears that the option box does not come up for her to decide whether a receipt should, or should not be sent. Have looked on the local Outlook, and in AD/Exchange, and cannot see why this should be happening. Any thoughts? TIA, Phil Partridge philp@pebbleGRIT.demon.co.uk Remove the grit to reply Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171444
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    - ftp port 20,21 Client is not able to connect to ftp site. I created, in IP PACKET FILTERING, two new filter one for ftp 20 , outbound and one for ftp 21 inbound, I restarted ISA services still not able to access FTP site from server as well as clients. THANKS Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171441
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    - Please help me. The whole network is down suddenly Hi, Our network is dwon suddenly yesterday afternoon. We are using Small Business Server 2000. Now all the computer in the network can not get on internet. The workstations can not access to the server. I got Event ID: 201: windows is out of license. Does it cause the whole disaster? Please help me. Thanks! -- George Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171438
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    - There was a SMTP communication problem Hi, all We have a SBS2000 in a box. We receive emails using POP3 and send emails using SPTM via our ISP. We have no problems sending most emails but just can't send emails to a single user. The following is the error message: "Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients. Subject: RE: the returned message Sent: 11/03/2005 10:19 The following recipient(s) could not be reached: 'xxxx' on 11/03/2005 10:20 There was a SMTP communication problem with the recipient's email server. Please contact your system administrator. <localserver.Mydomain.local #5.5.0 smtp;550-REJECTED: The domain you have referred to is blocked due to SPAM. Please>" Any suggestions as to which domain has been blocked and by whom? (my domain or our ISP's or the recipient's). Many thanks. Leigh Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171437
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    - Dynamic IP and SBS 2000/Echange Hi everyone, A friend of mine is setting up a small company to use SBS 2000. Currently the only internet access available to them is either Cable (Non business class) or dialup. What I am wondering is how well Exchange, and ISA are going to work with a Dynamically assined IP from the ISP. The basic configuration is: Server running SBS2000, 3 NICs, Soho3 Firewall, 16 Port 3Com Super Stack, 5 Win2k workstations, with Office 2000. Because of the remote location, the Cable provider has no "business class" services, just straight "end user" services. The Dialup ISP does offer business class, but at a unreasonable cost. I have already checked, and yes, the ports used by SBS are wide open from the cable company, it is not going to block the use of the ports, but I am wondering how it will work to try and sign a Domain dynamically. Is it even possible to configure he new domain that way? The Soho with assign internal Static IPs, but the router/Cable modem will be assigned a dynamic. Any thought or suggestions on this would be appreciated. Chuck Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171436
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    - ASP application Hi SBS2000 all latest patches. XP Pro SP2 & IE6 all latest patches. A customer has a guy writing a .Net application to run on their Intranet. One of the functions of this app is to send a print to a local workstation LPT1 port. (Workstations are XP Pro SP2 with admin rights). He has tried running this on his own W2k server running on a laptop & it works. Trying it on a workstaion attached to the server does not work & he assumes that something is blocking either his .Net app or possibly Windows Scripting Host. He also blamed our ISA server which I have advice that the Intranet does not use ISA. Each workstation runs McAfee Enterprise v8.0i patch 10 & we have tried disabling that. Also we have tried disabling The workstation ISA Firewall & also the IE proxy settings. We also tried running the app on an old XP Pro workstation without SP2. Wscript.exe has been run on the server. Please can anyone suggest if some security setting could be blocking this? Regards Nick Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171433
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    - DNS question For windows 2003, the DNS of the workstation has to be set to the ipaddress of the 2003 server. My server address is 192.168.168.1 Now I have a firewall gateway device (which is my DHCP server) with the address 192.168.168.2 For static workstations there is no problem because i can set the DNS and gateway accordingly, but for notebooks, I am not sure how I can set this. There is no setting on the DHCP for this, so how would the notebook know that the DNS should be the SBS server? -- Thank you Please post only Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171429
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    - Mailbox Store Database 16-GB Limit from a Microsoft KB article: Exchange Server Mailbox Store Does Not Mount When the Mailbox Store Database Reaches the 16-GB Limit http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;828070 No permanent solution except upgrading to Exchange Server 2003 Enterprise Edition ? Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171426
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    - Time service problems/questions for SBS 2000 I have configured SBS to use a list of three external time servers. The time is being kept accurately. I am getting warning and informational messages that I do not understand. Could someone please tell me what is going on or point me in the right direction to find out more. My SNTP settings and sample event log entries are shown at the message end. I had to reset the NTP server list when a previous NTP server went off the air. I believe the problem started around then. I turne don the informational events after I started getting the warnings. 1) Why do I get a warning that the NTP server did not respond almost immediately followed by informational messages saying it did? 2) Is the high skew rate a sign that my hardware clock is getting off or does it mean something else? 3) I noticed that event ID 11 does not show a server name. There are two adjacent spaces. I believe the underlying windows return message has a server name. Could this be a sign that my server list is honked up? If so, how do I fix it? Thanks for any help, Joe M ========== Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195] (C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp. C:\>net time /querysntp The current SNTP value is: clock.fmt.he.net hydrogen.cert.ucr.edu dewey.lib.ci.phoenix.az.us The command completed successfully. ========== Event Type: Warning Event Source: w32time Event Category: None Event ID: 11 Date: 3/10/2005 Time: 6:46:35 AM User: N/A Computer: SBS Description: The NTP server didn't respond Data: 0000: 00 00 00 00 .... ---------- Event Type: Information Event Source: w32time Event Category: None Event ID: 61 Date: 3/10/2005 Time: 6:46:45 AM User: N/A Computer: SBS Description: The Time service synced time from time source (CLOCK.FMT.HE.NET) . Data: 0000: 00 00 00 00 .... ---------- Event Type: Information Event Source: w32time Event Category: None Event ID: 6 Date: 3/10/2005 Time: 6:46:45 AM User: N/A Computer: SBS Description: Time set (offset > .5 second) Data: 0000: 00 00 00 00 .... ---------- Event Type: Information Event Source: w32time Event Category: None Event ID: 7 Date: 3/10/2005 Time: 6:46:45 AM User: N/A Computer: SBS Description: Skew >15 seconds per day, compensation not attempted Data: 0000: 00 00 00 00 .... ---------- Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171423
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    - Removable Storage Manager Issue This is driving me nuts! Removable Storage Manager doesn't see my Quantum DLT4000 anymore; it has worked fine for years. Itâ??s listed under Device Manager (This device is working properly) with Microsoft drivers. I've also tried Quantum and Veritas drivers and it still doesn't appear in RSM. No errors in event view. I've used Quantum's utility xTalk DLTsage which finds the drive and doesn't report any errors. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171420
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    - No. of Processors ! On a Dell Dual processor server, I have SBS 2000. But in system information it shows 4 processors. Any idea why ? Should I be concerned ? TIA Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171405
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    - Notification Messages for Invalid Email Accounts Is there a way with SBS 2000 to set an automated reply message when mail is received for an invalid email account? For example, if an employee leaves the company and the account is deleted from the server, anyone sending email to the invalid email address doesn't receive any type of notification that the email address doesn't exist. Is there a way to setup in Exchange to recognize if it is a valid email address & if not, send a reply? Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171403
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    - User creates 5MB logfiles in Exchange Hi ! I have a problem with SBS 2003 Exchange , i have one user that creates 5MB logfiles in Exchange. He only have to start Outlook 2003 , then the logfiles start to generate , and they keep on going until the server-disk is full. Please is there somebody that can help me? Best regards , Zpe Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171400
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    - lots of mails in outound queue, SBS 2000 not 2003 Hi, i have a scenario where having very recently switched ISPs, within one day a large amount of emails are in the ountbound queue. i have read the article about the POP3 connector being bugged in SBS2003, but this is SBS 2000 and an upgrade in not going to happen. we were using the POP3 connector before, without problem. does the hotfix also patch the POP3 connector in SBS2000? if not, is there a way of setting exchange/smtp up so that it refrains from doing this? thanks Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171396
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    - POP3 connector not retrieving mails The POP3 Connector on my SBS 2000, has not been retrieving mails for over 3 weeks now, the error logged in the event log is "12050 the POP3 connector was unable to retrieve mails, from <IP address>. with error 100061." Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171395
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    - Problem adding NT4 workstation to the domain Hello, I have a customer who administates his win2000 domain. This domain includes Win98, WinNT4 Win2000 and WinXp clients. Somewhere recently something has happened, which caused that the WinNt4 workstations could not logon to the domain anymore. The other type of workstations dont have problems, specific WinNt4. I already installed a fresh WinNt4 workstation, but still problems. - I can add the workstation to the domain. - system must reboot to activate, but when i try to logon to the domain is receive the following error: Computer account doesn't exist or the accounts passowrd is incorrect. When i disable the Nt4 workstations account in active directory, i receive another error, stating to contact the administator because the account is disabled. Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance, Jacco Dominicus Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171394
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    - recover pervious mail We have recently reinstalled our sbs server. After installing new mail boxes, we were not able to recover pervious mail. But in the client we have the ost files. How can we connect the ost file to outlook and recover the data with best regards thanks Gangadharan.c Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171393
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    - exchange server 5.5 - Mail returned when i send sir, We are using MS Exchange Server 5.5 Whenever i send mail qa@fedmaccorp.com id it immediately returned as below mentioned. i don't know why. our domain name is fedmaccorp.com but qa@fedmaccorp.com id configured external outlook express 6. pls give me the solution yours Gangadharan.C Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients. Subject: Test 1 Sent: 10-Mar-05 11:52 AM The following recipient(s) could not be reached: qa@fedmaccorp.com on 10-Mar-05 11:52 AM The e-mail account does not exist at the organization this message was sent to. Check the e-mail address, or contact the recipient directly to find out the correct address. <fedmaccorp.com #5.1.1> Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171392
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    - Setup guide? I know I might be late to the game, but is there a simple setup guide that someone has written that I could follow step by step through the whole setup process available online? Something along the lines of installing server 2000, then installing sbs, mixed mode, standalone, etc... Thanks Eric Tag: Come on you MVP's Tag: 171391

One of my SBS2000 sites. In DHCP manager, the computer icon in the list of
address leases has what looks like a fountain- pen on top. Any idea why this
is ???

Regards and TIA

Gary

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Re: Come on you MVP's by Dave

Dave
Thu Mar 17 09:58:19 CST 2005

It means "Active lease, DNS dynamic update pending. This address is not
available for lease by the DHCP server."

I'm looking on a 2003 box but you may have the same thing - in the DHCP
console, click Help, then drill down in the contents through Concepts and
Resources to DHCP console icons reference.

IMO the best practice is to never look at DHCP unless it logs an error or
you have symptoms of a problem : -)

"Gary D" <gary@admp.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:eOBLkEwKFHA.2936@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> One of my SBS2000 sites. In DHCP manager, the computer icon in the list of
> address leases has what looks like a fountain- pen on top. Any idea why
> this is ???
>
> Regards and TIA
>
> Gary
>

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Re: Come on you MVP's by Gary

Gary
Thu Mar 17 10:31:01 CST 2005

Thanks dave,
reason I noticed it is because VPN clients get a randomly generated IP
instead of the correct 130.50.20.x via DHCP address which this server
happened to have. (To tie in with local UNIX box). As a consequence the VPN
clients cannot ping and/or net view etc.

Thanks

gary

"Dave Nickason [SBS MVP]" <gwdibble@NOSPAM.frontiernet.net> wrote in message
news:Onv3kowKFHA.572@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> It means "Active lease, DNS dynamic update pending. This address is not
> available for lease by the DHCP server."
>
> I'm looking on a 2003 box but you may have the same thing - in the DHCP
> console, click Help, then drill down in the contents through Concepts and
> Resources to DHCP console icons reference.
>
> IMO the best practice is to never look at DHCP unless it logs an error or
> you have symptoms of a problem : -)
>
>
> "Gary D" <gary@admp.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:eOBLkEwKFHA.2936@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> One of my SBS2000 sites. In DHCP manager, the computer icon in the list
>> of address leases has what looks like a fountain- pen on top. Any idea
>> why this is ???
>>
>> Regards and TIA
>>
>> Gary
>>
>
>

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