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 - NEW MODEM, RECIEVING , DROPPING FAXES First fax/modem failed, replaced worked fine for a while then unable to recieve faxes..drops line or won't pick up. Install third new USR Ext fax/modem works initially then stops working? Won't pick up incoming fax. Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171359
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 - XP Pro misaligned print outs. As we are rolling out XP Pro and replacing Windows 98, printing to labels and forms are getting out of alignment. Both networks are SBS 2000, but I doubt it is a network issue, probably something weird about XP Different apps and printers are doing the same thing, everything was fine in Windows 98, now with XP extra blank lines are inserted throwing off the alignment on labels and forms. Even printing to a file with the generic/text only printer gives misalligned results. The printers are both tractor fed dot matrix, one is a panasonic the other is an oki. One app is custom the other is out of a box. No problems until XP Pro was used, now we can't print labels and forms. Any ideas? Thanx, Ron Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171357
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 - Can not access own company real web site I have SBS2000 Server. I have add company web address on DNS server. Now, I can type web ip address to acces own web server, but I can not type http://..... to access web site. Can some one tell me What I have missed! Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171352
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 - Off Line File Folder Problem I have a SBS 2003 install, users with laptops running WinXP. The all have a folder on the server that is set up for Off Line file use. Most all files seem to work fine, they go away and make changes and the changes end up on the server. However, they produce Power Point Slide shows that have 50 Plus photos. If the photos are in the Offline Folder and they work disconnected from the network, the Power Point file never saves. The same file produced on the network will save. If we put the Photos on the local disk of the laptop, The same file will save when disconnected from the network. Also: If you make the powerpoint file from the local copy of the photos (while connected to the network and then disconnect), you can save the powerpoint file to the offline folder to the original name without a problem. But you cannot "Save as" this will hang up and never save. Any suggestions on correcting this behavior? I would like all of their files avaliabl in Off Line folders. Chris Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171351
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 - webDAV in sbs 2003 Hello all, We have a fresh installation of SBS 2003 premium. A w2k3 member server runs our public web sites (this is not the http://companyweb on the SBS box). We use host headers to identify the sites. On one of the web sites, I am trying to set up webDAV. I have enabled the webDAV extensions in IIS. I can browse to the site and the virtual directory without a problem. It uses Windows integrated authentication and that seems to work. When I try to add this as a web folder in "my network places",from a client machine, it asks for my username and password endlessly without ever allowing me to connect to the site. If ISA server can pass my credentials while browsing to this site, why can't I add it as a web folder? Does anybody have any thoughts? Thanks in advance. Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171347
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 - RRAS I have SBS2003 setup and have only one NIC. I am using serion modems and I have setup an advanced connection to allow remote access via one of the modems. Whenever RRAS is started I cannot ping the clients on the domain and they cannot ping the server. Please help Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171345
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 - Exchange 16Gig Limit soon approaching I have a SBS 2k environment. My questions are about the exchange application, I know that there is a limitation of 16 gig of information total and that the *.edb and the *.stm files are combine to equal this amount. So what I currently have it a *.edb of 5.8 gigs and a *.stm of 7.6 for a total of approx 14 gigs. So I am not in critical mode just yet but I do have questions about reducing the file size or maybe moving them. I run the eseutil /d on a monthly basis to recapture wasted space and run daily backups. But I have noticed that the total amount of mail in mb listed in the Exchange System Mangager, ( the sum of all mailboxes ) is 3.6 gigs of mail. t This is the confusing part, since the Exchange System manager shows a cumlative total of all mailboxes of 3.6 gig, and the priv1.edb shows a total of 5.8 and the *.stm is 7.6 how can that be explained? Is there something I am missing in recapturing my space or some utility that will more accurately report information on my databases? All experience, suggestion, inquiries and solutions welcomed. TIA Jerry Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171344
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 - Can I create a symbolic link in SBS when I move a folder? I have a shared folder on a SBS 2000 server that everyone maps to. I want to move that folder to a 2003 server. Is there a way I can create a symbolic link so when people try to go to the old share path it is autmoaticcly redirected to the new path? I've already set up a log in script to automaticcly remap the drive letter to the new path. Some people have a shortcut to the old location on their desktop. This would be really cool if I could do this. Thanks Chris Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171343
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 - Exchange Info Store Corruption (Update) Hello, SBS2K. On March 3rd, I submitted a post about possible corruption in my Exchange database. Basically, I moved the database to a new SCSI drive I purchased and install. The move went well and the users had no problems with their mailboxes, but when I checked the backup log after the first backup, I noticed the following error: WARNING: Portions of "\Mailbox Store (HI-SERVER)" cannot be read. The backed up data is corrupt or incomplete. This file will not restore correctly. After some research and some outside help (thanks Dave), I discovered 474 errors. Also, ntbackup will not allow me to restore the database from the backup. When you look on support for error 474, you come up with the following articles: XADM: Event ID 474 Error Indicates a Hardware Failure http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;327334 XADM: Extensible Storage Engine Event IDs 474 and 477 Are Logged When You Try to Back Up the Information Store Database http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;810411 Both of these articles eluded to a hardware problem with the drive. I called tech support for Maxtor and was told that one possibility is that I needed a twisted (if that is the correct term) cable. That said, I am going to purchase the cable. Until I can get the cable in and installed, I have moved the Exchange back to the original drive it was on. It is still corrupted according to the backup log, and I continue to log 474 errors. After I moved the database back to the original drive, I tried the suggestions in the following article (thanks again Dave): How to recover the information store on Exchange 2000 in a single site http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;313184 The article recommends running the following command and checking the result of the line labeled "State": C:\Program Files\exchsrvr\BIN>eseutil /mh "drive:\Program Files\exchsrvr\MDBDATA\priv1.edb" When I ran the command, I saved the result to a text file. Below is the content of the text file: Microsoft(R) Exchange Server(TM) Database Utilities Version 6.0 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1991-2000. All Rights Reserved. Initiating FILE DUMP mode... Database: c:\program files\exchsrvr\mdbdata\priv1.edb File Type: Database Format ulMagic: 0x89abcdef Engine ulMagic: 0x89abcdef Format ulVersion: 0x620,9 Engine ulVersion: 0x620,9 Created ulVersion: 0x620,9 DB Signature: Create time:04/01/2002 17:11:13 Rand:4481249 Computer: cbDbPage: 4096 dbtime: 101277021 (0-101277021) State: Clean Shutdown Log Required: 0-0 Streaming File: Yes Shadowed: Yes Last Objid: 103559 Scrub Dbtime: 0 (0-0) Scrub Date: 00/00/1900 00:00:00 Repair Count: 0 Repair Date: 00/00/1900 00:00:00 Last Consistent: (0x1D0F,1237,49) 03/08/2005 07:06:17 Last Attach: (0x1CF9,B58,34) 03/04/2005 19:37:49 Last Detach: (0x1D0F,1237,49) 03/08/2005 07:06:17 Dbid: 1 Log Signature: Create time:04/01/2002 17:11:09 Rand:4508100 Computer: OS Version: (5.0.2195 SP 4) Previous Full Backup: Log Gen: 7382-7382 (0x1cd6-0x1cd6) Mark: (0x1CD6,17CA,141) Mark: 03/02/2005 01:31:14 Current Incremental Backup: Log Gen: 0-0 (0x0-0x0) Mark: (0x0,0,0) Mark: 00/00/1900 00:00:00 Current Full Backup: Log Gen: 0-0 (0x0-0x0) Mark: (0x0,0,0) Mark: 00/00/1900 00:00:00 Current snapshot backup: Log Gen: 0-0 (0x0-0x0) Mark: (0x0,0,0) Mark: 00/00/1900 00:00:00 cpgUpgrade55Format: 0 cpgUpgradeFreePages: 0 cpgUpgradeSpaceMapPages: 0 Operation completed successfully in 1.92 seconds. When I was reading the article, I was looking for the "State" line to say something to the effect of 'consistent' because that's what the article refers to. When I received 'State: Clean Shutdown', I didn't know what that meant, but I know that it doesn't sound corrupt to me. That said, where do I go from here? Should I begin following the other steps in the article? I haven't because I am not sure if the results from the first command tell me to not run any of the recovery options. The users can still access their mailboxes and nothing appears to be wrong at their end, but I cannot back up the databases and that is not a good thing. Also to note, if I go to the folder that houses the priv1.ebd file, I see log files which, according to their modified date, go all the way back to the day I originally installed the new disk and moved the database starting all this mess. I am not sure if that is relevant, but I figured I would mention it. If nothing works, I may have to call PSS (another result of Dave's help) which is not a problem, but I figure there may be a way around this that someone would know if I provided the correct information and enough of it. I appreciate any help someone can give on this. Thanks again, Chris Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171340
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 - ISA SMTP filter not working.. Hi all, Searched high n' low - including this NG - hoping someone might have got this working. I have used the ISA SMTP filtering... ISA Management, Servers and Arrays, <Server>, Extensions, Application Filters, SMTP Filter, Users / Domains (tab). and in the Rejected Domains bit, I have entries like: .ar .cn .cz .kr .ru etc but none of them are working. I'm still getting email from those domains. Why ??? Yep, the filter is applied! :) Any replies - please reply and cut-off here, appreciated! =========================== Of possible interest, I'm deleting the contents of the Badmail folder via Script - scheduled via the AT command... one line... at 6:30pm /every:M,T,W,Th,F,S,Su f:\util \DeleteBadmailfolderOlderThan1Days.vbs I modified a "delete file" script - can't recall where it came from, prolly MS scripts collection somewhere - that I use on client domains to delete files older than 7 days (changed that for my purposes) for a "GTemp" folder (mapped to G: for all users) on the server that users can "use for anything they want" - without fear it will overflow or get out of hand. Users are aware (hopefully) that it's a "temp area" that files will only last for 7 days in: DeleteBadmailfolderOlderThan1Days.vbs ===================================== ' folder to start search in... path = "F:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\Mailroot\vsi 1\BadMail" ' delete files older than 1 days... killdate = date() - 1 arFiles = Array() set fso = createobject("scripting.filesystemobject") ' Don't do the delete while you still are looping through a ' file collection returned from the File System Object (FSO). ' The collection may get mixed up. ' Create an array of the file objects to avoid this. ' SelectFiles path, killdate, arFiles, true nDeleted = 0 for n = 0 to ubound(arFiles) '================================================= ' Files deleted via FSO methods do *NOT* go to the recycle bin!!! '================================================= on error resume next 'in case of 'in use' files... arFiles(n).delete true if err.number <> 0 then wscript.echo "Unable to delete: " & arFiles(n).path else nDeleted = nDeleted + 1 end if on error goto 0 next ' msgbox nDeleted & " of " & ubound(arFiles)+1 & " eligible files were deleted" sub SelectFiles(sPath,vKillDate,arFilesToKill,bIncludeSubFolders) on error resume next 'select files to delete and add to array... ' set folder = fso.getfolder(sPath) set files = folder.files for each file in files ' uses error trapping around access to the ' Date property just to be safe ' dtlastmodified = null on error resume Next dtlastmodified = file.datelastmodified on error goto 0 if not isnull(dtlastmodified) Then if dtlastmodified < vKillDate then count = ubound(arFilesToKill) + 1 redim preserve arFilesToKill(count) set arFilesToKill(count) = file end if end if next if bIncludeSubFolders then for each fldr in folder.subfolders SelectFiles fldr.path,vKillDate,arFilesToKill,true next end if end sub -- Duncan Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171335
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 - Outlook XP Account I have set up 2 accoounts in my Outlook XP 1) Exchange Server 2) an Internet Email account from ISP (e.g. smtp.mail.yahoo.com, pop.mail.yahoo.com) I set the Inertnet Email as the default account. However, when I click reply on the email received from the Exchange Server account, the email is not sent by Internet Email account. can I send email by the Internet Email account for all emails (Automatically, without choosing the "Account Tab", even when replying the email from the Exchange Account? Any insight would be highly appreciated. Many Thanks in advance Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171332
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 - Cd-Key Question Hi all I have recently taken admin responsibilities of a Win2k SBS and am trying to install ISA from the CD but the Cd-Key has been misplaced. Is there any way of finding the original install key that was used from the registry or any place else?? Thanks for any help. Grant. Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171327
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 - slow logons A few of my users ar ehaving slow logon times (several minutes to more than an hour). They have the same problem no matter what computer they log on to, and other people not having the problem, don't have any problem logging on to those same computers. Could it be a profile problem? Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171324
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 - Adding external contacts to Global Address book Hi, I want to add some external contacts to a Global Address book so that members of the company using Outllok 2002 client can look them up and email them. We are running SBS2000 with 30 WinXP Pro clients and 20 Win2K Pro clients all running Outlook 2002 client. Thanks. Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171322
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 - SBS 2003 with Application Server BCM I have a SBS 2003 Installation with an added application server. I installed the Business Contact Manager Update to Outlook 2003 on the app server. When I attempt to run outlook off the application server, I am informed that BCM will not work on profile and needs SBS. Is it possible to use an application server to run Outlook with Business Contact Manager? If so, how? -- Paul Kerness, MSW, LSW Genii Research, LLC Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171320
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 - adding new member server Hi, We just ordered a new windows server 2003 to act as a member server in our domain. (Primarily will be used as a file server). I have not worked with windows 2003 in the past. Is it pretty easy to add it to the domain? Initially all I want to do is add it to the domain and create some shared folders. Does anyone have any tips/suggestions/whitepapers? Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171319
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 - Profile for forcing complex passwords? I was pretty sure there is a profile setting for forcing complex passwords with the users but I can't locate it. Can someone point me in the right direction on SBS 2000? Thank you Doug Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171315
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 - << SBS news of the week March 6th>> Kevin's Song of the week: news://msnews.microsoft.com/##8a8ufIFHA.2356@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl ------------- Blogs of Interest: Want a TV show back? Donate http://customerevangelists.typepad.com/blog/2005/03/star_trek_citiz.html Things to do next Tuesday http://msmvps.com/bradley/archive/2005/03/03/37537.aspx Dana Epp Security blogger attends SMB Nation ISV Summit http://silverstr.ufies.org/blog/archives/000799.html http://silverstr.ufies.org/blog/archives/000800.html http://silverstr.ufies.org/blog/archives/000801.html Toronto North SBS Consultants Group http://interprom.blogspot.com/2005/03/toronto-north-sbs-consultant-group.html Changing Role of the CFO: http://blogs.msdn.com/heatherleigh/archive/2005/03/03/384442.aspx Netscape takes on a new browser http://www.microsoftmonitor.com/archives/006774.html No patches next Tuesday http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1772443,00.asp?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535 Sean Daniel on what is RSS? http://seanda.blogspot.com/2005/03/what-is-rss.html Microsoft research tech fest http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/004423.html?wbfrom=rss TechEd Blogger site starting up again http://techedbloggers.net/News/3874.item DVD or CDrom? http://blogs.msdn.com/exchange/archive/2005/03/04/385279.aspx Want a conversational Office suite? http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jimgris/20050306#microsoft_office_users_should_try In other news: ---------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - A Kid Released Worm That Attacked Microsoft Web Site A second person, a juvenile, has been sentenced in connection with the release of a computer worm in August 2003 that attacked the same vulnerability in computer software as the Blaster worm did. The worm -- often referred to as the RPCSDBOT worm -- directed infected computers to log in on a computer (i.e., an Internet Relay Chat channel) that the juvenile controlled. On August 14, 2003, the juvenile directed the infected computers to launch a distributed denial of service attack against Microsoft's main web site causing the site to shutdown and thus became inaccessible to the public for approximately four hours. The juvenile was 14 years old when the activity occurred. http://www.crime-research.org/news/03.03.2005/1000/ - - - - - - - - - - Hacker helps business school applicants get early decision A computer hacker gained access to internal admissions records at Harvard, Stanford and other top business schools, then helped applicants log on and learn their fate weeks ahead of schedule, officials said Thursday. Few of the people who followed the hacker's directions managed to find out if their applications have been accepted, according to school officials. But many of them could end up getting rejected now that the schools are checking to see who tried to exploit the security breach. http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/11044063.htm - - - - - - - - - - Judge Dismisses Spam Conviction A judge dismissed a felony spamming conviction that had been called one of the first of its kind, saying he found no "rational basis" for the verdict and wondered whether jurors were confused by technical evidence. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/03/sister_cleared_in_aol_spam_case/ http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-spam3mar03,1,3394040.story - - - - - - - - - - Lawmakers call for ChoicePoint investigation They fear terrorists could use information from commercial databases. A group of Democratic U.S. lawmakers called today for a federal investigation on how terrorists could use information from commercial databases, such as the compromised records thieves obtained from ChoicePoint Inc. http://computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/policy/story/0,10801,100161,00.html - - - - - - - - - - Auto download adware carries vicious payload First adware using the Exploit/LoadImage vulnerability Security experts issued a warning this morning after detecting infections caused by Searchmeup, the first adware to use the Exploit/LoadImage vulnerability which downloads itself onto computers without the user's permission. http://www.vnunet.com/news/1161651 - - - - - - - - - - Firefox Browser Fixes Security Flaw A new version of the Mozilla Firefox browser fixes a flaw that made users vulnerable to online fraud. The flaw allowed fraudsters to set up fake Web sites with names indistinguishable from legitimate companies. http://www.securityfocus.com/elsewhere http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/03/03/mozilla.security.ap/index.html - - - - - - - - - - Security patches issued for RealPlayers RealNetworks has released patches for its audio- video players in an effort to prevent attacks via buffer overflows. RealNetwork's patches, released Tuesday, address vulnerabilities in the software that could allow an attacker to run arbitrary or malicious code on a person's computer when a malicious WAV or SMIL file is processed. Secunia, a security information company, rated the vulnerabilities as critical. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5598064.html - - - - - - - - - - Anti-Phishing Act Introduced Some phishers and pharmers could be prosecuted under current wire fraud or identity theft statutes, Senator Patrick Leahy says, but such prosecutions would take place only after victims were defrauded. "For most of these criminals, that leaves plenty of time to cover their tracks." http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_title=Anti-Phishing-Act-Introduced&story_id=30886 - - - - - - - - - - ID fraud rife in the UK - Which? A quarter of UK adults have had their identity stolen or know somebody who's been a victim of growing crime, a study by Which? published Wednesday reveals. The Consumers' Association magazine reckons identity fraud is the country's fastest growing crime, costing the economy an estimated £1.3bn a year. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/03/which_id_fraud_survey/ - - - - - - - - - - Security firm in email deletion fiasco It's a case of 'you had mail' for companies who use GFI's email security service, after a BitDefender bug scuppered a service update. Was the update tested properly? An email security scanning company has accidentally deleted thousands of its customers' emails. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39189933,00.htm - - - - - - - - - - Security fears fail to hold back Wi-Fi Despite security fears, the market for wireless Lan gear will roughly double in value and triple in unit shipments by 2009, largely thanks to next-generation technology delivering higher throughput, longer range and greater capacity. According to a newly published report by Datacomm Research Company, soaring demand for wireless home entertainment technology will help drive the boom. http://www.vnunet.com/news/1161666 - - - - - - - - - - India's cybercafés log customers' details Hundreds of Internet cafés in India's technology hub of Bangalore have started to record personal details of their visitors to comply with a new rule aimed at tracking perpetrators of online fraud, virus attacks and terrorism. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/internetprivacy/2005-03-03-cafe-privacy_x.htm - - - - - - - - - - Spam for the soul Who would have dreamed that spam holds the keys to enlightenment? Like many ignorant humans, I used to consider junk e-mail a nuisance. But once I opened my mind as well as my inbox, I discovered an amazing truth: All I really need to know I learned from those weird proverbs and quotations in spam messages. (LA Times article, free registration required) http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-wk-here3mar03,1,2996229.story - - - - - - - - - - Internal Threats To Security Are Increasing Enterprises are watching employees and employees are watching employers with increasing unease on both sides. In our global economy with its fluid workforce, in which longstanding relationships of trust are difficult to establish and maintain, the temptation for businesses is clear: monitor every employee, all the time. http://www.crime-research.org/news/03.03.2005/999/ *********************************************************** Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171314
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 - Seeing secure faxes from Share fax Hi there, I thought I was being very smart by configuring one of our fax lines for accounting/purchasing (secured data) and routing this to a separate Exchange Public Folder with specific permissions. To my horror, I've just discovered that all staff can still view the incoming fax from this secured line by double clicking the Shared Fax icon in Printers & Faxes. Is there a way of controlling access to view the faxes from Printers & Faxes? Thanks alot, Tom Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171313
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 - Exchange Information Store - Start Pending Hi All, I ran my updates today on my SBS2K server. All updates were those released in February. First stopped and set to manual all 3-rd party services. Updates installed fine and server restarted and came up fine. Only problem, the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service as been on Start pending for quite some time now. I rebooted again and same exact problem. Please give some advice on how I could solve this. Thanks! Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171305
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 - Dual Monitor in Terminal Session? Oooops, recommended dual monitor as a solution and found it don't stretch over both screens...;-) Can do two sessions but you guessed it, slows stuff down. Anyone know if it can be done or alternative. This is boss of firm needing to monitor program at office which has multiple windows. -- www.smallbizserver.net (2000 and 2003) microsoft.public.backoffice.smallbiz2000 (2000 NG) microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs (2003 NG) http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&safe=off&group=microsoft.public.backoffice.smallbiz2000 http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&group=microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs http://www.sbslinks.com/ http://www.sbsmigration.com Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171304
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 - Song of the Week - March 5, 2005 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000A_01C521D1.E27B2590 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I had to spend several days working on the east coast of Florida = (Titusville / Cape Canaveral area) this past week. While driving over = there I caught Jimmy Buffet's trademark song 'Margaritaville'. Although = I've never really liked the song, I have to admit that it's a crowd = pleaser. Several years ago in South Carolina we caught a one man act and = he did a great rendition of the song. So, with sunny, cool weather in = the air here in Florida, on the first week in March, as I'm grilling = pork chops for dinner (with apologies to all you vegetarians out there), = go get your beach sandals on, pour some suntan ooil on those flabby, = techno-geek bodies, and let's start hummin! Margaritaville aka Microsoft's New World Workin' on new disks, loadin' a hot fix; All of those patches I've got to download. Drummin' my fingers, the hourglass lingers, waiting to reboot, I'm beginnin' to boil. Wasted away again in Microsoft's New World, Searchin' for my last password I used. Some people claim that there's a woman to blame, But I know it's nobody's fault. Don't know the reason, I worked through the evenin' With nothing to show but this brand new disk drive. But it's a real beauty, A USB cutie, how it got here I couldn't have lied Wasted away again in Microsoft's New World, Searchin' for my last password I used. Some people claim that there's a woman to blame, Now I think, - shootl it could be my fault. I blew out my backup, Jumped into my pickup, Need a new tape, so I cruised on back home. But there's mail in my Outlook, Sue Bradley's new e-Book That fpromises help if I only hang on. Wasted away again in Microsoft's New World, Searchin' for my last password I used. Some people claim that there's a woman to blame, But I know, I haven't a clue. Yes, and some people claim that there's a woman to blame And I know it's Bill Gate's darn fault. --=20 Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP] "The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom long" ------=_NextPart_000_000A_01C521D1.E27B2590 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 background=3D"">I = had to spend=20 several days working on the east coast of Florida (Titusville / Cape = Canaveral=20 area) this past week. While driving over there I caught Jimmy Buffet's = trademark=20 song 'Margaritaville'. Although I've never really liked the song, I have = to=20 admit that it's a crowd pleaser. Several years ago in South Carolina we = caught a=20 one man act and he did a great rendition of the song. So, with sunny, = cool=20 weather in the air here in Florida, on the first week in March, as I'm = grilling=20 pork chops for dinner (with apologies to all you vegetarians out there), = go get=20 your beach sandals on, pour some suntan ooil on those flabby, = techno-geek=20 bodies, and let's start hummin! Margaritaville aka Microsoft's = New=20 World Workin' on new disks, loadin' a hot fix; All of those = patches=20 I've got to download. Drummin' my fingers, the hourglass = lingers, waiting=20 to reboot, I'm beginnin' to boil. Wasted away again in = Microsoft's New=20 World, Searchin' for my last password I used. Some people claim = that=20 there's a woman to blame, But I know it's nobody's = fault. Don't know=20 the reason, I worked through the evenin' With nothing to show but = this=20 brand new disk drive. But it's a real beauty, A USB cutie, how it = got=20 here I couldn't have lied Wasted away again in Microsoft's New = World, Searchin' for my last password I used. Some people claim = that=20 there's a woman to blame, Now I think, - shootl it could be my=20 fault. I blew out my backup, Jumped into my pickup, Need a = new=20 tape, so I cruised on back home. But there's mail in my = Outlook, Sue=20 Bradley's new e-Book That fpromises help if I only hang = on. Wasted=20 away again in Microsoft's New World, Searchin' for my last password I = used. Some people claim that there's a woman to blame, But I know, = I=20 haven't a clue. Yes, and some people claim that there's a woman to=20 blame And I know it's Bill Gate's darn fault. -- Kevin = Weilbacher [SBS-MVP] "The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are = seldom=20 long"</BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_000A_01C521D1.E27B2590-- Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171301
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 - Mirroring hard drives Please can someone help me. I have a 2000 server running which has no mirrors or raid array. It has 2 36Gb hard drives, 1 is partioned (10 and a 26 ). I need to mirror these hard drives but can't get to the add mirror click as it is greyed out. How do I, can I mirror these partitions? If i need to reformat the 1st hdd I will but would rather not. Thanks in advance Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171296
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 - OWA problem Hi, all, Recently one of our important users can not access his email at home by OWA. He actually can log in, but the Inbox takes forever to load and will not load his new messages. It looks like just loading and never stops. I actually checked this account from my computer at home, it worked fine. Any idea? What direction I should consider? Thanks. Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171288
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 - WMI Status: 8 Timeout reached. Data Collector may be misconfigured - Errors on Windows 2000 SBS Hello All, I'm getting a number of errors in my Windows 2000 Small Business Server Health Monitor as follows Server Memory : Critical condition. WMI Status: 8 Timeout reached. Data Collector may be misconfigured. Processor : Critical condition. WMI Status: 8 Timeout reached. Data Collector may be misconfigured The MMC seems to be very slow, I found one article on MS site about it http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/wmi_troubleshooting.asp and according to it restarted the WMI service, which also restarts the SBS management service, which restarted perfectly fine but after the restart I have not been able to use SBS administrator console. Can anyone please help me with this , how to get this sorted, how to get the SBS administrator console working, and how to remove these WMI errors ? Imran. Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171287
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 - Terminating a local user session I've been wondering: is there a way to force a user to automatically logoff in the nights?. Or: is there a way to terminate a local connection at the end of the day? . I've had problems with a user that leaves the computer all night long downloading stuff from P2P networks. I''m using SBS2000 and the client computer is running W2K Pro. Thanks for any advise. Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171280
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 - is it possible to log into 2 SBS servers (please read before answering) Hi I have a server that is set to dual boot between a standard SBS2k (with a standard Citrix farm installed) and a default SBS2k install. Is it possible for a client machine to be set to log into BOTH servers. I know a SBS client can only log in to ONE SBS2k server. I currently have a Server running SBS2k with Citrix installed in our training offices (separate network from our main "production" SBS server). I would like to dual boot into a Basic Default SBS2k server and have the training machines log into that as well. Notes: one SBS2k (+10 user licence) with the Citrix installed is a legit bought copy which is only getting used for training and the other licence is one we have recived in our MSDN subscription (For development use only). The default SBS2k install has been installed but not used at present. We need would like server to have the option to boot between them and be accessd by the client machines for software development and testing. The "SBS2k Citrix" Server is also for Inhouse and client training when required but it is sitting idol for most of the time. Just wondering if it is possible? Company can't affored to shell out for another server and desktops when we have a good client / server network sitting idol most of the time!! If you need anymore info let me know, Thanks in Advance! Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171278
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 - OT- Spyware etc. Hi All, Just wondering what the SBS community are using to control spyware on a network level. We have tried pest patrol corp edition but didn't like it because of the lack of a client interface. Just wondering if there is an all-in-one product for virus, spam, spyware and email gateway scanner? Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171271
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 - Deleted Mail Returning to Inbox Hi All, Apologies if this issue has already been threaded. Had to sort out a misconfigured SBS2K installation on Tue, Boss at Site A had been set up with Outlook accessing his mail account directly via a POP account (!) I disabled this account and set up an Outlook Exchange account. Well! All his deleted mail came spewing back into his inbox! As fast as he deleted it it all came back again. As a temp measure just went back to the non-standard config. (sigh.) Then today, Boss at site B (what is it with bosses these days) - who has been set up correctly - rang and reported the same issue! Boss B had a trojan afew weeks ago... looks suspicious. Anyone know what causes this??? TIA Norm Hughes Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171268
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 - Using XCopy to Move Files to a New Drive in the Server Hello, SBS2k. I bought and installed two SCSI drives into my server yesterday to add to the single drive I had in the server before to make a total of three. I decided to move the SQL databases and Exchange databases to one drive and the User Shared Folders and Company Shared Folders, as well as my roaming user profile folders, to the third drive. The transfer of the SQL databases went okay. Exchange also went okay, or so I thought until I did a backup and it is telling me the file may be corrupt, but that is a different post in this group. The problem I am referring to here is when I tried to transfer the files to the new drive. I have three sets of files to transfer: C:\Users Shared Folders C:\Company Shared Folders C:\Users Profile Folders The users shared and company shared folders are pretty evident. They are the ones installed by SBS setup. The third folder, users profile folders, is another folder I created on the C: drive to hold the Roaming User Profiles for each of my users. The problem is that when I try to xcopy the Users Shared Folders over, it begins to work and copies the Administrator shared folder (the first one), but when it gets to the first user (AFoy), it created the folder, copies the first two files (one being a Power Point doc and the other, the desktop.ini file), then I get an 'Access Denied' message. Then, when I go to xcopy the Users Profile Folders over, nothing is copied (there is not Administrator roaming user profile) and I receive the following message: Access denied Unable to create directory - F:\Users Profile Folders\AFoy On the Company Shared Folders, the xcopy command works well and copies the files with the appropriate permissions. The problem is that in the past, I have moved users shared files and folders (users no longer here) to a folder called 'Old Files' in the Company folder and when the xcopy command gets to those folders, I get the same permissions problem message. I am sure the reason it is not working is the same reason the Users Shared and Users Profile xcopies are not working. I know that it is some sort of permissions thing. I need the permissions changed just long enough to copy the files over. I don't want access to these people's files and I really don't want to. Any ideas on how I get these files moved using xcopy? On the subject of moving all these files to the other drive, I have one more question. XCopy seems to do a good job copying to the new drive retaining permissions, but of course shares are a different story. To complete the process of the move, after the xcopy, do you just delete the share on the C drive and recreate it, with the same permissions, on the new drive? The reason I ask is because I have lots of shared folders within the files I am moving (in the company folder, plus, all the files I have set up for caching on local laptops) and want to make sure that no user maps are lost in the process. I also appreciate the help on this question. Thanks, Chris Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171263
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 - Exchange Information Store Corruption Hello, SBS2000. Last night, I moved my EDB and STM files for both my Mailbox Store and Public Store to another drive on my server by following the directions in the following articles (they all say essentially the same thing): http://www.msexchange.org/pages/article_p.asp?id=535 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=270693 http://www.smallbizserver.net/Default.aspx?tabid=76 I did not move the transaction logs because the MSExchange.org article eluded that they should not be on the same drive. That said, I left the transaction log location alone and only moved the databases. Anyway, the move went well. All users can get into their mailboxes without a problem, but when I checked the log from last night's backup, I received the following message: WARNING: Portions of "\Mailbox Store (HI-SERVER)" cannot be read. The backed up data is corrupt or incomplete. This file will not restore correctly. This makes me very nervous. Does anyone have any idea of what's wrong here? Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks, Chris Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171260
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 - Vanishing Emails using pop3 connecter Hi Just a remark using POP3 connector with SBS 2003. There seem to be an issue with vanishing emails: - You have set up POP3 connector using individual mailbox accounts - No messages are delivered to the Exchange mail boxes, but all messages were downloaded from ISP POP3 accounts. Email will vanish if the delivery-to address of the email is not found in the Exchange mail addresses. We had setup an ISP mailbox wwwinfo@xxx.yyy, but not entered that address into any exchange account. No messages were delivered to ANY user account. After we have setup a distribution group, everything was fine again. I hope this solves some of the users trouble. Hans Musch http://www.dynamic-systems.net Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171257
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 - << BitDefender bug bites GFI >> Using GFI and all your mail being Quarantined or Deleted ? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/02/gfi_beserker/ Quote---- GFI's Mail Security anti-virus product threw a wobbler Wednesday afternoon (2 March) when an update to BitDefender Engine Module caused it to delete the body content of every incoming and outgoing message. ---------- -- Henry Craven {SBS-MVP} CI Information Technology ---------------------------------------------------- Melbourne SBS Users Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/melb-SBSusers/ Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171251
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 - WMI Status My health monitor shows a Network Interface Critical Condition WMI Status:2147749904 Can't find anything anywhere that helps out. Network performance has been bad - is this a hardware problem? Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171230
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 - POP3 Connector fails to start Hi, One of our clients are running Windows 2000 Small Business Server, their mails are retrieved from a POP3 box every 15mins, as of yesterday the POP3 Connector Service has faild to start. I have tried a reboot, and when the server comes back up i get the "One or more system services failed to start". In the SBS Admin console at the bottom it shows the service as stopped, when i try to start it in either the administrator console or the services console i get the following error; Event Type: Error Event Source: Service Control Manager Event Category: None Event ID: 7031 Date: 01/03/2005 Time: 10:10:03 User: N/A Computer: LORD-SERVER Description: The Microsoft Connector for POP3 Mailboxes service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 2 time(s). The following corrective action will be taken in 0 milliseconds: No action. And when i try it start it from the services console i get the following; Could not start the Microsoft Connector for POP3 Mailboxes service on Local Computer. Error 1067: The process terminated unexpectedly. If anyone could shed some light on this it would be most appriciatated, it has me stmped! I have tried the usual resources on the internet for information but nowhere has an answer! Thanks Craig Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171229
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 - Access own company's web site from internal network I have problem to access company's own web site. I can access company's web site from outside network noproblem! I have SBS2000, and I know ISA server blocked company's web site. Please tell me when I can open or add for user can access web site from internal network! Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171228
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 - Delayed mail I am having a problem with mail sending in SBS2K. I send mail to India and Singapore and I don't get the delivered reciept for over a WEEK. This is also when the customer recieves the email. I sent 3 emails between 2/15/05 and 2/22/05 and all 3 were actually delivered on the same day, 3/1/05. It appears that all mail going out of the US is several days late. It does not appear to happen with email in the US. Where can I check to see if they left my exchange server on time? This could be a problem with my ISP. -nn Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171227
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 - Server for MS Access DB I already asked this question of Dell Support, but haven't really gotten a response. Although much of the question is hardware related, I imagine those here would be able to help me at least with the software portion of my question. I couldn't find a NG for MS Server 2k3... The following information is all being asked in reference to a MS Access Database that will be run in-house only. Thanks for any help. I work for a relatively small business, and we are setting up a server specifically for the purpose of storing and protecting our main company information database. This is to be accessible only within the office (so no remote management needed), and I had a couple of questions, as I'm relatively new to the world of server hardware and software. We will have 1-25 (probably no more than 10 at most times) accessing the database via a fronted placed on each user's system. What sort of processing power will it take to run this? 1GB Ram? Less? More? Second, we will be purchasing MS Server 2k3 to run this. Are there any specific advantages/disadvantages to using MS SB Server vs. MS Server? I've noticed that MS Server Standard is more expensive then MS SB Server, but that the additional CALs for SB Server are much more expensive. Finally, I would like to implement a RAID solution, as I understand that means we generate a 'mirror' of the data for both system stability and backup reasons. However, I don't know what sort of 'controller' I need. The system I was looking at here at Dell didn't offer a controller that was compatible, so I had to choose "No Primary Controller". Is that OK? What exactly does that mean? Thanks for your help. Vel Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171225
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 - blue screen error Event Type: Error Event Source: RemoteAccess Event Category: None Event ID: 20106 Date: 02/03/2005 Time: 13:53:27 User: N/A Computer: SERVER01 Description: Unable to add the interface {16423307-2118-45C3-8CAE-19D230C5A1EA} with the Router Manager for the IP protocol. The following error occurred: Cannot complete this function. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Data: 0000: eb 03 00 00 Ã«... I have run the performance monitor ad have found that logical % free space is at 92 memory available bytes is at 100% processor %C2 time is 100% A number of odd 100% but hoping someone might recognies the fault, any clues as the server has 512 meg and not running anything other than internet through the machine? Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171220
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 - Different printer settings for different users I have a client who wants to track who is printing to their networked printers. They have seperate ids for the print driver to identify them but they don't want the users messing with the print driver all the time and they have to clear it out when they're done. Is there a way to set-up usres with specific printing preferences so that if the user logs into XP or 98 boxes the printer preferences are set from the server? Thanks, Chris Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171219
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 - exchange users sending blank emails Hi all, I have a slight problem in that all of my exchange users are sending blank emails. I have tried with html, and text format email, with forwards, replys and new emails. All seem to arrive at the intended recipient, but with no subject. Can anyone help. Regards Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171215
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 - Largest and Cheapest Sex & Romance Ebooks (175 in Total) with full resell rights BONONZA OFFER - THE S.E.X.I.T.I.N.G OFFER NEVER BEFORE Your Search For Ultimate Satisfaction Ends here...Don't Miss This Chance - This is for Limited Time (7 Days Only ) .. Great Sex eBooks For Young A.dults ( Above 18 years Only ) INSTANT ACCESS TO MY SERVER TO DOWNLOAD ON PAYPAL ORDER - Or I'll Send All eBooks by attachments for Lists of Ebooks visit : www.cagworld.net/listebooks.htm Thanks Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171210
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 - Really naive licensing question which I haven't researched yet (hows that for being honest up front!) I've got an SBS-2000 installation which is not presently using the Sql server portion. We've had a proposal from a vendor to move an app from a dedicated Unix server to Windows, and the Windows piece runs on SQL Server. So, their proposal includes SQL Server @ $666, and 6 Sql Server User cals @$146 each. Since I've already got Sql Server, how much of this can I save? Do I need the cals? We've got either 15 or 20 SBS cals, as I recall--the sub-operation that will use this software is probably 6 users max, which is why the spec. Pointers about where to read to understand limitations of Sql licensing welcome. As I recall from previous research, I'm not allowed to use the SBS SQL Server as a backing to a Web site. This issue will come up, but we are presently solving that via MySql, and may well continue to do that. -- Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171204
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 - Outlook Web Access Can anyone provide me with some URLs on how to install & configure Outlook Web Access for SBS2000 ? Thanks in advance, Matt. Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171198
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 - New database user Hi, Recently, I've added a new user to our SBS 2000 domain. Then added this user to our database using the enterprise manager, so she can use it. When she tries to open the database, the following error message appears: You don't have access rights to the database. I cannot find where the problem is, especially that I have just added another user a week earlier following same steps. Thanks in advance. Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171196
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 - <<< Unofficial SBS Contest>>>>> How good of a SBSer are YOU?: http://msmvps.com/bradley/archive/2005/03/01/37341.aspx Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171195
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 - OT: disk speed Hi, We are looking to add a new server to our domain. It will primarily be used for storage. I am looking at getting a RAID 1 controller with 2 250GB drives. What is the main difference between SATA and SCSI drives. I know the SATA doesn't spin as fast but is it that noticable? The cost difference is pretty large. I can save over 1k by going with SATA. I originally was thinking about getting a storage server (storage server 2003 OS, can't run applications) but down the line I may need to move sqlServer to this new server (not a ton of people hitting it, just ~10 developers. I know I will need to purchase a seperage copy of sqlServer). Our SBServer is a SCSI drive so I can't really compare anything. If the server is primarily storage, do you think a SATA drive would be sufficient? (the vendors always push the higher end stuff so just looking for an objective viewpoint) Thanks Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171190
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 - Site to Site VPN in SBS2000 and NG R55 Hi all, Can anyone assist in setting up a site to site VPN between an ISA2000 running on a SBS2000 machine and a Checkpoint NG R55 firewall. Upgrading to ISA 2004 at this point is not an option. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks TR Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171187
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 - Exchange Server Standard - Internet Mail Can Exchange 2003 Standard send internet mail if it has been installed with a local domain name ie: companyname.local? I would like to use it do host mailserver for companyname.com. If it can, how is it configured? Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171182
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 - VPN Speed Question What do people think would be a faster connection: Hardware based VPN (Linksys, Netgear-soho product) or SBS2K windows based VPN? Thanks Any documentation pertaining to VPN speed Tag: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? Tag: 171181

I'm trying to configure a Linksys WRV54G VPN Router located in a remote
office to connect to my SBS2000 server / network via RRAS using a VPN
conenction.

Is this type of setup possible using SBS2000?

There are several PC's in the remote office all needing connection to the
SBS server, i've used the MS PPTP previously to conect a single PC to SBS but
this does not seem practical for multiple computers.

If this setup is possible what do i set for encryption and authentication
methods on the VPN router?

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Re: VPN Connection from remote office - Possible? by Marina

Marina
Thu Mar 10 13:29:20 CST 2005

Hi Shaun,

Check this out:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sbs/2000/maintain/remotofc.mspx
--
Regards,

Marina
Microsoft SBS-MVP
One of the Magical M&M's

"Shaun White" <Shaun White@discussions.microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
news:928EE7AC-B254-4936-B516-C15C686BB484@microsoft.com...
> I'm trying to configure a Linksys WRV54G VPN Router located in a remote
> office to connect to my SBS2000 server / network via RRAS using a VPN
> conenction.
>
> Is this type of setup possible using SBS2000?
>
> There are several PC's in the remote office all needing connection to the
> SBS server, i've used the MS PPTP previously to conect a single PC to SBS
but
> this does not seem practical for multiple computers.
>
> If this setup is possible what do i set for encryption and authentication
> methods on the VPN router?

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