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    - Installed SP1a and lost ability to run ASP on intranet Can anyone give me some direction as to why I lost the ability to run my active server pages locally? I installed the new SP1a from my technet CD and its gone now. Also, That same CD said it would give me the option of installing Outlook 2002 for distribution but I didnt get the option of installing nor can I find it on that Technet CD. Thank you, Michael Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129222
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    - Have SA for SBS2k, when & how do I get SBS2003? We bought SBS2000 with Software Assurance. Any idea how we obtain the upgrade to SBS2003? Any idea when we will get it? thanks. Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129216
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    - trend micro messaging suite Hi last night i was running server protect at around 11pm. I installed it yesterday for the first time on the network. The Server hung but was still scanning files and working. This morning at around 8am, i had to reboot the server and all appears fine now. I excluded the files/folders necessary from scanning such as ntds, sysvol, exchange folders, ntds.dit etc etc. Why would it hang? Server has got 256mb of RAM. Logs did not show anything as to why it hung as it was still working in the background. How can i get around this as i do not want to reboot everymorning? thanks again Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129211
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    - OWA Anonymous Access??? I see that OWA default is for no anonymous access? Is that the way it is done is 2k exch? I know on previous 5.5 exch server using OWA anyone could go to the login page. Now on 2k I get the windows creditials login popup when we browse mail.server.com/exchange/ Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129208
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    - SBS2000 never hangs up dialup I have an ISDN dialup and collect mail with the pop3 connector on Exchange server. I have a batch file to trigger the dialup with rasdial on the command line before pop3 collection every 30 minutes. Everything works fine except that the server never drops the dial-up connection. The idle time is set to 5 minutes but there seems to be continual network activity keeping the line up. The server is running DHCP and all clients are set to get their IP and DNS information automatically from the server. IP routing is enabled as is packet filtering. I have re-run the wizards from SBS Administrator console to no avail. This is really driving me nuts any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129206
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    - help me please As he is the server of small businesses but expensive in the market and as he is the server but cheap in the market right now. Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129199
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    - help me please As he is the server of small businesses but expensive in the market and as he is the server but cheap in the market right now. Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129198
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    - *** 03-039 RPC again critical patch http://www.microsoft.com/security/security_bulletins/ms03- 039.asp another nasty one!!! Heads up Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129185
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    - Terminal Services Ports I am working with a SBS 2000 server that has TS enabled. The server has 2 nics with one with a 12.102.XXX.XXX real world IP. If I try to access TS using the same ISP that the server is on I get a time out error. If I use a diffrent ISP (Road Runner) then everything works. The server ISP says they are blocking all non-essential traffic on their net between computers. If I can provide them with the ports that TS uses they will open them up for me. Any one know what ports are used for TS? Thanks in advance Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129184
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    - SQL Server 2000 & MSDE 2000 We recently purchased a new server with Small Business Server 2000. SMS 2000 comes with SQL Server 2000. The issue is that we are upgrading to Great Plains for MSDE. The issue is that Great Plains for SQL Server 2000 costs a lot more. So my question is: Can I run SQL Server 2000 and MSDE 2000 simultaneously? Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129183
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    - battery back-up We have server 2000 with sp3. in the power options, we do not have the ups tab to set up battery backup monitoring. Please email us to help with this situation. Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129179
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    - IDS What do people use for intrusion detection software? I have ISA running and strapped pretty good, but how do I tell if intruders are trying? I've seen Snort 2.0, but has anyone run it on a SBS box? Thoughts? Marcia Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129177
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    - remote connection Hi! I have a client who needs to take a laptop to a remote location and connect to query databases 3x/week. I can connect remotely as administrator--I do all the time. I need the employee to connect into their own pc and run it as if they were sitting there. Is that possible? I have vpn open, I can connect but it doesn't do anything other than show that I'm connnected. I can't view the network, etc. Do I need a script? How do I do this? Details: SBS2k as pdc. Win2k server as member server (file and print serving). The data is on the member server. The pdc merely handles AD and connections. All ip's are manually assigned--10.0.0.#. The external nic is of the 192.168.#.# (can't remember). They have a router. ADSL connection. All workstations running Win XP SP1 with u2date patches. Servers were patched up to date as of Monday. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I don't have the applications (MS Office) loaded on either server. Marcia Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129176
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    - Viewing Multiple Mailboxes Shouldn't the administrator have inherited rights to open multiple mailboxes on the sbs2k server? I want to view all employees mailboxes in outlook. Where do I assign permissions to view all mailboxes. Thanks Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129173
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    - SBS2000 Implementation I'm working with a business who have two, shortly to be three, locations. For reasons unknown to me they are currently running two separate installations of SBS2000 (one for each site). The three locations will all have broadband connections to the internet. The servers are currently used for file serving and email through exchange. The choices I can see are: 1) That they consolidate to one copy of SBS 2000 at the main site and have win2k servers configured as additional domain controllers at each of the other sites. (The additional servers will also require ISA server for proxy control). Each of the sites will be linked by VPN. The additional domain controllers will allow local login and centralised admin via AD. 2) They implement Win2k server at each of the three sites. One server will also run Exchange server for clients at all three locations. Each server will also have ISA server for proxy controls. Each site will be linked by VPN. AD replication will allow local logins and cetralised management. I know the second option is more expensive but the customer is getting close to the 50 user SBS threshhold. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Iain Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129172
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    - Upgrading from 4.5 to 2000 on new computer - recommendations? To all, We're using SBS 4.5 and are purchasing a new server from Dell (Power Edge 2600) with SBS 2000 installed. We want to migrate our users (8 total) from the present server to the new one. What recommendations do you have on this migration? I've downloaded MS's two part "How To..." guide. Is this the way to go? I want this to be as painless as possible. TIA, Steve Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129169
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    - Restoring Information Store with Veritas Ok, using sbs 2000 fully patched. Our exchange store got corrupted and I was trying to restore it using veritas backup exec. Came accross a problem that I hope someone may be able to solve. Every time I tried, the restore job failed. In event manager it had: Source: ESE BACKUP Event: 904 "Information Store (1300) Callback function call ErrESECBRestoreGetDestination ended with error 0xC7FE1F41 Database is in use." According to MS KB Article 291996 (and Veritas) this is caused by not dismounting the databases or by failing to allow overwrite permissions by restore jobs. However, I have definitely done this on the Mailbox Store and the Public Folder Store and it still doesnt work. I have also checked that the store names are the same on the backup tape as on the server. I have kind of got round the problem by just moving all the files from the MDBDATA folder and then restoring. This isnt ideal and I was wondering if anyone knows why this may be happening. Cheers Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129157
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    - Dealing with high volume of mails We are getting high volume of spam for someone who was a sbs2000 user and then he left and so his user account was removed from the AD. Is there anything in sbs2000 which can be used to handle this thing so if any email arrives for that particular recipeint it automatically be deleted or rejected and hence this doesnt end up in the administrator account. Thanks. Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129155
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    - Microsoft support number What is the number form Microsofts SBS support? Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129143
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    - System cannot find username This is an SBS2000 Domain with a NT workstation. This user let the password expire. When user tried to log in this AM, from a NT 4 workstation, the error system cannot log you on, check username and domain. I was able to log in from this workstation. I had user try to log on from my machine, same error. I have tried modifying the username, still same issue. I'm to the point to were I want to delete the account and recreate it but I'm afraid that his mail will be gone. can I export a mailbox to a pst file from the exchange system manager? TIA, Chris Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129142
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    - Adding a member server to a Small Business 2003 network I will be setting up a Small Business 2003 network and was wondering if I could add additional servers into it. The client has a Windows NT 4 server with his old database and wants to run that server with his new Small business network simultaneously until he gets his new Database up and running on the Small Business server. Is that possible or can you have only one server? Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129141
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    - 'Retrieve Now' Button missing from POP3 Connector We have just done a fresh install (on a new computer) of SBS-2000 from a Microsoft Action Pack install disk set. This is the version of SBS-2000 that is shipped with SP4 for Windows 2000 and SP3 for Exchange. All went smoothly. Everything works OK. Just the 'Retrieve Now' button is missing from the POP3 Connector! Re-installed the connector several times (including manually removing all references to it from the registry on the last occasion) to no avail. The connector works fine, we just can't manually force a download of mail if we need it in a hurry! Any ideas how a button can go missing yet the connector still work? And any ideas how we can get it back? Ian W Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129138
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    - Upgrading from Win2k Pro to XP Hi All, I'm planning to upgrade a Win2K pro workstation to XP pro. The workstation is connected in a typical SBS2K network, and since this is the first time I've done an OS upgrade with a networked computer I was wondering if there were any special procedures I needed to follow (or can I just do the upgrade in place)? Thanks for any help or advice. -Pat Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129137
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    - Exchange and ADSL (Again!) Hi everyone, I have a SBS2000 that I've just had to reformat and reinstall. On reinstallation, the customer wanted to upgrade from a permanent dialup connection to an ADSL connection. I have installed a 2nd NIC in the SBS box, and can successfully web browse from each workstation so I know the Internet connectivity is OK. Here is my problem: The server is unable to send or receive any e-mail. Mail just sits in the outbound queue. I have run the Internet Connection Wizard and answered all the relevent questions correctly (5 times). The internet connection has a static IP address which has been correctly configured, and the MX records for the domain point to the correct IP address. However, I am unable to ping the IP address, telnet to port 25 of the IP address or traceroute to the IP address. As far as I can see, I have opened port 25 on ISA server This one has me stumped. Any ideas? Thanks Steve Teece Complink Support Services Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129118
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    - administrator exchange account Hi i had to do a restore from CD of mailboxes in exchange. I managed to recover the mailboxes ok except i have this one query. When i recovered the mailboxes, i only have got one mailbox for Administrator with a red X through it. I do not have another mailbox for administrator without a red x through it, so it will be deleted in about 30 days. What are the consequences if this happens and what can i do to fix it? I do not need the mail in the administrator mailbox with the red x through it. If need be, how do i create another administrator mailbox if i purge the one with the red x through it? Do you think that this is OK to do? I do not think it is a good idea to delete the administrator account and create another as i think it is an inbuilt account. thanks Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129110
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    - mailbox recovery issue Hi i have got a strange problem with a mailbox that i recovered. In the mailbox store it says i have got 842 items but when i log into the mailbox, i cannot see items in the inbox and there are 342 items in sent mail which i can see. It also says i have two new messages in the inbox but i cannot see them either. I can see all of the contacts. Is there any way i can recover my mail in my inbox? I recovered another mailbox at the same time i did the one above and all of the mail for it is there. Any ideas anyone? thanks again Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129098
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    - NTBackup trouble For some reason my scheduled backups are not working anymore. Running SBS2k and backups have been configured through with a script and Task Scheduler.exe. I have had no problems for the last 5 months, however when i now view the backup log files, each log contains a message saying no blank media was present! Any ideas Thanks in advance Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129097
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    - Please help!!, Exchange on SBS When attempting the Exchange 2000 Service Pack 3 Update component of SBSSP1a, I get the following refusal to proceed : "You can use this edition of Microsoft Exchange 2000 Service Pack Update to update existing version of Exchange 2000 only." The SBS-flavour of Exchange 2000 is certainly installed and handling mail happily (Version 6, Build 4629.1, Service Pack 1) on Windows 2000 Server (now at SP4 from the SBSSP1a). Third-party apps being disabled makes no difference, and this is a clean install running several months without issue or Event until now. File-capture methods don't spot any miscreants, so I'm leaning towards corrupt or erroneous Registry referrals...but I just can't seem to track any down? I'm an MCSA (2k), working towards (.NET) MCSE and enjoy hunting down info & solutions at the "usual sources" (GoogleGroups, EventID, Technet, MS Community Newsgroups etc) and I've really looked everywhere for the answer to this, or else similar scenarios that I can adapt from, but really, this one has me stumped....is there someone who can PLEASE help? _____ David . Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129095
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    - Lost CD How do i go about getting a replacement CD for the version of Outlook shipped with the Exchange 5.5 component of SBS. The original cd has been lost along with the product key, we do have the original CDs and key for the rest of SBS though. Thanks, Chris Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129086
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    - mailbox recovery - Ray Fong thanks Ray I only have got one administrators mailbox. If it is deleted after 30 days, what are the consequences? How can i fix this? thanks again >-----Original Message----- >If you have two administrator mailbox and one of them is RedX, then depends >on the size and the need. If the size is small and you don't need to >recovery the administrator's mailbox, then you can delete it. But if you >want the email back from that RedX mailbox, you can create a test user >without a mailbox, now back to the Exchange, right click the mailbox, >Reconnect to connect to the new user. Logon as that new user to take a look. > >Ray Fong >Microsoft SBS Product Support > >This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. > > >> >>Hi >> >>thanks to Mark Stanfill, i managed to recover mailboxes >>for users. >> >>However, there is one mailbox with a red X next to it in >>the mailbox store. It is the administrator account. Is >>it safe to delete this account? >> >>thanks again >> Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129085
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    - Modem keeps connected even when there is no activity-please help me Sir, The modem always keeps connected even when there is no activity, please tell me what could be wrong. with regards, chewang Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129064
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    - 25 -character product key on certificate of authenticity I am trying to download microsoft small bussines on my computer but I can't until I have the 25 -character product key on certificate of authenticity ,which I don't have anymore.Does anyone know the 25 character on the certificate of authenticity? Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129057
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    - WMI error Msgs Can anyone point me in the right direction as to what this error is under Health Monitor? first time it has been reported in 12mnths of Server online. Critical - 9/10/2003 5:12:26 AM - Memory Error Code (from WMI) Memory : Critical condition. WMI Status: 2147749889 Critical - 9/10/2003 5:19:29 AM - PagingFile % Usage > 90 PagingFile : Critical condition. WMI Status: 2147749889 Critical - 9/10/2003 1:46:38 AM - Cache Error Code (from WMI) Cache : Critical condition. WMI Status: 2147749889 Critical - 9/10/2003 5:19:50 AM - Redirector Network Errors/sec > 1 Redirector : Critical condition. WMI Status: 2147749889 Any Help Appreciated Win2K SBS SP3 Cheers Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129052
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    - Advanced SBS Course - Input and Comments With 2395A right around the corner I was wondering what people interest would be in a similarly written Advanced course for SBS and what you would like to see in such a course. I know this is kind of hard to say since no one has seen 2395A yet? The reason I'm conducting this informal poll is because the powers to be at Microsoft said that they would look into and do an Advanced course if the market and want is there. So I encourage all of you to help make SBS even better for all of us. And Please pardon the multi-cross posted message but I sent this out to my SBS group in my mail reader. Thanks Frank Clark Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129047
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    - SBS 4.X to SBS2K - Exchange question I plan on replacing an existing server with a new one and upgrade the existing SBS 4 with Exchange 5.5 to SBS2K. My plan is to export all the mailboxes using ExMerge. Then when I get SBS2K all setup, then ExMerge all the mailboxes back into Exchange 2000. This seems to be the recommended practice and I agree with this strategy. My question is; When the users start replying to other users within the same W2K domain, will it be delivered? I ask because usually the x.400 and other email settings are different between E5.5 and E2K. Or do they have to reply but choose the user out of the GAL? I do plan on using the same server name as the old one. Rick in the Midwest Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129040
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    - Server 2000 CAL's for SBS 2003 Can Server 2000 CAL's be used if a customer choses to "upgrade" to SBS 2003? I know SBS comes with 5 CAL's but there are 15 clients on the network and all are currently licensed with Server 2000 CAL's. Microsoft licensing still keeps me somewhat confused! thanks Jim Booth Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129032
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    - Symantec / Win Live Update Can not get the SBS server or any workstation to get live updates automatically from Symantec 8.0 AV or Windows Live Update for the workstations. Works manually OK, the scheduled events return a fail in event logs. Any guidelines to this ??? Pat Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129029
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    - permissions Hi I am struggling with permissions problem. I have created a user called tom. tom is a member of a group called employee. I want tom to have no access to c drive and access to only one file on d drive which is in a directory on d drive. Tom's "member of" properties only lists him as a member of domain users/users and the employee group. I cannot remove the domain users group from his "member of" properties. What if i give the employee group access to c drive with only list permissions and access to d drive with list permissions to the folder and write/modify/read access to the file? There is just one problem. The default permissions for c drive and d drive is everyone full control. How does this effect the permissions i set for the employee group on the same folder. Does the everyone group permissions override everything and if so, what if I set deny everything on C drive and deny everything on d drive except that file? How can i get around this issue? What is the easiest way around this? Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129027
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    - HELP!! Users get errors opening Word Docs & Saving Hello All, I have a problem. I recently moved a small organization from SBS 4.5 to SBS 2K. I did a clean install on a new machine. I wasn't worried about migrating users or their exchange data or pushing shared folders & their permissions. So I simply backed everything up that they would need to tape backup and removeable HDD's. Now that the new server is up and running everyone is online and working and using ISA and exchange, however all of my users (6) complain every day that when they open a word document from a shared folder and they try to save it after making modifications they get a slew of different errors. Sometimes they are told to save to a different file name, other times they get an out of memory error cannot safe the file to this volume. and other times it just won't allow them to save because of permissions problems. I have reset permissions on the share, it is on a partition on the second physical drive and I have turned off the trend micro office scan real time scanner thinking it was slowing access times to the server. I also upgraded the server to 1.2 gigs of ecc sdram thinking 2K & exchange were hogging up the ram which it seems every time I look the ram is maxed out but I am stumped. Please help Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129021
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    - global account Hi i have setup a global account with my ISP for example, don@sew.com.au However, there is no user on the network or physically around for this account. Do i need to create one in exchange? The real users are the aliases which i have setup in exchange. What happens if i do not create an account for don? thanks again Sorry to be so slow in getting to know how this works. Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129019
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    - mailbox recovery - thanks Mark Stanfill !!! Hi thanks to Mark Stanfill, i managed to recover mailboxes for users. However, there is one mailbox with a red X next to it in the mailbox store. It is the administrator account. Is it safe to delete this account? thanks again Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129010
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    - Novell to SBS 2000 Has anyone done this migration? I also need to migrate over the Groupwise mailboxes to Exchange 2000. Any info or docs would be so helpful. Peter V Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 129002
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    - VPN through Linksys router into SBS I'd like to make a VPN connection from my home computer to the server at work. VPN will go through a Linksys router sitting between the internet and my home computer. I noticed in the instructions it states that VPN's that use IPSec and AH (Authentication Header known as protocol 51) are incompatible with the router. AH has limitations due to occasional incompatibility with the NAT standard. Can anyone shed any light on this - I've used VPN in the past through a different router and never had any problems but I can't recall ever hearing anything about AH. Just thought I'd ask - guess I'll find out once I get home and try it. Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 128997
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    - running chkdsk on mirrored drives I belive one of my mirrored drives has a bad block. I want to run chkdsk /r to repair the damage. Since the drives are mirrored, when I run the command, which drive will get checked? If I break the mirror how do I specify the second drive? Will it have a letter? (I have never broken the mirror, nor did I create it) How would you recommend checking and repairing? Dan Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 128993
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    - OT: telnet Hi, I recently had to do some network troubleshooting and learned a little about telnet (sorry if my questions are dumb, I'm having a little trouble figuring out some basics) I was given this link to help test if port 25 was open. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en- us;153119 I was able to send an email via telnet but have a couple fo questions. After telnetting to port 25, I noticed the telnet commands (close, set, etc) no longer worked. Why? Is this because once I entered the port I was no longer telnetting but was using the smtp protocol? I also noticed I could not see what I was typing (I was using the command shell). Is there away to toggle some function so I can see the text? If I telnetted to port 80, nothing would happen until I hit enter twice, this would cause the delivery of a 404 html page (displayed in the command shell). Once again, after telnetting to port 80, none of the telnet commands worked. So obviously I was connecting to the web server but it's not clear what was going on. If I went to a known closed port, I would get a could not connect message. (which is good) I'm just confused on what you can do via telnet besides access open ports. I have a copy of basic commands etc but I'm missign a few fundamentals. Any explination on what was happening would be very benificial. Thanks Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 128992
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    - Web Permissions I have a SBS 2K with FrontPage installed. Server extensions are installed. I cannnot add a web page as I always get "this action requires end-user permission avserver:80." Using administravtive privelages does not work. It asks over and over for the same info. I've reset permisisons on iis to everyone and that hasn't helped. I am the administrator and have proper privelages. I'm stuck. Any ideas? Thanks Mike Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 128988
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    - Help! Strange problems in AD, Exchange Okay this is going to be a bit winded, just to get as much information as I can in this first post. Without going into the details, I recently went thru a migration process to get SBS2K installed on another PC using the NT4 BDC -> PDC and Win2K server upgrade, and transferring the 5 FSMO roles. I'm going to have to do this process again because I have to get SBS2K back on the original PC after upgrading the hardware. I left the "temp" DC running (call it "DCTemp") without demoting it after transferring the roles. Here's some of the steps that may be relevant to my problem (to the best of my recollection and notes from the install): - After transferring the roles onto the SBS PC, I ran SBS setup without Exchange (no ISA either), and then installed Exchange 5.5 with SP3 (it failed the first time thru, then I did a manual removal of Exchange 5.5, and then did Q309484 before setup of 5.5 again). I had a heck of a time trying to get ISINTEG -patch to work, even going thru ESEUTIL on them several times (on a 12 GB priv.edb no less), before it finally restored and Exchange 5.5 SP3 was up and running (the only other problem was the LDAP ports conflicting, but that was easily resolved). I also had to do a directory export from the Exchange 5.5, and reimport back into Exchange Administrator on the SBS2K but I finally could log in from a workstation and send mail (internally), use public folders working, etc. - Next was the inplace upgrade to Exchange 2000, I got an error during the installation process and it aborted near the end, saying it couldn't install the Exchange MMC snap-in. I noticed that the databases "seemed" to have been upgraded to Exchange 2000 (with the appropriate STM files for priv and pub). I then tried to reinstall Exchange 2000 again, but this time it told me that setup couldn't continue without removing the IMC from Exchange. I couldn't get in Exchange Administrator, and the System Manager was missing so there was no way to do this that I knew of. - So, I went back to an image I made after transferring the FSMO roles, just before the SBS setup. I got an error in the event logs about AD not having the same information, but it seemed to take the "newer" information from DCTemp fine. - At this point (from the image), I ran the SBS setup (at first without Exchange 2000 and ISA), then ran the Exchange 2000 setup with the /disasterrecovery switch. I had already renamed the directory where it used to be, and after setup, I moved the priv.edb, priv.stm, pub.edb and pub.stm files along with the logs (essentially the whole mdbdata dir) back, and mounted the stores. Okay, life is good at this point (or seems to be), as Exchange 2000 is officially up and I could log in from a workstation and use the services. - Next came the SPs, and I applied Win2K SP4 first, then Exchange SP3. Ouch! I got TONS of problems after reboot (MSExchange Event IDs 5000, 1121 with error code 0x80004005, MSExchangeMTA Event ID 125, MSExchangeSA Event IDs 9098 and 9175, etc etc.). I tried a few things from some KBs but nothing seemed to work. The IS simply refused to start, and thus I couldn't mount the stores. - I then proceeded to reinstall Exchange 2000 from the SBS setup, and got the error "Setup detected another version, service pack needs to be reapplied" or something like that. I then clicked Yes to all the files that needed to overwrite the newer ones installed by SP3 (what a pain this was, I wish there was a "Yes to All" option instead of the Yes, No, No to All that is available). Setup completed BUT it said there were some problems with Active Directory (no details). I rebooted and (phew) Exchange was working again. - I went ahead and installed the TM C/S/M suite but noticed that ScanMail wasn't working (couldn't load the databases when I went into the management console). I'm going to attribute this to Exchange not being up to SP3, but it may be related. Okay, now that I've laid the groundwork, here are the problems I'm noticing: - DCTemp and SBS AD seems to be out of sync. I noticed this when a user came to me and said his account was locked out - AD Users & Computers on SBS looked fine, but on DCTemp the account was locked out. Both PCs have been running long enough for things to propagate and there are a few other inconsistencies that make me believe the replication is fubared. - I used to have an "Everyone" group in Exchange 5.5, but that didn't seem to carry over. When I try to recreate this, I get a "user already exists", but I can't find it anywhere in AD (even with the find feature). - I also can't create any NEW users on AD on the SBS with either the Add Users Wizard or from AD. I have to go create the new user in DCTemp (it seem to replicate okay to SBS, but I can't create mailboxes in AD from DCTemp). - Using the Migrate Users Wizard, I tried to give the user a mailbox - it seems to work but in System Manager, the mailbox simply isn't there. AD lists the user as having an email address, but I'm not sure where the mail goes. So.. What steps should I take at this point? Are there general troubleshooting utilities that I can run to check AD and Exchange? I'm not sure if NTDSUTIL is useful at this point because things "seem" to work and the database doesnt seem corrupted. Or should I try a reinstall from SBS setup again? I'm going to do another setup on the old SBS 4.5 PC, after doing some hardware upgrade. If I just leave the current SBS running as is, and do another FSMO roles tranfer, and do the SBS setup on the final hardware, with an Exchange 2000 database forklift, should life be fine? Or should I really look into fixing the above problems first? Just a bit Frustrated.. (especially after the weekend copying over the Exchange databases, and defraging, checking integrity, defraging, recopying, defraging, etc. which took 15+ hours). Any insights would be appreciated. Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 128985
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    - Creating a New Folder question on a shared drive. Hello, On several XP clients, I am noticing that when a user creates a new folder on a shared drive on the SBS2000 server, the window behavior is different. Before 1. Create a new folder 2. The pc jumps to the NEW FOLDER, it is highlighted in blue, and the user types in the new name Now 1. Create a new folder 2. Nothing happens 3. You have to scroll down 4. The NEW FOLDER was created 5. You have to right click 6. Rename it. What has changed, do you think? JohnJ Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 128984
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    - Outgoing SMTP Mail Please help. I am having a problem setting up a clients new SBS2000 install. Incoming mail is recieved via the popconnector which gets mail from an ISP pop account. This works ok. Outgoing mail is setup via the SMTP connector to send mail via the internet providers SMTP server (smtp.bulldogdsl.com). I have entered the ISP SMTP server as a smart host as per the MS instructions. When a domain user/computer uses Outlook, email is recieved ok and when email is sent to an internet address everything seems to work fine but the receipient never gets the message. However, no NDR is recieved by the sender and the email queues do not show any mail waiting to go. What am I doing wrong? I can ping the smtp server of the ISP from the SBS2000 and I can telnet to it as well. Help!! Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 128983
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    - shared fax server error I have setup the shared fax server on my sbs2000 sp4. I am using a U.S. Robotics 56K FAX EXT PnP on com1 (modem queries and dials out fine), however when receiving a fax I always get a error in the event log source: Microsoft shared fax, category: inbound, event id: 32091 in the shared fax log "Reception error" "Unknown fatal error" "0x0000000c" 9/8/2003 16:32:5 9/8/2003 16:34:5 "U.S. Robotics 56K FAX EXT PnP" "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Shared Fax\Queue\1C37648445045.tif" 0 "Fax" "" " " " " 0 Can't find much on msknowledge I have reinstalled the fax server, I have tried different route configurations and the problem persists. Any thoughts? Tag: Good Win2K Troubleshooting Book? Tag: 128977

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