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    - Service Packs and Downloads We have a SBS 2000 server and a Win 2000 TS server. Is there a quick way to determine what service packs are installed for each of the applications that come with SBS 2000 ?. I tried looking under the SBS Admin console. I know I have got SBS 2000 SP1 and Win 2000 SP3 on the SBS and SP3 on the TS. Are there any issues in using either express or network installation when downloading the latest service packs ? We have only got the 2 win 2000 servers and all our 25 WS are either 98 (soon to be upgraded) or XP. Is it better to use SUS or Group Policy to update all the WS with the latest service packs, patches etc ? Thanking you in advance. Best Regards Antony Tag: access entire network Tag: 148575
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    - Exchange Quickie Hi, I have a SBS2K server with windows 2K client machines connected to it. Basically the question I have is. Is it possible to have multiple mail stores within Exchange 2000? We have 3 different companies and I want to use the mailbox manager to miss out certain users. I have tried to use the filter but it seems to do what it wants to do instead of what I ask, so I am wondering if I can set up multiple mail stores to different managing procedures. If anyone can help it would be great. Thanks in advance Andy C Tag: access entire network Tag: 148570
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    - Exchange Question Hi, I have a SBS2K server with windows 2K client machines connected to it. Basically the question I have is. Is it possible to have multiple mail stores within Exchange 2000? We have 3 different companies and I want to use the mailbox manager to miss out certain users. I have tried to use the filter but it seems to do what it wants to do instead of what I ask, so I am wondering if I can set up multiple mail stores to different managing procedures. If anyone can help it would be great. Thanks in advance Andy C Tag: access entire network Tag: 148567
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    - move win xp pcs from nt4 domain to sbs2000 I have 10 winxp pro pcs that are currently logging on to a single NT 4.0 file server. the xp pro pc's are members of the nt 4 domain (the nt 4 server is a domain controller.) the nt 4 server is going to be decommissioned and a sbs 2000/2003 server will replace it. I want to preserve the users desktops, settings, apps etc and have the win xp pcs log on to the sbs domain. I have seen "netdom" mentioned as a tool to do this. Is this the the right tool for the job ? charles. Tag: access entire network Tag: 148565
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    - Frontpage ISA settings? Hi - my website is designed & uploaded in FP to a shared server run by my isp. If I upload using pc directly attached to adsl router then no problems - however if the pc is on the SBS network & therefore behind ISA, the upload gets to the point of asking for the Username & password for the site & then fails to do anything more. I assume that FP on the pc & the FP site at the isp must have to do some sort of handshake(?) and that ISA server is blocking/filtering that. Any suggestions as to how to deal with it? Thanks Tag: access entire network Tag: 148558
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    - SBS users in a Terminal server Hi Guys I would greatly appreciate your views on the following. I am going to install a new application server (2000) in my companys SBS 2000 network. It will be 2000 in Terminal mode. We have a about 45 users and I don't want to sit there - punching in login names and passwords. All users will have the same rights that they have in SBS. Could you please help me with the easiest way to propagate my users? Secondly, I like the simple way that you can publish an application in Metafarme. Is there a simple way to do this in terminal server? Thanks for your help Steve Tag: access entire network Tag: 148554
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    - OT: Shavlik.com hfnetchkLT updated for Jan bulletins -------- Original Message -------- Subject: New XML file .920 now available Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 17:05:21 -0600 From: Shavlik Support <support@shavlik.com> Newsgroups: shavlik.enterpriseinspector,shavlik.hfnetchk,shavlik.hfnetchklt,shavlik.hfnetchkpro XML data version = 1.1.1.920 Last modified on 1/13/2004 Includes MS04-001, MS04-002, MS04-003 and the Blaster Removal Tool, titled "Tool03-039". Please view the patch info for details regarding this tool. -- Chris Boylan Technical Support Specialist Newsgroup Moderator Shavlik Technologies, LLC support@shavlik.com Read our HFNetChkPro Online Help at: http://hfnetchk.shavlik.com/support/hfpro4help/hfn.htm -- http://www.sbslinks.com/really.htm Tag: access entire network Tag: 148541
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    - roaming profiles I have an SBS2000 network with win98 and win xp pro. They want roaming profiles. I know the preferred method would be using a GPO and redirection. But I don't think that works with win98. I setup a folder called profiles and configured all users to point to this share in active directory. But the xp clients are not working. they get an error at log in about could not find profile will use local copy. Can someone tell me how to make roaming profiles work for both clients. TIA TRD Tag: access entire network Tag: 148536
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    - No email POP3 & Newsgroup The ISA 2000 is installed which is part of my SBS 2000. The Client are NATClient and they have access to the web However, they don't have access to newsgroup as well as email. The following is the settings for the ISA Server which is Part of the SBS 2000: The ISA server name is ARSPRIME properities the Incoming Web request Incoming listeners is Server is ARSPRIME and IP Address is 10.100.0.1 TCP 8080 SSL 443 ------------------->>> This port is different as to the Port on the outgoing Enabled SSL Listners is CHECKED the Outgoing Web reques Outgoing listeners is Server is ARSPRIME and IP Address is 10.100.0.1 TCP 8080 SSL 8443 ------------------->>> This port is different as to the Port on the outgoing Enabled SSL Listners is CHECKED I also have the the Local Address Table (LAT) for ISA established for the DHCP Clients scope 10.100.0.x to 10.100.0254 and the Local Domain Table (LDT) have my domain name Under the Site & Content Rules I have a default rule which I think was established by SBS 2000 when I made the installation is called BackOffice Internet Access Site & Content Group. Also, inside the Protocol Rules I have a rule by default which have the name of BackOffice Internet Access Protocol Rules, which was established through the installation. I tried to establish two Rules to allow the POP3(email) and NNTP(News Groups) but they did not make a difference. Please point me in the direction of what I need to do to allow the POP3 email as well as the News Group so client can have access. Besides for the time being, I am hosting my Email & Website with a hosting company but once I have everything correct with the ISA I will host my website on IIS as well as my email through Exchange in the near future localy. Do I have to allow other protocols as this time when I start host my email and website locally? Thank You Tag: access entire network Tag: 148530
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    - Window 2000 Server dropping user access rights Greetings My system with with Windows 2000 server and 6 XP Pro workstations in mid day decided to change accessibility for 4 of the 6 Specifically, I've got a shortcut to an executible on the serve that reports "Not a valid Win32 Application Well, 2 user still run it?? What changed, and how do I fix this Thanks for all your help. Tag: access entire network Tag: 148527
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    - VPN Firewall through ISA I have a SnapGear firewall which I will be using as the VPN end point for my clients, rather than ISA/SBS2K. I intended to run the firewall through the second NIC and ISA Server so I could use the reporting features of ISA. The problem is that because the firewall is a VPN Server it needs to issue IP addresses out from it's subnet, which is 192.168.0.255. The LAN IP range is totally different to this. What do I do? I haven't actively tested this yet as I am still in the early stages but need to prepare before I go too far to turn back. If the VPN clients are issued the 192.168.0.255 address will they still be able to acess the LAN? Any suggestions, comments or further questions most welcome. Thanks. Tippy. Tag: access entire network Tag: 148526
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    - Migration question regarding SBS2000 I have a client, 48 Workstations, one W2K Server, and an SBS 2K box. How does the migration policy work now that SBS2K3 is out? Thanks, Douglas Tag: access entire network Tag: 148519
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    - licensing question This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0225_01C3D9F6.9C6E4380 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable My client is setting up some ASP pages on his site to pull client = specific info from the SQL Server on his SBS2000 setup. For now, there = would only be a handful of clients accessing the data (through the IUSR = account most likely). What licensing issues do I need to address to maintain compliance? We = have 25 SBS cals and maybe 15 actual users at this time. Thanks! --=20 Kevin Hill President=20 3NF Consulting www.3nf-inc.com ------=_NextPart_000_0225_01C3D9F6.9C6E4380 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 6.00.2800.1276" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>My client is setting up some ASP pages = on his site=20 to pull client specific info from the SQL Server on his SBS2000 = setup.  For=20 now, there would only be a handful of clients accessing the data = (through the=20 IUSR account most likely).</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>What licensing issues do I need to = address to=20 maintain compliance?  We have 25 SBS cals and maybe 15 actual users = at this=20 time.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Thanks!</FONT></DIV><FONT face=3DArial = size=3D2> <DIV><BR>-- <BR>Kevin Hill<BR>President <BR>3NF Consulting</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>www.3nf-inc.com<BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0225_01C3D9F6.9C6E4380-- Tag: access entire network Tag: 148517
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    - Outlook losing appointments Hi One of my remote users (120miles away) is complaining that they are losing the odd appoinment from their callender. They use Outlook 2002 linking to an Exchange server as part of a SBS server - stand alone network at that location. Are there any things I can try over the phone without making a special journey? Any help would be appreciated. Many thanks Mark F Tag: access entire network Tag: 148515
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    - ICW requires removal of address from LAT This SBS 2000 server is moving to broadband Internet connection, using a router between the modem and a second NIC. A trial computer plugged into the router can surf the NET, so I am confident the router and modem are set up correctly. ICW on the server objects to the IP addresses assigned to the second NIC by the router, saying they are already in the internal LAT. I need to know how to safely remove an IP address from the LAT. The router is assigning 192.168.0.101 today to the external NIC. Yesterday it was 192.168.0.100. I have been into ISA Administrator and can delete the range from 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.255.255. The internal network addresses range from 192.168.16.2 to 192.168.16.x which should be more than enough. Can I safely remove the range indicated above? Thanks -- Ron Carruthers Lonely Pine Consulting Tag: access entire network Tag: 148509
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    - Outlook and the Mailbox I admin a small school network of about 30 workstations using SBS2000 as our server. All the pupils in the school have a mandatory login profile which makes life simple for us and all the children have the same settings each time they login. The problem is with the use of outlook and the mailbox. I assume that a users mailbox setting is stored as part of the profile so each time a pupil wishes to use outlook they: 1. right click the outlook icon on the desktop 2. find their mailbox using their own name 3. click OK (more than once) 4. run outlook Is there a simple way around this. Can I alter the login script to amend the registry (I have kix32 if that helps). Thanks Dave Tag: access entire network Tag: 148508
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    - VPN resolution problem Hello all. I sure would appreciate any help anyone might be able to offer. Here is my problem. My client has a vanilla installation of SBS2000 (2 NICs, ADSL connection, using ISA as firewall, Win2K SP4, SBS2000 SP1). When we create a virtual private network connection from a Windows XP client, we have no problems - we can see the server and ping it successfully, see shares on the server etc. However, when we connect through VPN using a Windows 2000 client, we can't see squat - can't ping 192.168.16.2, can't see server or shares. I have checked DNS and WINS, and everything seems in order. Any suggestions or other things to check? Thanks! Steve Tag: access entire network Tag: 148507
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    - only admins can fax I have SBS 2000 set up with XP clients and an external US Robotics fax modem setup for shared faxing. They were able to fax until I made some security changes. Now the only people who can fax are those in the Administrators group. I have gone through and checked every fax security related thing I can find and am still unsuccessful at getting anyone but an Administrator to fax. When a user tries to print an error occurs on the server saying it failed. Any ideas? Tag: access entire network Tag: 148501
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    - Does Shared Fax support non english characters? I have a client that is trying to send out faxes with Chinese characters in them. However in the fax the Chinese characters are being replaced with square boxes. Chinese characters are installed on the server and they do display in the Shared Fax service console in fields such as recipient name etc. Howerver if you double click on a fax to open it up in imaging you can see that in the acutal fax all Chinese characters are squares. Is this a lack of character support in shared fax or could this be something else? Cheers Damon Tag: access entire network Tag: 148498
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    - SMTP Connector question Last week I changed the way we send out email from Exchange. Previously I had been sending directly to recipient using DNS, but due to IP blocking issues decided to relay all email from my office thru our ISP mail server. At first glance it appeared to work with no problem. But after a few hours, it stops working, and the mail ends up sitting on my server in the "unreachable destination" queue. To set this up I added the ISP mail server in the smarthost field under the advanced tab in the delivery section of the Default SMTP virtual server properties. I also added our ISP username and password in the outbound security tab on the delivery page. I then added the same smarthost to the property pages of the Small Business SMTP Connector. All seems to work well for a short time, then all outgoing mail stops. Am I doing something wrong? To release the mail that gets held up all I need to do is switch back to using DNS in the SMTP connector. Tag: access entire network Tag: 148491
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    - << 04-003 MDAC Security bulletin >>> For MDAC (Important) http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS04-003.asp Last bulletin for January -- http://www.sbslinks.com/really.htm Tag: access entire network Tag: 148484
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    - SBS2k and other 2kServers I have a SBS 2k machine on my network. The way I had it join my existing network was to install only 2k server on it, transfer the FSMO roles and then upgrade to SBS2k. Everything worked just fine. but what I am seeing is that when I create a new user on the SBS machine, it creates the user on the other server (like it should) but it has the account disabled. And on the 2k machine when looking at a users Properties, the tabs for exchange, email address, etc is not there. I doubled checked to be sure the FSMO roles are all set on SBS and there are. Also, if I create an account on the regular 2kServer machine, the account gets replicated to the SBS machine, but when I go to the SBS machine, the tab for Email Address's is not there. Any ideas??? Tag: access entire network Tag: 148483
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    - PDC Died - How to replace? Two disks of the RAID 5 stopped functioning and our PDC is gone. We have a BDC running, and I have forced the Operation Master roles that I can to be taken over by the PDC. There exists no system backup of the PDC. The computer that died was running Small Business Server 2000 with ISA and Exchange installed What is the best way to bring back our PDC and also re-install exchange as to minimize the impact on Active Directory and the users? There any kind of forest preparation or a switch to use with DCPromo Tag: access entire network Tag: 148482
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    - VPN issues Our companies VPN has been configured but is very much at the testing stage. We use ISA server2k and SBS2k The VPN Seems to work ok and a test user can logon to the network Via VPN. Here are a list of the problems we are encountering when we have a live VPN connection. 1 - He can't browse the network via network neighboruhood. 2 - Server name can't be resolved from start>run \\servname 2 - He can't ping the servers local address 192.168.16.1 3 - He is assigned an IP Address of 169.254.23.100 (obviously that's why he can't ping the server but if the address is suppposed to be assigned DHCP well why isn't he getting an IP in the 192.168.16.xxx range as it is the DHCP server for the local network he is loggin on to). Help Please! Tag: access entire network Tag: 148481
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    - Microsoft Security Bulletin Release for January 2004 Follow up set to microsoft.public.security... Today Microsoft released the following Security Bulletins. Note: »www.microsoft.com/technet/security and »www.microsoft.com/security are authoritative in all matters concerning Microsoft Security Bulletins! ANY e-mail, web board or newsgroup posting (including this one) should be verified by visiting these sites for official information. Microsoft never sends security or other updates as attachments. These updates must be downloaded from the microsoft.com download center or Windows Update. See the individual bulletins for details. Because some malicious messages attempt to masquerade as official Microsoft security notices, it is recommended that you physically type the URLs into your web browser and not click on the hyperlinks provided. Bulletins Summaries: ISA Server: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/isajan04.asp Exchange: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/excjan04.asp Windows (MDAC): http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/winjan04.asp Critical Bulletins: MS04-001 - Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000 H.323 Filter Could Allow Remote Code Execution (816458) http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-001.asp Important Bulletins: MS04-003 - Buffer Overrun in MDAC Function Could Allow Code Execution (832483) http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-003.asp MS03-045 - Re-Release: Buffer Overrun in the ListBox and in the ComboBox Control Could Allow Code Execution (824141) http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-045.asp Reason for re-release: V4.0 January 13, 2004: Bulletin updated to reflect the release of updated Windows NT 4.0 Workstation and Server updates for Arabic, Hebrew, and Thai languages only. Moderate Bulletins: MS04-002 - Vulnerability in Exchange Server 2003 Could Lead to Privilege Escalation (832759) http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-002.asp This represents our regularly scheduled monthly bulletin release (second Tuesday of each month). Please note that Microsoft may release bulletins out side of this schedule if we determine the need to do so. If you have any questions regarding the patch or its implementation after reading the above listed bulletin you should contact Product Support Services in the United States at 1-866-PCSafety (1-866-727-2338). International customers should contact their local subsidiary. -- Regards, Jerry Bryant - MCSE, MCDBA Microsoft IT Communities Get Secure! www.microsoft.com/security This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Tag: access entire network Tag: 148480
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    - SP 4 problem / fax? I upgraded a clients SBS2000 server over the weekend to SP4. Now there is a problem with using the fax server. Getting the following messages in the event viewer: Catagory: Outbound Event ID: 32028 Type: Warning Description: An error was encountered while sending a fax. The service will attempt to resend the fax. If further transmissions fail, please verify that the following items are working correctly: phone line, fax sending device and fax receiving device. Sender: Steve Stanek. Billing code: . Sender company: Reddy Electric Co.. Sender dept: . Recipient name: Bob Isley (Business Fax). Recipient number: 9 ,461-7844. Device name: ESS ES56H-PI Data Fax Voice Modem. Source: Microsoft Shared Fax Catagory: Outbound Event ID: 32027 Type: Error Description: An error was encountered while sending a fax. This fax will not be sent, because the maximum number of retries has been exhausted. If you restart the transmission and difficulties persist, please verify that the following items are working correctly: phone line, fax sending device and fax receiving device. Sender: Steve Stanek. Billing code: . Sender company: Reddy Electric Co.. Sender dept: . Recipient name: Bob Isley (Business Fax). Recipient number: 9 ,461-****. Device name: ESS ES56H-PI Data Fax Voice Modem. User that is trying to send these faxes is on an XP Pro computer. He is the only one that regularly uses the fax server. One of his faxes finally went through after 2 days of trying. The fax numbers are correct. The updates to the server over the weekend are the only changes made. Any help is appreciated. The user is one of the few V.Ps in the company. Thanks in advance. Aaron Tag: access entire network Tag: 148479
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    - <<04-001 Security Bulletin for ISA Server >> 816458 - MS04-001: A vulnerability in an Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000 H.323 filter could allow remote code execution: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q816458 Again, not found by merely Windows Updating a box 04-002 is just Exchange 2003 -- http://www.sbslinks.com/really.htm Tag: access entire network Tag: 148477
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    - SBS 2003 - send mail as another user Hello News i have a SBS 2003 with exch 2003. I have a user with a mailbox. (user@xy.com) Now i want to allow the user to send a email with another users mailbox (user2@xy.com) I have granted the other user full mailbox access under Advanced -> Mailbox Rights. But when my user attempts to send a mail with the other mailbox it gets an error message. I have made the same konfig with exch 2000, windows 2000 without problems so i want to ask Is there something i miss? Are there additional security improvements in Exch 2003 SBS Any ideas For clearence: i also followed this article: http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/MF006.htm Thanx Tag: access entire network Tag: 148474
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    - User to access another mailbox I want to enable a user to access another User's mailbox. How do I do this please? Ultimately, I would like to configure Outlook2002 to prompt the user which mailbox to use on startup - theirs or the person that she will access. Thanks, skc Tag: access entire network Tag: 148469
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    - What to do with old servers? I'm beginning to accumulate a number of old servers, replaced with new ones. Can SBS machines be upgraded to Windows XP and be used as Desktops, donated to schools or churches? The machines work fine, they just have the wrong Operating System for Desktop use. Thank you in advance, David Thomas Tag: access entire network Tag: 148467
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    - Partitioning It is possible to partition the harddrive into 2 logical drives from 1 after setup is complete or do I have to reinstall Server 2000 all over again? There is a small inactive partition (11GB) that was installed on setup. Is it possible to expand that one instead? The drive is 112GB. 100.6GB system (NTFS) and a 11.2GB non active basic. Thank you for your help Pete . . Tag: access entire network Tag: 148463
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    - Error messages When I open the Administrator, I get the following error messages: 1) Runtime error occured Debug? Line 8 Error: Type mismatch: "ProcessParams" 2) when I go to "About": I cannot see my license - just fields that are blank. 3) RPC Server is unavailable - when everything (above) is happening. Should I just re-boot? or is there an explanation for this problem. I cannot find it on Microsoft, when I search for the specific messages. Tag: access entire network Tag: 148453
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    - Preventing users downloading software I have just installed my first SBS 2000, and everything is fine. We often have temporary staff working on site who need access to the internet a part of their work, but a couple of them are downloading software and adding mesaging services etc. Is there a way SBS can restrict these downloads through the security or user settings - we have roaming profiles and so other options require far more work. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Chris. Tag: access entire network Tag: 148451
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    - Error Logs Showing Blackhole Hi, have some bizzare happenings in my ISA server log files. Certain address' keep appearing as blocked noticeably, 169.254.82.127 The IPPEXTD Logfile shows that the port is 137 and the protocol is UDP. Have checked on the guardian website amongst others and it appears that the servers belong to Blackhole. Not entirely clear what this means. I understand 169.XXX.XXX.XXX is apparantly non-routable Have also posted this issue in ISA server group sorry for multiple postings. Any help much appreciated Tag: access entire network Tag: 148447
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    - Error Logs Showing Blackhole Hi, have some bizzare happenings in my ISA server log files. Certain address' keep appearing as blocked noticeably, 169.254.82.127 The IPPEXTD Logfile shows that the port is 137 and the protocol is UDP. Have checked on the guardian website amongst others and it appears that the servers belong to Blackhole. Not entirely clear what this means. I understand 169.XXX.XXX.XXX is apparantly non-routable Have also posted this issue in ISA server group sorry for multiple postings. Any help much appreciated Tag: access entire network Tag: 148446
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    - 2nd sql server server I'm running Small Business Server 2000 but I need to move my SQL server database onto its own box. Purchasing all needed licenses, can I add a second server to my domain to act as a SQL server only. It will not have any rights/responsibilities for the domain... it won't be a BDC. Can I do this on my SBS network?? TIA, Ari Tag: access entire network Tag: 148444
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    - the 15 minute pop equation I just don't understand what the problem is. WHY do people wish to reduce the pop connector collection time? Well, actually, NO, that's not the question. The question is more like 'WHY do people put so much effort into reducing the pop connector retrieval interval?'. With maybe a corollary question of 'WHY is it so damned important?'. I was dealing with a company for tech support today, the guy emailed me some notes. As we receive via SMTP no POP connector delay was involved. While I was on the phone I heard him reading the email, he suggested he was forwarding it to me and I could hear him typing as he asked me to pause while I was giving him my email address, he then suggested 'you should get it soon' so I'm supposing he had actually hit the 'send' button at this time. I also called someone else for support yesterday and went through a similar scenario. Both emails were simple text messages. One arrived inside the 15 minutes, the other took 3 hours. One was from Trend Micro, the other was from Microsoft. This is the nature of internet email. An old quote about internet email suggests '90% gets delivered inside a few minutes, 5% takes a couple of days, 5% goes into the big pop box in the sky and no-one knows why.' I also receive via SMTP at home. If the girl next door emailed me I would receive it with minimal delay. If she expected me to get off my ass and knock on her door within 15 minutes she better be offering something better than dinner to fix her computer. I just don't understand what the frenzy is. On the other hand, there are very good reasons why after attempting POP collection once a short delay should occur before another pop collection is attempted. Many mail systems (and I'm probably talking *nix here, particularly *nix mail server farms) 'lock' the mailbox during delivery, if you attempt to access the mailbox before the lock is released it will error. The previous POP conversation can be complete but because the server is handling thousands of requests and also doing it's own housekeeping the mailbox may still be locked. I'm not sure but I think the lock exists to eradicate the chance of duplicate delivery. ie. (if the mailbox lock was not implemented) popconversation1 'HI, any new mail?' popconversation1 'Yep, sure is, 1*10MB message' popconversation1 'give it to me baby' Transfer starts popconversation2 'HI, any new mail?' popconversation2 'Yep, sure is, 1*10MB message' popconversation2 'give it to me baby' Transfer starts some time later more pop conversations get initiated and we've got more transfers of the same message which eventually may end. The client then has multiple copies of the same message which transferred slowly because they all happened at the same time,,, and gets rather confused what to do with them. Just my take on the issue. I must be 'in a mood'. IF your users DEMAND immediate reception of mail tell them the best you can do is a permanent IP and SMTP delivery, which may result in delays of several minutes to several days, but won't include an additional 14 minutes and 59 seconds. Tag: access entire network Tag: 148437
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    - Pop connector question The pop connector in exchange 2000/2003 can only be set go get mail at every 15 minutes. ( 4 X an hour ) Is there any way to increase this ? is there a way to set it to every minute ? Kind regards, Jos. Tag: access entire network Tag: 148433
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    - Restoring Exchange 2000 to new SBS hardware We have just bought a new RAID server to replace our existing IDE SBS 2000 server and so far i've managed to replicate the Active Directory info to a temporary Windows 2000 server, taken it offline, and replicated it to our new server using the exact same machine name. I've managed to seize the FSMO roles and can get an existing workstation to log on to both the old and new servers, but i'm having problems installing Exchange 2000 back on to the new server. On running the installation file from the third SBS CD, i initially got the error message:- The component "Microsoft Exchange Messaging and Collaboration Services" cannot be assigned the action "Install" because: A server object for this server ("SERVERNAME") already exists in the Administrative Group "first administrative group". You must either remove this server object before installing, or run setup with the "DisasterRecovery" switch if you are attempting to recover this server. On looking at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;298068 , i've attempted to run the setup.exe /disasterrecovery command, but i get this error instead:- Please use the Exchange Administration Snap-in to ensure you have a valid Exchange Server Object for this server for which you are running Setup in recovery mode. Anyone got any ideas?? Thanks in advance Dan Williams. Tag: access entire network Tag: 148432
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    - Documents returns to its previous folder Hi all. Server -> SBS 2000 Clients -> Windows 2000 Profissional Some users on this network told me that for example: 1) they create a document on a folder 2) they move that document to another folder 3) the next time they log in, the document is in 1) state ( like that 2) never had happened ) Any ideas/suggestions why is this happening? Thanks a lot in advance. Best regards, Joaquim. Tag: access entire network Tag: 148431
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    - Logon Scripts - Help Please!! Hi all I would like to map a drive and also make sure that the My Documents Folder is pointing to a Network Location. Please can somebody advise me how to do this or where to find some information on how to create logon scripts. What I want is:- The X drive to be mapped to \\myserver\company and the location of the My Documents folder to be pointing to \\myserver\users\auser\my documents I have tried writing the script myself but am unable to get it to work! Many thanks Mark Tag: access entire network Tag: 148430
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    - Small Business 2000 Terminal Serivices Hi, I have a quick question I hope someone can help me with. I have Small Business Server 2000 with 25 Cals, Does this mean I can have 25 users connect via Terminal Services that is included in this package ? Many Thanks For Your Time. Tag: access entire network Tag: 148426
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    - Cant open Microsoft Network on the server! Hi, I posted this about three weeks ago but didnt seem to get any answers, hopefully someone else could have a look and see if they can come up with something?. My problem is that I cant browse The Microsoft Network from my server. Every time i try to access the domain it produces an error saying it cant find the domain?. I've made sure that IsDomainMaster is set in the registry and done several fixes according to several posts relating to this problem however i still cant browse?. I have read though that RRAS affects the master browser on the master domain is that right?. If anybody has any ideas.... Regards TIM Tag: access entire network Tag: 148425
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    - cant logon after conversion into new domain I converted a win2kpro workstation from one domain to another and now it cannot logon I cannot even logon to the workstation standalone anymore. "the local policy of this system does not permit you to logon interactively" anyone know why this is happening? Tag: access entire network Tag: 148422
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    - OT: 98/ME support is extended [no this is not a joke] CRN : Daily Archives : Microsoft Extends Paid Support On Windows 98 Until June 2006 : 2:14 PM EST Mon., Jan. 12, 2004: http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=47165 I'm sorry but I don't think this is a good decision at all. On the one hand they do the right thing and take out TS in application mode on our domain controllers, and then on the other hand they continue to support Win98. Makes it a little hard for me to stand up here and say "Microsoft gets security" when they will continue to support a platform that has none until Longhorn comes out. I for one am disappointed that they caved in to customer response. Susan -- http://www.sbslinks.com/really.htm Tag: access entire network Tag: 148408
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    - DNS Forwarding Problem For some reason the check box to "Enable DNS forwarding" is grayed out on my server and I can't enter any DNS addresses to forward requests to. Any ideas on why this would be grayed out? Any help is greatly appreciated! Tag: access entire network Tag: 148403
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    - Exchange - Missing Attachments Hi there, We are using small business server 2000 as our email server and I am having a small problem with it. When a certain customer sends us emails with attachments, the attachments are being stripped out of the emails by exchange. e.g They sent us an email with an attachment yesterday. When I looked in the logs for the smtp virtual server on exchange it said the message was ~53K. When the user looked at the message in Outlook it said the message was 4K and the attachment was missing. I assume there is something slightly awry in the format of the emails from this particular user that is upsetting exchange when it is processing the email. Has anyone had this problem and any suggestions as to how I might solve ? Is there a way of capturing what the smtp server sees for an email before it flows into the bowels of exchange never to be seen again in it's original smtp format ? To work around this problem we have been having this customer send email to people's hotmail/yahoo mail accounts. They don't seem to have a problem with the email attachments from this customer. Alan Tag: access entire network Tag: 148400
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    - XP workstation long time to login! Our office just got 3 new workstations with W. XP Pro. I got them to join the domain SBS2000 without any problem, BUT! it takes over 1 1/2 minute for the user to login (Applying settings.) with W2K Pro. It takes only 4 seconds. Please help!!! Tag: access entire network Tag: 148394
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    - internet explorer canor find server or dns server error hello first time user.....thanks in advance have a client...sbs2000 installed...was active directory until i changed it to workgroup...had 6 users connecting to internet via a single external modem connection off the server...now cannot get it working from users or server....at the server....connects to isp...can ping to ip but not a name...ie www.microspft.com....cannot figure it out...placed tech service call without success....was advised (not by microsoft) to blow away server and reinstall....hesitant to do so...any idreas? Tag: access entire network Tag: 148377
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    - Distribution list/Public Folder On one of our web sites, we have a Q&A page for customers to post questions which generates an email to the appropriate support person(s). Initially I was going to set it up so that these emails would be directed to a public folder's email address. My only problem is that if 3 (or 5 or 50) people have access to this public folder, and one person responds, how do the other people know that a response has been sent? In other words, is there a way to have responses automatically stored and tracked (like message threads) in this public folder? Thanks, kw Tag: access entire network Tag: 148375

Have created VPN and client seems to connect ok.
Problem is we can't see any other PC's etc in network
neighbourhood. Have been instructed to enable "Access
entire network" option.
My question is where is this option? We can't seem to see
it anywhere.

Thanks Rob

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