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OS: Windows Terminal server 2003' VPN client: CISCO vpn client I am a bit confused. Here I am only mentioning the same TERMINAL server all the way. 1) One day I defined a few printers in the terminal server with my Domain logon ID. (BTW, my logon has admin prvileges on this machine). I am on the physical network when defining them ( not VPN ). Then I logoff and asked other Domain users to RDP to the terminal server, they can all see the printers from their Windows -> control panel -> printers / faxes applet. 2) Today I sign-on as usual. I define one new printer \\xxx.xxx.xx.xx\printer with my logon but the printer is a local printer c…

After a windows update prior to the very last one, I noticed that the dialogue below my user icon and names, basically the unread e-mail notices did not appear. I have to shut off my computer by holding the computer start button in as clicking with my mouse does not do anything. Sometimes the dialoque appears after 1 restart sometimes it takes 3. Once the dialogue box reappears it works fine. Any ideas on how to fix this?

After a windows update prior to the very last one, I noticed that the dialogue below my user icon and names, basically the unread e-mail notices did not appear. I have to shut off my computer by holding the computer start button in as clicking with my mouse does not do anything. Sometimes the dialoque appears after 1 restart sometimes it takes 3. Once the dialogue box reappears it works fine. Any ideas on how to fix this?

I have added an explicit ldap crl distribution point entry onto one of our Enterprise Subordinate CA's (member server), in the format ldap://cdp1.contoso.com/CN=CorporateRootCA,CN=Root_CA,CN=CDP,CN=Public Key Services,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=contoso,DC=com? certificateRevocationList?base?objectClass=cRLDistributionPoint When I added the entry I noticed that the option to "Publish CRL's to this location" is greyed out. After checking the available boxes, and viewing the CDP distribution points with the pkiview utility. The explicit entry that I added does not show up. Only the delta CRL entry Could someone please tell me if this is by design? D…

hi Have anyone try do a window load balancing spool on window 2003 standard and not using window 2003 enterprise which support cluster.I have some problem to understand the concept on it.My nlb i have tested on http request and the load will be split across 2 server, but what will happen on the print spool?

hi Have anyone try do a window load balancing spool on window 2003 standard and not using window 2003 enterprise which support cluster.I have some problem to understand the concept on it.My nlb i have tested on http request and the load will be split across 2 server, but what will happen on the print spool?

Yesterday's automatic update required a restart of my computer. I sign on with a network password which won't work because I'm not connected to the internet. I can't get into my computer. I no longer remember the password for my computer since a change and use only my network password. I have shut my computer off before and signed back in using my network password before. why can't I do that this time? did this update affect my ability to do that?

Hello We have written a device driver for a multidrop device (type of serial card) for Windows NT4. It works fine on NT4 but we want to see if we can get it to work without any code changes on XP. On NT there was a devices section where I can see if the driver is loaded/running but cannot seem to find anything like this on XP? Where should I be looking? The device driver does not appear in the list of services but by calling the Windows API OpenService function with the driver name it indicates it has been installed. Basically I want to know how I can check that a device driver is installed correctly and working in XP. how do I do that? Angus

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InfoWorld - Microsoft plans to fix a bug in the Windows operating system that has been blamed for a handful of critical vulnerabilities in Windows software. Link To Original Article

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After discovering two weeks ago that the latest version of Excel had a problem with math, the software maker said the spreadsheet is once again ready to resume its spot at the head of the class. Late Tuesday, Microsoft posted patches to its Web site that fix the arcane math ... Link To Original Article

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