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Hello, I have buy a server dell with Windows 2003 Server Standart R2, and i have buy 25 User Client Access Licenses (CALS). But i got a Tracking Id and not a serial number. So i cant activate the cal. What should i do? Thanks

Hello, I have buy a server dell with Windows 2003 Server Standart R2, and i have buy 25 User Client Access Licenses (CALS). But i got a Tracking Id and not a serial number. So i cant activate the cal. What should i do? Thanks

Some of my shortcut icons, within some folders are not showing as normal, some turned into a black square? Harley

We are about to institute an Microsoft 2003 R2 Print Server for the first time. We would really like to make it easy on the users to be able to install printers themselves (provided the propper access rights). We were interested in using a map of our buildings and having them loaded into IIS so that a user can just select the icon on the map for the printer they want to install and when they click on it it will do the install. We have gotten everything set up and working with the exception we can't find the proper link to use in the html code for the printer installation. The closest we've gotten is the link to the Print Server page for the printer, but then …

We are about to institute an Microsoft 2003 R2 Print Server for the first time. We would really like to make it easy on the users to be able to install printers themselves (provided the propper access rights). We were interested in using a map of our buildings and having them loaded into IIS so that a user can just select the icon on the map for the printer they want to install and when they click on it it will do the install. We have gotten everything set up and working with the exception we can't find the proper link to use in the html code for the printer installation. The closest we've gotten is the link to the Print Server page for the printer, but then …

I use my laptop as a desktop replacement. When I am done working on it I put it to sleep. However, sometimes when I wake it to resume working.. it requires me to logon and sometimes the logon is bypassed. Can anyone explain? Thanks Rick

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AP - A federal judge Wednesday halted an import ban on mobile phones by Qualcomm Inc., a rare legal victory in a long-standing patent dispute with rival Broadcom Corp. Link To Original Article

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[/url]Reuters - Apple Inc is calling a London news conference next Tuesday as speculation mounts that the consumer electronics guru will unveil long-awaited plans to bring its iconic iPhone cell phones to Europe. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - U.S. mobile users waiting for the next crop of phones could breathe a sigh of relief Wednesday when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit granted a stay on an import ban against handsets that use some Qualcomm chips. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Welcome back to the great Office Server smorgasbord. There’ll be a related review soon covering a couple of open source answers to SharePoint, including Liferay and Plone. And come October, you’ll be seeing a fully graded review of the release versions of Office Communications Server and Exchange Server 2007. Link To Original Article

AP - Sun Microsystems Inc. will begin building servers with one-time foe Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system installed directly inside of them, instead of forcing customers to install the ubiquitous software on their own or defect to a competitor for one-stop shopping. Link To Original Article

Forty-four research projects are to be funded, including a technique for video detection of abnormal behavior in crowds. Link To Original Article

Longtime rivals and occasional collaborators Sun Microsystems and Microsoft announced on Wednesday that Sun will ship 64-bit servers with Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 operating system. Within 90 days, Sun will offer Windows Server 2003 on its entire line of Sun x64 systems, the companies said in a release. Sun ... Link To Original Article

AP - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged four more former Nortel Networks Corp. executives with accounting fraud, alleging they manipulated reserves to change Nortel's earnings statements on the orders of more senior officers of the Canadian networking equipment maker. Link To Original Article

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For college students who want Office 2007, but don't want to pay Microsoft a fortune, the software maker is offering another option: Steal it. Well, actually Microsoft isn't encouraging piracy. Rather it is launching a promotion, dubbed "Ultimate Steal," in which college students can get the ultra high-end ... Link To Original Article

TechWeb - The installation of the "life-sized" wax figure in the famed Las Vegas Strip museum is the latest indication that the Xbox 360 game will smash game disc sales records. Link To Original Article

We have set up a two way trust between two Windows 2003 domains. We are using ADMT to migrate our AD objects from the source domain to the target domain. After I migrate a workstation, the workstation hostname is in both the source and target DNS. If I log into a workstation in the source domain and attempt to access the c$ share on the migrated workstation by typing the following at the run command: \\workstation_name.source_domain\c$ I get an error that says: Logon Failure: The target account name is incorrect. This also creates a number of event log errors in the security log of the migrated workstation with an ID of 529. However, if I issue the follo…

We have set up a two way trust between two Windows 2003 domains. We are using ADMT to migrate our AD objects from the source domain to the target domain. After I migrate a workstation, the workstation hostname is in both the source and target DNS. If I log into a workstation in the source domain and attempt to access the c$ share on the migrated workstation by typing the following at the run command: \\workstation_name.source_domain\c$ I get an error that says: Logon Failure: The target account name is incorrect. This also creates a number of event log errors in the security log of the migrated workstation with an ID of 529. However, if I issue…

I have a server with a Sony AIT 5 tape drive installed. A few weeks ago the drive was replaced because of a malfunction. When I put the replacement drive in I now see two drives in Removable Storage. The one has a red X on it and the other is the drive that I just put in to replace the failed one. I cannot get the server to backup using the Microsoft Backup Utility. I have tried deleting the missing tape drive but that does not work, I recieve an message that reads "Cannot delete 'Sony AIT 400GB SCSI Drive': only 'Not present' libaries can be deleted." The library is not present so I dod not see what the problem is. Has anyone seen a problem like this? …

I have a server with a Sony AIT 5 tape drive installed. A few weeks ago the drive was replaced because of a malfunction. When I put the replacement drive in I now see two drives in Removable Storage. The one has a red X on it and the other is the drive that I just put in to replace the failed one. I cannot get the server to backup using the Microsoft Backup Utility. I have tried deleting the missing tape drive but that does not work, I recieve an message that reads "Cannot delete 'Sony AIT 400GB SCSI Drive': only 'Not present' libaries can be deleted." The library is not present so I dod not see what the problem is. Has anyone seen a problem like …

When listening to a audio book in wmp I am unable to move the cursor to another area --it just keeps going back to the first --or stops all together.