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Hi All, Im new to this so ill try to be as clear as i can. I have installed server 2008 (domain controller) and Im trying to connect it to another instance of server 2008 running on vmware. I have installed SQL server on the vmware instance but i have no clue on how to link between the domain controller and the SQL server. Any help on how to work this out will be appreciated thanks Lior

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ICTCity replied July 31, 201113 yr

Hi All I want to discuss one server issue. I have a server 2008 with few shared folders on server's hard disk. Now, when user try to put file on shared folder(except exe) they can do it normally but when they tried to place exe files on shared folder then error occur. "Access is denied". After this issue , i login with enterprise admin account on some other network machine(client) and try to put exe file on shared folder but facing same issue on the contrary when i login locally then no error appear. Now, please tell me which security revoke user to place exe files on shared folder even domain admin not able to do on network. As per security and sharing of folder…

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ICTCity replied July 28, 201113 yr

Hello, I have been designated "server setter upper"... there is no IT department here I am afriad. Please be patient with me. I have been trying to fathom this for the last 3 days. In essence, the GPO applied to the OU which my group object is listed under is not being applied to any of the group members. It does however get applied to any individual users put into that OU. Please look at my screenshot (also attached). It depicts the problem exactly. ...anyone got any ideas? thanks in advance, Michelle

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ICTCity replied July 28, 201113 yr

ok so i was recently trying to forward port 8016 to the internal host of 192.168.0.100 and prior to installing my server, all this was working fine. The host is a DVR, which im setting up again for remote access and viewing, the problem ive got is, the host wont accept connections and the port wont open, and so i thought id check the server to be sure that nothing was stopping it, no NAT config or routing issues and found the following The DVR is on 192.168.0.100 and the "internal" device on my server is also on 192.168.0.100, so im assuming that port 8016 is forwarding to the internal device on the server, atleast thats all i can think it is. I could rectify this p…

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ICTCity replied July 28, 201113 yr

I set up a new server with DNS, DHCP and Active Directory. First question is, is there a problem putting all 3 of these roles on the same server? The server is a Win 2008 R2 server. I am having problems adding all of my workstations to the domain. Oddly enough I have only been able to add my workstation to the domain but no others. I have no idea why this is I've checked the settings on my workstation and they are identical to the other workstations that will not connect to the domain. I am running into a wall as far as the next steps to take to find my problem. I am also wondering if this could be a result of reverse or forward look ups. I am attaching a screens…

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ICTCity replied July 27, 201113 yr

Is there a way to automatically configure folder share permissions based on the name of a folder? Say for example a user creates a folder (anywhere on the server) named "Quotes". I would like that folder to automatically belong to the Quoting Group and exclude access by anyone not in the Quoting Group, even if the user that created the folder is not a member of the Quoting group. We have a database application that creates and manages a large number of folders. It creates thousands of numbered folder "sets", each numbered folder having a standard set of sub-folders like Sales, Purchase Orders, etc. We need to control access to the sub-folders based on Group membership.…

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ICTCity replied July 26, 201113 yr

Hi all, I'm newbie to Windows and sorry for the FAQ. A domain (mydom.edu.hk) is setup with 2 DCs. Clients on other vlan can't join the domain with error "The network was not found". All ports between DCs and clients are opened in firewall, while Windows firewall are disabled for testing purpose. Then on the DCs, I run dcdiag /v /c /e /d and got following error: ------------ cut here ----------- Testing server: Default-First-Site-Name\MY-DC1 Starting test: Advertising The DC MY-DC1 is advertising itself as a DC and having a DS. The DC MY-DC1 is advertising as an LDAP server The DC MY-DC1 is advertising as having a writeable directory The DC MY-DC1 is adve…

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stwong replied July 26, 201113 yr

Is it possible and how can I add attribute -f to the shutdown/reboot of some WSUS patches? Any insight of how to do this would be appreciated. I'm using Windows Server Update Services in Windows server 2008 R2.

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ICTCity replied July 26, 201113 yr

Is it possible to lock down a server to only allow my static ip access? It is windows server 2008. Thanks

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ICTCity replied July 26, 201113 yr

Hi , I am trying to use openThread() to get cpu utilization of an agent from process a .So i just want to check if its possible ? I am trying to open agent thread from a different process b not from process a.The below code is used for the same tempTID = kernelTID thrdHand=OpenThread(THREAD_QUERY_INFORMATION,FALSE,tempTID) The above function return error code as 5 ie thrHand is found to be Null. I dont see any issue on tempTID. I have all the privileges and rights which allows me to use the above function .

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ICTCity replied July 25, 201113 yr

I'm hoping someone can make a suggestion as I'm at a loss. I have one server with 3 NIC's, WAN, LAN, and VLAN. WAN has the internet. LAN has a static IP assigned to it. VLAN is the hyper-v network adapter. I install Hyper-V and configure it to use VLAN. Several restarts occur. Then, I install DHCP, list LAN as the adapter to bind to, set the scope, and set server option 3 to the LAN ip address. I then install Network Policy & Access, select NAT, select WAN as the adapter sourcing the internet, and LAN as the adapter to share internet with. LAN and VLAN are connected to the same switch, VLAN gets it's ip from LAN's scope. VM's get their ip from the VLAN adapter, …

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ICTCity replied July 22, 201113 yr

Hi there. I am really upset and frustrated big time, because I entered this password before which looked like this: AdMiNpW!. That was exactly what it looked like. But I was able to log into my server before, with no problem. And then I was happy. But when I restarted my computer, it wouldn't log me in at all! But I really did type my password and it looked just like that. So I also tried to reset my password, but that didn't help either. That was just useless too. But why when I restarted my computer, it wouldn't log me in for again? I mean this is really making me upset and annoyed a lot! So what am I really doing wrong here with this? Can you give me some helpful hints…

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ICTCity replied July 22, 201113 yr

Hi all, We currently run a Windows 2000 server that hosts a number of websites and allows users to FTP to their website directories. We decided that it was about time for an upgrade and recently purchased Windows Server 2008. I understand that there are significant differences between the 2 versions of Windows, however I have attempted to set up the new server as much like the old server as I could. It currently runs IIS7 and uses IIS6 for FTP. From what I can tell everything appears to be working correctly, however there are a few things that I am unsure of. First of all, the default website resides within the C:/inetpub/wwwroot/ directory and each seperate web…

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ICTCity replied July 22, 201113 yr

We have a really old 2000 Server that is currently running our DNS. I want to move that over to a Server 2008 box, but I'm not sure of the best way to do this. The Server 2008 box is already configured as DC and I have the DNS service installed, but it's not configured. I'm wondering if I can do it one of two ways: 1) Set up the 2008 box to be an additional DNS server and then simply take the 2000 server offline. 2) Set up a new DNS configuration on the Server 2008 box and then tell DHCP to give everyone IPs with the Server 2008 box as the DNS server. I have no idea which is the better course of action or how to actually do either. The current DNS setup on the S…

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ICTCity replied July 22, 201113 yr

Hi Friends, I am having 1 issue any help will be highly appreciated. i have 2 domain primary and chilled and server 2008 is running. My primary domain is printmedia.local and chilled domain is starcom.printmedia.local OU,Groups and users are configured on both domains and everything is working fine. problem is i want a group from chilled domain to access one folder on primary domain. i create universal group on chilled domain for this and on the primary domain i create local group and when i try to add universal group in local group below mention error is coming. Active Directory Domain Services: The specified user was not found. If the user exists on…

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fazee6 replied July 20, 201113 yr

Hi When user are logging in to the Terminal Server, some times they save temp files to desktop. But issue we having is these files do not appear till the user clicks to refresh the desktop any one know how to solve this? The user desktop is redirected and stored on another Server.

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ICTCity replied July 20, 201113 yr

Hi We have setup Terminal Server and have everything working and client's printers are mapping fine, but the issue we are having is that when user remote desktop into the server the printers are not copying the printing perfernces settings to the server and when user changes this when logged in to the server it does not keep the setting after logging off either. Does anyone know how to sort this issue out?

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ICTCity replied July 20, 201113 yr