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Hi, No, you can only use Power Shell or VBS to accomplish this task. You can retrieve the group of the user, and then use it to set permissions.

NETBIOS should be running to avoid any problem related to name resolution. Unlucky, netbios is still used by MS, although MS says this is not true...

From what I know, from WSUS this is not possible. You can schedule something at specified hour, but this is not really what you want. Take a look here: http://www.eminentware.com/index.html

What kind of access? Do you have a router / firewall?

Don't be worried. If you right click the SQL instance (from sql management studio), you can set the maximum ram used by SQL. SQL works in this way: when it starts, it uses some RAM (let's say 1-2 gb), everytime a query is executed, SQL tries to "load" the database in ram. This process is called buffering (it's like a video streaming, more or less). Once the query is executed, SQL doesn't free the used ram, it can overwrite it. When you restart your server, the RAM is cleaned, but you should be able to do the same thing by restarting the SQL service. Everything depends on how much your query are long and complicated. In other words, you can move the SQL on another VM, but this scenario will be the same. You should assure to your OS at least 4 GB, if you have 24 GB, limit SQL to use 19 GB (SQL is not really precise about memory limit :P). There are people who load the entire DB on RAM, this is possible by adding RAM. If your DB is 30 GB, you can give SQL 35 GB of ram and SQL will load the entire DB in RAM. Hope this help.

SQL uses as much ram as it has. Giving 5.6 ram of ram to SQL having 32 available is not too much, everything depends on your DB. Putting SQL on a single VM is a good idea depending on your problem. Are you experiencing any particular problem?

DC must not be on COMPUTER OU, but now you have the same error with netbios running?

Assuming that netbios is up & running, check your COMPUTER container, you SHOULD NOT see your domain controller, it should be only in DOMAIN CONTROLLER OU. Let me know.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686769(v=vs.85).aspx It looks like this code doesn't work anymore... You can use performance counter: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa373088(v=VS.85).aspx Or you can get it by using WMI: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa392397%28VS.85%29.aspx

I completely agree with BSchwarz, GREEN feature is a good thing for DESKTOP computer, not for server. I have 6 servers all running XenServer 5.6, sometime the performances were poor. All the servers had almost the same load all the day, but after disabling the "green" features, I get rid of this problem. One of the most painful problem, is the speed of the drives, in a server you (should) have more than 1 disk, so disk CANNOT be spinned down to save energy, this will impact performances!

Take a look here: http://www.grouppolicy.biz/2010/02/how-to-use-group-policy-to-disable-usb-drives-on-windows-xp/ And here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555324/en-us

No idea... sorry.

This resolved your issue but for me this is not the actual problem. I'm still thinking that your problem was a switch or firewall blocking the mac address, because that option is always on and you have the issue ONLY after a restart... but I could be wrong...

I don't think you can get the AGENT status from another process.

Hi, Can you post the entire code?

After the update / reboot, the "Connection-specific DNS Suffix" is correct?

Hi, is your keyboard's layout correct? Check it by typing your password in the username's field to verify the correctness. You can use the "On screen keyboard" to type the password so you can be sure it is correct. if it is a domain computer, be sure your username is something like this: mydomain\myusername The removable device, is used for password reset, but it must be configured BEFORE )

Your problem seems to be the firewall. Also when the traceroute works, the second "hop" fails, and there should be your firewall (after the first gateway). It's ok that a HOP is dropped, but actually the same device (assuming it is your firewall), is blocking some traffic. Maybe there's PORT SECURITY configured on a switch / port and when the mac-address changes, it blocks the port.

Everything is fine by creating virtual directory. The only thing that your SHOULD do, is to physically move the wwwroot directory from C:\inetpub\... to another disk, example: D:\inetpub... In the case that an attacker gain access to your system with directory traversal, he can only see (and modify) the directories and files in that disk, and he will not be able to access system's files because of they're located in C:\ Unlucky, you must create another script to delete older backup... as said, Microsoft wants that you BUY specific programs.

Hi, you should not have trouble moving your DNS on 2k8 box. First of all, enable DNS service on your new server (there's no problem). To be a bit more secure, login into one of your client which are already on your domain and do the following: Change MANUALLY the ip of the primary DNS make it pointing to the new server, as a secondary DNS type anything. open command prompt and type "ipconfig /flushdns" Now try to restart and check if everything is working (network drive, printers and so on). Let me know.

Hi, From what I know, it's normal that you can access http://defaultwebsite/site1/, you could check on folder's permission to prevent this. Best practice say that you should have the wwwroot to another disk, not C:\, this is for security purpose (directory traversal). You can create FTP users and not local users. Usually you create a group and there you can put accounts. You don't need to create local users. Regarding security, one of the most famous is: "never let a default installation". You should rename the Default Web Site, wwwroot, and so on. For your backup: Server 2k8 doesn't allow network backup (... maybe because you HAVE TO buy a 3rd part software??? thanks MS :)), you can do a FULL backup in this way: Wbadmin start backup -backupTarget:\\IP_NAS\SHARE -include:C: (or what you need) -vssFull -quiet Save it as a batch file and schedule. Hope this help.

This COULD resolve your problem... because I have no other ideas.

This SHOULD be a common issue: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973521 I experienced a strange problem when I redirected all the folders (and profile) to a NAS. If a user create a file (or delete) it takes a while (10-15 secs) to update. Let me know.

This works but with EASY DRIVER, if you need specif driver, it will not work.

Something is wrong with firewall or network connection... but I can't understand what...