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What kind of UPS is the most appropriate to use with servers?

I am looking for a tool which can list the permission of a folder and subfolder.

I noticed the other day that my add and remove section of xp sp3. when i click on the add and remove button in control panel it opens but some of the list has black and white stripes in it. i can see most of my programs but im not positive if there is anything in the balck area. Any ideas?

Hello, I run a network of about 60 Windows 2003 servers. Each one runs a local caching only DNS (Microsoft DNS). They are used for monitoring web pages and each uses IE7 to load up web pages and verify the site is working. Lately we have been experiencing an issue where IE7 will no longer display websites. The symptoms are: IE7 will load Enter URL URL domain lookup fails Tries to redirect to friendly search suggestions Fails Address bar shows "http:///" No page is loaded This problem is intermittent on various servers with various levels of patching on different networks. None are associated with a domain or have any AD requirements. To fix this pr…

Every time I open MS Outlook now, a warning message appears: "A program is trying to access email addresses you have stored in Outlook. Do you want to allow this?" I am given the option of answering Yes or No. If the answer is yes I can select the number of minutes to allow this access, up to 10 minutes. Unfortunately, if I answer NO nothing happens and the warning message remains. I have found the only way I can get rid to the warning message and continue in Outlook is to answere YES for 1 minute. Actually I have to answer yes twice before the warning message will go away. How can I prevent this message from even appearing or if this is somthing new f…

Up to this point I have tried to diagnose this problem on my own but I can see It's more than I can handle. Here is my system info and a log of previous failure reports and bug checks. I hope I have done them correctly as I have no experience whatsoever and have relied completely on information I could read at Microsoft. I had a problem with the computer going to blue screen and not restarting previously. It got so bad that it would not restart at all. I used a drive washer and wiped out everything. I used my XP Installation disc and reinstalled windows XP. I thought the problem was solved and now the computer is doing it again. I have some theories …

Sometimes the terminal service session hangs at the point the desktop has been loaded. The screen looks normal until the mouse pointer is moved to the task bar or start button and then it becomes an hour-glass. I have seen this more commonly as administrator session on servers that are not true terminal servers. At that point I cannot login to the console either - same symptom. I must login as a different admin user and reset the session to recover from this. The only clue I have is that the hung up user has userint.exe open when this occurs (observed from a different admin session). The servers are all Server 2003 Standard Edition - SP2 on Dell Power…

Will Streets and Trips 2008 or any other version work on a Windows 2003 terminal server install for remote users?

How do I disable shortcut keys in WinXP. In particular Ctrl A. My mother-in-law, aged 85 with very stiff fingers, frequently, but accidentally, types Ctrl A instead of Shift A. She then continues typing and complains when she has lost everything. How can I turn this key off? Thanks.

Hi, I have an internal domain, in the format vpr.univ.edu. There is a web server on this domain that can be reached on the web by its name red.vpr.univ.edu. I removed this webserver red, from the domain vpr, and made the ip address of red point to http://www.vpr.univ.edu (instead of red.vpr.univ.edu). I now have a problem. I am able to reach red from any computer outside the vpr domain using the URL http://www.vpr.univ.edu. But from any pc inside the vpr domain, I still have to use the url red.vpr.univ.edu I removed red from the DNS server for vpr.univ.edu, also from the hosts file. What do I need to do to make pc's within the vpr domain refer to red u…

We have a computer that started out with a problem logging into an Intranet site of ours. The user on that machine only gets an error and this site uses windows authentication to logon automatically. Anyway, another possibly related issue is that the ability to RCMD to the machine does not work either. We have tried to drop the machine from the domain and rejoin and it seems to work for 5-10 minutes and then it goes back to the same problems. You also cannot access the event viewer, services, etc. remotely through an MMC. Other things like logging in and using exchange email works for the user though. Any ideas on what could fix this issue? Thanks in advan…

In 2008 server, does anyone now how to remove the "Uninstall or change a program" button thru group policy, when you go into my computer. If you double click on "My Computer", you will see the button in between the "Views" and "Map network drive" buttons. I would like to remove this via group policy so that my users don't see it. I am able to remove it locally via the "Local Group Policy" but it also prevents the administrator from accessing it. Thanks, J

Hi, I searched for help on google without success. I could really use some help getting this to work. We have a workgroup (WG) with a server (SRVA) Win2003 on it and other PCs. It is connected to a Dell PowerConnect switch and it working fine. There is a second network (domain) to which we'd like to connect to a shared folder from SRVA. So, we installed a linksys router, connected to WAN port to the outside network (domain) and put our workgroup server in the routers DMZ. I can map the drive using Windows Explorer and get to the folder I need opening the file. The problem is we have a program that needs a unc to a file on that shared folder. The pr…

Hi, I'm currently working on a project with some specific storage which internally does a lot of write buffering. The whole thing is working perfect except of a single problem: when shutting down/suspending/hibernating/ rebooting or whatever the power is cut too fast and the storage (it is USB bus powered) is not able to complete the cached pending writes thus we are loosing/corrupting data. Is there any way to delay the power off. I mean, can I insert an artificial delay after the system completed the disk I/O (i.e. closed files, flushed registry hives etc) but before the power is turned off. It is a dirty solution, I know, and therefore our Linux colleagues …

RE: "DWWin.exe failed" when shutting down "tonpal" wrote: > For no obvious reason, I started getting an error message when I shut down > WinXP. The message is only on-screen for less than a second so I've been > unable to catch it all, but (probably paraphrased) it says that "DWWin.exe > failed to initialise because Windows is shutting down". > > It may be that this started after automated error reporting to MS when FS9, > and later WinXP, said that they 'had to shut down' but I did not notice it as > following immediately, nor did it immediately follow any installation or > update. > > Part of me doesn't care becau…

DNS poisoning patch 1. Is NT-4 vulnerable to the DNS poisioning vulnerability MS08-032? I have not upgraded some DNS servers yet and dont know if i am vulerable. 2. If my network is using Private addressing am I less vulnerable? One last question 3. If I do strict IP filtering at my firewall does this help me overcome this vulnerability until I can upgrade my NT4 servers?

When I shut down Windows (XP Professional), instead of everything going automatically I am getting a message End Program THEEJM_Wnd, asking me to END NOW. When I select END NOW, I soon get a message End Program WMS Idle, asking me to END NOW. Can anyone suggest how I might get the auto shutdown process to handle this again? I don't know what has changed. Thanks.

I have been attempting to install Service Pack 1 on Vista Ultimate 64-bit. I have just reinstalled the operating system and on the previous install I had no problems with SP1. I wonder if anyone else had had problems installing this and, if so what some possible solutions are? Regards Chris Saunders

I have a Windows 2003 server that was powered down gracefully for some building maintenance over the weekend. I went to start it up today and it will not boot normally. No patches were applied to it prior to shutdown. The server will boot in Safe Mode with Networking/Command Prompt without issue, but booting normally I get the Windows 2003 boot screen with the travelling eye so it looks like it is booting but is just hung. I have let it go for as long as an hour without getting anywhere. I have gone in and used msconfig, but any of the options results in more of the same. I need to get this server up and running again. Any ideas would be appreci…

Hi, I have Win2k3 small business edition that do not support TS in aplication mode, ( see this http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs/evaluation/faq/term.mspx ) so is not possible to restrict some users to use only a certain application and not all the installed apps and server resources ) Can someone suggest an addon application that can do that ? Thank you in advance.

I am trying to run windows update and a brand new install of SBS 2003. I was trying to add the update sites to my Trusted site list, but no matter what I try to add, I get an invalid wildcard error. I get the error even when I don't have any wildcards in the address. On a lark, I tried to add local sites to the local tab and even some to the deny tab, always the same error, you have entered an invalid wildcard sequence. What gives? Any ideas. This is on a brand new HP Proliant server. It has 4 GB of ram and plenty of room on the hard drive. PS: I also can't get WSUS to load. It installed okay, but when I'm in the sever management console, the screen say…

Windows 2003 R2 servers. Domain name is in a form such as mydomain.local We have Certificate Authority installed on a server and have been issuing self-signed certificates for a few services, such as OWA. Our web site is outsourced to a web hosting company. Registered domain is in a form such as mycompany.org. They have purchased a 3rd party domain certificate for use with the site. I want to install the domain certificate for use with a couple of services, such as Exchange 2007 services and VPNs. The web hosting company sent me two files, domain.crt and domain.key. Being a domain certificate, I guess I thought it would just be a certificate I co…

Have workstation with XP SP2 installed. When a non-admin users power's up the machine from cold-start and attempts to login, the file share is not accessible - getting "\\FileServ\Users\<username>\<folder> is not accessible. You may not have permission to use this network resource. Access is denied. Network path was not found." Basically, person has permission on the \\FileServ\ server. From the \\FileServ\Users\<username>\PCDesktop - there is a subfolder that is used to populate the desktop icons for user. It's way we handle this for agency and has no issue for over 200 users. I can login this person on another workstation without …

Good afternoon all, The organization I work for is currently in process of starting a wider roll-out of Windows Vista to the entire company. I'm running into a question with power management options through group policy - I've got just about everything set, however I can't find anything on setting the Power Savings Mode for Searching and Indexing. Any kind of Internet search directs me to the policy options for search settings, none of which have anything to do with power management. Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks! Joe

When trying to backup my entire system using the XP backup tool, I continue to get these two errors: Error: Could not access portions of directory System State\COM+ Class Registration Database. You may not have permission to open the file, or the directory may be missing or damaged. Please contact the owner or administrator. Error: Could not access portions of directory System State\Registry. You may not have permission to open the file, or the directory may be missing or damaged. Please contact the owner or administrator. How can I run a full system backup and not get this error?