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First of all, I understand Microsoft only support preparing system running WinOS using sysprep but, 2008 version of sysprep do not support OS that doesn't use standard c: drive as system drive letter. We created a default system with necessary applications installed but one requirement on this image is not using c: as system drive. When running sysprep with an unattend.xml that specified a drive letter, e.g. n:, sysprep process won't complete. Sysinternal has not release a new version of newsid for windows 2008. Has anyone any suggestion on any other utilties that generate new sid for a system and works with windows 2008? Thanks.

route some specific traffic through VPN and the rest of the trafficthrough dialup connection Hi everyone, I've several clients connected via vpn to my windows 2003 server RAS service, the problem is that i would like to create a rule or something else to force vpn clients use just the vpn by a specific application. Nowadays when they connect the vpn all traffic goes through it and there are traffic i would like to switch to the main dial-up connection. Any ideas how can i do that? Any idea, suggestion will be greatly appreciated. Brgds, Teixeira

Hi, just read the article about smart sizing of remote desktop sessions on the WTS blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/ts/archive/2008/08/07/smart-sizing-the-ts-client.aspx Anybody know if this is possible with the Remote Desktops snap in as well? Just editing the default.rdp does not seem to work here. Thanks Michael

Guys, I am looking to test a complete restore of a Windows 2003 (Ent.) server. This is a member server with only the OS installed (no other programs have been installed). Background : I have done a restore on a single 2000 AD controller before where I had a complete backup set. I then reinstalled the entire OS (we were assuming the whole OS got corrupted) on the same physical machine. From there, we would go into F8 - directory restore mode and restore the system state. Would this be any different on a member 2003? Instead of going to F8, we would go into its normal mode? Thanks in advance, Tnt

Hi, I have a server with multiple LAN connections. Everytime i restart the server, the order of the connections will change. e.g. I have a connection LAN1, LAN2, LAN3 I wanted the order to be LAN1 LAN2 LAN3 but when i restart the machine the order of the connections will change to LAN2 LAN1 LAN3 I've tried to do the Interface Metric and set LAN1 to 1 so it will be the priority connection but to no avail. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks. Ymed

Hi, My server 2003 Enterprise Edition 64 bit. When I connect USB hard disk to the server the hard disk can not be seen in computer even though that the device manager can detect this hard disk. There is nothing wrong with the disk because I can be seen on other laptop. I also update this USB hard disk driver from device manager but it is not able to show in computer windows. Thanks

Since about four days I am getting an Error in the Event Log Application Windows SharePoint Service 2.0, Category None, Event 1000 This error writes itself in the Log every 5 seconds. I have no idea what causes this. Any idea how I can solve this problem? Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you in advance

We have a w2k3 domain. We have some servers on our dmz and we can't give them access to the internet to download patches. Does microsoft have a site that has all the patches, and something that will scan the server and then install all needed patches from a cd or dvd? We don't want to have to download the patches one by one and then copy them to a disk. ie an iso of all pathces that we can install would be nice. Thanks in advance

Can someone please help me with correcting this error condition - no one is pressing Ctrl+C. This error is returned as the code after a schedued task runs.The .bat file is scheduled to run, runs attended and the switch is inserted into the .bat command to over-ride the ctrl+c. The xcopy commands within the .bat file appears to execute but the task scheduler returns this error code of 0xc000013a. How is this corrected.

I have a number of networked XP machines. They all boot automatically all the way to the desktop without stopping for passwords or welcome screens. Except one. This one I recently ran Windows Update on and, perhaps foolishly, decided to include the optional software updates. Perhaps this is the root of my peoblem? This machine is set identically to the others in Control Panel/User Accounts/Change how users log on. Both "Use Welcome Screen" and "Enable fast user switching" are checked in all cases. However, this one stops at the Welcome Screen and I seem to have a choice of clicking on my name, which is irritating, or entering a password, which i…

Thanks to Ken Blake, I have this much for showing the desktop. [shell] Command=2 IconFile=explorer.exe,3 [Taskbar] Command=ToggleDesktop That is made using a text editor and then saved as "filename.scf" I'd like to make a shortcut like that for tiling windows. Are there Taskbar commands in addition to "ToggleDesktop"? I do know that right clicking on the taskbar brings up a menu, but I need portable. Thanks. -- The first big front wheel rollerblades. http://www.flickr.com/photos/27532210@N04/2565924423/

RE: System sound problem Hi Am not able to install High defination audio drivers after installing XP.System displaying message that" Should have minimum of Service pack 1" to install sound drivers. Is this necessary to have Service pack install??? "Santi" wrote: > Hi!, my problem is that the Windows XP sound don't run. The music or wav files sound properly using for example Media Player but sound of the system, for example the messenger sounds don't play. On the system sounds configuration I can play one by one pressing the play button but not autorun with the avent. > If I create a new user all the sounds work properly. > > I think that the…

Here's a bit of an odd one. We have a report from one group of users about an issue they are having with opening files in a particular directory on one of our file servers (Windows Server 2003 SP1 in 2003 Domain). When the user (client is Windows xP SP2, Office 2003) attempts to open an excel file in this directory that is opened by another user, they get the usual "File in Use" prompt (with - Read Only, Notify and Cancel as options). Usually in such a situation it will say "Filename.xls is locked for editing by 'username'." but for some reaon the username variable does not appear here only empty single quotes (by ' '.). I realize this may be somewhat …

We have one-place branch office and we'd like to create security analysis of our services, checking procedures and make new procedures and rules. As first step we'll run Microsoft Best Practices Analyzers (for Exchange, GPO, SharePoint, SystemStateAnalyzer, ...) and follow Microsoft Instrastructure Optimization to identify our currently position in IT software and hardware world. Can you please advice any other SW / procedure to follow formal procedure...? p.s. sorry for crosspoting Thnx.

i keep getting this message from windows, the following updates were not installed.....Via Technologies Inc Networking-Via RhineII Fast Ethernet Adapter i've tried several times but it won't update it, but yet windows keeps popping up for me to do it, why won't it install, am i missing something? any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks