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- Outlook resource sharing
- i set up 4 users as resources. each one designates a conference room. i setup the autoaccept and all that works fine. but when i go to schedule a meeting 3 out of 4 rooms do not show the availability in the meeting setup. i can only see the availability...
- Tags: mg_roberts@..., Microsoft Outlook
- Discussion threads 2007-08-06
- Exchange backup software suggestions?
- I have an XP machine that I want to use as a backup server. Is there any backup software available that I can install on XP and perform remote backups of an Exchange server?Need More Info.....Never installed something like this on XP so it is a hard question. Most...
- Tags: Backups, mg_roberts@..., software, backup, Microsoft Windows XP, server
- Discussion threads 2007-07-05
- Recover data from archived bkf
- I manage a SBS2003 domain and we use the built in exchange server. I use Symantec BackupExec. I archived old backups and now I need to restore a mailbox from one of the archives. Since BackupExec already overwrote the media set for the archived backups, I can't restore from the...
- Tags: Backups, mg_roberts@..., Symantec BackupExec
- Discussion threads 2007-05-08
- Exchange/W2K3 Licensing
- When I install windows server 2003 standard x64, i'm going to install an additional 40 CALs for a total of 45 cals. when i install exchange 2007 std on that server, do i need to install additional CALs for exchange?i'm upgrading from SBS2003, where the exchange mailboxes were integrated into...
- Tags: Servers, mg_roberts@..., CAL, Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, SBS2003, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-04-30
- SBS2003 CALs
- We have Small Business Server 2003, and we are close to running out of CALs. I searched online to purchase more but the option are too confusing. Can someone point me to what I actually need?I search but I find prices ranging from $400 to $2000 and there are about...
- Tags: mg_roberts@...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-16
- Monitor websites visited
- Is there a tool to monitor the websites users on my network are visiting?In our firewall there is a web log of all the sites that are visited. but it doesn't show which user is visiting it. anyone have any suggestions?ChoicesIt depends partly on what kind of hardware you currently...
- Tags: monitor, mg_roberts@..., windows, software, security, it management, networking, monitoring, lan, Web site
- Discussion threads 2007-01-22
- Setting up production environment (hardware)
- I'm trying to setup a plan to rebuild our production environment for maximum availability and performance. we have a web based application with a SQL server 2005 backend.my main concers are:1.we have 2 beefy servers for DB. we need high speed disk storage. we will use emc san but; do...
- Tags: hardware, high availability, it management, mg_roberts@..., networking, server
- Discussion threads 2007-01-11
- How to make group policy work?
- I set up a new Group Policy for an OU. When I apply the policy the Default Domain Policy is the one that gets used instead of the one I created. How can I fix this?I made sure the Default GPO was not linked to the OU and I also...
- Tags: mg_roberts@..., GPO, group policy, it management, software, windows
- Discussion threads 2006-12-02
- Login Failures
- I need port 1433 and 1434 open for reports. recently, we have been getting brute force attacks nightly on our sql login. how can i stop this besides closing the ports?Change the portYou can change the port that SQL uses to a static port other than 1433. Here's a...
- Tags: Programming languages
- Discussion threads 2006-08-14
- SQL account lockout
- is there any way to block an IP address after so many unsuccessful attempts at logging in to sql remotely?
- Tags: Programming languages, Databases
- Discussion threads 2006-07-26
- Roaming profile alternative
- Ok, so I've been here before asking about roaming profile solutions. Now it just seems like they aren't capable of doing what we want. When laptop users are out of the office working for a few days and come back, all the files they changed/moved, go back to the original...
- Tags: Backups
- Discussion threads 2006-07-24
- Database backup over the web.
- I want to have an automated backup of our database every night. The destination database will never be have any changes so it doesn't need to be replicated back, but we do need to be able to run queries on it so just transfering a .bak file won't work. any...
- Tags: backup, database, sql 2005, mg_roberts@..., software, transactional replication, replication, server, Web
- Discussion threads 2006-06-30
- SQL 2005 DTS
- I've tried everything I can think of. Can't get DTS to work in SQL Server 2005. I get this error every freakin time!'Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'PK_Alerts'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'dbo.Alerts'.Sometimes it's a foriegn key. I can't figure this out. I try to have DTS drop...
- Tags: Databases, DTS
- Discussion threads 2006-06-26
- SQL Server 2005 Replication
- Well, we got new database servers. 2 Dell 6850's. The main database server is running fine. But we have the second running transactional replication, as well as a 3rd server running transactional replication. both servers pull as subscribers. but we are getting tons of errors, and they seem to not...
- Tags: DELETE, database, transactional replication, sql server 2005, mg_roberts@..., software, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, replication
- Discussion threads 2006-06-19
- SQL Server 2000 to 2005 - no go
- Well, we are trying to upgrade from SQL server 2000 to SQL server 2005. the only problem is, we can't copy the data from one server to the other. Does anyone know how to copy a database from a box with 2000 to a box with 2005? thanks.The only way...
- Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, database, DDL, sql 2005, mg_roberts@..., software, server
- Discussion threads 2006-06-17
- Company Chat Room
- I have 4 employees in the office, and 3 employees out of the office. These 7 people need to interact all day long as a group. I figure the easiest way is to create a chat room. But what can I use as a chat room? I would like to...
- Tags: E-mail, Web site development, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office, mg_roberts@...
- Discussion threads 2006-06-15
- Auto-Response
- I can't figure out how to get Exchange to send an auto reply from a mailbox. I know about out of office assistant, and creating auto-reply rules, but this doesn't help me. I have an account that does nothing but collect e-mails, and then distributes them to a couple managers....
- Tags: mg_roberts@...
- Discussion threads 2006-05-30
- Monitor network traffic
- I need a tool that will show me how much bandwith is being used by the office. We have 1/2 a T1 for 15 users, and sometimes the network slows to a crawl. I'd like to be able to view a graph or something to determine where the problem is....
- Tags: Monitor Network, traffic, mg_roberts@..., networking, monitor, network
- Discussion threads 2006-05-08
- Laptop roaming profiles
- All the users in our domain have roaming profiles. When a laptop user makes changes to their profile at home, then come in and log on to the domain, it reverts the files on the laptop back to the last time they were on the domain.Some of our users are...
- Tags: desktop, laptop computer, profileS, mg_roberts@..., it management, Set-up, server
- Q&A 2006-04-17
- Laptop Roaming profiles
- Laptop Roaming profilesAll the users in our domain have roaming profiles. When a laptop user makes changes to their profile at home, then come in and log on to the domain, it reverts the files on the laptop back to the last time they were on the domain.Some of our...
- Tags: profileS, active directory, mg_roberts@..., networking, offline file, computer, laptop computer, synchronization
- Discussion threads 2006-04-17
