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Hi there. I have recently promoted my new 2008 server to DC in my domain. I have yet to take down the old DC which is running SBS 2003. My problem seems to lie with DNS or some kind of Global catalog server problem. On the new machine, when I disconnect the old DC, Active directory does not populate, also sites and services doesn't either and when I run DCDIAG on the new machine I get the error 1355 saying the global catalog server cannot be contacted, along with the PDC server. I have since checked to make sure it is a global catalog server, and made sure it holds the PDC role too which it does. What am I missing?

Hi all, how can i list installed Software and Updates in a Server Core installation? i need to know which updates are installed for Hyper V Thanks Pallinio

When having users log on to domain I am forcing a user to change password at next logon and they are getting access denied! It's wierd because it is not happening to everyone just some. I have verified that the "password never expires"and /or "user can't change password" is NOT checked. Can anyone assist with this please??

What seems to be the problem? First week of February we start to use this windows 2008 server with vista clients. As I experienced, the vista clients when these are now member of the domain and start to experienced freezing. Like opening some word documents, surfing on the net and every application you open you end up with the circle of death. Not like before these vista client just working in workgroup it works fine. But now the hung-ups intermittent! The network now was very slow. You cannot access the folder files on the server. Solution for that problem just restarting the server then it will back to normal that you can access again the folders. But I have to do the r…

Thanks in advance for any help given. We are currently in the process of turning over from novell to AD and are running into a few snags... We use novell to map drives for certain users in our system. Each user group has different drive mappings to various locations on sometimes seperate servers My question is, is it possible to map a drive, using windows built in drive mapping, to a location outside of the domain? Its possible using a login script, but we were wondering if it was possible using the group policies (it will save us a lot of scripting etc...) We have also noticed that if you have 2 drive maps in a policy and one of them does not work, it affects…

Hello, Ive got a question... I installed a Windows 2008 server x64 with Exchange 2008. The AD is a Windows 2008 domain. Server is a HP ML350 G5 server with a Broadcom N373i NIC. We have the problem that we have many, probably network related, problems. Windows XP Pro machines logon very slowly, Outlook 2007 is slow and calanders do not show, Network mappings are not availible, etc etc. We tryed the follow, New Cables New Switch New Motherboard New NIC drivers New NIC (Intel) Disable RSS and IP4 Large Send Offload None of these are the solution for the problem, does anyone have an idea why i can test or change ?

On my XP Pro SP3 system all of my SATA drives show up in Safely Remove Hardware. On my Server 2008 with Hyper-V none of my SATA drives show up in Safely Remove Hardware. The XP system has one ADDONICS AESNAPMRSA SNAP-IN SATA MOBILE RACK - STORAGE ENCLOSURE. The Server system has two. These allow me to plug in or remove a SATA drive while the system is running. On the XP system I simply select the drive in the Safely Remove Hardware window and press Stop then press OK and I can remove the drive. The Server 2008 system does not show the SATA drives as removable. If I connect a USB drive it does show as removable. Is this a known problem and is there a fix ava…

I would like use W2k8 as Radius Server for login authentication for AlliedTelesis switches (x900-12XT/S). I configured one switch as client: ! ... ! ssh server allow-users ra* ! ... ! radius-server host 10.20.4.50 key makaron aaa group server radius GRUPCIA server 10.20.4.50 ! aaa authentication login default local group GRUPCIA ! and second switch as server: ! ... ! crypto pki trustpoint local ! crypto pki enroll local radius-server local server enable nas 10.20.4.50 key makaron nas 10.20.4.70 key makaron group login1 attribute Cisco-AVPair shell:priv-lvl=1 attribute Service-Type Login-User group login15 attribute Service-Type…

I'm using Server 2008 x64 with a supported sound card, and I'm able to play sound locally on the server. However whenever I try to remote desktop to the server, it disables the sound, regardless of my RDP settings. I've tried Do Not Play and Play On Remote Computer, both disable the sound. I recently upgraded this server from 2003 to 2008, 2003 was working just fine with remote audio enabled. I use a windows 7 box to connect, again was working with 2003 using same box and connections. Sound is fine when I connect using VNC, however the overhead on the server while using VNC is very high, and I'd prefer to use RDP. Is there any way to fix this? Thanks.

I have a intel athom 330 board with windows 2008x64 sp1 and everything work great exept the audio!? It is a Realtek* ALC662 audio codec (5.1 channel HD audio) Chip and i installed the new driver R2.21, in the readme stand that it works with Windows 2008 and yes when i plug in a speaker it pops up and ask me if it is a speaker. In the Device Manager everything look ok. I also activat the WindowsSound service. But Windows say that there ist no soundkard?

hello i am quite new to this server thing. I have previously setup a windows home server for myself, however that was pretty easy. My uncle has asked me to help him setup a server for his business. He wants a server that can host his company's website (a domain has been bought), has file sharing like windows home server (the remote access feature) and a mail server. i went and downloaded a trial version of windows server 2008 enterprise to practice on before actually accepting, and i was completely lost in setting it up. Which version of windows server would be the best choice? and could someone point me to guides or guide me on how to set up the server. Thanks

I thought I would pass this along. I found it interesting since I will use Windows Server 2008 for other reason. IIS 7 being low on the list.

This may sound like a stupid question, but what type of domain is one with all servers running Windows Server 2008?

hi, I'm running Windows Server 2008 and XP pro SP2 on Virtual PC 2007 and I'm trying to set a DHCP so the XP vm's IP is set by the DHCP. I already got the IP range and subnet mask (no 100% sure if is right, I got the following range: 10.10.16.1 - 10.10.16.254 with subnet mask: 255.255.255.0). So my questions are, is there a Virtual PC setting I have to check for this? Which is the best way to configure the DHCP? and how I know that my dhcp is really working?? thankx.

hi i added a child domain in my parent domain.parent domain has exchange server 2007 they are in same LAN.i wantto use same exchange server for child domain.how i need to configure the exchange server? and if they are not in same LAN network how i can set exchange server for child domain? thanks.

hi there' i added a child domain in my parent domain.also does the child domain manage parent domain as normally?or what i need to do for this? thanks.

Hi all, just wanted to share with you what I have experienced with 2008. Scenario: I am a developer (of .net weblications) and consider myself a power user of some sort. I have 12 years experience with Microsoft (and some other) Operating Systems... Also, to boot, I have about 8 - 9 years experience as a consultant (i.e. setting up servers / workstations / network systems). The short and curlys: I believe that it'd be nice to a have an OS where I could perform my work (as a developer), learn about the features of a server OS (like 2008), have all the features of a production platform (what 2008 offers), and have a powerful multimedia platform. So basically, ha…

Dear All, I recently installed a new server in our network with Server 2008 standard X64 version. The machine is also installed to be a fax server. Sending and receiving faxes from the server itself works fine, also the SMTP connector works fine. However if I want to connect a Vista Ultimate x64 client to the fax-share and I try to print/fax a document all goes well until I click the ' send' button. With Server 2003 x86 fax server, no problems on same client. The machine will ' think ' for a couple of seconds before giving RPC server unavailable error. I tried to search the internet for solutions but nothing found so far. Perhaps you can help me out :c…

I have a new SBS 2008 server premium edition. 3 days after initial configuration active directory exploded, exchange stopped working web services stopped at the console. I rebooted and server was ok for two weeks and did it again at 9am sharp. Normal services just started failingn when interrogatin dns for the domain controller. Restarting DNS did NOT fix the issue. Has anyone seen this. I am currently trying to pick apart what is going on. I have Exchange 2007, SQL 2008, Trend Micro CSM 3.6 on 64 bit dell box with plenty of resources.Interestingly enough, the Dell image out o fthe box failed and I had to reload it out of the box. Thanks for any help on figuring this out.…

Hi, I downloaded 64 bit language pack from the below site http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e9f6f200-cfaf-4516-8e96-e4d4750397ff&displaylang=en while i try to install the above chinese language pack it is saying "No language pack found" Where will i get the correct chinese 64 bit language pack Regards, Subramanyeswari