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After the holidays are behind us I am going to put my attention to getting things done here I've been pushing off. Mainly because I was combining my tech sites. That's done so it's time for Forum Squared to get the things done I should have already done. List of planned items: Upgrade to Invision 5 beta. Currently at beta 9.1 Add the link directory. I removed it after I had a database crash. Revamp the downloads section and add more downloads. Work on the resources section. Get some articles off the drawing board and onto the site. Move my personal blog to here. This is not a priority so it might be a while. That's for starters. …

Forum Squared needs to add another staff member. The role will be to start topics and engage in the threads by our users. You'll also keep things in line and make sure no gets out of hand. This will eventually turn into a paid position once the site grows and starts to make money. It will be paid based on a revenue sharing model. If you are interested send me a PM.

How I can install Framework v. 3 on server 2008?

Can anyone recommend reliable yet affordable tape backup software for Windows 2008? Don't need fancy features Backup Exec has. Something more down-to-earth like ntbackup.exe to transfer files on tape. Thanks ;)

Hi, i was windering if anyone has happened to find a way of getting Windows Media Center on Server 2008? i have the enterprise edition of Server 2008 and thought it would be on there too, but apparently not. if anyones found a way of putting it on there, please reply, i will be much appreiciated. Regards, Guj

Server: Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Client: the server and a Vista computer. I setup an user account on the Windows server with a password. I added the user account to the Remote Desktop Users. I added it to TS Web Access Computers Properties. Remote Desktop icon shows in RemoteApp tab along with a Calc icon. Calculator loads fine after logging on. However, Remote Desktop does not. It gives an "Access Denied." error! However, Administrator account loads Remote Desktop perfectly. What is the problem and solution? Thanks, Ajay

Hello, I have ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 video card. Not long ago I installed Windows Server 2008 and Catalist driver for Vista. The windows is support themes (Aero) and dxdiag write that 3d acceleration is enabled. But if I run any game it's write that my video card is not support 3d acceleration and hugely brakes. May be some one kown how I can fix this problem, may be I should install other driver for video card. Thanks in advance.

The following error occurred attempting to join the domain "egl-underground.mainframe": An attempt to resolve the DNS name of a domain controller in the domain being joined has failed. Please verify this client is configured to reach a DNS server that can resolve DNS names in the target domain. I am running windows server 2008 R2 trying to connect with a windows 7 computer. I have already set the DNS in my computer to the Server running DNS Server (same as DC server) I can ping the server, i can nslookup the FQDN aswell with no problems. Any help?

Hi there :) My IIS7 is now running almost flawlessly on my x64 server. The "only" little issue left, is a real bugger. I can't seem to initiate any of the "older" classic ASP objects which I have registered using regsvr32. No matter the object or ASP file, I get this error: Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a01ad' ActiveX component can't create object Has anyone experienced this? Sincerely, Klaus J.

Hi, I am very new to Windows Server 2008, I have installed windows small business server 2008 Standard for my company. This is my problem: The server has 2 drives connected. Windows is installed on drive C: Data Drive is drive D: I need to change the default folder creation for new Users to the D:\ Drive instead of the C:\ Drive. Every time a new user is created their account folder is created in c:\Users\Shares\Username I need to change this to D:\Users\Shares\Username Your help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Hi, I am following the below link to install language packs in my windows 2008 server. Convert your Windows Server 2008 to a Workstation! Blog Archive Installing New Languages The above requires manual interaction. My requirement is during runtime if the system does not contain japanese(or any other)languagepack, i want to run single exe (setup normally?)to install japanese. If there any way to do it? Please do let me know Thanks Subramanyeswari

I'm very new with Windows server so if anyone can recommend articles to read that cover my questions, I'd appreciate it. I'm looking for a bit of a step by step "how to" on adding my new 2008R2 server to my 2003 domain then then making the 2008R2 machine the master and decomissioning the 2003 server. Thanks in advance! FYI So far I have installed 2008R2 on the new server and haven't done anything else. It's not joined to the 2003 domain and I have not added any server roles to the 2008R2 machine. (Currently my 2003 server had AD, DHCP, and DNS duties.)

I have setup a new Windows 2008 Server. I installed IIS7 on this box. What I find is that only port 80 is open, at least that's all I know about. I attempted to open port 9100 using: netsh firewall add portopening TCP 9100 VNC When I run: netsh firewall show state It shows that the port is open. But when I run a port scan utility I have on another machine it does not find that port 9100 is open. What steps do I take to get port 9100 open?

I installed/configured Core Server 2008 for print services I am managing it via Print Manager from Vista. I have tried exporting/importing printers from a file as well as adding a driver (any driver) individually from the Add Driver wizard - all fail. The errors I am receiving are: "Unable to install [driver name] This Operation is not supported." Then: "Failed to add driver. Operation could not be completed (error 0x00000578)." I can add a TCP/IP printer port manually, just no printer drivers. I am logged in with a user account that has domain admin privileges and UAC is disabled I was able to install a print driver to the Windows 2008 Core print server on …

I have an old ASP COM+ component which works on all version of Windows platforms. But in WS2008 it encountered the error - "ASP 0177: 80004002". All permission settings are in WS2008 (in different places) similar to WS2003. I duplicated all the WS2003 settings (works in WS2003) but cannot get it to work in WS2008. Anyone has suggestions how to get by the COM+ WS2008 security. Looks like a security problem. Thanks, Fk

Hi,* i just need a little help im pretty new to server 2008 ive worked with 2003 a little bit but here's the problem: Im getting about 2-5 mb copy speed from my vista/Mac to my windows 2008 server. i have everything in cat6 i have gigabit cards in all of my computers including the server and a gigabit switch next to the server so i would think i would get better copy speeds than just 2-5 mb. I also have run a speed test in my network and i can get about 400 mb to the server from any one of my computers. Ive also done these hofix patches/Updates nothing has worked :( *955302********* A reliability and performance update is available for computers that are running Wi…

I have an older Windows server with 2003 Standard, acting as the DC, DHCP and DNS. There are roughly 30 user accounts in AD. Is there an easy way to migrate the old AD onto the new box with Server 2008 on it. Thanks.

I want to schedule a task that opens a webpage on the local server. I know the path is correct, adn that the site is functioning. I can type: "C:\program files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" (path to local webpage) in to the "Start/Run..." dialog and this launches the webpage in IE. Fine. But when I set my task, nothing happens at the allotted time - even if I try the "Run on demand" option, nada. I get an 0x41306 (or 1) "Last run result" show. Makes me wonder if there a setting somewhere wihtin IE perhaps that prevents it from being launched via a schedule? If so, or if anyone has a better idea, I'd be most grateful to know what it is... Many thanks... (n…

I'm running a new install of Server 2008 and setting up a completely new domain. When it asks for FQDN, I'm putting in mail.company.com since that is what we have in our current SBS2003 server. (before we had company.local and were getting rejected by some ISPs) At the beginning of the wizard, I thought I remember it asking my to name the domain, which I typed company.local However, at the end of the wizard, it sums up everything and says: "The new domain name is mail.company.com. This is also the name of the new forest" "The NetBIOS name of the domain is MAIL" We want our domain name to be company.local, any idea why it defaults the name to the FQD…

I configured a 2008 server to be a DC and DNS server. All installs went well, but now that it's up and runnning it takes about 20 to 30 seconds to load a web page. Once it loads, the speed is fine. It seems like DNS is taking way too long to resolve names on the Internet. I have a SonicWall TZ 190 that is acting as the DHCP server and handing out the internal IP of the DC/DNS server to all workstations. If I manually configure the clients with the ISP's DNS servers they run fine. It has to be an issue with the DNS server. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.