mmthomas

Here is a short article on running dcpromo.exe on Server 2008. That will install active directory and DNS if it isn't already installed. You will need to know what you want to call your domain (yourcompany.local is pretty standard). If you have something (your server, a router) providing DHCP already, you will want it to give out the server's IP address for DNS after this change rather than your ISP's DNS. After that is complete and the server is restarted and running, create active directory user accounts for your users. Join your workstations to the domain. Win XP or Win 7 That is the very basics. If you are going to have shared drives on the servers, you will need to set permissions on the shares for people to access.

If you didn't turn on Network Discovery at the same time that you enabled file and print sharing, then try turning it on. If you did, try turning everything back off, re-enable the firewall, turn on all the sharing again and then disable the firewall again.

It sounds like a configuration problem, probably in RRAS. Did you enable NAT in RRAS? If you were using ISA as a proxy on 2003, you may not have set up NAT separately.

I think you may be having some other problem. RD Session Host and RD Licensing should both be able to run on the same physical server. You shouldn't need a virtual machine unless you are trying to run RDS Virtualization Host. This page shows instructions for installing RDS on a single server Windows 2008 RD installation.

You could be getting the error for different reasons. Check out these other Symantec links. You could be having a different VSS problem that is unrelated to the System Reserved partition. Failure accessing writer metadata. While this link is tagged with Server 2003 take a look anyway. Troubleshooting VSS writer. This has useful information for using VSSADMIN to find VSS problems.

Are you using the instructions from here?: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc755163.aspx The file in use message you are getting may be because the system files it wants to replace on the server are in use on the active OS. I'm not sure that you can do a full server restore when you have booted from the OS you want to replace. If the disk startup method didn't work for you, you can use the Repair Your Computer option (F8 at startup - then Advanced Boot menu) to enter the Windows Repair Environment (WinRE) and restore the machine. If that option isn't there, then you may need to install WinRE on a drive, though booting from the Windows install disk should have worked (instructions in case you missed something).

1) Windows Server does not normally care the number of clients from which you are logged in, nor prevent or warn you when logging on to multiple times. If logging into a terminal server, the terminal server might be configured to only allow one session to a user, but I don't think you are talking about that. The only problem you might run into with the folder redirection is if you left a document open on another machine. Then you may be denied access to the document. 2) If you look at the properties of My Documents when redirection is working, it should show the target path. If the computer is not applying the policy correctly, you may want to run gpresult on the workstation and see if it tells you why it isn't applying the redirection policy. 3) Here are the basic complexity requirements for windows passwords. The password must contain characters from three of the following five categories: * English uppercase characters (A through Z) * English lowercase characters (a through z) * Base 10 digits (0 through 9) * Non-alphabetic characters (for example, !, $, #, %) * A catch-all category of any Unicode character that does not fall under the previous four categories. This fifth category can be regionally specific. Additionally, you may not use the entire username or full name of the account. The administrator may also set length requirements. 4) 169.xx addresses are not assigned by DHCP. Rather, a machine will assign it's own 169.xxx address when it does not receive an address from any DHCP server.

If you go into the client Control Panel and open Add/Remove Programs, does your software show up on the list? Publishing an application does not install an application, it only makes it available to install through Add/Remove Programs. Assigning an application will actually put the application in the Start Menu or on the Desktop. It is still not actually installed until the user attempts to use it the first time, unless you have assigned the policy to a Computer rather than a User in which case it will actually install. Does that help? Or did you mean to say that you are assigning the software to computers and it isn't installing?

It's a few months since you asked, but take a look at Bacula and see if it would work for you. There is a commercial version and support in addition to the free version. Bacula does support at least some tape drives, but most free/open source backup programs that I've seen do not. They also appear to only have the storage/director daemons for 32-bit Server 2008 and only the client for 64-bit 2008, though hopefully that will change.

Is the host using NIC teaming? I've heard of this problem happening when the host is set to using NIC teaming, which isn't supported by the hypervisor ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968703 ). I believe you're supposed to break the team and remove any teaming software from the host if you are using it.

From a workstation, can you ping www.youtube.com? If not, is it unreachable or does it not resolve the IP address at all? If it resolves an address, is it the same address as your server resolves? Are the workstations configured to Obtain DNS server address automatically or are they set statically?

Greetings, all, I'm another IT professional joining the ranks here. Hope everyone is well. Have a happy Thanksgiving. -Matt