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    Deleted snapshot- any options for recovery?

    I have deleted a .avhdx file stupidly due to disk space issues, and lack of knowledge of VM's. Obviously when I try to start to start the virtual machine, it wont start because the file is missing. Are their any options here to recover or am I royally screwed?
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    DFS- Huge Backlog to Replicate- Deleting Files?

    Hi guys. We run DFS on our 5 branch servers which are connected through a WAN. Anyways, some NTFS permissions were changed on a folder last night (this folder is 500MB) and over a 384kb/s connection, replicating this to all other servers is going to take a long time and its creating a huge...
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    Running a CentOS VM throws errors

    I dont think this is the issue as I am using the software they provided. I've shot them off an email as I really have no idea about CentOS.
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    Running a CentOS VM throws errors

    Hi. I have tryed running it with the session Gnome and Failsafe terminal and I get the same. I am really not sure about what is running on this as it was given to us by another company. Is it possible that these errors can be caused by the PC I am using? Should I try another PC?
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    Running a CentOS VM throws errors

    Hi guys. A software company we are in talks with have sent us a VM to try there software. It is a CentOS and I know next to nothing about this OS. When I try to boot the VM, I get to the login screen and enter the details. I then get a screen saying the following: "Your session only...
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    Pushing a .vbs through GPO

    Great. I think this this registry is a good idea. Any ideas where the best palce in the registry is? I might create a key that is just a date of the last time that script was run and it can go up from there
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    Pushing a .vbs through GPO

    Hi guys. I have a .vbs script that I need to run on the computers in my domain. The script only needs to be run once. How can I go about deploying this? Is their a way through the GPO where it will only happen once? Can I put it in a login script and have it only do it once? If I was to...
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    slow and sluggish computer..

    Hi guys. Just a bit of help please. We have a computer that is running really slow, especially browsing folders. If we log in as a different user, the problem goes away, as does loggin in with that user under safe mode with networking. Any ideas why? I know I can recreate her profile...
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    after login-hangs for a minute before running explorer.exe

    Hi guys. We have a new PC at work. Its a Windows XP Pro connected to our domain. After loggin into the domain and after personal settings and things have been loaded, it pauses for almost 1 minute at just the background before finally starting explorer.exe (with the taskbar and all...
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    Linux Share- username "guest" is greyed out

    Hi guys. Just after some help. We have a Win2k3 terminal server. We also have a linux web server. We access shares off that server just by going \\www.xxxxxxxx.com.au\www-resources Anyways, we have the username and password set in control userpasswords2. Administrators can access...
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    Outlook and Exchange- copying .ost file?

    Hi their. At our business, we use Managed Exchange (RPC). Anyways, quite often we are changing one user from one PC to another. Currently, we just add the user's Exchange account to outlook and it eventually downloads all the offline content. Just wandering, is it possible to just copy...
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    PC very slow to transfer data over network

    I cant actually tell you at the moment. I dont have access to that PC. I have noted that if I go to another computer and pull the file from that PC using shares, or copy a file to that PC, its normal speed. Its only when you are copying files using that computer's console.
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    domain controller- automatic private address

    Will reboot the server tonite and see how we go.
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    domain controller- automatic private address

    Hi guys. Do you think if I demote my server and then promote it again using dcpromo, that could fix my issue? Cheers
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    XP Pro problem with right click

    You are running the same install since windows 95? Hows that treating ya? I don't think any of my systems have ever been upgraded, a clean install is the way to go in my opinion.
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    PC very slow to transfer data over network

    Hi guys. Just a question- what normally causes a PC to send our data really slow? We have a PC with Windows 7 and it is copying data over the network really slow- at like 8 kb/s according to Windows. This is to any number of computers, so the problem lies with the PC. No one else has...
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    domain controller- automatic private address

    Hi. I ran dcdiag for Adeaide and it all passed just as with the previous one. I also ran nslookup with those commands and they all seemed normal, returning the correct IP address for both the server performing the request and the hostname being resolved. OK, I had a look at the hosts file...
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    domain controller- automatic private address

    Hi. On adelaide, if I run nslookup iwsmel.local adelaide.iwsmel.local, I get: Server: adelaide.iwsmel.local Address: 192.168.5.10 Name: iwsmel.local Addresses: 192.168.20.10, 192.168.3.10, 10.10.20.11, 192.168.4.10 10.10.20.10 Adelaide is not listed above :( On...
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    domain controller- automatic private address

    Hi their. - No errors are being thrown in the event log. The only error was about a week ago: DNS server has updated its own host (A) records. In order to ensure that its DS-integrated peer DNS servers are able to replicate with this server, an attempt was made to update them with the new...
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    domain controller- automatic private address

    See if I nslookup our domain, I get the following: Server: melb.iwsmel.local Address: 192.168.3.10 Name: iwsmel.local Addresses: 192.168.3.10 192.168.20.10 10.10.20.10 10.10.20.11 192.168.4.10 Our adelaide DC is not listed..
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    domain controller- automatic private address

    Hi their. Each site is on the same subnet. Our scheme is like this: 192.168.3.0 is Mebourne, 4.0 is Brisbane, 5.0 is Adelaide etc. I just ran dcdiag on the Adelaide server (192.168.5.0) and the results came back from the Brisbane server. This is the result i got after running the command...
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    domain controller- automatic private address

    Thanks for the replies guys. What settings am I looking for exactly? Im at the Melbourne branch and if I nslookup our domain name, it shows all the addresses but the Adelaide address, so obviously its not working as a domain controller properly... The adelaide site does appear in Sites and...
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    domain controller- automatic private address

    Hi there. Thanks for the reply- yeh one of our servers had teamviewer VPN installed, so thats fine. Still, the problem is this: say we are in adelaide, if we ping the domain name, we are getting replys from sydney and other places, but not always from the closest DC- why would this be? cheers
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    domain controller- automatic private address

    Hi guys. Need your help please. We have a distributed network with each site having a Domain Controller. We were having performance issues, and apparently (according to another IT guy here), pinging the domain name (lets say restore.local), it was receiving responses from all over the joint...
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    having a users printers and email already setup

    The problem is that the managed exchange accounts dont have the same format as their active directory name. e.g. active directory username is jsmith, email is john.smith some user's dont even have email. i might just leave it, seems its going to be quite hard
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    Win2k3 Server occasionally hangs

    Hi guys. Need some help please. One of our domain controllers is hanging sometimes- not very often, maybe once a week, but its quite an annoyance. Its a Win2k3 Server, fairly new (IBM i think). When it hangs, it can be pinged, but RDC won't work and none of the services it provides will...
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    having a users printers and email already setup

    Hi guys. I am just curious, we have users at our company who most of the time use the same computer. The problem is, sometimes they use another computer, and when they log in, their email is not setup and neither are printers. I know printers can be set up through the use of a batch...
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    external hdd- booting into a specific software folder

    Hi their. Quick question- do most computers these days support booting off a USB HDD? The reason I ask is I have so many CD's that I was thinking perhaps just putting them onto a external HDD. Is it possible to create like a boot script which will allow me to select which program I want to...
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    multiple branches, multiple proxies?

    The reason we want to do this is really for a few reasons: - added redundancy for when our WAN goes out- we could just create a VPN tunnel to over the internet - speed: our WAN is only capable of 512kb/s, so we have 3 of them. We want an internet connection so we can free up one of our WAN...
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    backup batch script- changing filename?

    Just quickly, with your second example of a directory, what if I wanted to just create the directory with the date name, and keep all subfolders and filenames in tact? E.g.. the folder would be date-07-06-09-halfday or something similar?
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    multiple branches, multiple proxies?

    Hi thier. Currently, we have 5 branches across Australia. We have our datacenter which receives our internet connection and pushes it through a proxy, in which all branches connect to through our WAN. We are thinking of getting a dedicated internet connection at each branch. How would we...
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    backup batch script- changing filename?

    Exactly what im looking for. Cheers!
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    backup batch script- changing filename?

    Hi guys. I need to create a simple batch script that will backup of a file every half day. I am going to use windows task manager to actually run the file, I just need to create a script that will copy the file. I am fine with xcopy, but how do I make it so it actually doesnt overwrite...
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    Scanned PDF to Exce softwarel? OCR will be needed..

    Hi guys. Does anyone know of an app that can take a PDF document and turn it into an excel document? The only problem is that the PDF is of a scanned document so it will also require some OCR as well. Preferrably a free package but I doubt any of them are free. Cheers
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    new printer- how do we change clients to the new one?

    Hi their. At our offices, we are getting a new printer- it is getting installed tomorrow. This is what will happen- we have a printer called 'VIC Office' and another called 'VIC Warehouse'. Now 'VIC Warehouse' will be getting replaced with 'VIC Office' and a new one will take the place of...
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    DFS- event viewer logs event 13508 3 times a day

    fixed
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    outlook web access- rules

    thanks for the reply- was 90 percent sure that was the case but didnt want to have to explain a whole heap of mailboxes receiving 1500+ messages. Cheers
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    outlook web access- rules

    Hi. We use Exchange 03. If I create a rule using outlook web access (a rule that will forward all mail to another mailbox), it comes up saying that this rule will be applied to all mail received. Does this mean that it will apply the rule from that point in time, or it will apply the rule...