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    Print que limits on a print server?

    We have several servers in our lan, one of which is our network print server. All of the printers in our organisation are installed on this server. It is a 2k3 server, PIII 1000, 1 gig ram. The server will just reboot every couple of weeks randomly. No warning, no hanging, no errors in event...
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    Exchange mailbox limits..

    We are going to be enforcing mailbox limits for all of our mailboxes in the next month. We are a non-profit social services organization with 600+ email accounts. We already have in place rules to delete deleted items older that one month and sent items older than 90 days. We are going to be...
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    PDA options

    I am looking at hand getting a PDA, but am unfamiliar with most of them. right now, the opnly thing I will NEED is an Outlook integratable calendar. I am also looking for future options, wireless internet, GPS, etc. Those of you that use them, what are you using? What do you like/not like about...
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    Win 98 domain logon question

    I have some Win98 machines that some of the users are hitting cancel, and not loging into the domain, then complaining when they can't get to anything. I know there is a GPO that I can set, but I only want to set it for these specific machines. I also know there is a reg hack to use on the...
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    XP Pro logon issue

    We have a Windows 2000 domain. We also have an AS/400 server that our main database is on. We need to have the workstations (XP Pro) map a drive to the as400 for an imaging application. The drive was mapped by right clicking on My Net Places, selecting map drive. I put in the drive, path and...
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    External print server

    We have several printers (HP, Lexmark, IBM) that do not have internal network cards. I bought a couple of Hawking HPS1P parallel printservers to get the printers on the network. I am discovering that they have internal DHCP servers in them. I have this function "disabled", but everyonce in a...
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    AD replication

    Is there a way to check when/if AD is replicating between servers?
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    Local government chain of command?

    Are there any County Government workers out there? I have a few concerns I need to find answers for. I have been working for our local court house for a couple of months now. I am in this position "temporarily" because their normal IT guy is on active duty in Iraq. I went into this knowing I may...
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    GPO changes not taking effect

    We are running Windows 2000 server with AD. I am changing some GPO settings domain wide and they are not taking effect on some Windows 2000 SP4 machines. They seem to be working on XP, but not one of the 2000 machines. Is there a way to force this manually? I've tried logging off and restarting...
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    Exchange 2003 Questions

    I have been having some users complain about delays when sending to hotmail accounts. I checked the First admin group queues, and see that there are anywhere from 10 - 13 messages qued to hotmail.com all the time. I just created a new hotmail account and sent a message. I also got the bounce. On...
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    Trying Linux for the first time!!!!

    Just got it installed a few days ago, I have Samba installed and can browse to my home folder on our Windows DC. I am wondering how to set it so that I can "map" to this folder (you will have to forgive the terminology, as I am not familiar with the correct terminologt for Linux yet :) ). I am...
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    Symantec Antivirus CE 9

    Is there a way to shut off logging on the av server? The event log is full of the normal "can not open whatever system file" I want to shut that off.
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    Exchange 2003 issue

    We have an Exchange 2003 server that has been working fine until last week. I have been getting some calls that some users are not able to send email externally. They are getting undeliverable errors. I have looked through the Exchange servers event logs, and nothing pops out at me. I am really...
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    Surf Control V5 with ISA 2004 issues

    I have been running Surf Control ver 4.5 on a server 2003 box for a while. The issue we are having is that our Citrix users are not being monitored correctly. I was told we needed to have Surf Control on an ISA box, set up for caching only, and the ISA server would resolve usernames from Citrix...
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    Drive space concerns

    On one of my servers, if I browse to the d drive in My Computer (the web view pane on the left with the pie chart), it shows the d drive as having a capacity of 53 gig, with 42.6 used, 10.4 free. When I actually go into the drive and select all, right click, properties, it onlu shows 30.2 gig...
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    Exchange server question

    Our server has been a bit doggy today, and I was just checking task manager. The Store.exe is using over 400 meg of ram. Is this normal? I also found an smsectrl.exe (I'm guessing some sort of Compaq OEM diag software) using 207 meg. everything else is under 60 meg. System: 1.3 gig PIII 1280...
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    Login scripts

    I'm setting up login scripts to install Symantec AV CE to all of my clients. This is tested and working well. The trouble I am having is when the user logs in normally, the script runs, when they login via terminal services, the script also runs. I do not want this. I need the script to only run...
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    Batch file

    I'm looking for a way to automate creating folders named via the date. I thought something like mkdir %date% would work, but it won't. I'm trying to automate the process of taking pictures off of a Memory stick to a PC for my inlaws. They got a new digital camera, and I don't want to babysit...
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    Ts/Citrix Licensing issue

    We are running Citrix Presentation server3 on a 2003 terminal server box (not a dc). The licensing server was originally setup on a 2000 server incorectly. That has been changed, and another 2003 server (non dc) is the ts licensing server. We are getting "the system has reached its licensed...
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    Exchange setting

    I'm having trouble finding the setting to limit the size of incoming email on our exchange server (Exchange 2003). I have a user that is not getting an email they need because it is too big. I need to disable it for a bit. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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    pay per sheet printing software

    I am doing some work for a local public library and they would like to implement some type of pay per sheet solution for the printers. They have looked into the coinboxes and that is a little out of their buget at the moment (they are a small town library, population <1000). They have 4 Win XP...
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    Windows time

    I'm having trouble with getting my Windows 2k server to sinc with the time server I specify. Which time servers do you folks use? I have tried time.microsoft.com and tock.usno.navy.mil and I can't get either one to sinc up my time. i keep getting w32time errors in sys log. Thanks
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    MAC network printing help

    I have an Imac (OSX) setup on the network for internet access and printing to network printers. I can't seem to make the Imac print to a network printer, well, it will print to the printer from IE, but not from Photostudio after a scan. The printers are: 1 HP Color LaserJet 2500n with built in...
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    Windows 2000 server question

    I have a single domain/single AD server setup that I am replacing the hardware and I want to migrate AD to pull in the group policy and user accounts so I don't have to rebuild them. What else do i need to do after I install AD on this box and let it replicate? Migrate Schema Master, FSMO roles...
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    Word to PDF naitively?

    I was just told by a client that they heard the new version of Word has the ability to save to PDF natively. Has anyone else heard this?
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    Explorer issue

    I have a Win2000 pro SP4 machine that upon boot, explorer does not fully load. User logs in (not to a domain), background loads, then everything stopps. I have to ctrl- alt-del to get to task manager, processes tab, explorer.exe is using anywhere from 4-5 meg memory. If I kill that, go back...
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    My Documents redirect to MAC OS 10 server

    I can't get the GPO My Docs redirect to a MAC server. The h drive will map, but When I click on it, I get access denied. I am not a MAC person, so I don't know where else to turn. I can browse to the folders via start-run-\\bigmac and double click users, and their respective folders, so I don't...
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    Messaging program

    We're going to be setting up a library with Citrix and PowerFuse this weekend and are looking for an IM program that will work with all other IM programs so we only have to install one IM instead of trying to make them all play nice with each other. We have been testing Trillian and it seems to...
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    Ghost Enterprise multicast issue..

    I just installed Ghost Enterprise on my Win2k server box and I can't seem to get the multicast boot disk I made to assign the machine I'm trying to ghost an IP address. I created the multicast boot disk using packet drivers for a Cnet PRo200WL NIC. The packet drivers were on the install disk...
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    Quickbooks Point of Sale...

    We have a customer with Quickbooks POS converting from DacEasy. It's all setup and working fine. There are two computers peer to peer. The office computer is win98, the register is XP Home. The POS software is on the register machine. Bar code scanners on both machines. Quickbooks Pro 2002 on...
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    Compaq server, RAID and Win2k

    I have an issue with a Compaq server. It has 3 18 gig drives Raid 5. 1 gig C partition, the rest is E. The drives are basic, by the way. They want to ad another 18 gig drive to the array, and give another gig to C and the rest to E. I installed the drive, and it was added to the array. However...