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Hi I was wondering if it is possible to parse the MX records of a top level domain (e.g .co.uk) and the send the output to a file when it finds certain email providers e.g mx.ukisp.co.uk? Many thanks for taking the time to read this.

Hi I have a small customer with 2 2008 R2 x64 servers and the redirect user documents gpo is not applying to the users OU.User docs are setup to replicate between the 2 servers with DFS-R and the domain function and DFS-R is set to 2008 level. I have set up the redirect gpo with the following...

Dear All I have had a customer who requires a more robust system and I have read a little about failover clustering but I am having problems with conflicting opinions in regard to hardware requirments. Is it possible to use 2 identical or very similar servers with each its own a internal Raid...

Hi Thanks for that! i was a bit unsure since i dont know how demanding sbs 2011 is. Btw, its a IBM X3400 M3,pretty decent I hope!

Hi I am about to send an offer to a customer for a new sbs 2011 standard server and wonder if it would give a noticable performance improvment with 2 2.26 Ghz quad xeon cpu? They have 10 users and quite possible they will employ 5-10 extra staff in the course of 2 -3 years. The plan is to use 4...

Hi 58sniper Thanks very much for your reply. I was hoping to avoid a lot of manual work on each workstation, but as long as it works is all the matters! cheers!

Hi TechyMcse2k! Many thanks for your swift reply. I have read your link and it doesnt seem to meet what I need.The problem is that Fancygoods.no e mail is controlled by another IT company and they will not move over repsonsabilty of e mail to abc.no. Have you any other suggestions?

I wonder if anyone knows if there is a solution to this question... I have a customer who will soon go over to Sbs 2011/ Outlook 2010. The plan is mail for my customer abc.no, shall be delivered to exchange via an ISP spamfilter. Abc.no has entered into an 10 year agreement with a similar...

Hi I have a customer who manually installed Office 2007 on each client and now wishes to deploy Office 2010 via a gpo.Current setup is a sbs 2008 server domain. Is is possible to script the uninstall of 2007 such that the script can be run via a gpo? The plan is to uninstall Office 2007 and...

Wonder if anyone has any ideas for the scenario below... A customer, who currently has 3 windows 2003R2 x32 server's as dc's ( 2 in Oslo, Norway and 3rd in Denmark),All 3 servers belong to the same domain and wishes for a new server with Windows 2008r2 standard x64.Currently, Dfs-r is in use to...

I am wondering if anyone has seen the above at starup…… I was called out to a customer today who server was down showing the above message. After a little googling, I decided to run a repair install of sbs 2003 and all was well until I installed the latest updates from Microsoft and after a...

Hi Pat The message says that you do not have permission to send e post to this receiver. Recipient address rejected: Policy rejection greylisted,try again later. My customer confirmed that the mail was not recieved. To be honest, i dont what to do with this. The customers sbs 2003 server runs...

Hi I have a customer who has exchange 2003 and constantly has problems with being greylisted. The mail server is on a sbs 2003 server and is configured to to use the Isp smtp server for outgoing mail.A reverse dns record was created for the customers e mail server over a year ago.Has anyone any...

Hi I was wondering i anyone has any suggestions for the problem below. Just finishing a sbs 2003 to sbs 2008 premium migration,which was intersting to say the least! The plan was to use only one server and now I have discovered that forefront client security console cannot be installed on a...

Hi Dave It was the av on the sbs 2003! disabled it with instructions from Norman,but still no joy!