Recent content by quinla01

Hi guys, I've been playing around with clusters in a virtual environment. I deleted a couple of clusters and did not remove them in the correct way. Although the clusters are no longer running or available, They keep showing up in the "connect to cluster" drop down menu when you run "cluster...

Hi guys, after some advice on Site planning here. I'm an administrator in an organization that has a main office containing around 300 computers. We also have offices in 40 other physical locations that are connected to the main office by 2MB or 10MB dedicated leased lines, each location...

The other thing that would help would be for the script not to close when i click ok (once i enter text into the input box) that way i could repeat the process over and over again. thanks Andy

Its a bit beyond me that one.,, Thanks Anyway

Hi guys, I'm not a scripter however someone kindly wrote the below script for me a while back. It allows me to enter a username (via input box) and moves the related home directory from the user Home Directroy Folder to a subfolder named "disabled folders". I'm now in the situation were i have a...

Hello, I'm trying to query my active directory for disabled accounts and then move them into an OU named "disabled ou". I've tried the following: dsquery user -disabled | dsmove -newparent "ou=disabled group,dc=etc,dc=etc,dc=etc" however i received the following message. dsmove...

Any advice on this one would be great. I need to start thinking about consolidating two organisations. Organisation “A” currently uses a public address range. Organization “B” uses a private 192.168 address range. Both networks are at 2003 functional level. We have a dedicated line between the...

K, here’s a tricky one, For some reason, the previous member of staff set up the home directory’s for users in strange format: \\filestore101\users$\SiteName\UsersInitials Eg. \\filestore101\users$\Site1\AQ1 In some cases there's even a site sub directory EG...

Cheers guy, i will give it a go on a scope an let you know how i get on. I'll backup the database first just in case. Thanks for you help Andy

Hi Guys, got a problem i was hoping someone could clear up for me. I've recently migrated my DHCP service from an NT box to a 2003 box. I used the propper tools and everything seems to have gone ok. The problem i have is that the lease duration on the NT box was configured to "never expire"...

Yes i do, has this anything to do with the problem?

K, this is gettng wierd. I deleted the users roaming profile, made sure the local profile had been removed by group policy and then logged the user back on. It recreated the roaming profile on the server, however it somhow managed to pull the icons deleted previously through to the new roaming...

To answer your question sorry, yes it does look as if the file is being deleted in the roaming profile and then being recreate on logoff. Thanks Andy

I have two machines running, one monitoring the users desktop folder on the server (Eg. \\server1\profiles$\%username%\desktop) and the other running wnidows xp which i am using to log the user in. From the xp machine logged in as the user i delete the file (testfile.txt) from the desktop, it...

This one’s driving me crazy guys. Clients = XP SP2 Servers= MS Server 2000 & 2003 Active Directory environment All users have roaming profiles. Through Active Directory and Group Policy the users have their desktops redirected to a remote server location. The problem I have is that when...