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Any more ideas folks? I've even gone as far as uninstalling Office, running Malwarebytes / CCleaner / a couple of other utilities, and then reinstalled & repatched up to date. Still the same. :'(

Tried removing SP3 - no change. Any more ideas guys?

Sorry, should have said that the Office Diagnostics didn't find any problems. I've also run a full Malwarebytes scan. Ian

Thanks Frederico - the diagnostics part did the job. The Word part unfortunately not. It's not only Word which is affected (the link specifically refers to it) but seemingly all Office products. I'm going to fetch SP3 again, and see if that makes a difference. Any other thoughts anyone?

Hmmm - didn't know about those. Gives a message "Diagnostics were disabled by your system administrator". Which is odd because that's me. This isn't part of a domain or even a workgroup. I tried a Repair of Office too, but that fails with "An unexpected error has occured." (mis-spelt as in the...

Hi all. Running Office 2007 SP3 on Windows Vista SP2. In the last few days we've stopped being able to save. Any time you open the Save dialogue and wait (without choosing anything) the application just closes. This happens in Word, Excel, Powerpoint, InfoPath, Publisher. Event log shows...

Our AD login script maps all drives persistently, so that VPN users (who do not perform a full login) still have their drives available. I have a requirement for the home directories, mapped from the User Profile, to also be persistent, but can't see any way to do that. Any ideas? I'd rather...

Hi all. Running NW5.1 SP6. When I view the Trustees of a folder, everything is fine. But when I choose "Inherited Rights and Filters" I see whatever "real" groups & their rights, then one or more single letter IDs (e.g. "G") that are allegedly inherited from the volume root. So it looks...

The Terminal Services part is straightforward; make sure the "Terminal Services" service is running on the server (right-click My Computer, Manage, Services), make sure "Enable Remote Desktop on this computer" is ticked (right-click My Computer, Properties, Remote) and choose "Select Remote...

Hi all! We're running NW5.1 SP6 with eDir 85.30. What I need to do is change a setting on multiple users (like hundreds of them) in a timely way. Specifically I want to set/unset "Password Never Expires". I'm aware of the security implications of that but there are good reasons for it. Any...

Thanks Dave. Not applicable in this instance, but a good thought. Cheers Ian

I'm going to ask (hopefully) dumb questions, but please bear with me as the answers aren't listed above. 1) Are you signing on with an account that is a member of the Domain and/or Enterprise Administrators group? 2) Are there other Administrator accounts? Do these have the same problem? Can...

Check that the NIC(s) speed/duplex match the switch settings. Some drivers are better than others at auto-detecting. Also, are you using the Windows firewall? Did it enable itself? We've been burned by that. Ian

Take a peek at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223184 This documents how time is supposed to work. If you have a domain, you shouldn't be using NTP and specifying a particular source for the PCs & non-DC servers. One DC should point to one or more external sources (e.g. US military if you're...

Agreed - introducing a new DC into a "damaged" AD is asking for trouble. If possible, I would do all the clean-up work without the new server, then once everything is stable you can build & add your new box. Ian

Try the Microsoft scripting centre. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/default.mspx?mfr=true They have a bunch of scripts you should be able to find a similar one that you can customise to do what you want. Enjoy Ian

If that's not working for you, what you could do is define a scope for 192.168.1.1 through to 192.168.2.10 and then exclude 192.168.1.11-192.168.2.0 This works for us - we're actually serving out 2 contiguous class C ranges, but we like to keep .1-.20 of each for servers, printers, etc, but the...

Well yes, I did! Turns out the "Free hard disc space" isn't how much is available, but rather the empty space within the existing database. So, no issue & no action required. Thanks porkchopexpress! Ian

Hi all. Running W2k3 server (mix of Standard & Advanced). Garbage Collection is reporting that we have only 9MB free space remaining (of 500 total) but I can't find anything that tells me what I should do about it. From Event Log:- Internal event: The Active Directory database has the following...

Hi all. I'm just about to retire a server (5.1 SP6 EDIR 85.30) which among other things is an SLP DA. I've repointed all other servers elsewhere for SLP but is there anything "special" I need to consider before/during the decomm process? Or do I just remove the replica and then DS as normal...