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I have 5 Cisco 2960 switches. sw1, sw2, sw3, sw4, sw5 As of right now sw1 is uplinked to sw2, then sw2 uplinks to sw3, sw3 uplinks to sw4 and so on. They are all uplinked via the gigabit ports. Is this a big deal with Cisco switches? Typically I treat one switch as the core switch and try...

looking for recommendations on making a Windows Update CD. I have used custom update CDs to update major packages like SPs, IE, etc, but does anyone know of a method to update all of Windows in one click? Say I have a Windows XP PC with no SPs etc. Is there a way to make a CD to install all...

Hey everyone, I am trying to create a DB that can track and log my daily nutrition intake. I would like to be able to able to enter in the foods I eat along with the amount of calories, fat(g), protein(g), etc, and then calculate the totals. I know there are programs out there that do this but...

I have a main web site www.site.com and I have an additional domain (www.redirect.com) that I would like to auto redirect to another part of my main web site ex. www.website.com/sales I'm am looking for advice on the best way to accomplish this. Would DNS be the best way to do this??? Thanks...

I have a Windows 2003 SBS server w/ sp2. Is it ok to disable the IPSEC service? We don't use IPSEC for VPN or anything else. Would disabling it cause any issues??? The service has been giving us issues when rebooting.

I have a two Windows 2003 SP2 servers. One of the server suffered from serious hardware failure. My backup are good so I'm not to worried. However this was the only Global Catalog server but bother server were DCs. My question is can I turn the up and running DC into a GC?

I have an account with an old Compaq ml350 server and I am not certain of the RAID card at the moment. It is a RAID 5 array with 6 disks. One of the drives failed (36.4GB ultra3 10K) and they replaced it with a ultra 320 drive. This was an exchange server and a little after they swapped the...

I have an FTP running on IIS6 that is on our internal network. How much of a sercurity risk is this? Of course I only have the FTP port open on the firewall.

Does anyone know of a way to query AD to find old computer accounts? In AD we have about 70 computer accounts but only 40 PCs. There are a lot of old computers that were not properly removed out of AD. It would be nice if I had a script or tool I could run that would find accounts that...

In Windows 2003 you can install MS Fax server. Can you do this with Windows 2000 server? I can get the fax setup on it locally but it won't allow me to share the fax printer. I know you can do this with 2000 small bus server. Thanks!!!

Does anyone know if there is a way to remove local admin rights via GPO? Basically I would like to remove local admin rights for all the users on their workstations. I would like to set them all up as a restricted users so they can't install programs locally. Thanks in advance!

Can anyone tell me how to backup an SQL 2005 Database? In SQL 2000 you could create a maintenance plan for backups but I can't seem to find that in 2005. When I look in start/all programs/sql server 2005 all I see is configuration tools/SQL configuration manager. There doesn't seem to be...

I have an exchange 2003 server sp2 on win 2003. As of right now, users access OWA via http and phones sync with active sync via httpS. Everything works fine with this config. However I am trying to force OWA users to use https, but when I do this Active sync on the phones fail. You recieve a...

I have Symantec Backup Exec 11d on a win 2003 server. I recently noticed my C: drive filling up and narrowed it down to the backup exec data folder. C:\Program Files\Symantec\Backup Exec\Data The SQL database 2GB along with it's Backup file. In addition there are 5 .xlm files that are around...

I need to have a group of users outgoing mail forwarded to an internal mailbox for admin review. I thought about creating a rule in Outlook to do this but there are a lot of users that need to have this done and PCs are always being swaped around. This could be a lot of administration. Can...

How come it can take a day or so for a name change in Active Directory to take effect? For example if I change the last name of a user in AD it will take a day or so to change in Outlook. Outlook is not setup in cached mode and I am running exchange 2003 sp2.

Anyone know how to export the history in IE 6 sp1 to a file?

I have 2 Netgear FSM726 managed switches and I think I have some network conjestion. I would like to use SNMP to monitor both the switches and gather some useful info. I have never really used SNMP and know very little about it. Can anyone suggest any good free SNMP utilities? Also what...

I am super busy and don't have a lot of time to do research. Can anyone point me to quick article or white paper on how to secure exchange from an open relay external and internal. I only want users to be able to send mail via Outlook "as far as exchange is concerned". I know I need to be...

I am very new to linux and I have just installed ubuntu on my PC. I am trying to turn the box into a router/firewall. Can anyone recommend some good software to use. I would like something that can do rate limiting. Thanks in advance