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Microsoft provide a utility called Robocopy in the server resource kit which is more powerful than XCopy. Take a look at thread 96-1177667 in the Windows 2000 Server forum for details. Also, if possible logon as a domain admin as this may resolve the access denied message.

Generally leaving NIC and switch port speed and duplex setting on Auto shouldn't be a problem. But it's always a good idea to fix them manually as it can improve performance and it's also one less thing that can potentially cause problems. I've got very little experience of configuring Cisco...

I used robocopy extensively a couple of year ago when I was doing a Server 2003 migration across about 30 servers. We were copying anything up to 100Gb from external USB2 drives across a gigabit LAN, and I seem to remember the longest copy took around 4-5 hours. I always found it reliable, but...

Just remembered a really useful freeware utility that will display various system information (hostname, OS version, IP address etc) as your wallpaper. Here's a link to the page where you can download it - http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/BgInfo.html

RDC allows you to turn off the desktop wallpaper to improve performance, so from what you've described I suspect this is the problem. To confirm this, open your RDC connection and click the Options tab. This will give you additional settings tabs, go to the 'Experience' tab and check the...

The first place to try would be the website of the manufacturer of your server, as they should provide the drivers for the hardware in your server model. If that fails, try opening the server and have a look on the actual NIC for the manufacturer and model and then download them from their...

It sounds as though your network card hasn't been detected, as even if the card has a problem or is disabled it should still show in Network and Dialup Connections. Check device manager and confirm that you have a Network Adapters entry.

Here are the instructions on how to assign a static IP address. 1) Right-click 'My Network Places' and select 'Properties' 2) Right-click 'Local Area Connection' and select 'Properties' 3) Double-click 'Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)' 4) Click the 'Use the following addresses' radio button enter a...

From the toolbar, click the Tools, Send/Receive, Send/Receive Settings, and select Show Progress. This is how to do this in Outlook 2003. I can't recall if it's exactly the same in earlier versions, but it'll be very similar.