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Can anyone advise if what I am planning to try is a practical / sensible proposition ? Our ERP system outputs an xml file. I want to use Outlook 2000 and a VBA routine to read in the xml file and create a series of emails using the data imported. In essence I am trying to do a mail merge...

have you tried switching off anonymous access and using a userid / password ? Jonathan

Its quite common to use local profiles rather than roaming profiles for laptops but you lose central control of the profile. Security-wise when off-site you are reliant on NTFS permissions and NT logon security but for most situations its adequate. It will however allow logging on off the...

I'm slightly confused by your description of the problem. Are you saying that all is OK until you run a windows update ? Have you applied service pack 1 ? Is your server connected directly to the Internet or is is behind a hardware firewall ? I would suggest a trial like this : find a spare...

have you applied any Dell or other manufacturer specific drivers for the server / NIC or is it just using whatever Win2003 detected and installed ? Jonathan

Are you sure that the DNS entry will not work ? What are your clients running ? Are they part of an Active Directory domain ? If they are running XP and are part of an AD Domain then they should find all network resources by resolving machine names to IP addresses via DNS. This is unless you...

Justin is spot on - this is exactly what I have done. Set up sites in the AD first with each subnet set up as this just keeps it all tidy when the other DC joins. On the DC you are going to DCPROMO first set the DNS server to be the one at the other site already running the domain and all will...

Can I ssume the two locations are linked by a network ? Can I assume they are on differnent sub-nets ? Jonathan

Are you running a login script as part of the Group Policy ? I have seen GPOs appear to do nothing if the login script does not run all the way through as expected e.g. it trys to map drives but fails. Try removing the login script and see if the other GPO settings start working. Jonathan

I think you could do this by stopping somes Windows services. Workstation, Server, Netlogon are possible candidates but this is pretty risky stuff. Needs careful investigating. What about rebooting the server at 9:30 ?

Seperate subnets would be best in many ways but I think will require a router somewhere between the two sites and your BT connection might not have one you can get at. Alternatively, assuming your ADSL routers are set as the client's gateway I think DHCP can give out more than one gateway...

I assume that your LAN is all one IP subnet with the same addressing scheme - Is that how a BT LAN extension works ? If so I'm not sure why you are so concerned. Why not just set up the DHCP at both sites a don't worry. As long as your servers do not allocate overlapping ip address ranges...

I am testing a new Win2003/AD/DNS/DHCP setup. I decided to create an AD/domain of the form mycompany.1234 rather than mycompany.local or similar. Everything appeared to be working fine except that WinXP clients were getting event viewer errors relating to autoenrollment and also group...

My best guess would be a hardware issue. Top of my list would be fauly power supply, I have seen random reboots caused by this. However, I would think system board or raid controller could also give the same result.

the big bucks usually gets you SCSI interfaces built in which makes life a lot easier if you need to add more hard disks, DAT/DLT tape drives or use RAID controllers. It also tends to get you higher spec expansion slots such as PCI-X etc. Its all about requirements. If you need to store files...

Any ideas on a more elegant way to generate a 2 digit week number i.e. in the range 01-54 than: select REPLICATE('0',2-len(DATENAME(ww,datefield))) + DATENAME(ww,datefield) I must have 01, 02 etc not 1,2 etc for weeks < 10.

Never had an issue with open files on a restore, backup yes, but I always blast over the top. Registry comes back fine in my experience - after the first reboot. Before I restore I always stop as many services as possible to reduce the likelyhood of any funnies. Bear in mind I haven't used...

Another thought .... I have found when doing NT restores that the destination machine needs to be prepared prior to the restore not only with NT but also with the same service pack level as the NT system on the backup tape. I'm not sure that this is strictly requried but I have had hassles in...

Have you looked at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=130928 Personally I agree with Matt J. - I think pain and suffering awaits going down the full system restore route. JonHowe

A good illustration is for the date 29-DEC-2003 : in ORACLE : select to_char(to_date('12/29/2003','mm/dd/yyyy'),'YYYY') from dual; result : 2003 select to_char(to_date('12/29/2003','mm/dd/yyyy'),'IYYY') from dual; result : 2004 select to_char(to_date('12/29/2003','mm/dd/yyyy'),'WW') from...