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    Cross Forest Address Book

    Hello, We recently merged with another company and are operating as two separate forests with forest trusts between the 2. Is there a way to enable access to each other's address books without using Microsoft Identity Integration Server? It doesn't seem that way, but thought I would check...
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    AD Forest Trust

    Hello [H] Members, I'm fairly sure I know the answer already but want a second opinion. If we have say, DomainA and DomainB (both Server 2003) and establish a forest trust between them, does the AD info/schema from A replicate to B and vice versa? My impression/thought is that they don't...
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    Application Permissions/Power Users

    Hopefully someone can shed some light on this for me... I have an older application that once installed, will run fine under an admin account and a power user account, but not a restricted user. I've given full control of the applications directory to the authenticated users group along with...
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    Mass Delete Email from Exchange 2003

    We have our spam filter set to forward any blocked mail to a "blocked" account that is only accesible by going through the system admin, which happens to be me. Now the question is: Is there a way to mass delete emails from Exchange without having to worry about the ~4,000 item limit in...
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    Help w/Firewall Log

    Hopefully someone can make a little more sense of this than I can. We have a Watchguard Firebox at our location and have a usergroup in AD that it authenticates VPN connections against. The problem is coming from one location specifically, in that I can sign in under the account from my home and...
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    Windows ME NIC Woes...

    I know, I know...Windows ME. Its for a friend who's NIC card just apparently stopped working after her brother "messed with something." Here's the lowdown...Windows ME: I can ping localhost, but can't get an IP from DHCP or communicate at all when I set a static IP (can't ping...
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    Another wireless tale of woe

    It is with great anticipation that I turn to you [H] members. I've googled, yahood, and much much more with no success. Let me explain... I recently purchased an HP dv5020 with Broadcom 802.11b/g built in. I have been trying to connect to my wireless network at home with ZERO success and have...
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    ERD Diagram

    Hello all, I am working on an assignment for a class over my winter break and need some help on the one requirement. I apoligze if its a dumb question but I'm not 100% sure what the professor wants and I'm hoping someone else may have an idea. Essentially I have to build a VB App that tracks...
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    Exchange Mail Deletion Script

    Is anyone familiar with a tool or script that will delete large amounts of messages in one shot ? We currently have all of our filtered spam emails go to a holding mailbox in case of anything legit being blocked. The issue is that it the mailbox grows rather rapidly these days and I'm tired...
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    Remote user password management

    Does anyone have any suggestions for the following situation: User logged into to VPN connection from home and had to change their password on the network. User logs off of laptop, but is then unable to log back in to the laptop. I've had this come up before, but the user has always been able...
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    Try, catch, finally in .NET

    Hello all, Just curious as to what is "best practice" and it may be a dumb question, but I'm not sure of the right answer. Do you use a try, catch, finally block for each function/sub and also one in the main routine, or just stick to one in each function. For example, which is better...
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    SQL Server 2000 Logs

    Does anyone have any good scripts or methods of how to monitor SQL Server logs without a bunch of hassle? I'm not looking for anything specific, just some ideas other than manually checking them every day/week/whatever. Thanks!
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    C# Question

    Can someone explain this code snippet a little more for me: bytKey = new byte[] {0xE1,0xEC,0x3A,0x9C,0xA1,0x28,0x74,0x8A,0x33,0x7B,0x92,0xDF,0x10,0x13,0xA8,0xB1,0x53,0x79,0xF5,0x7C}; Obviously its declaring a byte array, but what significance do the hex values have? This is a snippet...
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    Open Source or Low Cost Bug Tracking for Windows

    Can anyone recommend a reliable open source or low cost bug tracking application that will run on Windows? Thanks!
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    Application Permission

    We run an application that will run on certain clients without the user having the "Power Users" rights but on others, it won't. Does anyone have any good suggestions/tools for determining which resources the application is trying to access in realtime to see what permissions are not correct...
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    Automation Scripts

    Can someone point me in the right direction here...I haven't been able to find much of anything useful on this (yet). What I'm trying to do is have some type of automated script (for lack of a better term) that will automatically configure Outlook for a new user vs. me having to set the...
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    ASP.net and javascript radio button

    I have a asp.net form that has the following elements: 1. Radio Button List = rblMenu 2. WebForm Button = btnSubmit I've written a javascript function that does something like this: function GetValue() { Get the value of the selected radio button alert(The value goes here)...
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    Shutdown vs. Reboot in Windows

    Aside from the obvious, I'm looking for essentially "What is the difference between reboot and shutdown?" Meaning...in memory management, system resources, etc. I'm trying to solve an argument that rebooting and shutting the system down completely and bringing it back up do not have the same...
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    Printer repair tutorials

    This may sound silly and ridiculous, but nonetheless...Does anyone know of any good tutorials online for laser printer repair/maintenance? TIA.
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    Active Directory Authentication

    I have a web app that I'm redesigning that I am having authenticate against AD, simple enough... But currently the app authenticates against a standard SQL Database which contains the username, user initials, and security level. Do any of you have any recommendations of how to achieve the...
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    T-SQL Conversion from Null to Empty String

    Well, the title pretty much says it all. Is there a way (SQL Server 2000) to convert/cast a null value to an empty string and store it as such? I tried using: CONVERT(varchar(50), @addr_2) and inserting that value into the table but it is still coming up as null. Thanks for any...
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    ASP/VB.net authentication

    Can someone tell me if I implement an authentication mechanism on my site using this method, do I need to check if the user is authenticated on every page in the site, or will the code take care of this for me? For instance, I set my start page to index.aspx, but if the user isn't...
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    Visual Source Safe

    Does anyone have any decent links to an "Installing and configuring Visual Source Safe" type of thing ? I haven't been able to find anything decent. Thanks!
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    Access 2003 VBA issues

    So this may not be quite the programming problem per se, but alas, I turn to you all for some hope. I have a fairly large Access database in 2000 format (if that matters). Here's the issue: I have a routine that runs that generates about 120 reports...it basically grabs the record set, loops...
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    Exchange guru wanted: Apply within

    I have a user trying to send an email to an external domain, say receiver.com. When she tries to send the email using her Outlook (She is VPN'd in to us) she gets the email rejected stating that she is not permitted to send to that recipient and in the exchange logs it is showing up as ...
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    MCSE Questions

    For those of you that are MCSE certified, do you have any tips on studying for the core courses ? Is there a certain test that is easier to take before the next? Basically, I'm working right now as an admin type for a smaller company and most of this stuff I won't ever have the chance to use...
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    Intersoft Webgrid.net

    Does anyone out there have any experience using Intersoft's WebGrid.net? I am looking for some indication of performace with these apps, but haven't been able to find anyone using them readily. Thanks, murph
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    CS Degrees Online

    Have any of you out there had any experiences with online CS programs, either Bachelors level or Masters level? I'm looking for anyone preferably with masters level experience but would like to hear from others also about if you found it more or less difficult with the online program and what...
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    Exchange/Outlook Issue

    Hopefully this is the right spot for this, if not...please move. Issue 1: I have Exchange 2000/Outlook XP and everytime one of my clients opens Outlook, it prompts her for her domain username and password. I've tried several different corrections including: Removed Users Profile (Mail...
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    GFI Mail Essentials

    A.) Is anyone using this and if so... B.) Is anyone familar with any tools to purge the GFI Database, other than doing it manually through SQL statements ? The bitch is, we don't really need the logging aspect of it, but there has been stuff in the past that has been important but it was...
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    Outlook won't open unless user is local admin

    We've been updating to SP2 at work and in the process, removing everyone as local admin (wasn't my doing). The users have been added as "restricted user" and most of them are fine, but there are about 3 that can't open Outlook after I do this. Any suggestions or similar experiences ? TIA
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    Domain User Permission

    Before I started in my current position, all users were added as administrators of their local machines. I am in the process of removing these permissions, but I have one question: Whenever I add the "Domain Users" to the list using MYDOMAIN\Domain Users, after the next reboot, the "Domain...
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    How do you handle this...

    Mods, please move if this is too off topic, but... If you have a client that asks you to "look at" their computer because it freezes up occasionally and aren't able to find anything obvious, what do you tell them or how do you handle this? Basically I had someone give me their machine to...
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    Power Problems

    I installed a new DVD burner...booted up ok, got a boot problem, not power related. Shut down, removed new drive, tried to power up, computer powers on for a second then shuts down. I push the power button, fans spin, lights come on for all of .5 seconds, the shutdown. I've had this problem...
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    Training advice

    I realize some of these programs are "boot camps," but has anyone attended any training from HOTT? I'm looking for objective opinions only please. Thanks in advance.
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    VB.net data tables and sql 2000

    Maybe someone out there has done this before, but I haven't been able to find a way yet... I create a data table with say 50 records. I want to essentially use that table in a query against a database: For example: Select * from database_table dbt WHERE dbt.current = true LEFT JOIN...
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    Rundll32.exe

    Has anyone ever had rundll32.exe develop a mind of its own? I'm fairly sure its not a virus or spyware. (Full Scan w/NAV2004) The only things I have seen online point to "We don't know why it is there but leave it alone." It is using up 98% CPU time at some points and there is no pattern to...
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    VS.net oddity

    Does anyone else have this issue? Sometimes when I resize the code window in VS.net 2003, it automatically opens up MSDN's site in the code window, in its own tab. Weird, or expected? I haven't been able to find any options to disable it, etc.
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    Removing Characters in SQL

    I have a table of ~ 90,000 records. Each record has an SSN field and a incident number field. Can anyone provide a good reference or the like to show how to remove all non-alphanumeric characters? Right now I have: CREATE PROCEDURE sp_DoStuff AS UPDATE My_table SET incident_num =...
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