Jake Andrew's questions

I have an old server lying around and I am thinking of using it as an internal telephone server. Its main use would be to set up a 1 to 1 telephone system that could be used internally to connect to different users in different offices.

I have looked at software like Asterisk, but it seems that this is mainly for external telephone systems.

Is this possible to do with Asterisk (or other software) or is this not possible without involving a VOIP company?

I've just had an issue arrise that I cannot seem to solve. I recently set up a Windows Server 2008 DC with DNS and DHCP and all has been working fine, but I discovered today that when I go into the DNS Manager I get the following issue:

DNS. Access was denied. Would you like to add it anyway?

I choose the option to connect to the local computer as that is where the DNS service is running, and I have tried using the FQDN with no luck.

The DNS services have been restarted with no effect, and I have tried adding the Administrator group to the DNSAdmins group but this didn't help either. Also I changed the ACL for the DNS object in the Active Directory Users and Computers to give Administrators full access but this didn't help either.

The domain isn't fucntioning properly as a result, with slow logins now and new GPOs not being pushed. (I'm assuming as the Windows 7 clients cannot map the server name with the IP maybe?)

I've checked the Event Log for the DNS and these are the most common errors:

1) The DNS server was unable to open Active Directory

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thank you,

Jake

I recently purchased some software which will only run on the 64bit version of Windows, so I need to do a clean install of the 64bit version of Server 2008. When I ran the Intel Process Utility it told me that my processor was 64bit capable, but when I boot in WinPE (no DVD drive you see) and run the R2 installer I get this error:

This version of setup.exe is not compatible with the version of Windows you're running.

Do I have to enable 64bit mode? If so, how?

This is the offical installer for Windows Server 2008 R2 64bit I'm using from the Microsoft website.

Cheers,

Jake

Server: HP Proliant DL380 G4, 6GB RAM, 300GB SCSI

I have a problem with my domain, were the group policies aren't applying.

I currently have two security groups; 1) 32bit clients 2) 64 bit clients In these two groups are our different computers, running 32bit and 64bit Windows 7.

In the GPMC I have made two policies that affect both the user’s desktop and computer settings. Now all I want to do is set it so the 32bit group get the 32bit policy, and the 64bit computers get the 64bit policy, but it isn't working.

Following various guides online to set up security filtering, I linked the GPO to the domain, went into the delegation tab, opened the ACL, unticked apply for Authenticated Users, added the 32 or 64 group, then clicked read and apply for them. I then went back to the client (in this case a 64bit PC), and once gpupdate /force had been completed, I ran a gpresult and it says that the GPO hasn’t been applied due to "Access Denied (Security Filtering)".

This has baffled me, as I've checked the PC is in the 64bit group, checked the read and apply settings but no luck. I've tried adding and removing Authenticated Users from the Security Filtering tab, but with no luck.

It's annoying me because this should be so simple!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Jake

Setup: Windows Server 2008

How to configure a 123-reg domain with DynDNS and a linux server? Hi,

I've just set up a CentOS web server running lamp, purchased a domain from 123-reg and have signed up for DynDNS standard.

I'm really confused how I get the domain to link in with Dyn.

The client updater is working fine and I can access the website from the public IP, but whenever I go to the domain it just tells me it's a 123-reg domain.

Does anyone know how I can resolve this?

Btw, I'm running a dynamic IP