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I got this old machine that runs on a p2 400 and a Linux Debian 3.1 with kernel 2.6.8 and since it has modified binaries due to internal undocumented changes in the code, migrating off manually isn't an option, so I was trying to P2V this box with VMWare Converter and had no luck.

The P2V resulted in a VM that hangs on a black screen but I can get it to boot off a LiveCD like CloneZilla. I tried in this order :

• Recreated grub config
• tried various SCSI BUSes in the VM config
• Ghosted the physical machine to restore it on the virtual machine, same result

Is it normal that a bootable CD can see the disks but not the virtual BIOS?

Any idea what could cause this and how to solve? could it have to do with the fact the machine is based off IDE HDDs and that the virtual machine uses scsi/sata?

Thanks

I have a FortiGate 80c and I'm getting at a lost on how to port forward to get my OpenVPN service accessible externally.

I did setup the VirtualIP assigning tcp 1194 on the internal IP to the external one.

I did a firewall policy about this : ACCEPT any from WAN_external to any protocol openvpn (tcp+ud^1194) when source:all and dest:VIP_OPENVPN

What could I be doing wrong? Note that the setup works on the LAN.

Thank you.

I know if we setup a base folder or a profile path in the Profile tab of an AD user, we can copy it and the folder creation and permission setup will be automated.

My problem is that not all my users have a roaming profile and the home folder linking is done thru GPO. When I copy from these users, the home folder isn't created automatically and I have to create it manually and change permission and ownership on that folder, located on the fileserver.

What should I do? A script may be nice but it'd have to be run everytime a new user is created and I don't think we can link a script to an AD user creation? I'd like to avoid any manual steps and keep my GPO that way. Using a W2008r2 DC on w7 client boxes.

Thanks.

I am deploying new systems on my network and I built my reference computer by installing the OS the manufacturers (Dell and a custom built system from some local business) gave with all drivers, installed all the desired applications. As for the settings part, I'm doing most of it thru GPOs. I want to image my reference computer and deploy it with WDS. i found several links on how to sysprep, but they're all doing it with some differences without explaining them.

My questions :

• How do I manage (into sysprep) the domain join/computer naming part since (from what I understand) WDS manages that?
• How do I know/determine what I need to setup into my sysprep.xml?
• Can you sysprep a first time, try and if it fails, do some modifications and try again? I am thinking of doing a basis sysprep, checking what info can be automated and correct that in the answer file.
• What do I miss if skipping the "audit" mode? I don't plan on re-doing the reference computer...
• I read that when sysprepping, it resets settings from the reference computer like the computer name, activation/key and such... what setting is sysprep resetting by default that I should be aware of?

I must admit I am quite lost about Win7, sysprep, RIS, MDI toolkit, WDS.. I understand the way of doing with XP, but it changed so much with Windows 7!

The links I am reading are :

http://far2paranoid.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/prep-for-sysprep/

http://blog.brianleejackson.com/sysprep-a-windows-7-machine-%E2%80%93-start-to-finish-v2

http://www.ehow.com/print/how_5392616_sysprep-machine-start-finish-v2.html

Thank you VERY much for any answers, they are much appreciated.

I just setup DFS on my network and it's working fine, and now I'm trying to setup DFS-R on a test folder, but then at the end of the procedure (all went fine, selected my 2 folders, primary folder, replication topology and such) I get this error message (roughly translated from french) : Unable to define security on the replicated folder. The shared administration folder doesn't exist.

I'm also wondering if there's any required security on the folders to replicate so that DFS-R can access it. I was trying to add SYSTEM in the security, but it won't find it/allow me. The folder has many many files and folders on the primary DFS pointer, but none on the 2nd, just created it with quite the same rights.

Note that the primary DFS pointer is on a 2008 server and the DFS service and the secondary DFS pointer are on a 2008r2.

Any help is very appreciated, thanks.

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I am using Windows Server 2008 and I have to do a final migration from the Windows 2000 Server (demoted long ago). I have to transfer group, public and user files on the new server.

The only question I got about this is because since I am changing servers and the GPOs are attached to the old server shares in the GPOs, how can I change users' network drives pointers thru GPOs without anmy intervention on their computers, not even a relog, so I can avoid any form of downtime?

ie : I wanna change the pointer of the personal user's U: drive without asking the user to relog or even notice it. I'm going to change it from \OLDSERVER\users\%username% to \NEWSERVER\u\%username%

I know that there is DFS that avoids this thing and it's gonna be implemented after the migration.

Thanks

I deployed recently an update for IE6 to IE7 and learned the hard way that some webtools that we're using aren't compatible. Is there a server-side way to do a mass uninstall of IE7 and its updates?

I am using Windows 2008 on the DC.

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I just began working at this new job and I have to config a new host for stats with awstats. I once used awstats on my own server, no biggie.

Now, I'm on a multi-sites server with the acces_log files nicely splitted. I copied a awstats.conf file from one of the sites that already has (working) stats. I changed the LogFile and SiteDomain values as mentioned from http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/awstats_setup.html#BUILD_UPDATE, saved the conf and ran the commands

perl awstats.pl -config=mysite -update
and
perl awstats.pl -config=mysite -output -staticlinks > awstats.mysite.html

(yes I changed it with my infos...)

PROBLEM IS : whenever I try to access the html file or the dynamic page (with the config option on awstats.pl like my working site does), I get the stats of the MAIN site from access.log itself (and not access_log-mysite) from what it says at the top of the page and from the hostname on the left tab (stats for mysite.com)...

what did I do wrong? There's no errors from what I see...

Thanks a lot for any help