Psycho Bob's questions

I'm in the process of setting up a MOSS 2007 (with IIS7 and Server 2008) intranet and am looking to find a way to prevent people from having to log in when they want to view the site. Ideally, I would like SharePoint to draw from the user's Active Directory account without having to enable guest access. Can anyone tell me how to do this or have any good resources that describe how to get this done?

Just for the record--I have tried searching Google for the answers but apparently I'm not using the right terms to find what I need.

I am working with an Enterprise level Access database. This database contains some basic data entry fields and buttons such as "Find," "Submit," "Clear," etc. We are, at the same time, updating our user's Microsoft Office Suites to the 2007 version. What we are now finding is that these form buttons are disappearing from the Access forms when using Access 2007. The strange this is that the buttons are still there function-wise and will appear after you click them.

Has anyone encountered this or have any ideas on how to fix it?

Edit

The file the user is working on is an .ade. As far as I can tell the original database/forms were created in Access 2003.

I am running into an issue with a user whose Word document is somehow turning itself into Read-Only. The user is using Word 2003 and is accessing a document that is in a Server 2008 share. The document itself starts out as a normal, editable document (user has Full Control permissions), and the user is able to save and do the 'normal' things you would do to a document. However, after a couple of saves, the document turns to Read-Only (according to the title bar) even though the Read-Only attribute is not checked on the document's properties.

Here is some additional information about the situation:

*User has approximately 5-8 Word documents open at a time

*User saves the document frequently (sometimes at a frequency of once per minute)

*Once the document is closed it will open as a normal document if reopened

*When the document does turn to Read-Only the user will do a "Save As" on the document and save it as FILENAME # where # is some increment of how many times this has happened (some documents are up to their 30th iteration)

I understand that there is probably some room for user education here and that they could just be copying the RO document to a new one, closing and opening the RO doc, then copying all the information back. However, I would like to get to the route cause of the problem and try to stop it from happening in the first place.

UPDATE: Apparently the reinstall did not fix the issue. I researched the issue a bit more and found that disabling the background save may take care of it, but I haven't had a chance to try it yet. Does anyone else have any other ideas?

At our organization we use a series of shared Outlook calendars to schedule out our conference rooms. All domain users are setup as authors of these calenders. We are now running into a problem where the end user is either not checking/caring if a room already has an appointment assigned to the room for the period of time that they want to use it. So my question is this: Is there any way to prevent a user from scheduling an appointment or meeting on one of these calendars when there is already a preexisting one on it?

We've already tried going into Options -> Resource Scheduling and checking "Automatically decline conflicting meeting requests," but this did not resolve the issue.

I have been working on a project to map out my organization's network infrastructure. For the networking devices (we are a Cisco shop) I have been running the show cdp neighbors command to see how everything is connected and through which interface. I am noticing that our ASA is not showing up in the output of these commands (it is connected to a Cisco switch). I ran a command list via show ? and CDP does not show up as an option.

My question is this: is there a command similar to show cdp neighbors that will show to which devices the ASA is connected?

I am running into a problem at work where end users are unable to email Hotmail or MSN email addresses. We are running an Exchange 2007 server and the message itself is in HTML and contains no attachments. If messages are sent to a distribution list, those recipients who use other email providers are able to receive and view the message. Now the kicker is that sometimes we are able to reach the addresses, though not with any regularity. For instance, a user may not be able to send a message in the morning, but will be able to in the afternoon or perhaps a couple of days later. Other times, we are unable to reach the addresses at all no matter how many times we try.

Here's some of the information that will get sent back during an unsuccessful attempt:

Delivery has failed to these recipients or distribution lists:

An error occurred while trying to deliver this message to the recipient's e-mail address. Microsoft Exchange will not try to redeliver this message for you. Please try resending this message, or provide the following diagnostic text to your system administrator.

The following organization rejected your message: snt0-mc1-f7.Snt0.hotmail.com.

Also, our mail server generates diagnostic information that the Hotmail (or MSN) server returned a "#500 Unrecognized command ##"

Has anyone encountered anything like this or know what the problem may be?

Update

I've looked at the issue a little more and it appears that the SPF record is good (or at least passable).

Recently I've been playing around with Ubuntu 9.04 on one of my work systems. The only real bump in the road that keeps it from being being used as my main workstation is that I cannot find a suitable solution for an email client that works with our Exchange 2007 servers. Ideally, I would like to implement a solution that meets the following criteria:

• The client is open source (and free)
• The solution does not require the installation of software on the Exchange server
• The solution does not require enabling POP or IMAP on the Exchange server

From what I've seen so far, it sounds like I may be out of luck (at least for the time being) though I just wanted to present the question to the community and see if anyone had any ideas.