ccame's questions

I have a windows 2003 active directory domain. This was based in a single site.

This has now gone multisite and the domain controllers in the new site are using Windows 2008 R2 but the schema of the domain is still win2k3.

Sites and services is configured to ensure that servers in the new site use the correct domain controllers and replication is working correctly across the two sites.

The internal DNS for the domain is AD replicated and is replicating across both sites OK.

I then change a newly provisioned server in the new site to use the two domain controllers (2k8) in the new site as their DNS servers and they are correctly able to resolve records on the AD domains DNS servers.

However when I join the new server to the domain no A record is created for the new member server despite Dynamic updates being enabled "secure only" so I'm having to create them manually.

I suspect this might be a configuration setting on the domain somewhere which is now legacy and needs to be removed but I'm not sure where to look.

Any ideas on this or other potential causes of this symptom?

I have a share setup using samba which requires username/password combination to access the files kept on it.

The script that needs to access this share is running on a windows server as a scheduled task (as a service account) and therefore there is no interactive session present.

I do not want to add steps to the script to mount the share as a drive letter or access it over a UNC path as this will require putting the username and password for the share in clear text in the script. Not great for security.

Does anyone know of a method of mounting a windows(samba) share permanently for a particular windows user so that scheduled tasks running as that user can access the data without the script having to mount it each time the script runs?

I don't want to remove the user/pass authentication to the share and I don't want to put the user/password in clear text in the script itself.

Thanks,

C

I have a windows 2008 Amazon EC2 instance which is EBS backed. Both the root device (C:) and the EBS volume I have as the secondary drive (D:) are EBS volumes.

I would like to migrate this instance to be a local instance storage backed.

e.g both primary and secondary drives to not have the resilience of EBS but instead gain the performance which comes from local instance storage.

Can anyone provide me with some instructions or advise on how this can be achieved?

I have a server which has SQL server reporting services installed within it and I need to give permission to a user to administer reporting services/have the content manager role.

I however I did not install SQL reporting services on this machine and I'm not 100% on who did.

Is there a way for a full server administrator/domain admin to assign permissions to others in reporting services and if so how as I seemingly don't have permissions to the permissions tab on http://servername/reports

Thanks in advance, C

I run several web servers and would like to establish which of my web servers support different types of SSL.

e.g TLS/SSL, SSL v2, SSLv3 etc.

Does anyone know of a tool (whether web based or installed) that I can point towards a web server and it will tell me which versions of SSL are implemented on the web server as browsers don't show this information due to the handshake being done before the browser displays the page.

The only way I can think to get this information is packet sniffing which I would like to avoid.

Thanks in advance,

C

I have a windows 2008 server running many websites under IIS7.

Is there an easy way to tell which of those websites are using .net/have .net enabled for use on them rather than having to individually look at each websites settings to tell whether they are static site only/asp classic only/mix with .net ?

I have several physical servers which have windows 2003 OS'es installed on them along with a couple of web based applications running on them.

These servers are HP DL380 G5 servers which are coming to end of life and don't have such a good power usage as the more modern G6/G7 HP DL380 servers.

At the moment the estimated effort to migrate these OS'es and applications to new hardware is substantial so I'm looking for a tool similar to VMWare converter which does P2V to do P2P migrations.

I can stand the cost of some downtime on these servers if I can find a tool to do the migration for me and therefore save me many days human resource.

Can anyone advise of an appropriate tool and your experience with it?

Thanks in advance.