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Has anyone had to deal with a corrupt file system on a storage gateway volume? One of my volumes is now telling me that it's corrupted or unreadable. I've tried running a chkdsk /r on it and it took days (10TB volume). Once completed I got the same error message. I didn't have snapshotting scheduled so I don't have a previous version of these files. I'm currently working with AWS support and they're having me run chkdsk a couple of different ways. Has anyone had to deal with this before?

PS: BTW, don't run a chkdsk on a storage gateway volume, it screws up your cache and runs very slowly

I'm trying to get SSO to work with Office 365 and Sharepoint online and I'm getting really confused. My internal domain is "internal.com" and my external name is "external.com". external.com is added as a domain in O365, but internal.com is not. Should I put internal.com on a external DNS server and add it as a domain in O365? Would that make it so my internal users wouldn't have to sign into external.sharepoint.com?

I want to see a list of the model numbers of all the monitors attached to the computers in my firm. Is there an SCCM Query that will do this?

User is using Outlook 2010 connecting to Exchange 2010, along with Lync 2010 with UM enabled. When she gets a voicemail, it should show up in her inbox looking like an email with transcription and an mp3 of the voicemail. When you open the voicemail ('email') it shows 'form region could not be opened' in the preview pane. When she clicks on 'forward' to create a forwarded message, the transcription shows up and the mp3 is there.

In troubleshooting, I turned off the 'Microsoft Exchange Add-in' and it made the preview appear - the problem was solved. I'm trying to find out more about this Microsoft Exchange Add-in. There's not much that I've found out there that tells me exactly what this add-in does. Can anyone shed some light on what it's for? Will I run into any trouble by having it disabled?

I'm trying to grab some files off of a computer that no longer boots to OS.

On the SRCD computer:

• I put in SRCD, boot, and make sure that I can ping the other computer (say I set the IP to 192.168.0.50 and the hostname to sysresccd)
• I use ntfs-3g to mount the windows partition to /mnt/windows.
• I chmod the /mnt/windows partition to 777
• I edit /etc/samba/smb.conf.default and put in this:

[public]
path = /mnt/windows
public = yes
writable = yes
printable = no
browsable = yes

• I use passwd to change the root password to password
• I start up smbd

On the Windows 7 computer:

• I go to Explorer, type in \\192.168.0.50\public and it comes up with a Windows Security dialog box
• I enter username sysresccd\root and password password

It keeps telling me that ‘The specified network password is not correct’
Is there a step that I'm missing?

A number of my users are complaining ever since an upgrade to IE9 that when they click a PDF link, IE gives the error 'Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage' (ie doesn't even call Acrobat Reader add-in). I can view the PDFs just find in Chrome, I can download the PDFs and open them with Reader just fine, but IE gives me that error when trying to open the PDF link directly.

Where can I start? I've already seen the 'use FF instead' option so I don't need that :)

I have a colocation facility with my main firewall in it. It has a bunch of site-to-site VPN tunnels built from the main firewall to the firewalls that are in the remote facilities.

I want to replace that main firewall with a Cisco ASA but I want to reduce downtime. I want to put the ASA in and configure VPN tunnels to the new firewalls in the remote facilities without taking down the VPN tunnels that are already created on the old firewall.

I was thinking that I would split a switch into two VLANs and hook the uplink and the outside interfaces of both firewalls to one VLAN and then the inside interfaces of both firewalls to the other VLAN. But then it hit me that I need a public IP address to set up a VPN and both firewalls can't have the same public IP address on their outside interfaces...

So what's a guy to do? How can I put a second firewall in the heart of my network and still keep the original up and running?

I'm redirecting appdata, my docs and desktop folders to a server using a GPO based on what facility they're usually at. This brings up a problem for users who bounce between multiple locations. Firefox profiles are stored in appdata so it takes forever to go to another facility to get the Firefox profile so that it can start. And after two to three minutes of waiting for Firefox to load, it runs so slowly that it's almost unusable

I want to remedy this with DFS but I don't want to have a hellish transition period. Right now the GPO for facility1 is set to redirect the folders to //server1/Documents and the GPO for facility2 is set to redirect the folders to //server2/Documents. I know I'll need to change these settings to the DFS namespace that I create.

I'll need to add //server1/Documents and //server2/Documents to the DFS namespace //DFSDocuments/ and change the GPO redirection settings to redirect appdata to //DFSDocuments/UserName. Writing it down here makes it seem really easy though; will that be all I have to do? Will the GPO setting direct to the UserName folders in the DFS namespace correctly without me having to move anything? Will the users see any hiccups at all? Or will it just magically replicate?

I'd appreciate any feedback and tips from anyone who's gone through this (non-dfs folder redirection to dfs folder redirection) transition before.

I've got a Linux file server set up by the previous IT department with permissions set up to allow Jane to access a certain folder with the username "jane"

My new AD domain that I put in has everyone's username set as first initial, last name so her username in the domain is "jdoe"

For reasons I don't want to go into here, I can't just add "jdoe" as a user on the file server

Can I set her SamAccountName to "jane" and keep her User UPN Logon as "jdoe"? Will that work to let her into the Linux file share?

My boss sent out an email from my Exchange 2010 org and attached a PDF and a Word doc to it. He came back the next day and told me that some of the 8 or 10 people that received this email could open up the attachments no problem. The other 2 or 3 people, could not.

One of these people who could not open the attachment, went so far as to call Comcast (his email service provider) and ask them where his attachments went. Comcast told this person that when they received the email, the attachment was 0 bytes in size.

This may sound like more of a rant than a question but I'm genuinely concerned. Is there any possible way that something could have gone wrong on my end that sent out the email to some with the attachment and to some without?

I know that title may sound pretty dumb but I'm not looking for "create a dynamic distribution group!" as an answer. Let me explain.

A question I posted a little bit ago confirmed that you cannot expand a dynamic distribution group. Because I have a boss that seeks impossible things to ask for, he wants to be able to see the people in the distribution groups.

I want the low maintenance of a dynamic distribution group, but I also want to satisfy my boss' [insert harsh word here] request.

I was thinking maybe a PowerShell script that deletes the distribution group and then recreates it based on who's in an OU. I run it every time we hire/fire someone?

Or is there a way that I can keep the dynamic distribution group and then create a standard distribution group from that every time someone gets hired/fired?

Someone has to have had this [insert harsh word here] request before, can you help me out?

My boss is pissed that I created dynamic distribution groups and now he can't expand the list of people that're in those groups.

I want the dynamic-ness of it because I want it to be easy to manage but I want him to be able to see who's in the list.

Is there a way to do this?

I have a bunch of linux virtual servers left over from a previous IT department. They have names like 'magic' or 'stuff'. I'm not quite sure what they're doing...or if I need them...

How would you guys and gals go about finding out the purpose of these machines? (besides turning them off and seeing what breaks)

I have seen a consistent spike in traffic over my network since Monday morning and I don't know where it's coming from!

I don't have netflow routers (like I would like), I have IPCop firewalls.

Is there any way that's built in to Linux that I can see where the packets are coming from/to? Like a built in packet capture?

If there's not, how do I go about finding where this traffic's coming from?

First of all, everyone's on Exchange 2010 using OWA

I have a dynamic distribution list that contains all users in my domain called 'staff'. I can send to this list, other people can send to this list, but I have one user that cannot send to this list. Sending to this list gives the user an email back with the error:

Delivery has failed to these recipients or groups: Staff

The e-mail address you entered couldn't be found. Please check the recipient's e-mail address and try to resend the message. If the problem continues, please contact your helpdesk.

and then a bunch of diagnostic information that I don't want to paste here because I don't want to have to censor all of the sensitive information contained (lazy)

Can you guys throw me some possible reasons why this would happen? If there are an innumerable number of reasons, where should I start to troubleshoot this?

EDIT

One Exchange server inside the network that acts as a transport server, client access server and mailbox server and one Edge Transport server in the DMZ.

I have network enabled printers and I'm wondering what the best way is to deploy 'em

I can deploy them using GPOs that map the TCP port with the printer's IP address (how I'm doing it now)

I could deploy them using Print and Document Services and AD

I could deploy them using the "Deploy Printers" in GPO

What are the benefits and drawbacks of each and what are you using?

I'm creating a new Exchange 2010 environment to replace the DeskNow system that my company is using currently. I don't have any experience with Exchange at all. I have the main roles installed and they appear to be working internally. AD is doing its job; I can hook up Outlook 2007 with next to no effort. I can even get to OWA. By all indications I have a working internal mail system (that nobody is using at the moment).

Now I want to be able to exchange mail with the Internets. I've been reading a few books on the subject and everyone says that I don't need an Edge Transport server - but that's as far as they go. They don't tell me how to set up Internet mail exchange without the Edge Transport server, they just go right into how to set one up and how to use it as an SMTP gateway.

So I turn to you. How does mail get to the Internet without the Edge Transport server? What goes in my DMZ? And, if everyone agrees that I need one, can it be a virtual machine or do I need an entirely new server?

I'm sitting here across the office from Bob, who is logged into the domain right now, working away. I pull up AD Admin Center and take a look at Bob's account and it tells me his last log on date is 10/25/2010 at noon. It's currently 11/2/2010 at 10 in the morning.

My date on my server is correct, the date on his computer is correct...What's going on?

I have an AD domain and I don't want my users to have admin privileges on their local computer. I have WSUS for Windows updates and stuff but what about Firefox, Flash and other third party program updates? Isn't there a better solution than to go to everyone's computer and give them my username/password so that the update will actually go through?

If I name my Active Directory domain "foo.local", what domain do I tell the (Windows) computer to join to? Do I put in "foo.local" or just "foo"?