I need to be able to grant a user permissions to restart a single service on a Windows server without giving them administrative rights or rights to restart any other services.
I also need them to be able to install a single program via the CMD line but no other programs. I can give them admin access to the folder where the program will be installed but i need to somehow give them permissions to register the DLLs for the service without giving them admin access.
Is this possible?
If I aggregate two NIC ports on a ESXi Server do they also need to be aggregated on the switch for it to work properly? I do not have a smart switch so I have not been able to do this but other then failover i am wondering if there was any port to aggregating the ESXi NIC ports
We have an application we host in a third party data center for our clients. We have multiple clients running the same application on several racks of servers. Most of our clients require that our servers be SAS70 compliant.
Currently each server has it's own set of users and security settings that need to be configured. We are creating scripts to do this, but what would be the risks/advantages of joining all the servers to the domain for User Management and Group policy for enforcing security settings?
The rational of some is that if the DC is hacked the whole network would be compromised where as if one stand alone hosted server is hacked everything else should be safe.
I need a server monitoring tool that does the following - Notifications when services or sites go down - SLA Reports - Inventory Managment - Centralized Logs - Monitor local and remote servers
I have looked into using Groundwork Opensource, Splunk, Spiceworks which seperatly seem to do some of these tasks, but I would prefer not to have so many tools, anybody know any one tools that can do this all?
BTW My servers are not in a domain environment so tools that require that will not work for me.
Recently uesrs have been complaining that they are not getting new emails. Upon investigation i realized that the last updated time on the inbox was from a while ago and users now have to manually send and receive and sometimes will need to restart outlook before the inbox will update.
Any ideas what would be causing this?
I need an SMTP connector for my SBS 2008 server. The Domain/DNS is registered with 1and1 but due to recent issues they are being blocked by a lot of servers now. 1and1 also does not give me enough control over my DNS to allow me to setup the proper DNS records to allow me to effectivly use that as an option. Also my ISP Rogers, now requires you to setup every non Rogers email address in order to allow sending through there SMTP. Also they limit me to 10 addresses which is not enough for me.
Can anyone reccomend a solution to any of the above, or a good relaiable, affoardable SMTP server to use
I am migrating from SBS 2008 to SBS 2011 but the Microsoft documentation does not yet exist. Has anyone done this yet? What are the recommended steps/procedures?
I have a SBS 2008 Server/Windows 7 environment. We have approx 25 users & 6 Networked printers.
What is the recommended way/what are the advantages disadvantages of having all the printers shared through the Server 2008 Print server vs having workstations connect directly to the workstation printers.
Off the top of my head using the server 2008 print server is a single point of failure but Should make it easier to deploy/manage the printers.
This is two questions kind of.
The situation is as follows. I am running SBS 2008 with Exchange 2007.
There is a shared account which has subfolders to keep track of the process of jobs that are coming into the company (ie: sales)
I need to give other people in the company read access to this mailbox not full control. When I give ready only access to the root other users can only see the Inbox and not subfolders. Permissions have to be applied to each folder.
One solution I have considered is creating a secondary mailbox that everyone could have full access too which would have a one way sync from the sales mailbox to the secondary mailbox. Then people could see what was happening without messing up the main mailbox by accident (at worst they would mess up the secondary mailbox)
Ideally I could find a way to propgate the READ ONLY Permissiosn to all the subfolders. I have tried using PFDavAdmin to do this but have not been able to get it to connect successfully from Windows 7 To Exchange 2007
Any idea on how to 1. Propogate permissions (get PFDavAdmin to work??!) 2. Sync mailboxes 3. Other solution?
Thanks
Chris
My SBS 2003 CALs have reset back to five after some weird server issues. I don't have a backup of the CAL licenses anywhere is there somewhere I can restore these from?
Have a strange issue with a Windows server 2008 R2 server Setup with DNS. Today the DNS server suddenly stopped working and it went offline. This caused all the clients to go offline as they were using it as they're only DNS Server
When the Clients are reconfigured with an alternate DNS (OpenDNS) they work fine, but on the server this still does not allow connectivity.
Everyone can connect locally to the server, and I am able to VPN into the server, but the server has no internet connectivity, and the DNS Server is giving the following Errors in the Logs
Event Type: Error Event Source: DNS Event Category: None Event ID: 408 Date: 16/12/2010 Time: 4:41:04 PM User: N/A Computer: SERVER Description: The DNS server could not open socket for address 192.168.0.11. Verify that this is a valid IP address for the server computer. If it is NOT valid use the Interfaces dialog under Server Properties in the DNS Manager to remove it from the list of IP interfaces. Then stop and restart the DNS server. (If this was the only IP interface on this machine and the DNS server may not have started as a result of this error. In that case remove the DNS\Parameters\ ListenAddress value in the services section of the registry and restart.) If this is a valid IP address for this machine, make sure that no other application (e.g. another DNS server) is running that would attempt to use the DNS port. For more information, see "DNS server log reference" in the online Help. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Event Type: Error Event Source: DNS Event Category: None Event ID: 404 Date: 16/12/2010 Time: 4:41:04 PM User: N/A Computer: SERVER Description: The DNS server could not bind a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) socket to address 192.168.0.11. The event data is the error code. An IP address of 0.0.0.0 can indicate a valid "any address" configuration in which all configured IP addresses on the computer are available for use. Restart the DNS server or reboot the computer. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Data: 0000: 41 27 00 00 A'..
Event Type: Error Event Source: DNS Event Category: None Event ID: 407 Date: 16/12/2010 Time: 4:41:04 PM User: N/A Computer: SERVER Description: The DNS server could not bind a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) socket to 192.168.0.11. The event data is the error code. Restart the DNS server or reboot your computer. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Data: 0000: 41 27 00 00 A'..
UPDATE I have reset Winsock & TCP/IP but the server still has no internet connectivity. Trying to ping any other stations gives me "General failure." Trying to ping an external IP or URL gives me the same
I have two NICs. One I can ping successfully the other gives me a General Failure.
When I disable the "failed" NIC and set only that NIC for use in DNS then everything seems to work again. Does this mean the NIC is probably failed? How can I troubleshoot this?
When I connect to all mailboxes using PFDAVADMIN to my exchange 2007 server I get a list of all the userse but when I expand any of the users I get the following error
Could not expand http://server.local/exadmin/admin/PGW.LOCAL/mbx/[email protected]/non_ipm_subtree/: The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.
In managment studio there is a range of dates in Managment > SQL Server Logs that is missing. Where are these logs stored? Is there a way I can try to reload the missing logs if they are available somewhere?
I am trying to use PFDavAdmin to change folder permissions on an Exchange 2007 Server. I am running the tool from Windows XP VM with .NET 1.1 installed and I am able to connect to the exchange server but it will not list the users or show any settings underneath.
The tool does successfully allow me to modify permissions in public folders but not for mailboxes
The following is the error I get could not expand https://serverip/exchange. Object reference not set to an instance of an object
HELP!
I have Exchange 2007 running on SBS 2008. There are several accounts created which are shared by departments.
In the shared email users keep track of the status of jobs by moving them to Sub Directories in the mailbox. I would like to be able to grant other people in the company read-only access to the mailbox to allow them to check on the status of jobs but not have permissions to change anything.
I have tried setting the permissions in Outlook for the account but most of the time it doesn't seem to work, and when it does work it only shares the Inbox not the sub directories.
I have tried downloading the PFDAVAdmin.EXE to manage the permissions but my desktops are all Windows 7 & My server is SBS 2008 so this tool cannot run. I tried running it in XP mode but it was not able to connect properly. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=635BE792-D8AD-49E3-ADA4-E2422C0AB424&displaylang=en
I have also considered setting up a main enabled public folder but I use the pop3 connector for exchange so in order for that to work I would have to setup an additional account for each user to forward the email to the public folder as POP3 connector can't deliver directly to public folders that I know of.
Any ideas... Thanks
Our Differential backups will succeed one night and then fail the next. We suspect it is either related to the following logs
Every day at 7:19 we get this sequence of events in the log for each database we have in SQL Server
I/O is frozen on database DATABASENAME No user action is required. However, if I/O is not resumed promptly, you could cancel the backup.
I/O was resumed on database DATABASENAME No user action is required.
Database backed up. Database: DATABASENAME, creation date(time): 2010/11/04(23:28:04), pages dumped: 841, first LSN: 35:483:37, last LSN: 35:499:1, number of dump devices: 1, device information: (FILE=1, TYPE=VIRTUAL_DEVICE: {'{F8C10393-542B-4491-8135-BE0545F42EBE}22'}). This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
OR
that related to our online backup software Mozy.
Any ideas?