LukeR's questions

On our 2003 Terminal Servers I am able to view any auto-created printers for users connected to that server, however on a new 2008 R2 RDS server I can only view local printers and my own auto-created printer(s).

I have local and domain admin privileges.

Is there something I need to change to be able to view all client printers? Is it possible?

I have had a look for permissions relating to this but couldn't really find much that looked relevant.

I have the following excerpt from a bash script used to backup a database

#!/bin/bash
DB=database_name
DBUSER=username
FILENAME=$DB_$(date +%s).sql

I am trying to reuse the value of DB within the FILENAME variable assignment, but it won't let me use substitution this way. I just get the timestamp for the file name.

Is it possible to achieve what I want, and if so what is the syntax?

thanks.

We are currently running MOSS 2007 internally, and have been doing so for about 12 months with no major issues.

There has now been a request from management to provide access from the internet for small groups (initially) which are comprised of members from other Community Organisations like ours. Committees and the like.

My first reaction was not joy when presented with this request, however I'd like to make sure the apprehension is warranted.

I have read a few docs on TechNet about security hardening with regard to SharePoint, but I'm interested to know what others have done.

I've spoken with another organisation who has already implemented something similar, and they have essentially port-forwarded from the internet to their internal production MOSS server. I don't really like the sound of this. Is it adviseable/necessary to run a DMZ type configuration, with a separate web front-end on a contained network segment? Does that even offer me any greater security than their setup? Some of the configurations from a TechNet doc aren't really feasible, given our current network budget. I've already made my concerns known to management, but it appears it will go ahead in some form or another.

I'm tempted to run a completely isolated, seperate install just for these types of users.

Should I even be concerned about it?

Any thoughts, comments would be most welcomed at this point.

I'd like to restrict the visibility of certain Exchange Distribution Groups in the GAL.

Or more specifically, I want to create individual groups that are visible only to particular AD groups?

Let say I have a group called "Sales"

How can I create some specific DGs that are only visilbe to the Sales team?

Is this done through security rights on the DG object? If so, what should I be adding/removing?

Thanks.

edit: Sorry, Exchange 2007.

It's heating up down here (Australia) and we always have power issues over the summer at one of our sites.

We have a reasonable UPS with massive batteries and run an agent on our Servers that shuts them down after a specific period, but I'm wondering how/if we can do it with our MD3000.

I suppose, I'm also wondering if it's necessary to worry about it? I don't like the idea of sudden power loss to the array, but that may not be warranted. I'd be surprised if that were the case though.

It's a new piece of kit for us, and has only been in production for a few months.

Is it possible to shut it down gracefully in the event of power failure? If so, how can we do it?

Thanks.

I'm after a way of displaying the particular folders a security group may have access to.

I know I can check individual folders, and compile a list manually, but we have too many for this approach to be practical. There doesn't seem to be an obvious (to me anyway) way of extracting this info from the AD Users and Computers MMC. Perhaps I'm looking in the wrong place?

I've been asked to audit the current access permissions for groups within our AD, so that is the end goal. Some kind of report

I'm coming to grips with AD after migrating from eDirectory, and any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks.

We have a Debian webserver that I am trying to use ntpdate to keep the time in sync.

When I run

ntpdate ntp0.cs.mu.oz.au

I receive

16 Sep 10:55:36 ntpdate[21626]: step time server 128.250.36.2 offset 318.914011 sec

With no errors, which should be a good thing, I think...

When I check the time again though, it's not changed.

I am also unable to set the time manually using

date --set 11:00:00

So I have a feeling there are other issues.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Update

Sorry for the bum steer guys, this machine is a XenServer VM, which I managed to forget.

After updating the Host clock, the VM time is now correct.

Thanks for your replies. Thanks.

We have just migrated from GroupWise to Exchange and I have a question about the auto-complete feature when composing new emails.

When creating a new email it doesn't seem to be searching the Global Address Book, or perhaps it is incredibly slow.

It seems to be indexing addresses after a user sends an email to them, and the auto-complete performance for these is good, but an address they haven't sent to does not auto-populate from our Global Address Book.

It works from within the Address Book, but not when composing a new mail.

This was the default behaviour for GroupWise, is there a way we can achieve this with Exchange?

We have a Citrix XenServer pool with 3 hosts, using a shared NFS Storage Repository for our VMs.

The SR is hosted on a Windows 2003 Storage Server blade, that was included with our 3000 series HP Blade enclosure.

I've just been having a look over the Storage Server and have noticed the disk containing the NFS share is very fragmented.

I have a few questions.

Is running the standard Windows defrag going to be sufficient to deal with this?

Is anyone else running a similar setup, experienced a similiar problem and what have you done? I'm planning to automate the process, and am wondering if I need to suspend, or shutdown VMs while the defrag is in process.

Why is this occurring, and are there specific things I can do in provisioning new VMs to prevent this from happening?

Any thoughts would be welcomed.

Thanks,

Luke

We're currently running a XenServer 5.0 pool with 3 Hosts. I'd like to upgrade this to 5.5, but am wary to jump right in, so-to-speak.

Wondering if anyone has attempted this in their own environment?