L2TP Issue

Hi everyone I wonder if someone could help me solve this issue. A friend of mine is having issues when trying to connect to his office network using a vpn connection with L2TP. He is using Windows 7 Ultimate and the office server is running MS SBS 2010. He can't just get this vpn connection to

re: R: L2TP Issue

Thanks for your reply. So which UDP and TCP Ports need to be opened at the firewall? Grazie Pierre ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here:

re: R: R: L2TP Issue

He told me that he opened port 1701 both for udp and tcp. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email

Re: L2TP Issue

, Pierre Camilleri pierre.camill...@fosterclark.com wrote: Hi everyone I wonder if someone could help me solve this issue. A friend of mine is having issues when trying to connect to his office network using a vpn connection with L2TP. He is using Windows 7 Ultimate and the office server

Annoying DNS issue

Hi All Our current AD domain is running under Windows Server 2008 R2 and our workstation clients are Windows XP Pro. At times (2/3 times a day) I am having to clear the DNS cache of our domain server because certain users would be unable to access certain websites such as for example

Using Skype in a corporate environment

Hi all Our director is very interested in introducing Skype in certain departments since most of our clients/suppliers use Skype already. However I am somewhat concerned about the following issues: 1. Lack of administration facilities such as locking down/disabling certain Skype functions. I

RE: Query re Virtual CPUs

Thanks you all for your interesting responses and advice. Much appreciated. Thanks Pierre ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here:

Enquiry re VPN Client Software

Hi all We currently have an IBM ISS MX3006 UTM appliance and we are trying to source a VPN client software which is compatible with this appliance. We once had purchased SafeNet SoftRemoteLT for Windows XP Pro but this does not seem to support domain logins from the client and I've been told

Query re Virtual CPUs

Hi all We are planning to deploy Sharepoint 2010 on a virtual machine running under VMware ESXi 4.1 and we were going to allocate the following resouces to it: 16 GB RAM 2 vCPUs This Sharepoint 2010 installation will be running under Windows Server 2008 R2 and will be catering for circa

Synching workstation system clock with domain server

Hi all How can I get my users' workstations to synch their clock with our domain server's clock more frequently during the day? Thanks Pierre ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage

Re: Synching workstation system clock with domain server

Sorry about this! Our domain is Windows 2008 R2 and our clients are running Windows XP Pro (SP3). Thanks for the links. Will take a look at them. Cheers Pierre ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ---

Re: Clean Pristine or Swing Migrations?

I re-ran DCpromo and then DNS worked well. Prefer the Swing migration. I have a further query if you don't mind. I now have two domain controllers, one is the current source domain controller and the other one is the target domain controller. I now wish to promote the target domain controller to

Re: Clean Pristine or Swing Migrations?

Thanks for your advice. Then if I go ahead by demoting the old domain controller, switch it off and have only the new domain controller up and running then users should be able to log in as per usual without any issues. The swing migration has migrated across everything including OUs, Machine

Re: Clean Pristine or Swing Migrations?

How can I transfer the FSMO roles? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to

Re: Clean Pristine or Swing Migrations?

Should I transfer RID, PDC and Infrastructure? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to

Clean Pristine or Swing Migrations?

Hello all I am currently working on the migration project of our Windows Server 2003 domain to a Windows R2 2008 domain. Our single domain is small with about 160 user acounts. I've tried doing a swing migration but somehow could not get the DNS server to work on the R2 server. I am currently

Straight-through or Cross-Over cable?

Hi all We currently have a Siemens router installed and wish to connect it to our internal LAN. We have a network outlet point nearby. My question is this. Should we use a straight-through cable? I have a hunch that the engineer in charge of the router installation connected it to the network

RE: Straight-through or Cross-Over cable?

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Re: Some advice re Servers Virtualization

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Some advice re Servers Virtualization

Hi all I am currently planning on having some of our ageing rack servers virtualized and am currently looking at the following hardware to do this: Dell PE R510 which will be hosting the Virtual servers (circa 7-10) and VMware vSphere 4.1 Dell PV MD3200i iSCSI SAN which will be hosting our

Windows Task Manager not seeing full 8GB RAM

Hi all! I have a Windows Server 2008 SP2 standard (32-bit) with 8 GB of RAM installed. I enabled the setting /set pae ForceEnable and it seems the setting was successful. When I view basic information about the server it does report 8GB RAM installed. So why is Task Manager only recognising 4

Re: Windows Task Manager not seeing full 8GB RAM

The server is a DELL PE R710. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

Office 2007 Rollouts

Hello all I am planning to rollout MS Office 2007 to our users, circa 120. These already have MS Office 2000 installed on their Windows XP Pro workstations. What I would like to do is the following: 1. Uninstall MS Office 2000 2. Install Office 2007 3. Install Office 2007 SP2 Can the above

Realtek NIC issues

Hi all I thought of posting this here just in case someone has encountered this issue before. We have a number of Fujitsu R570 workstations with onboard RealTek NICs. These are RTL 8168DP/8111DP Family PCI-E GBE type. We've been having intermittent issues with some of them. Sometimes they

The remote connection has timed out.

Hello all! I am encountering a problem when trying to connect to a remote server using the Windows XP Pro (SP2) Remote Desktop. The domain user keeps getting the following error: The remote connection has timed out. Please try connecting to the remote computer again. Now when I log on using

RE: The remote connection has timed out.

Hi Richard I've checked the GPO settings and there is nothing configured for Terminal Services so no settings should be applied. The remote server belongs to a third party. It's a demo server which we need to connect to via Remote Desktop in order to view a demo of a software application.

Re: The remote connection has timed out.

But my account allows me to connect because I have admin rights. It is when normal users try to connect that they are getting the error message hence my suspicions falling on some GPO settings. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: The remote connection has timed out.

This server does not belong to us. We were given temporary access to it in order to view a demo on it via Remote Desktop. The problem cropped up when one of our users tried to access it via Remote Desktop. However when I tried accessing it using my normal account because I am a system admin, I

Preventing user from changing login name

Hi all! I would like to prevent one of my users from changing his assigned Windows login name. All I want him to do is enter the password only in order to log on to our domain. Is this possible? The OS is Windows XP Pro and we have an Windows 2003 Active Directory domain. TIA Pierre ~

RE: Preventing user from changing login name

No. The user is restricted from logging onto other workstations. What I would like to do is prevent the user from changing his login name. In other words I do not wish him to use another login name. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: Preventing user from changing login name

They are using someone else's login name. That is why I wish to prevent the user from changing his/her login name. I would like that he/she would only be able to enter the password. Possible? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

WebEx Meeting Center

Hi all! Thought of posting this here in order to obtain some feedback. Is anyone using this service? What I am concerned about are potential security issues that could be introduced by this service. Is it a secure service WebEx claim it to be? Any comments would be much appreciated. Thanks

RE: WebEx Meeting Center

My concerns are related to issues such as hacking attempts during the WebEx session. They say that the connection is encrypted using 128 Bit SSL and AES. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~

RE: WebEx Meeting Center

Thanks to all for your comments. This WebEx service i.e. WebEx Meeting Center will be used only for our Sales guys to hold on-line meetings with their overseas clients. It was requested by our Sales and Marketing Dept, but before approving such a service I thought of obtaining some feedback

Regarding Trojan Infections!

Hi everyone! Thought of posting this here in the hope of getting some feedback regarding a problem we encountered with Trojan infections. Lately we had a number of workstations, about three, infected with a number of Trojans. Examples of these were Troj/Agent-GPK, Mal/Behav-112 and