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Windows IT Pro http://forums.windowsitpro.com/web/forum//default.aspx?forumid=8 FuseTalk.Net (http://www.fusetalk.com) Group Policy and MS Word http://forums.windowsitpro.com/web/forum//messageview.aspx?catid=50&threadid=93619 2009-11-20 11:07 AM -07.00 I found it in the administrative template for 2003 but it does not seem to be in the 2007 one. Any suggestions? swatts71 Loopback needed? http://forums.windowsitpro.com/web/forum//messageview.aspx?catid=50&threadid=93585 2009-11-19 10:10 AM -07.00 My modem is running in bridged only mode. It does not serve anything besides the internet. ADITech User automatically (and incorrectly) being added to Admin group http://forums.windowsitpro.com/web/forum//messageview.aspx?catid=50&threadid=93570 2009-11-18 05:57 PM -07.00 I've noticed that the user doesn't get added randomly throughout the day now. However, when I get to work each morning the first thing I check is the administrators group, and the user is present again. I remove her from the group and all is fine, until the next morning. I'm current on all service packs and MS updates. Any ideas? Thanks, Garmsie garmsie Diagnosing Repeated CHKDSK Errors http://forums.windowsitpro.com/web/forum//messageview.aspx?catid=50&threadid=93623 2009-11-18 04:37 PM -07.00 Additional Information: I dug up the following Event Viewer log from the last time we actually took the server down and did a full chkdsk /f on it. Does this information shed any light on what might be the source of the problems? The hexadecimal file identifiers doesn't really help me much in determining where the problem lies. --- Event Type: Information Event Source: Winlogon Event Category: None Event ID: 1001 Date: 10/26/2009 Time: 11:49:56 PM User: N/A Computer: STEWIE Description: Checking file system on C: The type of the file system is NTFS. A disk check has been scheduled. Windows will now check the disk. Cleaning up instance tags for file 0xda175. Cleaning up instance tags for file 0x108d06. Cleaning up instance tags for file 0x17b0a4. Cleaning up instance tags for file 0x17d3b1. Cleaning up minor inconsistencies on the drive. Cleaning up 20 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9. Cleaning up 20 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9. Cleaning up 20 unused security descriptors. CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal... Usn Journal verification completed. CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the master file table (MFT) bitmap. Windows has made corrections to the file system. 104856223 KB total disk space. 89527512 KB in 1636225 files. 642248 KB in 51235 indexes. 0 KB in bad sectors. 1797055 KB in use by the system. 65536 KB occupied by the log file. 12889408 KB available on disk. 4096 bytes in each allocation unit. 26214055 total allocation units on disk. 3222352 allocation units available on disk. Internal Info: e0 d3 19 00 b0 bf 19 00 81 c0 28 00 00 00 00 00 ..........(..... c9 01 00 00 02 00 00 00 5e 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........^....... d6 59 78 7f 00 00 00 00 a6 8c a1 a0 03 00 00 00 .Yx............. 9c 4b ab 76 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .K.v............ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fa 41 19 a1 04 00 00 00 .........A...... 10 b0 0f 8f 00 00 00 00 3d 9f 82 7c 18 00 00 00 ........=..|.... 81 f7 18 00 00 00 00 00 00 60 53 58 15 00 00 00 .........`SX.... Windows has finished checking your disk. Please wait while your computer restarts. For more information, see Help and Support Center at <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp">http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp</a>. Shump Diagnosing Repeated CHKDSK Errors http://forums.windowsitpro.com/web/forum//messageview.aspx?catid=50&threadid=93623 2009-11-18 03:48 PM -07.00 Hello all! We have a variety of servers running Windows Server 2003 Standard SP2. On two -- and only two -- of them we are having a problem with chkdsk repeatedly finding errors with the file system. We have an automated script that runs a read-only chkdsk on each of our servers on a daily basis as a precautionary measure, due to file system corruption we experienced once in the past. On most of our servers, it routinely finds no problems. However, on these two, it repeatedly finds errors. When it does, we will take the server offline and run a full chkdsk allowing it to fix the errors. And then run another chkdsk afterward to verify that the errors are gone. And it always shows "clean." But then within a couple of days they come back. I have done extensive hardware diagnostics to verify that there are no failures happening with the system hardware that could be leading to these problems, and they all report clean. In addition, the fact that this is two separate servers leads me to think it unlikely that we have two simultaneous hardware failures on two separate servers that are going undetected. There is a commonality between these two servers however. They are both involved in a nightly data processing process that writes a great deal of data to both servers. That leads me to suspect that something is happening during this process that is causing corruption in the file system. But with just a generic "errors were found" output from chkdsk, it's hard to know where to start looking in tracking down the problem. Can anyone offer some advice on either how to pry more information out of chkdsk on the specific files, folders, etc. that are showing errors or inconsistencies? Or perhaps recommend a third-party tool that could provide more information on problems the file system has? (These are NTFS volumes, BTW, and we are not doing surface scans for bad sectors during this process.) Does anyone have any more general thoughts on possible causes for repeated errors such as these? Thanks so much! - Tom Shump Multiple Servers Running Same Ports http://forums.windowsitpro.com/web/forum//messageview.aspx?catid=50&threadid=93603 2009-11-18 02:17 PM -07.00 Incase anyone wanted to know the solution for this: I have discussed with my ISP on how to acheive this setup on my network , and they advised that I would require multiple public IP addressed distributed by them. They said that once I authenitcate to their network, I will automatically obtain these IP addresses. TURKINATOR Group Policy and MS Word http://forums.windowsitpro.com/web/forum//messageview.aspx?catid=50&threadid=93619 2009-11-18 10:26 AM -07.00 Is there anywhere to implement group policies to uncheck the spell checker option to not skip all cap words? We have mostly Office 2003 systems but a few Office 2007. swatts71 Loopback needed? http://forums.windowsitpro.com/web/forum//messageview.aspx?catid=50&threadid=93585 2009-11-17 08:50 PM -07.00 Hi, you will need to add a static DNS mapping to the internal IP address. eg. mail.yourbusiness.com ----- mapped to ------ 192.168.1.100 Check if your modem supports this. ADITech Loopback needed? http://forums.windowsitpro.com/web/forum//messageview.aspx?catid=50&threadid=93585 2009-11-17 05:05 PM -07.00 Sorry, I'm still new to DNS and all that <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">. DHCP works fine, even for the laptops. I think I found what you are talking about. If I open the dnsmgmt window, click on the dhcp server and double click Forwarders, is that it? If so, do I add specifically mail.company.com and then point it to Qwest(my ISP)'s DNS servers? One thing I do notice. When I try to ping mail.company.com from inside the network through cmd, it says "Pinging mail.company.com [WAN address] with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out etc. So it's pointing to my WAN address. So it looks like it doesn't know to either redirect to an internal address or go out and then come back in through the WAN address. I don't know if it matters, but I am hosting an internal mail server on a vmware virtual machine. ADITech Loopback needed? http://forums.windowsitpro.com/web/forum//messageview.aspx?catid=50&threadid=93585 2009-11-17 03:44 PM -07.00 laptops should be set to use dhcp. Your internal dns server should be set via the forwards tab to forward internet name resolution requests to the isps dns servers. I suspect this part is missing. ADITech