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Back in 2018 I wrote a vbscript to start a service if the service was stopped. Back then I had this run as a scheduled task at specific time but decided to remove if from scheduler and run it manually if I ever needed it. I'm switching computers and tried this script out on my old Windows 10...

My Windows 7-64-bit machine is reporting an event 3036 warning each time the WSearch service is started. Although benign, I would like to be able to fix this issue. I have searched the internet for a solution and have come up empty handed Here are the details: Event type: Application...

Can anyone share any VBScript code that would allow you go do group nesting in a cross-domain environment? We want to take some global groups in our production environment and nest them inside "domain local" groups in our deveopment domain. A one way trust already exists between the two...

We have a primary zone setup in our Microsoft Windows 2003 DNS that is is configured to use WINS to resolve names not found by querying the DNS namespace. To configure this with the MMC we select the zone properties, select the WINS tab and check the "Use WINS forward lookup", ckeck the "do not...

We do not have any servers running version of Windows Server 2008. Can anyone tell me the high level version (IE7 or IE8) that is the default version of IE that gets installed in the various flavors of Windows Server 2008? Thanks.

We have not installed Windows server 2008 in our environment yet but someone in our organizaiton has asked us what version of IE is installed with Server 2008? Can someone out there please provide me with the infor or 2008 and 2008 R2. Thanks.

Currently we are running Microsoft DFS in our Windows Server 2003 environment. We have only one DFS root (i.e. mycompany.com\DFS) and I'm pretty sure that the root is a DOMAIN ROOT where the DFS information is stored in AD and copy of the DFS is stored on local root targets that are not...

Help! My system has developed some sort of problem that I don't think is a virus or malware. I'm wondering if anyone has had a similar event and can suggest how I might fix this? A week ago I turned on my system and it displayed the XP splash screen with the scrolling progress bar but will not...

I'm hoping that someone knows a slick way of getting this info that they can share with me. We have Microsoft DNS running on many domain controllers and member servers in our orgaization. Since we lease all of our servers things get a bit complicatated when you the new DC get a new IP address...

For several years now we have had our internal DNS servers forward queries for non-hosted zones to our ISP's forwarder servers. At the time we set this up we were told by someone (can't remember who) that this was a "best practice" to forward to an ISP's forwarder server vs. sending queries to...

I'm looking for some ideas from people on what issue we might have. We have an extensive field office environment that employees work out of. When we give the employee a new desktop or Laptop they run an automated install that is used company wide to deploy XP Pro and configure the machine...

We have an application (Siebel v 8.0) that requires a work-around for a GUI interface problem. The problem with the work around is that it must be initiated from within IE and the code needed to fix the problem opens an instance of ActiveXObject. Here's a snippet of code: var myShell = new...

We have an application (Siebel v 8.0) that requires a work-around for a GUI interface problem. The problem with the work around is that it must be initiated from within IE and the code needed to fix the problem opens an instance of ActiveXObject. Here's a snippet of code: var myShell = new...

First let me say that I'm a VBScript writer not a Java Script writer but I think I'll be able to understand. We have an application that requires a work-around for a GUI interface problem. The problem with the work around is that it must be initiated from within IE and the code needed to fix...

We have an unusual situation that we are looking for a solution to. By default, anyone in the Administrators group can add other local accounts and global accounts to the local Administrator's group. What we want to do is restrict that default functionality so that only a single local...

I'm wondering if it advisible to use use a stub zone in this situation and could use some advice. Today we have a secondary DNS zone defined on our production DNS DC that is contains host/alias record for a very active test DNS domain. Currently when we add/delete/change a record in the test...

It has been suggested that we set Option 35 (ARP Cache Timeout) in DHCP for all clients to reduce unnecessary network traffic. Although we set the option to 8 hours, the clients don't automatically get this option. From what I have been able to get off of Microsoft to get the client to accept...

Help! Last night we had to re-IP one of our Windows 2003 Domimain Controllers that is running DHCP. After changing the DNS entry for the DC and changing the IP address on the DC we were able to go to our ROOT DC and add the Server with its new IP address to the list of authorized DHCP server...

Leading up to this week we decided to change the names of our external DNS Name Servers. Neither the Servers hosting our external DNS's nor the public addresses were changing but due to a re-branding of our company name we wanted to change the names from NS1.oldcompanyname.com to...

I need some enlightenment. Can someone explain when to use a stub zone in Microsoft Windows 2003 DNS vs. conditioal forwarding? We have LOTS of zones defined on a domain controller in our production forest and a comperable set of zones defined on a domain controller in our test forest where we...