Server 2003
How do I give non-administrators the ability to reboot a server while logged
on through remote desktop connection? The people responsible are members of
the Power Users group but still can't reboot the server. I changed the local

I have a user cert set up for autoenrollment.  The cert is published
in AD and the "Do not automatically reenroll if a duplicate
certificate exists in Active Directory" checkbox is checked.  The CA
is a Windows 2003 Enterprise CA.  Credential Roaming is also set up in

We don't really use this anyway, although some people did, in the past.  I
have to decomission the hardware on which the CA lives and for the near-term,
have decided to just not establish another.
I have a couple of questions:  First of all, if somebody, somewhere, has an

I have a problem setting up ab big number of Windows XP (SP2) PCs for
using IEEE802.1x authentication on the wired network. I'm searching for
a way to automatically deploy a system certificate (with private key)
into the certificate store of "local computer". The certificate comes

Does any know if there will be (and if so, when) an MCITP focused on
security, like the MCITP: Enterprise Messaging Administrator?
Cheers
Andy Wood

I reset my password for logging onto windows and forgot it. What should I do
to access my info without going under as a guest? I really need help cause
now I can't get any of my papers dues for class. Please help?!

As far as I know there can be only one password policy.
I configured the main GPO in the root for specific password policy, I have
an OU with blocked inheritance is checked, and I created a new gpo and linked
it to this OU, this gpo have a diffrent set of password policy, I run ...

Situation:
Running a VBS password script locally on a workstation (script has password) that would change a remote local admin server password. All units are within AD.
Question:
Wouldn't that type of traffic be able to be sniffed?

Just a general comment, but wondered what other admins' feelings are on this:
In the days of floppies, if you inserted a boot floppy, then the machine
would either boot from the floppy, or else not boot at all.  Which was
sensible behaviour.  

I have a number of CA Exchange certificates in my issued certificates.  They
are all expired.  They have the message of "The certificate has a nonvalid
digital signature" Is this becuase they are expired?
Should I revoke expired certificates?

I have a strange situation on a firewall I need help with.    The server is
Windows 2000 running ISA Server 2004.    For reasons I cannot determine yet,
the Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) service keeps getting set to
Automatic.     I set it manually to disable, and I have ...

Certification Authority 0x8009480f error : the dns name is unavailable and
cannot b e added to the subjectalternatename.
This error I get all the time when automatic certificate allocation wants to
give a certificate to a domain pc.

I have a web site on an internal iis 6.0 server. Some users use the host
header name of the website with the domain attached and some connect without:
for example:
https:\\internal vs https:\\internal.company.com

c:\NAVOPTX.DAT contains these two lines:
[NSPlugin]
Enabled=0
The file sounds like a Norton antivirus (NAV) file.  Since I no longer

I just had the worst time upgrading AVG 7.5 to 8.  I didn't like 8
because of all the new dialog boxes so I uninstalled and reinstalled
7.5.  I don't like the AVG firewall so I turned it off, but whenever I
restart, the AVG firewall is on again (I have my Windows firewall on