I'm getting the following error on my 2008 SBS when doing backups.
"A Volume Shadow Copy Service operation failed. Unknown error
(0x800423f4)"
I have disabled the Shadow copy service and stopped SQL but am still

I have a single Forest, single Domain setup, with two Domain
Controllers. (No Exchange Server). Master Roles:
DC1
RID Master

Let me preface this with - the network budget is very small.  I'm running
backups across the network to an external drive (use device) attached to
another server on the domain.  Each time the server runs a backup, the server
gets partially done, about 18-20 gig backup, then ...

Is there a MS tool that I can use to run on customer's computers to check if
their Windows or Office software is valid, other than using WGA tool, where I
need to run it online? Is there any offline tool?
Thanks.

I have a client with two seperate domains running on the same subnet:
domain.local, and domain.dev
domain.local has its own primary and secondary AD-enabled DNS servers
domain.dev has its own primary AD-enabled DNS server

I need to set temporarily a user account with blank password on a 2003 DC.
When I try to do this, the wizard says that the 'password does not meet
policies...'. I have defined the passwords policy to no restrictions on the
GPO and Domain GPO, with the same error. What I am ...

In our Windows 2003 File Server, one of our user's folder (30 MB)  
disappeared yesterday. Its not deleted or hide at all. I restored data from
backup but this is unusual when data is gone without any trace. I run some
undelete utilities  but no trace of files/folders.

The server that holds our KMS for Vista is about to be retired. I've
installed a new windows 2008 server (I will have 5 running in the next day
or two to meet the 5 minimum for the volume activation) and applied tmy
windows 2008 KMS key it says it activated successfully and that ...

There are important things a bride needs to know when creating a
bridal registry, such as what to register for, how many stores to
register with and the range of prices for the items to be included in
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First the setup of the system. We had one server which acted as a DC and also
run some web application.  Now we have installed a new server (2008), demoted
the old one and made the new one as the DC, AD, DNS, File, DHCP and the old
one is only running the web application.

I'm going to be setting up a PowerVault MD3000 enclsoure with an NF500
PowerEdge server. The enclosure will have 15 x 1TB SATAII drives (7200rpm).
I plan to use one drive as a hotspare but my question/concern is regarding
the RAID configuration.

I have a situation that I need a Java application to run as a service.  I
know that new services can be created using the Windows Resouce Kit and
instsrv.exe
I'm confused as to how to set up it up exactly.  The company that gave us

Looking for a backup application simular to ntbackup for Server 2008. The
included backup is too limited and the cost of Backup Exec is a little much
for a simple in house file server.
Does anyone have any suggestions?

We recently demoted our old DC (Windows 2K server) to act as a standard
file server and switched to a 2003 server to be our active DC and all
was well.  Now, the 2K machine is dead and a few of our machines are
running extremely slow.  All shortcuts, printers, and network drives

How can  I duplicate existing DC, dns AD on w2k3 servers of one domain to a
new w2k8 server?
In this particular place, there were in existing two w2k3 based servers:: s1
with file server, DNS and AD roles, s2 with exchange and DNS and AD roles.