The secure channel is used to validate the member servers or workstations membership in the domain, based upon its hashed password. This discrete communication channel helps provide a more secure communication path between the domain controller and the...

We’d like to bring you attention to three recently released Knowledge Base articles which address some common issues SMS support has seen as of late. The first involves the Patchinstall.exe program and how it may be successfully invoked. This article...

Two Microsoft Knowledge Base articles have been recently published to clarify and update Microsoft Support Policy on Exchange Tools. Microsoft Customer Support Services (CSS) supports the Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 tools that you can download from...

With improvements in Exchange Server 2007, some of the common issues hit by users when using the Out of Office Assistant are addressed: l Users sometimes forget to turn the Out of Office assistant on and off, because it cannot be scheduled in advance...

A lot of Outlook issues are caused by various add-ins. So, disabling all add-ins is a useful step and should be the first step for Outlook troubleshooting. Please note every add-in will be a subkey under the following subkeys. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE...

RMS Server SP2 is released on Dec and available for download. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5794538f-e572-4542-a5bd-901b2720f068&DisplayLang=en New features in SP2: l Native support for SQL Server 2005 l Support...

A typical problem we usually meet is: We have java applets installed on client computers. When “Automatically Detect Settings” option is checked in IE, these applets won’t work. They will either fail to start or can’t communicate. Actually this...

The final release of the new Firewall Client for ISA Server is now available for download at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=05C2C932-B15A-4990-B525-66380743DA89&displaylang=en . The new version can be installed...

A while back we got involved in a weird issue where a network user encountered network share access problems. The symptom or the error message might be different in some scenarios: 1. Domain controller’s share folders cannot be accessed by the NETBIOS...

Key Management Service (KMS) enables organizations to perform local activations for computers in a managed environment without the need to connect to Microsoft. A KMS key is used to enable KMS on a computer controlled by the system administrator in an...

When Internet Explorer 7 includes an add-on, Internet Explorer may exit immediately. This problem may occur if an add-on conflicts with Internet Explorer. To resolve this issue, start Internet Explorer with add-ons disabled. To do this, click Start...

You may experience the issue about no SeIncreaseQuotaPrivilege privilege under “Local Service” account after joining Vista to Windows 2000 domain. This could cause several services (Telnet, Firewall etc) not being able to start. The typical symptom is...

Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, and especially Advanced Server with its clustering support, provides an excellent environment in which to build a truly fault-tolerant system. Of course, avoiding the faults in the first place is even better than handling...

In Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003, Unicast NLB nodes cannot communicate over the NLB-enabled network adaptor. In order to enable the communication between the Unicast NLB nodes, we have to install additional network cards on the computers so that...