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Aug 24	comment	Should I force my users to change passwords every n days/weeks/month? It sounds like a good argument for not failing at user-education, not necessarily vs password policies. Not a failure on your part - someone higher up in IT botched things badly, because the ideas you listed should've been something every employee had put in front of them for every password-change-prompt.
Aug 24	comment	Exchange emails in subfolders will not sync using windows mobile What version of Exchange? Have you changed any of the default ActiveSync settings?
Aug 24	comment	Can I send HTML mails in Outlook Web Access? Oops, I'm guilty of assuming everyone else gave up and just uses IE for OWA, too. Though I'm pleasantly surprised there was a quick fix for this without having to switch browsers - thanks for posting the follow-up.
Aug 23	comment	Remove Exchange message size limit for a user The sbs-2008 may have been a mistag, if your answer was specific to that version.
Aug 23	comment	Do you know of a global configuration system? I agree, why recreate the wheel? If you want to continuously deploy updates to the entire app, you might be more interested in deployment via GPO support.microsoft.com/kb/816102
Aug 23	comment	Joining PC with OS windows 7 using AD user account You posted as an answer. Expect what you say to be treated as such. Otherwise add a comment, or ask a new question.
Aug 23	comment	the context of local user of AD-joined machine? Is it of domain machine account or of local machine account? This may help serverfault.com/questions/61191/…
Aug 23	comment	Do you know of a global configuration system? "Would it be possible to distribute updates to the entire system via active directory?" - a single XML file should be pretty easy (assuming all sites are in the same domain, which is probably not the case, now that I've had more coffee), but this method would probably not be great for an entire application. I've only typically used sysvol for very small things like a config file or login script.
Aug 23	comment	Do you know of a global configuration system? It can be handy because every domain member can access it with \\your_domain_name.com\sysvol ... If you have AD admins, they can tell you what the replication schedule is and how long it would take file updates to reach every server. If you already have AD in place, it would be an easy way to accomplish what you want - though it would be overkill to set up JUST for that purpose.
Aug 23	comment	Windows 2003 activation nightmare, changed hardware Thanks! It's good to know that this is a possibility.
Aug 23	comment	Should Windows be booted interactively to run as server? Reposting questions from SU to circumvent banning is not an appropriate use of this site.
Aug 20	comment	What's the advantage of OpenVPN over SSTP? +1 for the Janitorial CAL. Seriously though, because the licensing issue is oft ignored.
Aug 19	comment	How to configure email autoconfiguration for a domain? No worries, it wouldn't be the first time Microsoft had commandeered a bit of terminology and implemented it in a way that stomps all over someone else's standard. :/
Aug 19	comment	Sync AD and Exchange Users Hey, if you never screwed up you'd be SO BORED! That's what I keep telling myself.
Aug 19	comment	Windows 2003 R2 Server not updating wildcard certificate Unless you have any errors from the logs to post, maybe a good start is to detail the process you used to install the new certificate? Hopefully there's just an 'i' not dotted somehwere...
Aug 18	comment	Why (or why not) should I deploy my web application in a server located in my office? not so much regional as that it's in the FAQ "Be nice. ... Be tolerant of others who may not know everything you know."
Aug 18	comment	same SSL certificate in two servers Yes, you'll need a different certificate for each server or a wildcard (domain) certificate.
Aug 18	comment	How do you search for backdoors from the previous IT person? +++ Re: changing service account passwords. This should be thoroughly documented anyway, so this process is doubly important if you're to be expected to do your job.
Aug 18	comment	Recommended Win2k8 Server software to fix my RAID-0 issue Fantastic! I was afraid for a minute there that a RAID controller existed with no ability to swap drives (it's sad that this wouldn't be surprising, huh?) - glad to hear it.
Aug 18	comment	Recommended Win2k8 Server software to fix my RAID-0 issue Hopefully there's a manual somewhere documenting how the 'create' can be used to rebuild.