March 12, 2007
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Weekly quickTIP: Vista Restore of NTBackup; Redmond Radio;
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IN THIS ISSUE:
- Redmond Radio: Vista Exams Redo; Dynamics and DST; More
- IT/Cert Forums: DNS Netmask Ordering; Vista and OWA; More
- Weekly quickTIP: Vista Restore of NTBackup
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MCP RADIO: IT News, March 12
- Vista exams redo
- Daylight Saving Time Patch for Dynamics
- Quest becomes Microsoft's first EU code licensee
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Members who needed help posted these questions in the last
week:
-- Windows 2003 DNS Netmask Ordering
jumbo: I have 2 DCs running Win 2003 and both are DNS-active
Directory-integrated zones. How can I use DNS netmask
ordering
features if the 2 DCs are in a network (class B) and the two
clients'
network (custom class 255.213.0.0) and (255.255.100.0)? Our
appl
servers are connected to all these three networks, but the
clients
suffers from slow response from these servers since we made
these
custom classes.
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-- Confusing Disk Info in ComputerManagement
delooney: I'm trying to mirror my Windows 2003 Server's C:
with
another of the same drives, D: (C: being the Source drive
and D:
being the destination)
I'm OK with mirroring because as the info page shows, I've
already
mirrored E: & E: (was F Info from
Computer Management here:
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-- Vista and OWA
precisioncg: When I open up OWA I can read e-mail from Vista
fine, but
when I go to reply or create a new message, it gives me a
"placeholder"
icon and does not allow anything to be typed. I'm assuming
some of the
security features in IE7 are blocking it. What do I need to
do to get
it to work?
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Greg Shields' Weekly quickTIP: Vista Restore of NTBackup
Need backups from systems older than Vista? You can go back
again.
By Greg Shields
Vista's updates to the old NTBackup utility include some
really neat
new features. You now can back up all files on the system
based on
content type or extension. Creating automated backups that
kick off on
a regular schedule is much improved -- no more at jobs!
Shadow copies,
while available in previous OSes as an add-on, are now
native. You can
even create a full, sector-based image of your whole hard
drive should
you ever need to restore from a hardware failure.
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Where Vista's new backup features come up lacking is in
their complete
and utter inability to restore from previous versions of
NTBackup. Now,
I can see where Vista's developers wanted to bootstrap its
users into
this new and robust backup format, but a lot of us have old
NTBackup-
style .BKF files out there that we'll someday need to
restore.
If you're one of those types and found yourself out of luck
with
Vista's native backup, check the Microsoft Web site again,
and search
for "ntbackup vista." You'll find among the list a
download titled,
"Windows NT Backup -- Restore Utility." This tool
allows you to
restore -- and only restore -- your old .BKF files on a
Vista
workstation. It's a neat throwback to the old NTBackup, even
sporting the same interface, but with only the Restore
Wizard button
now available.
To use the tool, you will need to enable the Removable
Storage
Management feature first. Do this by navigating to Programs
and
Features in the Control Panel and clicking the link for Turn
Windows
features on or off. At the resulting screen, tick the box
next to
Removable Storage Management and click OK. Now you're back
in
business if you're in need of the old stuff.
Comment: http://mcpmag.com/columns/article.asp?editorialsid=1
673#post
Greg Shields, MCSE: Security, CCEA, is a senior consultant
for 3t
Systems in Denver, Colo., http://www.3tsystems.com
. A contributing
editor to Redmond magazine and a popular speaker at
TechMentor
events, Greg provides engineering support and technical
consulting in
Microsoft, Citrix and VMware technologies. gshieldsredmondmag.com
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