Hi Al

I'm still trying to get my head around how this all works. On some of the other new machines I couldn't change the computer name to the old name because it said there was already a machine on the network with that name, so I removed the "machine" from the network. But on some of them it said I couldn't reomve the machine from the network & had to go into advanced setting to remove it.

Whats the normal proceedure to replace one machine for another on the network? Hows best to join the machine to the domain?

Is it possible to copy the old roaming profile to the new machine (I know programs need to be installed on the new machine)

Are there any good books/on lines courses/videos you could recommend to help me get my head around all this?

I'm also trying to get better skilled at adminstrating Outlook Exchange 2003?

Rob



>>Hi
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>>I've built a new machine & swapped it for an old machine on a Windows 2003 Server.
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>>Everything is fine with the roaming profile etc, I've installed Office 2007, when I start Outlook, it tells me its attempting to
>>connect to srv-1/example.local & suggest a username which looks right
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>>srv-1\user and asks for the password, but the password for this user on the server doesn't seem to work.
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>>Seems that whoever set this up, setup two usernames for the same user, Windows Server 2003 username is user
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>>and the only username that Outlook will accept & is using is the other username
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>>How can this happen?
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>Have you joined the new machine to the domain?
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>Have you made the user's domain account ( srv-1\UserAccount ) an administrator on the new machine? You have to do this either as a local admin on the new machine, or as the domain admin while logged on to the new computer.
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>Make sure the user is logging on to the new machine using the domain rather than attempting to log on to a possibly non-existent machine account i.e. log on as srv-1\UserAccount rather than LocalMachineName\UserAccount .