RE: Problem : SBS 2003 Server, Lost Access to Various functions on Ser

Hello Anthony,

Thank you for posting in the SBS newsgroup.

I am sorry for the delayed response due to the weekend. Please understand
that the newsgroups are staffed weekdays by Microsoft Support professionals
to answer your systems and applications questions. Your understanding is
greatly appreciated!

To narrow down this issue, please answer and perform the following
questions and steps:

1. To isolated this issue, please make some screen shots of this issue and
attach them in your reply.

2. Before the issue occurred, can you remember what changes you had been
made to the system?

3. Does this issue occur when you use the Domain Administrator user
account to logon the SBS Server?

4. DCGPOFIX.EXE will restore the Default Domain Policy and the Default
Domain Controller Policy to original default settings. Note that it does
not affect other GPOs.

In SBS most of the custom GPO settings are done outside of these policies.
We create custom GPOs to configure the settings for firewall, folder
redirection and etc. These GPOs will be left intact if you run dcgpofix.exe.

If you just want to restore the Default Domain Policy or the Default Domain
Controller Policy, or both policies, you can use DCGPOFIX.exe to forcefully
wipe out and recreate the policy/policies.

5. Additionally, you may use gpresult tool to check the policy. Run
"gpresult /v>gpresult.txt" to export the group policy information and check
the .txt file.

For more information on the gpresult.exe, please refer to the article below:

Q321709:HOW TO: Use the Group Policy Results Tool in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=321709
Note: This article also applies to SBS 2003 Server.

6. If the issue persists, please run 'eventvwr.exe' (without the
quotation marks) on the command prompt on the SBS Server, and check if
there are any error messages about this issue, then paste the full context
in your reply.

I appreciate your time and cooperation. If anything is unclear, please feel
free to let me know. I am looking forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,

Nathan Liu (MSFT)
Microsoft CSS Online Newsgroup Support

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>Problem 1: Exchange Manager, I dont have all the items in the menu.
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>Problem 2 : In computer manager I can not get to disk manager.
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>Problem 3 : The Domain Group Policy, does show me anything apart from
>Windows Settings. Its the same for Local Domain Group Policy.
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>The server was find friday morning and Saturday Morning it had these
problems.
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>No Virus's Found.
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>An Educated quess, is whether the Group Policies is corrupt. If so will
the
>dcgpofix.exe resolve my problem.
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>Any advise would be help full.
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