Over the weekend my boss replaced the server which holds all of our student’s user data. Though the operating system version, server name, domain membership, share names, and permissions all stayed identical from the old server to the new server none of our students could access their data when they came to school this morning. After a few hours of troubleshooting I realized that an nslookup of the server wasn’t getting beyond our Extreme Network switches. Five minutes after rebooting our switches everyone was back up and running, and the users were able to access their data. Has anyone else experienced this? And if so, can someone explain to me why this has happened so I know when to expect it in the future?

I have provided two sample batch files for silently installing QuickBooks 2008.  In order to determine the variable names and values for a QuickBooks 2008 installation I used Microsoft’s Orca tool which comes with the Windows SDK Components for Windows Installer Developers kit. The first batch file called install.bat installs QuickBooks 2008 on the local machine.  You will have to edit this file to provide your own License and Products numbers for the installation.  The [...]