RE: [NTSysADM] CBT Training
Hi Thanks for the response I was erring to trainsignal or plurasight but wondered if there were any other options, the nuggets are sometimes too brief and in my mind miss out important items that trainsignal seem to cover :-) Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Cain, Steven Sent: 16 September 2014 16:45 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] CBT Training We just bought a subscription to Pluralsight (which bought Trainsignal) a few months ago. It's been okay so far for the couple courses I found time to watch. Good news is in July 2014 they added Don Jones and Greg Shields who developed training for CBT Nuggets to their staff Steve Cain Sr. System Administrator -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Nigel Parker Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 11:18 AM To: 'ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com' Subject: [NTSysADM] CBT Training Hi In the past I have used CBT nuggets and trainsignal for CBT training I felt that trainsignal had the edge, its been some time since my last CBT training stint 2008 and I wondered what people recommend I noticed trainsignal have been bought out although they do offer a free trial At the moment due to issues I had with CBT nuggets I will discount these, Could anyone recommend anything else Thanks Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is sent out only for intended recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other use or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and unlawful. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is sent out only for intended recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other use or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and unlawful.
[NTSysADM] CBT Training
Hi In the past I have used CBT nuggets and trainsignal for CBT training I felt that trainsignal had the edge, its been some time since my last CBT training stint 2008 and I wondered what people recommend I noticed trainsignal have been bought out although they do offer a free trial At the moment due to issues I had with CBT nuggets I will discount these, Could anyone recommend anything else Thanks Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is sent out only for intended recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other use or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and unlawful.
[NTSysADM] Microsoft Excahnge Upgrade
Hi We have exchange server 2003 with a front end server servicing webclients and phones After acquiring another company we find ourselves with an exchange server 2007 license and enough licenses to upgrade to 2007 We don't have the money at this time to move to another version and as 2003 will soon be out of support wanted to move quickly on the project Question If we install an exchange 2007 server within our existing setup (single domain one site, one exchange server 2003 servers) Can we just install 2007 server and keep the other setup as is, then gradually migrate people over to 2007 as and when Ofter this could we then upgrade the front end server Would it all continue to function with 2007 server in our existing setup We have a server and 2003 server 64bit license spare From what I have read I am inclined to think it wont work! Recommendations would be welcome Of course we don't have the funds to purchase anything (at this point in time) And would like as little disruption as possible, hopefully to continue running 24/7 during the upgrade (or as near to this as possible) Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is sent out only for intended recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other use or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and unlawful.
RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Microsoft Excahnge Upgrade
OK So given that at this time we don’t have any funding to purchase any newer technologies Will installing exchange 2007 into our existing 2003 site, be doable, will the front end still work as I migrate people to 2007, then finally as we expire exchange 2003 and I can add an edge transport server for 2007 Would this work And is there anything I need to look out for? Yes sure if money was no object we would upgrade everything, however , in the real world we have what we have and from a management point of view really we have a 2003 exchange box that has worked without problems so why upgrade at all! As funds are available we will migrate from 2003 server to 2012 and of course upgrade exchange, however at this time the funds are unavailable Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Richard Stovall Sent: 02 April 2014 21:03 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Microsoft Excahnge Upgrade Server 2003 R2 is July 2015. http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?sort=PNalpha=Windows+Server+2003Filter=FilterNO On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: Even 2007 is in extended support at this time, with 2003 officially dying next week, after a long useful lifetime. Sure, you could make this work. I don't know that I would want to spend the time and effort to do so, just to end up on another dead OS (Server 2003 dies next week also, or perhaps it's in June -- very soon, regardless) and an Exchange version in extended support. You are probably going to be looking at third party migration tools regardless, when it comes time to upgrade Exchange. Your technical debt is quite deep. -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Nigel Parker Sent: Wednesday, April 2, 2014 11:14 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] Microsoft Excahnge Upgrade Hi We have exchange server 2003 with a front end server servicing webclients and phones After acquiring another company we find ourselves with an exchange server 2007 license and enough licenses to upgrade to 2007 We don't have the money at this time to move to another version and as 2003 will soon be out of support wanted to move quickly on the project Question If we install an exchange 2007 server within our existing setup (single domain one site, one exchange server 2003 servers) Can we just install 2007 server and keep the other setup as is, then gradually migrate people over to 2007 as and when Ofter this could we then upgrade the front end server Would it all continue to function with 2007 server in our existing setup We have a server and 2003 server 64bit license spare From what I have read I am inclined to think it wont work! Recommendations would be welcome Of course we don't have the funds to purchase anything (at this point in time) And would like as little disruption as possible, hopefully to continue running 24/7 during the upgrade (or as near to this as possible) Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is sent out only for intended recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other use or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and unlawful. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is sent out only for intended recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other use or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and unlawful.
RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Windows server 2012 training books
Thank to everyone for the recommendations I presume then Microsoft hasn't released a training pack like they did with 2003 and 2008 I quite liked these they worked at my level slow :-) Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Ziots, Edward Sent: 12 March 2014 15:36 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Windows server 2012 training books Stanek is the man when it comes to a quick fast good guides. http://www.amazon.com/Windows-Server-2012-Pocket-Consultant/dp/0735666334 Z Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, CISA, CRISC, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org Work:401-255-2497 This electronic message and any attachments may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If you are reading this message, but are not the intended recipient, nor an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you are strictly prohibited from copying, printing, forwarding or otherwise disseminating this communication. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to the message. Then, delete the message from your computer. Thank you. -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Nigel Parker Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 10:43 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] Windows server 2012 training books Sorry this maybe a little off topic I was looking for book recommendations for server 2012 I used these for 2008 server I found them quite a good guide Windows Server 2008 Server Administrator: Training Kit Is something like this available for windows 2012? Although I have googled up a few books nothing like the training kit has Microsoft not released the training as a kit Or does anyone have any personal recommendations Thanks Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is sent out only for intended recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other use or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and unlawful. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is sent out only for intended recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other use or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and unlawful.
[NTSysADM] Virtual machines
Hi Looking for option for Disater recovery We use backupexec that can create hyperv machines and they work faultlessly Also thinking about not spending money unless we have to! The hyper v machines with 2008 comeback however they need re licensing, from the test we have completed they work ok for a day However is there a way to transfer the licence (I don't want to break any licensing agreements) so if it means we have to buy another x number of 2008 server licenses then that's what we will do, it would be just to run the machine as a virtual machine for as long as it needs to repair the hardware and have the machine back up and running physically. Having mirrored servers would be out as the cost would be to high All servers have a 24 hour 4 hour response Some are older servers running proprietary software so they are windows 2000 these come back no problem Would something like veam be able to transfer the physical license to a virtual machine and then back or is this breaking licensing agreements with Microsoft Again I don't want to break any licensing agreements but have to do this cheaply The backup software we have creates the virtual machines and works fine, they restore to physical or virtual servers without problems, just the licensing OR How long can I legally run a transferred 2008 server, do you get 30 days? If so this would be more than enough to have the hardware back up, Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is sent out only for intended recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other use or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and unlawful.
RE: [NTSysADM] Wireless access points
Thanks for the responses Just reading up on the options, looks like I have a solution now thanks Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of James Hill Sent: 28 January 2014 00:11 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Wireless access points I recommend you use the wpad method. The contents of a wpad.dat are the same as .pac file. If the browser is set to Automatically Discover then wpad works. There is no need to modify the connection settings and specify pac files which is nice if you have non domain joined computers/guests on the network. James. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Nigel Parker Sent: Saturday, 25 January 2014 1:59 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Wireless access points Thanks Might take some reading but it looks like an option for us Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [ mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: 24 January 2014 08:29 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Wireless access points Proxy auto-config (PAC) files are ideal for this situation http://www.proxypacfiles.com/proxypac/ On 24 January 2014 08:26, Nigel Parker nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk wrote: We have some issue here were Reps will take a machine and use Free WIFI spots, the company permit this but... When they connect, they complain they cant use the internet and even there vpn clients refuse connection even though they are connected to the Free wifi, after further investigation its seems this happen They connect to a free hotel wifi However this is a connection that permits them to connect to a holding page via a browser and they then have to enter further information, sometimes the wifi connection prompts that further information ios required to use the wifi spot. Now there internet clients are set to use a proxy server for internet access and of course this blocked them from being able to access even the holding or landing page to enter further information (same happens if they use there phones to connect from a remote location (mix of android and apple devices) What I would like to do is find a way when they are OFF our network to disable the proxy settings in internet explorer Details Servers 2003 server Clients mix of Windows XP (yes I know but we are still testing software to permit them to move to windows 7) AND Windows 7 Internet explorer is there browser versions are from 8 upwards I was going to go in with a lowtech approach and maybe run a batch file that mapps a drive and looks for a file If it fails the assumption is that they are off the network and disables proxy settings I have already found a setting in AD to turn on or off the firewall if they are on or off our network and this seems to work well However I need to find a way to ensure if they are on standby that when the machine wakes it knows if it is on or off the company network, is there a way to do this, without user intervention? OR Does anyone have a better idea Total spend on this project of course would be ZERO, :-( Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is sent out only for intended recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other use or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and unlawful. -- James Rankin - RCL - Senior Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) | The Virtualization Practice Analyst - Desktop Virtualization http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk http://www.ultraframe-conservatories.co.uk/realroof Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is sent out only for intended recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you
RE: [NTSysADM] Virtual machines
Hi At the moment we have nothing in place, So am just looking at options available, The hope was we could restore the faulty machine to Hyperv host that will have 2008 server on and run them for upto 3 days, until the old hardware was fixed, or a replacement ordered we have a DR contract that could run the machine for longer but this will be a short term Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jon Harris Sent: 28 January 2014 10:21 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Virtual machines Then how are you licensing your DR machine? Jon Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Virtual machines Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 10:14:07 + From: nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Hi Your first Option is correct The Dr machine will only be live when the Physical machine is down; due to hardware failure Of course because we are buying the license as an oem with the server I believe if the motherboard fails then the license also is dead! And not transferable Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jon Harris Sent: 28 January 2014 09:28 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Virtual machines Licensing is something to take up with Microsoft but it sounds like maybe the original will be offline due to failure when the DR is live but if you are talking about a Hot DR you will need separate licensing for the host machines and possibly the virtual machines as well. Jon Subject: [NTSysADM] Virtual machines Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 09:10:30 + From: nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Hi Looking for option for Disater recovery We use backupexec that can create hyperv machines and they work faultlessly Also thinking about not spending money unless we have to! The hyper v machines with 2008 comeback however they need re licensing, from the test we have completed they work ok for a day However is there a way to transfer the licence (I don't want to break any licensing agreements) so if it means we have to buy another x number of 2008 server licenses then that's what we will do, it would be just to run the machine as a virtual machine for as long as it needs to repair the hardware and have the machine back up and running physically. Having mirrored servers would be out as the cost would be to high All servers have a 24 hour 4 hour response Some are older servers running proprietary software so they are windows 2000 these come back no problem Would something like veam be able to transfer the physical license to a virtual machine and then back or is this breaking licensing agreements with Microsoft Again I don't want to break any licensing agreements but have to do this cheaply The backup software we have creates the virtual machines and works fine, they restore to physical or virtual servers without problems, just the licensing OR How long can I legally run a transferred 2008 server, do you get 30 days? If so this would be more than enough to have the hardware back up, Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is sent out only for intended recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other use or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and unlawful. http://www.ultraframe-conservatories.co.uk/realroof Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is sent out only for intended recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other use or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and unlawful
RE: [NTSysADM] Virtual machines
If We bought a server with Datacenter that has unlimited virtual machines, could the virtualised machine be moved to this server and when the activation pops up could the datacenter license be used? Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jon Harris Sent: 28 January 2014 10:21 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Virtual machines Then how are you licensing your DR machine? Jon Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Virtual machines Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 10:14:07 + From: nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Hi Your first Option is correct The Dr machine will only be live when the Physical machine is down; due to hardware failure Of course because we are buying the license as an oem with the server I believe if the motherboard fails then the license also is dead! And not transferable Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jon Harris Sent: 28 January 2014 09:28 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Virtual machines Licensing is something to take up with Microsoft but it sounds like maybe the original will be offline due to failure when the DR is live but if you are talking about a Hot DR you will need separate licensing for the host machines and possibly the virtual machines as well. Jon Subject: [NTSysADM] Virtual machines Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 09:10:30 + From: nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Hi Looking for option for Disater recovery We use backupexec that can create hyperv machines and they work faultlessly Also thinking about not spending money unless we have to! The hyper v machines with 2008 comeback however they need re licensing, from the test we have completed they work ok for a day However is there a way to transfer the licence (I don't want to break any licensing agreements) so if it means we have to buy another x number of 2008 server licenses then that's what we will do, it would be just to run the machine as a virtual machine for as long as it needs to repair the hardware and have the machine back up and running physically. Having mirrored servers would be out as the cost would be to high All servers have a 24 hour 4 hour response Some are older servers running proprietary software so they are windows 2000 these come back no problem Would something like veam be able to transfer the physical license to a virtual machine and then back or is this breaking licensing agreements with Microsoft Again I don't want to break any licensing agreements but have to do this cheaply The backup software we have creates the virtual machines and works fine, they restore to physical or virtual servers without problems, just the licensing OR How long can I legally run a transferred 2008 server, do you get 30 days? If so this would be more than enough to have the hardware back up, Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is sent out only for intended recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other use or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and unlawful. http://www.ultraframe-conservatories.co.uk/realroof Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is sent out only for intended recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other use or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and unlawful. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those
RE: [NTSysADM] Virtual machines
Just to add We have backup exec that can create the virtual images we think we may use this once per week, then any missing files etc can be restored from the nightly backup Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jon Harris Sent: 28 January 2014 11:19 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Virtual machines Okay what you are talking about is taking a physical machine that crashes. You take your backup restore to a Virtual machine correct??? Jon Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Virtual machines Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 11:12:59 + From: nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Hi At the moment we have nothing in place, So am just looking at options available, The hope was we could restore the faulty machine to Hyperv host that will have 2008 server on and run them for upto 3 days, until the old hardware was fixed, or a replacement ordered we have a DR contract that could run the machine for longer but this will be a short term Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jon Harris Sent: 28 January 2014 10:21 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Virtual machines Then how are you licensing your DR machine? Jon Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Virtual machines Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 10:14:07 + From: nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Hi Your first Option is correct The Dr machine will only be live when the Physical machine is down; due to hardware failure Of course because we are buying the license as an oem with the server I believe if the motherboard fails then the license also is dead! And not transferable Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jon Harris Sent: 28 January 2014 09:28 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Virtual machines Licensing is something to take up with Microsoft but it sounds like maybe the original will be offline due to failure when the DR is live but if you are talking about a Hot DR you will need separate licensing for the host machines and possibly the virtual machines as well. Jon Subject: [NTSysADM] Virtual machines Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 09:10:30 + From: nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Hi Looking for option for Disater recovery We use backupexec that can create hyperv machines and they work faultlessly Also thinking about not spending money unless we have to! The hyper v machines with 2008 comeback however they need re licensing, from the test we have completed they work ok for a day However is there a way to transfer the licence (I don't want to break any licensing agreements) so if it means we have to buy another x number of 2008 server licenses then that's what we will do, it would be just to run the machine as a virtual machine for as long as it needs to repair the hardware and have the machine back up and running physically. Having mirrored servers would be out as the cost would be to high All servers have a 24 hour 4 hour response Some are older servers running proprietary software so they are windows 2000 these come back no problem Would something like veam be able to transfer the physical license to a virtual machine and then back or is this breaking licensing agreements with Microsoft Again I don't want to break any licensing agreements but have to do this cheaply The backup software we have creates the virtual machines and works fine, they restore to physical or virtual servers without problems, just the licensing OR How long can I legally run a transferred 2008 server, do you get 30 days? If so this would be more than enough to have the hardware back up, Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is sent out only for intended recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you
RE: [NTSysADM] Virtual machines
Correct Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jon Harris Sent: 28 January 2014 11:19 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Virtual machines Okay what you are talking about is taking a physical machine that crashes. You take your backup restore to a Virtual machine correct??? Jon Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Virtual machines Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 11:12:59 + From: nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Hi At the moment we have nothing in place, So am just looking at options available, The hope was we could restore the faulty machine to Hyperv host that will have 2008 server on and run them for upto 3 days, until the old hardware was fixed, or a replacement ordered we have a DR contract that could run the machine for longer but this will be a short term Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jon Harris Sent: 28 January 2014 10:21 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Virtual machines Then how are you licensing your DR machine? Jon Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Virtual machines Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 10:14:07 + From: nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Hi Your first Option is correct The Dr machine will only be live when the Physical machine is down; due to hardware failure Of course because we are buying the license as an oem with the server I believe if the motherboard fails then the license also is dead! And not transferable Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jon Harris Sent: 28 January 2014 09:28 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Virtual machines Licensing is something to take up with Microsoft but it sounds like maybe the original will be offline due to failure when the DR is live but if you are talking about a Hot DR you will need separate licensing for the host machines and possibly the virtual machines as well. Jon Subject: [NTSysADM] Virtual machines Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 09:10:30 + From: nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Hi Looking for option for Disater recovery We use backupexec that can create hyperv machines and they work faultlessly Also thinking about not spending money unless we have to! The hyper v machines with 2008 comeback however they need re licensing, from the test we have completed they work ok for a day However is there a way to transfer the licence (I don't want to break any licensing agreements) so if it means we have to buy another x number of 2008 server licenses then that's what we will do, it would be just to run the machine as a virtual machine for as long as it needs to repair the hardware and have the machine back up and running physically. Having mirrored servers would be out as the cost would be to high All servers have a 24 hour 4 hour response Some are older servers running proprietary software so they are windows 2000 these come back no problem Would something like veam be able to transfer the physical license to a virtual machine and then back or is this breaking licensing agreements with Microsoft Again I don't want to break any licensing agreements but have to do this cheaply The backup software we have creates the virtual machines and works fine, they restore to physical or virtual servers without problems, just the licensing OR How long can I legally run a transferred 2008 server, do you get 30 days? If so this would be more than enough to have the hardware back up, Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is sent out only for intended recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other use or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and unlawful
RE: [NTSysADM] Virtual machines
Hi When hardware failure occurs, backup software restores to a VM. When new hardware is in place, you backup the VM and restore to new physical hardware? Correct It would be a total of 5 machines Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Bodnar Sent: 28 January 2014 14:44 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Virtual machines How big is the environment, how many server licenses are you talking about here? Just so I get this right, this is your process? When hardware failure occurs, backup software restores to a VM. When new hardware is in place, you backup the VM and restore to new physical hardware? My first thought would be to get volume licenses and setup KMS. I believe this would solve the whole problem. Christopher Bodnar Enterprise Architect I, Corporate Office of Technology:Enterprise Architecture and Engineering Services Tel 610-807-6459 3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017 christopher_bod...@glic.com mailto: The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America www.guardianlife.com http://www.guardianlife.com/ From:Nigel Parker nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk To:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Date:01/28/2014 04:12 AM Subject:[NTSysADM] Virtual machines Sent by:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com Hi Looking for option for Disater recovery We use backupexec that can create hyperv machines and they work faultlessly Also thinking about not spending money unless we have to! The hyper v machines with 2008 comeback however they need re licensing, from the test we have completed they work ok for a day However is there a way to transfer the licence (I don't want to break any licensing agreements) so if it means we have to buy another x number of 2008 server licenses then that's what we will do, it would be just to run the machine as a virtual machine for as long as it needs to repair the hardware and have the machine back up and running physically. Having mirrored servers would be out as the cost would be to high All servers have a 24 hour 4 hour response Some are older servers running proprietary software so they are windows 2000 these come back no problem Would something like veam be able to transfer the physical license to a virtual machine and then back or is this breaking licensing agreements with Microsoft Again I don't want to break any licensing agreements but have to do this cheaply The backup software we have creates the virtual machines and works fine, they restore to physical or virtual servers without problems, just the licensing OR How long can I legally run a transferred 2008 server, do you get 30 days? If so this would be more than enough to have the hardware back up, Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is sent out only for intended recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other use or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and unlawful. - This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is sent out only for intended recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other use or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and unlawful. image001.jpg
[NTSysADM] Wireless access points
We have some issue here were Reps will take a machine and use Free WIFI spots, the company permit this but... When they connect, they complain they cant use the internet and even there vpn clients refuse connection even though they are connected to the Free wifi, after further investigation its seems this happen They connect to a free hotel wifi However this is a connection that permits them to connect to a holding page via a browser and they then have to enter further information, sometimes the wifi connection prompts that further information ios required to use the wifi spot. Now there internet clients are set to use a proxy server for internet access and of course this blocked them from being able to access even the holding or landing page to enter further information (same happens if they use there phones to connect from a remote location (mix of android and apple devices) What I would like to do is find a way when they are OFF our network to disable the proxy settings in internet explorer Details Servers 2003 server Clients mix of Windows XP (yes I know but we are still testing software to permit them to move to windows 7) AND Windows 7 Internet explorer is there browser versions are from 8 upwards I was going to go in with a lowtech approach and maybe run a batch file that mapps a drive and looks for a file If it fails the assumption is that they are off the network and disables proxy settings I have already found a setting in AD to turn on or off the firewall if they are on or off our network and this seems to work well However I need to find a way to ensure if they are on standby that when the machine wakes it knows if it is on or off the company network, is there a way to do this, without user intervention? OR Does anyone have a better idea Total spend on this project of course would be ZERO, :-( Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is sent out only for intended recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other use or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and unlawful.
RE: [NTSysADM] Wireless access points
Thanks Might take some reading but it looks like an option for us Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: 24 January 2014 08:29 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Wireless access points Proxy auto-config (PAC) files are ideal for this situation http://www.proxypacfiles.com/proxypac/ On 24 January 2014 08:26, Nigel Parker nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk wrote: We have some issue here were Reps will take a machine and use Free WIFI spots, the company permit this but... When they connect, they complain they cant use the internet and even there vpn clients refuse connection even though they are connected to the Free wifi, after further investigation its seems this happen They connect to a free hotel wifi However this is a connection that permits them to connect to a holding page via a browser and they then have to enter further information, sometimes the wifi connection prompts that further information ios required to use the wifi spot. Now there internet clients are set to use a proxy server for internet access and of course this blocked them from being able to access even the holding or landing page to enter further information (same happens if they use there phones to connect from a remote location (mix of android and apple devices) What I would like to do is find a way when they are OFF our network to disable the proxy settings in internet explorer Details Servers 2003 server Clients mix of Windows XP (yes I know but we are still testing software to permit them to move to windows 7) AND Windows 7 Internet explorer is there browser versions are from 8 upwards I was going to go in with a lowtech approach and maybe run a batch file that mapps a drive and looks for a file If it fails the assumption is that they are off the network and disables proxy settings I have already found a setting in AD to turn on or off the firewall if they are on or off our network and this seems to work well However I need to find a way to ensure if they are on standby that when the machine wakes it knows if it is on or off the company network, is there a way to do this, without user intervention? OR Does anyone have a better idea Total spend on this project of course would be ZERO, :-( Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is sent out only for intended recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other use or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and unlawful. -- James Rankin - RCL - Senior Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) | The Virtualization Practice Analyst - Desktop Virtualization http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is sent out only for intended recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other use or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and unlawful.
RE: [NTSysADM] Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 file transfer latency
I may be on the wrong track However we had issues with 64bit windows 7 clients we run an ip4 network internally and found this solved our problem 1) Run the following commands through a CMD prompt with Admin rights. netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled netsh interface tcp set global rss=disabled 2) Turn off Remote Differential Compression - RDC Go to Control Panel = Programs = Turn Windows features on or off = Deselect Remote Differential Compression 3) Set Link Speed and Duplex in network card properties from Auto Negotiate to match your line speed of your switch. In my case this was 100 MB Full Duplex 4) Deselect IPv6 and QoS in network card protocols Reboot your PC Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com http://www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jimmy Tran Sent: 03 January 2014 15:42 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 file transfer latency Hi All, I previously posted a message about slow file opening and saving in office 2010 between W7 and Server 2k8r2 but had no replies. I did further testing and it seems to occur more than just office files. It occurs with any opening or closing/saving of files on the server. Once it is opened, it works fine. There was a hotfix that was supposed to resolve this issue, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981711, but I couldn't even get that installed. I follow some other posts and disabled SMB 2.0 of my W7 client. The latency went away. Ideally, I'd like to have SMB 2.0 enabled. I'm sure someone here on this board has had this issue? Can anyone shed some light on what they did to resolve this? I'm about ready to open a support case with MS but I thought I'd try this team one more time. Thanks, Jimmy Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is sent out only for intended recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other use or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and unlawful.
RE: [NTSysADM] Free ebook: Introducing Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview Release
Hi Nice thanks for the link Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of John Cook Sent: 12 August 2013 15:17 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] Free ebook: Introducing Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview Release http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2013/08/01/free-ebook-in troducing-windows-server-2012-r2-preview-release.aspx John W. Cook Network Operations Manager Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place Gainesville, Fl 32607 Office (352)-244-1610 Cell (352) 215-6944 MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, Security+ VSP4, VTSP4 CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Information (PHI), confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, transmission, dissemination, or other use of, and taking any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient without the express written consent of the sender are prohibited. This information may be protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and other Federal and Florida laws. Improper or unauthorized use or disclosure of this information could result in civil and/or criminal penalties. Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is sent out only for intended recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other use or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and unlawful.
RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Hyperv windows 2008 keys
Hi Its a dell so it activates with the Dell media, looking at dells website it just says to use the Dell media for the virtual server install and put the key in from the supplied coa it actually says Virtual key I thought at first it was something to do with the machine not being able to access the internet so I bypassed our fire wall and although it takes longer to fail it still fails :-( Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jimmy Tran Sent: 12 July 2013 18:22 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Hyperv windows 2008 keys Im leaning towards wrong install media. OEM, Retail, VL media all use different keys in my experience. With that said, it should work since you are using the dell server 2008 disk with this the OEM key. Did the Host activate ok? -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Nigel Parker Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 4:34 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] Hyperv windows 2008 keys Hi Ok we have our windows 2008 server setup and I am installing the first virtual machine (another 2008 server) Now on the Dell server we have 2 product keys One is the 2008 product key the other says Virtual machine key However after installing the virtual machine and inputting the Virtual key from the server I get an error That the product key is invalid After checking for typos a number of times What am I doing wrong, Is thins not the key or am I using the wrong install media (supplied Dell badge windows 2008 install disk) Thanks Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is sent out only for intended recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other use or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and unlawful. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is sent out only for intended recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other use or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and unlawful.
[NTSysADM] Hyperv windows 2008 keys
Hi Ok we have our windows 2008 server setup and I am installing the first virtual machine (another 2008 server) Now on the Dell server we have 2 product keys One is the 2008 product key the other says Virtual machine key However after installing the virtual machine and inputting the Virtual key from the server I get an error That the product key is invalid After checking for typos a number of times What am I doing wrong, Is thins not the key or am I using the wrong install media (supplied Dell badge windows 2008 install disk) Thanks Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is sent out only for intended recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other use or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and unlawful.
RE: [NTSysADM] Print server Upgrade
Hi I like the idea But Just to add to the puzzle we also run MS DOS, Windows 95 and NT4, and windows 7 we are moving to windows 7 but this will take at least a year and the cutting machines in the factory do not have the option of an upgrade unless the hardware is replaced and we do not have the budget for that as it runs into millions of pounds In the factory we have about 60 machines they all print to different label printers as these are at the end of each users bench sp they don’t have to walk far, The other problem is although we have enough windows licenses in the factory they all logon as the same person, this is so the managers always know the logons and password so I wouldn't be able to ties the printers down to a user only a machine, In the office people print to the nearest printer this is more manageable however every user has different software mostly custom that we setup to print to another printer that could be in a remote office in most cases, the software stores the settings in the registry so thats easy to find ok maybe we have groups of 5 users with similar needs, it would take some work to set these ip (i know once there done they're done) At this moment I don’t have the time or patience to set this up We need a 64 bit server as some users have moved to 64 bit versions of windows because the software dictates this So I am going to try I have already virtualised the print server for testing Will upgrade it to windows 2008 Export the printers as was suggested Install a clean windows 2008 64 bit version Import the printers TEST so I know what to expect and the disruption Then go live :-) Thanks for all the suggestions I know setting up scripts and AD settings is the way to go but ... Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Aakash Shah Sent: 28 June 2013 17:08 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Print server Upgrade Not knowing the specifics of your environment, this could still work. I would suggest the following: 1. If the custom software makes the user select a specific printer, i.e. it does not respect the default printer, and if this printer is different than the printer the users would use for standard word docs, etc, you can find out where the custom program records the printer to use. It may be in the registry (likely), or a custom file. With this information, you can pre-populate either the reg key/custom file with the printer information. 2. And then for the rest of Windows, you can deploy (and set as a default if needed) specific printers based on some pattern (assuming this pattern exists - either physical location, IP address, security group, part of a name, etc). -Aakash Shah -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Nigel Parker Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 8:35 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Print server Upgrade Hi The main problem is that we have a lot of custom written software, this needs the users to go into the options and select the printer within the software it doesn’t pick up default printer settings Even if it did this would be of no use to our users as they will have a default printer set to one machine for standard word docs etc and another machine to print out from within the application I can see your logic but for most of our users this will not work Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Aakash Shah Sent: 28 June 2013 16:21 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Print server Upgrade Is there any pattern/logic as to what printers each person will get? If so, you could use GP to deploy the printers, and if the pattern is complex, you could consider creating a script (still deployed via GP) that contains the detection logic and then adds the printer depending on the logic. You mentioned below that no two users has the same printers. Not knowing how that will look, I will create a sample use case: let's say that each of the 50 label printers is used by one person only. If this is the case, then you can consider creating the new print queue with a standardized printer name like Dept Username Dymo 400, where username is the username of the person who uses this printer. Then, you can build a script that checks for this and adds this specific printer. And then let's say that the other printers are shared by a specific set of users - by either
RE: [NTSysADM] Print server Upgrade
Hi That wont work here Also some of the software the users has to then specifically go to the settings and pick the printer, just getting them to click on the link could be problematic Regards Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: 28 June 2013 15:24 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Print server Upgrade Perhaps, but what we did for this very situation recently was to o- Build the new server with a new name o- Populate it with all of the printer definitions with the same share names (making sure to add in the x86 printer definitions) o- Send an email to folks telling them to note their current printer definitions and then delete them, and also provide them with a link to the new server (\\newserver), and tell them to doubleclick on each of the printers they needed to install the drivers. Worked like a champ. Kurt On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 1:46 AM, Nigel Parker nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk wrote: Hi We are currently thinking of upgrading our print server from a 2003 box to 2008 we also need to move from a 32bit version of windows to a 64 bit version In the past we used printmig to move all the printers to another machine but this doesn't seem to like our 64 bit machine The machine need to have the same name so its a seamless process otherwise we will have to manually setup printers for users as we have 21 MFD`s 50 label printers and about 30 other associated machines Some people will need A MFD A Colour printer And a couple of label printers setup No 2 people have the same setup Is it possible to migrate users to another print server like this? Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is sent out only for intended recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other use or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and unlawful. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is sent out only for intended recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other use or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and unlawful.
RE: [NTSysADM] Print server Upgrade
Hi Ah this looks like what I am after Many thanks Have already virtualised our print server so I can play with the virtual copy (offline) and see what happens Thanks Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael Leone Sent: 28 June 2013 15:32 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Print server Upgrade We did this a couple times. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd379488(WS.10).aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722360.aspx We were able to import most of our existing printer definitions. About 1/3 didn't work, due to 32bit-to-64bit problems (mostly, the print processor name changed). Those we manually re-installed. On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 4:46 AM, Nigel Parker nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk wrote: Hi We are currently thinking of upgrading our print server from a 2003 box to 2008 we also need to move from a 32bit version of windows to a 64 bit version In the past we used printmig to move all the printers to another machine but this doesn't seem to like our 64 bit machine The machine need to have the same name so its a seamless process otherwise we will have to manually setup printers for users as we have 21 MFD`s 50 label printers and about 30 other associated machines Some people will need A MFD A Colour printer And a couple of label printers setup No 2 people have the same setup Is it possible to migrate users to another print server like this? Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is sent out only for intended recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other use or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and unlawful. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is sent out only for intended recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other use or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and unlawful.
RE: [NTSysADM] Print server Upgrade
Hi The main problem is that we have a lot of custom written software, this needs the users to go into the options and select the printer within the software it doesn’t pick up default printer settings Even if it did this would be of no use to our users as they will have a default printer set to one machine for standard word docs etc and another machine to print out from within the application I can see your logic but for most of our users this will not work Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Aakash Shah Sent: 28 June 2013 16:21 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Print server Upgrade Is there any pattern/logic as to what printers each person will get? If so, you could use GP to deploy the printers, and if the pattern is complex, you could consider creating a script (still deployed via GP) that contains the detection logic and then adds the printer depending on the logic. You mentioned below that no two users has the same printers. Not knowing how that will look, I will create a sample use case: let's say that each of the 50 label printers is used by one person only. If this is the case, then you can consider creating the new print queue with a standardized printer name like Dept Username Dymo 400, where username is the username of the person who uses this printer. Then, you can build a script that checks for this and adds this specific printer. And then let's say that the other printers are shared by a specific set of users - by either physical location of security group. You could then use GP to automate this setup for everyone. Basically, if there is a pattern to it, then you can build something appropriate to account for it. This would be more work up front, but it will pay off in the end (assuming you can find a pattern to it). This will also help you when replacing/refreshing people's computers since you won't have to do anything in terms of printers when you deliver a new computer. To answer your main question - when we transitioned from Windows 2003 to 2008r2, we rebuilt our servers since there was a lot we wanted to clean up (standardize printer names and port names, use Universal drivers, etc). Good luck! -Aakash Shah -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Nigel Parker Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 7:50 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Print server Upgrade Hi That wont work here Also some of the software the users has to then specifically go to the settings and pick the printer, just getting them to click on the link could be problematic Regards Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: 28 June 2013 15:24 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Print server Upgrade Perhaps, but what we did for this very situation recently was to o- Build the new server with a new name o- Populate it with all of the printer definitions with the same share names (making sure to add in the x86 printer definitions) o- Send an email to folks telling them to note their current printer definitions and then delete them, and also provide them with a link to the new server (\\newserver), and tell them to doubleclick on each of the printers they needed to install the drivers. Worked like a champ. Kurt On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 1:46 AM, Nigel Parker nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk wrote: Hi We are currently thinking of upgrading our print server from a 2003 box to 2008 we also need to move from a 32bit version of windows to a 64 bit version In the past we used printmig to move all the printers to another machine but this doesn't seem to like our 64 bit machine The machine need to have the same name so its a seamless process otherwise we will have to manually setup printers for users as we have 21 MFD`s 50 label printers and about 30 other associated machines Some people will need A MFD A Colour printer And a couple of label printers setup No 2 people have the same setup Is it possible to migrate users to another print server like this? Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject
