RE: [NTSysADM] Office 365 SLA and details on backups ownership etc

2013-08-12 Thread Michael B. Smith
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office-365-service-descriptions.aspx - although you should look at the description appropriate to your geographic locality. I certainly won't touch 1 or 2. 3 - there isn't any. 4 - depends on the plan you buy. 5 - after a period of time the data is

Re: [NTSysADM] Office 365 SLA and details on backups ownership etc

2013-08-12 Thread Jon D
I though I read somewhere that the European Union is recommending not to use American Cloud services? The US Government is open about going through the data in the cloud. Kind of a problem for a foreign company... Jon On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 4:12 AM, Graeme Carstairs

RE: [NTSysADM] Office 365 SLA and details on backups ownership etc

2013-08-12 Thread Randal, Phil
Biggest problem for a solicitor would be client confidentiality, surely? And as, according to the Snowden revelations, both the NSA and GCHQ have their mitts all over 'the cloud'... Phil -- Phil Randal Infrastructure Engineer Hoople Ltd | Thorn Office Centre | Hereford HR2 6JT Tel: 01432

[NTSysADM] Free ebook: Introducing Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview Release

2013-08-12 Thread John Cook
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RE: [NTSysADM] Office 365 SLA and details on backups ownership etc

2013-08-12 Thread Ryan Finnesey
They are all over the Internet it seems not just the Cloud Providers. tapping the network at the peering points. They can monitor all traffic not just the Cloud Providers. Cheers Ryan From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Randal, Phil

RE: [NTSysADM] Office 365 SLA and details on backups ownership etc

2013-08-12 Thread Mike Hoffman
There is a different set of responses from Microsoft to address the EU specific requirements. If you start at http://trust.office365.com/ you can then get to the EU Model Clauses common questions -

Re: [NTSysADM] Office 365 SLA and details on backups ownership etc

2013-08-12 Thread Graeme Carstairs
The Impression I get from the client (though he hasnt came right out and said it) is that he is not really wanting to go cloud, but feels, that as MS have removed Exchange from Small Business Server, and that he is having to upgrade a working system to new software, that he has to look at the

RE: [NTSysADM] Office 365 SLA and details on backups ownership etc

2013-08-12 Thread Michael B. Smith
The announcement of PRISM itself has a been a deal breaker for several folks I've had considering cloud solutions. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Graeme Carstairs Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 12:23 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com

[NTSysADM] Cloning drives... over the LAN?

2013-08-12 Thread Sam Cayze
Swapping a lot of my users HDs to SSDs. I've been doing this after the user leaves for the day, connecting the drive via SATA, and cloning. ~40GB, and takes me about 2 hours each. Need to a way to speed this up. These are all laptops which the user almost always takes home. Is there a

[NTSysADM] RE: Virtualization of servers in the production room?

2013-08-12 Thread Damien Solodow
Could you? Yes Should you? Maybe Consolidation of SQL can be a good thing, but there are a few gotchas: Some apps that load their own instance of SQL (WebJetAdmin!) can be a problem working with a remote SQL server The various apps you have talking to SQL may not all play nice with the same

[NTSysADM] RE: Virtualization of servers in the production room?

2013-08-12 Thread Michael B. Smith
Do you know your IOPS, memory, and processor requirements? From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of David McSpadden Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 3:40 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] Virtualization of servers in the

RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Virtualization of servers in the production room?

2013-08-12 Thread David McSpadden
Ok. Good. The apps that are sqlexpress local machine bound I will disregard until last. The odbc web to sql or .net to sql type configs I will jump on support to get them pulled apart. That way I only have one box for SQL updates and security. As long as I can get the mom and pop installs

RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Virtualization of servers in the production room?

2013-08-12 Thread David McSpadden
Getting them from the vendors. I have what is being used over the last 30 days but that is serverwide not just SQL. I am getting the vendors to give me their best guess as to what their software requires. J From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On

[NTSysADM] RE: sql server upgrade

2013-08-12 Thread Jesse Rink
thanks damien and glen. i think i'll go ahead with option #2. i already have the MS tech article on how to rename a sql server so that isn't a concern. appreciate the insight. jesse From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] on

[NTSysADM] RE: sql server upgrade

2013-08-12 Thread Ziots, Edward
The only thing that might get you is SPN (Service Principal Names) that might be registered in AD with the old name and new name that might need cleaned up. Otherwise, a side by side migration is always the safest. Z Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, CISA, Security +, Network + Security Engineer

Re: [NTSysADM] sql server upgrade

2013-08-12 Thread Sean Martin
I agree with everyone else, go with option 2. Might be a good time to research the possibility of updating all of your client ODBC connections to reference the DB by cname rather than server name. - Sean On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote:

RE: [NTSysADM] RE: sql server upgrade

2013-08-12 Thread Jon Harris
Question why not just create the server off network from the old one with the correct name in the first place migrate the DB's thru intermediate means and then take the old server out of the picture putting in the new one. All that would be needed would be joining the domain for the new one

RE: [NTSysADM] sql server upgrade

2013-08-12 Thread Ken Schaefer
Or use SQL Server aliases (configure in the SQL Server client) instead of CNAMEs Update the (local) alias on the SQL Server after renaming (if this is still required for SQL Server 2008 R2) Cheers Ken From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of

RE: [NTSysADM] RE: sql server upgrade

2013-08-12 Thread Ken Schaefer
For anything other than a small environment, this would be a PITA. a) Building the server and getting services running (and thus being able to do your system acceptance test) would require AD connectivity b) After migrating the databases, being able to test the migration would