RE: Outlook strangeness

1.5GB *SHOULD* be o.k., but that 2GB ceiling isn't a hard and fast limit. I've seen PST files corrupt even at 1.8GB. Ben M. Schorr Chief Executive Officer Roland Schorr & Tower www.rolandschorr.com / www.officeforlawyers.com Member: American Bar Association - 01473703 Author: The Lawyer's Guide

RE: Outlook strangeness

Correct - doing an in-place upgrade to a newer version will NOT upgrade the PST file from binary to UNICODE. In fact, there are folks running Outlook 2007 (and 2010 beta) who are still using old binary PST files because they never moved to a UNICODE PST file. Ben M. Schorr Chief Executive Of

RE: Anyone ever use one of these with VMWare

I have two in place. Works well, but, you get what you pay for. Performance is not very good with it. I have also had a few issues with iSCSI losing connection and the SAN needing to be restarted. However, for the cost, it's nice. But I wouldn't choose to run production stuff on it. JR

Re: VMware --> Hyper-v

+1 On Apr 6, 2010 5:03 PM, "Steven Peck" wrote: The last few years fo stuff has been pretty solid. On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:58 AM, John Cook wrote: > I'm just being cynical, MS... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: VMware --> Hyper-v

IF you can live without VMotion but would like HA, Data Recovery, Update Manager and still have the ability to run 6 CPUs (max 3 servers) you should consider Essentials Plus. At $2995 it's a pretty good deal and there will be no converting VMs or any of that potential headache just a new managem

RE: VMware --> Hyper-v

DPM comes to mind... -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 5:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMware --> Hyper-v The last few years fo stuff has been pretty solid. On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:58 AM, John Cook wrote: >

Re: Webcam to monitor server rooms

I have. Generally it means something is wrong with the tools so ultimatly you still have to fix something :0 On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Brian Desmond wrote: > I’ve not run in to the HP tools not reflecting actual state? > > > > Thanks, > > Brian Desmond > > br...@briandesmond.com > > > > c

Re: Outlook strangeness

Did you try deleting her Outlook profile and creating a new one? Save the .n2k file just in case... Die dulci fruere! Roger Wright ___ On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 2:28 PM, John Aldrich wrote: > Does not appear to have solved the problem. I renamed her “extend.dat” to > “extend.tad” (rather than

Re: DISK BASED BACKUP

We're getting ready to test Dell RD-1000 devices, both exernal and internal. The "normal" external is USB-connected SATA drive, but we've been told we could get a SAS connection, also. We're using Commvault for our backup software, but I wouldn't suggest that if you're a small shop; stick to

Re: Outlook strangeness

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Orland, Kathleen wrote: > I still think renaming the old profile and creating a new profile for > Outlook to use Outlook in IMO (Internet Mail Only) mode does not have MAPI profiles. There is nothing to rename or create. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint sec

Re: DISK BASED BACKUP

I use Netbackup and vRanger (ESX) for backups at 2 different sites. I hate tapes, so I just set up some iSCSI LUNs and back up to that. Once a week we copy the Netbackup (or vRanger) images to a couple large USB drivse and send them offsite. Works pretty well. Actual file copies can be slow, so

Re: Outlook strangeness

On Tue April 6 2010, you wrote: > > Unless this is a newer computer running an older version of Office, > it's prolly more cost-effective to just buy a new computer with Office > bundled. > > (I'm assuming, if she is still running Office 2000, staying on the > latest-and-greatest is not a pri

RE: DISK BASED BACKUP

Perhaps eSATA then. From: Murray Freeman [mailto:mfree...@alanet.org] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 4:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DISK BASED BACKUP I do have multiple servers to be backed up, so I suspect that the USB interface may be too slow

Re: Outlook strangeness

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 4:15 PM, John Aldrich wrote: > I might have to see about purchasing an > updated version of office for her. :-( Unless this is a newer computer running an older version of Office, it's prolly more cost-effective to just buy a new computer with Office bundled. (I'm assu

Re: Outlook strangeness

I still think renaming the old profile and creating a new profile for Outlook to use (use File > Open to reconnect the new PST) should be tried. Kathleen Orland Please support me in my efforts: SPCA Friends for Life 2010 Walk-A-Thon http://ontariospca.akaraisin.com/p/kathleenorland.aspx - Or

RE: DISK BASED BACKUP

I do have multiple servers to be backed up, so I suspect that the USB interface may be too slow. Do you see any issues with backing up from other servers over the network? Murray From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 4:

Re: Outlook strangeness

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming wrote: > Outlook 2003 & 2007 no longer have the 2gb limit.  Not sure about Outlook XP. XP only supports the older PST format, which is limited to 2 GB. Outlook 2003 introduced the so-called "Unicode PST" format, which is not limited to 2 GB

RE: Outlook strangeness

Thanks, was about to forward that info to him, same as what I had on my notes. Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: Orland, Kathleen [mailto:korl...@rogers.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 3:00 PM To:

Re: Terminal Server Install mode

Run the command prompt as admin. On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Tom Miller wrote: > I haven't seen this before. > > I just built another server to add to my Terminal Server 2008 farm. Logging > in as a domain admin, when attempting to change to "install" mode, I get a > message "only membe

Re: DISK BASED BACKUP

Go with the native tools in Windows 2008 and use disks instead. Depending on which 2008 you can do different things. R2 is better than the orginal. If the entire server is less than a TB then a simple USB drive. Jon On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Murray Freeman wrote: > We're a small shop a

Re: VMware --> Hyper-v

The last few years fo stuff has been pretty solid. On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:58 AM, John Cook wrote: > I'm just being cynical, MS would never put out a half baked product ;-) > > - Original Message - > From: Tim Vander Kooi > To: NT System Admin Issues > Sent: Tue Apr 06 14:25:47 2010 >

DISK BASED BACKUP

We're a small shop and have half a dozen servers in use at present, but will be expanding. We currently sue 3 tape drives to back up our servers, and are using NTBackup on Windows Server 2003. We will be moving to Windows Server 2008 maybe next year, and I'm aware that NTBackup has been replaced. W

RE: Learning System Center Configuration Manager

I agree with the others and in addition, highly recommend the Unleashed book: http://www.amazon.com/System-Center-Configuration-Manager-Unleashed/dp/0672330237/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270586732&sr=1-1 Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Serv

Re: Outlook strangeness

On Tue April 6 2010, you wrote: > > Did you check the size of the PST? Outlook 2000 gets very unhappy when > the PST approaches 2gb. > > Outlook 2003 & 2007 no longer have the 2gb limit. Not sure about > Outlook XP. > Yep. It was 1.5 Gig (roughly) so we still had some time to go. As a precaut

Re: wierd e-mail issue

Not an actual trace route. From my admin account I *can* get to where she needs to go and from her user account I can't get there. This is a Windows 2003 Domain with all XP boxes, including this laptop. The kicker is that just this box fails to get to the Yahoo mail servers and only with her accoun

Re: Outlook strangeness

On 6 Apr 2010 at 12:30, John Aldrich wrote: > > I have ONE user who´s having a problem with her Outlook 2000 today. For > some strange reason, the ONLY way I can get it to start and open up is to > start it in safe mode, i.e. "outlook.exe /safe". That´s not an ideal > situation, obviously. I

Re: Outlook strangeness

On Tue April 6 2010, you wrote: > Outlook 2000 and earlier had to be installed in one of two modes. > They were, IIRC, "CW" (Corporate/Workgroup) or "IMO" (Internet Mail > Only). CW used Microsoft's MAPI-the-client-stack-architecture; IMO > did not. The Exchange client was only available in CW

Re: Terminal Server Install mode

yup, got it. Thanks. >>> Richard Stovall 4/6/2010 4:03 PM >>> Elevate the shell before you run the command. On Apr 6, 2010, at 3:54 PM, "Tom Miller" wrote: I haven't seen this before. I just built another server to add to my Terminal Server 2008 farm. Logging in as a domain admin,

Re: Terminal Server Install mode

Elevate the shell before you run the command. On Apr 6, 2010, at 3:54 PM, "Tom Miller" wrote: > I haven't seen this before. > > I just built another server to add to my Terminal Server 2008 farm. > Logging in as a domain admin, when attempting to change to "install" > mode, I get a messag

Terminal Server Install mode

I haven't seen this before. I just built another server to add to my Terminal Server 2008 farm. Logging in as a domain admin, when attempting to change to "install" mode, I get a message "only members of the administrators group may enable Install mode." I added my account but still get the m

Re: OT: Exploits not needed to attack via PDF files

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Sam Cayze wrote: > http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20001792-245.html "Adobe takes the security of our products and technologies very seriously...". That from Adobe, immediately after saying that "/launch" is part of the specification, so they *had* to implemen

Sunbelt + firewall + umt device

Any chance sunbelt will come out with smb perimeter UMT and firewall and nat router (for small bussiness)? Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

Nextlabs

Anyone have any experience with the Nextlabs suite of DLP products? If so, I'm curious to hear your high level thoughts on the company and products and any problems you faced. Kevin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: Outlook strangeness

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 2:54 PM, John Aldrich wrote: > Not yet. It’s kind of difficult to do that in Outlook 2000. Outlook 2003 and > later had actual “profiles” you could delete, but OL2K pretty much (at least > for POP3 accounts) only has the “default” profile. Outlook 2000 and earlier had to

Re: Low end reliable workstations

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Brian Desmond wrote: >>... including 90% of Microsoft's stuff, falls into the category of >>"poorly-written". > > I have no idea what your benchmark is for commercial software testing/design > given that statement... I have no idea what your point is, given tha

Re: Outlook strangeness

If any of the add-ins you use rely on forms, deleting the frmcache.dat (I usually delete the contents of the FORMS directory entirely) can resolve a lot of weird issues. %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\FORMS - Sean On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Orland, Kathleen wrote:

Re: Outlook strangeness

frmcache.dat the SRS file extend.dat outcmd.dat - Original Message - From: Erik Goldoff To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 2:50 PM Subject: Re: Outlook strangeness there are a few other similar files to delete, but I don't have a list handy and about

Re: VMware --> Hyper-v

I'm just being cynical, MS would never put out a half baked product ;-) - Original Message - From: Tim Vander Kooi To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Tue Apr 06 14:25:47 2010 Subject: RE: VMware --> Hyper-v I am basing the assumption on the fact that it works at RC. ;-) -Original Mes

RE: Outlook strangeness

Not yet. It's kind of difficult to do that in Outlook 2000. Outlook 2003 and later had actual "profiles" you could delete, but OL2K pretty much (at least for POP3 accounts) only has the "default" profile. L I could try to delete the email account and set it back up from scratch, but that's not real

RE: Outlook strangeness

Thanks. I have to leave for one of our other locations in a few minutes, so I'll hopefully get your list overnight and be ready to work on it in the morning. J John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 2:50 PM To: NT System Admin Is

Re: Outlook strangeness

there are a few other similar files to delete, but I don't have a list handy and about to head to a meeting. I'll try to forward a few notes when I'm free again. On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 2:28 PM, John Aldrich wrote: > Does not appear to have solved the problem. I renamed her “extend.dat” to > “ex

RE: Outlook strangeness

Did you delete the outlook profile? From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 2:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook strangeness Does not appear to have solved the problem. I renamed her "extend.d

RE: Outlook strangeness

Does not appear to have solved the problem. I renamed her "extend.dat" to "extend.tad" (rather than delete it, in case it was needed or I had the wrong extend.dat) and it still just comes up with the Outlook 2000 splash screen and hangs. L John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:e

RE: VMware --> Hyper-v

I am basing the assumption on the fact that it works at RC. ;-) -Original Message- From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 11:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMware --> Hyper-v You're assuming it will all work at RTM , large assumption. --

Re: Learning System Center Configuration Manager

I second the MyITForum it is the best and one of the leads on the forum is a regular on this list. Jon On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Joe Artz wrote: > The technet documentation is actually really good: > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb735860.aspx > > > > There’s also a very ac

RE: Learning System Center Configuration Manager

The technet documentation is actually really good: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb735860.aspx There’s also a very active community at MyITForum: http://www.myitforum.com/lists/ Note that there are 2 lists for ConfigMgr: ConfigMgr 2007/SMS and Microsoft Deployment

Re: Outlook strangeness

You'd be surprised. - Original Message - From: John Aldrich To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 1:26 PM Subject: RE: Outlook strangeness Thanks. I'll give it a shot. AFAIK, there has been nothing added/removed in the last few days. She had a couple di

Re: employeeType attribute?

Brian is correct. See this article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727064.aspx Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-60

RE: Webcam to monitor server rooms

We've spent a whole lot of man-hours chasing various "false positives" with HP. From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 8:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Webcam to monitor server rooms I've not run in to the HP tools not reflecting

Re: Outlook strangeness

shouldn't, especially not like that. The extend.dat is a cache that helps outlook load faster by caching add-in information it would otherwise have to find in a potentially large registry. If there is anything in the cache pointing to an inaccurate location, it could cause Outlook to hang or hicc

RE: Outlook strangeness

Thanks. I'll give it a shot. AFAIK, there has been nothing added/removed in the last few days. She had a couple different toolbars (Google and Yahoo) installed, but that *shouldn't* affect Outlook, should it? John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesd

Re: Outlook strangeness

search for and delete the extend.dat file from her Application Data/Microsoft/Outlook under her profile folder in Documents and Settings. Then restart Outlook, it will recreate the extend.dat from information found in the registry. Anything uninstalled on her system in the last day or so ? On Tue

RE: Webcam to monitor server rooms

We recently put one in to complement the couple we have hookd to the http://www.sensaphone.com/ims_4000.php From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 7:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Webcam to monitor server rooms I still say take a look at

Re: recover initialized drive

Does the drive have mission critical data on it? Trying to recover the drive with lowcost/free solutions just may be destructive. That's your call though. Decide how important it is ... if it warrants it you might just send it off to Ontrack. We did this many moons ago and they got all the data

Learning System Center Configuration Manager

Do any of you have suggestions about books or on-line documentation that would be helpful getting started with System Center Configuration Manager? Thanks for your help. Curt Finley ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: employeeType attribute?

I think you need to tweak a display specifier to make it percolate up. Been a while though - don't remember precisely. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 11:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Su

RE: Outlook strangeness

Well, we did do the nose From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 9:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Outlook strangeness So... she's a witch?! On 7 April 2010 01:31, Brian Desmond mailto:br...@briandesmond.com>> wrote: Safe mode starts it with

RE: employeeType attribute?

There's a checkbox for "allow this attribute to be shown in advanced view", what does that mean? [cid:image001.png@01CAD56F.44A26520] From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 9:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: employeeType attribute? It's not

Re: Outlook strangeness

Safe mode disables all integration with Outlook (antivirus, anti-spam, etc.). Disable all your Add Ins and COMs, then add them back one at a time and test each one to find the culprit. - Original Message - From: John Aldrich To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Tuesday, April 06,

Re: VMware --> Hyper-v

You're assuming it will all work at RTM , large assumption. - Original Message - From: Tim Vander Kooi To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Tue Apr 06 12:22:20 2010 Subject: RE: VMware --> Hyper-v For an environment the size that Richard describes a better solution might be to wait a few w

RE: Outlook strangeness

Outlook 2000? I don't recall the exact menu sequence for that version but check and see what add-ins she has installed. You might also try creating a new Outlook profile for her (Control Panel | Mail) and see if that helps. Troubleshooting Outlook - http://www.officeforlawyers.com/outlook

RE: Outlook strangeness

Try deleting her outlook profile and fire up outlook again (creating a new profile) I just had to do this yesterday for a user. From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 12:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: O

Re: Outlook strangeness

So... she's a witch?! On 7 April 2010 01:31, Brian Desmond wrote: > *Safe mode starts it without addins… * > > * * > > *Thanks,* > > *Brian Desmond* > > *br...@briandesmond.com* > > * * > > *c - 312.731.3132* > > * * > > *From:* John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] > *Sent:* Tues

RE: employeeType attribute?

It's not going to show up in ADUC outside of the attribute editor tab in 2008+ ADUC. PAS update on the GC will be during normal replication. Don't know what rDirectory's problem is - never used it before. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: David Lum [mailto:

employeeType attribute?

Showing my AD inexperience here...we're trying to leverage the employeeType attribute in Active Directory. We've enabled it being replicated to the GC but still do not see it in the ADUC snap-in (we enabled it to be viewed there as well). Really what we can't see it is for a 3rd party AD applic

Re: VMware --> Hyper-v

Roger. Will look into it. Our support renewal for VMware isn't due until the end of July, so I've got time to look at all the options. On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Tim Vander Kooi wrote: > For an environment the size that Richard describes a better solution might be > to wait a few weeks a

Re: VMware --> Hyper-v

I had read that about the coming memory improvements and it sounds great. When I got to %dayjob% the existing VMs had vast memory overcommitment issues (32 bit Std. servers with 8GB RAM allocated, etc.) I tweaked all of that and currently none of the hosts have more memory allocated to VMs than a

RE: Outlook strangeness

Safe mode starts it without addins... Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 11:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Outlook strangeness I have ONE user who's having a problem wi

Outlook strangeness

I have ONE user who's having a problem with her Outlook 2000 today. For some strange reason, the ONLY way I can get it to start and open up is to start it in safe mode, i.e. "outlook.exe /safe". That's not an ideal situation, obviously. I've tried pretty much all the other command-line switches tha

RE: SAN question

Well, our AS/400 is about 8 years old, and our AS/400 consultants have advised that the only way, currently to back up the AS/400 to the SAN would be to back it up to disk (on the 400) and then FTP that up to the windows side of things, and we currently don’t have sufficient disk space to do tha

RE: VMware --> Hyper-v

For an environment the size that Richard describes a better solution might be to wait a few weeks and look into System Center Essentials 2010 which does management, update and software installs, as well as virtual machine management for environments with fewer than 500 clients and 50 servers. I

Re: Anyone ever use one of these with VMWare

Someone has. It doesn't look very fast, but for learning in a home lab it seems like a viable option. http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/1069-Iomega-StorCenter-Pro-NAS-ix2-with-VMware-ESX.html http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/1070-StorCenter-NFS-performance-measurements.html http://www.yellow-b

RE: Email Archive Solutions

Will be looking into that today and then comparing the ROI of upgrading to exchange 2010 (with two new servers) compared to paying each year on a software/hardware solution. _ Cameron Cooper Network Administrator | CompTIA A+ Certified Aurico Reports, Inc Phone:

Re: VMware --> Hyper-v

I recently went to a one day HP/Microsoft overview demo of HyperV. I will say that it's come a long way. With the Live Migration between non-clustered hosts and then setting up guest systems as a cluster resource if we were starting from scratch I wouldn't hesitate to test HyperV. We have over 5

Re: SAN question

+1 Figure out what the business requirements are, including costs, and the solutions become more readily apparent. -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Brian Desmond wrote: > *Have you come up with all your requirements yet? I think you need to stop > looking at

Re: VMware --> Hyper-v

I think you'll find it very effective for your needs. -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Richard Stovall wrote: > You've nailed our scenario exactly. We're a small business with < 100 > employees and no extraordinary HA requirements. The key VMware > feature

Anyone ever use one of these with VMWare

http://www.buy.com/prod/iomega-storcenter-ix2-200-2tb-network-storage-se rver-rj45-10-100/q/loc/101/212566005.html Thought it may be nice for test dev at home. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

RE: Webcam to monitor server rooms

I've not run in to the HP tools not reflecting actual state? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Ray [mailto:rz...@qwest.net] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 9:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Webcam to monitor server rooms In our case, the datacente

Re: SAN question

Draw a time line on an X axis. In the middle, put a big red D. This is your disaster. Somewhere to the left, put a P. That is your RPO. Somwhere to the right, put a T. That is your RTO. As the time between P and D decreases, or as the time between D and T decreases, or both, your price and com

RE: SAN question

Our "campus" as such consists of 4 buildings in three locations. Our main plant has two buildings, one up the hill from the main plant, which is connected via gigabit fiber. That's where I planned to put the "primary" appliance. We do not have Fibre Channel infrastructure, so any appliance would be

Re: Unable to join computer to Domain

Nltest /sc_verify: from the workstation. On 4/6/10, Mayo, Bill wrote: > If the computer somehow got renamed while off the domain, I would assume > that the link between the computer account and the domain is broken. > What I would suggest is: > > 1) Delete the computer account via ADUC. > 2) On t

Re: Webcam to monitor server rooms

I still say take a look at a pan/tilt/zoom IP camera ... this link to AXIS will give you some ideas : http://www.axis.com/products/video/camera/ptz/index.htm Airlink has a few choices too, although they are a cheaper version (cost and construction ?) where cost below a couple hundred $$ http://www

RE: SAN question

Ah. Looked up the two terms. No, I have not really done an "in-depth" formal investigation of those, but I would say that I really don't want to lose ANY of the data, period. A recovery time of a few hours should be acceptable, but I'd certainly like to keep it under 1 business day. After that, peo

Re: SAN question

I'm not familiar with your 'campus' setup, do you have a separate location from your servers, within fiber distance, that can be outfitted with UPS and A/C ? I've seen some cases where a fiber run connects either two buildings, or different ends of the building where all but the most catastrophic e

RE: SAN question

Have you come up with all your requirements yet? I think you need to stop looking at SANs or any piece of technology and first work with the business to document what they require. Once you've done this, present your requirements to vendors and see what they come back with. To the consultant's

RE: Webcam to monitor server rooms

In our case, the datacenter is 5 miles away. Insight manager works, but we still need to see if there are lights on or whether it's just another "false positive". From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 6:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE:

RE: SAN question

Good point. I have not done so. I'm not even sure what RTO and RPO are. I just am afraid that we're putting all our "eggs" in one basket by having everything on one pair of mirrored servers, not to mention that 1) we don't have room to put an email store on the existing servers, 2a) there is little

RE: SAN question

Well, I think I have a pretty good handle on the meaning of the term SAN. Perhaps I should say "storage appliance." J What I was originally looking at doing was having two "storage appliances" (i.e. NetApp, Equallogic, etc box) at physically separate sites, with one replicating to the other. To me,

Re: SAN question

John - have you completed a business impact analysis? Derived RTO and RPO? I think that will go a long way towards helping define technical options as well as the finances. To try to design the technology first, in my opinion, is putting the proverbial horse before the cart. Kevin On Tue, Apr 6

RE: SAN question

No, I have not narrowed it down. I initially hoped to get the project done this year, but the economic downturn has hurt our cash flow such that we are in a "holding pattern" on any "discretionary" spending and the SAN project certainly falls into that category. You bring up a good point about

Re: VMware --> Hyper-v

One thing I did find that makes the transition to Hyper-V server (and server core) much easier is the nifty Core Configurator tool. I'm not against learning Powershell cmdlets, but CC makes the initial job of setting up the server much, much simpler. http://coreconfig.codeplex.com/ ~ Finally, po

RE: SAN question

I think the nomenclature makes things a little confusing. We had that problem around here, too, for quite a while after setting up a SAN (many folks still have a problem). I *think* you are using the term SAN to refer to a disk array. A SAN is like a LAN, MAN, or WAN. It is the network, not som

RE: SAN question

If you are just backing up to tape and your SAN goes down, where will you restore too? Do you have a spare disk pool to use? If it was "me", I would be looking at a SAN solution that offers its own proven DR solution. Since I only know NetApp, they have a tool called SnapMirror that is built into

RE: Unable to join computer to Domain

If the computer somehow got renamed while off the domain, I would assume that the link between the computer account and the domain is broken. What I would suggest is: 1) Delete the computer account via ADUC. 2) On the computer, change the domain to a temporary workgroup and reboot. 3) After reboo

RE: DCOM error once an hour

Yeah, thanks, I got it -- had thrown me off 'cuz it wasn't exactly the same, strings were a little different. Works now. David -Original Message- From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 5:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R: DCOM error once an hour It

Re: VMware --> Hyper-v

Thanks. I'll check into the V2V tool. RS On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Ralph Smith wrote: > I was running four guest servers on VMware Server (not ESX), but I recently > converted them over to Hyper-V with no issues.  I picked up an evaluation > copy of SCVMM through my Technet+ subscription

RE: Webcam to monitor server rooms

DRAC is fine - IP KVM not as much. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: jgarciaitl...@gmail.com [mailto:jgarciaitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 8:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Webcam to monitor server rooms Why does drac not do a g

Re: Unable to join computer to Domain

when you specify the domain to join, have you tried both NetBIOS name and FQDN? For example ACME vs. ACME.COM ? Also how are you specifying the admin credentials? acme\jdoe ? Have you tried using a UPN (j...@acme.com)? Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery

Re: VMware --> Hyper-v

You've nailed our scenario exactly. We're a small business with < 100 employees and no extraordinary HA requirements. The key VMware feature we use is vMotion, but now that live migration is baked into Hyper-v Server it makes the Microsoft virtualization platform a viable option for us. I have o

RE: Unable to join computer to Domain

Bonnie, NSlookup returns both DC by name and ping works to both DCs Computer name is 10 characters long Bob IT Manager From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 9:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Unable to join compute

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