RE: Windows 2008 R2 Question

My expectation is that they will be serviced with the same service pack. 2008 R2 is a totally new OS - Windows 6.1. 2003 R2 was just a bunch of add-on features tacked on to 2003 - same OS. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: David

RE: Windows 2008 R2 Question

Windows 2008 shipped with SP1 slipstreamed. You couldn't get a SP0 Windows 2008 install. SP2 was a unified package - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a4dd31d5-f907-4406-9012-a5c3199ea2b3displaylang=en Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132

RE: 2003 - 2008 sales pitch, sorta

That basically boils down to two paragraphs - security and reliability. Write a paragraph about each and explain how your organization will benefit. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent

RE: 2003 Server R2

The dcpromo bits are slightly different and will check the schema version Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 9:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: 2003 Server R2 Unless MS

RE: P2V on a DC

Build the DC from scratch. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 5:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: P2V on a DC I'm wanting to add a third DC, probably a virtual server

RE: Sr. Systems Engineer

, that's something I would expect a Senior resource to be able to do no problem. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 4:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Sr. Systems Engineer If I come

RE: Moving to 2003 domain and forest questions

Just make sure the computer account is a member of the RAS/IAS servers security group. I think if you right click the root node in the IAS console there is a Register option that will do this for you. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132

RE: Video conference for business - Skype?

Get something like LiveMeeting or WebEx. I know LiveMeeting does video fine - I assume WebEx does too. Adobe Connect is another one. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, December

RE: Microsoft Support: Number??

800-936-4900. Tell the call router you want to speak to the next available engineer in the queue. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 10:09 AM To: NT System Admin

RE: Microsoft Support: Number??

Did you properly define the case severity with the call router? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c – 312.731.3132 From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 1:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Microsoft

RE: Microsoft Support: Number??

only. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c – 312.731.3132 From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 3:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Microsoft Support: Number?? Yes just called back and case was re-assigned

RE: simple gp issue

Yes - Subnets, Sites, Site link, Drag/drop in that order. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Paul Everett [mailto:evere...@leementalhealth.org] Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 4:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: simple

RE: Slightly OT question about oldcmp.exe

Means the password was never set Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Clayton Doige [mailto:clayton.do...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 5:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Slightly OT question about oldcmp.exe

RE: Microsoft UM?

Do you have a specific question? I've used it a bunch and as an end user I find it be a fantastic experience/tool. I've played with it a little on the backend and it's certainly complicated. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c – 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From

RE: Delegating GPO administration

and likely at the top of Sysvol as well too. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 3:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Delegating GPO administration I read

RE: Adding 2008 DC's...

It changes because of the new crypto types IIRC and needing to have a hash in that new format. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 6:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

Extend TS App Mode Grace Period

Does anyone know if there is a way to extend the 90 (or 120 or whatever) day grace period on an app mode TS box before you need to plug-in CAL tokens? It's a WS08 machine. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 ~ Finally, powerful

RE: No direct contact to PSS?

. The callback SLA is based on severity and time of day. If you're a premier customer they connect you in to the queue. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Bill Lambert [mailto:blamb...@concuity.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 11:12 AM To: NT System Admin

RE: AD replication question

No repl would happen if I understand the scenario right Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 9:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AD

RE: Windows 7 and DHCP puzzler

Have you collected a network trace of the DHCP exchange on a client when it fails? I would start there. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Eisenberg, Wayne [mailto:wayne.eisenb...@pbvllc.com] Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 6:20 PM

RE: remotely run exe

I don't understand what it is you're trying to achieve. You mention psexec and then you also talk about a screen like a terminal server. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com] Sent: Tuesday

RE: FYI -- Hitachi SMS100

One (IMO major) upside to a name brand option is that finding expertise that knows how to manage it properly, troubleshoot, etc is going to be FAR easier than the no name brands. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: John Aldrich

RE: Computer account password expiration

That's incorrect. The computer initiates the change. Thus if the computer is offline the change never happens. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk] Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 3:34

RE: For those of you with co-location...

Delegate the colo people access to their part of antivirus? It seems like a waste of money/resources/etc to run a parallel infrastructure. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday

RE: Exchange 2K7 Q

I've never had much luck with the UI. The PowerShell syntax is intuitive though: Get-MessageTrackingLog -Server YourHubTransportServer -Sender f...@domain.commailto:f...@domain.com -Recipients david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org -Start 01/21/10 Tweak as appropriate Thanks, Brian

RE: Robocopy GUI

What you're trying to accomplish and the switches you're using would be a useful start... Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Haralson, Joe (GE Comm Fin, non-GE) [mailto:joe.haral...@ge.com] Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 8:18 PM

RE: Managed Switches...

Why? You might as well just buy a new PBX or upgrade the existing one and run it on the existing infrastructure if you're going to do that. Doesn't get you any cost savings... Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c – 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff

RE: SC Query

for it to crash. I'll need the whole CRASH_MODE* folder under c:\debuggers. It zips well. Email me offline when you have it. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Bill Lambert [mailto:blamb...@concuity.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 1:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: N00b question

That was deprecated post Exchange 2003 FYI Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 9:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: N00b question Go into ADUC, Exchange Tasks, and select

RE: SharePoint Purchase Order templates

of workflow based forms on top of SharePoint with that particular in-box template. Depending on the version of SharePoint you have there are some actual workflow options. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Gary Babb [mailto:gsb

RE: N00b question

So create a contact for yourself called IT Garage Clients and put that on the TO line, then BCC the DL. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 9:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: N00b

RE: 2008 R2 in a 2003 R2 domain

What I do is set the default for the “admin” command prompt to be red background/white text so it’s always obvious which one I’m using. Windows will remember this for you across sessions. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: asbz...@gmail.com [mailto:asbz

RE: Adding 2008 DC's...

The particular issue Bob noted is one of those obscure things that's unlikely to affect most people so I wouldn't generally worry about it much just FYI... Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Palmer, Neal [mailto:npal...@uwic.ac.uk] Sent: Monday, January 25

RE: GPO Best Practices

I'd just use a Group Policy and Restricted Groups. If you need more flexibility the groups options in Group Policy Preferences may work. I usually stay away from modifying the two default policies but there's no technical reason you can't. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c

RE: Downsizing to SBS. Same domain name?

If you have WINS you're going to need to pick one domain or the other to register in WINS while they're both still up at the same time. Is there any particular reason the new domain needs the same name as the legacy domain? I'd avoid it just to avoid the potential trouble. Thanks, Brian

RE: What do you choose?

Academic or Addtl Information Worker sounds least likely to get a bunch of phone calls from their telemarketer people that always hound you after you register for these things Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent

RE: GPO preferences not reliable on XP?

Also you can enable tracing for the drive mapping part of the CSE and get some debug spew which may help with troubleshooting. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 8:05 AM To: NT System

RE: GPO preferences not reliable on XP?

Yeah exactly Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 2:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: GPO preferences not reliable on XP? Not speaking for Brian but reading between the lines I think he

RE: a little gun shy (also sent to the Exchange list)

No you do not assuming it will be Exchange 2003 as well. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Bill Lambert [mailto:blamb...@concuity.com] Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 2:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: a little gun shy (also sent to the Exchange list

RE: Mapping a drive, dependant on Group Membership

That solution doesn't handle nested groups which may be a deal breaker Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 7:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mapping a drive, dependant on Group

RE: N00b question

from the GAL and nested in the effect DL. You also still need groups with screwy ACLs to really pull this off. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 3:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: N00b question

Yes you can see the membership because the checkbox does some funny business to keep that specifically working. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 8:16 AM

RE: a little gun shy (also sent to the Exchange list)

Do you have an old ADC config in AD? I haven't worked on this stuff in a long time but you may need to clean that up. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Bill Lambert [mailto:blamb...@concuity.com] Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 4:00

RE: Web hosting

My only complaint about them is they've gotten really big and I think it's impacted their customer service. I use Server Intellect (have for many years now post 1and1) and they have been fantastic. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From

RE: KVM Switch Recommendations

Dell just rebrands Avocent IIRC. I've used the Dell flagged ones in a bunch of customer sites and they're fine. You can put them on the LAN and have remote access via a Java client. They have various SIP modules too I think for different stuff. Thanks, Brian Desmond br

RE: Home PC imaging

Not free, but perhaps look at a Windows Home Server? They will back your data up with an agent on each of your machines and you can boot from a CD they provide and restore your machine point-in-time from a backup like an image if it goes bad. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c

RE: OT: Skills assesments for new hires

Something I do sometimes is just say Talk to me about X. Pick a feature and explain it where X being some skill/concept/technology/etc that either their resume claims their strong in or the position is for and see how that goes. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br

RE: How to permanently accept cert in OL2K7

They should really all be using secure SMTP given the passwords are all cleartext otherwise. Why not buy a real cert? They're like 20 bucks on GoDaddy once you've clicked through beer, wings, strippers, race cars, etc. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132

RE: How to permanently accept cert in OL2K7

The ISP isn't using a valid cert? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 2:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How to permanently accept

RE: Adding 2008 DC's... (revisited)

Not 100% true as raising the forest functional level traditionally added attributes to the partial attribute set which is technically a schema change. Whether or not this will still happen when you go to 2008 FFL depends on what FFL you're at now. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com

RE: Adding 2008 DC's... (revisited)

Sort of. I've seen this cause issues in large (and messy) customer environments before. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c – 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 12:01 PM To: NT System

RE: dc replication / logonserver

Typically you would use sites in AD to do this. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 5:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: dc replication

RE: dc replication / logonserver

I would enable change notification on the site link given this scenario so you don't get the 15 minute replication delay. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Monday, February

RE: dc replication / logonserver

Basically it just makes the site link act like an intra-site connection so not really any overhead on a connection like this. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Monday

RE: Adding 2008 DC's... (revisited)

that big of a deal but you need to keep it in mind. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 Active Directory, 4th Ed - http://www.briandesmond.com/ad4/ Microsoft MVP - https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Brian From: Ken Schaefer

RE: Reviewing my GPs, and found something I don't understand

Up until Windows 2008, there was a Group Policy tab on the properties of OUs, Domains, and Sites in ADUC and dssites. This was how you accessed policies and edited them. GPMC came out of band sometime after 2003 shipped. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 Active

RE: iPhone and Exch 2007?

What's the concern about activesync? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c – 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 9:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: iPhone and Exch 2007? Followup: I

RE: iPhone and Exch 2007?

Yes that is an issue. You can control this by preventing these devices from sync'ing though (Allow Non-Provisionable Devices checkbox). In Exchange 2010 you can filter and quarantine specific types of devices with the new device access rules. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c

RE: Event ID for moving computer account?

It would be a delete and a create. Pre 2008 these audits aren't really helpful much. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 3:04 PM To: NT System

RE: I lost the fight

You just need to check the Allow Unprovisionable Devices checkbox on the Mobile Settings node. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Bill Lambert [mailto:blamb...@concuity.com] Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 10:08 AM To: NT System

RE: I lost the fight

I don't have an Exchange 2003 org handy but there's a Global Settings type node in the top of the tree in ESM and then under there is a Mobile Options type thing. Said Mobile stuff showed up in 2003 SP2 so if you're missing that (hope not) you won't see it. Thanks, Brian Desmond br

RE: DHCP in Win2k3 R2 domain

The converse to the DHCP detection stuff is that if any Windows box comes up in the domain with DHCP installed, DHCP won't actually start until someone with (by default) Enterprise Admin privs authorizes it. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c – 312.731.3132 -Original

RE: DHCP in Win2k3 R2 domain

Yep. Do your switches support DHCP Snooping? You can pretty much kill the problem if they have such a feature. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c – 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 5:11 PM

RE: Archive data

Most folks use a third party archiving solution for this. There's a myriad of them which have wide ranging impact on your checkbook. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, February

RE: LDAP Query across Multiple OU's

That is a weird looking query. What are you trying to get out of it? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Robert Smith [mailto:exch...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 5:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: LDAP

RE: LDAP Query across Multiple OU's

suggested. You can use the incldn and excldn switches if you wanted and search the whole domain but only include certain OUs Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Robert Smith [mailto:exch...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 6

RE: system state backups

# for hex 0x8004230f / decimal -2147212529 : VSS_E_UNEXPECTED_PROVIDER_ERROR vss.h # 1 matches found for 0x8004230f What else is installed on the box? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c – 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: DAVID SMITH

RE: gateway metric question

Sounds like a binding order issue to me. Make sure you don't have DNS or WINS configured on the iSCSI NIC and that it's not configured to register in DNS also. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com

RE: 32 bit drivers, 64-bit server

The trick to this is to connect to the print server from a 32 bit client (so goto \\serverfile:///\\server and browse the printers folder), and add the drivers that way. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: N Parr [mailto:npar

RE: Nagios

I do all of those (except for backups) in some degree or another. With temperature, unless you have actual probes, the server agents will report on that. With backups you'd need to rely on events on either the backup system or the client if they're logged. Thanks, Brian Desmond br

RE: Nagios

The actual system runs on *nix but the agents (various ones) are available for windows. It's quite easy to manage once you have it on the *nix box - just a pile of text files. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Ziots, Edward

RE: Ironport

Set the smarthost on the existing SMTP server to be IronPort, set the smarthost on IronPort to be the ISP. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 2:05 PM To: NT

RE: Nagios fans....(Win2K8)

I'm pretty sure one of my customers does. What's the issue? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 4:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Nagios fans(Win2K8

RE: Nagios fans....(Win2K8)

The servers I have access to use the NRPE agent and it's just in c:\nagios. Is this some addon to that? I need an idea of what specifically I'm looking for. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org

RE: Server 2008 NETDOM issues

Why not just dcpromo the box down, rename it, and dcpromo back up? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Burian, Matthew J. (mjb) [mailto:m...@burianit.com] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 7:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Server

RE: Smart cards

You can also integrate the certs pretty easily with anything that uses IIS or ISA/TMG/UAG for app auth. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Kevin Lundy [mailto:klu...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 1:59 PM To: NT System

RE: Win7 Pro vs. Enterprise

DA does not require 2008R2 DCs... Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c – 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 5:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Win7 Pro vs. Enterprise OK - I've been

RE: Win7 Pro vs. Enterprise

I haven't gone and looked but it probably just has a simple SKU check in it. You can basically unlock higher SKUs of Windows without a reinstall so everything has to be there for that to work. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c – 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From

RE: DNS Server service shuts down shortly after the DC boots

It should be able to kick out more info to a text file. The scenario you mention of branch DCs not having connectivity is completely normal. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent

RE: DNS Server service shuts down shortly after the DC boots

What version of Windows is this running on? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 1:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DNS Server service shuts

RE: DNS Server service shuts down shortly after the DC boots

OK so I'm still unclear as to whether the service is crashing or it's never entering a running state or what? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 2:00 PM

RE: DNS Server service shuts down shortly after the DC boots

OK well I'm not about to try and help you if you're going to deflect the questions. Good luck. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 3:20 PM To: NT System Admin

RE: DNS Server service shuts down shortly after the DC boots

No you can background load AD zones in WS08 plus Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 5:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DNS Server service

RE: AD Central Store

I've done it a couple times - was straight forward enough. Just keep in mind you need to be consistent and use Vista RSAT+ tools moving forward. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod

RE: DNS Server service shuts down shortly after the DC boots

. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 3:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: DNS Server service shuts down shortly after the DC boots I just set this up

RE: Disk configuration in new server

No you only need one RAID controller, however, you're going at this backwards IMO. Have you run your numbers through the Exchange storage calculator and looked at the recommended disk config? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Glen

RE: Disk configuration in new server

Further reading suggests a single server could maintain multiple copies of the Exchange database on a single server's JBODs, but that's got to be more overhead than just RAID 1'ing it. No, that LCR functionality was pulled. 1 DB copy per server max. Thanks, Brian Desmond br

RE: Disk configuration in new server

JBOD with 3 copies is not the recommended approach Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 3:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disk configuration

RE: Disk configuration in new server

Option B is correct. :) Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 3:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Disk configuration in new server At least one

RE: Disk configuration in new server

RAID5 for the DB may be just fine. Run the numbers through the Exchange storage calculator. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 2:55 PM To: NT System

RE: AD Central Store

Well the ADM files will all re-profilerate back in to your sysvol for one. IIRC the legacy tools will fall back to local ADMs if they can’t find any on sysvol but don’t quote me on that. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c – 312.731.3132 From

RE: Disk configuration in new server

With something that small you're unlikely to max out I/O on whatever you choose... Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 1:45 PM To: NT System Admin

RE: Windows 2008 HW Sizing

What do you have now and what does utilization look like on it? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Palmer, Neal [mailto:npal...@uwic.ac.uk] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 2008 HW

RE: Disk configuration in new server

There is an Exchange 2010 calculator - http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/01/22/453859.aspx. The i/o model in 2010 is completely different from 2007 so the data from the 2007 calculator would not provide valid inputs. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br

RE: SSL Certs... who do you use?

DigiCert is awesome and who I send all my customers to. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 12:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SSL Certs

RE: oh my aching DC...

Given that error I would dcpromo the box down and re-promote it. Also figure out what's wrong with the i/o subsystem. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010

RE: SSL Certs... who do you use?

IIRC CertificatesForExchange is just reselling GoDaddy Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 1:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SSL Certs... who do you

RE: Powershell Question

I'll go with yes too. ;) -ilike is the other operator I'd look at Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 3:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE

RE: Powershell Question

The Select-Object cmdlet is probably what you want. It has -First, -Last, -Skip, -Index, etc which you can use to step in to an array Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent

RE: Live Launch

and TechEd China's. Look at the admission ticket price on those versus say TechEd Australia. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 9:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Live Launch

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