2008 to 2008 R2 Upgrade Question
Hi all, I have a question on upgrading from 2008 to 2008 R2. We have 2 physical boxes 1 a Dell R710 that hosts our Hyper-V and a Dell R610 that hosts our Exchange 2007. These are just member servers but the 710 holds two of our 3 domain controllers which are Windows 2003 servers. I want to upgrade the physical boxes to R2 and then worry about creating new virtual 2008 R2 DCs. Is there anything I shouldn't do. I know I should try to offload then start over but not enough hardware to go around. Thanks for any and all advice Bob Anderson IT Manager Kent Sporting Goods Inc. 433 Park Ave. S New London OH 44851 419-929-7021 x315 P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: VMWare vs Hyper-V
For our environment we use Hyper-V so far I have 4 servers running on a Dell R710 and it is running without a hitch Bob Anderson IT Manager Kent Sporting Goods Inc. 433 Park Ave. S New London OH 44851 419-929-7021 x315 Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. -Original Message- From: Malcolm Reitz [mailto:malcolm.re...@live.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 10:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare vs Hyper-V I'll argue the converse - for a small, simple virtual environment as the OP is targeting, Hyper-V is notably easier to configure and use for an organization without VMware experience. Hyper-V's management tools certainly aren't as robust as VMware's at this point (even with SCOM and VMM), but they are adequate for this kind of need. Performance, with a properly configured system, shouldn't be an issue, either. -Malcolm -Original Message- From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 08:59 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare vs Hyper-V +1 For VMware, they are by far a more robust, flexible , 3rd party +supported, great tools for it. That being said, they aint cheap setup +does require some extra knowledge but don't think more than learning +Hyper-V from scratch It all depends on your requirements, budget, DR planning etc... I've been using Vmware for quite a few years now and it has done well by me, While I dabbled in Hyper-V at the time it didn't compare. You can have a production ready VM host in around 30 minutes provided you have a Server, Network and Storage for it -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 9:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VMWare vs Hyper-V Probably a can of worms here but we have not done much virtualization but are about to get into it more. It will be pretty simple virtualization, a couple of big boxes running 4 or 5 virtualized servers each. No cluster failovers or anything like that. We dabbled in VMWare before Hyper-V became mature but now I need to pick one and run with it. I am leaning towards Hyper-V because it is included with our license and so far has been pretty painless in testing. I found VMWare to be confusing with all the different packages, licensing...upgrades and all that. I suspect it provides far more flexibility but not knowing what that flexibility really is concerns me. So thought I would ask the knowledgeable masses here if I am missing anything important. TIA ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin _ This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges. This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete the original message and any attachments from your system. _ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
2008 to 2008 R2 Question
Hi all, I have a question on upgrading from 2008 to 2008 R2. We have 2 physical boxes 1 a Dell R710 that hosts our Hyper-V and a Dell R610 that hosts our Exchange 2007. These are just member servers but the 710 holds two of our 3 domain controllers which are Windows 2003 servers. I want to upgrade the physical boxes to R2 and then worry about creating new virtual 2008 R2 DCs. Is there anything I shouldn't do. I know I should try to offload then start over but not enough hardware to go around. Thanks for any and all advice Bob Anderson IT Manager Kent Sporting Goods Inc. 433 Park Ave. S New London OH 44851 419-929-7021 x315 P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Server Core Updates
Hello, I have a 2008 R2 Server core server virtualized with Hyper-V on a 2008 server. It is set to Automatic updates and WSUS says they are all downloaded but it has never applied any updates when I use sconfig it says updates have never been applied. I am at a loss to figure out why it won't apply the updates. This is my first Server Core server so I am learning as I go. Thanks in advance Bob Anderson IT Manager Kent Sporting Goods Inc. 433 Park Ave. S New London OH 44851 419-929-7021 x315 P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
WSUS 3.0 Problem
Hello, New WSUS user here and I have a problem. The WSUS runs on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Virtual Machine under Hyper-V Everything installed fine and it found the updates correctly and it found my computers in Active Directory fine I have setup 6 Computer Groups under All Computers no problem but when I try to move computers from Unassigned Computers to a Group the option is greyed out both in a right-click and under the action drop down. I verified that I am a member of WSUS Admins still no luck The server is being accessed through Remote Desktop Connection Manager v2.2 Thanks in advance Bob Anderson IT Manager Kent Sporting Goods Inc. 433 Park Ave. S New London OH 44851 419-929-7021 x315 P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: WSUS 3.0 Problem
David,
Thanks for the reply. Yes I did run it that way, is there a
way to fix it?
Bob
IT Manager
From: David L Herrick [mailto:davidherr...@nincal.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 4:01 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: WSUS 3.0 Problem
Sounds like you ran setup to utilize groups from AD which keeps you from
manually moving them in WSUS, the automatically get assigned - providing you
created groups in WSUS that have names identical to the AD groups
From: Bob Anderson [mailto:bander...@kentwatersports.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 12:48 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: WSUS 3.0 Problem
Hello,
New WSUS user here and I have a problem.
The WSUS runs on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Virtual Machine under Hyper-V
Everything installed fine and it found the updates correctly and it found my
computers in Active Directory fine
I have setup 6 Computer Groups under All Computers no problem but when I try to
move computers from Unassigned Computers to a Group the option is greyed out
both in a right-click and under the action drop down.
I verified that I am a member of WSUS Admins still no luck
The server is being accessed through Remote Desktop Connection Manager v2.2
Thanks in advance
Bob Anderson
IT Manager
Kent Sporting Goods Inc.
433 Park Ave. S
New London OH 44851
419-929-7021 x315
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Server won't replicate
Hello, I have a W23 server that we built here and joined the network here and made him a DC. We then powered him off and packed him up and sent him to our Texas facility to be a local DC for logging on to the domain. However once he powered up he will not replicate with the DCs here. His IP address has changed but all else remains the same. On our DCs he is in the Texas DC site but no replication. Thanks for any help you may provide. Bob Anderson IT Manager Kent Sporting Goods Inc. 433 Park Ave. S New London OH 44851 419-929-7021 x315 Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Server won't replicate
The server can both ping each other but my DSN logs are throwing 4000 4011 and How would I remove the netlogon.dns Again thanks Bob IT Manager -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 11:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Server won't replicate When did you change the IP address? It seems likely that you didn't do it before you moved it down there, so both local and remote DNS is fubar'ed. On the remote end you'll need to stop netlogon, remove netlogon.dns, and reboot - that should cause the proper records to get registered. The primary DNS server for that server, at least until replication is working, should be the server at the home office. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Bob Anderson [mailto:bander...@kentwatersports.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 11:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Server won't replicate Hello, I have a W23 server that we built here and joined the network here and made him a DC. We then powered him off and packed him up and sent him to our Texas facility to be a local DC for logging on to the domain. However once he powered up he will not replicate with the DCs here. His IP address has changed but all else remains the same. On our DCs he is in the Texas DC site but no replication. Thanks for any help you may provide. Bob Anderson IT Manager Kent Sporting Goods Inc. 433 Park Ave. S New London OH 44851 419-929-7021 x315 P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Unable to join computer to Domain
Brian, and all It turns out the computer had parts failing and we ended up wiping it completely and starting over from scratch. It would not even respond to a regedit. All is well now and runs faster. Thanks again to all Bob IT Manager -Original Message- From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 12:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Unable to join computer to Domain What’s the actual (complete) error message? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Bob Anderson [mailto:bander...@kentwatersports.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 6:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Unable to join computer to Domain Hello, I have a computer that refuses to join the domain. I get as far as entering the admin password to join the domain and it comes back with: The network location cannot be reachedHowever the machine can get emails from the domain but just not join it Thanks in advance Bob Anderson IT Manager Kent Sporting Goods Inc. 433 Park Ave. S New London OH 44851 419-929-7021 x315 Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Updating Virtual servers
What is the best way to update the Operating system on Virtual Servers we have 2 Windows 2003 Servers that are DCs along with a Physical 2003 DC that we would like to upgrade to either 2008 or 2008 R2 and I am not sure about the best way to go about it. Does anyone have any ideas or cautions that I should be aware of Thanks in advance Bob Anderson IT Manager Kent Sporting Goods Inc. 433 Park Ave. S New London OH 44851 419-929-7021 x315 Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Unable to join computer to Domain
Hello, I have a computer that refuses to join the domain. I get as far as entering the admin password to join the domain and it comes back with: The network location cannot be reachedHowever the machine can get emails from the domain but just not join it Thanks in advance Bob Anderson IT Manager Kent Sporting Goods Inc. 433 Park Ave. S New London OH 44851 419-929-7021 x315 Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Unable to join computer to Domain
Sorry for that. This is a XP sp3 box with hard wired IP addresses for machine and DNS servers The machine was renamed while not on the domain. I have added the machine name in AD and done both direct add and network discovery. Bob IT Manager From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 9:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Unable to join computer to Domain you don't give much to go on, like the OS of the workstation, what version of domain ( 2003 AD, 2008 AD, etc ) Have you checked for duplicate machine name, tried NewSid, verified your DNS is pointing to a DC, check DNS for your workstation record, etc ... On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Bob Anderson bander...@kentwatersports.commailto:bander...@kentwatersports.com wrote: Hello, I have a computer that refuses to join the domain. I get as far as entering the admin password to join the domain and it comes back with: The network location cannot be reachedHowever the machine can get emails from the domain but just not join it Thanks in advance Bob Anderson IT Manager Kent Sporting Goods Inc. 433 Park Ave. S New London OH 44851 419-929-7021 x315 • Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
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 computer to Domain The computer name is not over 15 characters long? Can you look up the domain by name via nslookup? Can you ping all of the dcs in your site by fqdn? -B From: Bob Anderson [mailto:bander...@kentwatersports.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 6:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Unable to join computer to Domain Sorry for that. This is a XP sp3 box with hard wired IP addresses for machine and DNS servers The machine was renamed while not on the domain. I have added the machine name in AD and done both direct add and network discovery. Bob IT Manager From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 9:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Unable to join computer to Domain you don't give much to go on, like the OS of the workstation, what version of domain ( 2003 AD, 2008 AD, etc ) Have you checked for duplicate machine name, tried NewSid, verified your DNS is pointing to a DC, check DNS for your workstation record, etc ... On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Bob Anderson bander...@kentwatersports.commailto:bander...@kentwatersports.com wrote: Hello, I have a computer that refuses to join the domain. I get as far as entering the admin password to join the domain and it comes back with: The network location cannot be reachedHowever the machine can get emails from the domain but just not join it Thanks in advance Bob Anderson IT Manager Kent Sporting Goods Inc. 433 Park Ave. S New London OH 44851 419-929-7021 x315 • Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Customized Logon page
Hello, The compliance team would like to change the way we logon to have a Computer and Internet Use policy show up either at system login or immediately after putting in their password that would have to be answered before proceeding. Can someone point me to an explanation of how to set this up. I am willing to do a lot of reading to get it done. Thanks Bob Anderson IT Manager Kent Sporting Goods Inc. 433 Park Ave. S New London OH 44851 419-929-7021 x315 P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: How would you go about this?
We just replaced our 3 servers with 2 new Dells and went with Hyper-V on 1. The 3 that were replaced were 7 1/2 years old and it was a matter of getting parts. Bob Anderson IT Manager Kent Sporting Goods Inc. 433 Park Ave. S New London OH 44851 419-929-7021 x315 Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. -Original Message- From: Charlie Kaiser [mailto:charl...@golden-eagle.org] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 10:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How would you go about this? +1. While 5 or 6 years ago 3 year server replacements were the norm, that's no longer the case. By the time you put together server cost, OS license, and migration consulting costs, a small business is unwilling to pay $10 or so to upgrade their SBS box or exchange server just because it's old. We're running into many more aged hardware issues than we used to, and some of them are ugly. *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 6:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How would you go about this? You get five years out of a server? I think you need the help. *or* YOU are luckily spoiled ! Yes, a 3 year lifecycle refresh is ideal, but not realistic budget-wise for MANY out there in the real world. Especially in the SMB market, I frequently run into aging servers with some of my consulting clients. You'd be hard pressed to convince them to replace a server that is currently working as expected with new hardware and/or new OS without proving any significant benefit in features over the existing systems. The biggest issue on aging servers that I see is drive failures, and insufficient drive space/size due to data growth. Data volumes can be replaced/upgraded without an entirely new server in many if not most cases. That said, we all know that Windows 2000 ( all flavors including servers ) are dropping from Microsoft support July 12th this year. So the lack of support, service packs, and vulnerability fixes *will* be a driving factor for OS upgrades which work out well with hardware upgrades Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 9:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How would you go about this? You get five years out of a server? I think you need the help. I was just looking for some help in picking up a file server. I replace all my workstations and servers every three years. But I only have 130 workstations and servers. Your growth estimate is OK as it increases here at the Museum. That is why I am splitting the data onto several HDs. Thanks for your help. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 4:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: How would you go about this? I'm not going to answer your question, instead I'm going to pick apart your request. We really don't have any idea of what your rate of data growth is. There are two estimates we can make from the data supplied, linear growth or geometric growth. With linear, you're adding about 125 GB of data per year. With geometric you're doubling your data every ~19 months. So, if you expect the same growth rate, in 5 years (assumed life of a server) you're at either +625 GB of data or over 8 TB of data. Just taking a step back and looking at it from 30,000 feet, a server is the least of your storage concerns if you're doubling your data every 19 months or so. On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Holstrom, Don dholst...@nbm.org wrote: I have a file server that has gone above 1 TB. When I first came here to the museum a few years ago (8), they had 33 gigs of data on one server. I brought in file tape backups until last year when the backup went out of that range. I always used SCSI RAIDs but even now that is a bit high. So I have ordered a new file server with six HD openings. I am figuring a pair of 10,000-rpm 150 or 300 gig HDs for the OS, I can go Server 03 or 08, figuring on 08. I would back up one with the other. Then for data, two 2TBS backed up for the main data and two 1.5 or less for other data, also backed up. Then I could/would backup to external 2TB drives for longevity. What thinkist thee? Is there another way I should go? Data here will continue to increase at the same rate... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com
