RE: 32bit VMs on 64bit platforms

LOL - Gigabit switch (or faster). I had a bunch of issues when I had a host plugged into a 100mbps switch. There's plenty of posts on the VMWare forums about that. Cheers Len From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 16 February 2008 11:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Su

re: Vista SP1 ready...

I installed Vista a while back, on this same machine - and HATED it. Sluggish, errors, blah, and more blah. I was not impressed. And that was with all the eye candy completely disabled. XP was re-installed in a few days. Since SP1 came out, and SP1 for Office was already released, I decide

RE: 32bit VMs on 64bit platforms

bit, byte, it's all the same, right? Joe Heaton From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 4:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: 32bit VMs on 64bit platforms gigaBYTE? Wow. J Regards, Michael B. Smit

Re: Vista SP1 ready...

@ Feb 15, '08 6:02 PM, TVK wrote: > I can see the headline now: "RSAT to RTM RSN!!!" Most excellent. TMA. -- B ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ ~

RE: Vista SP1 ready...

Update for me. Yesterday, I noted that the installation failed for me. http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rtrent/archive/2008/02/15/vista-sp1-2-hours-i n-2-hours-out-nothing-to-show-for-it.aspx Today, I stopped AV and Firewall prior to installation and I'm now sitting at SP1 after about 51

RE: 32bit VMs on 64bit platforms

gigaBYTE? Wow. J Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 7:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: 32bit VMs on 64bit platforms I don't think it quite works tha

RE: 32bit VMs on 64bit platforms

I don't think it quite works that way. I'd go through the steps around disabling TOE that have come up so much on this list. I'd also make sure that your host NICs are plugged into a gigabyte switch. Cheers Ken From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 16 February 2008 7:5

RE: Vista SP1 ready...

I can see the headline now: "RSAT to RTM RSN!!!" Most excellent. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 4:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vista SP1 ready... RSAT should be out "Real Soon Now". Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/E

RE: Vista SP1 ready...

RSAT should be out "Real Soon Now". Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 5:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vista SP1 ready... I am having to say,

RE: Vista SP1 ready...

I am having to say, I have been using my Vista laptop all day, which is an older IBM T42 that I use on the road and Vista killed it before, now with SP1 it runs like a champ(all the fluff turned off). No problems with working remote, VPN's are quick and speedy, transfers of data work well. Overa

RE: Vista SP1 ready...

I'm having a COM+ issue with SP1 that I never had with any of the betas. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 5:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vista S

RE: Vista SP1 ready...

I had the same problem - on an x64 machine. I signed in using an x32 VM and it was all good. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 5:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subjec

RE: Vista SP1 ready...

Dave, I had the same experience yesterday. It would show that my account was TechNet Plus, but no option to download. I finally got a page with the download on approximately my 6th trip to the MSDN downloads page. VERY strange, but after that, the download was quick and the install simple and stra

RE: Vista SP1 ready...

I don't get it, via MSDN I get looped around to no download...? Links to"what to know about Vista SP1 and such, but no bits to grab. Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 "When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands" From: Rob Bonfigli

Chimney Issue with Broadcom NICS

I just thought I would relay some info I got from an PSS Escalation Team member regarding the Broadcom/Chimney issue. He gives the following more in-depth explanation: "...We have experienced in some cases where hang was caused by the Broadcom NIC driver. This driver was making a request for co

RE: 32bit VMs on 64bit platforms

@ Oliver Yea, disable Chimney, the Host might be messing up the guests. Your idea is right, with a "real" virtual infrastructure. You pay big bucks for what esx offers. I think the price for vm server fits the abilities :) @ Ben You might enable showhiddendevs and delete the old nics in the gu

RE: Resizing software raid partitions in SBS 2003

I heard that's pretty good, I still use ghost8 on bartpe and the only thing you will need is a 2000/2003/xp raid driver if you don't have one built in. I build my bartpe's from ubcd4win and get all the drivers through the packaging interface and it covers just about everything I come across in the

RE: 32bit VMs on 64bit platforms

Did you reinstall the vmware tools? I would start there since that creates drivers for the nics. Also, check if you had custom mapping with NIC's which is often the case in larger deployments. You could have mapped something to a virtual nic 4 but on a clean install the virtual nic 4 is not assigne

RE: Resizing software raid partitions in SBS 2003

I thought about that, but will that work ok with the windows software based raid given that it's based on the dark Sith of OS's ? From: Damien Solodow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 February 2008 21:12 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Resizing software raid partitions in SBS 2003

RE: 32bit VMs on 64bit platforms

How so? The VMs have the same NICs, but it happens even if we create new MACs for the NICs in the VM. -Original Message- From: Miguel Gonzalez Castaños [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 February 2008 16:43 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: 32bit VMs on 64bit platforms Maybe the

Re: 32bit VMs on 64bit platforms

Maybe the MACs of the network cards are being messed up? Miguel Michael B. Smith escribió: I’ve switched Virtual PC and Virtual Servers back and forth a number of times with no issues whatsoever. I doubt it’s a VMware issue, even though I have no experience with it. Have you disabled TCP C

RE: Resizing software raid partitions in SBS 2003

Try the Qtparted livecd From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 3:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Resizing software raid partitions in SBS 2003 Can anyone recommend an affordable (free, OS) piece of software that can safely resize a softwar

Commvault backup to disk

I just had a sit down with a sales rep and software engineer from Commvault the other day so we could discuss their software as a possible replacement to BackupExec. It was an excellent meeting and I was very impressed with their product and their level of knowledge they brought to this first

RE: 32bit VMs on 64bit platforms

Have you disabled TCP Chimney on the new server? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 3:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: 32bit VMs on 64bit platforms

Resizing software raid partitions in SBS 2003

Can anyone recommend an affordable (free, OS) piece of software that can safely resize a software raid based partition on an SBS 2003 box ? Olly ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ ~

RE: 32bit VMs on 64bit platforms

Broadcom nics in the new box. Anything I can easily do ? I thought the whole idea of a VM (particularly the VMWare ones) was that you can download one and run it on any platform running the VM software and it won't moan about the underlying hardware...or have I got that wrong ? From: Jo

RE: Windows update agent in Vista 32 bits

I can't answer your specific questions, but I can tell you that MS offers free support for Windows Update issues. We recently had to work with them on an issue that took several weeks to resolve. The escalated the case to a technician up in North Carolina who finally was able to resolve it. But

Windows update agent in Vista 32 bits

Hi, I decided to open a different thread for this. Ok, I'm getting this error 0x80070005 when I try to run windows update. Apparently is an elevation permissions issue. I have looked around how to reset those permissions to the ones that I had. I disabled UAC to get rid of the annoying mes

RE: Trying to read Microsoft Licensing CD labels

The problem I have is that you can get the same exact CD content on multiple CDs. For instance, your example of Outlook. You can get the same Outlook client on each different version of Exchange (Standard and Enterprise) then you'll also get it on the blue CDs, for Office, and I'm guessing, each

Re: Backupexec and compression

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Joseph L. Casale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Exactly? They are 200/400 tapes. I ignore "compressed capacity" claims; they are a marketing gimmick and always have been. Compression rates vary tremendously. You might get no compression gain, or 1.5:1, or 3:1. S

Re: Anti - Virus recommendations

...coming into this late because I was out of town: I'm currently running NOD32 3.0 (both Home and Business versions) without any issues. IIRC, the issues/difficulties that people reported where specific to the Corporate version - specifically with centralized deployment and administration. On

RE: 32bit VMs on 64bit platforms

Actually it sort of is a vmware *server* issue:) Unlike ESX, server doesn't provide a consistent view of hardware to the vm when you move it to another computer, you *may* encounter some issues as it is exactly like taking the HD out of computer from Vendor A and plugging it into Vendor B's pla

Re: Trying to read Microsoft Licensing CD labels

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Joe Heaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Exactly, sometimes there's parentheses, which really does help, since > whatever is in the parentheses is actually what is on the CD. In my experience, what's in parentheses is the *only* thing on the CD. I get the feeling

RE: Backupexec and compression

Exactly? They are 200/400 tapes. Logically, I should get at minimum 200 gig? I have to drag my arse over and see what the loader is set to. I suspect if its set to compress, it will make the data larger as its not at all compressible. I assume BE cant disable HW compression on the fly if the auto

RE: Trying to read Microsoft Licensing CD labels

Exactly, sometimes there's parentheses, which really does help, since whatever is in the parentheses is actually what is on the CD. Joe Heaton From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 10:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Trying to read Microsoft Licensing CD labels

Actually, that's kind of what I thought Damien, but we are both wrong. What is on this CD is simply SP1 for SQL 2005. Only one file on the CD, and the name includes a reference to a KB article, and that article lists the bug fixes for SQL 2005 SP1... I haven't gone and found the CD for SQL 2005

RE: Trying to read Microsoft Licensing CD labels

For what it's worth, I feel your pain. I frequently have a tough time understanding exactly what's on some of those discs due to the way they label them. John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.us

Re: Vista SP1 ready...

Yes, it is Can anyone let me know if it is possible to reset the permissions to the default? Apparently it is an elevation permissions issue. I tried yesterday to download some updates and run them manually but if the windows update agent is not working fine, I can't install them. Miguel T

RE: Trying to read Microsoft Licensing CD labels

Put the disk in the drive and look? Seems straightforward enough... SMS 2003 R2 with SP3 with SQL 2005 Standard SP1. From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 12:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Trying to read Microsoft Licensing CD labels Can

Re: Trying to read Microsoft Licensing CD labels

I think it means that the SQL included already has the sp1 bits and piecesso you still need sp2. On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Joe Heaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone help me figure out how to do this? For example, here's what > is on one CD that I'm trying to decipher: > > M

Trying to read Microsoft Licensing CD labels

Can anyone help me figure out how to do this? For example, here's what is on one CD that I'm trying to decipher: Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 R2 with SP3 with SQL Server 2005 Technology (SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition - Service Pack 1) What is on the CD? I've had instances whe

RE: 32bit VMs on 64bit platforms

A lot of them were P-to-V'd from existing 32 bit servers. (missed the fact you said VMWare, sorry) Andy Crellin Technical Services Manager Leonard Cheshire Disability Telephone: 01904 479200 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Christopher J. Bosak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 Febr

RE: 32bit VMs on 64bit platforms

Andy, Did you move them from a 32 bit machine, or did you install them as 32 bit on the 64 bit machine? Chris From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 09:50 hrs To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: 32bit VMs on 64bit platforms He said in original

RE: Vista SP1 won't install

Some registry values fail to delete themselves? From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 07:28 hrs To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Vista SP1 won't install I cannot get SP1 to install. It thinks that RC1 is still installed. Winv

RE: 32bit VMs on 64bit platforms

I've switched Virtual PC and Virtual Servers back and forth a number of times with no issues whatsoever. I doubt it's a VMware issue, even though I have no experience with it. Have you disabled TCP Chimney on the new server? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssent

RE: 32bit VMs on 64bit platforms

He said in original post VMWare Server. Joe Heaton From: Andy Crellin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 4:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: 32bit VMs on 64bit platforms We only run Windows servers but we have 32 bit serv

RE: I kill me, part deux (Friday almost-funny)

I think 'sever' would have been more appropriate! From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 9:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: I kill me, part deux (Friday almost-funny) Typing a memo I added one letter...and I think it's a Freudian slip! The senten

I kill me, part deux (Friday almost-funny)

Typing a memo I added one letter...and I think it's a Freudian slip! The sentence typed was "I count employees as customers as far as I.S. is concerned - we're here to server them". Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 "When you step on the brakes your life is in you

RE: Vista SP1 ready...

Wrong kind of overnight TVK. We're not talking about sleepovers... Joe Heaton -Original Message- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 12:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vista SP1 ready... I'm pretty sure that Shook still take

Backupexec and compression

I had a large job with very uncompressible data in it so I told BE not to compress it at all. Looking at the last 5 200/400gig LTO's it has used, it barely got 0.7:1, would it be fair to assume the autoloader was configured for hardware compression, and BE couldn't/didn't turn it off hence the p

RE: Vista SP1 Reports

On a 2 year old laptop it took 2+ hours to install (went to bed and left it). The main difference is the graphics on it (old nx8220) now rates at 3.8. No other differences although it does start up faster. On some dell desktops there is still no aero support, but they do feel a bit faster. The embe

RE: Vista SP1 Reports

All went well with my desktop-that's the third machine I've done SP1 on, and all three machines were significantly different from one another. So I feel pretty good about SP1 so far in terms of stability, but it's too early for me to comment on performance. The only glitch with my home desktop

Vista SP1 won't install

I cannot get SP1 to install. It thinks that RC1 is still installed. Winver still shows RC1 as being installed and will run out June 2008. I have uninstalled SP1 RC1. Anyone got a workaround? S ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~

RE: 32bit VMs on 64bit platforms

We only run Windows servers but we have 32 bit servers running on VMWare on 64bit architecture and it all runs beautifully. Are you talking about MS VMs or VMWare VMs (or other?) Cheers, Andy. Andy Crellin Technical Services Manager Leonard Cheshire Disability Telephone: 01904 479200

32bit VMs on 64bit platforms

Hi chaps, Anyone know if there are any known probs regarding moving a 32bit based VM from a 32bit platform to a 64bit platform? Our VM server here maxed out its ram limit, so we have a nice new 64bit server with 6GB and Win2k3 64bit. It's running VMWare Server. Everytime we move the VM's o