Hi all,
I have taken over an SBS site and they have (horror) a 2 disk software
mirror. However although the Disk Manager shows the disks mirroring OK, as
here: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3570/3572139495_92aa843fdb_o_d.jpg
The boot ini looks like this:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
I actually meant:
multi(0)disk(2)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=Windows Server 2003 for Small
Business Server /noexecute=optout /fastdetect
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Gavin Wilby gavin.wi...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I have taken over an SBS site and they have (horror) a 2 disk software
OK,
Scratch all that, all i really need to know is, can I remove the EISA
partition without wrecking the boot loader, I *think* so, but Id just like a
little reassurance 1st.
gavin.
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Gavin Wilby gavin.wi...@gmail.com wrote:
I actually meant:
Yes you can. The EISA partition isn't bootable by Windows. That said, it has
the Dell diagnostics on it, which obviates the need to have the CD handy (and
it loads much faster)
Cheers
Ken
From: Gavin Wilby [mailto:gavin.wi...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, 28 May 2009 8:39 PM
To: NT System Admin
Anyone have a CISCO ASA?
I am getting this in the syslogs from it:
AAA user authentication Rejected : reason = AAA failure : server = 10.0.50.205
: user = user
How can I tell where this is being originated?
10.0.50.205 is my DC and there is no user called user?
~ Finally, powerful endpoint
Look at the *%^*^*_^ Cisco ASA device, for me it was a local user to the
ASA that was getting rejected. I had the turn off AAA to get mine to work.
Jon
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:11 AM, David W. McSpadden dav...@imcu.org wrote:
Anyone have a CISCO ASA?
I am getting this in the syslogs from
Do you have any service using RADIUS? Is IAS installed on the DC? This
could be a legit denial of an unauthorized connection attempt.
From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.org]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 8:11 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: CISCO ASA message?
Anyone have
Sorry, yesterday was a long day the Cisco engineer was very good but this
machine is just driving me nuts. I made what I thought as a simple change
and lost my VPN and had to put it back the way it was.
Jon
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com wrote:
Look at the
Yes I do. I think it is a valid denial but I just started seeing them two days
ago. About 6500 of them all different users. Just wondering how they are
getting past the ASA to the DC...
- Original Message -
From: Richard Stovall
To: NT System Admin Issues
Sent: Thursday, May
Well, if you're using RADIUS to authenticate against AD, then probably
all the requests are going to the DC unless you've got some local users
on the ASA. Do you see corresponding failure entries in the Security
and IAS logs? You might be able to get a lot from the IAS log,
including ip
Mitch Tulloch...from Winnipeg.
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote:
From The Thin List (again):
Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions
http://csna01.libredigital.com/?urmvs17u33
Webster
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security
Test WMS server ok after 24 hrs...
-sc
-Original Message-
From: Eric Wittersheim eric.wittersh...@gmail.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 1:50 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: Re: VISTA SP2
I installed it on a a laptop and a desktop at home
Installed Vista SP2 last night on one of my home boxes. Installation
took about 30 minutes, and the PC now boots more quickly and
applications (Outlook, Solitaire, Firefox) seem to load faster, too.
Roger Wright
Network Administrator
Evatone, Inc.
727.572.7076 x388
_
-Original
We have Vista SP2 installed on two Machines at the office. So far no issues,
one is my assistant's and he generally has 40-50 IE windows open as well many
other programs. He says he has had zero problems , of course he is running
64-bit.
I am planning on expanding our test PC's over the
No issues with Vista SP2 on my laptop.
Outlook runs 1000 times betters with Office 2007 SP2
-Original Message-
From: Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 7:02 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VISTA SP2
Installed Vista SP2 last night on one of
I have two local accounts that have been granted the Log On as a Service
permission, within a GPO. This is causing Event ID 1202 errors, from SceCli.
The main description is as follows:
Security policies were propagated with warning. 0x534 : No mapping between
account names and security IDs
Is it a local policy?
-Original Message-
From: Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 10:48 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Log On as a Service question
I have two local accounts that have been granted the Log On as a Service
permission, within a
I usually add a specific GPO for servers that need local accounts with
special user rights, in a separate OU. The only ones I have that do this are
Citrix servers which have some queer local accounts that need to have some
rights on the system.
2009/5/28 Joe Heaton jhea...@etp.ca.gov
I have two
That's exactly the case here. One of the accounts is the Ctx_SmaUser account,
the other is a Websense account. For some reason, local policies on the
servers here are set by a domain GPO. This is what is causing the issue,
because the domain GPO can't map a local account to a SID...
So is
And another...
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From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 8:55 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
thanks for the heads up(s) folks ... valuable resource, and free is good !
Erik Goldoff
IT Consultant
Systems, Networks, Security
_
From: Jim Mediger [mailto:j...@holaday.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 11:10 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Another free
TVK could teach you, but he'd have to charge.
--
ME2
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote:
thanks for the heads up(s) folks ... valuable resource, and free is good
!
Erik Goldoff
*IT Consultant*
*Systems, Networks, Security *
I'm too poor to even pay attention, so free will have to do for now !
grin
Erik Goldoff
IT Consultant
Systems, Networks, Security
_
From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 11:44 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re:
All-
I seem to have a problem with GPO replication. I think. I am not really sure
what the problem is - it just confuses me at this point. Here is the deal.
I have a 7 server TS farm. They all run server 2008 64 bit edition, but I
believe the problem is something with our DCs. Our domain is
If a policy applied at the OU level is not affecting all the computers
in the OU, the first thing I would suspect is that security filtering is
in place. Have you confirmed that the Security Filtering section shows
Authenticated Users having (read) permissions to the policy? You may
have to go
What do you see in the app logs of the problem machines when you run
gpupdate /force on them?
Can you browse to \\domaindns.name\SYSVOL\domaindnas.name\Policies
file:///\\domaindns.name\SYSVOL\domaindnas.name\Policies from the
02-07?
From: Owens, Michael
List of what's included:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd335036.aspx
Found this one interesting:
SP2 removes the limit of 10 half open outbound TCP connections. By
default, SP2 has no limit on the number of half open outbound TCP
connections.
Sam
~ Finally, powerful endpoint
The only security filter I have in place is tied to a security group that the
account (lab rat) is a member of. Should I specify the servers in there as
well? The server that works is not a member of that security group.
From: Mayo, Bill
Your additional license server role and perhaps other roles/installed
options may allow certain AD traffic that is otherwise blocked. You can
test this by enabling file and print services as well as network
browsing on one of your afflicted terminal servers.
Richard Stovall
Since this is a HP, thats really not an issue.
But I think that partition is stopping the mirror from happening cleanly -
you cant boot off the 2nd disk, but before I remove it, and as I have no
recourse if it goes wrong I want to be dead sure itll be OK.
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Ken
No errors on the app log when I run GP update, and yes I can navigate out to
the policies folder.
From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 12:11 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Group Policy Problem -
If the servers/computers are not included in the security filtering,
then the policy will not affect them. Whether or not this is a problem
has to do with the policies invoked within the GPO. If all the policy
items are user configuration items, then it will make no difference. If
there are
So it looks like DNS and share permissions are probably OK.
Do you get a happy scecli 1704 event Security policy in the Group
policy objects has been applied successfully after gpupdate?
What type of settings are in the GPO? User and Computer? You could
always try enabling some innocuous
Amusing user dunce moment:
We just had a user (one of the higher ups, obviously since not everyone has
access to do this) send a 9 meg file to all users. (3000)
Hilarity ensues.
This message, and any response to it, may constitute a public record and
thus may
One last wild shot in the dark...
Can these servers ping the DCs? I saw a pretty large environment one
time (several thousand nodes) where Group Policy didn't work because the
network team had prohibited ICMP on all the switches and routers because
of Welchia. They didn't disable slow link
Probably a vid that was already on YouTube!
Thank god for Single Instance Storage
From: Owens, Michael [mailto:michael.ow...@dys.ohio.gov]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 12:20 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Amusing
Amusing user dunce moment:
We just
Haha, they dont have it set up here, I am a consultant just brought on... and
the exchange server was slowed to a halt...
From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 1:24 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Amusing
be mindful of your sending address.
--
ME2
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Owens, Michael
michael.ow...@dys.ohio.govwrote:
Haha, they dont have it set up here, I am a consultant just brought on...
and the exchange server was slowed to a halt...
--
*From:*
thank goodness for SIS !
Erik Goldoff
IT Consultant
Systems, Networks, Security
_
From: Owens, Michael [mailto:michael.ow...@dys.ohio.gov]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 1:20 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Amusing
Amusing user dunce moment:
We just had a user
That shouldn't have happened ... You have bigger problems than a single
attachment.
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: Owens, Michael
Give me a minute I am trying all these things. Thanks for the help guys. :)
From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 1:22 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Group Policy Problem - I've lost all my hair
I really wish I knew more about exchange, I am a citrix admin through and
through I used exchange once! :)
From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 1:54 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Amusing
That shouldn't
We use Riverbed appliances all over our WAN. They can't accelerate
everything, but they do a great job with what they can work with.
-Malcolm
From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org]
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 11:49 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Wan optimizer
I've seen
So I take it you weren't brought on as an Exchange Consultantjust happen
to be there during this particular incident?
- Sean
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Owens, Michael michael.ow...@dys.ohio.gov
wrote:
I really wish I knew more about exchange, I am a citrix admin through and
Well, unless they have exchange, swap files, logging, and message stores all
on one drive and ran out of drive space, then you shouldn't have had a major
performance slowdown ... unless that 9meg file included a worm ... and I
thought SIS was enabled by default ... but I could be wrong
Erik
Yeah. :)
From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 2:21 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Amusing
So I take it you weren't brought on as an Exchange Consultantjust happen to
be there during this particular
SIS means that while he sent that 9MB file to 3000 users, if all 3000 are on
the same Exchange server then there's only 9MB storednow, if say, 450 of
them decide to open the file or download the file to their desktop around the
same time, you might have an issue
David Lum // SYSTEMS
Everyones answers:
Richard:
1. All servers can ping all DCs.
2. I do get a 1704 applied succesfully event.
3. It does host both computers, and user policies. I was thinking about redoing
the policies after something Bill told me, sometimes they arent so happy.
Bill:
1. I am not sure where to
I thought that even if you open an attachment locally, SIS integrity is
maintained, and a copy is created in your local temp folder structure ( had
a security issue once with sensitive documents persisting in the temp
folders ) from a pointer to the original single instance
( unless you're just
Thats a lot of files!
That's what I gathered from Google, but when I asked the exchange guy here if
they have it enabled, he said that it didn't work because of their backups.
I immediately shut up because I have no idea what I am talking about. haha
From:
Thinking he is probably a large wan with slow connections and un-cached
clients. I bet the network is crawling in general.
It is ohio.gov.
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 2:37 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Amusing
SIS means that while he
The operative question is does it work? Is the particular account granted the
logon right if you test it?
The warning makes perfect sense and your research is correct. I believe I tried
this years ago and as long as the local account names were the same it still
worked.
-Original
Also assuming there are no mailbox level backups... that would break
SIS's beauty.
From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 1:41 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Amusing
I thought that even if you open an
Almost.
SIS is per database. So if you had those 3,000 users in one mailbox store then
it's roughly only 9MB stored, however if you had them say in 3 mailbox
databases, then it's roughly 27MB and so forth.
Note that SIS is gone in Exchange Server 2010.
Also take into account cached mode which
SIS is purely on the server. The temp instance is client-side as a function of
Outlook.
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com
c - 312.731.3132
From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 1:41 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Amusing
I thought
now that rings a bell ... I seem to remember that using bricks level backup
from Arcserve against Exchange 5.5 a few years back *did* break SIS ... but
with deleted item retention, no real reason to use bricks level ( mailbox by
mailbox, message by message, instead of entire info store at
wow, get outta my head grin ... just commented on bricks level before
seeing your intelligent comment !
Erik Goldoff
IT Consultant
Systems, Networks, Security
_
From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 2:44 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
I'm not aware of a way to disable SIS...
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: Owens, Michael [mailto:michael.ow...@dys.ohio.gov]
Sent:
I started a war. I just thought sending a 9 meg file to 3000 people was funny.
:)
From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 2:51 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Amusing
SIS is purely on the server. The temp
I had disabled inheritance on that OU, so the OUs further down the tree should
not grab any other policies either, correct? should loopback be enabled or
disabled on THIS policy?
From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:bem...@pittcountync.gov]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009
seems we're saying the same thing different ways ... I agree
Erik Goldoff
IT Consultant
Systems, Networks, Security
_
From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 2:51 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Amusing
SIS is purely on
Is DFS smart enough to prevent two people from opening the same file on two
(or more) replication partners at the same time?
John-AldrichTile-Tools
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/
Nope. Last one to save wins.
Carl
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 2:58 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: DFS file locking
Is DFS smart enough to prevent two people from opening the same file on two
(or more) replication
I was basically trying to restate what I had mentioned before. I will
try it in a different way, and I apologize if I am just telling you what
you already know. For a policy to apply, there are several factors
involved. The first thing is that the GPO has to be applied at a level
that affects
Loopback is almost, always implemented in either REPLACE (the majority of
cases) or Merge mode for Terminal Servers and XenApp servers.
I just wrote an article on locking down (aka managing) a TS and or XA
server.
http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=10745
Webster
From: Owens,
If you have blocked inheritance at that OU, then it shouldn't receive
any polices above that OU level. You use loopback processing when you
want the same *user* policies to apply to a computer, regardless of who
logs on. Say for example you have a logon script applied via GPO to
some of your
From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com]
Subject: RE: Amusing
Also take into account cached mode which is Outlook 2003 and newer behavior
(unless you turn it off) which would mitigate your scenario of 450 users
opening the attachment. Even then so, it shouldn't take down a server.
What if I want to make domain administrators (or anouther security group) able
to log on without group policy restictions?
From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:bem...@pittcountync.gov]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 3:32 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Group Policy
From: Owens, Michael [mailto:michael.ow...@dys.ohio.gov]
Subject: RE: Group Policy Problem - I've lost all my hair
What if I want to make domain administrators (or anouther security group)
able to log on without group policy restictions?
Deny them the right to Apply the Group Policy. 4th
You can use Security Filtering to put an explicit DENY on the GPO that
sets the restriction. You would have to do this under the Delegation
tab.
From: Owens, Michael [mailto:michael.ow...@dys.ohio.gov]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 3:45 PM
To: NT System Admin
How does Ex 2010 work regarding SIS? If it doesn't use it, does it use some
similar technology? Or would the OP's 9 MB file now take 3000x9 MB of space?
John Hornbuckle
MIS Department
Taylor County School District
318 North Clark Street
Perry, FL 32347
I'd like to make it impossible for users to install Safari and Bonjour.
Has anyone done this?
Linda
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
3000x9
Disks are cheap, Exchange 2010 is designed to run RAID-less on large SATA (e.g.
1TB) drives. 1 database per SATA drive - TX logs DB on the same volume.
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com
c - 312.731.3132
Active Directory, 4th Ed - http://www.briandesmond.com/ad4/
Microsoft
I am getting funny responses from people.
Such as:
The following recipient(s) could not be reached:
3177141...@txt.att.net
Error Type: SMTP
Remote server (66.102.165.114) issued an error.
hMailServer sent:
Remote server replied: 421 Service not available
Tried 5 time(s)
I'll have to ponder that one a bit. Not sure I like it. Disks may be cheap, but
eliminating SIS would cause storage requirements to increase by an order of
magnitude. The OP's situation is a prime example... Suddenly a 9 MB storage
requirement becomes 2.7 GB storage requirement (if my math is
Software Restriction Policies in Group Policy.
Also make custom installs of iTunes that do not include Bonjour,
Quicktime. Instead, install QuickTime Alternative. (Because I think
iTunes does require some version of Quicktime or the install fails).
-Original Message-
From: Linda C
Damn! That's crazy! Any 3rd-party solution available for something like
this?
John-AldrichTile-Tools
From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 3:12 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: DFS file locking
Nope. Last one to save wins.
Carl
Using software restriction policies would allow you to do it 'for free'
in a Microsoft environment. There are also lots of 3rd party apps out
there to do stuff like this.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324036
I'll leave it to others to question the motivation/wisdom of targeting
only Apple
26+ GB L
From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 4:12 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Amusing
I'll have to ponder that one a bit. Not sure I like it. Disks may be
cheap, but eliminating SIS would cause storage requirements to
Also, what about backing up exchange - if one person does something like
that every day, suddenly you need to buy new backup devices and your
backup window increases dramatically.
From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us]
Sent:
Have you been blacklisted?
http://www.mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx
From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.org]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 4:13 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: My MX is acting funny
I am getting funny responses from people.
Such as:
The following
Yup.
From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 4:19 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: My MX is acting funny
Have you been blacklisted?
http://www.mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx
From: David W. McSpadden
Not as of an hour ago.
- Original Message -
From: Richard Stovall
To: NT System Admin Issues
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 4:18 PM
Subject: RE: My MX is acting funny
Have you been blacklisted?
http://www.mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx
From: David W. McSpadden
Don't check the apply policy setting in the filter.
For my Citrix GPOs I have a specified group that gets the user policies, is
used in machine policies to allow logon etc.
The pertinent part of the filter looks like this-
Domain Admins: Custom: Edit settings, Delete, Modify security
Citrix
Wow!
SATA maybe cheap but this means I have to scrap my existing mail servers. and
I'm pretty sure the new one's won't be HPs as the cost of 2.5 drives is
ridiculous.
From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 4:10 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject:
Don't worry. Not ONLY apple products. Just that these catch users unaware.
Linda
Richard Stovall wrote:
Using software restriction policies would allow you to do it 'for free'
in a Microsoft environment. There are also lots of 3rd party apps out
there to do stuff like this.
yes, the accounts are able to do what they need to do. However, because the
rights are being assigned to local policy, through GPO, these local accounts
are being applied to other servers. i.e. srv1\Ctx_Smauser is being assigned to
srv2, srv3, etc. Since there's no mapping to a domain SID,
Well, apparently it didn't shut you down. Perhaps this is how that
higher-up user ended up in a domain containing the string dys gov?
--
Richard D. McClary
Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group
ASPCA®
1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36
Urbana, IL 61802
richardmccl...@aspca.org
P:
It may be off the subject a bit, but doesn't Citrix Best Practices include
disabling those accounts that are created automatically? I'm going off my
less-than-reliable memory, but that error and account name seem familiar to
me. From what I recall, the account(s) weren't used and could simply be
Where can I find a list of updates that may have affected IIS 6.0 and
determine if and when they were applied to specific server?
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Not really, replicating file locks all over the place is a difficult problem,
especially if there are hi latency WANs involved. You are looking for a WAFS
(Wide Area File System). There are several products out there, just google
them. I don't have any experience to recommend for or against any
Cached mode actually makes the problem worse. Much worse. Once the
message is sent, every single client that is running will see the new
email within about 30 seconds and they will all download a separate copy
of it to store in their local caches. If the Exchange server is on a
WAN link, that
The OP's requirement is not the norm.
The perf improvements that were achieved by cutting this feature (which was
conceived when say a 9GB SCSI drive cost a lot of money) far outweighs the
storage requirement.
Go in perfmon on your Exchange server and go under MSExchangeIS Private/Public
or
I would expect those prices will continue to fall as the technology (2.5
drives) continues to mature. I don't really know what the pricing looks like
for retail, but, remember that the SATA drive that comes from HP/Dell in a
server is (hopefully) not the same drive that you buy for $89 on
Well yet another design that you can do with Exchange 2010 is potentially not
run backups (depending on regulatory risk requirements and all that). You can
lag replicas such that you have versions which are X days old so I could have
two copies of each database which are current and then have
3,000 users going across a slow WAN link for Exchange is a pretty poor design
decision so hopefully that's not realistic.
My note was more about the server (specifically I/O) than network. If 3,000
users all come after the same data in a short time window it's going to be in
the cache which
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Jim Majorowicz jmajorow...@gmail.com wrote:
Where can I find a list of updates that may have affected IIS 6.0 and
determine if and when they were applied to specific server?
MBSA seems to be the best thing for analyzing what updates have been
installed, and
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com wrote:
The OP’s requirement is not the norm.
Who says it isn't the norm? I've seen countless cases where people
mail the same file to tens or even hundreds of people all the time.
The perf improvements that were achieved
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com wrote:
... remember that the SATA drive that comes from HP/Dell in a
server is (hopefully) not the same drive that you buy for $89 on NewEgg.
The main reason SATA drives are cheaper than SCSI/SAS is that
they're produced in
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com wrote:
If 3,000 users all come after the same data in a short time window it’s going
to be
in the cache which means it’s served out of memory (not disk). RAM is way
faster than disk.
Except that, from what you're saying,
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