Re: Remote Backup Solutions

Since last time I looked at this product it can now do data deduplication and Acronis style bare metal recovery :) Shazad - Original message - From: "Shazad Anwar" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 22:29:24 +0100 Subject: Re: Remote Backup Solutions Check this out [1]

Re: Adding a server to the domain

Generally the only way to tell would be to haul the account name from the event and run some WMI or srvinfo query against it to return the OS 2009/10/8 Rick Fogarty > I think it's 645 Security. Now wondering if there is a way to distinguish > between workstations and servers. Guess not conside

RE: Once more - software RAID

Windows Home Server doesn't do RAID. It just duplicates at the file level using NTFS reparse points. Also the rebalancing functionality of WHS has nothing to do with duplication. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Mike Hoffman [mailto:m...@drumbrae.net] Subject: RE: Once more - softwa

RE: dyndns for webservers

You might get better results with a more 'business-grade' offering from DNS Providers such as DNSMadeEasy.com. They will monitor you website availability and auto switch the DNS entries to your failover IP's when required. http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/s0306/prod/dnsfosm.html Not too bad for decent

Backup/Restore best practices for Sharepoint 2007

Wonder if anyone has any good links for best practices in backup and restore for Sharepoint 2007 data ( ie, how to recover a document after user accidentally deletes it from the sharepoint database, recovery after drive corruption, etc ). I have an 'associate' that has just installed Sharepoint 20

Re: Backup/Restore best practices for Sharepoint 2007

You'll need to have a backup solution that is Sharepoint aware not just SQL aware. Backup Exec has an agent specifically for Sharepoint that will do the document level backup/restore you are asking for. Otherwise, if you just rely on SQL backups, you'll have to restore the entire SQL db to recove

RE: Backup/Restore best practices for Sharepoint 2007

thanks, I think he might have BE at that client site already, so maybe a simple upgrade will take care of what he needs . Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security _ From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 8:40 AM To:

RE: Backup/Restore best practices for Sharepoint 2007

Indeed. I can confirm both Veritas NetBackup and CommVault Simpana both have Sharepoint agent document-level capability. We are moving from the former to the latter. -sc From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 8:40 AM To: NT System Admin

RE: Patch management software question, again...

WSUS will tell you what is pending reboot. David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 11:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues

Re: Backup/Restore best practices for Sharepoint 2007

It's available for v. 11 & up of BE. It works, I think I've had to do a restore once since we implemented the BE solution for SP. On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Erik Goldoff wrote: > thanks, I think he might have BE at that client site already, so maybe a > simple upgrade will take care of w

RE: Backup/Restore best practices for Sharepoint 2007

AvePoint also have a popular product (DocAve) in addition to the two listed below. I would strongly recommend against DPM 2007. Cheers Ken From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, 9 October 2009 8:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup/Restore best practi

MPLS

We have three satellite offices in two states connected to our main office via point to point T1s. Each office has their own dedicated Internet connection. All data and email is centralized in our main office with each satellite office having their own phone switch. We use VOIP for inter offic

Printer Dissappearring

I have a HP 3700N (PCL5e) that is networked/shared off a Windows 2003 server R2 SE SP2. Every so often (there is no pattern) the printer will be deleted off the server. There's no rhyme or reason as to why. I have double checked to be sure there was no software or services running that would

Re: Printer Dissappearring

Check the permissions and see who has access to delete it. If needs be, change them to a select few and see if it stops 2009/10/9 Wilhelm, Scott > I have a HP 3700N (PCL5e) that is networked/shared off a Windows 2003 > server R2 SE SP2. > > > > Every so often (there is no pattern) the printer w

RE: Printer Dissappearring

We've already buttoned down the security. The teachers & students definitely do not have permission to this printer. We have verified this visually & through the effective permissions tab. Thank you, Scott From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 9:3

RE: forward email to fax?

GFI Faxmaker can do this. Whether your email client/server can will depend on your setup. Jim From: Jeff Brown [mailto:2jbr...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 2:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: forward email to fax? In a windows environment(W2k3) with Ex2k3 is there a way t

RE: Backup/Restore best practices for Sharepoint 2007

Interesting. We are looking at evaluating DPM. Can you elaborate on why you recommend against it? Thanks ...Tim From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 6:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup/Restore best practices for Sharepoint 2007 Av

Wow

I never realized how easy man-in-the-middle attacks were executed... http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=7303 Specifically: http://isc.sans.org/diaryimages/rdp-mitm-mpg.html David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: Wilhel

RE: MPLS

I think the saying "you get what you pay for" applies here. Nothing against Comcast but you won't get the same QOS out of a cable line that you will from MPLS. That being said we have a Comcast business line for a remote warehouse and run an ASA there to hardware VPN back to our main office. It

Re: MPLS

We have an 4.5 mb MPLS connection from here to our alternate site and it has served us very well. On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:21 AM, wrote: > We have three satellite offices in two states connected to our main office > via point to point T1s. Each office has their own dedicated Internet > connecti

Re: Printer Dissappearring

I have some doing the same and the print spooler service will stop and have to be restarted as well. I think it may be a conflict with some of the later Dell printers and they're software? Dave - Original Message - From: Wilhelm, Scott To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Friday,

RE: Backup/Restore best practices for Sharepoint 2007

If you have a small SharePoint infrastructure it'll probably work OK. If you're looking at a more enterprise level setup, then here's a few things I ran into... a) DPM requires LocalSystem to be sysadmin in the SQL Server instance that SharePoint is installed into. That's for the SQL Serv

RE: Printer Dissappearring

For the network here, it's only 1 specific printer that's being affected. If the print spooler was dying here, then all the printers on that server would be gone, which would affect the entire district. Thanks, Scott From: David Coffey [mailto:dcof...@sllboces.org] Sent: Friday, October 09, 2

Re: Printer Dissappearring

Maybe use psloggedon or something like that to verify who is logged on around the time it was deleted? I think you can actually turn on printer auditing for certain groups through the Security | Advanced tab in Printer Properties, I would enable this for the users that have access. Not sure it aud

RE: Printer Dissappearring

I looked into the auditing, but there didn't appear to be a way to audit the deletion of a printer. :( I'll look into the psloggedon app, but the problem is that it will most likely give me the option of about 100 teachers & 100's of students... Thanks, Scott From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...

RE: MPLS

I use PAETEC www.paetec.com for our 9 location (across 6 states) MPLS WAN network. Works very very well, we utilize QoS for VoIP, and have very little problems. PAETEC's account team, and customer service is impeccable. Our main location has a 1.5 MB MPLS connection to PAETEC. Our remote sites ha

NAS/SAN

So, we're working on getting our first big "storage appliance" here. As the IT Manager it's my job to get quotes, etc. I'm talking to all the "big boys" out there and getting a lot of good quotes. My requirements are fairly simple: 1) On the order of 5 Terabytes of storage (significantly more

RE: Adding a server to the domain

Don't know if the OP is looking for a free solution, but we use Active Administrator and have it setup to alert us whenever a comp account is added to the domain, among other events. This has helped us keep our AD environment cleaner by making sure objects are put where they should be from day

Lotus Notes

We have a Lotus Notes client 6.5(only the client, we run Exchange) that is on 4 machines. At the moment the users can't view what is in other users "inbox" on the clients. Is there a way that we can place the client on a server, then place a shortcut to notes.exe on the 4 users desktops and have

RE: NAS/SAN

The Dell rebranded EMC units and EqualLogic devices are pretty competitive. These would need to be front ended with something to serve up NAS duties tho... they are FC or iSCSI SAN only -sc From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 10:06 AM

Re: NAS/SAN

I'm in the same boat...looking at around 5TBs, sort of have it narrowed down to lefthand or equallogic. It's a tough choice. A friend of mine went with datacore software...that looks good too. Definitely cheaper/ On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 9:06 AM, John Aldrich wrote: > So, we’re working on getti

Re: NAS/SAN

Definitely take a look at StoneFly. They make a variety of iSCSI and FC storage products that are mega redundant, fast, and cost-effective. And highly scalable. I can recommend a VAR as well. -*ASB*: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker Providing Competitive Advantage

RE: NAS/SAN

I would highly recommend EMC. From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 10:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: NAS/SAN So, we're working on getting our first big "storage appliance" here. As the IT Manager it

RE: MPLS

I have been using Sprint for our MPLS for the last 5 years. We have sites with 45mbps, 12mbps, and 6mps (9 sites total). I am running VOIP across all of these with no QOS issues or drops. Service has been excellent. From: chipsh...@comcast.net [mailto:chipsh...@comcast.net] Sent: Friday, Octo

Re: NAS/SAN

We got a 20TB iSCSI SAN last year from StoneFly (I had demo'd them with my previous employer). They are fast (both the SAS and SATA modules), and stable. Easy to use and excellent pricing. And they support NAS functionality as a front-end to any portion of the storage. -*ASB*: http://XeeSM.com/

Re: dyndns for webservers

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 6:28 AM, Steve Burkett wrote: > You might get better results with a more 'business-grade' offering from > DNS Providers such as DNSMadeEasy.com. While the monitoring/auto-switching stuff may be of benefit if you want that, most of the limitations I described are inherent

Re: Backup/Restore best practices for Sharepoint 2007

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Ken Schaefer wrote: > If you’re looking at a more enterprise level setup, then here’s a few things > I ran into... Yikes! Thanks for that info. /me crosses DPM off my list of backup solutions to evaluate for next year's server upgrades. I particularly like h

RE: NAS/SAN

Yah. I planned on sharing the files out over our existing file servers. J John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 10:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NAS/SAN The Dell rebranded EMC units and EqualLogic dev

RE: NAS/SAN

Please do, Andrew. I don't know anyone in this area who sells those. J John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 10:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: NAS/SAN Definitely take a look at StoneFly. They make a variet

RE: Backup/Restore best practices for Sharepoint 2007

We use DPM here for SharePoint backup with no issues at all. Love it actually. But we are not a large enterprise install base. I think it will depend on the individual case. Tim From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 8:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Su

Re: [ActiveDir] Fwd: REPLMON shows errors, but only in 1 direction ...

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Coleman, Hunter wrote: > Who does MJRSWDC001 point to for its primary DNS server? It points to WDC001 (even though it is also a DNS server, it does not point to itself for DNS or WINS). WDC001 is the primary DNS in use by all servers and workstations. >If it's poi

RE: MPLS

WOW Nice bandwidth you've got there. How many users at each site? From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 10:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MPLS I have been using Sprint for our MPLS for the last 5 year We ha

Re: Lotus Notes

I had just finished a major Lotus Nots client issue when your message hit my Inbox. I don't know about 6.5; we're a 7.0.2 shop. I do know that it is all too easy to break things! Our phone system needs a Lotus Nots client (since we're a Lotus Nots shop) to process and deliver voice mail mes

Re: Wow

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 9:39 AM, David Lum wrote: > I never realized how easy man-in-the-middle attacks were executed… > > http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=7303 > Specifically: http://isc.sans.org/diaryimages/rdp-mitm-mpg.html This is why I don't run RDP over the public Internet. All RDP

RE: Lotus Notes

A client of ours sent us the notes client to use to receive drug results from an MRO (Medical Review Officer). When we place the client on one user's computer, they access the information by logging into the Lotus client. However when we place the same client onto another user's computer, they ca

RE: Backup/Restore best practices for Sharepoint 2007

Wow, Thanks Ken. I think you just saved us a bunch of time ...Tim From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 6:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup/Restore best practices for Sharepoint 2007 If you have a small SharePoint infrastructure it'll

Re: MPLS

Located in NH in a major metropolitian area. Vendor availability isn't an issue unless the local carrier (Fairpoint) goes belly up. Thanks. - Original Message - From: "David Mazzaccaro" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Friday, October 9, 2009 10:04:45 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Ea

RE: NAS/SAN

The Dell Equallogic offerings should serve your needs very well. They have products with "redundant everything", and you can get SATA, SAS, and (I forgot the buzz-word for it...) flash-based storage. From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Se

Comcast Internet (was: MPLS)

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 9:21 AM, wrote: > I have also looked into leaving the P2P Ts as they are > but switching most of our dedicated Internet connections to Comcast Business > cable. I can't comment on MPLS, but I can on Comcast Business/Workplace/whatever. We've got a feed through them. I'

Re: MPLS

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:10 AM, wrote: > Located in NH in a major metropolitian area. I live in NH. We don't have any major metropolitan areas. ;-) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

RE: NAS/SAN

Solid State drive ? From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 9:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NAS/SAN The Dell Equallogic offerings should serve your needs very well. They have products with "redundant everything", and you can g

RE: MPLS

Well hello there neighbor! In that case, I highly recommend you take a serious look at Paetec. From: chipsh...@comcast.net [mailto:chipsh...@comcast.net] Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 11:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: MPLS Located in NH in a

Re: NAS/SAN

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Kim Longenbaugh wrote: > ... I forgot the buzz-word for it… flash-based storage. SSD. Solid State Drive. FYI: I recently spoke to a Dell rep regarding server and storage offerings. He was trying to sell me an PowerVault MD3000i, which is Dell's entry-level

RE: NAS/SAN

That's it! "SSD" was the acronym. I kept thinking of superconducting super collider... From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com] Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NAS/SAN Solid State drive ? From:

RE: Lotus Notes

Since things already don't work... When the client was installed on the machine where it works, a server was specified? How/what are the permissions on the server mailbox? (In other words, what messages were received from the other 3, non-functional, clients?) My quick fix suggestion would be

RE: Wow

You can simply use TLS to mutually authenticate the client and server: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc782610%28WS.10%29.aspx Then your connection is as secure as your PKI (and Microsoft's crypto-API). Or you can use IPSec. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [ma

Re: NAS/SAN

Everyone is trying to jumpstart the economy... :) -*ASB*: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker Providing Competitive Advantage through Effective IT Leadership On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Kim Longenbaugh > wrot

Re: NAS/SAN

The transition from DAS to network storage requires a bit more planning. Left unsaid in your email is if you're also virtualizing your servers. You haven't quantified you're actually using now. IF you want 5 TB and you're using 3 TB now, 5 may not be sufficient. I would also suggest that you nee

RE: Backup/Restore best practices for Sharepoint 2007

That's not really a DPM limitation per se - it's the way that the SQL Server VSS writer works (i.e. the SQL Server VSS writer runs as LocalSystem). The client I was at had an internal enterprise SQL Server infrastructure whose services that could be "purchased" by other people within the company

RE: NAS/SAN

Ok, I just got off the phone with a StoneFly sales engineer.He had some interesting things to say about EMC/Dell/Equallogic/NetApp and LSI. I need some fact-checking from people who know more than I about this sort of thing. he said that those are "dumb" ISCSI devices that can't handle a lot of con

RE: NAS/SAN

I have an HP EVA 4000 with about 2.5Tb of space with room to grow, it uses fiber drives. I'm using VMWare 3.5 in the midst of upgrading to VSphere 4. I have had it for about 9 months and I'm very happy. I'm also in the midst of adding another HP ML 370 G5 server with about 3Tb worth of SAS drive

RE: NAS/SAN

Sales talk, nothing but! From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 10:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NAS/SAN Ok, I just got off the phone with a StoneFly sales engineer...He had some interestin

Re: NAS/SAN

Do you need a lot of connections? My environment has three physical servers, which are comprised of 2 hosts running 10 virtual servers and 1 server running disk based backup and is a secondary AD controller. All connections to the SAN are through a separate network/switch. I don't want the san e

Re: NAS/SAN

That sounds like nonsense to me. Have you looked into Dell/EMCs CX4-120? Its the entry level CX unit that provides both fiber channel and iscsi connectivity via "UltraFlex I/O Modules". It supports 4GB/s and 8GB/s Fiber Channel and 1 GB/s and 10GB/s iSCSI. -Sean On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:39 AM, J

RE: NAS/SAN

Well, we're using approximately 150 Gigs of storage now. When you say "virtualize" the server what do you mean? All I want to do is migrate the storage role off the file servers to a dedicated storage appliance and have a redundant SAN at a remote location. From what I read on the StoneFly website

RE: NAS/SAN

No, I probably don't need a *lot* of connections now, although when I bring email in-house I probably will. I plan on sharing the drive space out through the servers, although it's likely they'll be on the same physical switch as the users. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Jonathan Link [mailto

RE: NAS/SAN

Thanks. That sort of talk made me suspicious that he was blowing smoke, but it seems like a good product, nonetheless, and if it comes in cheaper than the "big boys" I may go with that, especially since ASB recommends 'em. J John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmai

Re: NAS/SAN

They all like to point out the deficiencies of their competitors. Just tell him to focus on his products values and get a demo or at least a walk-through. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: "John Aldrich" Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 11:56:01 To: NT System Adm

Re: NAS/SAN

Even then, those connections will still go through a mail server, and will appear as only one connection to the SAN. On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:55 AM, John Aldrich wrote: > No, I probably don’t need a **lot** of connections now, although when I > bring email in-house I probably will. I plan on sh

Re: NAS/SAN

Maybe ask the other guys (Lefthand, Dell, ...) what they think about StoneFly. On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 6:01 PM, wrote: > They all like to point out the deficiencies of their competitors. Just tell > him to focus on his products values and get a demo or at least a > walk-through. > > Sent from my

Re: MPLS

LOL . I guess I should qualify that. I'm located in a section of the state that passes for a major metropolitan area in NH but would be a very small part of a major city like let's say New York. Thanks. I needed a good Friday laugh . - Original Message - From: "Ben Scott" < mai

Re: NAS/SAN

John, Are you primarily looking at providing additional storage to existing servers or are you looking to consolidate your file servers and serve up storage to clients directly from a storage unit? If the latter, it sounds like you want a solution capable serving up CIFS. On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7

Re: NAS/SAN

We put together our SAN as 6TB of SAS, and 14TB of SATA. We further allocated about 3TB of the SAS for SQL DB storage, and 6TB of the SATA for VM storage. Took us a good month of planning to decide how to segment the network and finalize the architecture. It's been working fine for us, supp

Re: Comcast Internet (was: MPLS)

Thanks for taking the time to post such a comprehensive reply. I used Comcast in our Boston office for about 4 years and really had no complaint with them. The "magically started working" phrase is something I see a lot of with Verizon. - Original Message - From: "Ben Scott" To: "

Re: [ActiveDir] Fwd: REPLMON shows errors, but only in 1 direction ...

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Coleman, Hunter wrote: > As a point of clarification, the replication is always going to be a pull > process. It's probably worth testing to see if MJRSWDC001 can pull changes > that you make on WDC001/002, and vice-versa. It's entirely possible that > MJRSWDC00

Re: MPLS

LOL! So true... and dont beleive what any of those ManchVegas hooligans might try to tell you otherwise! -- ME2 On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:10 AM, wrote: > > Located in NH in a major metropolitian area. > > I live in NH. We don't have an

RE: Lotus Notes

The server is specified in the notes.ini and points to the remote Domino server via internet. As for the permissions on the server, I wouldn't know this since the server is on our clients network and not ours. *update... so in further looking into the issue, I saw that the UNC path was

RE: NAS/SAN

That's bullshit. Pure and simple. From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 8:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NAS/SAN Sales talk, nothing but! _ From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Frid

RE: NAS/SAN

My thought was to do the latter, but serve up the files through the existing file servers using ISCSI as if the file system were on the file server itself. We currently have two Dell PowerEdge servers handling both file/print serving as well as domain control. I want to keep the two servers, but co

RE: NAS/SAN

And honestly, when a vendor spends more time telling me how bad someone elses product is, that's usually when I walk out the door. From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 8:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NAS/SAN Thanks. That so

RE: NAS/SAN

Ive never even heard of them. From: Rene de Haas [mailto:rene.deh...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 9:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: NAS/SAN Maybe ask the other guys (Lefthand, Dell, ...) what they think about StoneFly. On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 6:01 PM, wrote: Th

RE: NAS/SAN

I would also jump in here and comment that while you say your needs are simple, they may not be in the future. Additionally you will want to take a look at the software offerings of each vendor. I work for a storage vendor myself and I'm not going to pitch you on one, but here is what I will tell

RE: Lotus Notes

WOW! I helped someone fix a Notes problem - They'll never believe that back at NYC HQ! (Hopefully, they'll not find out. I want to go to IBM school to take Domino 8.5 certification classes. They might decide I don't need it.) Thanks for sending that error message - that is what pointed to t

RE: NAS/SAN

Why? If you have a NAS, put the files on there. The NAS itself should be able to join your AD and appear as any other server. Then just share out the volume via CIFS and go. No need to go the iSCSI LUN route. Overcomplicated.. From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Fr

RE: NAS/SAN

BTW, I would talk to NetApp, Equilogic, EMC, maybe Lefthand. And SIS (Dedupe) is worth talking about absolutely. Especially if you ever decide to virtualize. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 8:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: NA

RE: Lotus Notes

Lol. What are the benefits (if any) of using Domino/Notes over Exchange/Outlook? _ Cameron Cooper IT Director - CompTIA A+ Certified Aurico Reports, Inc Phone: 847-890-4021Fax: 847-255-1896 ccoo...@aurico.com From: richar

Price of Office 2007 Pro

Maybe call this a jaded Friday for me, but get a load of this. I found this seller on the tubes that is selling full retail box Office 2007 Professional for $165 apiece. Is this an insane number or normal? It costs so much more everywhere else. And today the order arrived in the mail, and it is

RE: NAS/SAN

We don't have either at this point. My understanding is that while there is a large overlap between NAS and SAN, that the SAN still has some features that the NAS does not. Some things like redundancy come to mind right off. Sure they've got RAID, but do they have redundant controllers and redundan

RE: Price of Office 2007 Pro

Dang... call the Microsoft anti-piracy and see. What is it, 1800rulegit or something like that? -Original Message- From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:p...@psnet.com] Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 12:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Price of Office 2007 Pro Maybe call this a jade

RE: Lotus Notes

It makes it more likely you'll always have a good supply of Preparation-H available... Seriously, NYC (corporate HQ) was originally a Novell shop, and they needed something more robust and (hopefully) secure than SMTP/POP. Exchange was still in its very early stages. Once the concrete sets ar

RE: Price of Office 2007 Pro

http://www.microsoft.com/howtotell/office/default.aspx?displaylang=en -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 1:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Price of Office 2007 Pro Dang... call the Microsoft anti-pirac

RE: Price of Office 2007 Pro

Oh, and if it turns out to be legit, let us all know where to get it. :-) At a previous employer we bought a bunch of copies of Office that all came in paper sleeves, and all had the same registration code, but the disks all had the hologram. Don't know. Not my problem any more. :-) -Origin

RE: Price of Office 2007 Pro

Not 100 percent certain but that sounds like less than our EDU price. -Original Message- From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:p...@psnet.com] Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 12:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Price of Office 2007 Pro Maybe call this a jaded Friday for me, but get a

Re: Price of Office 2007 Pro

Happen to get Smithsonian? There's an article about counterfeit malaria medication (consisting mostly of flour). The frightening thing is, those packages were nicely bubble-packed, stamped, shrink-wrapped, and had holograms which were pretty hard to tell from the genuine (and theraputic) arti

RE: Price of Office 2007 Pro

Could be someone buying through an employee purchase program or something similar and then illegally reselling it to make some quick cash. It would still be pirated software though, even in original shrink wrap. Tim -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.o

RE: Price of Office 2007 Pro

Academic pricing? Or some other discounted pricing/licensing SKU used in a way MS didn't intend. Send a link to this. My bet is that it's not a major known outlet. Not that they are the worst, but licensing from MS is such a pathetic convoluted mess anyway. And they know it. http://www.itpro.co.uk

Re: Price of Office 2007 Pro

I just googled Office 2007 Professional and got:Top sponsored link www.softdealworld.com who are selling it for £79 And if that wasn't cheap enough, http://www.software4students.co.uk/Microsoft_Office_Professional_Plus_2007-details.aspxhave it for £44! And if that wasn't cheap enough, Enterprise ve

RE: Lotus Notes

Virtually none. However, if you have a lot of Notes apps, it makes it harder to move to Exchange Ronald Wulff Jr 412.288.3601 rwu...@reedsmith.com Reed Smith LLP 20 Stanwix St Suite 1200 Pittsburgh, PA 15222 From: Cameron Cooper [mailto:ccoo...@aurico.com] Sent: Friday, October 09,

RE: Price of Office 2007 Pro

The home use program disc boxes I've seen were plastered all over with verbiage to that effect. They also don't have that obscenely-difficult-to-open hinged plastic case. (Or is that part just me?) -Original Message- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Friday, Octo

Re: Lotus Notes

You'll never be at a loss for things the users complain about! John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families Sent to you from my Blackberry in the Cloud From: Cameron Cooper To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Fri Oct 09 12:55:08 2009 Subject: RE:

  1   2   >