Hyper-V on both.
The Production one is running Windows Home Server v1, Forefront TMG, WSUS, 2
x DCs and Exchange 2010 (plus DHCP, Print, CA etc.) on 2 x 128GB SSDs and 2 x
2TB mechanical drives.
Cheers
Ken
From: justino garcia [mailto:jgarciaitl...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 2 November 2011
Anyone on the list using cloud services? I looked at Office 365 and
found it to be far more expensive than what I pay now. But, I can see
replicating my web sites and databases to a cloud just for the space.
Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com 11/2/2011 10:57 PM
Really?
Gartner is saying
Do some searches for gartner cloud and look at some more recent articles.
Even though the graphic in that article was only July 2011, that's really a
long time in hype cycles.
If someone were smart, they'd find a way to automate data accumulation from
communities and develop a real world
Several services, yes.
Several SaaS apps, and a little IaaS (both computing and storage)
* *
*ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of
Technology for the SMB market…
*
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Tom Miller tmil...@hnncsb.org wrote:
Anyone on the list using
I use Office 365 for my carlwebster.com domain and am happy with the service.
$6/month is not bad for a one man shop. I don’t have to bug MBS hardly ever
now about all my e-mail issues when my e-mail was on a GoDaddy server.
Carl Webster
Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional
My Dad bought a new PC without Office, and then wanted to be able to write
docs, use xls, etc. I got him up and running on Office 365. There is a huge
learning curve, and I don’t think he may ever get it completely. You would
think that Microsoft would do a better job with the interface.
Are you running mac os Server or client? any major issues with running
Server OS as a desktop?
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.orgwrote:
My main computers is a Mac Mini. I love this little thing. It's quite the
great piece of hardware.
I have it running a
If you have multiple business units who don't need to see/know that each other
exists, is there any way to do this under a single Office 365 account or is the
only option to have one account per business unit?
Thanks,
Paul
--
MIRA Ltd
Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England
In case anybody was interested, I have a resolution to the issue. The core
problem resulted from moving the Certificate Services server several months
back. The name of the server changed, and I had (mostly) gotten that
configured correctly. What I didn't understand was that the CRL
I've mentioned this is the past and for the most part it will just reinforce
what some others have said. I have an old Dell Precision T5400 running ESX
4.1, and soon 5. It's booting off a little 30GB SSD. VM Storage is on a
mirror pair of Western Digital WD2002FYPS 2TB Black. What makes the
I don't know the difference between Mac OS server or client. As far as running
this Server OS as a client, I don't consider something that has Chat with
your friends or make a video call or Photo booth on the desktop really a
server OS. Or maybe I'm old school to think the only things you
NIce sweet
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:14 AM, N Parr npar...@mortonind.com wrote:
**
I've mentioned this is the past and for the most part it will just
reinforce what some others have said. I have an old Dell Precision T5400
running ESX 4.1, and soon 5. It's booting off a little 30GB SSD. VM
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote:
My Dad bought a new PC without Office, and then wanted to be able to write
docs, use xls, etc. I got him up and running on Office 365. There is a
huge learning curve, and I don’t think he may ever get it completely.
I just bought a little server for Hyper-V and bought it with an 80GB SSD. I
verified with MBS that the 80GB would be fine. I originally specced it out
with a 40GB. My minimum partition size for 2008 R2 is 40GB so the 80GB gives
more breathing room and it not much more in price than a 40GB.
most of the time, the mac mini with server is configured with two
harddrives for raid1. this is why it doesn't have room for an optical drive.
David Lum wrote:
I don’t know the difference between Mac OS server or client. As far as
running this “Server OS” as a client, I don’t consider
LOL at the manual!
What do you serve up with this thing? Managing your fleet of iPads or
something else?
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Bill Humphries nt...@hedgedigger.comwrote:
most of the time, the mac mini with server is configured with two
harddrives for raid1. this is why it
Right now...not a damn thing, I need to figure out how to make it find the
non-domain joined 9or heck, domain joined for that matter) Mac's so I can start
going Big Brother on them.
From: Mark Boeck [mailto:netadmin...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 7:08 AM
To: NT System Admin
Ah size. Checking NewEgg yeah, $30 extra doubles the capacity...
From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 6:38 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: SSD for lab Hyper-V server
I just bought a little server for Hyper-V and bought it with an 80GB SSD.
Enjoy the HD speed. Depending on the age of the PE, you'll be running
slower than expected from a CPU / memory point of view.
Perhaps take the SSD and put it in a newer home PC and enjoy the boot and
operational speed there...
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:28 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote:
Are you running mac os Server or client? any major issues with running
Server OS as a desktop?
We run 10.6 Server on an XServe in the main server room. It's doing our Open
Directory master stuff.
I'm running 10.6 Client on my desktop.
--Matt Ross
Ephrata School District
- Original
Matt, what will I need the 2nd HDD for? I have this thing to be able to
manage other Mac's, I can leverage my current Windows/SAN storage for
everything still yes...or no?
Purely for raid 1, or separate extra storage. I'm always paranoid about hard
drives failing (they seem to fail for me
Matthew - Are you running Parralells (or whatever the Apple VM tech is
called) or VMware to run the Windows 7 VM simultaneously? Single NIC, so i
assume it's running in a Bridged NAT mode?
The footprint and hardware makes it something i wouldn't mind playing
around with at home.
On Thu, Nov 3,
Right now...not a damn thing, I need to figure out how to make it find the
non-domain joined 9or heck, domain joined for that matter) Mac's so I can
start going Big Brother on them.
I'm not familiar with 10.7, so things may have changed... but 10.6 has a few
programs in /Applications/Server.
VMware Fusion. I used to run Virtualbox, but VMWare is a much slicker product.
Parallels is an excellent product, though.
But if you want to run windows (and only windows) on it, just install it
directly. I have a few Mac Hardware, Windows OS people in our district, and
they run great.
I have a few Mac Hardware, Windows OS people in our district, and they run
great.
Out of curiositywhy?
-Original Message-
From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org]
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 9:06 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: So, my Mac Mini server
I probably shouldn't hold it against them, but I still remember back in the
'90s when Gartner was saying that within five years all computers would be
running the Unix OS. I can't say I've ever had much faith in their
'predictions'.
David
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Ken Schaefer
It's a nice form factor. Not aware of anything that is quite that small in
the PC world off the top of my head.
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:33 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote:
I have a few Mac Hardware, Windows OS people in our district, and they
run great.
Out of curiositywhy?
Did you drill down far enough on the 365 site to see that you can get
stand-alone hosted email for $5/month? I'm working a project for a company
and that's one of the services we recommend if they're going to 365.
David
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 3:48 AM, Tom Miller tmil...@hnncsb.org wrote:
Got a hell of a lot of critical systems using ESX, Xen and the like though -
all nix variants under the hood.
Sent from my SR-71 Blackbird
-Original Message-
From: David blazer...@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 09:40:09
To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Because if they stand still the mob will catch them.
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:33 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote:
I have a few Mac Hardware, Windows OS people in our district, and they
run great.
Out of curiositywhy?
-Original Message-
From: Matthew W. Ross
If you're going to pay $5/mo for the hosted e-mail you might consider that
adding SharePoint and Lync is only an add'l $1/mo at that point.
That said, if you don't need to use Outlook you can get the Kiosk mode Exchange
Online from Office 365 for only $2/user/mo.
Disclaimer: We're Office 365
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote:
Banjos Rock! Stereotypes suck.
Shooky said stuff like that all the time.
I think you mean Shooky said stuff like that 98.7% of the time.
-- Ben
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
The Acer Revo series is very nice...great for the living room.
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote:
It's a nice form factor. Not aware of anything that is quite that small
in the PC world off the top of my head.
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:33 PM, David
One was because an entire group of people got Macbooks, and one person wanted a
windows laptop. So we installed Windows for her.
I also have a couple older flat-panel iMacs that make great security camera
viewing stations.
--Matt Ross
Ephrata School District
- Original Message -
Rounding error.
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com
wrote:
Banjos Rock! Stereotypes suck.
Shooky said stuff like that all the time.
I think you mean Shooky said stuff like that
This just in, November declared OT month for NTSYSADMIN List!
I hate McDonald's, but I'm lovin' this.
-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 11:51 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: [OT] Stats about IT
On Thu, Nov 3,
Well there is Apple OS-X...
David blazer...@gmail.com
11/03/2011 11:44 AM
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And you're 95% confident of that with .001 p .01?
Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com
11/03/2011 12:02 PM
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List seems a little slow today so thought I would throw this out there.
Currently I'm using Samsung Blue-Ray players as my streaming media
devices. Love them, but they are lacking a few media services that I would
like:
Amazon VOD
Crackle
I am able to do Amazon VOD with the Yahoo! App as a
I left out similar specs... Isnt that an Atom processor?
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Steve Ens stevey...@gmail.com wrote:
The Acer Revo series is very nice...great for the living room.
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote:
It's a nice form
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote:
It's a nice form factor. Not aware of anything that is quite that small in
the PC world off the top of my head.
There's lots of IBM-PC-compatible itty bity products, but I'm not
aware of anything from a vendor as
Do we need a month?
It only seems to happen 2.3% of the time.
-Original Message-
From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 10:03 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: [OT] Stats about IT
This just in, November declared OT month for
Roku?
http://www.amazon.com/Roku-XS-1080p-Streaming-Player/dp/B005CLPP84/ref=sr_1_
1?ie=UTF8
http://www.amazon.com/Roku-XS-1080p-Streaming-Player/dp/B005CLPP84/ref=sr_1
_1?ie=UTF8qid=1320341782sr=8-1 qid=1320341782sr=8-1
BTW: You might wait a bit, too, if you can. The XBOX TV thing is
You mean 2.3% of the time we're on-topic, right?
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Mathew Shember
mathew.shem...@synopsys.comwrote:
Do we need a month?
It only seems to happen 2.3% of the time.
-Original Message-
From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com]
Sent:
I left out similar specs... Isnt that an Atom processor?
Yup, the Revo's are all Atoms, I believe.
Dell was selling the Inspiron Zino HD for a while, which were as close as a Mac
Mini you could get. We bought one, and it was a great machine. Too bad they
dropped that line. (They were dirt
I think AMD Neobut close enough. great for everyday use, but wouldn't
want to run Autocad on it. For media playout it runs fine too.
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote:
I left out similar specs... Isnt that an Atom processor?
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011
Sure, and I kinda meant all that, too.
I'd been down this road looking of HTPC stuff, and I decided that a Mac
Mini was almost perfect for the application. Price is right, too. I just
haven't pulled the trigger, quite yet.
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm currently using a WDTV Live Hub (1TB locally installed) and couldn't be
happier. The only service I don't have yet is VuDu, which i like. I have a
panasonic Blu-Ray that does have it, in case i need really need something.
I'd get a cheaper Blu-Ray and spend your money on any of those boxes
We think we are 97.7% of the time.
From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 10:39 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: [OT] Stats about IT
You mean 2.3% of the time we're on-topic, right?
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Mathew Shember
You could upgrade it to a real (albeit low-power) dual-core Athlon.
Why would you want to run Autocad on a small form factor PC?
--Matt Ross
Ephrata School District
- Original Message -
From: Steve Ens
[mailto:stevey...@gmail.com]
To: NT System Admin Issues
I wouldn't. Just illustrating that it is a lower horsepower CPU. Good for
some things, and not for others. I think the NEO is pretty affordable too.
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.orgwrote:
You could upgrade it to a real (albeit low-power) dual-core
i use old laptops on my TVs.
Christopher Bodnar wrote:
List seems a little slow today so thought I would throw this out there.
Currently I'm using Samsung Blue-Ray players as my streaming media
devices. Love them, but they are lacking a few media services that I
would like:
Amazon VOD
What do you use for a remote?
-Original Message-
From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 2:28 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: OT: Streaming media device
i use old laptops on my TVs.
Christopher Bodnar wrote:
List seems a little
So, since this has come up, I'm curious on how much processing power is
actually needed for most services?
I have some Quad-Core Xeons which are absolutely underutilized. They are doing
their jobs (usually serving user home folders and standard Active Directory
duties) with plenty of
Quad-Core Xeons should be vm hosts, IMO.
I wouldn't reduce the amount of machine you buy, but the amount of machines
you buy. :-)
When I worked for the school system, I was always needing another server,
and was starting to experience server creep. Virtualization would've been
very helpful in
Atoms and Dual Atoms are fine for most basic serving tasks, which is why
you see lots of NAS appliances and other types of appliances sporting them.
My quad-core i5 processors are having a blast at virtualization, and rarely
complain to me about under utilization.
Having done down the path of
Having done down the path of virtualization, I can hardly think about
low-power CPUs for serving functions anymore...
Agreed, but I have the possibility of running lower-end servers at individual
schools. It was just a thought.
What I need to do is re-evaluate our servers as a whole. Thanks
That's true, though you get phone support on the $5 plan, no phone support
on the P1 plan. Just depends on what you need.
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Ben M. Schorr b...@rolandschorr.com wrote:
If you’re going to pay $5/mo for the hosted e-mail you might consider
that adding SharePoint
We just went through that process. Our individual building servers were up for
replacement so the question was do we replace them with more low end boxes or
do we buy better boxes and house them at one location. We pulled everything
back to the admin building. Let me give you one example of how
I've run Win2k3 Server on a dual-core Atom. Mostly just file serving. Runs
fine. SuperMicro makes some server class Atom systems, so it's not a crazy
idea. Just depends on what you need to do, how much you want to spend, and
how much headroom you want for future needs.
There are limitations,
Shooky still says stuff like that often. :-) Just not here, unfortunately
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 12:51 PM
To: NT System
You should've been at Connections this year. :)
I gave a 75 minute presentation on Office 365 Lessons Learned and caveats.
(Note: I am not - and was not - bashing Office 365. It has applicability for
many companies. But I'm seeing other companies getting into it without actually
knowing what
I was using thi sgyration mediacenter remote:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823172020
But I recently ditched those for these:
http://www.amazon.com/Superior-Wireless-Keyboard-removable-adjustable/dp/B004I4SSCQ
They are awesome. plugnplay. The battery is like a cell
Like deleted items retention :-)
John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partnership for Strong Families
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 03:50 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: RE: [OT] Stats about IT
Address list segregation is per tenant.
A Microsoft person, in a public forum (Greg Taylor), at Connections this week
said that they hope to bring tenant address-book policies to Office 365 at some
point in the future, but he wasn't committing anything or any dates.
(I have to note the person
My suggestion is that if you really have a number of machines with wasted
resources, you should be looking into more virtualization. So say you have
10 boxes that are only being utilized at 10% CPU (i.e. file servers, web
servers, etc). Start building a small farm and P2V those under
I presume you are referring to Office Web Apps? I agree with you.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 8:51 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: [OT] Stats
You may be shocked to know that the signup process is greatly simplified over
when you did it, just a few months ago.
And for all the major domain resellers, you are provided step by step
instructions on how to validate those domains to O365. I had a full demo
prepped for one of my
Jim McBee made a presentation at Connections this week on costing out
“cloudsourcing”. His %DAYJOB% had recently gone through an exhaustive study
attempting to include EVERYTHING involved hosting a HA/FT solution compared and
contrasted to having a cloud provider do it for them.
Unfortunately,
Office 365 is all web apps, even though it installs some components locally.
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 4:03 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: [OT] Stats about IT
I presume you are referring to Office Web Apps? I agree
We have dedicated 100 MB fiber between them and it still runs just fine. In a
few weeks we will have gig fiber between it all and life will be really good.
If you don't mind me asking, how much does that 100MB cost you? Every time
I've looked into getting service with that kind of bandwidth
7K a month for 14 buildings around the city. The 100 MB is fiber from the
buildings to one of two different Telco CO's and the CO's are interconnected by
dedicated fiber to us. Then one extra direct fiber run from my building to our
ISP.
11K per month when we go to gig. And that set up will
Here's power savings for you.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-20128509-92/powered-by-arm-chip-calxeda-server-sips-5-watts/?tag=nl.e724
-Original Message-
From: Jim McAtee [mailto:j...@zolx.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 2:39 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: How much
Very nice. Thanks for the info, that's helpful.
-Original Message-
From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org]
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 4:32 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: How much processing power do you need? (WAS: So, my Mac Mini
server arrived
I'd be petrified. Double that if users using it are browsing the internet from
the machine with them installed. Triple that if they're browsing as a local
admin. Quadruple if they're domain admins.
On the other hand, if they're off network (and will stay that way) for some
reason, I'd be ok.
Am I the only one who remembers ELI the ICE man? Voltage (e) leads
current (i) in an inductor (L) and current (i) leads voltage (e) in a
capacitor (C). Must have been the old Navy guy teaching electronics in
high school.
http://www.electronicstheory.com/html/e101-31.htm
Doug Hilderbrand
So the risk level is basically the same as the current version with the added
bonus that you won't have to patch it anymore. I think I will downgrade
everyone to 8 first thing tomorrow. ;)
From: Crawford, Scott [crawfo...@evangel.edu]
Sent: Thursday,
Are you ERate'ing that?
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com
w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132
-Original Message-
From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org]
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 3:32 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: How much processing
Communities only reflect a portion of what's going on as well.
There's a certain demographic of the IT industry that seems to participate in
communities.
Cheers
Ken
From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com]
Sent: Thursday, 3 November 2011 7:06 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE:
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