RE: DFS between server 2008 and server 2003

2011-07-06 Thread Jeff Poling
I ran across this today when working a DFSR case (unrelated) with Microsoft support. It might be helpful: http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2010/12/27/important-dfsr-hotfix-for-mixed-2003-2008-and-2008-r2-environments.aspx Jeff Jeffrey Poling System Administrator | Information Systems M

RE: Recommendation for new server (or two)

2011-01-10 Thread Jeff Poling
This might be a paradigm shift and also depends on the number of physical hosts and VMs, but why not consider running vCenter on a VM? That reduces the need for a physical server to host it and also provides some flexibility if you also have DRS, HA, etc. Jeff Jeffrey Poling System Administrat

RE: Outlook dropping connection after windows updates

2010-12-16 Thread Jeff Poling
There seems to be a Windows Update this month that modified Outlook's behavior on a number of fronts. I don't have many details at this point, but at home my wife had issues checking gmail in Outlook 2007. It turned out to be Secure Password Authentication being turned on in Outlook. Seems ot

Server Service Issues

2010-12-10 Thread Jeff Poling
I have a Windows 2008 Server Core system running as a VM on VMware vSphere 4.1. The vmware tools upgrade went poorly and now the lanmanserver (server) service is stuck in start_pending. Reboots do not correct it. I am trying to reinstall vmware tools, but the installer is stuck on "removing b