Hyper-V on Raid 5
Hi All, Has anyone had experience implementing a small Hyper-V solution on internal 15k SAS drives, configured in RAID5. Do the write overheads cause delay/Degradation in performance to the overall...
View ArticleImplemented a 15-minute idle workstation lock. Users (Faculty) going batshit.
They're going straight to the President of the university saying various things trying to make the 15 minute timeout go away completely. I need sources to cite saying that this is a well-accepted...
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Good Document Management Software
We are in the market for a good, but affordable (of course) DMS to manage images, order, invoice and PO files consiting on mainly PDFs, excel, text and xml files. Anybody have any hands on experience...
View ArticleI smell smoke...
So I'm working in our shop one afternoon, about 15 minutes before quitting time and I smelled an electrical fire. I look around quickly and notice that the smell was getting stronger as I got closer to...
View ArticleWhat did you guys study at college? What's a good course to do if I want to...
University next year, being pressured to make a choice and I don't know what to do. I'm going to get heat for this, but I don't want to do anything involving a great deal of maths. I don't like...
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small time IT guy trying a larger project, need to build a web server.
I'm an IT guy for a small company of about 20 people and have unfortunately not been able to keep up on or further my knowledge over the years. I run our network but it is very basic and is really only...
View ArticleInventory / License Management?
Looking for advice on setting up an inventory system of some sort. Need to be able to audit Windows, Linux, and Macintosh hardware. Would like to be able to track software licensing as well. I've...
View ArticleDid you ever had a "BOFH" moment on a douche user or a sneaky colleague?...
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View ArticleIRC client of choice for /r/sysadmin?
Windows-based, unfortunately. Anything that blends into the background of my desktop (like a minimalistic Rainmeter skin) comes to mind. Does /r/sysadmin have any suggestions? submitted by DGMavn...
View ArticleUsers get small virus infection in IE temp folder, but Trend 'cannot perform...
This seems to be a constantly recurring issue- a user will get a malicious file downoaded- either a java file, an htm file or somethinfo the likes- and it is always stored in the Temprorary Internet...
View ArticleDoes my backup plan make sense?
Company I am working for now was doing a full back up every night. Taking up to 16 hours and slowing down the server in the mornings, because it was not finished. Just want to confirm with you guys...
View ArticleRAID 50 vs. RAID 10 for a Database
I'm implementing a new Database solution, and I am having trouble trying to decide between a raid 50 config or a raid 10. The raid 5 design is 900 dollars more in price, but will be available in less...
View ArticleManaged Data Center Woes...
Hi, reddit. This is so frustrating that I had to share. Maybe others have similar stories too? We use a managed data center for our production environment of a somewhat high traffic SAAS product. Over...
View ArticleHelp sizing a storage array?
I'm sizing a new storage system for a linux mailserver. Current system is about 8 years old, and working fine, but spares are becoming an issue - SCSI disks are increasingly harder to find, and our...
View ArticleSamba/Active Directory
Got an Ubuntu 11.10 server. It's a simple apache webserver, and I'm trying to create samba shares so Windows users can access it and drop files on it. The ubuntu server is successfully joined to my...
View ArticlePowershell - listing .pst files attached to Exchange accounts
I need to remotely figure out (with local admin credentials - not DA creds) what .psts are attached to a user's Exchange Outlook account (attached to AD creds). The .PST files could be anywhere - local...
View ArticleNagios check_mk issue
I am working to implement nagios with check_mk and have most things working. I am stumped with one odd thing; I just installed the Windows client on a server 2008 R2 x64. I have opened the 6556 tcp...
View ArticleProblems with RSAT in WIN2k08-R2-Hyper-V
I am having a strange problem why I try to use RSAT on a new Hyper-V machine I just installed. This is a server core machine. I have no preexisting domain structure in place. http://imgur.com/xfzIU I...
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