System Center Essentials 2010: managed computers aren't getting added to the...
We have a fairly small setup (<50 machines), and today I installed System Center Essentials 2010 (after a lot of frustration). I discovered all of our computers and installed the agents, but all...
View Articlelogs, logs, logs, LOGS AGGHHHHH!!!
So I'm in charge of probably 20 servers that are "mission critical", so I set up logwatch on all of them to email me every day with the important content of the logs. However, I am OVERWHELMED by the...
View ArticleDoes anyone have experience with Qantel's BEST/AOS ?
I have acquired a system with the Q31 CPU board. It is almost the same as this board: http://bitsavers.org/pdf/qantel/M-4908_Q30cpuTech_1983.pdf I am looking for information on how to reset the...
View ArticleHow do you educate your users on how to not infect their PCs with viruses,...
I'm the sys admin for a small company and as such there are only two of us sys admins and we have to manage the servers, maintain the network, handle end users, etc. I just had a user manage to get...
View ArticleDo you work for a corporation or own your own firm?
I own my own firm providing IT services to hotels and bars. What about you? submitted by bradkendall [link] [2 comments]
View ArticleParallel -> Serial M -> Serial F -> Cat 5 Held up with cable ties
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View Articlemanaging time on servers internationaly
I manage a bunch of servers across multiple time zones. I'm looking for the 'standard practice' for setting the timezone? I'm thinking of setting them all to GMT. Thanks for the help. submitted by...
View ArticlePortland Folks: I'm teaching a class on CMD.EXE scripting tomorrow (Sat. Feb...
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View ArticleOptimizing WordPress with Nginx, Varnish, W3 Total Cache, and Memcached...
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View ArticleSBS 2011 Standard - Does it have CAL enforcement?
2003 had it, but they removed it for 2008 (which was really convenient) so you just had to have paper copies of your CALs. submitted by thelanroom [link] [4 comments]
View ArticleAnyone have WatchGuard certification? How difficult was it? Worth getting?
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View ArticleNeed to add a file server but dont have the budget for another Windows Server...
I work in the IT department at a large ski resort. One of our patrol offices needs a local file server for some of the work they do. They pass a large amount of data we do not want on our backbone. We...
View ArticleWhy are SSDs not taking the DBA world by storm?
I'm not a proper sysadmin or DBA, but I take care of my company's servers running a couple dozen VMs. When our database IO was embarrassing, I convinced my boss to let me trial Intel SLC SSDs instead...
View ArticleIs there some reason why Adobe does not allow Flash Player to automatically...
Adobe introduced a nice feature into Adobe Reader starting with version 9.3: the ability to automatically update itself when configured to do so. This works great, improves security, and saves system...
View ArticleCan I take 100GB from each of our 200 Windows 7 computers and make a 19TB...
I know CPU can be shared using distributed computing like for SETI. But I'm wondering about sharing storage. Is there a daemon I can install that allows each computer to become a node in a distributed...
View ArticleAnybody work with MS-SQL2005 + Exposed SP Web Services?
I know this is a silly scenario, but often silly scenarios arise. We have a hosted SP WSS, but I convinced them to expose the web services. This has been nice for developing some in-house C# tools, but...
View ArticleHow would you explain the benefits of a SAN (including deduplication,...
EDIT: I misspoke in the title, I meant how would you explain the technology behind it to a layman. Not the actual benefits. I'm running a 1 man shop here and putting together a 3 year plan for our...
View ArticleDAE ever feel like no-one else understands how domain names actually work ?
now, don't get me wrong, I'm sure most people realise that domain names point to websites etc, but i mean on a more technical level than that. At my job, we do a lot of domain transfers out. I would...
View ArticleHas anyone built a RAIN for fault tolerant storage?
I'm about to get my hands on some older servers. I'd like to be able to use them as a distributed and fault tolerant storage target for small XEN images. I've looked at GlusterFS, Ceph, and Tahoe - but...
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