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View ArticleSome app on the Linux gateway or on the internal network is occasionally and...
Running iftop and staring at the screen for hours waiting for the event to happen again is out of the question. So I guess I need some tool that can sit in the background and log detailed information...
View Article"Insisting any daughter of mine change her surname to "$%mFn2j3k4#", so that...
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View ArticleCan I really make $100k a year as a Sr. sysadmin?
I am years away from being even a junior administrator. I currently do general tech support. However, I am determined to become a sysadmin. Every night I spend at least an hour learning as much as I...
View ArticleHow to optimize IIS 7 to serve large files over http via VPN on a very fast...
Hey /r/sysadmin! I just got the go ahead to scale up a video encoding farm for a client, and could use some advice. Our setup downloads the big source files (~200gb per movie) via Aspera Enterprise...
View ArticleHow much does your exchange server grow on a x basis (day/week etc) and for...
I'm just trying to get a feel for how people manage exchange regarding size and usage There are a couple of things that I will need to address at my workplace regarding server hard drive space and one...
View ArticleDegree for system administrators?
I'm currently an 11th grade high school student in the USA. I've been thinking about heading the NC State for Computer Science but that feels more "mathy" and "programmerish" (making up words is fun!)...
View ArticleIs this the right kind of architecture I should be using?
First, a few specifics on what I'm working with and my tentative plan. Hardware: 15 machines; each with 2x 3.0 GHz "Nocona" (mid-2004) Xeon, 4 GB DDR2, 2x 73 GB SCSI. Aggregately, this works out to:...
View ArticleGet started using vim - a sysadmin's most powerful tool. Here are some...
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View ArticleWhat's the difference between Windows Small Business Server 2011 and Windows...
I'm not a sysadmin but more of the unofficial "IT" guy at work. We're a small company, about 14 people, and want to get a Windows server to keep all the computers updated, have unique logins to use on...
View ArticleDisaster Recovery Plan
So my job will be to have a offsite disaster recovery put into place and test that it works. This company is running all Windows 2003 servers, (10 server) but only 4 are business critical + SAN. These...
View ArticleAny sysadmins here ever used Yosemite Backup by Barracuda?
We're looking for a cheap backup solution to backup about 100 desktops. Nothing business-important is stored on them--we just want a cheap method to backup anything they have like music, pictures, etc....
View ArticleWhat does /r/sysadmin use for videoconferencing?
Been tasked with setting videoconferencing up for up to 25 people, am finding everything from $100 a month hosted solutions all the way up to $30,000 1U rackmount solutions and everything in between,...
View ArticleDoes anyone know of an Outlook "add in" that alerts you if you have over a...
We just had a guy at work somehow mass mail our contact list out and the uppers want to know a way of preventing it in the future. I thought there might be a plugin for outlook that would pop-up an...
View ArticleNTP ideas for network devices?
Hey... I'm wondering what others are doing to provide time service to their network devices. We're Cisco/Windows - I've used Linux for various things in the past, including NTP, but no one else will...
View ArticlePower Shell Script Issue?
I have a script I am making to use PsInfo against a list of computers, which happens to be net view. I am running into an issue where when i test the script in the lab environment, and it creates a...
View ArticleAnother nublet
Hey all. I just found this subreddit, and thought I'd say hey. I'm a 28 yr old manager of a tech center on one of the Army bases in VA. I've been here for 3+ years, and I've been drooling over anything...
View ArticleCould you recommend some useful online resources on Network Admin (TCP/IP...
I just found this sub, so I apologize if this question gets asked a good bit. Anyway, I'm looking for information (preferably free) to set up and administer a Windows network for a smallish business....
View ArticleSCCM Software Update issues!
Greetings fellow sysadmins. I recently deployed SCCM 2007 R2 and everything seems to be going well except when I attempt to deploy software updates via an update list and a deployment template. It...
View ArticlePlease help- two drives failed simultaneously!
I just had 2 drives in a 16 drive RAID 5 DAS fail simultaneously! Sure it's unlikely, but don't forget, RAID kind of sucks, and so do SATA drives. The array emailed me to let me know that a drive had...
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