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Cisco and software load balancing in virtual environments?

Anyone know how to do some SLB in Cisco's Virtual offerings? I'm looking for something that can serve as a firewall/SLB combo for virtualized exchange. anyone have any ideas? Or better solutions?...

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askSysadmin: Mixed environments.

So my saying goes: Computers are like stocks. You want to diversify so if 1 is down the other is most likely up. So the idea being. You dont be Microsoft only. You dont be Linux only. etc etc. You...

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Best Practice for Daily Backups (~2 GB)?

We are a small office trying to prevent any data loss. Every other night we run backups of our 4 main systems (two types of QuickBooks, order fulfilment software and a miscellaneous database server)....

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ERP Jobs and different vendors?

Not too sure this is the correct subreddit if you have a better place to ask please point me that way. Please don't say r/accounting How different is one ERP to another say Oracle ERP applications...

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Have a lot of Dell machines? I have found the holy land of free management...

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A user offers to buy you lunch...

Do you accept, to "engage with the business" (and because free food is more delicious), or do you decline, because it would make you his bitch forever? I'm leaning towards declining, but what is the...

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DAE Hate server 2008 printing?

I've seen a few print related questions and it reminded me how much I hated dealing with server 2008 printing. Especially in a place where you have old, but perfectly functional printers with 64 bit...

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Software licensing key server question

We are a small [<150 workstations] academic IT department. We are looking at implementing a key server for software licensing, like K2's KeyServer. Do you guys know of any free or cheap...

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Sysadmins, how do you handle updates across your organization?

We've pulled admin rights and are going to be forcing updates on people. I'm setting up a patch Thursday for all of our machines where (ideally) I can make updates happen Thursday evening while...

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So, any ideas what road I should take when imaging 50 laptops that all have a...

Long story short, got 50 laptops with win 7 pro already installed. Was actually cheaper than to get laptops with no OS and volume licensing for 7 (very, very tight budget). I am wondering though now,...

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How do I add external e-mail addresses to a distro group in Exchange 2010?

I'm in the middle of a conversion from Goldmine to Salesforce running Exchange. In Goldmine we have a publicly available distro group that goes to both internal contacts as well as their home address...

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scups ready updates for SCCM?

Is anyone familiar with scup for SCCM software update? Some software vendors seem to release scup updates already (Adobe does for flash player), but I'm curious about products such as firefox, real...

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How do you set up laptops that are used on and off site?

This is something that we are trying to create a standard practise for. I work on the service desk as opposed to onsite doing installs but I am still curious as to how this should be done. Obviously my...

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Ideas for Data Transfer/FTP Server?

HI EVERYBODY. So I have this bunch of scientists and, like always, they need to send a bunch of god damned data. The data is raw image files, typically about 100-300GB. They need a method to send this...

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Anyone having SQL issues this week?

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One evil OEM Windows Server 2003 disc

http://imgur.com/g1ZNC - So I go out to a client's site and forget my OS discs. They have a non-booting server and I want to pull up Recovery Console. I dig through the CDs they have in their server...

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ITIL v3 Foundation Study material

Are there any free resources to learn about topics covered by the ITIL v3 foundation certification. I've found plenty of test questions and brain dumps, but nothing meaty. Thanks in advance for any...

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Cross-Domain Authentication?

What are the requirements for a user to travel from their local site and domain to another that resides on a different trusted domain, and for them to be able to log in to their mobile computer?...

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Help with the order of installs - Windows Essential Small Business Server...

So my organization scored a copy of Small Business Server 2008 Premium a while back, and it's finally install time. To be clear, I was under the understanding at purchase time that I was getting:...

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Anyone do an Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 migration recently? Anything you...

We're a small shop, around 150 users. Any tips/headsups/whatevers would be appreciated. submitted by Mr_Ron_Mexico [link] [13 comments]

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