Memory Paging Help
The background: One of our most important production servers runs a SQL database (about 5Gb in size with ~100Gb of flat files). It hosts the server for a program most of our employees use, access is...
View ArticleEmployee leaves the company, what to do with email account, forward or alias...
Pretty noob question..but do I use an Alais or Forward to send onward any new emails sent to a Ex-employees account. EDITED for Clairity: It's already a policy from management when an employee leaves,...
View ArticleWhy does IT pay like crap?
I've been in IT for almost 10 years (and yes, I'm damn good at it), and I make about 60K / yr.. The company I work for just hired a manufactuing engineer (fresh out of college) for 65K, and an...
View ArticleAnyone move their company to Google Apps yet? or have experience with it?
Just curious of any stories of success or horror. We're currently implementing the Pilot of google apps for about 10 employees to see how it goes. Google Apps Pilot PDF submitted by ninjaspy123 [link]...
View Article2008 R2 File Services or SAN with exposed CIFS
Background: Moving away from Novell File System. Looking into either moving it to a clustered 2008 R2 File Service or just exposing CIFS on the SAN. Both options will be powered by the same disk...
View ArticleUnable to scan-to-email
My third day at work here at a small company and due to IT knowledge I am trying to set some things right here, even though I am not really IT here. We are using a Sharp AR-168D copier. Now it used to...
View ArticleFree HDD Cloning utility suggestions... I know you've got them.
I've been tasked with cloning a failing hard-drive in one of our laptops.. In the past I've used pirated copies of Acronis but would rather not sail the seven seas this go round.. Anyone have a free...
View ArticleISO Mounting tools for Windows 7
Hi, I am looking for ISO Mounting tool that would be alternative to Deamon tools? What tools are you using to mount ISO images on desktops/laptops? Thanks! submitted by Tegnus [link] [3 comments]
View ArticleMonitoring/Alert software suites
I'm looking for a software suite for monitoring clients equipment (servers etc) with email alerts if things go down. We tried a service called "n-able" and were really disappointed with it and got a...
View ArticleAny SharePoint admins willing to help me out? (xpost from techsupport)
Ok, so I'm upgrading from 2007 to 2010 using the database-attach method. I'm at the point now where the sites will attach and are viewable in 2010, but there's a problem. Stay with me here: The links...
View ArticleSuggestions for learning SysAdmin setup
I'm currently in my junior year of college, going for a degree in Management Information Systems (Soon to be just IS, if I can get my school to accept my customized degree), looking for a future career...
View ArticleServer 2008 R2 newsid alternative...aside from sysprep?
Well, from what I've been reading around newsid no longer works with Server 2008 R2 to change your computer's SID. All I've found to work is sysprep with the generalize option enabled. Does anyone know...
View ArticlePermissions on portable drives
Hi, I have several users ssh-ing into a Debian server with a portable drive attached. The users want to write data to this disk, and I don't want to give them the su password. The disk mounts...
View ArticleVirtualizing a box used for Powerpoint presentation
We're about to start virtualizing a bunch of our servers, but there's one that controls the presentation to the main display in the cafeteria. Obviously we can't have the server output to the tv once...
View ArticleAD Replsum error 58
Happy Friday sysadmin, We are working on migrating our AD from FRS to DFS. We have a site in VA and one in AL and haven't had any issues when it comes to AD replication but when I run repadmin...
View ArticleTIL... Sharepoint doesn't like plus signs in filenames
User called complaining that she couldn't open word docs or PDFs from our sharepoint portal... I looked at the filenames and saw +'s where people would usually put underscores/dashes. I'd assume this...
View ArticleUbuntu 10.04 server compromised by script kiddies...
thuis system has a VERY secure root password, and does allow root ssh using a password. they seem to have compromised a useraccount that does not have sudo privs. they DID delete root's bash_history,...
View ArticleAdd print drivers to Windows XP image?
Can we add print drivers somehow to a base image to make newer printers work as plug and play for users? I've already adjusted the device driver policy so they are allowed to load them. I think we just...
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