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Hi Very hard to stop a trusted admin from accessing mail and database that he is a manager of and where he may have access to the file server either directly or indirectly via RDP etc. Without some pretty clever scripting then there is no easy way and he could use the server id which will not...

All We are replacing our RSA authentication manager boxes and I want to find out what file I need to replace on the Citrix CSG servers. I believe there is a SDCONF.rec file that needs to be copied over but have herd something about a node secret file. Could be other files required as well, any...

All Just a heads up on the End of Life of v 8 of Trend Officescan. The product goes end of life on the 31st December 2011 and after that there are no virus signature updates or support Now here is the big thing, over 20% of Trends customers are yet to update their hosts and clients - Most...

Hi The Dell 2950's come with "IT assistant" for free, just install it and it can send email alerts etc. Regards Dave

Hi We have hundreds of them and they never miss a beat, how is your power ? Dirty power could explain the lockup's. Also, their are leds on the front of the server which change colour if an internal error has occured, one is for power. Dell normally have you run their utilities to determine if...

Hi Sounds like a short circuit or similar which is affecting your 5volts. CD drive and hard drive will activate(not work) with just the 12 volts - put a multi meter on the power connector to confirm. Could be a problem with the cage, but suspect soemthing is not seated correctly, could be a...

Hi I have found it works well to resize partition using the convertetr, of course you need the additional space for the entire VM including its new sizing. Yes, you can resize your C: System partition as well. Regards Dave

Hi Did you set annonomous access to Manager before burning the files to DVD? Regards Dave

Thanks to all who contributed. I got this resolved after weeks of playing around and repeated calls with VMWARE support. Analysis of the log files showed problems connecting to the NFS storage, even when the VM's were running fine. On the weekend we were upgrading our NFS storage and I noticed...

Hi I have seen this sort of variations many times and I normally don't woory about it unless there has been an increase in the time overall backup job. Essentially some files come off the disk faster than others dependign on file size and amount of fragmentation of the volume etc - when the...

Hi Maybe the disk is still rebuilding itself and is not yet back to a normal status. You can check in hte Array Configuration utility or insight Manager on the status of your array. This error concern me as well "U160 disabled-Status CRITICAL" - not seen that one before but does not sound...

Hi In IE open the options - advance settings and select Use SSL 2.0 - this is off by default in IE7 and if the web site you are accessing use SSL 2.0 you will not be able to open it. IE6.0 used SSL 2.0 by default. It's a security feature to protect you, go figure... Dave

Hi You can migrate from some Raid levels to another type without losing data, it just can be done in every combination. The good thing is the ACU will assist you and will not let you migrate to a RAID level that is impossible and it will warn you if you are going to loose data. I have done...

Hi Why is your E: drive not one vmdk file ? I have a couple of Domino 6.5 server on ESX 3.02 and have had no problems. What version of Domino are you using ? Make sure your C: Drive has plenty of disk space available, also check the size and location of your Windows swap file - set it up as if...

Hi Setup your Service console on the Lan address and then just setup the other WAN IP to a vswitch and port in network setup. When you create a VM on your ESX box you will have two nics to choose from and you setup the nic as per normal inside the VM. ie IP,Mask and Gateway. Just a word of...