Recent content by terrywilson

Nike, very good explanation there. Unfortunately we were involved after the cabling was installed so we only have one fibre run between each cabinet. The main driver for fibre in this case isnt distance but interference; its going its going into a mill with lots of noisy electric equipment...

I'll have to wait until I get more info from the customer. I have added the two different switches part myself; on the spec there are multiple switches, I am ssuming they will be splitting the devices across those. Am I right in thinking that to get the fail-over capabilities I have two...

I had seen reference to relying upon stp to handle network failure in this way in some automation documents I was reading earlier. I was going to test it out in the lab and see how it behaves. One question though, how does it physically appear; for redundancy we will need two NICs per device...

Why did I write WAN? I meant LAN; its a factory environment with processing equipment. In the spec's Ive been giving they specifically mention fibre ring and all tha tcomes to mind is FDDI which I haven't struck in person before, only in text books. Sorry to cause confusion.

We are looking at implementing a WAN on a new site for a client; they have specified fibre ring which to me means FDDI (correct me if I'm wrong!) but I didn't think that it was that common these days. My thought would have been a pair of 24 port fibre switches with failover on the devices...

Trying to troubleshoot an issue we are having with high utilisation of a client internet conneciton. Site A and B are linked with a site-to-site VPN connection, IPSEC, both with C877W's. On Dialer0 and BVI1 we have ip flow ingress (manageengine technician changed it to this. If we look at...

When in user mode Terminal services is not licensed per concurrent user, it is licensed per NAMED user. Refer to http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/licensing-terminal.aspx Q. I have 100 users who use our line-of-business application running on the RD Session Host. However, there...

My two cents.... Sounds like you are using sql authentication for your app, if you are then you would be fine as the SQL server does the authentication rather than AD. MS does not recommend SQL on a Domain Controller, the same was true in SBS 2003 but other than possible performance issues its...

Do you know which release of PS it came with? We have some older PS4 & PS3 CDs out the back I can dig through.

If the Netgear allows you to setup DHCP Helper addressess you could then setup a new scope on your normal DHCP server at your main site and have clients pull from there. If not then you need to create a DHCP server (on the netgear perhaps) scope with your appropriate IP ranges etc and set to...

You can actually install the server 2008 std license as the host and then install SBS onto one VM and then a second machine as another VM to run SQL or TS or whatever you want with it. We have done it and it works fairly well, some thoughts: - Don't ever use SBS2008 as the host and install the...

You may like to look at using Group Policy Preferences, its the "new" way of doing drive mappings etc and I think is probably worth considering to replace simple login scripts such as this. Some notes here http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/Longhorn/server_2008_group_policy_preferences.htm...

CiscoGuy is right on the money, the blue RJ45 / Serial cable is the one you need for this procedure. You also can't use the telnet client, you need a terminal emulator client, I use Putty and set it to COMx, 9600 and do password resets from there. Connect the cable, run up putty and connect to...

While restoring to a recovery storage group is a good way to test you can restore mailboxes and messages, it doesn't quite help you if you have a failed Exchange server. Exchange stores a lot of info in Active Directory, make sure you have multiple DCs, as long as you do it will be fairly...

Nope, you don't need to purchase the full version to schedule jobs. Just Rt click a task and choose set Schedule, it just uses the Windows Task Scheduler to run; the paid for one may have its on scheduling app thats a bit fancier though.