MarkLappin
IS-IT--Management
Howdy All,
My current employer is serioulsy (against my advice) considering purchasing another (ugh) Snap Appliance network attached storage solution rather then buy another real server (...and also upgradge out of SBS Standard which we have very much out grown).
We make extensive use of shadow copies for data restores and rely heavily on disk permissions to limit what users can do which the permission set on our snap appliacne (the 1100 series) does not do. For the new storage we need, we're going to need 100-200GB of storage so we are looking at more commercial version. Aside from security and backup concerns, here is the problem I have now. Their "seamless" integration with AD is not so "seamless". For instance if I change my password, I cannot access the SNAP server unless the administrator (which is me but in general assume I'm an employee) logs onto the server adminstratively and tells it to go fetch its security stuff again; after which a reboot which takes about 2 minutes is required thus disconnectigng all users. I can script this to happen every night, hourly etc but I don't think that should be necessary. Does anybody use this series or a hihgher level snap server (we're looking at teh 4200 ones with the RAID-5 on board and everything); my concern is paying teh same cost for a "simple" NAS system as a sever with 2k3 (minus licensing) is that it needs to work.
If nobody has experience, does anybody has a technical reference about its integration with AD? I can't find anything that is not snap PR.
Thanks
Mark
My current employer is serioulsy (against my advice) considering purchasing another (ugh) Snap Appliance network attached storage solution rather then buy another real server (...and also upgradge out of SBS Standard which we have very much out grown).
We make extensive use of shadow copies for data restores and rely heavily on disk permissions to limit what users can do which the permission set on our snap appliacne (the 1100 series) does not do. For the new storage we need, we're going to need 100-200GB of storage so we are looking at more commercial version. Aside from security and backup concerns, here is the problem I have now. Their "seamless" integration with AD is not so "seamless". For instance if I change my password, I cannot access the SNAP server unless the administrator (which is me but in general assume I'm an employee) logs onto the server adminstratively and tells it to go fetch its security stuff again; after which a reboot which takes about 2 minutes is required thus disconnectigng all users. I can script this to happen every night, hourly etc but I don't think that should be necessary. Does anybody use this series or a hihgher level snap server (we're looking at teh 4200 ones with the RAID-5 on board and everything); my concern is paying teh same cost for a "simple" NAS system as a sever with 2k3 (minus licensing) is that it needs to work.
If nobody has experience, does anybody has a technical reference about its integration with AD? I can't find anything that is not snap PR.
Thanks
Mark