What do YOU do if your shared drive server (or NAS/SAN) blows up?
We have users who save everything to a shared drive on our DC. (not the system drive)I know some people use a NAS, and we've been getting DFS-R and namespace set up but it seems buggy.But what do all...
View Article//SERVER/ taking forever to point to //NEWSERVER/
Sorry, this might be an easy question but we did a server migration in which the old server's name was SERVER and the new servers name is NEWSERVER and whenever a user opens up his Explorer and goes to...
View ArticleServer Infrastructure Tools, Monitoring Software
Hi, we currently use "thedude" from mikrotik but need to step it up a level in regards to reporting. I am looking find a good piece of software which has the same functions as "thedude" but has good...
View Articlewin 2008r2 or win 2012 r2?
What is better to run with users having machines with OS windows 8.1 pro?Have a Vmware ESXI host 5.1 with win 2008r2 server and wondering if I should upgrade to 2012r2?Need some advice ??
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Server 2012 Failover Clustering: excempt NIC from becomming a cluster network
Hi there,I got a bit of a stupid problem with a 2 node Server 2012 Hyper-V failover cluster.2 DELL servers running Server 2012 (Release 1)iDrac Enterprise system management controller installed in each...
View ArticleNeed Script to Get all Events logs from Server in last 24 hours duration to Mail
Need Script to Get all Events logs from Server in last 24 hours duration to Email.
View ArticleCannot run macro after upgraded to Office 2010 on Terminal Server
I am running a Windows 2003 Terminal Server. I just upgraded Office from 2003 to 2010 on the Terminal Server. When I try to run a macro in an Excel document I get a compile error. I have discovered...
View ArticleSwitching from a print server to local IP printing
Hello All,We're in the process of looking at the way we offer some services over our network. One of these things is printing. We had to cut back due to the economy and went from 8 printers for our...
View ArticleWDS Issues with Unattend files
Hi All,I've just noticed a rather strange bug with WDS (2008 R2) in my setup.For the last 12-18+ months I've been using WDS to deploy a custom W7 image with no unattended files and its been fine. Very...
View ArticleAnyone advice on passing window server 2012 (70-410)
I am using window server 2012 and Exchange 2010 at work. I have started watching CBT videos,Any advice on preparing and passing window server 2012 (70-410) Book? will be appreciated.
View ArticleSystem Administration Organization Template
Is anyone using a template in word or onenote where you track of support information for servers like applications, backup routines, dependencies, cost and support information. A playbook if you will....
View ArticleWindows Server
I need Windows Server 2012 for Windows 32bit. Plz suggest Download Links
View ArticleSet file size limit on shared folder.
we have a shared folder where engineers save pictures taken in the place where they was working with a very high resolution (from 4 to 10 mb per image) sometimes in one week they transfer more than...
View ArticleServers and what is on them
Good afternoon Spiceworks.I have been asked to compile an audit of what is on our servers, other than installing spiceworks and letting that tell me, is there any other way of doing this?To see at a...
View ArticleServer 2008 R2 file share not working consistently.
I have a 2008 R2 server with 4 shared folders 2 folders the users can see. The other two are hidden. The 2 that the users can see have the permissions of domain users have full control. But at random...
View ArticleFolder Redirection
I had some issues with my original folder redirection therefore I created a new shared admin folder with a new group policy in which i deselected user exclusive rights and applied this new policy to...
View ArticleServer 2012 RDP Licensing Expired
I have a client on Windows Server 2012 with a VM to their RDP server and licensing installed. This has been working well for a few months. Now all of a sudden they cannot connect and the licensing says...
View ArticleSBS 2008 server running out of space?
Hi Guys,Our SBS 2008 server's system drive (C drive) is running out of disk space so we need to cleanup some space. Can you guys tell me if it is completely safe to delete the log files located under...
View ArticleDiagram DFS Structure
Hi everyoneDoes anyone know if there is a way to Diagram an organization's DFS structure? The company I work for has an extremely complex DFS structure that they are trying to migrate to some new file...
View ArticleSCCM /SUP Nenying a specific update
I am still pretty new to SCCM/SUP so this may be a simple question, I want to get rid of a specific update. When I expand the list, I see in the tree starting with "Software Updates" >Update...
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