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things to check prior to moving all FSMO roles to a new domain controller before decommission original old domain controller
need to move a domain controller, the first in the forest that holds all the fsmo roles, to another location in a clients building. it will require turning off this dc, call it dc1 for this question. ...
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Best practices for backup checking?
It is a common situation, when administrator makes system for automatic backuping and forgets it. Only after a system fails administrator notices, that backup system has broken before or backups are ...
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How to correctly move a server inside a rack up and down
Maybe a bit stupid question, but
Sometimes (rarely but it happens) I need to move a server in a rack 1-2U up or down. What do you think, which of the ways is the most correct and useful and why?
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Best practice for Exchange 2010 HA topology considering 6 x Exchange licenses and TMG 2010
What would be best topology considering that:
6 x Exchange 2010 Standard Licenses
2 x Separate locations that are supposed to support redundancy in case of link problems
4 x Forefront TMG 2010 with ...
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Bad to be logged in as admin all the time?
At the office where I work, three of the other members of the IT staff are logged into their computers all the time with accounts that are members of the domain administrators group.
I have serious ...
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How can I check access of a Group/User in AD before I delete it?
I'm cleaning up an inherited domain that is not well documented. How can I check that a particular group or user has no ACEs across the AD?
Things like searching DACL/SACL for AD objects and file ...
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Is there already a recommended IPv6 Firewall setup?
I'd like to switch from private-IPv4-subnet-behind-NAT to IPv6, but of course I have no intention of exposing my users' workstations "unprotected" to the net.
Some obvious points up-front:
Allow ...
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Disk-to-disk backup to same storage array?
We're looking to get a new SAN, and so we're re-examining our storage, network and backup issues. Our plan is to get an EMC VNXe 3100 with SAS drives for production data, then buy an expansion shelf ...
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Fibre Channel zoning best practices
I'm hoping that this will be useful for more people than just me.
Right now I've got a fibre channel switch, a NetApp filer, and some servers running Oracle. All of the servers can see the same LUNs ...
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ZFS: Best-practices doc state: “On systems with 1,000s of ZFS file systems…”?
The docs state:
"On systems with 1,000s of ZFS file systems, provision 1 GB of extra memory for every 10,000 mounted file systems including snapshots."
What does that mean - how do these people use ...
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Active Directory Design
Please assist me in how I design my active directory hierarchy based on the following.
We have a corporate office where there 8-10 departments and 200+ <250 users are present.
We have two ...
