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Active Directory: Handle Suffixes in a User's Last Name?
So I've never come across this before. We have two users on our network that are related and share the same first and last names. Our username naming policy dictates the younger user will have his ...
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How do you name your domain/network computers? [closed]
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Naming convention for PC in a network
I have hundreds of computers in my domain: laptops, PC's, servers. Some of the users use 2-3 computers at their workstation.
Some ...
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Naming convention for multiple sites hosted on a single dedicated server
I have several sites and several friends' sites I plan on hosting on my dedicated server (most are already established, but on a shared hosting service).
Is there a good and/or standard naming ...
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How Should I Name My iSCSI Targets?
Is there a standard or generally accepted way of naming iSCSI targets? If not a sole standard then maybe a few? Or, is it simply entirely up to the administrator to name them as they wish?
I'm quite ...
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Directory name for non-generic Proprietary stuff
Is there a common or standard directory name for the company-specific stuff that exists in a server? This would include any crons, scripts, webserver docroots, programs, non-database storage areas, ...
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Naming convention for databases and database users for access by a web application?
When installing a web application where a single user is used to talk to a single database (say MySQL, but this could apply to other RDBMSes also), you often have a sequence of events such as this:
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Printer Naming Conventions
I am working on building a new AD print server and have been pondering the idea of renaming the printers. Right now we have a mix of names that varies between a mashup of some that reference ...
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What are industry standards and professional best practices in network hosts naming? [closed]
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Naming convention for computers
It seems an important and difficult dilemma for me how to name network hosts (routers, servers (while a server can be a router and host ...
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SQL cluster instance names for large project
We're setting up two clusters. One dev and one prod. The Production will host two SQL instances - a OLTP and a DW.
The development will host 4 OLTP non-production environments and at least one DW ...
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Linux directory conventions for custom service
I'm writing a custom application that will be run as a service/daemon. According to convention, the binaries for it should be in /opt/appname. However, where do I put files such as:
Config files
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Naming convention for server replacements [closed]
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Naming convention for computers
Background: Because of hardware failure, I was tasked with setting up a replacement server this evening. Because it was a replacement, I ...
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Naming convention for computers [closed]
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Naming convention for PC in a network
What naming convention your organization uses for identifying computers within the organization. These are internal for the ...
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Functional (Descriptive) VS Obscure Server Names
It's always fun seeing server names from workplace to workplace (used to be in consulting...very interesting). However, when it comes to software development and you're new to a workplace, those ...
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What do you name a SharePoint file when the metadata takes cares of all the naming for you?
I am tyring to implement effective metadata to my SharePoint libraries. Great I think! No longer have to put the relevant meeting date at the start of every document name, you can make it a tag! make ...
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Document Management and Naming Conventions/Best Practices
We are in the planning stages of deploying a SharePoint server that will be used for our organization's intranet. As part of the deployment, we are going to be centralizing all of the internal ...
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Reusing names in a naming scheme
How do people feel about reusing names in a naming scheme? If you replace a computer should the new computer take the name of the old computer? If you do reuse names, do you wait until you have run ...
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Naming Convention for Virtual Machines
What is a good naming convention or scheme for a virtual machines?
We are building a cluster of virtualization hardware servers in our headquarters and a similar cluster in each of our state offices ...
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Naming convention for PC in a network [closed]
I worked for a company that named the pc's after roman gods (zeus, mars...). That was quiet funny while there where only 5 pc's on the network, but after changing the pc's several times I didn't ...
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Naming Conventions [closed]
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What are the most manageable and interesting server naming schemes being used?
How do you decide on a new hostname?
