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We considered pfsense but they want any solution to be rack mountable in a 1 or 2u form factor, with warranty support. Otherwise I think that would have been a good route. And I appreciate the advice on Barracuda. Anyone with experience with Peplink products? They come off high recommendation...

Hey everyone, I have a customer with two offices, one in Chicago and the other in New York, and each one has dual WAN connections currently. Their current firewalls in use can only do site to site VPN with dual WANs in failover mode, not load balancing. We are looking to implement a new...

The 2012 Remote Desktop server is using the new User Profile Disk functionality that is offered and it works magic. No issues with roaming profiles, and folder redirection plays nicely too. Glad to hear that GPO isolation is the way to handle this. PS: Does my "domain functional level"...

Hey everyone, I have a customer that we just installed a simple 2012 Remote Desktop Server (Session Based Desktops - NOT VDI) for application and data access. The server is a member server of a 2003 domain connected to a 2003 AD Controller. Users at the company logon to both traditional...

For anyone's that curious, my company ended up going with A Small orange for our VPS needs. Loving them. Excellent customer support and pricing. Highly recommend them!

Ive been using Agility 4 drives in my production laptop for almost a year now and love it. I can only imagine the Vertex series being better. Thanks!

For anyone interested, I just got off the phone with MS Licensing support. They confirmed that we need a Server 2012 Standard license (for the host OS), a Server 2012 user CAL for each person on the domain, and a Server 2012 RDS CAL for each remote desktop user. Plus, since we need Office 2013...

I guess I misspoke. The users accessing the server will all be using Remote Desktop and not true VDI.

The client will have about 10 people accessing their desktops over VDI, 7 of them on Surface tablets and the others will be using standard PCs. Is it true that standard user CALs plus RDS cals are needed? Or does an RDS CAL cover the user CAL aspect as well? I can't find a solid answer...

Hey everyone, I am building out a Server 2012 box for an organization and have yet to play with licensing for RDS (Remote Desktop Services - the replacement of Terminal Services) on this new version. Could someone give me a rundown of the licensing I will need for the box? I am guessing I...

All of you SSD experts, Would any of you have any issues with using a pair of OCZ 256GB Vertex 4 drives in a RAID 1 on a perc 6/i card in a Dell server? Any reasons why I shouldn't do this? OCZ placed an MTBF of 2 million hours on the drive - better than any rating I've seen even on...

Office A will actually be stuck with two servers. One handles file shares, and the other is the primary DC after the demotion of server at Office B. Office B router is not handling DNS zones right now, but not exactly sure about the specifics of what you mean by DNS zones. The server at...

Hey everyone, I am actively researching what would be the best option for a small fleet of tablet PCs for my mobile technician workforce. We are an IT consulting company that is looking for tablet PCs to allow our onsite technicians to do a variety of things. The systems are being sought to...

Hello, I am about to do something I have never done at a branch office before. I have a customer with the following setup right now: - Office A and B each have 2003 Servers (both handling DNS and DHCP and AD control for the same Windows domain) - Offices are connected via a Site to Site...

I actually have been testing Storagecraft's ShadowProtect Server 5 with a big customer of our's and have been quite impressed. MUCH faster and less issues than what I saw with Acronis Server. And I think it even edges BackupExec by a fair margin. Unless I run into some crazy things, we will...