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A quick look at the equallogic site shows that it does to data tiering and will move data between internal SSD and SAS disks based on usage. However this depends on what data you want to store and how the equallogic device is dealing with the tiering. Using your sharepoint example, assuming...

You have to be careful with Commvault. There are 2 different de-dupe levels, object and block. SImpana 7 only supports object but 8 and 9 support block as well. We were getting about 3 or 4:1 on object level de-dupe only after upgrading from 7 to 8 but the money they wanted to go up to...

You can't have two default gateways so that wont work, you have to have one and then add persistant static routes for the networks that the 2nd nic needs to access.. This is called multi-homing and it can get really messy, really quickly.

Are you using win 2008, how about Global names?

Does your provider support MLPPP, it's not ideal but it basically allows you to bond lines together to increase your max speed rather than load balance through things like DNS or MAC round robin.

The way I worked something similar was to use VBScript in the login script to get the computer and username from WMI and then write it to a SQL database. It's not fool proof but you could knock out the VBScript in a couple of hours and it would get most of your users.

I've got an MCITP: Enterprise Messaging Administrator cert. You can hire me if you want. £300 an hour? If you fancy being a bit more realistic then I'd start by picking up the MCTS 70-236 book and if your company feels like stretching then get the CBT nuggets class for the 70-236. I'll be...

Her work mail server will be restricting relaying and/or sending from her home IP address. This is pretty common, you shouldn't allow unauthenticated relaying because spam email works through this.

The exams are the exact same format but the difference is the pool of knowledge that you need to pull from to be able to answer the questions. In the CCNA you can read the books, play with packet tracer and sit the exam no problem. The CCNP (I'm going to talk about the BCMSN here) requires...

The CISSP has high job experience requirements does it not? Is it not 7 years but you can negate a year if you have a relevant cert? So even if you're bluffing your security bit you need at least 6 years employment.

The CCNA exam is pretty good for everything being covered in the books. The CCNP is the stage where you need to do that extra reading and spend a bit of time on Cisco documents. The first time you see a Pro level exam you will be suprised at the step up. At least I certainly was.

I assume you're using 2008 because ntbackup works fine on 2003? If you're on 2008 then you're probably looking at commvault,SCDPM or netbackup. The problem with these option is that they tend to be implimented across a whoel enviroment as opposed to just one server and the licensing can get...

There's nothing set in stone, you're free to take whichever ones you want but most people seem to do the BCMSN and BSCI first and then the ISCW and ONT. I'd be interested to hear what order people who have the CCNP here did them in.

The CCNP is changing to 3 exams from Summer next year. BCMSN and BSCI will still be valid for a transition period so do those first if you're looking into CCNP stuff. Although you're supposed to start with those anyway :).

One of the main reasons you should keep your DCs seperate is because there is no local SAM (user) Database on a domain controller so if you're authenticating users on your website or any other application then they all need AD accounts and are authenticating to AD. This is a major security...

In Win7 you go to C:\users\%username%\my documents and then you right click and go to properties and then to location. You can then redirect the folder location to anywhere you want :) but you really only want to redirect it to the relevant network share on your server.

I suspected someone had just switched off the old DCs and not removed them properly so all the metadata for the DCs is still in AD. DCDIAG tests basic AD connectivity to all the DCs listed in AD. http://www.petri.co.il/delete_failed_dcs_from_ad.htm The above link details how to remove the...

You're getting into a bit of mess here. When you say router disconnected I assume you're just unplugging it? If so your web pages are loading from cache so they're not really working, nor I suspect are your emails sending. I suspect they are sitting in the outbox folder. I'd recommend...

I'd be interested in what router you're using that supports LACP. I assume that's what you're configuring. Any servers I've done NIC teaming with have always been LACP and I've not seen a home router that supports it, so i'm just interested.

Yep, Sounds like you need to do a bit of cleaning up. First thing you want to do is clean up the remnants of those old DCs you'll need to do that from ntdsutil. Then I'd recommend setting a scavenge on your DNS to clean up stale records. Next you need a bit of info on how DNS works...

Hey, I've not got any experience with sharepoint on SBS2008 but on SPSv3 and office sharepoint server I use the stsadm command line tool becuase it retains all the site security settings but if you want to pay the money then the data protection manager connector is meant to be really good...

It'll be fine if you leave it seperate, users will just authenticate to it the same way they do now. Adding it to the domain will giveyou a bit more functionality but you'll have to do some configuration changes to authentication. Have you done a netware/groupwise migration before? Are you...

Hey, I've been keeping an eye on Hyper V R2 because there are a lot of nice features that are hopefully going to put it on a similar level to V-sphere and Xen. Does anyone know if the additional new features will be applied to the original server 2008 via service pack or similar because I...

I've seen this happen with BIS but not with a BES. It happens if you're using a POP3 or IMAP conenction from the phones. Any other phones generating this error? Can you see the device in the BES Manager?

Programming and Unix probably pay the best but it depends entirely on what you want to do. Do what you're going to enjoy for 40 years.

Sorry, yes GNS3

Are we integrating DNS3 into this thread because I just tried it out there and I have to say that it is imensely good stuff. I though it was going to be a major resource hog but I had 4 routers going and it wasn't that bad. I've had a look through the first coupld of videos on blindhog.net...

Hey, I don't think I'm goign to get a chance to participate because I share a house with a few other people and I don't have a decent line :(. I'm just about to finish my CCNA though and I'm trying to get as much information as I can so if there is any networking talk going on then count me...

Hey, This is because of the autocomplete details in her NK2 file. It's not just the smtp address that is stored, there are other settings such as exchange server and I believe things such as MTA so this will be where your errors are coming from. Have the user highlight the name and then...

Is there a design exam for the mcitp? I hated the 70-297, it was just a wierd exam. This 5000 user company needs to reconfigure and upgrade their AD to 2003, you have 15 minutes to read and answer question on this scenario. WTF, that's a 3 month project.

I didn't know 649 covered all 3, I'll need to look into upgrading my MCSE because I've already done 620. Back on topic, I would say it depends on what you're doing with your cert. If it's to help with a job search now I would go for the MCSE because I know I see a lot more MCSE adverts than...

A condenser mic it is. I'm just going to get one with a USB interface. Thanks for the help

In outlook you go to the properties of the group and then if you have permissions you can add or remove users from the group. You may or may not be able to do this from OWA 2007, pretty sure you can't in 2003. Entourage I have absolutely no idea about I'm afraid.

It's for a conference room. In this particular instance we have a PCI in the room already to run a large monitor so we are just running VOIP of off that. I'm looking at the samson Q1 or C1 range of condenser and Dynamic mics. They both seem to be better at dealing with larger audiences than...

Hey, We're currently using a desktop microphone for our VOIP conferences and it's not good enough to deal with a 6 or so person conversation. I'm looking at better microphone and I think I need either a condenser or a dynamic mic but I have no idea which is the better option or why. Has...

Ah, the joys of BIS and ISA. I don't know about the ISA implimentation on SBS but on ISA 2006 BIS cannot get through it full stop, no configuration options will fix this, which is a really PITA. IMAP is probably your best option, BIS can do that as well, but it can be a bit flakey on...

I'm not that fussed either way. I like the powershell integration and it can be quite useul for automating things but if you're 100% gui you'll struggle to do a lot of things.

70-293 is a big exam and it's probably the hardest. It's got the most amount of stuff on it that people wont have used before.

70-620 vista is probably the easiest elective. However if you want MCSE:Security then that's useless. I just recently passed my MCSE myself. Have fun with it, mine took 7 months of study and I'm glad it's over.

A bit late now, but a good thing to keep to hand for these problems is the get-queue|fl command in powershell. It'll give you all the information it has and the error codes.