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Thanks for all the responses. You guys knocked it out of the park with all the info! I will be reviewing all these options and hopefully soon I'll have something to put in the Storage Showoff thread.

Title says it all, I need a lot of storage (think 40TB+) and not too sure where to start. I've looked through Storage Showoff thread and have some ideas but I think I need a bit more guidance on this. This is a new project for me and it's looking like I'm going to need a ton of rapidly expanding...

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I ended up ordering the pricey one from Dell to begin with. I needed to get this up and running and I still had room in my budget. I may try some from fiberstore.com or Amazon to see if the cheap ones work. I'll need more for another project coming up and if I can save some money on the...

If that's the case can I just find one of Amazon and order that? I'm not opposed to spending the money if that's what I need. Of course my Dell rep says I need to buy theirs.

Let me start by saying I have almost zero experience with fiber connections. That being said I need to get a 10Gbe transceiver module for our new Dell server. Don't know why it wasn't included when we purchased the server and now they want $1000 to buy one. Are there aftermarket ones that are...

The company I work for has a relationship with the local high schools to get teenagers real world experience. We had two different interns in our IT Department, it gets them experience (and money) and it gives us help for some of the easier tasks we have. So far it's worked out great. You should...

I need to run about 50 wires from a 2 post rack over to a server cage. The rack holds the punch down panels and the server cage holds the switches they need to connect to. The total distance is maybe 4 feet. I'm trying to figure out a alternative solution to installing a ladder rack for such a...

I've got that running. How can I sort through the logs to see what a individual workstation's IP is going to?

I need to be able to see what IP Addresses go to what sites at any given time. Right now we have real basic logging setup. If someone could point me in the right direction to get this started I'd greatly appreciate it.

I had the same issue awhile back. I still had a page bookmarked that had the solution on it. Glad to hear it worked out for you.

Try this, Run regedit and go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon and look for a shell key with a value of cmd.exe and delete it. May also need HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor and look for an autorun key with that exe and delete it as...

I read that Conflicter can cause similar issues. I've added that to my list of stuff to work through. I've gone ahead and re-mapped the network drives on the one user with the highest percentage of lock-outs and that didn't seem to make a difference. We had a similar issue last year and then...

I appreciate the input from everyone. I've checked the mapped drives and everything looks good on that end. Our users generally only have 3 or 4 mapped drives anyway and they all look good. I will be running the Microsoft Process Monitor utility today and hopefully it'll give me something to...

I checked scheduled tasks and didn't see anything that shouldn't be there. We have a hosted Exchange Server for our emails. Once a user is setup their email password doesn't change so I don't think it's a sync issue with that. I do believe it's something trying to sync back somewhere that...

Currently have 50 or so users on a domain. The main DC is a Dell PowerEdge 720 running Server 2008 r2 with a identical machine for the BDC. Recently we've started having issues with user accounts becoming locked out for no apparent reason. I'm running NetWrix Account Lockout Examiner and can...

I was hoping that I could reset it and keep the license configuration. That makes things a lot easier for me. I am looking to get rid of it as soon as I wipe it. It's doing nothing but collecting dust on my desk at the moment.

We're closing down one of our offices and will be selling off the unused equipment. We have a ASA5505 that we initially bought with a 50 user license. About a year ago we upgrade to a unlimited user license. I would like to wipe out all our information before I look to get rid of it. If I do a...

Checking out Lync now. It looks like we should be able to make that work. It's at least the best option I've seen so far. Off to MSDN.com to grab a copy and set up a test VM.

If this isn't the correct forum for this let me know and I'll get it moved. My company uses a VOIP system to make our calls out. We have a user management system we built in house which lists all our clients and their pertinent information. Someone higher up the food chain suggested we make...

This looks like it works. I guess I was over thinking it a bit. It does look like I'll need to reset share permissions once the folder is finally moved. I appreciate everyone's input on this, it definitely helped out.

My concern is that it's a mapped network drive that I'm moving it's physical location. This will break the mapped drive and the users won't be able to see it. I'm hoping to be able create a folder redirect that says anyone who has a mapped drive in Location 1 send over to Location 2. I...

The shared drive is running on 2008 Server box, all the users are Windows 7 Pro machines. Would I be able to create a policy preference that says anyone looking for \\ServerA\Shared_DrivesA\Folder_In_Question needs to be sent to \\ServerA\Shared_DrivesB\Folder_In_Question ? To me this seems...

I've got a shared drive I'm looking to move to a different hard drive partition. This particular drive is mapped to about 50 users who use different drive letters for this shared folder. I know I can create a Group Policy to redirect folders to other locations but is this possible for a network...

I've pretty much come to this same conclusion. I'd done everything on my end I can do. Thanks everyone for the input. I'm putting this back on them and going on vacation.

They're wanting me to setup portal.theircompany.com in a DNS that I don't control. I need to sort out a way to possible do it at the SonicWall or not do it at all.

I probably could have been a bit clearer. I have DNS entries setup in the SonicWall, that's not the issue, we use public DNS records for that. Our client wants me to add DNS entry to resolve a URL to a specific IP address. I assumed this could be done under NAT policies. I initially setup a...

It's been awhile since work has thrown me a curve ball so I was about due. We've got a client that wants us to log into their secure portal, this is normally not a issue. The link they sent us to their 'portal' apparently takes us to the wrong page. Their solution to this is for us to create a...

We have steel doors with steel frames, card swipe to unlock the door and walls that go all the way to the roof. I would say start by upgrading your doors and frames, adding some locks and cameras and see how that works for you. You could also get some bear traps and lay them around in your...

That's kind of been the sticking point. If I have a issue with Dell purchase they've been really good about getting us replacements within 24-48 hours. It's hard to beat that service, especially if it's a critical part. I've seen cheaper places on the net to buy our parts but I don't know if I...

Need to order some additional RAM for one of our Dell Poweredge 910s and was wondering if anyone ever gets their RAM from a third party. We usually call our Dell rep up and she gives us some sort of "discount" but I can't help thinking it may be cheaper elsewhere. Should I just stick with...

We'll be running data and power through it. We're in the middle of a remodel at the moment so I don't think they'll mind the price on for the pole.

Pretty much what I needed. Thanks!

We're in the process of remodeling our offices and when everything is said and done we will have a 'island' of desks in the center of one room. We'll be dropping power and data down through a pole but I'm not sure where to find them to buy them. The local Home Depot wanted to sell me metal...

I've got a Windows 2008 server running Active Directory. We have multiple users setup with varying levels of permissions on this and for the most part it runs fine. Every Sunday night something happens and when I come in Monday morning it won't authenticate user's profiles. Once I reboot the...

We've got two R710s a R910 and a Dell SAN and we order the drives through Dell. Yes they charge more but if they die I get someone out the next day with a replacement. Our Dell rep seems pretty good about getting us discounts whenever she can so it's not too bad. I have worked at offices...

I created a NAT/Firewall policy on my SonicWall to deal with the internal URL translation issue I was having. Everything seems to be working fine now.

I don't know how it's 'supposed to be done' but this is how I got it to work. -Changed @ host IP in DNS records to my external IP -Made a NAT Policy and Firewall Policy on my Sonicwall to route all https traffic to that IP through to the internal IP So far works fine. My issue now is that I...

I ran a DNS Lookup on the domain and it looks like everything is in order on that end. It shows the domain name with my external IP address, which is what I think it should be doing. My next problem is that it's not routing properly through my SonicWall. I believe that to be a NAT issue which...

1.The DNS changes haven't propagated as of yet. 2.I'm trying to reach a server inside our network by routing traffic to the external IP address through the router to the internal IP address. This seemed like the best option to me. If there's a better way please let me know.