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Someone asked me the best way to edit a pdf and given who this person is, I'm looking for a easy solution vs best. This person gets building plans/layouts emailed to him as a pdf file and needs to mark them up for his installers. He wants to notate where equipment should go etc. So, he would be...

Thanks for the response. So, are you sure that it just does not have the capability? I did a chat with support and the person didn't really seem to provide any direction as far as looking for that kind of info. He didn't say it wasn't possible though. You know how it is dealing with tier 1...

I have 20 Aruba Instant IAPs with a HP 2530-48G POE switch to power them. They are connected to a Cisco SG300-52 which is my main MDF switch. I have two other SG300-52 IDF switches connected to the MDF SG300. What happens is that users start complaining about wireless access problems. I am...

OK, I think you guys talked me into MigrationWiz. :) One additional question, how to I copy the contents from a public shared calendar over to Office 365? They use it for scheduling where several people can add/modify the calendar and others can view it. They have color coding etc setup. What...

How much work does MigrationWiz save vs copying old email to pst, creating new outlook profile, connect to office 365 account, import pst, copy pst email over to office 365 inbox? Just trying to make sure I can justify the cost. This would be for around 20 mailboxes.

With Hyper-v replication, can you specify a window of time that it does it's replication? Just so it won't use up a big chunk of our bandwidth during business hours.

I don't need instant failover. This would be a disaster recovery situation where it would take time (hours) to move people to the other office and get setup. I just have 1 SQL server running as 1 VM and a application server that uses the SQL server as another VM. I did verify that my source...

We currently use Office 2007 and Office 2010 on our about 20 workstations. I'm looking to move to MS office 365 for hosted exchange. I found out that as of the first of this year, Microsoft no longer support Outlook 2007 or 2010 for hosted exchange. It seems to be working just fine so far at...

One issue I'm running into. I'm still planning out exactly how I want to do this and I read that you are not supposed to use Hyper-V replication on a SQL server. One of my VMs is a SQL server. What would you recommend for that situation?

Can it replicate to a shared network folder or a mapped network drive? Any advantage of having it replicate initialy vs just shutting down the virtual machine and copying the whole virtual disk over to a network folder?

OK, thanks. So, is powering down the VMs and then copying them over to a network share at the same location, then copying it to a USB drive to carry to the other site the best way to get my initial copy of the VM then? Or, having the VM do a backup to a network share? If the VM is imported...

One is 700GB and the other is 162GB. So, I will probably need to copy them over manually. With syncing, are they the exact same virtual machine? Is their computer name the same? Just wondering how that would work as far as having two computers on the network named the same thing. Syncing might...

I am looking to make copies of two production virtual machines and then take them to a offsite location to run on a HyperV server at that location that will be used for disaster recovery purposes. The plan is to then use backups/restore to keep the data on the offsite DR HyperV server up to...

I am looking to get a Dell Poweredge R710 Gen II to use as a Hyperv server. I see that I can get a version with 3.5" drives or 2.5" drives. The 2.5" version seems to be more readily available. I'm just not sure about the storage options with 2.5" drives. It seems like they are more expensive...

I am looking for a computer with 2 PCI slots. We use two video capture cards for our application. Any options out there from a manufacturer with 2 PCI slots? I would rather not build something. I have found these PCI express to PCI adapters and they may be an option...

We are looking at getting some Aruba access points for our small school. We are getting 20 IAP-205 units and one will go in each classroom. What POE switch would you recommend for this? I am most comfortable with the Cisco SG300 lineup but didn't know if it made more sense to step up to...

OK, I'm just about done with the migration. We used login scripts to map network shares mainly. Would I be better off trying to move that over or mapping drives using group policy? I was going to use the login script to re-map the network shares over to the new server.

I am considering a Fortigate 100D or possibly a 200D for a school. The students have chromebooks with filtering but I need content filtering for the rest of the network. How good is the Fortigate content filtering? The searching around I have done tends to talk more about filtering malicious...

So, would these two sets of instructions do the trick: Step-By-Step: Adding a Windows Server 2012 Domain Controller to an Existing Windows Server 2003 network and Step-By-Step: Active Directory Migration from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012 R2 This one seems to have all the...

Does exchange have to be cleaned up if we aren't going to be using exchange moving forward? Everyone uses Google apps for email. The Server 2012 box is a brand new server. Not an in place upgrade.

I am going to be doing a much needed upgrade at a office taking them from SBS 2003 to Windows Server 2012 Std. This should be more simple than most as they use it is a domain controller, and file/print server. No Exchange, sharepoint, etc. They do have one program that uses SQL on the server...

I'm looking at replacing a couple OLD 10/100 switches. They are each at a IDF location in the network. For smaller networks, I typically just use a Cisco SG300 and just figure out how many ports they need. Any reasons to look at something better here? I was looking at the HP 2530-24G for...

New. Any specific model to look at from Lenovo?

I'm looking to order 5 laptops for a small school. Here are the requirements: 1) Windows based 2) 15" screen 3) number pad 4) good wireless adapter that will work well with Ubiquiti Unifi APs (not all wireless radios are created equal) 5) $700 max budget for each Let me know what you guys would...

Well, sounds like finding a Gen 2 model makes a lot of sense. Is that how they are listed.... R710 Gen 2?

I know what you mean. This is a generic question being asked by a customer's legal compliance department. So, I am assuming that first would be to determine the exact nature of the hack.

I am trying to answer a somewhat generic question: What would we do if our business network was hacked? Would you guys mind chiming in if you have anything formal in place as far as procedures and policies on how to respond to a network hack incident?

I think it is going to be cheaper when you factor everything in including storage to just get something like a Dell R710 as long as it will accept standard SATA drives and not dell branded drives. Is the main reason for the C1100 power savings? Otherwise, part of what I like about the R710 is...

I want to get a refurb server to run VMWare on. I am thinking a Dell R710 or a HP DL380. I want to add my own SATA drives to it though (3.5") as cheap extra storage. Is that possible with a R710 or DL380? Any recommendations on something you see on ebay that you would recommend? I'm OK with...

We are going to be retiring a SBS 2008 box and are looking to move email to a hosted exchange environment. Any recommendations on who to go with? How about Microsoft's hosted exchange vs Office 365. Is one better than the other if you only care about email hosting? One thing I ran into was a...

BigTy - How long ago was that? I read some terrible reviews from back in the 2nd half of 2014 but haven't tracked down anything newer. I would think they would have to have implemented VLANs by now. That is so basic and a frequently used feature.

I'm looking at it more as a small business solution. One where the full blown ruckus solution is just too pricey. Can you summarize what is missing or scaled down vs the Ruckus lineup? I read some older reviews and it sounds like there were definitely some huge issues at first when these came...

I was searching around for access points and came across a site offering Xlaim by Ruckus Wireless. It looks like these are designed to compete with Ubiquiti Unifi and similar models. Anyone have any experience using these? Xclaim Wireless I am tempted because of the Ruckus name. Normally their...

I am currently running a dell customized ESXI 5.5u2. What is the best way to get to 5.5u3? I believe I need to stick with Dell's version so I don't lose their customization. I see the 5.5u3 on their site but it looks to be the full esxi5.5u3 install. Thanks for the help!

I guess I was looking for a specific recommendation based on what I am trying to do.

I guess I was hoping for something like Shopify where it is a pre-built solution.

I am looking for a way to have a place on a website that you can configure training classes that people can then sign up for and pay for. We would want to allocate say 10 opening for a course and then have the site be able to track when people sign up and sell out when all openings are filled...

I currently have our ESXI 5.5 running on a Dell poweredge server. It's connected to a APC Smart UPS 1500. I want to figure out the best way to manage shutting down the virtual machines and then ESXI when there is an power outage. I have a ubuntu vm and a windows server 2012 vm. Thanks.

We were running a virtual machine with the LAMP stack. We had a weird issue that took down the host. Upon restarting everything, the ubuntu machine we were running the LAMP stack on detected a corrupt disk. I restarted it and it attempted recovery. Upon bootup though, mysql will not run. The...

I'm not sure if power was out so long it depleted the UPS and then the server crashed or what, but here's where I'm at. The Dell server had a warning on it saying that "memory/battery problems were detected the adapter has recovered but cached data was lost." I continued past the error, it...