HeavyObjectLifter's questions

Current Situation: My company runs a number of individual EC2 instances hosting unique websites using multiple subdomains off of a common top-level domain. (abc.foo.com, and def.foo.com, for example).

Each of these websites is currently performing the SSL offload independently, but using a common cert. We currently run Ubuntu LTSs, including 10.04, 12.04, and 14.04, all running Apache (2.2 or 2.4).

Our systems use VHost files to establish the sites on the instances, and on the few instances where we have multiple sites running, we use multiple VHosts with different ports and docroots (:80 /var/www/abc for abc.foo.com, and :81 /var/www/def for def.foo.com). All of these instance run using <2% of available resources, and all from the same monolithic codebase.

Desired End State: I want to consolidate all of the small unused servers into a single Ubuntu 14.04 server using Apache 2.4, and run all of those sites off of a Single ELB in AWS, fronted and cached by CloudFront, where the SSL offload happens on the ELB.

Problem/Question: I have no idea how to go about doing this... Is there a way to have multiple sites using the same IP and port that can be fronted using the ELB? Since Apache wont boot with VHosts that have the same IP/port, I don't even know where to start, and some of my basic Google searches don't turn up any examples or discussions of this type of scenario.

I just inherited a medium-scale Virtual Environment of just over 100 VMs on three different networks. Unfortunatly, my predicessor did not inventory the physcial hard disks utilized in my 19 physical servers, and if possible, I need a way to identify thier serial numbers without bringing the server down.

Is there a console command that can query this information?

I have a mix of Dell and HP servers, if that in any way helps.

I am running Exchange 2003 for a mail server, and Windows Server 2003 as my NOS.

When users attempt to open Outlook 2003 and gain access to their mailbox, the system is prompting them for a username/password. Even when the correct credentials are entered, the box just prompts them again, and again...

These users had un-prompted access to their accounts yesterday without any problems or prompts. Today I have the credential prompts.

For any user with Domain Admin, the system does NOT prompt them. They have access just like the did before today - just double-click on the Outlook icon, and the mailbox opens.

I can ping the server, ping by FQDN, and ping by short-DNS-name. I can browse sites and resolve DNS addresses outside of my domain, and those within.

I need to get my users access to their mailboxes without a prompt, and without granting additional privileges. Upgrading software or operating systems is not an option.

I have no clue where I should go from here... any help is greatly appreciated.

I have a Window Server 2003 domain running Sharepoint MOSS 2007 SP1 v12.0.0.6219. My problem is that all users on the domain that lack local-admin rights to their currently used machine open all documents in Read-Only mode.

This is obviously a problem for me as I need users to be able to change documents through the check-out process. I am unwilling to blanket-grant all users local-admin rights for obvious security reasons.

Domain admins, power users, and users granted local-admin rigths to the box can accomplish this task without any abnormal behavior.

I have Googled this problem extensively, and can find no working solutions.

I have tried adding a registry key of: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\Internet\OpenDocumentsReadWriteWhileBrowsing to '1' as suggessted here: spsstuff.blogspot.com/2006/07/office-2003-documents-open-in-read.html but that change did not work.

I have also attempted to locate a key of: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office discussed in this article: www.tech-archive.net/Archive/SharePoint/microsoft.public.sharepoint.portalserver/2006-08/msg00458.html but it does not exist on my systems.

I'm not sure what other information I can provide to be helpful, but any help or tactical application of common sense would be GREATLY appreciated.