hjoelr's questions

We're using Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM 2019) to back up our client data. When creating a protection group with clients, DPM asks how much data each computer will be backing up so it can allocate disk space for each of them.

The struggle is that it's not a one-size-fits-all situation. I have some clients with < 1GB and some with > 500GB. If the "Data per computer" is set to 5GB, they allocate 7.61GB of storage for that client (as seen in the picture above). Here's my questions.

1. Will clients using less than the allocated amount hold backup space that they will never use? (eg. client has 1GB data and reserve 7.61GB....is 6.61GB of backup space allocated in waste?)
2. Will clients over the allocation space still backup fine? Will DPM just expand their allocation as needed and work without a problem? (eg. client has 60GB and allocated only 7.61GB when setting up the protection group)

I've been unable to find a clear answer to this on the web. I'm trying to determine if I need to have different protection groups based on client data size. Really hoping not....

Thanks!

I am a systems administrator and we are getting ready to deploy Windows 7 to our users. In our process of learning about activation, we activated a Windows 7 computer with our MAK key using Internet activation instead of doing proxy activation through VAMT 2.0. The computer is activated, but if we need to reinstall that computer (as it is a technician computer), we'll have to re-activate it and use another one of our allotted activations.

What I'm wondering is if there is a way to gather the installation ID and confirmation ID off of that Windows 7 laptop so I can paste it into or VAMT 2.0 XML (.cil) file? That will give us the ability to just re-apply the confirmation ID should we need to reinstall that computer. I don't need to know how to paste the installation ID and confirmation ID into the .cil file as I already know how to do that. I'm more looking for a way to extract the installation ID and confirmation ID from the Windows 7 computer.

I am a network administrator at my place of employment and we are getting ready for deploying Windows 7 Enterprise and Office 2010 Professional Plus in our organization. We are wanting to use a KMS host and key to activate the majority of our computers and reserve our MAK key for computers that won't be connected to the network where the KMS host will reside.

One of the problems that I'm facing is that we would like to deploy our Windows 7 Enterprise software in a phased manner at a rate of maybe 2-3 computers a month (out of 70 total) and at that rate we would not have 25 Windows 7 computers waiting for activation by the KMS host and they would all go out of the grace period. What do I do in this case? I feel like we're in a catch 22 where we have to deploy 25 Windows 7 computers in a 30-day period or none of them will be activated.

I have searched the Internet high and low and haven't found anyone else asking this question, so that makes me think that maybe I'm not understanding something or what we're doing is really weird (which I don't think is the case).

We do have a MAK key as well, so I've thought of deploying our computers using our MAK key until we get close to 25 and then switching them all over to using the KMS key. That seems logical, but then that leads me to my second question.

Can a MAK key be used for up to 25 computers, those computers be converted over to KMS keys and then that MAK key be used for another 25 computers? Or, is the MAK key designated for those first 25 computers and cannot be re-used on other computers?

Thanks in advance for your help demystifying these questions.

I am using MS Backup on a Windows Server 2003 to backup our key folders at my work. The backup is set up as an incremental backup job where it only backs up any files that have changed since the last time the backup was run. Periodically I have to restore some files out of it, and it has been a royal pain to find the date where that file was last modified and exists in the backup.

My question is two-fold:

1. Is it possible to somehow specify that I want the "latest" edition of a particular file in the backup file when restoring? If so, how?
2. Is it possible to get the "latest" edition of an entire folder in the backup file? If so, how?

Thank you so much for your responses.

I have a couple of HP ProCurve 2910al POE+ switches at my company that we are primarily using to power our VOIP phones that run on 48V DC. However, I have one wireless access point that I need to run off of POE, but it has to be 24V DC. I'm afraid to plug it into the POE ProCurve because I'm not sure if it will zap the device.

I'm wondering if there is a way to make sure to change the voltage on a specific port to 24V instead of the (seemingly) default value of 48V.

Thanks! Joel

Our company is buying some HP Procurve managed gigabit switches to replace some of our core switches. However, we aren't able to upgrade all of our switches from 100Mb to Gigabit switches. I think I know the answer but I'm not exactly sure. If we plug those 100Mb switches (or even a 100Mb device) into those Gigabit switches, will the performance of the entire switch drop to 100Mb or will just that one port work at 100Mb?