According to Dell, the T7600 has an optional second set of PCIe x16 slots above the CPUs that are available only when the second CPU is installed.
I have a second CPU installed (and I know its working), and yet any card I install in these particular PCIe slots are not recognised - move the card to one of the slots below the CPU and the card becomes recognised.
Is there anything I need to do specifically to enable these PCIe slots above and beyond installing a second CPU?
I have found myself in an odd situation.
I have a development network of 15 Windows 2012 R2 servers on a HyperV virtualisation server. There are two AD controllers for the single domain, and 13 servers linked to the domain. This set up had worked perfectly fine for months.
Recently I moved home and the virtualisation server ended up being off for a prolonged period of time (a month).
Since I have fired the virtualisation server back up, I have had nothing but issues - the main one of which is that the non-domain-controller servers are not updating their domain administrator account password from the AD controllers.
I have changed the password (several times now) on the AD controllers but none of the non-domain-controllers reflect this update - they continue to use the domain administrator password from before the virtualisation server was turned off.
It has now been a week since I last changed the password on the AD controllers, a sync should definitely have happened by now.
All servers have static IP allocations from the network DHCP server (non-AD based). All servers can ping each other and the AD controllers, all servers can RDP to each other and the AD controllers. In all real terms, the network connection and virtual network is all working.
Can anyone shed any light? Is there anything I can do to force a sync?
We are moving away from our Exchange environment on a hosted server to one managed in-house, and I was wondering how to have the hosted Exchange forward all email received to the new server - the servers are not on the same network, and both have the same users setup.
Basically, I just need the hosted Exchange to act as a dumb relay - accept the mail, send it straight on to our new server without trying to deliver locally.
Is this possible?
Regards Moo
For some reason, I have several Windows 7 installs which are encrypting files that have been downloaded from another location (I have seen this behaviour through both IE, Firefox and Outlook) - the file names are green, and on checking their properties they all have the option to encrypt files selected.
Any thoughts?
Regards Moo
I have a Windows Server 2008 Domain Controller which has recently decided to refuse logins to the server, and has dropped off the domain. I can still access the C$ share, but all attempts to login either locally or remotely via Remote Desktop results in an 'incorrect username or password'.
The AD service on the server is also unavailable to other systems in the domain.
Can anyone suggest a way to recover this server to the point where I can log into it again? This is my last resort before reverting to a backup or reinstall.
Regards
Moo
I have a requirement to create list templates from preexisting lists in SharePoint (Wss3/MOSS2007), with content included. The problem is that these lists contain Lookup fields, and after you deploy a new list from the template they become detatched from their parent list, and you also cannot modify these fields to update where they take their information from.
Whats the best way to handle this? Its primarily for setting up development versions of already existing lists.
We have an AIX server which contains a lot of data, and once a night we dump that data to CSV for import into MS SQL Server for reporting reasons.
At the moment, each step in the process is unlinked, and triggered simply on a timed basis - for example, the CSV dump processes on the AIX system start at 3am and take $x amount of time to complete, and then the MS SQL Server Integration Services job starts at 6am.
As such, there is a lot of 'dead time' built into the process, which it would be nice to eliminate.
So, is there any way to trigger an SQL Server Integration Services job from a Unix system?
I am using Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition (centralised server et al) version 11 to ease deployment of new desktops, and I am having a couple of issues.
At the moment we have a very very basic use of Ghost in place - we use GhostConsole to deploy a client to a prepared computer, then to sysprep it and grab the image. We then use GhostConsole to deploy that image other (identical hardware) computers, and this in general works fine. Although we know Ghost can do much much more, we have yet to actually tap into this and have been using the above process for about a year.
Two questions:
When we use GhostConsole to sysprep and grab the image, the source computer seems to be left in a state where you cannot reboot it back into its own image - it always reboots to the PCDOS Ghost environment and awaits the GhostCast server. Is there any way to get this computer back into a usable state after taking the image, without redeploying the image?
This is related to my first question - I have just taken an image of a desktop that took a while to setup. The image grabbing went fine and without issue, but the image cannot be redeployed as it is corrupted and every attempt to ghost a system using that image fails. Is there any way to save this image? As question 1 indicates, the source computer is now useless to me so I cannot retake the image, and I don't want to break the bad news to the support staff that their time was wasted!
Cheers Richard
I have a situation where I need to:
At the moment I have run flags in scripts B - D which set whether or not the script is still running, and after firing off the four scripts, script A sits in a wait loop checking these flag files.
Is there a better way to do this?
The background is this is a backup script for an AIX server using snapshots - script A takes the JFS2 snapshots on the file systems we wish to backup (they all need to be done at the same time, as we have related data distributed across different filesystems - this cannot be changed), scripts B - D do the actual backups of these filesystems from the snapshots (three rsyncs to a different server, and one tape backup), and then script A removes the snapshots once all the file copies (including to tape) are completed.
What is the best solution, if any, for carrying out LVM style filesystem snapshots on OpenBSD?
The preamble:
I have the following setup -
2 Servers consisting of Windows 2003 R2 on Dell Poweredge 2950, dual quad core Xeons, 8GB RAM, MD1000 external RAID unit
Both servers are setup with 5 network shares each (Shared, Groups, Users and some unused others).
Both servers are setup with the Windows Server 2003 R2 version of DFS to handle fail-over et al. The staging areas for these DFS enabled shares are on separate disks to the shares themselves.
Both servers have SQL Server 2005 Standard installed.
The problem:
I have two users out of 150 who have intermittent freezes when reading or writing files on the network shares - both are developers running on Windows Server 2008 systems as desktops (although their issues existed when they were on Windows XP Pro systems a month ago).
Both of these 'problem' users are developers.
No one else in the company has reported issues, despite it being specifically asked at various meetings and a straw pole being taken by myself around the company.
Both developers get the same slowdown at the same point in time, and they last for the same amount of time. Other users can access the same network shares during this period without issue.
Neither developer shares the same network path to the server, aside from the final two hops which everyone shares.
Neither file server is under load, both servers are typically at idle with plenty of RAM free. Since moving the staging areas off the same disks, both servers disk queues are as expected and not consistently at peak.
The question:
Can anyone suggest a way to trouble shoot this? I have a feeling that most of their issues are due to the development tools they are using (Slickedit), but I would like to eliminate all possibilities along the way.
I have monitored the servers using the various Sysinternals tools, which lead to the staging areas being moved, but aside from that there are no obvious issues.
Usually I stay away from desktop support, but as I am marrying this one I don't think I can get out of it :)
Whats the best tool for taking a full, browsable image of a disk before a full reinstallation.
When I am doing corporate server support, I know where all the important stuff is on my machines - what can get backed up, what is transitory and can be discarded, and what will be recreated anyway. The same goes for my personal machines.
However, the cardinal rule for end user desktop support is 'they never answer anything fully and completely correctly', so I do not want to end up in a situation where she last lost important data because it was squirrelled away in some non-standard directory that she didnt inform me of.
Basically, I want a non-bootable copy of the entire disk 'as-is'. I could drag and drop, but is there a quicker way?
Cheers Richard
Is it possible to create a Windows 'Network Place' folder using a script, in a similar fashion to mounting a network drive?
We have a lot of SharePoint document libraries that we would like to create an easy way to save to directly from Word or Excel, and creating lots of mapped network drives will rapidly use up drive letters.
Solved: Create a standard shortcut to the UNC path in C:\Documents And Settings\User\NetHood\
I have recently been tasked with improving the backup strategy of a legacy server supporting 150 users via a terminal based interface. The issue is currently that the server has a single backup taken at 2am, and due to the nature of the application suite and languages involved (each data file is discrete and there is no enforced referential integrity between data files, but a record can be spread across multiple data files - each data file is written to sequentially in the application suite, and thus you have the potential for one file to be updated while another is not, creating an inconsistent record), the server needs to be unused during this time.
As such, we stand to lose a significant amount of work if the server was to fail in some fashion at the end of the working day, but prior to the backup being taken in the early morning.
As the server is running AIX 5.x, I have decided to implement JFS2 snapshots on the file systems that require backup, which means I can reduce the 'time off system' in the early morning backup to just that required to actually take hte backup. This will be our 'guaranteed backup'.
However, I also wish to try and mitigate the risk of a full days data loss via the taking of two 'non-guaranteed backups' during the day, without removing users from the system.
The justification here is that, if we were to encounter a full powerloss situation on the server, significant portions of the data files will get corrupted - this occurred a month ago (the UPS blew the protected circuit, taking down the server - one of those things that are never supposed to happen). However, the act of taking a snapshot will not result in corrupted data files within the snapshot, just the potential for corrupted records currently being worked on. Or, in other words, controllable, managable corruption levels that can be checked for if everyone understands that it exists in the first place.
So, the question I need to ask is:
How well does JFS2 Snapshots handle complete powerloss situations? In the incident we had last month, we lost approx 60% of our data through corruption, but how would a snapshot of that partition have faired? Would it also have suffered corruption, or would it have been OK?
For example, I have /mydata/ and I snapshot it to /mysnapshot at 6pm. At 7pm we encounter the 'worst case scenario' and /mydata is left significantly corrupt. Will the snapshot also be corrupt? How does AIX and JFS2 handle this in the background? Will the snapshot be usable?
I hasten to add that there are also tape and remote file copy backups being taken during the 2am window, so we are not relying on snapshots as the actual backup, just a means to an end of improving the backup. The extra snapshots during the day are a certain nicety rather than anything we would be reliant on.
Is it possible to determine whether a restore has been carried out on a file or folder from a Volume Shadow Copy snapshot?