IT Thread
We need an IT thread. This could be for questions or just general IT-related chat, I guess.
My Microsoft Exchange setup is pretty hefty, and a bit complex. It was put together by a contractor and I'm going to add a new database to it, but if they taught me how, I've forgotten. So I'll muddle my way through...anybody know much about this stuff? |
I don't know shit about exchange. All I do right now are setup account on the domain, samba shares, password resets, keep an eye on the backups, and lately manage our WSUS server.
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New Mailbox database, Exchange 2007 (running on Windows Server 2008). I'm working through the GUI, letting the wizards do the work, but I've just had a failure.
In the Exchange Management Console --> Server Configuration --> Mailbox --> Database Management, I created a new Storage Group successfully, then created a new DB. It claims to have succeeded creating the DB but failed to mount it. I go to where the DB file should be and it's not there. |
I haven't done anything with adding an additional storage group so I can't help you there. Why are you adding the extra storage group?
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I'm following the previous architecture. Each DB has its own Storage Group as configured by the contractor who built the system. Maybe I'll try creating a DB in an existing SG and see what happens.
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Ah I see, yea I can't help you out any there.
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Ok, so I tried creating DB in an existing SG, and I got this error:
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I removed the attempt and tried again. This time, I unchecked "Mount this database" and then the "Database file path" text box un-greyed and had appropriate stuff in it by default. I finished the wizard and everything worked. Then after it was created, I mounted it. Looks like success! |
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Is there anything else you can think of that I might need to do, or can I just start adding users to the new DB?
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should be able to start adding users to it.
Has anybody done anything with thin clients? |
We haven't but we've talked about it. It would ease some of our administration work and possibly deliver better service to the student labs.
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Yea my boss just came to me and wants a cheap and easy to manage thin client solution that we can market to our k-12 schools |
I just found out that Windows Media Player streaming can go all over the place on random UDP ports. I was using Wireshark when I saw clumps of packets on these weird UDP ports and freaked out....then the user's computer wouldn't let me remote in and the user wasn't answering her phone. Turns out that messed up firewall settings prevented VNC, and I assume she was on the phone when I tried to call.
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Ok, here's another basic dumbass question: How can I get started deploying GPOs to push configuration changes through my domain?
I've been using login scripts, but I'd like to use GPOs. I've got a laundry list of things I'd like to do... |
Server 2008 has a lot of new GPO's you can configure, use group policy management and start looking through the avaliable options. We have a test computer here that is in its own OU and we test all our group policys on before we deploy them across our or customers domains.
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I've never done anything with GPOs in a production environment. Years ago I took a course where I learned about it with Server 2000 but I've totally forgotten everything about it.
Good idea testing on a guinea pig first. |
I need some walkthrough on figuring out how to tie in a extrenal hard drive to my ps3 and get the ps3 to see the hard drive. Fill me in on this one ;)
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Download this http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en and look through it, its pretty handy.
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