Monthly Archives: June 2009

Promoting Domain Controllers.

Dc promo using bakcup

Replmon and NWlink

NWlink prevents Replmon from working.

What happens when you run out of disk space.

You have Symantec’s Enterprise Vault and you are running out of disk space for your Vault Store.  Your server or SAN does not have many slots to add new disks.  So you are in a bind.

Literal Music Video

Click on this link and check it out.  It sings literally what you see.

Watch your disk size

As hard disk capacity climbs to 1 TB, it is prudent to keep an eye on the disk volume that you create. Windows 2003 has a 2TB limit using Basic disk.  If Guid Partition Tables (GPT) are used, the limit is 256TB.  The catch is that you must have SP1 installed. Read about it here.

Share names and scripts.

I was asked to check a problem with a customer’s login script.  Seems that some of the shares are not appearing on the user computers. At the user end, browsing to the shares does not reveal a problem with permissions, therefore it has to be the script not working properly. Turns out the share name

Exchange Store Migration to SAN

Customer got a spanking new iSCSI SAN and wants to move the 300GB store and stm file to the SAN. So how does that take?

SQL Server migration

The databases on a sql server are located in the Data directory.  This is usually located on a non system partition.  So that database growth will not affect system stability.  What happens you got a new spanking SAN?