Using NT Bootloader to Dual Boot XP for Ghost Recovery of System
I’ve been asked how to do this privately via ITKnowledge Exchange. I thought I’d submit my response(s) for anyones comment/ideas. ColinNZ

Answer Question   |  May 21, 2005  7:08 AM
DataCenter, Desktops, Development, Hardware, Servers, Storage

ADMT or dcpromo?
If I have 2 DC (windows 2000) , one of DC ?s hosts MS Exchange 2000. I need to migrate on windows 2003 server/Exchange environment. One windows 2003 server needs to work as domain controller, the second needs to work as Exchange Server. Tell me, please! 1) Can I use dcpromo (active directory installation wizard) [...]

Answer Question   |  May 22, 2005  3:03 AM
Active Directory, Bind, DHCP, General Directories, LDAP, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows, Networking, NFS, WINS

Backup Schedule File on AS400
Do any of you know the name of the file that contains the backup schedule data. If you run Go Backup, Select Option 10. Set up backup, Select option 20. Change Backup Schedule a user can put in the schedule to run backups. Does anyone know what file and in what library this file resides [...]

Answer Question   |  February 3, 2009  5:36 PM
AS/400 backup, Backup & recovery

Moving a Windows 2000 Server Installation to a new Hard Drive
I have a Windows 2000 Server (SP4) Installation that I want to move to a new Hard Drive. Right now it is on a 250 GB Maxtor IDE Drive but I want to move everything to 2 new 250 SATA Drives to take advantage of the SATA Raid that is built-in on the motherboard (Intel [...]

Answer Question   |  October 18, 2011  5:33 PM
Backup & recovery, DataCenter, Tech support

New to AS400 administration and need some help.
I have two questions here if someone can help. I will appreciate anything you can give. First, I am trying to configure a network printer on the AS400. I did wrkcfgsts, work with description, and copied the printer devices description and modified the printer device with the new info. All I changed was the IP [...]

Answer Question   |  April 6, 2009  12:04 PM
Auditing, Availability, Backup & recovery, Capacity planning, DataCenter, Hardware, Help Desk, i5, IBM, Installation, Integration with other platforms, Integration/Connectivity, iSeries, Logical partitions, Mainframe, Microsoft Windows, Networking, Operating systems, OS/400, PC/Windows Connectivity, Performance/Tuning, Printing, PTFs, Remote access, Reporting, Security, Security management, Server consolidation, Servers, System monitoring, Tech support, Technical support, tips and tricks, Tools

Migrating from windows 2000 server to windows 2003 server
Hi! I have question about AD migrating from Windows 2000 server (DC1) (works as Global catalogue server in the domain1 with Exchange 2000, DNS, and DHCP) to new Windows 2003 domain controller (DC3). There is another Windows 2000 DC (DC2) in the network, now (and about 120 workstations). I need that DC3 works only as [...]

Answer Question   |  May 17, 2005  4:14 AM
Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, LDAP, Microsoft Windows, Networking services, NFS, WINS

Automatically Force User Disconnects via Scheduled Script
Greetings all … What is the most efficient automated script-based approach to terminate user connections for “particular” databases? Where: 1. Know name of database(s) 2. Know name of user(s) 3. Do not know name of user(s) 4. Server must always remain in production and user(s) must not be disconnected from other databases Thanks in advance.

Answer Question   |  May 16, 2005  12:09 PM
Backup & recovery, Database Management Systems, Security, SQL Server

Recommendation of Win2k srvr HDD perf monitoring
Can anyone recommend what Performance Log Counters they would configure their Win2k server to monitor its disk, RAID controller, and other hardware / software settings that supports a server?s data storage and transfer of data (e.g. SCSI card, Hard Drive, Paging, I/O, etc.)? I have to set up a hard drive performance counter on a [...]

Answer Question   |  May 18, 2005  11:15 AM
Adapters/Interfaces, Arrays, Disk drives, Hardware, Monitoring, RAID, SCSI, Storage products and equipment, Windows, Windows 2000 Server

temporary internet files
I have many PCs throughout my network that have multiple users logging into them. Therefore I have MANY profiles under documents and settings. I have so many that I am now seeing 40Gb hard drives getting eaten up with temporary internet files. In particular I would like to delete the following folder: c:documents and settings%username%local [...]

Answer Question   |  May 18, 2005  10:01 AM
DataCenter, Storage, Tech support, Windows

Installing RAID 1 on XP machines or use server software?
We have a mission critical robot on the production line that is run by 3 pc quality machines running NT4 workstation. They are referred to as A B and C It has crashed 2 times in the last year. Both times it was the motherboard on PC B. This machine runs 24×7. The IT department [...]

Answer Question   |  August 28, 2008  9:32 AM
Backup & recovery, Disk drives, Mirroring, RAID, RAID 1, RAID controllers, Storage products and equipment, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP

ping from outside
hi, could you please tell me which command in cisco routers prevent them from being ping from outside networks. and also how can i prevent terminals inside a network to ping outside ips(group policies etc??). thanks

Answer Question   |  May 17, 2005  12:51 AM
Application security, Biometrics, Compliance, CRM, Database, DataCenter, Digital certificates, Disaster Recovery, Encryption, Ethernet, Exchange, Hardware, Identity & Access Management, Incident response, Instant Messaging, Intrusion management, IPv4, Network Interface Cards, Network Management Systems, Network testing, Networking, Networking Equipment, Policies, provisioning, QoS, Risk management, Routers, Secure Coding, Security, Security Program Management, Security tokens, Servers, Single sign-on, TCP, Tech support, Vulnerability Assessment & Audit

Symantec Ghost automated backup/cloning
Hi there I’m trying to get my parents a nice backup system. By using ghost I wanna see if it can be possible for them to use like a desktop icon to click once (or as few clicks as possible) and their system to be backed up to another drive. I want to use Ghost [...]

Answer Question   |  May 13, 2005  9:30 PM
DataCenter, Desktops, Development, Hardware, Servers, Storage

Resticting Members of BuiltinAdministrator to just be able to create Domain Trust
In windows 2000/2003, Can we restrict a BuiltinAdministrators member to have just enough rights so that he/she can only create/delete domain Trust. The requirement that we have is to be programmatically create trust with all the domains in a given forest. The other part of the requirement is to maintain the created trusts (i.e. recreate [...]

Answer Question   |  May 11, 2005  7:09 PM
Administration, Biometrics, Compliance, CRM, Development, Digital certificates, Disaster Recovery, Identity & Access Management, Installation, Management, Policies, provisioning, Risk management, Security, Security management, Security Program Management, Security tokens, Single sign-on

Quantum DLT4000 drive not ejecting (unloading) dlt’s
Hi, We scheduled a backup lastnight using out Quantum DLT 4000 drive. The backup was successfull but the dlt drive wont release the dlt. Its impreative that it does – as i have to do another backup of something else tonight on a different dlt. On the drive there are 4 orange lights highlighted next [...]

Answer Question   |  May 19, 2005  8:31 AM
Backup & recovery, Help Desk, Networking, Quantum, Tech support

slow pc
hi i have Pentium-4 processor with 128 MB RAM .I have a dual boot system with Windows 2000 Proffessional and Linux AS3.0.My system was working fine but since few days it has bcome very slow.what shd i do to improve speed. thanks for any help.

Answer Question   |  December 22, 2010  2:33 AM
Desktops, Hardware, Intel PC hardware, Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Server, Servers, Storage, Windows, Windows 2000 desktop, Windows client administration and maintenance

AS/400 System Saves and Journals
We use the following commands to do our weekly system save: SAVSYS, NONSYS, SAVDLO, SAV. Will this save system journals as well? Thanks in advace for your help.

Answer Question   |  October 24, 2009  5:55 PM
AS/400, Data center operations, Disaster Recovery

disaster recovery
hi, i have 2xSE9900. one for the Production (prod) and one for Development (dev), few clustered DB servers (some inter domain and some normal clustered) which total more than 5. the servers are running different Solaris versions, VXVM versions but all using Sun cluster. for the next phase of implementation the number of DB servers [...]

Answer Question   |  May 18, 2005  6:05 AM
Backup & recovery, DataCenter, Disaster Recovery, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, IT architecture, Storage servers, Sun Microsystems, Veritas

Oracle 9i Query Time
What would be an expected time to run a query that will extract 1.4 million records? There are two tables involved. Customer and Address. And No Condition.

Answer Question   |  May 6, 2005  11:45 AM
Database issues, Database Management Systems, in use in organization, Oracle, s, Total size of the database, Very Large Databases

Bandwidth managment … in windows 2000 0r 2003 server
Hi ! Plz I need help in controlling the internet bandwidth on a LAN network ? Also note that I have a Game server installed on LAN.

Answer Question   |  May 6, 2005  3:44 AM
Active Directory, Bind, DHCP, DNS, LDAP, Microsoft Windows, Networking, NFS, Novell NDS, WINS

Data vs. perimeter vs. network security
A short time ago, author Wes Noonan wrote some tips for SearchWindowsSecurity.com about <a href=http://searchwindowssecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid45_gci1007026,00.html>deperimeterization</a>. He explained how security is always pitted against business needs, and perimeters have become porous because businesses require traffic from SMTP, HTTP or VPNs to pass through the firewall. He then offered techniques for keeping data safe in spite of [...]

Answer Question   |  May 4, 2005  4:36 PM
Administration, Application security, Architecture/Design, backdoors, Biometrics, Compliance, configuration, CRM, Current threats, Database, Desktop vs network-based firewalls, Digital certificates, Disaster Recovery, Documentation, Encryption, Exchange, Features/Functionality, Firewalls, Forensics, Hacking, Host-based IDS/IPS, human factors, Identity & Access Management, IDS vs IPS, IDS/IPS management, Incident response, Installation, Instant Messaging, Intrusion management, Managed security services, Management, Network security, Network-based IDS/IPS, Networking, Outsourcing/Managed services, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Policies, Product evaluation, provisioning, Risk management, Secure Coding, Security, Security management, Security products, Security Program Management, Security tokens, Service and support, Signature updating/Management, Single sign-on, Software vs appliance, Spyware, Trojans, Viruses, VPN, Vulnerability Assessment & Audit, vulnerability management, Wireless, worms