How to connect more than one DASD to IBM mainframe
how to connect more than one dasd to ibm mainframe?

Answer Question   |  October 25, 2010  2:02 PM
DASD, IBM Mainframe, RSS

Application in Visual Basic 6.0 to create path to removable disks
I am building an application where I want to put my data in a removable drive and my exe somewhere in any of the fixed drives. I can’t be sure about the path to my removable drive because the letter assigned to it can change due to many reasons, like, another removable drive was inserted [...]

Answer Question   |  October 25, 2010  10:42 AM
Removable data storage, Removable storage, VB6.0, Visual Basic, Visual Basic 6.0

Undoing a restore from previous versions (Shadow copy)
I restored a shadow copy directory over a existing directory. It was not what I wanted to do. How can I undo this and restore the directory structure I copied over? This is Windows 2003 Advanced server.

Answer Question   |  November 8, 2010  5:16 PM
Backup, Backup and restore, Shadow Copy, Windows Server 2003

Exchange 2010 Guest Backup
I am debating on purchasing Exchange 2007 or 2010. As of sp2 of 2007 you can do a host backup with a exchange 2007 guest and it will do the exchange back and clear the log files. My question is does exchange 2010 do the same thing? or do i have it wrong about 2007?

Answer Question   |  October 25, 2010  3:22 PM
Exchange 2010, Exchange 2010 Backup, Exchange Backup, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

VMware v4, failure, ESX hosts disconnecting from vCenter and EMC SAN, SCSI Reservation issues also, October 2010
We have a multi cluster VMware environment consisting of HP BL680’s, DL580’s and DL585’s that has been very stable for over a year and we have made no recent changes to storage, switches, hosts or HBAs. Recently we experienced two incidents where ESX hosts on different clusters have disconnected from vCenter and from their shared [...]

Answer Question   |  October 20, 2010  5:15 PM
HBA, SAN, SAN disconnect, SCSI Reservation, vCenter 4.0, vCenter disconnect, VMware ESX, VMware ESXI 4.0 Performance

Can I use WBAdmin to restore NTBackup files?
WBAdmin to restore NTBackup files? If not how can I restore NTBackup files to my new Win 2008 R2 server? We need the files and I do not want to restore them elsewhere and copy them as this will double my time line

Answer Question   |  October 24, 2010  4:01 PM
Backup, Backup and restore, NTBackup, NTBackup Configuration, WBADMIN, Windows Server 2008 R2

Can we view fragmentation of Windows server 2003 systems remotely?
Can I query several active directory desktops and see fragmentation levels and possibly schedule it to defragment?

Answer Question   |  February 1, 2012  3:57 PM
Defragmentation, Windows 7, Windows Defragmentation, Windows Server 2003

Active directory 2003 Full backup procedures.
We need to run a full AD backup. This will be for disaster recovery so it needs to be comprehensive and work from scratch.

Answer Question   |  October 24, 2010  3:24 PM
Active Directory 2003, Active Directory backup, AD, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Windows Server 2003

Accessing backups on Windows XP SP3
i use apricorn to clone and backup. i switchout hard drives every 6mos (500gb) what happens if i don’t have lap top any longer(stolen) or vgcard failure, how can i access photos and applications.  i have accessed photos via backup but photos can only be opened one at a time(opencloseopennew). is there a better way [...]

Answer Question   |  October 19, 2010  5:03 AM
Backup, Backup & recovery, HARD drive, Hard Drive Cloning, Hard Drive Copying, Windows XP SP3

Backing up Active Directory with two servers
We have a Active Directory and a AD2 server that replicate. Do we need to have another backup of AD or is this sufficient?

Answer Question   |  October 27, 2010  8:37 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory backup, Active Directory Backup and Restore, Backup, Backup Server, Replication

Getting an error message after defragmenting Windows server 2003
I defragmented my hard drive and now I can not boot into Windows server 2003. I am being told my NTDLR is missing. What can I do?

Answer Question   |  February 1, 2012  8:35 PM
Boot failure, Defragmentation, Hard drive failure, Hard drives, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 error messages

Free IT Book: The Software Developer’s Career Handbook – Being Geek
This week’s free IT book giveaway is Michael Lopp’s The Software Developer’s Career Handbook: Being Geek. Lopp hasn’t written just another career book, he provides his first-hand experiences to advise on how to navigate the job life cycle. Lopp is a Silicon Valley-based engineering manager who’s got stories about his own critical moments with companies [...]

Answer Question   |  October 25, 2010  6:34 PM
Disk space, Exchange 2003, Exchange 2010, Giveaways, IPsec, IT answers, IT Books, NAT, Unix Servers, Web hosting, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP

External hard drive conversion best practices
I have a hard drive that I took out of an old computer and placed  into an external hard drive case. my question is: Can I keep the now external drive on 24/7? or is it best to shut it down?

Answer Question   |  November 1, 2011  4:07 PM
External hard drives, HARD drive, Hard Drive Damage, Hard Drive Installation

Windows server 2008 disk space problem
Hi. I have ionstalled windows 2008 server, and on this platform Forefront firewall.I have problem: Disk C volume is 30 GB. when i looked up properties of Disk C there is 22 GB used space but when i looked up total forlders volume on DISk c there, All of volume is 11 GB (Include hidden [...]

Answer Question   |  November 4, 2010  7:26 AM
Disk space, ESX 4.0, Firewalls, Forefront Client Security, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Backup

IBM hardware raid (Mirroring)
We are using IBM x3400 server with two hotswap SAS hdds.We are using hdds in hit swap mirror mode.Today I installed server newly and by mistaken used second hard disk for volume shadow from IBM raid software mamaner from setup guide.now I can’t see hard disk in window’s or in IBM SAS controller or I [...]

Answer Question   |  October 18, 2010  1:18 PM
Disk mirroring, Hard Disk Array, Hard disks, Hard drives, IBM Server X3400

Wiping the hard drives of over 100 computers automatically?
We have 100 decommissioned computers. We want to wipe all of their hard drives. Can this be automated? We have been looking at dban. Can this be automated.

Answer Question   |  October 19, 2010  4:31 PM
Automation, dban, HARD drive, Hard drive erasure

Deploying internal file server on Active Directory
What is the quickest and easiest method of deploying an internal file server on AD? We want to keep its maintenance and setup to a minimum and just be a central repository for storing files. Without any security except you need to be a domain user to see it and you can only delete material [...]

Answer Question   |  October 14, 2010  8:37 PM
Active Directory, IFS, IFS Commands, IFS Folder, IFS Shares, Storage, Storage devices, Storage management

Backing up an entire Joomla system running on a hosted server
How can you backup the entire Joomla system running on a hosted server?

Answer Question   |  November 8, 2011  8:29 PM
Backup, Backup and Recovery Hardware, Backup and restore, Backup hardware, Backup software, Hosted servers, Joomla

Re-allocating drive letter to external hard drive that PC has lost contact with
  help please [small class="upper">[/small] My dell optiplex gx260(windows xp 32bit x86) lost connection with my 250gb ext hard drive and It no longer showed the drive letter so I couldnt access it ,altho it is showing the device in device manager and says its working.I have manged to get it online in disc manager [...]

Answer Question   |  October 15, 2010  6:18 PM
Dell Optiplex, Dell OptiPlex GX260, Device Manager, External hard drive, Windows XP

Automatically wipe the backup tape before a job runs
automatically have the drive wipe the tape before beginning the backup job? We run into full tapes if someone forgets to erase the tape

Answer Question   |  January 3, 2011  5:35 PM
Backup, Backup and restore, Brightstore, Tape Backups, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Backup