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Need to setup a server at small business. Need Advice.

I have started putting in monowall firewalls that I build out of the client's old pc's - it has built in VPN and the cost is free minus your labor. It's pretty easy to setup and the plus is that if you use the cd-image/floppy option, it doesn't even need a hard disk, and if anything hardware...
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- Post #18
- Sep 30, 2007
- Forum: Networking
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2 exchange servers, 2 locations, one email domain

Actually I have written up extensive documents for users on how to setup RPC, that's not the issue. It's explaining to 30 people in 5 states who don't work regular hours that all their email is changing at some point in the near future while doing the dns flip.
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- Post #8
- Sep 28, 2007
- Forum: Networking
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2 exchange servers, 2 locations, one email domain

wow thanks guys that actually helps me quite a bit. I think I can make the single exchange work - it's just rolling it out all at once and communicating to the remote users how to make the changes themselves without somebody doing it for them.
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- Post #6
- Sep 28, 2007
- Forum: Networking
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2 exchange servers, 2 locations, one email domain

Thanks - that helps, I will need to start planning for a single server. Unfortunately the relative power of the 2 current servers is flipped where it needs to be; the newer faster one is in the smaller location with less user load, however potentially I can just add a second server in the...
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- Post #3
- Sep 26, 2007
- Forum: Networking
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2 exchange servers, 2 locations, one email domain

I apologize that this question might be a little too much to ask on the forum, but I have to prep to do this this fall and I am a little over my head on how to proceed. Thank you to whoever might give me some direction. The situation now: Company is 30 people, spread between one location...
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- Sep 26, 2007
- Replies: 7
- Forum: Networking
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Best kind of cat crimping tool?

What is the easiest to use, best sort of cat 5 crimping tool? I am looking at the ones under $50. I know there are some that are $1000, etc, but, for example of the assortment here: monoprice tools what would be the best choice? I have occasional professional use for one - I am an IT...
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- Sep 16, 2007
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Networking
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NAS Recommendation Help

You know I bought a thecus n5200 and while it's fast, I've never gotten it to work right and I've tried every option it has. It just sort of locks up about once a week. In hindsight I wish I hadn't bought it.
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- Post #4
- Jun 5, 2007
- Forum: Networking
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logging changes to network folders in windows network

This may be sort of a dumb question; but: is there a way to track changes (deletions, creations, etc) to all network folders in a windows domain? Including other servers (not just the domain controller) in the network? My company wants to figure out who the hell keeps deleting this one folder...
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- Jun 5, 2007
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Networking
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New SBS Domain controller advice

ah yes...Well I'm going to see how the next couple of days go - what my users say. (I'm off site from the server - in another state). I did make some changes over this weekend (turned off dns on a secondary server, restarted the server) and we'll see how it goes. I think it happens to all of...
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- Post #26
- Jun 4, 2007
- Forum: Networking
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New SBS Domain controller advice

I think the cabling is ok - this went into an existing network that was fine. It's possible I missed something in the DNS but these SBS dns setups are pretty no-brainer.
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- Post #24
- Jun 4, 2007
- Forum: Networking
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New SBS Domain controller advice

It's the exchange troubleshooting assistant - http://www.microsoft.com/downl...56CAF9A&displaylang=en it analyzes traffic and your exchange installation and makes suggestions based on performace measured over about 5 minutes. Give it a try - it's small and simple to use and you will see how it...
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- Post #21
- Jun 3, 2007
- Forum: Networking
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New SBS Domain controller advice

After running ExTRA - it always says "extremely high RPC activity". Also the paged pool memory keeps slipping above the threshold - 245mb. I am planning on restarting tonight to see if that helps any. This is the only DNS server. Thanks for your replys btw.
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- Post #19
- Jun 2, 2007
- Forum: Networking
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New SBS Domain controller advice

So I am all finished - it was a tough go for some things - problems I did not expect etc. Mostly users who didn't pay attention when I gave them the new webmail address, explaned the difference in concepts between exchange and pop, etc. One problem I am struggling with is poor performance...
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- Post #17
- Jun 2, 2007
- Forum: Networking
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New SBS Domain controller advice

What's happening is that I created all the user accounts and computer accounts, some computers, when I run connectcomputer, don't have their name to choose from in the list of computers. Yet in active directory there they are. In this case doing everything manually works (unjoining the old...
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- Post #15
- May 26, 2007
- Forum: Networking
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New SBS Domain controller advice

Thanks Rebate Monger - I am in the middle of this right now and that registry change is the thing that is working the most reliably. Connect computer is a little quirky. As it turns out the boss agreed to bring in his Mac for me later in the weekend and the other Mac guy left his for...
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- Post #13
- May 26, 2007
- Forum: Networking

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