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Keeping up with the jones'
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I'm facing an issue at the moment managing my IT Hardware and the various platforms we run, the problem is keeping abreast of the various firmware and driver updates available for our servers.Do…Continue

Tags: Management, Patch, Firmware

Started this discussion. Last reply by Steve Goodman Nov 29, 2010.

Working from home
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Sadly my fiancee is quite unwell at the moment which is necessitating my working from home, that in itself is not a problem. The problem is that working from home I'm finding my days just blur in to…Continue

Started this discussion. Last reply by Vic Redondo Oct 28, 2010.

Today I built a Hyper-V Cluster
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So earlier this week I read a Microsoft White Paper about their virtualised deployment, it gave me the push I needed to investigate what was actually required for a Hyper-V aware Microsoft Cluster.…Continue

Started this discussion. Last reply by Dan Taylor Jun 21, 2010.

Administrative Rights
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Hey folks,I was wondering how many of you run with your users having full administrative privileges to their desktops? We have recently made the switch to locking down our desktops and we have…Continue

Tags: Privilages, Admin

Started this discussion. Last reply by Graycat Jun 13, 2010.

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Wesley "Nonapeptide" left a comment for Dan Taylor
Just checking my blog list and noticed that nuclearweasels.com was dead. Is it permanently gone? Do you have a different blog?
Dec 11, 2010
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Dec 11, 2010
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Steve Goodman replied to Dan Taylor's discussion 'Keeping up with the jones''
Hiya, First post here, so hello everyone :-) I manage a fairly diverse set of Dell, HP, Sun & EMC kit, some of which is new, some of which is old. I don't believe it's right to patch just for the sake of it, in general I think it can…
Nov 29, 2010
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Graycat commented on Dan Taylor's photo
Nice! I'm expecting a PS6000X and two PS4000E boxes to be delivered this week to do something similar. How do you find looking after them? Are they "set and forget"?
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PS4000 Equallogic SAN

Nov 29, 2010
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Chris Muncy replied to Dan Taylor's discussion 'Keeping up with the jones''
Servers I check once a month. If I have to touch a field laptop it gets all sw and fw updates I can download from Dell. Desktop pc's usually during a working holiday.
Nov 27, 2010
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Wesley "Nonapeptide" replied to Dan Taylor's discussion 'Keeping up with the jones''
I tend to update firmware for most devices that I get as soon as I open the box. I then forget entirely that such a thing as firmware exists until something catches on fire and the support line tells me that the firmware is the culprit. Works for…
Nov 26, 2010
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Graycat replied to Dan Taylor's discussion 'Keeping up with the jones''
Our general policy is - if it ain't broke, don't fix it. That said if we're doing a rebuild for whatever reason (migrated roles is a usual one) then we'll apply the latest drivers for sure. Firmware we'll look at but unless…
Nov 24, 2010
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Wesley "Nonapeptide" commented on Dan Taylor's photo
Wow, Dell support is awesome? What support option is that? I've had hit and miss experiences with Dell support. Good to hear. I like to keep current with others' experiences so I'm not letting prejudices lock me out of a potentially…
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Fully Stocked Chassis

Nov 17, 2010
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Thanks Dan. Just trying to get my head around this site at the moment. Looks good! Was blocked on the filtering though so obviously had to unblock it :-p
Nov 17, 2010
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Welcome Glenn :)
Nov 17, 2010
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Dan Taylor commented on Dan Taylor's photo
Ask away. To be honest I'm completely stoked with the Dell Blade System - but I've not dealt with blades made by other companies. The CPU Usage is moderate, we don't currently push this lot as far as we should do.They're all…
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Nov 17, 2010
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I mentioned this bad boy a moment ago on the blade chassis picture - this is our new PS4000 Equallogic SAN, its got 16 Disks giving approximately 4.5 Terabytes of RAID10 loveliness and will be providing the shared storage for my company for the next…
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Nov 17, 2010
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Keeping up with the jones'

I'm facing an issue at the moment managing my IT Hardware and the various platforms we run, the problem is keeping abreast of the various firmware and driver updates available for our servers.Do you guys keep an eye on such things and actively update system firmwares and drivers or do you only update when an external force prompts an upgrade.Our policy is to attempt to apply these updates within 2 months of them being released.Any advice on how it might be best to achieve this?DanSee More
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Wesley "Nonapeptide" commented on Dan Taylor's photo
Wow, that looks super. Perhaps you could give a testimony of how those Dell blades is working for you. I've heard unflattering things about Dell blades (but then again, you can hear unflattering things about anything if you look hard enough).…
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Nov 16, 2010
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Dan Taylor replied to Wesley "Nonapeptide"'s discussion 'Where can I get a specialized EULA made for my website?'
Unfortunately the only advice I could give is talk to a lawyer who specialises in Internet Law first. We're lucky at work as our VP is a lawyer, it will help if you make a first draft yourself indicating exactly what it is you're aiming to…
Nov 16, 2010

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Preparing for Virtualisation

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Posted on November 11, 2010 at 8:23am

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Address Denied Issue & Solution

Whilst working on our Navision Upgrade today I came across an error indicating that we couldn't start the Web Services on our server due to a permissions error (HTTP could not register URL).


A short GoogleFu later and I discovered it was caused by the new method of elevating an account to administrator status, it doesn't happen when you run a service.


In order to get the web service running on our Server 2008 machine I followed the instructions…
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Posted on June 21, 2010 at 12:05pm

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Virtualisation - Where we are

This is the second part of my look in to virtualisation, its taken a while to get here as life got in the way.


Looking through System Center Virtual Machine Manager right now I can see we currently have 16 Hyper-V powered virtual servers in production, with a hand ful of other VM's going through testing to reach production. Looking back it has taken us some hard work to get where we are currently and in getting here we've learned serveral important lessons regarding…
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Posted on June 9, 2010 at 11:09am

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Building our virtual environment

At work I’m trying to get my head around our virtualisation, like many companies we have sort of just sprawled as the days went on building new VM’s for almost any request just so we didn’t have to buy any more ‘expensive’ hardware. I have been working with Virtualisation software for the past 4 and a half years, almost from the day I started my current job.



During this period I have worked…

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Posted on May 7, 2010 at 11:30am — 3 Comments

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At 5:55pm on February 8, 2010, Wesley "Nonapeptide"Wesley "Nonapeptide" said…
Hello Dan! That's a nice array of Microsoft tech that you have there. Hope to hear more from you about Hyper-V.
At 3:06pm on June 9, 2010, Bob MartensBob Martens said…
Thanks Dan. I'll take a look around, just prod me if I should take a look at something.
At 2:08pm on November 17, 2010, GlennymGlennym said…
Thanks Dan. Just trying to get my head around this site at the moment. Looks good! Was blocked on the filtering though so obviously had to unblock it :-p
At 11:17pm on December 11, 2010, Wesley "Nonapeptide"Wesley "Nonapeptide" said…

Just checking my blog list and noticed that nuclearweasels.com was dead. Is it permanently gone? Do you have a different blog?

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