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To blade or not to blade, that is the question
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Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of full height servers,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them? To rest: to sleep ....Ok so not entirely my o…

Tagged: blade

Started this discussion. Last reply by Matt Simmons Sep 4.

Microsoft System Center Offerings
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Having finally got sign off for company wide volume licensing I've started looking into how we're going to roll out Office 2010. Unfortunately for us our usual method of GPSI isn't a support route an…

Started this discussion. Last reply by Dan Taylor Aug 5.

Office 2010
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So Microsoft have released their latest and greatest version of the venerable Office suite.In a move that is completely unlike me, I have grabbed a copy (got to love TechNet subscriptions!), installe…

Started this discussion. Last reply by Graycat Jun 23.

Archiving
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As data is the lifeblood of all businesses, keeping it for the long term is a growing problem...... sorry for the pun.We're always looking at new technology and techniques for storing our data in an…

Tagged: e-mail, data, archiving

Started this discussion. Last reply by Graycat May 28.

 

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Matt Simmons replied to Graycat's discussion 'To blade or not to blade, that is the question'
I'm at 80% blades, but they run 99% of all of my critical services. In my experience, and from what I've learned from the other people I've talked to, blade chassis are solid. They're well engineered, they're inherently redundant, and they don't of…
on Saturday
Graycat added a discussion
To blade or not to blade, that is the question
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of full height servers,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them? To rest: to sleep ....Ok so not entirely my own work but Old Bill would have been awesome at wr…
on Thursday
Graycat replied to Michael Francis's discussion 'Exchange 2010 and PST files - what to do?'
For us this has already been decided - Enterprise Vault. Yep, after years of having no e-mail archiving solution and relying on PSTs combined with a manual archiving process for terabytes of e-mails we're not jumping in whole hog! Fingers crossed…
on Wednesday
Graycat replied to Phil Shannon's discussion 'Patching Production Windows Servers'
I patch monthly partly to keep up with the latest security patches and partly to limit how many patches I have to apply in one go. If you're only patching quarterly don't you find you're applying 100+ to each server at a time? WSUS is definitely th…
August 21
Graycat replied to Phil Shannon's discussion 'Patching Production Windows Servers'
We patch monthly on the last Friday of the month. That way we're a few weeks behind "Patch Tuesday" and can see if there are any updates we should be wary of. Second line servers and below get the patches first with the main production boxes usuall…
August 16
Dan Taylor replied to Graycat's discussion 'Microsoft System Center Offerings'
We use SCCM, and yes it has proven very useful deploying software to our systems. Its not something I'd enjoy working without as the last twodays is testament too - I had to deploy software to 50 people without a remote deployment solution and boy w…
August 5
Graycat replied to Shane Corellian's discussion 'Free Software Deployment application'
Hey Shane, Talk about well timed! I'm just going through all of our 50+ deployment packages and wondering how the heck I'm going to do this going forward. :) lol One question - PDQ Deploy ..... is that a remote installation app or can you use it v…
August 4
Graycat added a discussion
Microsoft System Center Offerings
Having finally got sign off for company wide volume licensing I've started looking into how we're going to roll out Office 2010. Unfortunately for us our usual method of GPSI isn't a support route any more so something had to change. From what i can…
August 2
Graycat replied to Richard Holloway's discussion 'Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day'
Now I'm really jealous! :) lol
August 1
Graycat replied to Richard Holloway's discussion 'Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day'
LMAO! Are you kidding??! Friday was probably one of the busiest, stressful and all round worst day I've had for a good while so the only thing I could do was to HTFU ...... and then go for a beer or two. :o) lol
July 31
Graycat added a photo to the album 'Misc'
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July 13
Graycat replied to Graycat's discussion 'Office 2010'
Nice! The only major issue I've run into so far (other than the whole deployment thing) is Public Folders. Seems you can't access them if they're stored vaguely near an Exchange 2000 box. Fortunately that beast is leaving us soon ..... he says, rap…
June 23
Andrew Rogers replied to Graycat's discussion 'Office 2010'
We're liking it here, aside from it's little, erm, annoyances* - SCCM and a little bit of the old SneakerNet™ to spread it round our offices * out of the box: you can't book rooms with Exchange 2003. Once a room has been booked, if you've booked i…
June 23
Graycat replied to Dan Taylor's discussion 'Today I built a Hyper-V Cluster'
Wow, good luck with that one! That sounds like a great project to find out how things work. :o) Nothing against Hyper-V but I still feel it's a little chipmunk compared to the 300lb gorilla of virtualisation that is VMware. Of course there's a hug…
June 20
Graycat commented on Michael Francis's event 'The Microsoft Messaging and Mobility User Group Meeting'
anyone else have problems registering for this? The site through out STMP connection errors and I haven't received the activation e-mail after 4 hrs :-(
June 18
Graycat is attending Michael Francis's event
July 15, 2010 from 6pm to 9pm
As promised, we have finally managed to get the physical meetings going again. To kick off our first meeting after re-launch, we are going to have an evening discussing Exchange 2010 SP1 on Thursday July 15th 2010. As some of you will be aware, we…
June 18

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IT Lead
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MS, Linux, Vmware, Exchange
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At 2:33pm on December 4, 2009, Wesley "Nonapeptide" said…
Yo, yo mah peep. Are you stalking me? =)
At 1:32pm on December 4, 2009, Elizabeth Ayer said…
Wotcher, Graycat! Good to have you on the network, and I hope to see you posting with abandon soon....

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