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When I used terms like PDC and BDC above, Im referring to NT4 boxes not 2003.

Im planning out my NT4 to 2003 upgrade and have a plan I am confident in, but have a couple of questions about DNS. So far the bare-bones plan is: 1. Take a virtual machine of a BDC, promote it to PDC, and take offline. 2. Install 2003 on the offline virtual PDC. Use same domain name and...

I was able to get the motherboard model number off this (didnt know it had the intel server manager installed). Turns out its an intel board with one 1000mt chip and another marvell chip. Weird. According to intel I should be able to team these. I guess its a cheaper solution than buying a...

I have a custom made server that has a dual headed NIC. It lists the cards as: Intel Pro 1000MT and a generic Marvell Yukon. Im not exactly sure what is going on here. From the looks of this server it should just have a dual-headed Pro 1000MT but its using a Marvell Yukon and the 1000MT. Im...

Im going to image a bunch of XP and 2000 machines but the business doesnt own a volume key, just OEM keys attached to the side of the PC. What is the best practice for imaging a single image on all these machines? Should I just take the image with a single key and then change it with some tool...

Thanks again. One final thought. Lets say Im adding 4 new switches to my network and I have two existing switches. Can I enable spanning tree via the console on the new ones and then connect them to my network? If so can I just enable spanning tree on my two existing switches, deal with the...

Thanks for the informative reply. Can you also tell me when in this process do I plug in my redundant connections? For instance, do I plug them in before enabling RSTP (and risking loops) or only after all switches have RSTP enabled? As far as "end stations" goes, do you mean the client...

Hi, Im going to try enabling RSTP on some HP 2800 series switches soon and would like to know the real world outtage time. How long at the switches usually down? If I enable it on one switch will all my switches go down or just devices connected to that one switch? Any tips or suggestions for a...

Im going to be enabling rstp soon on some HP 2800 series switches and would like to know the real world downtime when its enabled. How long does the network usually pause? Do all tcp/ip connections get dropped? If I enable it on one switch, will my entire network pause or will only devices...

I ended up with this in case anyone searches this in the future. That function at the end is from msdn. It turns out that objFile.LastAccessed produces this weird string that doesnt have the same format as Now and wont work with DateDiff. So I had reformat it. I also had to run it with cscript...

Can someone give me a few pointers on how to write a script that will return a value in an integer of minutes since a file has been last accessed? I found that objFile.LastAccessed will give me this info, but Im not sure how I can turn this value into minutes so I can compare it to the system...

Actually, Im considering using the free vmware converter tool and doing a physical to virtual conversion of that server. I still am not sure if its safe to add another BDC. I cant seem to figure out how to do this and install service pack 6a at the same time.

I can verify that my machines either use the BDC or the PDC for a logon server. It seems pretty random. You can type "set" in the commandline to see which one you are using.

NT4 is a little before my time, so please bear with my newbie questions. We currently have an NT4 domain, which in the near future will be a 2003 domain, in the meantime Id like to get a backup of the domain controllers. It looks like ntbackup on 4.0 only works with tape drives and doesnt...

Hi, Ive got a few machines the previous admin installed on a single disk (no raid, no redundancy at all). Id like to buy a second hard drive and add a budget raid card to get RAID1 working. Can I attach the drive to the RAID1 card and expect windows to boot up? Ive done the reverse before...

Thanks. It turns out that we will be upgrading to Exchange 2007 and there's no direct upgrade path from 5.5. We're just going to recreate all the mailboxes and then import the mail via PST files. That said, can I just run 5.5 without the AD connector for a while? Im hesitant to install the AD...

Thanks again for the excellent replies! FWIW, We're not adding 500+ hosts, but we may be hitting the 254 limit sooner than later and Im exploring options. Most of these machines are low-bandwidth kiosk machines. > So update the masks on the servers first. Then schedule the rest of the...

Thanks for all the excellent and informative replies. My understanding of subnetting could be better, but it looks like switching the subnet from 255.255.255.0 to 255.255.240.0 will give me a 20-bit address space which is 4000 or so hosts. How would I safely implement this in a network...

Perhaps I am looking at this problem incorrectly. Please correct my assumptions if need be. My company is expanding and I'd like to add a subnet because we are running out of IPs. Our original subnet is 10.10.8.x 255/255/255/0. Id like to add 10.10.9.x. I am thinking the only way to do this...

Im going to upgrade the 4.0 PDC to 2003, so Im not going to be using ADMT. We will be sticking with the same domain. Are you saying that I should use ADC because when I move to Exchange 2003 it will make things easier because i will already be talking to AD? Thanks