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All, I need advice on setting up a hosted environment (Windows 2008 R2 infrastructure) - where user's would login using a web front end, and access Analysis services or be able to write SQL queries against a SQL 2008 R2 server, or access .xls/pdf on a file server all using the credentials...

Any idea/suggestions on what spn service I would need to register?

Hi all, I have an environment that consists of a parent domain and child domains. The web server and file server is in the parent domain and the user's accessing the website hosted on the web server are configured on child domains. The web server has a virtual directory path to the file...

Hello all, Thanks for the responses. As per your responses and suggestions by some other folks, I have setup the disks (RAID 5) as one large datastore on each host. I now install the DC's and web servers onto these datastores. Provogeek - I did try to sell the concept of using our SAN for...

Hello all, I have 2 physical hp dl385g7 servers with the following specifications: 2x6core Opterons 8x146GB drives 48GB RAM The purpose of the servers are: Server 1 is going to hold ~5-8 Domain Controllers Server 2 is going to hold ~5-8 Web Servers On both the servers the drives have been...

Hi all, One of our executives is having an odd issue with his email. He has had two instances where an external email did not make it into his mailbox but it showed up on his Blackberry. When I ran the Message tracking results, the two emails show up as being received by the server and...

Hello all, I have been asked to design an Exchange environment, where if one site fails, all emails are automatically routed to the secondary site and everything should occur in the background without any input from the end user. The catch is that our end user's are still using Outlook 2003...

I wanted to go the 'request' route but the client wants us to require encryption.

Then the question is: IPSec applied to all machines within the domain or select machines? Reason is that when I applied an IPSec policy that requires security and uses Kerberos authentication, the following happens: 1. name resolution works 2. ping fails 3. cannot use remote desktop to...

Hi all, Just wondering if anyone has any ideas regarding encrypting DNS. Thanks.

Hi, Internal -primarily. The way the environment is set up is: Domain controller's (no secure/dynamic updates), file server, SQL servers, DNS servers are all inside and on separate subnets. The webserver is outside on the DMZ and can access all the internal servers. Access to the outside world...

Hi, Has anyone tried or set up DNS encryption in Windows 2008? Thanks.

All, I have been asked to set up a failover solution to the existing Exchange 2007 implementation. Though I like the SCR method, my manager wants me to implement a solution that will failover instantaneously with the least amount of admin intervention. Any suggestions/advice? Environment...

Sorry I forgot to post the fix for this issue: it was Server 2008 SP2. Thank you for all your posts and suggestions. kmcferrin - special thanks to you for your explanation; used your entry here to explain cache to my manager ;-).

The problem is we are iteratively testing a problem and we have to reboot the server every time we need to load new data/application to memory. So, is there a way to flush the cache without the need to reboot the server? Thanks.

Hi, The issue we are noticing is that the cached amount is not clearing. Once we load Analysis services and close it, the cached amount does not change even though we load another instance of Analysis services or any other application. Any suggestions on clearing the cached memory? Any help is...

Hi, In Windows Server 2008, is it possible to clear the amount of cached memory without a reboot? Path is: Task Manager --> Performance --> Physical Memory --> Cache. When I run SQL 2008 Analysis services, it's loading a large amount of data into memory and even after the application is...