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It's on a storsimple, unfortunately I'm not that familiar with the device and the guy who was, doesn't work here anymore. Trying to work my way through it now.
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You can put the disk in maintenance mode and run chkdsk.
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May 1, 2014 11:11
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DHCP question: Two Windows 2008 servers with the DHCP role installed. Two different address pools: 10.1.0.1-200 and 10.1.25.1-200 All machines on the LAN are using /16 subnet mask, there are only ~150 hosts so it's not the end of the world. There are a few groups of addresses, 10.1.0.x, 10.1.5.x, 10.1.10.x, 10.1.66.x, and 10.1.200.x - but no routing or anything like that setup since everyone is on a 255.255.0.0. Certain devices such as phones have been put in one group of addresses and have reservations made. There's a bunch of lease reservations, some exist on both servers, some don't. Is there any method as to which server a client is serviced from? Just whoever answers first?  I'm guessing the fix (assuming both DHCP servers are to be kept) is to choose one address pool, split it between the servers, and make sure the reservations all exist on both. There currently are about 20 leases on the first server, and 70 leases on the second server.
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May 1, 2014 15:03
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Bob Morales posted:All machines on the LAN are using /16 Whatever server answers first will hand out the address. I just recently learned this, as our old network guy had ip helpers on different switches (for the same VLAN) pointing to different DHCP servers. One Windows box, and one old Cisco switch. Out of curiosity, why the /16 subnet? Why not a few smaller ones if you want to split things up? Nutbag client?
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May 1, 2014 15:13
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Bob Morales posted:Ran into an interesting setup today. Imagine a bunch of folders on a file share: Also do a similar setup for Shitpoint. Marketing Contribute Users/Marketing Read Only Users/Marketing Designer Users
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May 1, 2014 17:36
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Moey posted:Out of curiosity, why the /16 subnet? Why not a few smaller ones if you want to split things up? Nutbag client?  I'd say they don't know any better.
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May 1, 2014 19:07
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Before I completely blow my top on this let me consult you crafty Goons  . I recently rolled out WDS. Neatly added all my driver packages and finished my unattended.xml FOR THE CLIENT. This works PERFECTLY!  My only issue now is getting the goddamn image unattended to work. For some reason it is not able to see my unattended.xml, on my image I went into properties and added my file (yes I do have separate xml's for the client and image) but I consistently get the error message saying it could not parse the file in the panther directory. Now this is a Win 7 image and as I understand it the XML on the WDS server should be all I need. I did notice every time I choose my xml WDS copies it into an unattended folder within the image folder and renames it imageunattend.xml. At this point I am at a lose I tried a hundred stupid things that aren't working.Any suggestions will help keep me from going postal!!! EDIT: I think I was just being to slick trying to code my own XML file. Used Windows SIM to craft the image unattend file and I should be good now (although I am waiting to see, an image is being deployed right now). If anyone cannot create a catalog file for a .WIM image file in SIM, right click the image in WDS MMC and export the image to the desktop. After its finished exporting, create the log file from the exported image. Windows places permissions on a captured file that does not allow it to be cataloged afterwards (odd in my opinion). Mindisgone fucked around with this message at 23:19 on May 1, 2014 |
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May 1, 2014 19:42
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Bob Morales posted:DHCP question: My recommendation if you can swing it is to get the DHCP servers to Server 2012 R2. 2012 has DHCP Failover capabilities. You create the scope on one server and add the other into the failover pair. It automagically maintains the reservations on both sides and splits the scope up for load balancing. Plus if one node goes down for a configurable period of time (15 minutes by default if I recall correctly) the other node will pick up with renewals and issuing leases from the entire scope. It's dead simple to setup and massively simplifies highly available DHCP.
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May 1, 2014 23:20
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Jeoh posted:You can put the disk in maintenance mode and run chkdsk. But that will take the disk offline for the duration won't it? The 8TB disk with the majority of our corporate data on it  I had a chat with one of the guys who used to work here and he's told me that it's needed a chkdsk for a while, so this is not root cause for why the disk is suddenly failing under heavy load. He said they had planned to migrate to a new structure, but getting 8TB of data from the storsimple (aka the cloud) is taking months.
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May 2, 2014 03:58
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Loten posted:But that will take the disk offline for the duration won't it? The 8TB disk with the majority of our corporate data on it iSCSI connection to the drive? Flaky iSCSI sessions can lead to corruption or give the impression . What OS? What exactly does the error say in event viewer when it fails. Is the drive flagged dirty? Run the below to find out changing the drive letter. code:
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May 2, 2014 04:30
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Intrepid00 posted:iSCSI connection to the drive? Flaky iSCSI sessions can lead to corruption or give the impression . Yes to iSCI. quote:What OS? quote:What exactly does the error say in event viewer when it fails. Cluster resource 'Cluster Disk 2' (resource type 'Physical Disk', DLL 'clusres.dll') did not respond to a request in a timely fashion. Cluster health detection will attempt to automatically recover by terminating the Resource Hosting Subsystem (RHS) process running this resource. This may affect other resources hosted in the same RHS process. The resources will then be restarted. The suspect resource 'Cluster Disk 2' will be marked to run in an isolated RHS process to avoid impacting multiple resources in the event that this resource failure occurs again. Please ensure services, applications, or underlying infrastructure (such as storage or networking) associated with the suspect resource is functioning properly. quote:Is the drive flagged dirty? Run the below to find out changing the drive letter. code:quote:Can you bring storesimple up in my butt as an instance like you can with AWS storage gateway? This might allow you fix it faster or take advantage of an import/export service the provider has and they send you the data on a drive you send them.
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May 2, 2014 04:47
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Mindisgone posted:Before I completely blow my top on this let me consult you crafty Goons Take a look at MDT. If you are internal IT you probably want to be be using this for imaging.
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May 2, 2014 05:17
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Mindisgone posted:If anyone cannot create a catalog file for a .WIM image file in SIM, right click the image in WDS MMC and export the image to the desktop. After its finished exporting, create the log file from the exported image. Windows places permissions on a captured file that does not allow it to be cataloged afterwards (odd in my opinion). Good move using WSIM, the file will never work unless you're totally coloring inside the lines, and WSIM ensures that you do. If there's still problems, keep in mind that there's some rare circumstances where there's different unattend.xml files in more than one area and they can override eachother.
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May 2, 2014 06:17
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Loten posted:Yes to iSCI. The bad news is unless storesimple has a tool to manage it once it is flagged dirty it won't clear up without chkdsk. The good news is it might not actually be dirty but the flaky iSCSI connection caused it to be. Do you have support with storesimple? Have you checked the device itself for errors. You might have more errors that would tell us more. When I get to the office I can tell you the event source you are looking for but the iSCSI initiator should be dumping errors too. Edit: Also your iSCSI connections are on a dedicated network and dedicated NIC just for the iSCSI data right? Intrepid00 fucked around with this message at 12:34 on May 2, 2014 |
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May 2, 2014 12:30
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iSCSI has it's own VLAN and dedicated NIC. Storsimple are owned by Microsoft and I'm currently gathering data for Microsoft, but if they can't help me then I'll see if there is such a thing as dedicated Storsimple support.
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May 2, 2014 13:29
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What the hell is the justification for making a GPO that reboots everyone's PC at 1:00am? It's bad enough the DC's are set to reboot every Sunday at 5:00am Why the hell do you guys do that? "I heard you have to restart Windows servers all the time." NT 4 maybe...derp.
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May 2, 2014 16:14
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All the time is like once a month for patches.
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May 2, 2014 16:17
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Bob Morales posted:What the hell is the justification for making a GPO that reboots everyone's PC at 1:00am? There is no justification. Just incompetence, probably.
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May 2, 2014 16:23
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orange sky posted:There is no justification. Just incompetence, probably. Somewhere around 2007 I worked for a place that had an Avaya VOIP system. The voice mail component kept locking up randomly, sometimes it would go fine for a month and other times it would die multiple times a week. We opened a ticket and their support team literally told us to just create a scheduled task to reboot the machine once a week and there was no other fix/workaround.  I will say that, however retarded the solution... it worked.
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May 2, 2014 17:17
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orange sky posted:There is no justification. Just incompetence, probably. I setup a faxpress "server" to reboot every night at 3am. If I didn't the thing would randomly hang one of the lines and no faxes could come in. Gotta love faxes.
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May 2, 2014 17:45
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Mindisgone posted:Before I completely blow my top on this let me consult you crafty Goons I'm had issues unless the file was named exactly unattend.xml I had two separate files named unattend.xml and unattend-amd64.xml. My 32 bit one worked great, but my 64 one had the same issue about not being able to parse the file. I renamed my 64 to unattend.xml and everything worked fine.
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May 2, 2014 18:00
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May 2, 2014 18:24
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Number19 posted:
My CIO has been requesting reports from SCCM about every hour on our deployment of those update.
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May 2, 2014 18:33
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Bob Morales posted:"I heard you have to restart Windows servers all the time." As someone who cut their server admin teeth on NT4 and actually kind of loved it, I take unjustifiable exception to this.
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May 2, 2014 18:53
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Sacred Cow posted:My CIO has been requesting reports from SCCM about every hour on our deployment of those update. Thankfully we're small enough that I could just say "This is serious. It's getting deployed for lunchtime, you might have to reboot, sorry for the inconvenience" and had no issues.
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May 2, 2014 19:03
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We just forced a reboot within 1 hour of installation.
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May 2, 2014 19:20
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I dropped it on to the IT desktops and the test group as soon as I got in this morning but when I brought up publishing it for everyone else on a shorter timescale I got :crickets: Oh well 
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May 2, 2014 19:58
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Today was a glorious day. There are times when I just absolutely love my job, and today was definitely one of them. Today, I disabled stationery for Outlook 2003-2013 
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May 2, 2014 20:12
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Number19 posted:Thankfully we're small enough that I could just say "This is serious. It's getting deployed for lunchtime, you might have to reboot, sorry for the inconvenience" and had no issues. Our users are so touchy about computer restarts I was required to give them an 8 hour reboot warning. Even after that we still got complaints.
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May 2, 2014 20:20
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Touchy? You mean spoiled. I'm sure management lets that happen.
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May 2, 2014 20:22
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:I'm had issues unless the file was named exactly unattend.xml fun fact, you can have different names for your unattend in SCCM, but your TS will crash if the name has a space in it.
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May 3, 2014 07:09
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Anyone using Sharepoint Mysite? I'm just curious how I can access a users mysite documents and assign permissions. Lately I've been just doing it manually from their account but it's starting to become a hassel.
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May 5, 2014 03:30
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Bob Morales posted:I'm guessing the fix (assuming both DHCP servers are to be kept) is to choose one address pool, split it between the servers, and make sure the reservations all exist on both. There currently are about 20 leases on the first server, and 70 leases on the second server. Ended up making sure all the reservations from both servers were on server #2, then I removed the scope on #1, then on #2 I right clicked on the scope and chose 'split scope', added #1 and moved the slider over. Piece of cake.
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May 5, 2014 19:09
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Loten posted:iSCSI has it's own VLAN and dedicated NIC. Awesome news. I went to my boss yesterday and said that my gut feeling for the file server issues we've been having, along with a couple of other tickets, was that the Storsimple was the root cause. Sent through some data to Microsoft and they came back agreeing with me, so Yay! Boo! in that it is not going to be quick to get 8tb out of the cloud and back onto disks. Check out the numbers in this bad boy (green is read, tan is write, blue is delete and grey is outstanding IOs).
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May 9, 2014 03:00
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Is renaming a 2008R2 domain controller going to make me want to shoot myself in the face? My predecessor has two DCs, "BDC" and "DC01" which is setting off my OCD in bad bad ways. It's not hurting anything, but I guess if it's not a huge issue I would love to rename them. In all honesty I should just promote two new 2012R2 DCs and decommission these two.
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May 9, 2014 04:10
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Don't rename them, just roll new ones.
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May 9, 2014 08:15
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If you must rename, remove all roles and features, dcpromo the DC, remove it from the domain, rename, then add everything back. Same steps as if you were retiring a DC, make sure everything removed cleanly before moving forward, and so on. But really, Moey posted:Don't rename them, just roll new ones.
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May 9, 2014 11:24
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Renaming DC's is no big deal at all. Just rename and reboot. No need for all that other poo poo unless you feel like doing it. Especially with 2008+ DC's
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May 9, 2014 13:47
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Martytoof posted:In all honesty I should just promote two new 2012R2 DCs and decommission these two. I pretty much always take any excuse to get to the latest OS.
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May 9, 2014 14:51
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Zaepho posted:I pretty much always take any excuse to get to the latest OS. This. And cleaning out all the crap people have done to the dc over the years. If I find another dc with Adobe Reader installed....
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