Mks IT ramblings

Friday, November 30, 2012

imaging a windows 2008 R2 domain controller

on a HP ML100 G6 server

shadow protect image of 250GB

installed two new 1TB mirrored ( in the bios it shows Raid 1+0)

restore the image using shadow protect RE 4.2.7

oh, dear after starting the low end server from cd, the win-pe can't find the CDROM,

I downloaded a windows 2008 R2 driver for the raid controller, wrong wont load.

read the manual again, copy \additional drivers from the RE cd to my USB key/pen drive

then load the raid driver, ah.... finally the 1TB disk and cdrom appeared

restore the image .... 1 minutes 1GB as thumb of rule

.... a glitch is when the server fisrt start, it boot to safe mode, but I can't login to safe mode until I plug in the network cable

Thursday, November 29, 2012

disable circular logging in SBS 2011

http://www.sbsfaq.com/?p=2728

If you are using other third party backup products such as StorageCraft ShadowProtect or BackupAssist, then you will want to manually go into the Exchange System Manager console and disable circular logging yourself.

Test PowerShell with WhatIf

www.trainsignal.com/blog/test-powershell-with-whatif

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

install netgear UTM50 vs sonicwall tz180

configure netgear UTM50 is like configure tz180

it takes about 45 minutes to update definitions and new firmware for the UTM50

oh, dear I need go home to do some cooking, don't really wait for the download/updates to finish

netgear UTM50 is cheap compared to sonicwall ???

also someone can get the Netgear UTM working with a Samsung voip pabx, while having a problem with sonicwall.