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Re: Symantec Backup Exec Brings Backup down to 1U

TF — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:00:11 -0000

This Symantec Backup 3600 is nothing but a peice of crap. My company purchased 2. The dam appliance has to rebooted every 3 or 4 days as it seems to slow down to crawl over time. And Symantec Support has got to be the worst support in all of I.T. Its not bad if you can get elevated to support guys in the US but that overseas support setup is a joke.

Re: About the Author

Derek Schauland, MVP — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:09:52 -0000

Hi Mike -

So you are having trouble with folders contained in a PST that are empty? But the folders in your inbox have mail in them and should be archiving?

What do your archival settings look like? Or are you manually archiving them via drag n drop? If you can provide a little more information about what is happening and what you expect to happen, I will do my best to help you figure it out.

derek

Re: About the Author

Mike Lupro — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:37:30 -0000

I read your article on Outlook archiving in the October 2011 Redmond Magazine. I've used the manual archiving to PST files for years in order to structure my folders into some manner that allows me to quickly drill-down to what I'm looking for.

The problem I've had, which no one has been technically savvy enough to discuss or resolve, is when I go back to those folders and NOTHING is in them. There are a LOT of these folders in my world and it's a great loss to me. The PST files are local to my hard drive as saving them in Outlook would run over my capacity limit.

I would dearly love to find someone with the right technical accumen to assist or coach me in determining why this happens and how to stop it. The content of your Redmond Magazine article gave me hope that you (or someone you know) would have that level of knowledge and I might end up folders whose content does not vanish.

Kind regards,
Mike Lupro - MCP - MikeLupro@BTOSGroup.com 253-514-6094

Re: When I’m told something isn’t supported, I might try it anyway

Frank Owen — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 06:34:41 -0000

I find myself having to do the same thing, but mostly because the program requires users to have full local admin rights to run. It amazes me how many companies are just to lazy to program their application to run in a proper environment.

The only downside (even when the software does work) is if you ever have a problem and they find out you are running on a un-supported OS/config that is their out. I have argued with many companies about this and I never win, always end up downgrading and still experiencing the issue they blamed on the "un-supported config/OS".

Re: TechFieldDay here I come

Jodi — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:09:37 -0000

We are looking forward to hosting you guys here at SolarWinds! Get ready for some awesome breakfast tacos!

Re: Rethink Overage Charges – soon they’re possible

symnatams — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:39:45 -0000

Easy to read, and at the same time, many new, important information. Just what you need:)

Re: Storage Migration Tools: ScriptLogic Secure Copy

Turkish Translator — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 20:40:16 -0000

Good and in depth article but full of useful information

Re: Storage Migration Tools: RoboCopy

Andre Beukes — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:25:05 -0000

Derek - robocopy on Win7 and Server 2008R2 has the magical /mt switch = multithreaded copies. I went from small-file copies (2-10kb files) running on a 2008 system at around 25mb/s to using /mt on a smaller 2008R2 system maxing the NIC.

Re: Rethink Overage Charges – soon they’re possible

symnatams — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:31:53 -0000

You can argue endlessly, so I just thank the author. Thank you!

Re: Rethink Overage Charges – soon they’re possible

Sarah — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 15:32:47 -0000

At the risk of sounding unintelligent, I will say it anyway: That's crap! I would, personally, raise a little cain- and then switch.

Good luck!

Sarah

Re: Service Pack 1 is here… for some

Derek Schauland, MVP — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:18:34 -0000

Thanks Erik - I hadnt seen the KB article. I did think it was a bit strange that SE would get in the way, but the idea of updating MSFT product that is preventing the SP install during installation would still be a great idea. Or if nothing else, provide the KB in the dialog maybe via a "Check for solutions online"

Re: Service Pack 1 is here… for some

Erik — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:01:25 -0000

Hey! Have you seen http://support.microsoft.com/k... ?

Re: Tinkering in the Home Lab

Derek Schauland, MVP — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 20:26:03 -0000

Hmmm was thinking of doing the dmz thing for xbox and allowing wifi there for those who don't want to login... not sure

Re: Tinkering in the Home Lab

Jason Boche — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:07:38 -0000

I've probably had a domain in my house since 1996. My wife wasn't interested in her own separate domain account although I had provided one. To this day, the home computer stays logged on as me and she knows the password. When the kids grow up & start asking for internet access, I'll revisit then.

Re: Lending a helping hand with GeekGive

tommytrc — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 00:51:19 -0000

Serving others and giving back rocks! Why not do it with friends? Nothing is better!!!

Re: Getting acquainted with storage

(Virtual) Bill Hill — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:25:56 -0000

User home directories are strange beasts. I just went through the same data migration pains you are describing above when we moved our users to our new Celerra (NS-120). I went through and pruned out any non-essential files from the home directories (MP3s, movies, etc...)... Note: is is amazing what ends up in personal drives. Additionally, we asked our users to clean up their personal drives and we found a decrease of around 2-3GB out of 100+ for user data.

We see multiple issues in our company regarding not knowing what is important any more and what is not, CYA, and just not enough time (need to spend time working and not maintaining folder structures). Same goes for email. It is easier to let things grow and request more space than deal with it appropriately.

We ended up going for option A above, "Determine current usage and add 20%". IT cannot determine what is important and what is not. We can show file ages and determine that the Stevie Wonder MP3 library is not business data. But, when it comes to other files, the users need to feel like they have some need to clean up before they do. I love option B, "Assign a specific quota, like 10Gb, regardless", but the business does not feel like that will fly so well.

Good luck!

Re: Just for Super Bowl week

Kristie Popp — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 23:02:16 -0000

Both @geekazine @jakeludington held out thru tough questions :) I remember some sparring on the field though...

Re: Synchronization from Drobo to the cloud

Brian Landers — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 04:36:03 -0000

Synology actually includes S3 backup capability in newer versions of the DSM operating system for their NAS boxes. From what I've read, it's not incredibly robust yet, and the bigger problem is that upload speeds to S3 are frequently abysmal, but the beginnings of the functionality are there.

Re: The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders want you…

Shawn W — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:26:07 -0000

Are you hosting a Training Camp??!!! ;)

Re: The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders want you…

Kristie Popp — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:54:25 -0000

@HPStorageGuy trying out for cheerleading?

Re: Applications from Windows that I actually miss

Derek Schauland, MVP — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:59:14 -0000

I have tried it a time or two, but just seems a bit unpolished... either that or it has other features I dont see a use for (which OneNote surely has but are buried).

I may give it another look soon though

Re: Applications from Windows that I actually miss

Brandon Carroll — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 08:31:45 -0000

Derek,
Have you tried Evernote? I kinda miss one note also and have been using Evernote. Not bad...and free.

Re: TechFieldDay Pre Session:: Xangati

Nathanael Iversen — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 01:39:04 -0000

Derek,

Thanks for the favorable write-up on Xangati. It is truly appreciated as you know we are a smaller firm in a big market and it is great to have your followers know about our product.
Regarding Tech Field Day we agree it is the ideal venue for companies like ourselves and we are already talking to GestaltIT about doing the next one in the bay area in February.
Timing-wise this one just didn’t work with our limited budget given the two recent VMworlds.

Once again thanks for taking the time to meet with me.

Nathanael

Re: Windows 7 can boot from a VHD… can you?

Nigel Gregg — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:03:19 -0000

This is very good.

Please, can you walk us through the creation of a boot VHD?

Thank you

Re: Administrative rights required

Kevin Remde — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:45:59 -0000

I really should have finished with a proposed solution – but really the solution comes out of understand why we have the problem to begin with. So.. Microsoft fixes things by doing everything it can to help older or (poorly written) applications work on the newer platforms, and developers continue to build to the new standards and for the newer, more secured platforms.

Actually, I don’t think we’ll ever have a situation where standard users can just install everything they want. That’s another aspect of having a secured platform – that a standard user can’t just install anything they want because installation has to be protected. The alternative is to “deploy” applications, as you suggested in your post, in a way that installs in an elevated manner, but doesn’t require the user to be an administrator. The installation (such as using SCCM or even Group Policy in a domain environment) being launched by the administrator in this way is trusted, because of the relationship of that domain membership, right? So we can deploy apps even when the local user can’t install them themselves.