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haha you're right man, now it gets better:

Hi All, I'm having mysterious problem here with my Red Hat EL 5.5 64 bit edition, I've install it on my primary hard drive 12 GB it works fine and then I added secondary 20 GB hard drive (sdb1) into this system and then format it as VolGroup01 see the attachment, but how come it doesn't show up ? can anyone help me how to actually utilize this new capacity ? Thanks, Albert

ah.. yes thanks for the reply, I think I need to apply that patch anyway. I'll check my event viewer then.

Hi All, One of my windows server restart by itself last night and I don't know where to start to look for error log, but when I log in this is what I got: Can anyone help me here in diagnosing this issue please ? Thanks, AWT

great, thanks for the clarification man

Hi Everyone, How do you perform your offsite tape backup strategy in your office ? My Backup strategy is by put the tape daily overwrite with 3 weeks retention policy (the data that is written is always full to the tape). I'm using Symantec Backup Exec 2010 R2 with one LTO-4 tape drive. the tape involved is total 5 weekdays tape x 4 weeks. Backup Set week1 Monday1, Tuesday1, Wednesday1, Thursday1, Friday1 . . . Backup Set week4 Monday4, Tuesday4, Wednesday4, Thursday4, Friday4 As for the offsite I sent the tape backup set to the branch office in difference city using next business day courier every end of the week and then the branch office send me the oldest backup set to my HQ. Any kind of comments will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, AWT

Hi All, I've got several hundreds of Windows Server 2003 and 2008 virtual machine + several physical machine which is updated by WSUS automatically but it needs to be restarted manually. Is there any way to know which server needs restart and which one is not ?( eg using powershell) Thanks

LOL... that was fun :-o using the GPO or manually visit after hours ?

Printing script which works for shared network folder but not WebDAV Script for testing the webdav protocol in use, it returns True

Hi All, I'd like to know if it is possible Using Powershell 2.0 to traverse directory and print files on the client side printer over WebDAV protocol ? i got the below powershell script it works great over the shared network drive but how to actually modify and use it in WebDav folders ? the scenario is like this: i have a directories in the server which has got multiple PDF files and the client would like to print it using the printer on their machine. Thanks.

ok, here are some few updates from what i got during the shower time: reviewing event logs for error documenting config and setup for CMDB ( ITIL style :-o) ) or even restarting server to see who's still using it (if some one complaints then it is still used).

wow, thanks for the quick reply :-)

Hi All, As a sysadmin in the company, what sort of things do you usually do when you got nothing to do in the office (or at least not that big deal) ? Because if you just sitting down browsing the internet wouldn't be a good report to your supervisor or boss These are some of the following task that i usually do: 1. Test Backup and Recovery strategy 2. Check antivirus status and windows update 3. Windows Server and VM maintenance 4. Hardware and Software Inventory tracking 5. researching for better software / hardware to invest and implement in the company.

Hi All, I've just reinstall my Windows 7 and i don't know why somehow my search bar is not displayed in both start menu and the explorer ? Is there anyway to bring this feature back please ? and when i press F3 there is error message displayed... see the attached picture, can anyone help me to resolve this issue please ? Thanks, AWT

thanks for the reply man, it seems that i need to ask the new ISP for my router (public facing) interface hopefully they can provide that. and i've just queried my domain from: and it works actually, the response comes from the ISP DNS.

Thanks for your willingness to help SYNACK, however this is what I'm doing in the office and it is quite different from home: the result is rather useless as well since i cannot list all of the public IP that this company have. as I'm still learning in networking, I wonder how and where can i get this information from ?

thanks for your reply man, here's what I've got from the connection at my home how come it doesn't give me anything useful ?

thanks for the reply mate, we are changing the ISP to new one but our domain name is the same and yes, the thing that is still mystery for us, is the public DNS which previously our provider provides the DNS translation (host the external DNS) but now i have to prepare linux box for that to host our external DNS which resolve the website IP and our email server IP. so in this case i need to grab all of our IP addressrange and host it into the external facing DNS ?

Hi All, I'd like to know what's the proper best practice for network cutover which involves multi site internet and VPN access ? we are moving into new ISP and it is whole new range of IP address and technology, eg. we have to host our own DNS and public facing website. if anyone can help or suggest me with the cut over checklist then that'll be great. Cheers, AWT

thanks for the suggestion to setup KMS man, so in this case we can reuse any server OS serial number as long as there is Datacenter 2008 license on the host to cover it up ?

Hi Guys, I've got a server from Dell with Windows Server 2008 Datacenter :confused:edition sticker on it and I'd like to deploy many Windows Server 2003-2008 VM on it, according to this article: https://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/licensing-faq.aspx#virt we can deploy unlimited VM of any server OS version, but the question is, which serial number to use ? in the COA there is a 2 types of key, one is physical and the other is virtual, and i don't think that the virtual key is compatible with the Windows Server 2003. Any kind of help would be appreciated. Thanks. AWT

Hi All, I've got several DMZ Windows server that I'd like to know how to update them, it is serving as terminal server and the webserver with only port 443 and 80 & 8080 opened to the internet with port 1521 for database connection. I do have WSUS in place and already working fine in the internal domain, how do people usually do their patching for the DMZ servers ? Any idea would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,

great, thanks to all for the input, I really appreciate your reply and input :-)

ah... yes, that what I include at the moment. Wish list, lol sounds great too.

I'm planning to create a monthly report to share with the IT Director but now I'm struggling with providing them with information that they care about. I also have many sources of information that I want to include. So I wonder what fellow Experts are doing in this regard ? Capacity Management ? What does your management/executive team care about? Backup reports? Antivirus statistics? I want to give them information that's simple enough for them to see what we need to give attention to IT-wise. Please share what has worked for you here. Thanks