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Does it work if you disable CRL checking but still go through the Lightspeed does it still happen? Likewise, having that enabled but not going through the Lightspeed what happens?

FSRM is the king here and easy to set up.

CentOS 5.5 is rather old, I would strongly suggest upgrading if you're already poking around anyway. I'd be looking to rule in/out the hypervisor layer, does a machine on the same ESXi host get the files any quicker on the FTP?

Yeah, if you confirm it is javaws that is running you'll find it tougher to block them without risking other stuff. Are you looking to prohibit all jar's from D from executing? If so, you could consider using FSRM to stop them being stored there in the first place (and then search through and delete them). Not as 'clean' a solution as an outright block on *.jar that you'd be looking for but if you do need javaws then yeah I think things will be a bit tougher without some third party software like Impero which could possibly do it.

I appreciate what you're saying but this is like saying double clicking a docx file doesn't actually open word. Have a look in task manager before and after you open the jar, I suspect it will be javaws.exe you see.

I suspect the jars are being launched from javaws.exe as a process which will be falling outside of your D:\ block.

I'd suggst something like Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (RDS) for this using the new MS RDP client that works on the iPad.

You should buy a new hard disk, it is very risky if you do not. Failing the vendor test tells you the disk is not happy.

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Would need to know make & model of the disk. Right click on it in my computer and pick properties should help get us the info.

I'd strongly encourage that you make sure you have good backups as a first step. I'd then recommend you use the hard disk vendor's disk check tool to give a second opinion (against HDD regenerator v2011) on whether there is a problem with the disk. A new disk may well be needed.

Are you using known good drivers for 2012? If you remove all of the printers & drivers and add them one at a time you may find that one of them is causing your problem. You may also wish to look at Driver Isolation to stop it killing the spooler completely though I suspect the issue is the driver that should be sorted out.

Sure, a valid question. I guess you set your environment up yourself so you know what action is configured for the "what do I do when the host is going down" on each of your VMs, i.e guest shutdown or suspend/save state not that I'm a fan of that level of trust. If the OP didn't set up the environment and can't be sure of the VM automatic stop configuration it would seem most logical to me to at least maintain some sort of safety in shutting down the guests. We're also of course assuming the integration services are installed and functioning on each of the guests to actually respond to the desired action on host maintenance (and not for it to just kill it harshly) Horses for courses I suppose, I just work on the side of caution just incase, especially on an environment I didn't build; though your post did make me wonder what others did - Is it better to save VM state or shutdown the Guest OS when restarting the host? - Spiceworks & Hyper-v shutdown scripts from host to guest

Very wise if you're not sure re the backup! Good luck, have a nice evening.

Definitely shut down the guest VMs first. Make sure you have a decent off host backup, 150 updates is a lot to apply in a oner.

Do you know what version of MailScanner you're using on the linux box? Looks like you're running out of resources for Postfix to do its thing because MailScanner is locking up dealing with attachments, they say this specific error "insecure dependency ..." is fixed in newer MailScanners than 2009.

Have a look at Drivers and Downloads - Lamp - ELPLP50 - EB-84/85/825/826/824 - Epson You'll need to contact Epson if you don't have the user guide.

All upgraded this morning before I had my first coffee of the day. Nothing exploded

I'd be looking for on site trips to fix those ones

Ah yes, it is probably battering your server to do these naughty things. You may find running it in batches of 10 is nicer to it, maybe like: START yadda machine1 START yadda machine2 START yadda machine3 START yadda machine4 START yadda machine5 (all of the way to 10) SLEEP 30 (so it stops doing stuff for 30 seconds to let the above run through) START yadda machine11 etc.

That's a long old time, I suspect it is because it's connecting to each one in turn and sending it a hello, please shutdown whereas I'm suggesting it goes and asks 100 of them simultaneously to do it so each conversation can take as long as it wants because there's 100 going on at once. (maybe 100 is too many but you'll find a figure that fits)

I wouldn't do it like that, I'd fork each shutdown/restart process into it's own process so they run almost in parallel instead of sequential. Try adding "start" at the front of each of your commands to see if that helps.

I don't think the second disk is going to help you here, it looks like a windows/software problem that RAID won't protect you from. Might be worth a look at System with the Mpegport.sys driver repeatedly restarts after you install Windows XP Service Pack 2 or Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 it's one of the many 0x000000FC fixes online though it looks quite good.. Good luck!

Broken Sword is normally a good one for this, attracts those who need something more entertaining than a couple of minutes.

We're seeing a gradual shift from multiple 1Gb/s links over to 10GbE on our virtual hosts to reduce port numbers and increase flexibility around 802.1q VLAN tagging without increasing physical ports. Whilst it means implementing 10GbE switching at an expense it is a reduction in overall switch port requirements and in turn leads to reduced costs elsewhere in cabling.