siadam

Great info here guys, appreciate the help. I was leaning towards 5 anyway, used it in the past and it seems this has confirmed my confidence. Thanks.

From what little I've seen, people are saying 10 > 5? Is this true?

I appreciate the responses guys. I have been told the exact opposite, that tape isn't as reliable as disk. Thoughts?

Currently (don't laugh) we are only backing up to a ext drive, nightly, then monthly doing a dvd backup. Of course this has gotten VERY tedius, b/c the dvd's are starting to stack up. This is all going to be changed. Not sure of the scheduling as of yet. Looking into purchasing an RD1000 to handle the long term archival. Schedule ? Mon-Fri: Nightly Incremental Backup Sat: Full Backup, offsite. Thoughts? Any advice is welcome.

Your just trying to make yourself feel better for dropping $ on an out-dated version. The guys here listed the reasons on what you need to do, if you don't want to listen, carry on.

I've heard rumors of that as well, but we all know how quick VB is about updating and/or creating new software. Just figured this would be something nice for the forums, and is free on the backend for you all. It's really a great software package for the end user and makes browsing the forum on your mobile device a breeze.

Thanks all!!

What type of compatibility issues are you referring to? Typically it's just a DNS/DHCP/File server. No real software really runs on it. This is not for a school.

As the title says, ordering a new server. All desktops will be Win7, and laptops are WinXp clients. Is R2, the server OS to get, as opposed to just 2008? Thanks in advance for any advice.

So does the WSUS work pretty well?

Ok, here is the workaround I found. I went into the Win7 machine, and using print management, added the print server as a server, and uploaded the driver from there. However the users were still not allowed to install the printer, b/c it would shut down the printer spooler on the machine. So I added everyuser to the admin group on the local machine, logged in with each user and manually added the printer. Worked, then removed them from the admin group, tested, still works. Long process, but it corrects the problem, unitl I'm able to purchase and rollout server 2008.

No dice. No difference.

I found it and disabled, it was set to "not configured".

I need to add additional drivers to the 2003 server, but when you click on additional drivers, it doesn't have anything for vista/win7? http://siadam.com/stuff/2003.jpg The printer see's the share, tries to install the xp driver, which is known to cause the print spool service to fail. I'm thinking if I had the correct driver installed on the server, it would pull the correct one.

Well, right clicking on the printer in the directory listing, and connecting was a quick work around, but today I started to log into each user and seeing if it would work, and no. Seems from more research it's a 2600n issue w/the driver, and stopping the printer spooler service. Argg!!!!