pantscat

Spot on!

If you can upgrade the VMs to 2012R2 that'll help with your storage - Deduplication is your friend - https://redmondmag.com/articles/2014/03/13/data-deduplication-in-windows-server.aspx

One option would be to get a 'cheap' third party warranty on the G5, then if it did go bang you could get it repaired (PM me if you want any advice on this) - spec wise it'd be fine as a standby host (assuming it's got enough storage and RAM).

Do you want to preserve it, or stop it from being potentially restored?

I'd advise separate VMs - ideally Exchange and IIS should be separate from your DC roles, and then perhaps another VM used for file/print. Keeping the roles separate like this is better practice, and also means that you don't lose everything should you need to perform some maintenance on any particular server. As @3s-gtech said, another host would be ideal to give you some resilience, but I completely understand the budget situation!

+1 for Visio - definitely the best tool for the job.

Hi Daz, Not exactly sure on the correct registry settings for Windows 10. When I get a spare 5 mins I'll look into it. Ant

Hi daz, You should be able to do this with GPP - configure the following DWORD key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\LogPixels Here's the values you can use: 00000060 (Small Font Size 100%) 00000090 (Medium Font Size 125%) 00000144 (Large Font Size 150%) This works fine on Windows 7. Ant

Is that the content folder? or the database?

Thanks Mark - I'll have a look at that.

Just move the dodgy host out of the HA cluster.

Yep - you need the grommets with the black screws. Is probably a lot cheaper to get a 2.5 to 3.5 adapter.

Ok - pm sent.

How many do you need?

Hi all, Does anyone know of an off-the-shelf solution that will let me dynamically link to and display an Exchange calendar for digital signage? It also needs to display some custom messages/text in another portion of the screen. Ta, Ant

I've seen it done in small environments (20 - 30 users)... didn't seem to cause any issues, but to guarantee call quality I'd put voice on a separate VLAN with the appropriate QoS.

Glad you got it sorted!

Yep, but rather than use a UNC path, use the mapped drive path. (Future proofing in case your SIMS server name changes).

Sure Matt - in the setups folder, is there a file called SIMSinst.exe? If so - double click it...

That's sound advice - GVRP is a nice concept, but in practice I find it a massive PITA. Plus, I think you'll need GVRP aware NICs to properly take advantage of it - which is probably why your NAS is not behaving.

Can you set your nas box to add a VLAN tag?

I've always had good results with Recuva.

Transport rules should help in terms of the contacts, too. You should be able to setup a distribution group with all the contacts in it and set up a transport rule that says something like: If recipient is in *dist group* then reject message... except if sender is in *allowed dist group* Something like that - don't have access to an Exchange box at present, but that would be the general gist of it!

I think we could provide a better solution if we knew what the actual problem was.

So... let me put this another way. What's the problem you're trying to solve? No, you can't stop people sending mail to their contacts - but you could use Transport rules to restrict which domains they can send to.