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There's a phrase you don't see too often.....

Try it in lumps of 50 (just this once) and see if it's a particular address?

Watched Independence Day-Saster on Channel 5 over the weekend. It was awful, but I couldn't turn it off for some reason..... It's not even that it was so bad it was good, it was just terrible. It was made in 2013 and was about an alien invasion on July 4th where the Americans defeated the alien ships which had come down to Earth by destroying the mother ship by hacking in to it. Sound like any other film with a similar name much?

Could be worth pasting it in to Notepad to strip out any formatting, and to read through it manually to check for a missing ; or ,

I did wonder about running the disks as they are currently and using DFS to replicate the data, at least I have some sort of redundancy then. What about the copying at 1.5gig/sec until a reboot when it reverts to 20mb/sec? Is that something caching something somewhere?

Since starting here I commented to one of my colleagues that one of the servers seemed a bit slow. He said it had been like that since we got it which I was a little surprised about as we've had it a year! It's a Dell PowerEdge R420 with a S110 RAID controller (software, on the motherboard) and 3x 2TB 7200rpm disks. They were setup in a RAID 5 config. Disk activity seemed slow to me, and at one point one I tried to restore a VM to it, it pretty much stopped the server working at all. I copied a large file from it's E drive to the same folder on the E drive and it copied at around 6MB/s. We have an identical server which copies at around 70MB/s. Over the summer I took the opportunity to move the couple of VMs off it and wipe it. I deleted the RAID config, recreated it and re-setup a RAID5 with one virtual disk of 3.7TB. I also upgraded the existing 32GB of RAM to 64GB. I installed Windows Server 2012 R2 with all the Windows updates. Speed issue remained. I contacted Dell. With them I have made sure that ALL firmware is on the latest versions and that made no difference, and we have run all their diagnostics tests and all pass. They have had the motherboard replaced, no difference. Since then I have tried removing the riser cards, the additional 4 port NIC, and the iDRAC card to see if that made a difference and it didn’t. I also tried removing the memory which came with the server originally and just leaving in the 2x 16GB memory modules which I recently purchased and it was still slow. I have also updated all the firmware on the replacement motherboard to the latest version. This morning I deleted the RAID 5 configuration completely and re-installed Server 2012 R2 on to just one of the disks, then set the other two disks up as standalone disks with one partition on each. I then copied a large (8GB) file (we’ll call it “xxx”) from the network to one of the local disks and it transferred at 150meg/sec, so I copied “xxx” locally from D: to F: and it copied at 1.5gig/sec - slightly better than the 6MB/s I was getting. After a reboot, copying “xxx” from D: to F: again copies at 20meg/sec. Copying a new file (“yyy”) on to D: copies at 150meg/sec and if I then copy “yyy” from D: to F: it will copy at 1.5gig/sec but the “xxx” from D: to F: goes at 20meg/sec. A reboot again will then make “yyy” copy at 20meg/sec. Copying another new file (“zzz”) on to D: copies at 150meg/sec and if I then copy “zzz” from D: to F: it will copy at 1.5gig/sec but the “xxx” or “yyy” files from D: to F: goes at 20meg/sec. A reboot again will then make “zzz” copy at 20meg/sec. And so on and so on……. I’ve done a lot of Googling and found a lot of other people reporting very poor speed with RAID5 with the S110, but presumably as I’ve deleted the RAID and not set up any virtual disks, I’m not using the S110 now anyway? And the lag you get from RAID5 and it's parity writing won't exist as it isn't RAID5 anymore. The other identical server I have unfortunately is in constant use so I can't do too many tests on it, and I certainly can't reboot it whenever I fancy. Anyone.....? What is going on? Dell have escalated the call to the software team and I am awaiting their response. Stuart

Thanks, I've done that and it's obviously easier than adding them all individually and I'm slightly annoyed with myself that didn't even occur to me, but it shouldn't be necessary though should it? The iPads won't access the internal addresses at all with the PROXY on, and I can't add exceptions on them. Something in my IP/DNS setup somewhere?

Hi all, I've relatively recently started at a new school and we have a strange problem here. Our IP range is x.x.2.x to x.x.3.x with a subnet mask of 255.255.254.0. I have a bunch of devices on the network which I can http to, Sharp copiers, Dell's iDRAC (6 & 7), Fujitsu's ServerView, HP's iLO, HP switches and a Netgear Wireless controller. In my PROXY settings I have "Bypass PROXY for local addresses" ticked however I can't log in to any of them unless I add their IP address as an exception. The login page is presented, but when I have entered the credentials it just reloads the login page. Add it to the exceptions and it all works fine. Surely if I'm bypassing for local addresses, I shouldn't need to add them to the exceptions should I? Thank you Stuart

Ah, well whether it's dying or not, unfortunately our Internet goes through our local authority's Internet and the kids are forced on to YouTube Education, so presumably a GAFE account wouldn't help either.

Has no-one really done this?

Hiya, I'm going round and round in circles with this and getting nowhere. I'd like to make our YouTube account findable for the kids who are forced to see the Education YouTube. How do I do this please? Thank you Stuart

Apple can unlock it if you can provide them with the original proof of purchase. Had several done by them in my previous job.

"A shrub that growns on mountains"?

This one isn't on there -

@DavetheITguy - Whilst I'm sure you're genuine, I don't know you from Adam so I'd rather not but thanks. @FN-GM - I'd love to get the updates done, but according to one of my technicians the previous NM tried a couple of times to apply SP3 and it failed each time so I'm wary. I'm almost tempted to setup a new Exchange 2013 server and migrate everyone across. Stuart

But I can't find it anywhere, so I can't look at its properties.

OK so I've kind of got administrator@debe..... working with a little help from ADSI Edit, but now I have an issue with admin@debe....... If I try and add admin@debe..... to my own email account it says; Error: The proxy address "smtp:admin@debe....." is already being used by "Admin". Please choose another proxy address. However if I type Get-Mailbox -Identity admin@debe....., I get the below; The operation couldn't be performed because object 'admin@debe.....' couldn't be found on 'DHS- DC01.debenham-cc3.internal'. + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: ( [Get-Mailbox], ManagementObjectNotFoundException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : E0AACA50,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.RecipientTasks.GetMailbox Searching AD for "Admin" returns only the administrator account (which doesn't have the admin@ address against it), the Built in Administrators group, and a group called "Admin" which has our admin staff in it which has no email addresses against it. Any thoughts anyone please? Stuart

It says it's already in use.

Exchange 2010 with no Service Packs I have taken over as NM a couple of months ago and am still finding little odd things like this one. I can't log in to the administrator's email account. If I go to OWA, I can type the username and password (which I know it's accepting because it tells you if you get it wrong) then it immediately presents me with a screen saying; The item you tried to access no longer exists. The item wasn't found. You or a delegate might have moved or deleted it using another computer or a mobile phone. On PowerShell on the Exchange server I typed Get-Mailbox -Identity *admin's email address* And it tells me that the ServerName for the mailbox is not the name of the current email server. I can only assume that it is the previous email server which doesn't exist and hasn't done for so long that there are no backups of it. Simple question - What do I do to get a working administrator email address again? I'm trying to sort an SSL and they will only send the emails to certain email addresses. Thank you Stuart

Perfect, thank you.

They even mention "flux". They'll be making capacitors out of it next!

Hi all, I was talking to a supplier the other day and they were telling me about some laptops which Tosh do aimed at Education where if you claim on the warranty they actually refund you the cost of the laptop as well as mending it. Unfortunately I can't remember which supplier it was. Has anyone else heard of this? Anyone used it? Anyone got an SKU for it? Thank you Stuart

I suspect they simply turned the server off and binned it without removing any roles. Can this potentially break anything? Or not as the server is off so it's already as broken as it's going to get? There are no references to any other servers, just a load of certificates with our school's name on from RM. The school was CC3 until a few years ago. I've had a look around as to how to do it properly and it's a minefield! There's so much out there making it look very complicated and scary. Glad I've got the holidays to get it sorted. Thank you for replying. Stuart

Hi all, I'm getting a lot of these in my event logs; Certificate enrollment for Local system failed to enroll for a DomainController certificate with request ID N/A from DHS-CORE.debenham-cc3.internal\debenham-cc3-DHS-CORE-CA (The RPC server is unavailable. 0x800706ba (WIN32: 1722 RPC_S_SERVER_UNAVAILABLE)). I'm new to the school (it's always fun starting at a new place and finding the hidden messes in the background) and DHS-CORE doesn't exist as a server. I've never done anything with Certificate servers before so I don't really know too much about what does and doesn't need to be done. I've installed the Certification Authority role on another server, and now when running the Enterprise PKI snap in, I can see DHS-CORE all over the place in it. Do I simply delete references to it or do I need to setup another one first? Could I already have another one on the network somewhere and how would I know? Thanks for anything. Stuart

Too complicated. Can't see it catching on.