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Great opportunity to join our friendly and highly skilled IT Department in the glorious Shropshire countryside. Lovely staff, great students and well funded. More details here: https://concordcollegeuk.com/about-us/working-at-concord/ JD: https://concordcollegeuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Job-description-Helpdesk-Support-March-2024.pdf

Hello, We have a job opening in our small, friendly and talented ICT department at Concord College. Please see link for job vancancy details: https://concordcollegeuk.com/about-concord/general/job-vacancies/ Any questions please feel free to ask. James Sumnall Network Manager

Hello everyone. Our SIMS server did its weekly reboot last night at 3:00 am. It came back up with it's NIC Team broken. I traced this to incorrect VLAN assignments on the switch its NICs were connected to. Anyway, the teaming wasn't working so after pressure of getting the SIMS server backup I dissolved the team, pulled the cable from one of the NICs and disabled said NIC in device manager. I then reassigned the correct, original IP address to the remaining NIC and all was well, network connectivity restored. Only now in DNS, every hour, the DNS for the SIMS server reverts from it's correct address to it's DHCP assigned IP from the second card which is disabled. This is causing big headaches as I have to keep amending the DNS records on our 2 DNS servers to the correct, statically assigned address. I don't even know where to start troubleshooting this one... I've checked the hosts file on the DNS servers nothing there. I can't see what is publishing these updates to the servers. Any help would be a life saver. Thanks as always.

You are a star sir, I've been after this information for years!! Thank you, no more ghost boot CDs!!

Found some information on MS Technet. You can't set a trust between 2 domains which at any point have had the same name. Even though the domain has been renamed it still has the same SID prefix as before which will be identical to the un-renamed domain. Looks like I'll have to investigate ADMT pants...

Hi everyone, Now I know that the thread title might have people rolling their eyes; as it did me when I found I had 2 domains both called domain.local. Now I've performed a domain rename on one of the domains, that all went really well, hurrah! I've practiced creating domain trusts in some vbox vms so I pretty confident I get the domain trust set up ok. This is where I get stuck. On the newly renamed domain (now newdomain.local) I go through the New Trust wizard and type in the domain I want to set the trust up with: domain.local. The wizard then tells me that it can't continue as I'm trying to setup a trust with the same domain that I'm currently in (or managing). I'm guessing that this some form of residue from it's old domain name? DNS replication is setup between the 2 domains, no problems there. Any bright ideas? Any DNS cleanup tools I can use on the renamed domain? Thanks as always

Thanks for the replies chaps, tried all of the above still to no avail. So I took the side off the PC and started fiddled with the supplied RAM. Turns out that the extra RAM was SIMM and the supplied RAM was DIMM and they were mixed up in the same channels. So separating them into their own channels sorted it out.

Hi all, Any ideas on this one. Just got me a new PC (woo!) and stuck in the recommended HP RAM to get the system up to 8GB RAM from 4GB. BIOS (even after flashing to lastest version 1.09) doesn't recognise the extra RAM, only shows 4GB. Weirdly Win7 knows the system has 8GB but is only using 4GB as shown in cap. Er, help?! Thanks in advance

Thanks kmount, indeed I'm in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Any takers?

Howdy all! After redesigning our comms room we have 3 Cooper B Line cabinets looking for a good home. We have 2 x 42u active cabinets which are 1000x1200mm which will take standard rack mount servers and have cable management bars on either side of the internal frame. In addition to this we have 1 x 42u network cabinet which is 800x800mm. We've used them for about 4.5 years so they're a little dusty, but we've cleaned them up as best we can. They're currently dismantled but have all the feet, plinths, tops, sides, door, screws, nuts and bolts for them. They're free to a good home. The only stipulation is that the cabinets are collection only. They look something like the image below: If you're interested please send me a pm.

True, but I was only using it for copying data from a few fields which had been mistakenly deleted. We also use AD Trusted Auto so we don't have to dish out all the extra usernames and passwords.

I had to run the following query in SQL Studio to allow me to login and the sysman account: exec sims.db_p_reset_sysman_password

Ok, got this sorted out now, working on this on a Saturday night! sad huh? Here's the working httpd-vhosts.conf file: NameVirtualHost *:80 DocumentRoot "C:\xampp\htdocs" ServerName localhost DocumentRoot C:\Xampp\htdocs\xibo ServerName [color="red"]http://[/color]xibo.concordcollege.org.uk That pesky little http:// fixed it! Bizarre huh? Hope this helps someone else in the future. Thanks to Arthur for the tips on sorting this out

This is all I have in my httpd-vhosts.conf file: NameVirtualHost *:80 DocumentRoot C:\Xampp\htdocs\xibo ServerName xibo.concordcollege.org.uk And if I browse to xibo.concordcollege.org.uk I still get the root of the web server... grrr I've tested XAMPP on another system and have exactly the same in the httpd-vhosts.conf file and that works... my head hurts

Thanks for the replies. I've already uncommented the NameVirtualHost *:80 line and using the example Arthur has given sadly doesn't resolve my problem; in fact it makes it worse as none of the sites are accessible. I can't see what's wrong... Any other ideas?

I've seen this topic covered before so please forgive me but I'm having some real problems getting my head round virtual hosts. I understand the theory but can't get it working in practice. Scenerio: 1 W2k3 server with XAMPP installed. 4 websites running from separate folders in htdocs. These all work well and can be browsed from http://servername/website. For a couple of the sites I would like them to use a virtual host. i.e. just hosted xibo so instead of browsing to http://servername/xibo I'd like to use http://xibo.mydomain.com. Setup an A name record in DNS to point http://xibo.mydomain.com to the servers IP. That's all cool. Read up from Apache how to modify the httpd-vhosts.conf file. Added the following and removed the ## from NameVirtualHost *:80 : DocumentRoot C:\Xampp\htdocs DocumentRoot C:\Xampp\htdocs\xibo ServerName xibo.mydomain.com The first host is to ensure anyother traffic gets directed at the root of the htocs folder. This works fine. If I browse to http://xibo.mydomain.com I get the root of the web server... What am I doing wrong guys? Fanks!

We're also planning to move from Exchange 2003 to 2007 over the summer. The best advise I can give is setup a visualised copy of your current environment and test what you're planning. You'll be surprised how many little niggles you'll encounter along the way. Best to have a play in a safe environment and get familiar with running tasks like dcpromo and transitioning Exchange. Things I've found out this week in my virtual environment. Server 2008 DCs don't support Exchange 2003 management tools, so do your Exchange server first otherwise your 2008 dc will whinge. Exchange 2007 doesn't work with 2008 R2 unless you're using 2007 SP3. Do you have to use existing hardware? You could be running into problems if you need to roll back. Always have a back up disaster plan. I don't think an Exchange 2007 box can be or is not supported as a DC. Could be wrong. Have you got any spare PCs/old servers that could be pressed into temporary action. This would take the need away from you're current servers needing to upgraded leaving you to rebuild them once your current setup was transferred to temporary hardware. Just some thoughts...

yup, sadly it is seconds

It's taken a while, and with no bloomin email filtering, I've come to a dead end. I've tried having the barracuda on an isolated network and the performance does seem a little better but still nowhere near usable. I tried different devices in the port the barracuda was attached to, no problem, tried the barracuda in a different port; still poor performance. Switch performance is fine. Barracuda got me to do a firmware reset as there are issue with v4 software on the 200 series box. So we're on v3, but still performance is woeful. @pete: what would you recommend instead of the Barracuda?

From my experience I would have tagged VLAN 2 on both/all your uplinks between the switches. Untagging should be solely for an end of line device. I would never untag VLANs between switches... 5406_1 (Port A1 (if that's your uplink) tag VLAN 2)->5412 (Port A1-A2 (both your uplink ports) tag VLAN 2)->5406_2 (Port A1 (again if this is your uplink) tag VLAN 2) then untag VLAN 2 on as many ports as you need devices on 5406_2

@Fuzzz - Thanks for the advice, tried power cycling to no effect. @pete - Thanks for all the great advice, I'll work my way through all your suggestions and put a post up and let you know what worked, thanks again!

I'm after some advice if possible please: I've got a Barracuda Spam Firewall email filter for all our incoming email. The web interface side of this has become slower and slower over the past few months until it's hardly usuable now. I've contacted Barracuda support and they've done a few tests, one of them proved to show a potential issue: the average latency is currently 137 seconds. This seems really high seeing as it's sits on the main core switch on the same vlan as my pc. I've replaced the cat5e patch suspecting it maybe faulty, and the average latency has lowered slighty to 109 seconds, but I thought LAN latency should in the milli-seconds not seconds. I've done some google-ing and can't really see where to start troubleshooting from, anyone got any ideas? Thanks in advance

Brilliant! Thanks for all the help. I'll put on my brave face and try Virgin.

We've been with UK2 for years and years, even before I started work here! The helo is set it Exchange's Default Virtual SMTP server right?, I remember setting this to mail.concordcollege.org.uk. Is this what virginmedia.com are receiving?

Just checked blacklists and we don't appear on any of them... The last change I made to the spf record was yesterday, so it could be taking the full 48 hours to update?