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Best thing to do is team the network cards. What make are they? Intel? RealTek?

where u moving onto?

We use HP at a lot of our sites, I hope they dont pull out of the networking market! i enjoy install\playing with the procurve stuff!

as above, just plum the command in no ip helper-address, wr mem done!

ummm thats very interesting, I got it working on Windows 7.

I dont quite understand this thread about deploying VNC......... Just download: RealVNC - VNC® Deployment Tool (VNC Deployment Tool) and you can push the free vnc version out with a config file. I did this at my last place, deployed to 300 machines within 30mins with config file.

Netgear ekkkk! - horrible switches, would touch them at all! Im in the process of ripping out 2 schools with Netgear gig switches and replacing with new HP stuff.

If your not looking for gig the ProCurve 2610-24-PWR are good switches

PROCURVE SWITCH 2520G-24 POE

I've just deployed a 5406zl and above looks okay. Take a look at this: http://cdn.procurve.com/training/Manuals/3500-5400-6200-8200-MRG-Jan08-2-IGMP.pdf Also have you enabled IGMP on the edge switches where you multicasting from? see below: vlan 20 name servers tagged 45-48 ip igmp exit you need to enable this for each vlan on the edge switches

Hi, I do a lot of stuff with HP ProCurve Kit - I'm in the process of rolling out 15 2510G-24 and 48G Switches, you can get the 2510G-24 for about just over £300ish, excellent switches. These are all lifetime warranty.

TOA is fine and simple, when ever I create a new network I always pick a nice and simple NETBIOS name, like WWN or CHC etc

did I read that correctly!

I would always advise when building a HP Server to use the HP SmartStart CD\DVD - Can make life a lot easier! I had a client a few years ago trying to install 2008 onto a DL380 G3 just using the 2008 media - had raid problems etc, told them to download latest SS CD\DVD and worked!

Hi Dragon, All my 2910 Series are running: Version: W.14.49, ROM W.14.04 I've installed many ProCurve 2910al-48G-PWR (J9148A) and updated the firmware fine on these, I do find the 2510 Series firmware can be a bit dodgy though, I updated the firmware on a 2510G last week and the firmware update process went a bit mad, switch rebooted about 8 times before I could recover and fix it! I would say I am not too keen on the procurve update process, if you doing it via the GUI it doesnt show you the progress of the update. Easier via TFTP

Interesting - What error or problem are you getting, I have BE 12.5 running on 2008 R2 and installed fine.

£50 for a cat5e patch panel! you can get a cat6 off ebay for £10! - CAT 6 NETWORK RJ45 PATCH PANEL 24 PORT 1U 19 INCH RACK | eBay UK You could also get a couple of cat5 Line Couplers and extend the cable.

Frankie Boyle makes me crack up!

Symantec forums are quite good........ Enterprise Support - Symantec Corp. - Backup fails with the error "AOFO: Initialization failure on: "\\\Shadow?Copy?Components". Advanced Open File Option used: Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS). Snapshot provider error (0x80070

Buy your self a couple of routers, firewalls and switches off ebay and learn that way! - way I did it.

We run a MS Lync server, integrates with OWA 2010. Has its own application MS Lync 2010 I beleave ours is run on a Xeon Quad Core with 8Gb RAM, HP ProLiant DL360 G6

It was yeah!

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FF4 was terrible!

Every HP switch in my place has 2x 1Gb Link\trunk to a switch, everything is running on CAT6 with OM3 Fiber.