riffleman

I've done this with SCVMM 2008 and can't see why it can't be done with 2012. It's as straight forward as it seems and works very well. Don't know if it's supported, but I wasn't too concerned with that as it was purely a testing exercise.

As the block size is set when you create the datastore, I would wait until you've implemented vSphere 5. You're only going to be duplicating the workload by moving before then.

Testing has shown that for it to have any appreciable effect, you need to be applying hundreds of GPOs. In real terms, very few of us will ever notice.

I've always subscribed to the idea of creating GPOs for specific tasks. It makes the management of their settings easier if you know which GPO to alter. It also makes it easier to disable specific settings in that GPO by disabling that particular GPO rather than going in and altering the settings individually. A couple of things to remember when applying GPOs is the order in which they are applied and that it's not the number of GPOs applied, but the number of settings that control login or startup times.

My mum has had a couple of them call her. She just tells them that I work for Microsoft and could she take their details so I can get in touch. Strangely they hang up at that point.

It all depends on how often you have set the DPM server to create recovery points. SQL servers are set to create a restore point every 15 minutes, file servers tend to be every hour.

XP Mode didn't work when I tried it, and it was too confusing for the end user. Didn't try Remote App, but having had difficulties with using it for SIMS, I didnt get far enough to run Nova through it.

Nova T4 is a 16bit app. Windows 7 x64 will not support 16bit apps. Only options are to move to T6 or using Windows 7 x86.

I've seen this once before and it's usually associated with a clash between the installed drivers and a new one. Uninstall any gfx card driver from your system using device manager, reboot, and on statup it should look for the correct drivers without any corruption from the preinstalled one.

What I dont like about the way our LA did things was the continual moving of the goalposts. We were all told at the start that everyone would pay a flat rate for the service and this was to allow connections to the more rural areas of the county. FGine we said we can understand that. Even when the HTG was lost we accepted a slightly higher price, for the sake of the county. Then the pricing structure changed. We no longer all paid a flat rate, the rate was changed to a cost per student and member of staff. Now the situation is that I pay more for a 10Mbps service than another school pays for a 100Mbps service!! Why are we being penalised because we are a bigger school, at the end of the day we are using the same sized pipe irrespective of how many students we have. I'm afraid the argument that as a "bigger school, you get more money per student" doesnt wash either, because as school in a moderate income area, we get very few grants or assistance that other schools in more deprived areas get. But price wasnt the only factor in our decision to move. The poor service didnt help either. Rant over....

Probably released at at a certain time in the US, e.g. PDT which is 8 hours behind us.

See my previous post

Was talking to a guy from Trend yesterday about their Deep Scan AV products for VMware. He let it slip that they are working on their updated products for 5 at the moment and expect a release in August.

Multiple RAID types can be implemented on a DL360 G6, so I would guess they can be on a G7 too.

You need to use the GPMC on your 2003 server. Almost all of the settings applied by a 2003 server are used by Windows 7 Clients. You only use the GPMC on a Windows 7 Client if you need to specifiy specific Windows 7 settings, but as you've already found out, most of those policies also require a Windows 2008 server. Redirection should be configured on 2003 servers in a mixed domain anyway, because Windows 7 has additional options that can really confuse XP redirection.

Our VMware storage is based on Symantec branded Huwaei OceanStor SAN. iSCSI based SAN with 8Gbps throughput, good IOPS rating runs 15 VMs without breaking a sweat. Mixes SATA with SAS drives too if more throughput required. Half the price of a NetApp.

An advantage of the central store approach is that policies are available at any level of the ou structure. When applying ADM policies you need to import them at each level requiring them.

That's exactly what we have done by adding a few sentences covering mobile phones accessing our email system. However contemplating expanding that to cover mobiles accessing the Internet via the schools wireless network, so we may look at defining a mobile device specific policy also.

My instructor told me that ESX was offically being phased out in favour of ESXi last year when I did my VCP course. The footprint of ESXi makes it so much easier to spec up host servers as you can run the host diskless, and the advantages of using ESX are negated when you use VMA. Never used ESX anyway, always used ESXi...

Yes, it is a monster and not for the faint hearted. But when you get it right, running an Exchange system is very satisfying and allows a great deal of control over the flow of email in and out of the school, especially using the newer features of Exchange 2010. It's not a quick fix and requires a very good understanding of how email systems work and particularly how Exchange works. If you don't have anyone who has Exchange experience on your team, it may be a better idea to look at an alternative mail system.

Yes, you can do that too, but you will be restricted to using ADM based policies, which are being phased out in favour of ADMX based policies, which require a central store.

If you want to use Win7 or W2K8 ADMX policies, then you should use a central store. You'll only encounter issues if you apply something incorrectly. I've implemented policies via the central store for a few years and never encountered an issue.

In that context, Apple define the device as the Mac or PC that is running iTunes. You can access your iTunes account from 5 different computers runnning iTunes. As long as all the iPods or iPads are using the same account, in theory there is no limit.

1. Use the "Copy To" button in the Profiles tab after you have configured your profile as you want it. Remember to allow "Everyone" permission to access it. 2 & 3. Yes there will be folders even though it has been redirected. 4. They do have the files. You need to enable the view to display hidden and system files for the folder. 5. Not sure what youre asking here... 6. If users are using a roaming profile, redirect to individual folders. If mandatory, redirect to one location. Hope this helps...

+1 for the email option. Have never used the portal side of Spiceworks.