4/15/11

When stations play Hide and Seek with DCs

Hey guys, I hope to keep this post short, because it's not really something super complex. b.t.w I'll be on vacation this week, so don't expect anything out of the ordinary - muse usually comes to me at work :) Today I'd like to talk about how a station chooses (or rather locates) a DC to communicate with. It's been on my mind this week, because I've had an opportunity to be a part of a technical job interview and the guy we interviewed didn't seem to know how this process works. I'd like to dedicate this post to him.  To start...

4/13/11

Time (or Space) is running out.. on Exchange ?!

Hello Again, This time I'm going to talk about an issue that has happened to me a few time (to my misfortune). Hopefully, It'll help you deal with said issue in a more relaxed fashion and save you some trouble.Picture the following scene - Your favorite monitoring system alerts that space is running low on the drive that stores your exchange transaction logs (for a specific group), but nobody notices, and it keeps running out.This usually happens when your Exchange Server isn't being backed up in time.One way to prevent this from happening,...

4/11/11

NetApp, W32Time and stuff between them

Hello World, This time I'm going to talk about an issue that surfaced recently. One of our storage guys claimed that his NetApp machines aren't getting a good TimeSync service from our Domain, thus drifting away in time and getting to the point where they can no longer co-operate with our domain due to an exceeded time skew.He also claimed that he is sure that this happens due to the fact that most of our DCs don't have SP2 installed. It seemed kinda strange, getting schooled by some storage guy, and even more strange was that I haven't noticed...