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I have been tasked with finding a way to restrict a pool of virtual desktops Internet access to just two domains. We want them to only be able to access these two websites and everything else would be blocked. Is there anyway to achieve this at the host level, these VMs are all running Windows 7 in a 2012 RDS VDI environment.

These machines are all sitting behind a Sonicwall TZ 215, I could just suggest purchasing the Content Filter license, but I wanted to explore any free/lower cost options available to me before I go down this path. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

We have a need to move an existing Windows Server 2003 server running MSSQL 2005 on a physical box to a VMware instance. We already have the necessary SQL 2005 user CALS for our current environment. Does moving this to a virtual instance change the licensing for MSSQL 2005 from requiring CALS to needing to have per core/cpu licensing?

An issue has come up with some of the contracts my company uses where they are created in Adobe Acrobat Professional and password protected, then locked for editing. These contracts are sent off then signed by the outside party. Apparently our legal department has ran into an issue where the other party ended up printing and scanning a PDF and OCRed the document to change the details of the contract after it had been signed. Obviously our legal department is now very concerned that this has opened the company to some risk.

Can anyone suggest a way to manage confidential contracts that would prevent the 3rd party from editing them after they have been executed?

Are there any options beyond the free tier services that AWS offers to everyone? I want to dive deeper into AWS services and learn and was wondering if there are any ways to obtain free credits to create some larger environments for testing.

I currently run a single Exchange 2010 server for our 130 employees. I have been tasked with looking at moving mail services to either Office 365 or another hosted Exchange service, but with some specific needs that need to be met.

I have been told that email had become the company's number one mission critical application, they want to move Exchange to a hosted solution but still be able to replicate the exchange databases to either a secondary hosted solution or a on-premise or cloud computing platform (AWS, Azure, etc...) and have it act as a fail over so if the primary Exchange provider goes down, we can resume email operations at the replicated site.

Is such a thing possible? It loo

I've been managing our corporate website which is hosted in AWS and a bunch of internal web apps that are not publicly facing, I've never really had to deal with an internally hosted public facing web page before.

We have setup a DMZ network in preparation for hosting a few new internally hosted web applications and making them publicly facing. These web apps will not be for public use but for internal employees to access from any device outside of the internal network.

These web apps are all running IIS7 and integrate with AD to authenticate users, they also reach back and use our internal SQL database server for hosting their databases.

What is the proper way to place these servers on

I have a PIX 515e that has a failover license. I just wanted to play around with it at home, is there any way to convert this license from a failover license to something more usable? Do I have to purchase an upgraded license from Cisco, is that even possible for these old units?

Swag.

We have a Vmware essentials plus license currently running 2 hosts and planning on adding a 3rd. Right now we're using an HP Storageworks x1600 for storage, this box also acts as our central network file storage location. This is less than optimal but it works OK for now with our existing 25 VMs.

When we are adding our 3rd host, we're also going to look into visualizing MSSQL 2012 to replace our very old standalone SQL box. I would like to address our storage before we make this move. Can you guys give me some advice on what I should be looking at for a SAN to house all my VMs? We're growing fast and will probably end up moving beyond our 3rd host by the end of the year so I would like

We're running Exchange 2010 SP1. Per our legal department's mandated email retention policy, I have to purge every mailbox at the quarters end of anything older than the end of the previous quarter. Before I do a purge, I also run a mailbox export against the same date range and save it off to a PST which the users have no/little access to, these are archived for 1 year.

In Exchange 2003 this was very easy to do by using ExMerge. Now that our Exchange 2010 migration is complete, I'm stuck using powershell to complete this task. I split it up into 2 scripts, one for the archive and one for the purge. Here are the 2 scripts:

Archive:

$mailboxes = get-mailbox -Database DB1

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We are in the process of deploying a small VMware visualization setup consisting of 2 ESXi hosts running on 2 HP DL380 Gen8 servers. We are using an HP Storageworks x1600 storage server running Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 with an added HP NC375T 4 port Gigabit NIC.

We're creating iSCSI drives on the storage server and passing them out over the 4 port nic, all the ports are teamed. In vCenter I can see all the iSCSI devices under the iSCSI software adapter details. The server sees them fine, when I go to add storage and point it to one of the iSCSI drives, it takes forever to create and format the filesystem. If the iSCSI drive is larger than 1TB it will flat out fail.

Once we finall

My users rely on PST files for their day to day work, they consistently need to reach back and retrieve email from 3-5 years ago. So this means that we have a ton of huge PST files floating around on users PCs. We're constantly running into corrupt PST files which ultimately result in the loss of some archived email. We have about 120 users and we have about 30 users PST files that are over 30gb and many more that are still fairly large.

I feel like part of the problem is that the users are finding it convenient to archive the attachments within the PST files, and no matter how much I plead with them to save off the attachments and remove them from the archive email, it never happens.

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My manager created an AD account and mailbox for a new hire, somewhere along the line she misspelled the username entry and attempted to remove both the account and the mailbox and start again.

The mailbox alias that was removed was correct, it was deleted and re-created with the same alias and mailbox name. So a disconnected mailbox exists that has identical attributes as a live mailbox. This initially caused on end users sending this person email and then having it bounce back. I resolved these issues but we're still left with a disconnected mailbox.

I just want to make sure that if I follow the instructions for using the Exchange Management Shell to remove a disconnected mailbox that

I had decided to get a nice tent and went with the REI Hobitat 6 w/Garage. I could only find it on their site listed as 2011 overstock, no big deal. Yesterday the package came, as I'm hauling in the box I'm thinking to myself that there is no way a tent could weigh this much ... open up the box and it has 2 Hobitat 6 tents and one garage. I checked the invoice and the Qty was 1 and they only charged me the $260 once.

So ... FREE TENT! Hah r/camping should I call REI and notify them of the mistake or surprise a friend/family member with a free kick as tent? I mean I have no idea why I would need 2.