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We considered pfsense but they want any solution to be rack mountable in a 1 or 2u form factor, with warranty support. Otherwise I think that would have been a good route. And I appreciate the advice on Barracuda. Anyone with experience with Peplink products? They come off high recommendation...

Hey everyone, I have a customer with two offices, one in Chicago and the other in New York, and each one has dual WAN connections currently. Their current firewalls in use can only do site to site VPN with dual WANs in failover mode, not load balancing. We are looking to implement a new...

The 2012 Remote Desktop server is using the new User Profile Disk functionality that is offered and it works magic. No issues with roaming profiles, and folder redirection plays nicely too. Glad to hear that GPO isolation is the way to handle this. PS: Does my "domain functional level"...

Hey everyone, I have a customer that we just installed a simple 2012 Remote Desktop Server (Session Based Desktops - NOT VDI) for application and data access. The server is a member server of a 2003 domain connected to a 2003 AD Controller. Users at the company logon to both traditional...

For anyone's that curious, my company ended up going with A Small orange for our VPS needs. Loving them. Excellent customer support and pricing. Highly recommend them!

Ive been using Agility 4 drives in my production laptop for almost a year now and love it. I can only imagine the Vertex series being better. Thanks!

For anyone interested, I just got off the phone with MS Licensing support. They confirmed that we need a Server 2012 Standard license (for the host OS), a Server 2012 user CAL for each person on the domain, and a Server 2012 RDS CAL for each remote desktop user. Plus, since we need Office 2013...

I guess I misspoke. The users accessing the server will all be using Remote Desktop and not true VDI.

The client will have about 10 people accessing their desktops over VDI, 7 of them on Surface tablets and the others will be using standard PCs. Is it true that standard user CALs plus RDS cals are needed? Or does an RDS CAL cover the user CAL aspect as well? I can't find a solid answer...

Hey everyone, I am building out a Server 2012 box for an organization and have yet to play with licensing for RDS (Remote Desktop Services - the replacement of Terminal Services) on this new version. Could someone give me a rundown of the licensing I will need for the box? I am guessing I...

All of you SSD experts, Would any of you have any issues with using a pair of OCZ 256GB Vertex 4 drives in a RAID 1 on a perc 6/i card in a Dell server? Any reasons why I shouldn't do this? OCZ placed an MTBF of 2 million hours on the drive - better than any rating I've seen even on...

Office A will actually be stuck with two servers. One handles file shares, and the other is the primary DC after the demotion of server at Office B. Office B router is not handling DNS zones right now, but not exactly sure about the specifics of what you mean by DNS zones. The server at...

Hey everyone, I am actively researching what would be the best option for a small fleet of tablet PCs for my mobile technician workforce. We are an IT consulting company that is looking for tablet PCs to allow our onsite technicians to do a variety of things. The systems are being sought to...

Hello, I am about to do something I have never done at a branch office before. I have a customer with the following setup right now: - Office A and B each have 2003 Servers (both handling DNS and DHCP and AD control for the same Windows domain) - Offices are connected via a Site to Site...

I actually have been testing Storagecraft's ShadowProtect Server 5 with a big customer of our's and have been quite impressed. MUCH faster and less issues than what I saw with Acronis Server. And I think it even edges BackupExec by a fair margin. Unless I run into some crazy things, we will...

Not to speak from experience, but the users on Spiceworks are pretty well informed as a collective and they seem to be cr@pping on AppSure quite a bit: http://community.spiceworks.com/product/24864-appassure-software Lots of people giving it 1 star and claiming they couldn't even get it...

The features/specs and price level at Digital Ocean looks amazing I must say. However, they don't seem to advertise Cpanel inclusion. Do you know if they offer it?

I am ideally looking for a host that has servers in Chicago, IL close to where we are. I saw that Server Beach doesn't offer this.

Anyone using Azure for VPS services yet? Any thoughts?

Hey everyone, I am looking to move my company off of (sub par) hosting on MyHosting.com via VPS over to another provider. I have been scouring the web for recommendations and it seems that RackSpace, HostGator, A Small Orange, and Future Hosting are pretty good picks. I'm just curious if...

Thanks for the advice. I was going to move DNS/DHCP duties to the router at that office, but didn't know about the sites and services aspect. Appreciate it.

Hey everyone, Does anyone have experience with fully demoting a Server 2003 DC from a domain? I have a company that is taking down a branch office DC in a few weeks. The server only handles some light file sharing and AD duties, which is already replicated by another DC at the main office...

Don't cached credentials replicate this for small environments, without the need to maintain a separate server? I just don't see the benefit of such an extra server for a small branch office of a few people with very reliable internet.

The entire company is on cloud hosted VOIP for telco, with Office 365 for email, so the only downside of the VPN going down is loss to shared company files. And for the relatively small % of time that would happen, they can deal with it since telephone and email are much more important for day...

Any guidance on what kind of batch script would do this? Where I could find these scripts?

Thanks for the heads up. I am going to look into how I can prevent against it.

Wouldnt setting secondary DNS to any public DNS like Google solve this problem? Users could at least use internet even if the VPN tunnel went down? We wouldn't be concerned about internal resources at that point since the file shares at the other site, and connected via the tunnel to begin with...

Hello, I have a customer who wishes to streamline their IT setup after installing a site to site VPN tunnel between two Cisco boxes running across Comcast lines. Their current setup looks like this: Main Office: Server 2003 for AD on same domain, file sharing etc; about 10 client PCs...

The only requirements we have are that SIP based cloud VOIP is well supported with no issues, and that a small biz class firewall can be employed. No need for VPN, SSL, content filtering, etc. Just a solid box that can handle massive LAN-WAN throughput at over 100Mbps and that doesn't freeze...

If Mikrotik provides good support for customers if they need to call in with questions, I'm all for it. But they seem a bit small scale, home-brew for my tastes. This customer runs a large daily operation that needs to be able to call in for support if I am not available. I've got pretty good...

Any particular model you like or that would fit this price range?

Hey everyone, I have a small business customer that is on the hunt for a new small business level router. While they are staying OK on a current consumer level gigabit WAN Netgear box, we are eager to implement something much better. After giving a Zyxel USG50 a try, we had a nightmare with...

No QOS rules set and no separate connection for the voip traffic. I am thinking. Of segregating the voip traffic to a different subnet on the router and then applying some qos rules for the vocalocity ports of 5060-5080. Sounds like I'm not alone with cloud voip firewall issues here.

Hey everyone, I have a customer who has a Zyxel USG50 security firewall on their network. They utilize a cloud hosted voip solution called Vocalocity that provides SIP voip service to their Cisco phones. They have about 8 phones in a small office. The problem they are having is that as it...

Im actually formulating my proposal to move the server to 2012 Standard x64, with 16GB of RAM and dual Xeon processors. I think this is a smart move.

I fully plan on recommending Comcast 27/7 plans for each of their offices, so I think moving from current T1 (1.54Mbps) is going to be night and day.

This is needed for a physical server, so this wouldn't be an option. I've been reading a lot about ShadowProtect recently online. Lots of people tend to like this product. Anyone with experience w/ ShadowProtect, Acronis, or BackupExec?

For the server people out there, what is your favorite backup software for handling daily/weekly backup of your servers? I am trying to find out what program has the best features and stability for backing up Windows Server machines that creates images which can be considered "bare metal...

Remote office actually will have more users, about 8-12. The main office where the server is will have about 3-5 users. Thank you for the bandwidth insight, it's definitely helpful!

Hey experts, I have a customer that is moving from a decentralized (netbook for each user, connecting over VPN) to a centralized Terminal Services approach (using Surface tablets to access a 2003 RDP server) for all of his sales staff. There will be about 13-16 users who will be ditching...