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    Cloud Backup solution

    Greetings! Our company is working on rolling out a backup solution to our users (desktop/laptop). We are looking at a cloud backup solution so that we can avoid having to roll out hardware to our various regional offices. We have been looking at solutions from Mozy, CrashPlan and Druva. They...
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    Exchange 2010 ActiveSync - Any way to prestage devices?

    Curious if any Exchange admins out there using ActiveSync can give me a hand. We have been using ASync internally for some time and are looking to move away from our existing product (Goodlink) to purely ASync for the organization. I don't see that there is any way to "pre-stage" devices, say by...
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    vmware ESX whitebox - AMD vs. Intel

    Greetings, Looking for some CPU advice. I am planning on putting together 2 home lab systems to run vmware ESX, play around with clustering, etc. I was pricing out Intel vs AMD platforms and find that a 6 core Thuban processor and board are a heck of a lot cheaper than going with a...
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    Advise on home NAS/SAN device

    Greetings! Hoping to get some feedback/experience. I am planning to piece together a DIY NAS device. Ideally, I would like a device/appliance that does nothing but serve files. My current setup at home for file storage is a core 2 quad box that has 2 mirrored arrays via on board RAID. The...
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    Windows 2008 group policy headache

    Greetings! I am working on a project which involves setting up Terminal Services access to users in our organization. Part of this project involved locking down the desktop to restrict access, for example, only to mapped network drives. One issue we immediately ran into is the windows...
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    ECS Support... ghastly

    A bit of background.... I purchased an ECS motherboard (model AMD690GM-M2) for use in an HTPC computer. I initially had some problems with the board being very picky with RAM I knew to be good. I finally got the system built and running. Suddenly about 3 weeks ago the system became unstable...