Questions asking for best practices in a given field. Be aware, that sometimes there might be no generally accepted best practices, in which case the question is likely to be closed for being subjective.
Questions tagged [best-practices]
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Best practices for IPv4/IPv6 hosts in DNS zones?
I've got a VPS with IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, and I'd like to use them both for my website and other services I might use. I've added a "www" register both with "A" and "AAAA", and I've done the same for the "ns" register. Is this "the Right Way", or…
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Best practice for replacing failing drive in a TWO Domain Controller domain
Hi I have a two domain controller domain and i will refer to them as DC1 and DC2, here is some info on them.
DC1 is or has all FMSO roles
DC2 serves as another Domain Controller for replication
DC1 is a basic server with a 3ware RAID 1 setup
There…
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Best practices for backup on a massively parallel grid system
I work in the research group of a large company. We do a lot of work on a grid processing system with many nodes (More than 200, I'm not sure exactly how many) and several harddrives. More than 1000TB of data.
Most of this data can be re-produced,…
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How to avoid namespace conflicts in Active Directory
We are having issues with namespace conflicts. An example:
AD security group Network Admins is used by AD-aware applications for access control
AD user Network Admins was going to be used for the Exchange shared calendar for the same group but the…
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EDB repair in SBS exchange 2003
One week before in our HP PROLIANT ML370 G5 server with RAID5 one hard disk turned amber and we removed and it is working under degraded state until now.
Yesterday morning our users in the domain complained that mails are not going from their…
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250 users with a data dir on a central server - how would you set it up?
I'd like to get best-practice advice on how to setup a scheme where 250 users or more have OS independent access to their own data-dir / user-dir on a central server in the local network. from the server's perspective:
Would you set up a big /users…
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Where to create a subversion repository on a server?
When managing my own servers, I normally keep data such as svn repositories in /srv/svnrepo.
In the organization I currently a part of the SAs have been using /home/svnrepo.
My decision to standardize to /srv/svnrepo was based on my understanding of…
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ZFS: Best-practices doc state: "On systems with 1,000s of ZFS file systems..."?
The docs state:
"On systems with 1,000s of ZFS file systems, provision 1 GB of extra memory for every 10,000 mounted file systems including snapshots."
What does that mean - how do these people use ZFS? Are they using ZFS inside per-user mounted…
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Nginx & long poll: Best practices to reduce memory and bandwidth footprint
I use nginx in this mode for BOSH and chat clients along with gzip.
location ~* /http-bind/ {
proxy_buffering off;
keepalive_timeout 55;
access_log off;
tcp_nodelay on;
proxy_pass http://x.x.x.x:1111;
}
Is this the…
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Granting access to user's file store without their knowledge or consent
As a system administrator, if you were asked to facilitate access to your users' file store so that a director could look at what types of files are being stored, what would your response be?
The director is argueing that the data stored on the…
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Xen host: vm's management best practises
I just wanna know what is the most recommended method to use for managing your vm's. Let's say you have big dedicated server something like 8 cores cpu and 24gb ram. What method you'd choose for managing server? I know some for example: xentools,…
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Methods for allowing administrators to set desktop software's per user configuration
Edit: Hello serverfault, they didn't like my question on programmers and migrated it here.
In short my questions is: How do you (administrators) prefer to control settings for third party, off the shelf, desktop software?
My application needs a…
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Firewall Security Guidelines
I'm looking for some best practices or Security guidelines for Firewall and VPN.
Trying to study a little more about network security and write a sort of decalogue (set of rules). Usefull to follow when implementing a new system.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
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gpt partition for raid 6 that was 4.5TB, will i have any issues under server 2008 64bit r2?
has anyone had any issues with using one large gpt partition of 5TB on a raid 6 setup with a 3ware raid controller. i am using the partition as a basic file sharing backup repository, nothing fancy. are there any limitations to using gpt under ntfs…
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Importance of Segregating Backups?
We are in the midst of an infrastructure overhaul, and we're now looking at backup solutions for our new servers. We will have a relatively simplistic server infrastructure consisting of 5 servers, 3 of which will need to be backed up on a regular…
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