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Changing ip address of exchange server 2007

We've been planning to move our Exchange Server 2007 organization to a new data center. We're physically moving all our servers and assigning them new IP addresses.I've done literally all procedures for AD server.My question is : Are there any…
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Setting an IP on a virtualized Windows 2003 server without activation

The first time (no joke) after virtualizing an old Windows Server 2003 machine (as part of a consolidation effort), it is trying to force me to activate. Normally, it was letting me get in with a "activate in 3 days" warning, which was fine since I…
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Exchange Site Consolidation

I'm looking for your thoughts on consolidating a 5 site Exchange deployment into a single fault tolerant site. Is this feasible? Is it just a bad idea? Here are the details: Site1: Hub site. 5mbps wan link ~200 Mailboxes <- This is where…
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Consolidating Bugzilla instances

Scenario: Two or more Bugzilla instances Want to migrate to one big central instance Bug numbers clash What's the best practice for migrating all the bug records into the new instance? Is it a sufficiently common thing to want to do, that…
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Consolidate two IIS6 webservers into one IIS7 webserver

I have two servers each running IIS6 and i need to bring all the siteson BOTH servers into ONE IIS 7.5 server... i've looked at MSDeploy but i can't find anything to combine two servers into one... thoughts? help? anything?!?!
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localizing server in one chassis?

What does localizing server in one chassis means? Does it mean that moving all those servers into just using a chassis or blade? So say I have a few dell servers PE6950, PE2650, PE2950 and to localize them just means to replace those 3 servers into…
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how to consolidate multiple log files into one ldf file in sql2000

I'm in the process of copying databases from SQL 2000 to a 2008 instance on another server using DETACH, copy windows file to 2008 server, then finally ATTACH. I've come to a database where the LOG file is in 2 windows files: name …
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NAS de-duplication best practices - how do hardlinks handle compression?

I just joined a SMB as their first full-time tech guy, and the company's backup architecture is a mess. Leaving aside all other issues (of which there are many), the office has multiple different NAS devices and disorganised backups all over the…
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ESXi 6.0 Consolidation

I had a snapshot that had eaten the free space in a datastore. I deleted the snapshot and now the snapshot manager is empty but I see delta disks and disks such as -0002.vmdk,... -0005.vmdk etc are still in the datastore. I made consolidation (as…
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Staging architecture on AWS

We are using AWS (EC2-classic) and I will migrate our servers to AWS VPC, we will use AuroraDB, too. Staging ENV has 8servers (Linux Ubuntu 14.04), and on these servers are running RoR & node.js applications. I was thinking to consolidate these…
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