If you're plugged into a working UPS, I would seriously say "fuck it, I prefer Dell servers anyway," or in your case, call up HP support and my HP rep and say that this crap with servers hanging at thermal and power calibration is jeopardizing a six-figure server order, so fix it, yesterday.
I've had weird issues like this with a Dell server before, and they sent out a field engineer who was able to trace it to a firmware bug, and provided a workaround. I'd expect the same thing from HP, if I were throwing that much business their way.
@ewwhite So was mine - I think you're well past normal SA-level troubleshooting here, and it's time to get the manufacturer to fix their shit, is what I'm saying.
@MDMarra Well thank you for that... I'm more convinced than ever that I should just stick with my beloved LDAP Filters when mucking with Get-AD*. Get-Help about_Comparison_Operators indicates the following:
Outside of the -Filter block, the comparison of "som value" -ne $null returns $true.
Oh cool, @RyanRies is here.. He's a PS guy...
@RyanRies See above -- in the context of Get-ADUser -Filter { description -ne "somevalue" } it appears that -ne does not [not]equal when a description is $null....
So something like Get-ADUser -Filter { description -ne "Network Technian" } will only return users which have a description that is not$nulland is not equal to "Network Technician".
Yes. For standalone servers, I've used standard wood/aluminum ATA-rated flight cases. That's nice for situations where the end-recipient will assemble the server and you're just looking for a nice reusable case. Shipping demo equipment is a good use-case for this.
For portable installations like...
Yes, you can purchase an ATA-rated 4-post "flight case" for the 2U server. A nice example would be this 6U shock-mount case, especially if you need to ship anything along with the server (switches, power supply, etc.). Standard non-rackmount ATA cases would work well, too.
@ewwhite To be fair, I wouldn't be too happy if I was deploying that server. I've never seen it though - I've not deployed that many machines, but more than most normal people
I am working on implementing a D2D backup solution for ~150 computers based on Crashplan ProE (no cloud storage). For the storage backend, I picked up an Overland Snapserver DX2 head unit and one expansion, with 12x2TB per cabinet and I'm planning on using RAID6 on a per-cabinet level. While the ...
@MDMarra Side note from the other side of the fence; we're considering doing workstation backup (actually do on half a dozen) because people are terrible about putting things on the network. Folder redirection and roaming profiles suck on laptops (which is all we use, except admin staff who are on a TermServer anyway)
When the input is a collection of values, the containment operators and the type operators return any matching values. If there are no matches in a collection, these operators do not return anything. The containment operators and type operators always return a Boolean value.
@ChrisS We're actually thinking about similar (won't ever happen), but have a product that supports such ridiculous ambitions, and has a backup agent and the like. Rolling your own like this guy is doing, is just insanity.
@HopelessN00b We use SCDPM, works quite well (other than some error related to client self restore, but that's been ripped out of Win8 anyway, so I'm not as concerned long term)
@ChrisS Really though, even without roaming profiles limited users with folder redirection should make it so that anywhere they can possibly save to is on a file server (or will sync with one)
I've got Samba showing ZFS ACLs "correctly" though (Windows complains about the ACEs being out of order, but that doesn't seem to affect anything as best I can tell) =]
@r.tanner.f I'm not a fan. Used them in a previous job. They're supposed to work like hardware RAID - RAID1 in our case. We had one in the main IT office, and one in a far server room and they basically synced to one another. They used a horrible propriatry Linuxy-thing on them that wasn't terribly easy to manage and the School's DFS just about worked. I have a feeling the school was mis-sold them.
So, I'm in the process of setting up an IP Address Management server, using the built-in IPAM feature in Server 2012, and have run into a problem that I'm hoping someone else has successfully solved.
Following the technet guide here, I've installed and configured IPAM, and have provisioned it vi...
@jscott @MDMarra I'm not sure, I still don't have time to really look in to it, though in that example jscott gave, the "$null" with quotes makes me a little leery, as I'm not sure if an LDAP text filter is going to correctly handle a PSVariable like $null... maybe try -notlike "*" instead (not like anything)
I have a new HP ProLiant DL360 G7 system that is exhibiting a difficult-to-reproduce issue. The server randomly hangs at the "Power and Thermal Calibration in Progress..." screen during the POST process. This typically follows a warm-boot/reboot from the installed operating system.
The system...
I recently wrote this answer and stumbled on something interesting.
get-aduser -filter {-not (description -eq "auto")} | measure-object
and
get-aduser -filter {description -ne "auto"} | measure-object
return two very different things when run against the same data, with the first command ret...
@MDMarra SO users Keith Hill and Shay Levy could probably explain it quite succinctly.
I totally get the negation of the -eq, in your first example, returning the correct count... First it does the -eq collection, then gets the users which aren't in that collection.
@voretaq7 I answered meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/160929/… yesterday not long before the bounty times out and it got 4 upvotes and 1 downvote so it meets (as far as I can tell) the criteria for it to be awarded but I didn't get any
Windows XP Pro SP3, IE8 (8.0.6001.18702), within local gpedit.msc I did the below:
User Config/Admin Temp/Windows Comp/IE
enabled: disable changing temporary internet file settings
User Config/Admin Temp/Windows Comp/IE/Delete Browsing History
enabled all (11 items)
However there is a loo...
@voretaq7 yeah - I know the OP didn't like my suggestion so I'm trying to figure out if you can just not award a bounty even if something meets the criteria
If you do not award the bounty within 24 hours of the bounty period ending, half the bounty value will be automatically awarded to the top voted answer posted after the bounty start, provided it has a score of at least 2. If no new answer matches this requirement, no reputation will be awarded at all, and the reputation used on the bounty will be lost forever.
@MDMarra, didn't want this to be an answer on your question but did see this...even though it still doesn't really help
Here on technet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh847759.aspx
you can see this:
> -ne > Description: Not equal to. **Includes a different value**.
and this:
> When the input to an operator is a scalar value, comparison operators > return a Boolean value. When the input is a collection of values, the > comparison operators return any matching values. If there are no matches > in a collection, comparison operators do not return anything.
So, maybe they "sometimes" require something besides NULL/blank/empty to actually return a result/TRUE for that operator?
Here's the first one, on Ask Different.
We've been working hard on ways to help improve the experience of new users, and one of the best ways to do that is to help teach them the basics about how our sites work before they run afoul of them.
This will improve their odds of having a good first e...
@voretaq7 Yeah, seems that way to me too, given that it *won't fucking work, but that's all the more reason not to taint the practice of IP address management with the MS implementation of it.
@MDMarra - true, but my understanding was that the "logic" fails itself. Since a null value is a non-value and 2 non-values can't equal each other. That could explain the difference in the output between your two queries, depending on who the "math sentence structure" works out.
@Patrick Well, you fucked up. Shoulda put everything on AWS. You'd be able to make enough to retire in 6 months, when they decide they want it all back.
I'm trying to hold onto somethings and leave them internal, but the exchange server never really worked well and I had no clue how to fix it so that was management first part of moving to the cloud
@pauska - you prompted a long forgotten memory. I always wondered how screwed (in terms of dealing with IT) the kid would be that was born to some geeky family that decided to name him "Administrator Johnson" or similar.
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Licensing for SQL is per core on Enterprise, but you don't have to do per core on Standard. You can license server + cals instead and is usually a lot cheaper.
@Zypher - from what my license purchasing helpdesk tells me, everything changed this year with SQL 2012, and now they actually charge per core, not just per socket. But yeah, you have to do the math to decide which licensing choice to go with
See here's a jacked up PDF to "explain" the whole mess: download.microsoft.com/download/F/F/2/… including crap like "core factors" and other ways to confuse the hell out of someone just wanting to buy SQL
@voretaq7 actually on a NUMA box running a DB I'd always go for less sockets and more cores per socket (i.e. 1 x 10c) than two sockets with less cores (i.e. 2 x 4c) simply because it's one process with one memory allocation so there's less memory-path-locking required. This is in stark contrast to say a hypervisor where there are a discrete and tuned block of threads to more smaller memory blocks
@Chopper3 Yeah, that makes sense for the Windows/SQL Server world. Postgres is a process per connection (some shared memory, but lots of local-to-the-process memory, so having "local" RAM & being able to spread the load is really beneficial)
Someone should benchmark that for Postgres actually - they've demonstrated the linear scaling when nPROC < nCORE, but I don't think anyone's ever seen what the impact of memory locality / path distance is
@Chopper3 yeah Oracle is threaded on Unix too.
The Postgres model is a little strange b/c it's from back when threads kinda sucked, but it actually works out pretty well - the buffer cache is shared (and it uses the OS buffer cache heavily too), and so is the locking, but everything else is in its own process.
I recently wrote this answer and stumbled on something interesting.
get-aduser -filter {-not (description -eq "auto")} | measure-object
and
get-aduser -filter {description -ne "auto"} | measure-object
return two very different things when run against the same data, with the first command ret...
Windows XP Pro SP3, IE8 (8.0.6001.18702), within local gpedit.msc I did the below:
User Config/Admin Temp/Windows Comp/IE
enabled: disable changing temporary internet file settings
User Config/Admin Temp/Windows Comp/IE/Delete Browsing History
enabled all (11 items)
However there is a loo...
