IT CHALLENGES

We’re a school with multiple locations, currently using Novell, but wanting to move to MS. Unfortunately, there is no way to get everything we have with Novell from MS. Novell comes with Zen, which has a number of features that do not come standard with Windows. One is an image deployment method. Microsoft has come a long way in this, but it’s not nearly as simple as it is with Zen. Remote control access to computers — Windows users need to rely on products like VNC or websites like Dimdim. Remote access to files — Novell has netstorage, and while Windows ...

I am the storage manager and virtualization specialist in a large military installation running a few data centers with SLAs. One of my SLAs requires me to guarantee standby virtual machines that can be fired up in a matter of minutes. Before a VM can be booted, it needs to be provisioned. Provisioning a VM implies a VHD file copy and that can take hours. With Windows Server 2008 R2 and its Clustered Shared Volumes, the recommended best practice is to locate multiple VHDs (and VMs) per CSV. Mirroring/cloning capable hardware operates at the volume/LUN level and not file level, so ...

I am a partner for a large New York City Law Firm. On numerous occasions our network has become bombarded with worms that infect numerous, if not all, of the computers on our network. When this happens, cleaning the computers can be a nightmare as when we clean a computer, another infected computer will just infect it again. We have anti-virus programs on all of our computers and servers, but unfortunately new infections may sneak past them and we are left with a big mess that is very tough to clean up. For example, in our latest situation we were hit ...

I have a problem with working DataReport's on PC's without Visual Studio. I created an application using Visual Basic 6.0. It also uses DataReportDesigner for creating reports. it works normally on my PC with Visual Studio 6.0,  but when I run it on other PC's without VS6 the program crashes. Is some dll is missing on those non-VS6 machines?  What to do ?

One of my clients was using Microsoft terminal server and a VPN to provide remote access into a database application.  The VPN client software was difficult to use/install, and there were reliability issues related to the VPN service they subscribed to.  Complicating the issue was that the database application wasn’t really optimized for Layer 2 access over a relatively slow WAN link, so the remote office workers experienced latency when entering data into the database, and when generating reports. I need a solution that provides remote office workers a simple, reliable, secure way of connecting to server-based applications running in the ...