Because of the lack of characters in twitter, I thought I would share my setup via my blog and ask for recommendations on configuration. Specifically the recommended RAID configuration for the best backup time. Source: VMware Essentials Plus, three ESXi 4.1 hosts Identical Hosts: Dell R710, Dual Intel Xeon E5530 2.4 GHz (dual quad core processors), 32GB [...]
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2010 has been a very busy year for IT at Savannah Christian Church, and we aren’t slowing down now! Be on the look out for detailed blog posts over the next few weeks of some of the projects we have rolled out this year, and others still in planning for a 2010/2011 roll out. Topics [...]
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Today was the final day of the Next Level Leadership Conference here at Savannah Christian Church… and what a great conference it was. Every year, church leaders across America and around the world come to SCC to network together, and seek out how to take their church to the “Next Level”. We are blessed to [...]
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In moving to Windows 7, I ran into the question of volume licensing, KMS or MAK? This video helped! http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/dd936198.aspx Basically, for KMS, you have to have a minimum of 25 machines that access the KMS service per month of Windows 7 (5 servers for Server 2008). The KMS services is a service that you [...]
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The Next Level Leadership Conference is distinctly different from most. It’s designed especially for leaders of churches who want close interaction with pastors who’ve navigated from one level of ministry to the next, time and again. Savannah Christian Church has grown from a few hundred to 6,000 worshipers in the last decade. Along the way, [...]
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Here at Savannah Christian Church, we use Spiceworks (www.spiceworks.com) for our IT Inventory and Help Desk database. We’ve been using it for about a year now, and it works great. Spiceworks has the ability to scan Windows via Windows Accounts and/or Domain Accounts; MAC/Unix/Lunix via SSH; and Network hardware via SNMP. Until recently, we just [...]
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It’s been a year since I’ve started blogging. Looking back, I really haven’t kept up with it like I had thought I would. I average a post or two every other month. But that’s cool though. My purpose for the blog is to have a place to share my experiences with other IT Professionals. What [...]
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This month marks two years that we have had the Barracuda Spam Firewall. I wanted to post the results (as I did last year): The first shot is stats since I first installed the Barracuda, and the second shot is stats from this month. It’s working great and I would highly recommend the Barracuda Spam [...]
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Wow. I took our Exchange 2007 Server from 8GB RAM to 16GB RAM on Sunday. PowerEdge 2950 III, Dual Quad Core Processors, 16GB RAM, Check this out… That’s awesome! 570MB free, 16GB of RAM AND 16GB Pagefile being used!
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Spiceworks 3.1 update is now available and it has fixed the duplicate records that I blogged about not long ago. In April, we implemented Spiceworks for Network Inventory and Monitoring. We have it scan twice per day, so we are able to see the most current data. With the release of Spiceworks 3.0, we implemented [...]
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