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Congratulations folks, now all of you know what it felt like for me to play CS all those years ago. Now QYB and go shoot something.

Thanks for the info ZD! From what I have seen elsewhere, having more than one domain controller would be HIGHLY unusual for self-contained dental offices. Most of them I have seen run a simple one-tower Windows Server environment (a few of which aren't even being used as DC's!), and even a few that are just using a Windows 7 box as a file server. These docs (not mine, just in general) want to spend as little time and money on this stuff as they can. Most offices are running one major program, possibly two if they have dedicated digital imaging, and that's it. I understand the benefits of redundant domain controllers, but I would probably never be able to talk most dentists into plunking down the cash for the infrastructure that would require. I feel lucky enough mine are willing to splurge on an 8-core E5 series xeon and hardware Raid 1. I once did an install for an office a little smaller than mine, and was told I had a budget of $10k to basically replace EVERYTHING in the office (9 workstations, switches, etc). Yeah, that's the kind of crap most docs pull. Some are willing to spend what it takes, but most won't.

The VPN stuff was actually a relic of the PCAnywhere days, before my time in this office. Only two people besides myself have remote access to the server, and it's through RDP, with the other end setup by me on their home computers. This is very much a self-contained office, with the only remote access being done to check schedules and such. Or if I have to do some sort of maintenance that I can't do during the day. This has certainly been a huge learning experience for me! I'll do a little shopping around on the server and see what happens.

After spending the past 36 hours thinking about all of this, I decided it would not be a good idea to make this a "learning experience" and try to do it myself. Scheduled a pro to assist with the migration, and I plan to assist/takemanynotes. I need to know how to do this stuff, but not at the expense of my office possibly not being able to be up and running on time. Tony: Any particular reason for your affinity for HP Proliant? All of the workstations in the office (save three private office ones I custom built) are Dell, and have given me no problems, so I am considering them as well for the server. Thanks for the info and help!

How dare you.TM *Trademarked by Shaftiel

NECROPOST FTW! Wow, there are some old names in this thread...

Here's the scenario: Our business is getting set to replace our aging server with a new, shiny one with some seriously ballsy power. Old server is running Server 2003 Standard SP2, new one will be Server 2008 R2. Current server roles are file server, application server, RA/VPN server, domain controller, and DNS server. There are 25 computers/users in the network, single site (local) only. I only recently have gotten into studying server configuration and management (looking to get MS cert in Server 2008 admin), but this upgrade can't wait for me to finish all that (AD DS book alone is taking forever to get through). Reading up on the process of migrating the AD DS and DNS server from the old to the new is starting to make my head swim. Anyone have any tips/suggestions for accomplishing this task? I'm reading MS knowledgebase articles, but I figured feedback from someone who has done such a thing would be helpful as well. Thanks in advance, guys.

For some reason, I thought of Chrono Trigger when I saw that picture. *fires up emulator*

Besides the turtle-beetle abomination, you have all chosen excellent sweet automobiles. Except all of you are wrong. This is the correct dream car: Aston Martin DBS Sooo..... pretty..... can't..... look away...

Don't worry, hippies don't drive or pay taxes, so you should be good to go mate.

*learns how to drive a bus* *inserts mildly-offensive asian driver remark* mo, I would be worried if I were you.

I did hear it made quite a splash when released.

Hasn't it been said on several occasions in interviews that apparently it is faithful to the comics in regards to the origin? And that the original writer for the comics is in on the story/scripting? Whatever, ya'll go flip out, I'll probably enjoy a good popcorn movie when it comes out while everyone else is crying about space goo. *as you can probably tell, I was never a big TMNT fan growing up. Also, I think I read the script stuff i mentioned on Kotaku somewhere if you want to find it yourself.

I knew it, this is actually a picture of preacher. It all makes sense now.

OH GOD, MY EYES! CANNOT UNSEE!!

If you guys think trolls are tough in this game, you should try to fight them in the blighted marshes in Demon's Souls. Hardest. Trolls. Evar.

Stole a police car. Then valet parked it. Definitely stole a police car.

At first, I was all "who necro-posted this?" when I saw shaftiel's post. Then I looked at the date, and was all O_o OT: I'll give it a shot, but I'm not the picture-posting type in the interwebs. Doing this for me, not you heathens.

Stutters. Too much bad blood from the mac wars of '08.

.22's masquerading as 1911s? Or pellet guns even?? FAIL (and yes, I spent more time analyzing the firearms than the chick holding them. I've been married too long.)

The cruelest April Fool's joke I saw this year was by Valve. DAMN YOU VALVE!!!!!

Fatty reads the forums to his kids before bed every night, and just like Ron Burgundy, he will read anything on the teleprompter. Anything. So please keep it clean! It only took 6 years, but I think I finally understand the GC forums now...

CS bunnyhoppers can go DIAF as far as I'm concerned. Yet another reason amongst the many why I no longer play CS.

SimCity 2000 was the only version I ever played, but this one is very relevant to my interests.

I chose destruction (side note: I like the idea of the Indoctrination Theory, even if it's not what Bioware intended). I had just spent 2.9 games and probably 300 hours (over several characters) hating the reapers and plotting their destruction, this wasn't the time to wuss out! Also, I liked that it was the only possible ending that allowed for my Shepard to live. Too much badassery to keep him down! I do wish there was a little more "aftermath" stuff shown at the end, something to tie up the fates of all those that helped me and were counting on me. Otherwise the ending didn't bother me too much, especially since the rest of the game was brilliant. Best gaming series, start to finish, I think I have ever played. Once I finish my second (renegade) playthrough with my vanguard, I'll be putting it down for a while. I do plan on starting a brand new character in ME1 though and going through the journey all over again! *ETA: Anyone else deceive the Krogans to get Salarian support? I didn't on my first, "true to my taste" playthrough, but did with my renegade character just to see the difference. Holy crap, I felt like complete and utter dog crap the whole time, especially due to the aftermath/collateral damage.