I have not heard back since sending my e-mail to management. I haven't had to do a lot of RMAs on hard drives personally, but the ones I have done (Western Digital/Samsung) have all been advanced replacement. In the past I've also been able to do advanced replacements on motherboards & network equipment so for me advanced replacement was the norm, not the exception.

BTW someone had asked - I have 6 TB written and the drive has 30% free space. Also I'm pretty sure it only has a 5 year warranty, but I could be wrong.

Sorry, Yes, it's Windows 10, connected to a domain.

@frodooftheshire said in Comcast gateway LAN/router LAN conflict?:

@JaredBusch They pay for a dedicated static IP from Comcast. What would you call it if not a static IP?

A fixed IP.

It is of course possible that Comcast is using a a true static IP assignment. But it is unlikely.

If it was a true static, then your comcast modem will have another public WAN IP and the /30 you have is routed behind that.

Yeah I don't get it. All I know is that I get a "no root file system" error. Vultr would be perfect for this - super cheap..just can't seem to figure out how to get around this error.

LucidCharts?

@frodooftheshire said in One Server -2 NICs, Different IPs:

Ok guys...update from today:
After going through things more, apparently both adapters were "bridged" via a Microsoft virtual adapter in Windows giving the "switch"a 51.6 IP address. This makes zero sense to me. Considering both ports were connected to the same Cisco router - potentially there could have been some switch/loop issues.

Anyways, I ended up disabling the "virtual switch" & secondary NIC (for now). I also found out that there was another small switch that was connecting to another network (from another business) in the building that had a Comcast gateway with its DHCP server turned on - handing out addresses in 10.1.10.X range. Fun stuff.

Anyways things seem to be working well now.

One just weird thing and another - WTF?

Why is the server plugged directly into a router and not a switch? I suppose if the situation is small enough and you have enough ports on the router (thinking ER-X here), OK maybe...

And someone else's network is connected to this network? How in the world did that happen? lol

Sounds like you are in for some good billing fixing someone else's mistakes.

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10GigE is a big feature.

Hi Grey,

Again, I mentioned subscribing to calendars above. Last time I looked into this, it wasn't possible to on Android, but now that Microsoft has the Outlook App for Android, I can see this working. This is still extremely limited.

I have clients that have employees that share multiple calendars and want to create/edit/delete appts on their phones. On Google, when a user adds their primary email address they automatically get all the shared calendars they have access to and their appropriate permissions. My work around for clients that need access to edit/delete/create appts on their devices is to create seperate calendar/contact accounts and then add those accounts separately to their phone. This takes additional time and shouldn't be nessecary.

I have 3 bags at this point. One nice leather over the shoulder bag. Something like this, except it's a top loader:
https://www.amazon.com/Vintage-Leather-Messenger-Briefcase-Laptop/dp/B00FR0JMNE/
In that goes the laptop, charger, notepaper, small screw driver, external drive (HDD and DVD), roll of velro, and a couple of patch cables. It's the stuff I used on almost every job.

Then I have a little craftsman softbag like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Craftsman-9-37535-Soft-Tool-Box/dp/B004VMTG1C/
It's my "troubleshooting bag." I have a toner, crimpers, side cutters, punch down tool, box cutter, and larger screwdriver. That's the one I grab when something on the network isn't working.

The third one is my installer bag. It's something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Custom-LeatherCraft-1132-75-Pocket-Backpack/dp/B0000DYVCY/
It has my butt set, two more toners, a cable testor, more hand tools, fish tape, misc screws for racks, etc All the stuff I usually need on an install or big cabling job.

Just finishing our exchange 16 upgrade so.... not yet. But I will keep in touch.

@frodooftheshire They've been aware. Now they are ADMITTING the issue.

I agree with @JaredBusch reasoning for not pointing at DC's only in DNS, though his newly proposed solution is pretty cool - assuming the ERL will flip back to the primary as soon as it's available.

As for the secondary DNS server, assuming you have a standard Windows license, it's really kinda six of one, half dozen of another if you should setup a second VM as an additional DC. I see both sides, can't say that one way or the other is really better. I suppose it's a matter of resources.

@frodooftheshire said in XenServer7 time sync DC/PDC emulator:

@coliver I configurd XEN to pull time from us.pool.ntp.org, and I guess I'll just go into the primary DC and tell W32time to sync with the same server

I'm trying to recall but @JaredBusch has had issues with the US NTP pool. He may be able to comment further. Otherwise this should work fine.