I've been searching the Micrsoft Technet site for recovery processes' for
two days and while they offer high level documents I haven't been able to
find the information I need and was hoping I could get it here.
My configuration is this:

I'm attempting to implement a backup scheme. I have 4 Windows Server 2008
Servers with Hyper-V that each have X number of VM's and 1 Window Server
2003 server with Altiris installed.. Through an application called Alitiris
I'm scheduling wbadmin to run on each of the server and ...

I've been having issues recently attempting to do full backup on one of my
servers. While the C:\ backup as soon as the second partition starts, and
the backup fails with error
2155348010 (One of the backup files could not be created.). Please rerun

After downloading the 2008 Server disc image from the Faculty Connection
site, I installed the Standard (Full) version on a new machine.  During
installation, it never asked for the activation code that was supplied at the
time of download.  After installation, it said it would ...

can i reinstall win2003 R2 to upgrade from 32bit to 64bit? i just found out
i have a 64 bit processor so I'd like to take advantage of the additional
features/speed where possible.

I have a closed test network, and would like to occationally update/patch the
servers. Obviously I cant use Windows update over the Internet, and I want to
know if it is possible to retrieve the updates and put them on a CD, and
simulate the functionality of the Windows update ...

Have a 2003 Dell Server with 8 bays
The O/S C:\ drive and data drive E:\ are mirrored.
Everything is on 145G Seagate Cheetah (or Barracuda) SCSI disks.
Somehow occasionally, the mirror (secondary ones) do orphan - never the

I have a dhcp server sitting on server03, currently the scope is 192.168.0.x.
I want to be able to segregate my network by breaking it up into 192.168.1.x
and 192.168.2.x for different departments. how, if possible, could I set up
scopes on my dhcp to assign address to the other ...

I've setup a 4.7TB RAID5 SAN communicating via a fiber channel card on a
server running Windows Server 2003 R2. It was a slow to communicate but I
figured that was the PCI-X card running on a PCI bus. I created a single
4.7TB partition using GPK partition system but as I was ...

i currently have a 2003 forest domain and i have just configured the first
2008 AD on the forest. All procedures worked just fine untill i decided to
move the FSMO roles from the existing 2003 AD to the new one 2008 AD.
The major issue that i have is that, the network discovery ...

I'm actually doing an Active Directory health check  & optimization and
would like to know if they are any GOOD reasons to upgrade all domain
controller (25) to W2K3 R2?
Actually they are all to SP2 & full patched...

How can I add the ad module in mmc whitout having installed Ad on that
computer?
Tx for any info.
  N.

I am setting up Server 2008 in a home office, with one pc as a server and
two other vista pc's.
I have named the domain (for this example http://servername.com ) and this
name is registered with a DNS hosting service.

I'm thinking about moving my Windows Home Server to one of these:
http://tinyurl.com/l9cv5r - namely a rack-mount case with 20
hot-swappable bays.
The hitch is that the thing is *really* deep - like almost 26" -

My client has an old server with 9 users and it is dying.  Lack of disk
space, USB's, and more.
I am building a new machine and increasing memory, disk space, etc.
My first run at installing the operating system seems to limit the boot