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We are going to upgrade seven of our Win2000 servers to 2003, and I was working with CDW for an upgrade cost. They want to know the number of CAL's needed, and there is some question in my mind about this. By their definition, a CAL equals a person pulling information from a server. If this...

We are getting ready to upgrade our LAN, and I have been trying to find some reviews of 24 port gigabit layer 3 switches. It looks like the main players in the game are Cisco, Dell, 3com, and Netgear. Any body have any recommendations related to this? I am trying to balance cost with...

Hey all you techies, I posted a thread several months ago, complaining about the faulty capacitor issue we are having with our Dell Optiplex GX270's, and happily discovered that we are not alone. We are looking to purchase about 30 new workstations Q4 of this year, and I have to say my...

We purchased 17 Dell Optiplex GX270 workstations several years ago as part of a system installation, and immediately, we started to see issues with the units locking up; screen goes black, no response. Dell service had us pop the hood, and look at the capacitors. On all these that...

We are having some latency issues with a Win2000 server, and looking at Task Manager, I see winmgmt.exe coming up periodically, and grabbing CPU useage. It is set to log errors only, but seems to be come up alot. Is there any issue with disabling winmgmt that anyone knows of?

I have been trying to troubleshoot an annoying TCP socket connection issue between our Win2003 server and a UNIX box. The UNIX box keeps sending back RST_ACK requests, so our Win2003 server keeps sending SYN requests. As a result, there are typically six established connections between these...