Best posts made by StefUk

@ambarishrh cheap storage don't mean good .. there's no SLA's on the site for example ... sounds a bit sketchy to me ..

Oxford here ..
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I think it's still worth going to spiceworld London.

As far as content goes, for an IT tech conference, you get a lot of interesting talsk and not always from vendors. The drill is stil the same, ie vendors flussing things up, but I find it interesting depending on the projects that you are involved in you can always make some good conversation. Most of vendors are pretty nice @Lenovo - unitrends - cyberoam - webroot etc .. you ll always get some annoying one ..

In terms of value for money .. you get decent food, decent swag and a good free booze party ... I don t think is all that bad..

I can't compare it the Austin one but as a UK venue it's not all that bad ... will need to find the time to come over the pond and sample the Austin one ..I hope soon ...

Stef

I m on too ...

hey ... looks like i m late to the game but I m sure I the first Italian on here !! ;o)
Ciao

Hi everyone,
thanks for chiming in ... and thanks @scottalanmiller for posting this on my behalf.

RDS is currently out of the question at the moment due to intense graphical resources that they need. We are looking at some long term solutions - Nvidia Grid of some sort but at the moment RDS will not cut it.

stef

Company A and company B have merged and the want to become company C in few months.
Company A 80 users – virtualised esxi and with scope to accommodate a lot more infrasrtructure has a domain – exchange in house – accounts package – 4 branch offices and other key apps
Company B 60 users virtualised hiperv ( no much scope for expansion ) has the same as company A but only 3 branch offices and they are in a separate location.
Now a decision has been made that company B will move in to the same premise of company A and company B will adopt some application that company A uses for key function like accounts etc.
Now the two companies have separate AD – exchange - domains – DHCP remote desktops etc and I am thinking on the best way of getting them working causing last disruption as possible.
In normal circumstances I would have created a trust between the two domains, create a new domain and migrate the AD to the new domain, gradually move the remote desktop , connect the branch offices and get them migrated in stages.
This is not feasible, as they want to move and work as the new company in two months. I need to start get things sorted so that they are ready for when they move company B in to company A ?
Any pointers on where to start?
Ie what can I do with the AD ? will it be wise to move both company to a new domain so then when we move the workstation they can login to the new domain.
Is there a way to get the two exchange server and mailboxes ready so that we can redirects emails to a single exchange and point the mx records to that server ?
Company A points to remote desktop for some offices, Company b point to remote desktop for some other offices, i woud need to create a new remote desktop server ( but that implies that all the apps and services have been moved. )
Is there a way of running two domains from the same office ( ie keeping the company A - and company B separate ) but in the same building ?

Thanks
Stef

@hobbit666 said:

@StefUk said:

@scottalanmiller said:

We could ask in another way, given that they chose a VPN to connect the offices, why is there RDP? What is the VPN not handling well that as made them feel the need to have redundant connection technologies back to the main office?

line speed at each office is slow ( less then 10Mbps ) . Rdp ( remote desktop ) solutions is used to compress the data and make the application work at the branch offices. without the rdp the apps run too slow at think client.
is that what you are asking ? everything is hosted at the main office

Think what they are both trying to say is you don't need the VPN link to use RDP to the HO location. Open up the ports on the Firewall and allow access through the internet connection.

The VPN link is not required for what you are using i.e. RDP

ok maybe we don t need it but I don t have time to create more work for me .. it works and I don t need to change it . it doesn't cost anything and I don t have a problem with this .. ?
i would like to know what i can do with the AD - exchange - LAN etc ..maybe i should post something more specific

@scottalanmiller said:

@StefUk said:

@Dashrender said:

@StefUk said:

are not looking at saving money or justify expenditure I was just reaching out to understand how we can incorporate the apps

Are you merging the datacenters?

What are the applications, specifically? Sometimes different apps have different requirements, so a blanket response will be of little help.

both companies have a fully working infrastructure in house. In two months time company B will move in to company A. company B computers will be plugged in to company A data center ( infrastructure). at that stage, if the new merged company infrastructure ( company C ) is not ready how can i mitigate the move.

The core application are
specific legal - accounting package and document management. ( different for company a and b at the moment - the plan is to move company b to company A app)
Email - exchange ( one server for each company )
file and print server
AD
Remote desktop
SQL dictation package
a legal form package

and some other generic apps like antivirus - internet filtering etc

I guess the biggest question is... what is the end goal? One single AD, one email, one application or is the goal to keep operating as two companies? I get that you might not want to jump all of the way to a fully merged company on day one, but it sounds like almost as much effort to hold off on the merging of everything but the applications themselves than to just merge it from the beginning.

Why not just make a new AD system and a new Exchange system and move everyone equally to a single, new, pristine environment designed from the ground up for the operations of the new company?

i think that is the most sensible way forward instead of trying to figure out a way of integrating the two ..without VPN of course