When I was trying to get Dell to declare the first Optiplex 5050 bad enough to return, I ordered a Lenovo small desktop as a potential replacement. It arrived at about the same time as the replacement Optiplex, and I set it up while I was attempting to migrate the settings, docs, … [Read more...]

In the previous post, I reported on setting up a Dell Optiplex 5050, discovering that it had an intermittant problem, and receiving a replacement. In this post I'll discuss transferring the first machine's configuratio to the second. There are in general three ways to migrate … [Read more...]

My wife's Optiplex desktop was getting long in the tooth, so I decided to upgrade. I ordered another Optiplex Small Form Factor machine, configured fairly simply: i7, 16 GB RAM, 500 GB SSD, 1 TB spinning rust disk, AMD graphics upgrade. It arrived last Friday. I set it up … [Read more...]

I’ve been struggling with a problem for the past few days. I don’t have a fix yet, but I’ll continue to post things as I try them. Environment. Windows Domain network Two Windows servers. DHCP, DNS on the Win servers Exchange 2013 server hosted by Rackspace … [Read more...]