are you using a scheduler to move the files off via ftp? I was thinking of something like that because of the firewall issues we have. We don't have any...

I for one don't recommend 7.0 on 2000. You can set the memory limits on 7.0 and make sure your box has enough memory for the OS.

log shipping as a backup solution on busy servers. All the servers that are big enough to require log shipping are already setup in active/passive clusters.

Yep, it's a control issue with me as well. My last job wouldn't let me dump to disk the backup admin acused me of bypassing his backup plan and they...

All my mail problems went away after applying sp1. we run exchange2000 fully patched the mapi client is outlook2000 sp1 and the account it a domain account with full mail...

No I don't, but with as many diffrent customer servers we have I'm just trying to cover all my bases. The things that worry me the most are we don't...

I connect to the internal network via vpn and hit a terminal session to start EM on the management server, but after that the mangement server still has to go...

Ok this is what I got by playing with the network libs. First I removed named pipes from the network libs available. Second, I added an lmhost entry onto my...

This is what the big problem is. I've got a 65,000sq foot datacenter full of servers all of them are seperated by firewalls. So, My only real solution is to...

I am shooting for full EM functionallity because thats what I'm use to 🙂 I've got my network people sniffing out the traffic to and from the firewalls to see...

It is friggin HUGE. its like 300 fixes rolled into sp1. I did fix alot of little things I was worried about in our test lab.

Yep... Its a known bug with sql 2000 I applied sp1 to my dev box and all is well now. It wasn't sending reports from backups but not failing the...