Hi SmartMom. Hey STaRDoGG.

Okay, "Mom", I'll remember your advise on the case ;-). This is an efficiency build (cost), so I bought the case for 37 bucks at the local computer supply store (on a reseller account). The computer being replaced is a:

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/me/en/ho/WF06a/12454-12454-3832403-3832404-3832404-3832626.html

Which is really cute as it is PC whose case dimensions are roughly 12" x 12" and the mobo is roughly third of the size of an ATX board. I can literally hold the board in the palm of my hand! Anyway, it was way too expensive to find a replacement board (btw - totally the mobo. I "dislike" saying the motherboard is shot but there is no other explanation. Not wiring harness, replaced BIOS battery, shorted the connections to turn on, replaced or removed everything else, etc...) without having to consider that the same amount of money could be used to build a better, albeit a standard, PC.

I've just about got the index finger to start typing now...almost.

The application server is strange. This is new realm for me for server clustering but some of the finer points about Windows Server 2008R2 (and it really is a whole nother upgrade, but still in evaulation) is the supposive ease of setting one up.

For those that need a basic overview of an application server, imagine that you need some specific software to run and rather than me coming over and installing on your computer, I give you an URL to go to (inside the domain that you are a member of). Once you are there, you click the software you need and a Remote Desktop Session begins for you to use the software. This is particularly useful in lets say...an educational enviroment...where different applications are needed for a variety of subjects.

What I'm working on is a proof of concept. What I'm basically running into is that Network Load Balancing was previously set up on the onboard NICs (not by me) and that has the effect of turning two computers MAC addresses for the NICs into one and therefore being assigned one IP address for two computers (via DHCP no less) with no network errors. I want to break that setup as there apparently doesn't seem to be a way to view the configuration, but uninstalling the NLB feature resulted in no change, which makes me think it's further up in the domain. What I've done is install two other NICs to handle the heartbeat (how the servers know that the other is there for load balancing and the Remote Desktop Session Broker to communicate on those static IP's that I've assigned to them. I would like to use the previous configuration for the other NIC's as the IIS role is using them for the webpage and the fact that I cant seem to change the configuration for them...

Sigh

Anyway, I'll most likely reinstall, rename, and track this from the beginning ;-)

So, the "darkside" badge. I'm surprised that a pic of my mug isn't the icon..hehe. All this time that I've spent returning to the light, and here I am, bestowed with a Vader badge. Maybe Stardogg could pick up on a distant past post we discussed on creating an API that appears to be something functional, like minesweeper for Facebook, but acts as a...ahem...profile tracker. Course, the term of service wouldn't like that too much, I'm guessing.

Also, what are you guys doing about spell check? I know there is no way that the above post deosn't have spelling errors.