Many technology hardware and software vendors take a very hard-line on support contracts. No support or maintenance contracts means no support. Some vendors will sell you “per incident” support. Some won’t. With software vendors you also get into the issue of software upgrades being tied to software maintenance.
A well designed rack environment would include cold aisles (in front of the equipment with the AC vents) and hot aisles (behind the equipment with the air returns). Then the racks would have no gaps between the rack mounted equipment. If there are gaps between the equipment, then spacers are added to block air flow.
“Windows 7 clients experience a three to five second delay in obtaining an IP address through Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) at restart. This behavior occurs when the clients are DHCP-enabled and domain-joined. This results in Netlogon event ID 5719 and Group Policy event ID 1129. You may experience this issue if the Windows 7 […]