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Questions tagged [best-practices]

Questions asking for best practices in a given field. Be aware, that sometimes there might be no generally accepted best practices, in which case the question is likely to be closed for being subjective.

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Is it good practice to name an admin account 'admin' or 'administrator'?

I have seen on numerous occasions that organisations name their admin account anything but admin or administrator. Most often of course people in help desk would use their own account with different levels of admin rights for day to day tasks, but…
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Are there any problems installing Office 2016 over Office 2013 directly?

Are there any problems if I install Office 2016 over Office 2013 without uninstalling Office 2013 first?
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Is installing Windows Server 2012 R2 using .com versus .local going to cause future problems?

I know using example.com would cause a conflict, but what about ad.example.com, corp.example.com or internal.example.com? I have a web .com domain. Will need to remote in and/or VPN etc. I am being told that ONLY .local should be used and nothing…
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Setting affinity for virus protection on workstations - best practice?

Despite the modern virus protection is based on prevention by scanning network traffic and by real-time protection, many companies still have policies, that full scans must be performed regularly. Since hard drives are getting bigger and bigger,…
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IP Network Best Practice

On my On Premise network we use IP Span 172.17.101.0-172.17.103.254 I should now connect our Windows Azure network to the On Premise network using VPN. Is it okay to use IP Span 172.16.1.0 in the Azure network. Or is it any best practice to follow…
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Best practice for setting up a small fileserver for my group?

My R&D group are setting up our network and development environment. We have a dedicated 'kitchen sink' server machine, running Using Kubuntu 12.04 LTS as the distribution. which is going to run all sorts of services, one of which will be a file…
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Disabling/hiding rather than deleting

From what I understand, it's generally best practice to design a system with user access to delete "records" to only hide/disable that record and not actually delete it. This typically ends up being (example) a flag in a database like "enabled"…
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Why are we constantly told, "There's a disk space issue"?

This morning, I was helping a BA with a particularly complicated report. I notice that in the reporting Development environment, we were only seeing a single day of data. Not only that, but the day is from a period of time where the data, itself,…
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How many subnets are best practice?

What is the general best practice for subnetting a small (abt 15 servers) network of vms and physical machines? How granular should it be? Do you want to have a logical subnet or vlan for every seperate function in the network? What is generally the…
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Should I open Active Directory to public Internet?

I am a network administrator and my windows support partner recommended to open active directory to public internet. reason is dns is configured on active directory with same server. But I never done this previously and he asked to update all…
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What is the Industry Best Practice for Updating Dell Drivers ?

Is it ok to upgrade to latest drivers whenever we provide it to end-user ? or we should keep the Drivers with OS which has been shipped by Dell along with OS Kindly suggest if there is any document or blog from Dell about it as well
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What are the dangers of buying a windows entreprise key online?

For multiple reasons I've settled on using Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB. Apart of getting a fake key or getting a legitimate key revoked, what are the dangers of purchasing / applying an unknown product key to your windows system ? Edit: I'm willing…
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AD Best Practice for the connection specific DNS suffix network setting

What is best practice for this setting? It also goes by DNS Domain Name in DHCP scope settings. The only documentation I can find about these suffixes and domain name settings specifies the the primary DNS name must match. …
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How do you "prevent powerful accounts from being used on unauthorized systems"?

I was browsing through Microsoft's Best Practices for Securing Active Directory and saw the chart linked which includes some of the best practices included in the document, rated by importance. At number 6 is "Prevent powerful accounts from being…
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RAID 10, 3 drives or 2 drives?

Drives are very cheap these days. Would it be worth it to increase the group size from 2 to 3. I found 1TB drives for $60. I feel as if the array is very vulnerable to failure in a 2 group setup since drive failures are tightly correlated and it…
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