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Thanks Josef. Nice concise explanation. The data space requirements is also good information.

Agreed. Good back to basics question.

Thanks

You're welcome.

Are you able to get any results from the database query i provided?

Now that opens up an entirely new can of worms.

Ideally one...

Is read count user distinct? Or can one artificially bloat the read count?

That would be the one - NCIS.

Must be part of the reason for pulling NewSID. Good information.

Not really fond of the stick myself. I like the touchpad - but really prefer to just use a mouse. I do hate when the cursor jumps -...

Same rules apply to service packs. Service packs will list the hotfixes involved in the SP. Read the kb's - test in dev and then promote through your environments...

For cloned installs Microsoft has a tool that you could run to prevent the SID problem. Take a look at NewSID and SysPrep.

Thanks for posting back with the resolution.

Here is a doc that covers the permissions needed for the service accounts.

Too few permissions and you could lose some functionality.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143504.aspx

You could also look on Lynns blog. He has some examples there of various datetime operations.

Yes. I've seen it done before, tested the restores and it all worked. Thus 10 min is fine.