I believe srvany might work in this scenario, no?

Yes, indeed.  I think it's a well worth package.  Give it a shot, I'd be curious to find out what you think of it.   :-) By the way, it would of been nice of me to provide the proper URL for you.  It's www.acronis.com (duh)  LOL!

Even on servers? I found that on some departmental servers I was checking, the administrators of those machines have no defragmented the volumes for literally months and months.  After a full defragmentation (which took hours), performance seemed to increase to me.  *shrugs*

I recently tested Acronis TrueImage 8.0 for servers.  Bottom line = I am impressed.  It's amazing on how far along back up software/imaging solutions have come.  I built a test server running Windows Server 2003 and had a simple website using a SQL backend built to test it.  I installed the Acronis software on it, reboot, and ...

Yep, I hear you on that.  We also had to run a server on Windows 2000 Server because of the website (which was developed and supported by a third-party, bad idea I think) it had running on it.  Amazing.  Needless to say, the server was aging and was replaced, and the old server was upgraded anyway.  It's going to be interesting ...

We're ceasing all support for all flavors of Windows 2000.  Given the security model of this operating system, it's just far too ''open'' to run unless you install a third-party firewall.  I've observed far too many Windows 2000 servers get compromised because of this, regardless of it's patch level and security settings, etc.  I've ...

Hey, that's cool.  I'll check it out later.  Bookmarked.

I was wondering how long it was going to take for this to come out.  I ran a beta of ''WUS'' for a while several months ago, it was pretty impressive.  I now will have to remember to set aside some time to download this to test it.

I never had much in the way of luck to get Perl configured successfully on my Windows Server 2003 box, not that I've had a lot of time to monkey with it.  Anyone have any ''fast'' advice on how to do this?   Just curious.

Given Windows 98's horrible track-record on reliability, I'd write a script which reboots that sucker nightly.  I am so glad that I don't have to support Windows 9x anymore.