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I think you might have forgotten to attach the picture.
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I think you might have forgotten to attach the picture.

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Yeah sorry about that here is the pic<br />
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Yeah sorry about that here is the pic
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Take a look atthe attached pic and tell me what you think. <br />
this is a front end sql server that serves 50 or so people. the back end on this is a massive dl 380 g7 with 16 hard drives in a raid 10 and 32 gigs of ram and 2 6 core procs that are hyper threaded. <br />
giving you a total of 24 cores.<br />
However this server is a dell 2800 with 2 3.0 ghz 800 FSB CPU's and server 2003 r2 and 4 gigs of ram
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Take a look atthe attached pic and tell me what you think. 
this is a front end sql server that serves 50 or so people. the back end on this is a massive dl 380 g7 with 16 hard drives in a raid 10 and 32 gigs of ram and 2 6 core procs that are hyper threaded. 
giving you a total of 24 cores.
However this server is a dell 2800 with 2 3.0 ghz 800 FSB CPU's and server 2003 r2 and 4 gigs of ram

I have a high count on active connections is this normal

Active Directory (AD) is a Microsoft brand for identity-related capabilities. In the on-premises world, Windows Server AD provides a set of identity capabilities and services, and is hugely popular (88% of Fortune 1000 and 95% of enterprises use AD). This topic includes all things Active Directory including DNS, Group Policy, DFS, troubleshooting, ADFS, and all other topics under the Microsoft AD and identity umbrella.

Active Directory

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

IIS is Internet Information Services, the web server included with Windows Server operating systems. All current versions are built on a modular architecture; modules can be added or removed individually so that those required for specific functionality are installed. The full installation of IIS includes HTTP, security, content, compression, caching, logging and diagnostics.