Jamo

Right click on the deployment share in the workbench and select update deployment share. Do you use pxe boot? If you do you will have to add the resulting WIM image to wds :-)

Did you rebuild the pxe boot image after injecting the driver? If you don't do this it will never make the deliver available in the pxe stage only the later stages

Those MSI ones were def good candidates for removal, I never liked GPO software install but those software packages just didn't go on through the 'normal' package mangler. :-P The domain migration should be fun! I was told to look in to the ADMT tool when looking at that: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc974384(v=ws.10).aspx Say hello to everyone! :-D

Haha how random, hadn't realised it was you! Hope the policies made some sense (:/ !!!), I spent the best part of a holiday condensing and rationalizing the policies! All policy changes should have been central on the laptops and desktops (think there was one for XP and one for >W7), I tended not to do anything locally which wasn't through MDT. Think then it was only some registry changes to ensure the soundcard was always active even when a phono jack wasn't plugged in! The setting (I am guessing you have found now, judging by the post underneath!! but for anyone who comes across it) is GPO/User/Windows Settings/Folder Redirection, then one for each of the redirected folders for W7. The 'home' directory set in ADUC won't move the contents I don't think (although I have never tried it tbh!) The setting is detailed here - Folder Redirection Overview (under Move the contents of [FolderName] to the new location) Does the offline file cache handle the move transparently for the user after the move without the VBScript?

If you alter the path to the redirected folders in a GPO (making sure the move the contents to the new location is ticked) isn't it supposed to take care of this for you? It's quite slow though! Might be worth staging if you can get it to reliably work.

Also does the domain controller point to itself for DNS lookups?

So when you do nslookup mydomain.com IE if your domain controller is dc1.mydomain.com nslookup JUST the domain name. That should resolve and show you the ip of all domain controllers within your domain.

And that is even if you select the "this is my primary monitor" tickbox?

To swap 1 and 2 round just open the screen resolution box and drag the 1 and 2 boxes around, you can reorder or change the location of the swap point between the monitors

Can you browse to the share still through explorer? Also check the details on the rules tab (bootstrap.ini small button at the bottom) and on the other tabs on the properties section of the deployment share. I believe the servername is specified in a couple of different places there (sorry I don't have the console in front of me to check exact locations)

If pasted into some forums you sometimes get weird copy paste issues such as this. Try without a space, it would certainly make more sense from a readability pov!

If you have support though why worry? RAID6 + support will see you through

Thing to note with the Dell though, you are buying 2 new controllers per expansion shelf therefore increasing throughput as the Equallogic data volume is spanned between all the shelves meaning you get the more spindles the more shelves you add, but you also get more throughput due to the extra iSCSI paths which can be used.

Go NL SATA, the SAS drives are really expensive, though better performing. If you get enough SATA spindles you will get the IOPs you want with more available storage than you could get with SAS

I would say 9 DC's is quite a lot! 2 or 3 is ideal for a school I would have thought. Mainly for resiliency. Unless you have a multi site (ie across WAN connections) having DC's in different buildings/subnets isn't a requirement. On the other hand it won't hurt, just not sure it would provide any benefit. I do also have to mention the golden rule of DCs on a VM platform... Never snapshot and restore a domain controller. Else you will experience the most weird behaviour... Edit: lol just noticed that was in the article above!! Do note though that Veeam support restoring Domain controllers, Veeam does use snapshots but I believe it has the abililty to put the DCs into the permissive state which allows them to come back online without disruption.

Can I just say: It may be time to look at getting that 1TB NAS retired!!!!! 6 years old and RAID 0??!?!??!?!?!?!?!?! Thing to look at is your overall needs. How many user accounts, how many concurrent log ons. What is the state of the surrounding network infrastructure. I used to work at a school, 3 ESXi hosts, 2 for main production and one which sat as a DR site across the road in the 6th form. ~70GB ram per host, roughly 30 servers in total between the boxes. I would say max contention (and this is max you would really want to go) is 20 - 30 VMs per host, any more and you start to run out of horsepower, however this rewally depends on your usage patterns. In terms of storage always go SAN with virtual hosts, unless you are SERIOUSLY stuck with budget. SAN gives you much more freedom in terms of host migration between the hosts, plus better resiliency. I have seen the Dell's Equallogic series, (we use PS6100 atm at my current work, not a school though) and performance is really good. For backup, take a look at Veeam for VM's, I think by far the easiest and performance is really really good. User directories, depends on what you want to acheive, with VM's you aren't limited to one box many functions, if you want to split up servers for specific tasks then its really easy to do so. These days I don't see any reason not to put DC's in a virtual environment, for backup/restore and just general ease of maintenance it would be crazy not to!

Its like comparing putting together parts from Ikea to building your own cupboard! I am not sure it really makes the world more dangerous, if someone wanted one of these things, they would get one printer or no printer. However, it is silly to say that milling your own weapons is simpler than getting blueprints and printing them is silly!!

Apart from the fact that someone requires no skill to click print as opposed to free form the gun from raw materials....

I have had to to V2Vs before in similar circumstances, once because a machine got stuck on a ESX host and wouldn't migrate off even when turned off!! Clone is always a last resort but a good one which often works!

Run the P2V tool on it (V2V) (I'm guessing Hyper V has an eqiuvalent) and clone it?

Another vote for GLPI here, we use integrated with OCS

I think you can if you use an IIS reverse proxy. Setting up a Reverse Proxy using IIS, URL Rewrite and ARR : carlosag : The Official Microsoft IIS Site Use host headers to filter the request and define the URL rewrite for each site using the above method.

Make sure you have a wildcard DNS entry pointing to the single domain (website.com) then use URL host headers to serve the different pages. IIS will handle this for you. Configure a Host Header for a Web Site (IIS 7)

BYOD at its best! Most you can do is monitor the internet traffic against an IP then map the IP to a list of mac addresses (means you would have to check the mac address of each client as well...)

Can I just add - When someone says I want noone to have access to this folder, you need to always add the administrators in as well as what they say! It's SUCH a pain when you come to later do something like run treesize to see what is hogging the drive, as it will always conk out!! As long as the administrators group (domain admins) is a controlled group then you will be fine from a compliance pov.