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Has this error suddenly appeared over a VPN that was previously working without issues, or is this a new setup? The reason I ask is I wonder if it just can't resolve the sims server address - try the FQDN in the connect.ini and SIMS.ini config files. You could also try swapping the server address in those config files for the IP address instead. That resolved a few issues for me when connecting over VPN.

Hi Sam If your copier can email the document to the person using it then you could create a filter in Google Mail to do lots of things with it, including file it in a Scanned folder. Note, some older copiers don't seem to work with Googles OAuth2 requirements, but I'm sure there is a workaround. Alternatively, if the copier is purely scanning to a single shared folder, then is it possible to configure the copier to prefix/suffix the file name to include the username, then on the server, could you get an automated filing script working based on the username... I guess you could even get the server to email it to the member of staff? Just my random Monday morning thoughts. Okay, technically it isn't morning anymore, but it's been a slow one :-)

Now I think back, I may have had problems related to Offline files with a few laptops over this past month. Hmmm. One thing I've done as a result of the offline files discussion was to disable 'Offline Caching' for shares where it is never needed. Particularly the Staff share where some folks couldn't access it from home through the VPN, but if we went through the remapping to another drive letter it worked.

Please could anyone offer suggestions for who I could get quotes from for a new Microsoft OVS agreement. We've been trying to contact Phoenix, who we've used before, but they just aren't very responsive - possibly a busy time of year... I'm looking for three quotes to compare the most cost-effective way forward - A new 1 year OVS-ES agreement based on 25 FTE count - A new 3 year OVS-ES agreement based on 25 FTE count - Purchasing 25 licenses of Microsoft Office 2016 Standard Many thanks

How about sym-linking the folder over to your 2TB drive. This would involve, 1. Reboot, no programs open 2. Move (CUT/PASTE) the Lightroom cache folder on to your 2TB folder 3. Open an Admin Command Prompt and MKLINK the folder like so... First go to the parent folder of where the 'large' folder was... (I'm assuming it was called cache) e.g. cd /d C:\Users\talks\Appdata\Local\Adobe\Lightroom mklink /J Cache D:\Adobe\Cache That isn't a complete solution, and it may mean that Lightroom is slower in processing due to it now relying on the mechanical drive, but it should help free up your SSD space.

Is this device receiving a proper domain suffix ipconfig /all Primary Dns Suffix DNS Suffix Search List Connection-specific DNS Suffix Do these look normal - point to your domain

Ping the server IP Ping the server Hostname Ping the server FQDName - what do you get back? No response, an IPv4 response, or an IPv6 response? Check this devices HOSTS file - any custom entries? Check this devices Event Log - anything relevant? Switch issue?? - try rerouting via another switch Server DNS misconfig for this device - anything in the server event log relating to this device?

Update... Array finished rebuilding to the new disk and OS HyperV host booted up fine. Spent time checking various logs and running a scans but all looks good. Same for the VM. Booted up and seems back to normal. Thanks again for your help.

Thank you, I'll take a look at that asap. New disk now installed, Dell engineer simply took out the duff disk, replaced it and went back into the bios LSI config - the disk just started rebuilding all by itself, exactly as others had stated above (thanks for the warning about not removing the array). By the way, I saw that the RAID adapter is in fact a PERC H200A. It is indeed rebuilding much faster than previously - should be done within 4 hours. I'll keep you posted

Thanks Willott Still waiting for the Dell Engineer to arrive. I think you're right about the slowness. Can you think of any reasons why the controller decided to rebuild the failing drive? I don't know how long the server had been trying to indicate the failing drive, I'll perhaps know more when the OS is back up and running. I like the RAID 10, and RAID 1+spare idea. I'm assuming I can add a spare that isn't an identical disk as long as the capacity is at least 900GB. I found this drive online, but the speed is slower 7500rpm. https://www.scan.co.uk/products/1tb-seagate-constellation-st91000640ss-7200rpm-sas-6gb-s-64mb-25 Would that work, or should I look at the higher priced disks?

Thank you all very much for your helpful posts. In essence, I've shutdown the server - 'rebuilding' was at 51%. Had a call to say that Dell are delivering, and hopefully fitting the disk tomorrow. Yay! Point taken about the disk corruptions, I think I'm going to prepare as if this system has been affected and use the backup if I don't see signs that all is well (event logs...) Funnily enough, the point about the two disks was raised by the non-tech head. I tactfully said that it would have been a decision when you bought the server, but assured him that I'll look into reducing the possibility of this happening again - add a Hot Spare, or Backup, add extra disks, reconfig RAID and restore... I'm just hoping that the good disk doesn't pack up during the resync, which I'm guessing is going to be the best part of 24 hours

Just a thought, is there anything I can do to improve the reliability of this array? Possibly add a 3rd disk as a hot spare, although the school would have to purchase a new disk. If that is a good idea, are there restrictions surrounding what disks I can add? The current disks are Dell WD9002BKTG 900GB, can I add a 1TB Seagate Constellation disk, as listed here. https://www.scan.co.uk/products/1tb-seagate-constellation-st91000640ss-7200rpm-sas-6gb-s-64mb-25

Thanks Kevin I'll have more info on the controller when I return to the school - approx 45 minutes. I know the make is LSI, what else should I look for - a physical card, or does this tower have an onboard controller?

I think that pretty much makes up my mind now, but I'll just make sure I have all their data available (in progress - 70% extracted of 550 GB) Thanks again everyone

That's a fair point. Makes me want to stop this rebuild even more now. I had to come away from the school for a couple of hours but I'm on my way back now. The sync should be in the 40% range. Because I can't move the options in the menu, is it okay to reboot the server - I won't hold anyone responsible

Thanks 3s-gtech, Sted I'm inclined to agree with you both, especially as the info I'm reading up (Dell Community posts) isn't the LSI controller. How to rebuild Raid1 on Poweredge T110 II - PowerEdge OS Forum - Servers - Dell Community I was wondering whether to stop the build process, but a nervous twitch kicks in when I look at that menu option. As it turns out, they have a Belkin kvm switch attached which no longer registers the keyboard or mouse now I've switched back to the server. Question, if I reboot the server after I've plugged in the KVM directly, will I upset the RAID building? Many thanks

Not a stupid question, that's a very good one. Yes, the warranty is still live (Phew!), and Dell should be sending us a replacement disk hopefully by tomorrow or Monday at the latest. I'm just reading around the net and it seems that to rebuild the array I have to delete the current array and create a new one, making sure I have the new disk in and the possibly faulty disk taken out. If for whatever reason this whole thing goes south, I'm just hoping that the backup will work as expected. Thanks for your reply.

The server is a Dell PowerEdge T110 II 2x SAS WD9002BKTG disks in RAID 1 on LSI controller I've been called in to help a school that I don't regularly support so I've 'inherited' the following scenario/setup. The server is a 2012 R2 HyperVhost and it hosts a single guest, 2008 R2 as a curriculum server. First signs of weirdness began to show on the Guest OS - sluggish, services failing, VPN failing... After spending a few hours checking what was wrong with the Guest I began to see the same sluggishness with the Host. It wouldn't even shutdown normally. When the Server rebooted I was greeted with a message from the LSI controller to say that there was an error with the RAID array. Entering the LSI config I noticed that the RAID was Degraded and the Slot 0 disk was Rebuilding, 26% synced. (Pred Fail = Yes) Hmmm, it synced 10% in approx 3-4 hours. I'm assuming that Slot 0 disk is the duff one, but I need help to know what order to go about swapping out this disk and inserting the replacement, or any other action you think would improve things. Teachers are being very patient but that's dwindling. I need to give them an accurate idea of when the server will be back online. At my estimate, if I didn't change anything and fired up the H-Vhost and then the Guest, then that would almost certainly be tomorrow AM at the earliest. However, I thinking this disk needs to be replaced... Whilst the RAID is syncing, I'm trying to extract their data from a Windows Backup Image (.vhdx) file. Any help would be most appreciated.

If you suspect the ground loop fault is coming from the Desktop PSU, do you have another PSU, a better quality one, to try/replace it with?

In need of help to possibly renew the server VPN ssl certificate, if indeed that's the cause of our problem. Teachers have not been able to open a VPN to the school for a few weeks. VPN is not in my bag of experience, and I feel a bit of out my depth, this was setup by the LA tech team a year or so ago. Looking cursively at the CertMgr it seems relevant that certificates have expired around the time they lost connection. I've issued cerutil -renew Then tried to VPN back in using a local smartphone hotspot, but that didn't seem to work. Any help to diagnose the problem and fix it would be amazing. Kind regards

Thanks Colin Are those files in the original image (install.wim) file?? If so, could you backup the wim file, mount the original, remove those two files, and try the deployment again. Alternatively, change the two files to look like the following... unattend.xml * specialize.uaq command="C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\RUNDLL32.EXE" arguments="shsetup.dll,SHUnattendedSetup" identity="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup, Culture=neutral, Version=10.0.14393.0, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35, ProcessorArchitecture=amd64, versionScope=NonSxS" manifestPath="C:\Windows\Winsxs\Manifests\amd64_microsoft-windows-shell-setup_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.14393.0_none_ffcf3e270052d303.manifest" pass="specialize"/>

Could you possibly post/attach the contents of these files... C:\Windows\Panther\unattend.xml C:\Windows\panther\actionqueue\specialize.uaq

Hi Grey I spotted these two commands recently (below), added to the Active Setup\Installed Components registry area. I believe they appeared following an update. I'll see if I can find out which update is responsible so you can see if you have that update installed... Anyway, try these commands then restart the affected PC before you see if it has resolved the issue. C:\Windows\System32\ie4uinit.exe -DisableSSL3 C:\Windows\System32\ie4uinit.exe -EnableTLS FYI, my file version of ie4uinit.exe is 11.0.9600.18500, modified 30/09/2016 It's also worth double checking if those PCs have an accurate time/date set - synced with the server. EDIT: Here are my findings, but I don't think these are responsible for those entries, I think an IE11 update has added them... KB3080079 Update to add RDS support for TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 in Windows 7 KB2977292 Security update for Microsoft EAP implementation that enables the use of TLS: October 14, 2014 KB3154518 Support for TLS v1.2 included in the .NET Framework 3.5.1 EDIT2:: Aha! KB3038314, which disabled SSL 3.0 by default in Internet Explorer 11 However, that particular updates would almost certainly be included with the most recent IE11 Cumulative Update KB3185319, so I would install that if you haven't done so already. Might be worth waiting for a few others to reply first though, just to make sure I'm on the right track; I may be way off and this is an easier fix that I'm suggesting

Worth giving this a try... Chrome Cleanup Tool

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