mrwoberts

Working with a school to upgrade, cleanup and generally simplify an aging setup. Very small school (20 children, 12 Staff, plus 3 Admin staff who would access SIMS and FMS) Currently a single physical Dell server (approx 7+ years old) is doing pretty much everything: DC, DHCP, DNS, STORAGE, SQL+SIMS, and VPN. I've been in a similar position before and the server setup I put in place has proven good. Already spoken to Dave at ICTDirect and I see an option there for refrub, but I'll give them options of new and custom built along with it. Questions 1. Can SQL Server Express 2016 happily run and serve the above setup (a SIMS and FMS DB) when installed on Windows 10 EDU or LTSB edition?? 2. Is it recommended/preferred to install the other SIMS related stuff (SOLUS 3, System Manager, Document Server) on the same VM as the SQL DB ? 3. With GDPR in mind, does each VM (disk) need to be encrypted, just the SIMS DB vm disk, or none of the above? 4. Is a TPM 2.0 module for the server board compulsory to achieve any necessary encryption? 5. Will a server with an Intel E3-1220 v6 processor be sufficient to handle three VMs for the above mentioned roles? Thank you for your help

An out of hours reboot was my first thought, because making other changes may well be digging a deeper hole.

Just on the point about Group Policy refresh intervals, which I think is what you are referring to, here is a Microsoft article with info about the refresh interval. In summary, unless you've changed it through Group Policy, a computer will check every 90 minutes, with a random offset of 0 to 30 minutes. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc940895.aspx It is worth notiing that for some reason I have had a few laptops where they just don't seem to be refreshing until I issue a /force command; once that runs it will usually then return to the normal frequency check.

I'm actually working on a solution for this, or should I say, following others instructions and trying to simplify the process - the best way seems to involve setting a 1 to a 0 in a database file to inform Microsoft that Mixed Reality and others can be uninstalled (They are currently treated as 'forced install' apps...) Back soon...

Okay, any other changes to your network recently? If the DC is pinging happily at the moment, could that be because it hasn't been rebooted yet, whereas the desktop PCs may have been - I'm not saying to reboot the DC by way. Since the site-site ping works, it is beginning to sound more DC/DNS/switch related.

Thanks for confirming that. Has anything changed on the switches, and when was the last time you remember being able to successfully ping between PCs? On one of the affected PCs, is it possible to temporarily switch off IPv6 in the NIC properties, and then try to ping the IP and hostname, including a FQDN address.

@Zoom7000 could you confirm if you are trying to ping a wireless device? If you are attempting to ping a wireless device, the 'problem' may be down to settings in your wireless management. Some wireless config settings can be block communication between wireless clients, including pings.

My thoughts exactly. I'm now aiming on a once-a-year deployment plan and will probably stick with the March edition, although I'm beginning to get the impression that the March edition has more new features and the September edition aims to fix the problems with a couple of new features :-) Thanks for this script, it really helps. I add a few extra things to my WIM, such as a extra registry entries, a stripped down basic defaultstartmenulayout file... I also strip out these packages Microsoft-Windows-QuickAssist-Package~**** Microsoft-Windows-ContactSupport-Package~****

I've just tried this and it seemed to work (I needed to sign out and back in... wait a few seconds and.... gone) attrib +H "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools"

Yep, sounds slightly messy, but at least you have a good understanding of it all and if needs be you sound competent to recover the system. However, this is something Soft Egg should be supporting you with - presumably you are the customer and work for the school, so if you're not happy with something you need to let them know asap. Might be best to start a new thread on the topic of a backup solution, which I would find useful too.

It is safe to run CHKDSK without the /F and it will run a brief, read-only check of the file system. Unfortunately, to determine if there are bad sectors you'd need to use the /R switch, which needs to be run (offline), so don't use that unless you intend to reboot, and definitely make sure you have an up-to date bare-metal backup ready to roll. Which RAID array are you using in this server.... How many disks, what type (RAID 1,5,6,10...) How are you backing up at the moment?

Glad you sorted it. I would suggest checking the disk for file structure errors, using CHKDSK D: /F /V Make sure you have a solid, working backup. You would do this in the evening, when you can afford to reboot, should you need to... You could also use the above command to check the C: drive for good measure Here are some Microsoft articles that relate to this kind of problem; although they don't say to use 7-zip I've found that the quickest way to resolve this kind of bug. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247%28VS.85%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/320081/you-cannot-delete-a-file-or-a-folder-on-an-ntfs-file-system-volume

@Sparky28 I'm wondering if this is a Unicode issue. Install 7-zip on the server or install it on a client and open the 7-zip file manager. Use the file manager like you would Windows Explorer, only it will be a different address depending on whether you are using the server... D:\Shares\Teachers-Shared\Planning Archive\Computing\ or a client \\serverIPaddress\D$\Shares\Teachers-Shared\Planning Archive\Computing\ Now try to delete that folder... [Evidence Video]

Do these units have SSD drives, and therefore booting up quickly?? Could this be a service delay issue (delay in components starting up and not configuring the NIC properly). Interesting that a reboot (warm startup) the NIC appears. Possible service change... Netman (Manual to Auto) - although this doesn't really explain why the NIC is not fully functional in device manager.

I'm confused.com.... mine outputs as expected (sorted by PM) in gridview Windows 10 Pro 1703 (fully updated) EDIT: Should have read your post a few times before replying. I didn't try clicking on the column heading to re-sort ASC/DESC. Same problem here, it seems to sort them by the first digit, rather than the whole number.

VirtualStore was the culprit for me!!

Having a similar issue on one of the admin PCs. We've recently upgraded from 2012 to 2014 and the user in question has been able to successfully login since the migration, but just a couple of days ago we deployed the latest updates from Solus, and now just one user cannot login to FMS, but can login to SIMS... She can login to FMS on the server, but when she tries the same credentials from her PC we get the same message... "Invalid user ID/Password or Database Name" I'm just going to take a look (remotely) at her local setup.

+1 for Chrome (with uBlock extension)

If the above filter/proxy suggestions aren't the solution then I'd definitely give GroupCall support a go, they were excellent when I had an issue; they may at least give you more insight into where the communication is failing.

I believe WOL also works fine once Fast Startup is disabled. If it doesn't work, take a look at the BIOS settings, or Power Management settings of the NIC...

Came across this EDUGEEK solution, which references the update you want to remove... [color=#333333]msiexec /package {90160000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} /uninstall {A36375BB-E79D-411D-BF1E-C7E8120A08A9} /qn /quiet /norestart [/color]

Spotting a trend in other posts regarding this type of behaviour - networking failure following a startup. Disable 'Fast Startup' from the Power Options control panel. It means shutdown and startup may take longer, but if it resolves the issue for now then all the better.

I saw this recently on a Windows 10 PC (1703) until I rebooted, applied the two outstanding updates, rebooted and it all settled down again. I don't think it is the server, I think it is the client pc with the problem.

@karldenton Just saw this post from Arthur http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-10/188046-kb4038788-september-cu-fixes-export-startlayout-issue.html

I've exported in 1703, but didn't come across this problem. From memory I exported to the root of a USB drive I was using. Have you tried exporting to either the root of C: or a USB drive...