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I'd love to know what they are on considering that the enterprise service has pretty much given up on windows server: https://support.code42.com/Terms_and_conditions/Platform_support_policy/Platform_end_of_support_for_Code42_CrashPlan_apps_on_Windows_Server

There are also GPO settings that don't apply to newer builds of Win10 Pro (that used to apply on older builds). For example: Turn off Microsoft consumer experiences Disable all apps from Windows Store I'd go Education if you have the licensing for it.

Any IPMI/iDrac/iLo may give a model/part number on the memory status screens. You could try the following in powershell too: Get-WmiObject Win32_PhysicalMemory

I had this editing an applocker GPO from server 2012 (not r2) machine. Worked fine editing from a 2012R2 machine though...

I'd recommend CMtrace (in the System Center Toolkit download) unless you want to make your eyes bleed reading the logs that MDT creates. CMtrace also highlights errors in red and warnings in yellow

Follow the bits about SLShare & cmtrace here (you can ignore the wsus stuff for now): http://www.edugeek.net/forums/o-s-deployment/185913-wsus-setup-mdt-reference-image.html#post1592073 Run a full deployment and once it has finished (or failed), look at the ZTIDomainJoin.log file and that should give you more info as to why it is failing. If your DHCP server isn't handing out the IP addresses of your DC(s) for DNS then I'd imagine that this is your issue. You could use netsh within a 'run command line' step in the task sequence to set the DNS server (make sure you do it before the domain join step though)

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/filecab/2017/07/20/windows-server-2016-ntfs-sparse-filedata-deduplication-users-please-install-kb4025334/

I'm not 100% certain but I think it would be fine to leave it as you are just exposing the virtualization capabilities of the host to the VM.

Have you enabled nested virtualization for the VM? Make sure the VM is powered off and run the following command in powershell: Set-VMProcessor -VMName -ExposeVirtualizationExtensions $true Where is the name of your windows 10 reference VM

I suspect the installer knows it is running in a VM. Looking at the install page for VS it looks like you have to run the emulator in a hyper-v vm. As you are already running it in a VM, you will need to use a server 2016 hyperv host (as it allows nested virtualization, basically a VM within a VM) to create the image.

It's a per user setting in 1703 (Settings > Personalisation > Start > Choose which folders appear on Start). I haven't found a way to set this via GPO unless you put a tile in the XML start layout.

Planet coaster is a heavily CPU bound game when you have lots of guests/scenery in a park. It's been fine for me on a 4590k/750ti but I haven't really tried a park with loads of guests/scenery. A HP compaq 8300 (SFF though) with a 3rd gen i5 would set you back between £150-£200 on ebay however this then doesn't leave much for a graphics card.

Make sure you have the following set in customsettings.ini (replace mdtserver with the name of your server, do the same for deploymentshare$ if you aren't using the defaults) : SLShare=\\mdtserver\deploymentshare$\Logs The above will copy the logs from the client to the server at the end of the deployment. set the following in customsettings.ini WSUSServer=http://wsus-server:8530 install CMtrace on the mdt server (just client tools as you don't need the rest): https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=50012 update your deployment share in the MDT console run a task sequence until it completes, then look at the ztiwindowsupdate.log file in CMtrace (on the server). It will be in the location you specified in SLShare. Within the log file it will tell you if it used a WSUS server or not and also what updates have been installed. Hope this helps!

You'll need to re-enroll all devices now that the push notification cert has expired. That page you mentioned should do the trick.

I think you need to tick the box next to the rule in the first screenshot. The rules I have on my server are checked and approve the updates fine

have you replaced the boot.wim in WDS (or if you use the ISO images, make sure you are using the latest one).

Just be aware that the PERC6 card is limited to a maximum of 2TB per drive. If you need anything larger you'll need to go for a H700 card instead. I'd go for RAID10 myself

There was a thread on this exact subject not too long ago with details of a few setups/home datacentres - http://www.edugeek.net/forums/learning-network-manager/182356-interesting-home-personal-network-setups.html For me it's just a NAS and the usual router & desktops so nothing special...

Is WSUS configured to use the internal DB or SQL? Have you checked the memory limits for the WID/SQL Server?

I'm fairly sure that the machine specific OEM key is stored in the BIOS in anything after Windows 7. What happens if you install windows 8.1 using this? Does it automatically activate using the key in the BIOS?

Thanks for the info - I'd have thought that most residential IPs would have been added to spam blacklists but it appears not. I use the OEM licences (if the server has them) for long standing things like DCs otherwise I use the 180 day evaluations for everything else.

for those of you that run mail servers at home, how do you do it? Do you run a residential internet connection and relay through a smart host, have a business internet connection or via another method

You'll need to allow authenticated users to read (but not apply) the group policy

I may have to isolate myself on an Ireland.

I think that forum is for the open source version - there have been a few posts regarding the commercial version there and they been pushed towards contacting support due to the different bits between the two versions.