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AFAIR The Internet was an amalgamation of two previous networks. ARPANET was the military research system for communicating between bases, and there was a University network. The two joined together in the 80's to become the foundation of The Internet. The WWW was a later (british - fly the flag) invention by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Prior to that I think a protocal called Gophar was a popular similar system.

I'd argue, in terms of extreme long term species survival and evolution, it's pretty much essential. As it stands the fate of the species is tied directly to the fate of the planet and/or solar system. It's easy to argue the more immediate, nothing they do in the next 100 years is going to have a major effect on out lives. In the short term you may say the scientific advantages are almost nil, but then again a lot of the technologies we take for granted today were developed either for or as a result of the space race.

£100 for a limited edition model? 8 oversized keys? Sorry. I'm pretty sure anyone really interested in this could build better with a raspberry pi and it'd cost a lot less. £60 with full speccy keyboard and tape support - then I'd be interested.

Yes I think you are both half right AFAIK, even the totally free "Hyper-V only" download installs a cut down version of Server Core for management function (could be wrong never tested). The host copy of Windows runs in the Parent Partition with special privileges, the guest OS's run in the child partition. What's important is that the hypervisor runs at a lower hardware level (Ring -1 - the CPU virtualisation instruction set) and both host and guest OS's run at Ring 0 (the standard CPU instruction set). To answer the OP though - If you're paying our for Datacenter anyway to use in the guest OS's, then there's absolutely no real logical reason no to install the full fat copy of Windows with Hyper-V. If you notice the extra system resources it's going to take up then you've under spec'd the host server.

I think 99.999% of the expanded universe can be complete discounted. They've already said it's not cannon, freeing them to go in any direction they see fit. A bit of a shame because I always thought the original Thrawn trilogy would have been perfect for Episodes VII-IX

What are the LA's T&C's about connecting to another network? I know our LA viewed this sort of thing as a security risk to their entire WAN so took a very dim view of any school connecting up a non-approved ADSL (or similar) connection in this way. EDIT: From a technical standpoint it's very easy to do by introducing a new 3xNIC router between your private LAN and the two external connections.

Watching the trailer led me to go reading some of the rumours. If the (any) rumours are true it wouldn't spoil this for me personally - don't really care if I know most of the major plot points before watching these films anymore. Anyway, some of what I've read about Luke seems genuinely interesting and I hope the films do go in the rumoured direction.

I wouldn't get too worked up. It's JJ Abrams. That's gonna mean three things: Lens flare Either Darth Vader or The Emperor will return (my moneys on Darth Vader, sure he died at the end of Ep.6, but this is Sci-Fi) The plot will never resolve itself Lens flare

^I agree with this entirely. The only reason it's virtualised here is because the spec's of our host servers can easily support it with more than enough room to spare.

I'd assume from that then - your DC's, file servers, MIS, etc are all seperate and not being virtualised at this time? Would there be plans to virtualise them in the future? Based on that list of servers I'd say, use a hex cores with HT, 64Gb should be plenty of ram, for each server. Hyper-V replica will do what you need. The only server I'd question is the deployment server. SCCM is a pig. I think ours is currently set to 4 cores and 16Gb of Ram, using 14Gb idle!

The 2 virtual have 2 cores and 4Gb each (DC6 is currently reporting using ony 2Gb). The physical is an old decommissioned virtual host server, so stupid specs - 8x2Ghz Cores and 24Gb Ram - only using 9% memory and 1% CPU can't for the life of me work out why it's that low:p

We're a very (very) similar sized school and are fully virtualised. As ever, if you are anywhere near Norfolk then you are always welcome to drop by and chew the cud. My thoughts are - processor cores, ram, and disk space. How many VM's do you plan to run? What tasks do you want each to do? What are their individual requirements. Our latest host server has something like 24-cores and 128Gb Ram. 1.2Tb seems very low. We are struggling with 4.5Tb and have just put in plans to double that over the next couple of months. That's a cost/benefit question only you can answer. We're going down the Replica route because its (a) cheap and (b) we don't need instant failover. Also, I don't think you can cluster without a SAN set up, atleast not for auto failover. The VM's need to be on shared storage that both hosts can see and access. Replica gets around that problem at the expense of having 100% live migration and instant failover. We have 1 management, 2 to the shared storage, 2 for the VM's virtual switch.

Do all devices show valid IP addresses if you do ipconfig \all on them, with correct subnet, gateway and dns? If so it's most likely a case that the OS on both client and server supports IPv6 and IPv6 is enabled on both their NICs. That being the case if you do a ping or nslookup you may find it uses IPv6 in preference unless you specifically disable it's use on the NICs. It should be nothing to worry about. If you want to force IPv4 then disable IPv6 on the NICs. So long as IPConfig is reporting correctly and DNS is correctly configured, if you disable IPv6 on your servers NIC then the client will have no choice but to communicate the good old fashioned way.

I've run it, albeit very slowly, on old single core P4's with 2Gb ram and whatever the integrated graphics was. It did run, just. For light/simple education work any modern dual core, 4gb, integrated graphics setup should run it fine.

I've setup SSL VPN on our Smoothwall box so I can remote in from home. Seems to work pretty well and was easy to set up. Between sites? Not had to do it as yet but would probably look at something using this in the first instance.

I think you were right. Reset her password and restarted any machine she'd been near that day. I've heard nothing since. Checked her account in AD a couple times and so far not locked. I need to remember this in 90days when her password is next set to expire. Be interesting to see if it happens again then.

I can't remember the details, but I'm 99.999% certain one of them had to be set if both DHCP and WDS were on the same server. Alas it's been a long while since I set it up last. It only stuck in my mind because every time I do it I setup both those options anyway even though my DHCP is a separate standalone server. Not strickly required in my case, but best practice. Now my memories being exercised a bit, I think one of the two check boxes in WDS you pointed @abillybob to above actually mentions one of those two DHCP Options (I'm gonna swear blind it's 67).

In your DHCP server options, Option's 66 and 67 should be set. 66, boot server host name, should be the IP address of your WSUS server, and 67 should be the boot image file location on that server. Alas, we're using SCCM so our boot image is different, can't give you the details from my DHCP. Can't remember what it should be. I think option 67 is the important one if DHCP and WSUS is on the same server - from memory.

Another one I've already thought of but can't find any evidence of. Most of our stuff is web browser based but it doesn't appear she is leaving the relevant pages open. I've forced her to change her password this morning and turned off kerberos pre-authentication on that account to see if that will help.

Oh, this one is possible! I'm going to restart the machines in the maths office in a minute, force a logoff. It wouldn't surprise me if she logged in both in there and on her laptop at the same time.

Hi, I'm looking for reasons a single users account would be, what appears to be, randomly locking. About 900 users and it is effecting only 1 person. I can't see any clues on her laptop as to what might be causing it and the timing seems wrong for students mucking about trying to guess passwords. Anyone got any clever ideas? Thanks

Hi, Anybody here using Show My Homework? What's it like? Is it worth the asking price? Or does anyone know any really good alternatives? Thanks

From memory (I was VCP3 certified, so some time ago). The way it handles LUNs is a lot better than anything I've seen in Windows. The GUI is a lot nicer, easier to use, I think more powerful (vCenter). Failover clustering and live migration are all easier to set up. The product is just pure magic with a price tag. Unfortunately - it has a price tag.

You need Windows Server licences anyway for your host VMs, Hyper-V comes built in at no extra cost, The GUI is easier, You need to install to HDD anyway, The OS footprint will be less than any HDD's you can get hold of easily now days. I suppose, to me, you're asking the wrong question - why not use the full OS + Hyper-V? Unless you're host servers are over provisioned and you need every ounce of CPU and RAM you can lay your hands on for the guests? If that's the case I'd be advising buying a new server.

64Gb SSD's are cheap enough and should do the job. VHost4's C: drive currently sitting at 32Gb (EDIT: That's a full Windows Server 2012R2 install with GUI) Not that I've ever noticed. vHost4 has been live for well over a year now. This one? Download Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 for Free! - MSTechSA - Site Home - TechNet Blogs