Blue_Cookeh

To be fair if the servers were choking I didn't notice aside from a few Outlook disconnections. I was still sending and receiving mail in a timely manner.

That's because your machine is rolling it self back using that automatic windows repair thing on boot and losing it's current domain password (machine accounts have passwords too!). You can disable that with a script and bcdedit.

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05/08/2003 19:17:23 Back in the good ol' Server 2003 days and it's touched every Server version since!

I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner to be honest... after all, it is Accenture running that platform!

It doesn't matter where the PDC is, and you don't even have to have a physical DC anymore. We have x2 DCs (virtual/physical). I installed a new Server 2016 Core virtual machine, promoted that up to a DC, got it to replicate all our DFS shares, migrated DHCP over one evening (you need to backup and restore the DHCP database, plenty of guides through Google) and changed the DNS to the new IP, left it running for a few days, then demoted and deleted the old 2012 DC. Worked a charm and not seen any issues.

I'd like to know why you're after Smoothwall too? Out of all the testing I did for on-site filtering Sophos (UTM not XG) came out as suiting our environment the best, it came out cheaper, had more features, and was compliant with prevent.

You need to go through the Task Sequence wizard for it... but here it is, I believe it only affects the partitioning stage. It looks like you want the SMSTSBootUEFI variable:

Hi Guys, Has anyone else had any issues with Windows 10 completely breaking their networking stack? I've had about 5 staff and a trolley of netbooks completely drop off the network recently. Symptoms are showing as connected to our WLAN, but getting a 169 address and not being able to contact anything even with a static address. Happens no matter which Wireless network the machine is connected to, and happens even if we plug it in via Ethernet. I managed to find that doing 'netsh winsock reset catalog' and 'netsh int ipv4 reset reset.log' then rebooting seems to bring them back to life, and it doesn't occur again (yet). Any ideas how I could track this down, or even stop it from happening? Has anyone else seen this? I'm not sure if it's happening on any other OS', we're 100% Windows 10 at this point. We're not doing anything particularly fancy, typical WPA2 network, have DirectAccess deployed for VPN (but not on the netbooks, so I don't see that being the cause).

We went a little more "full on" with our radios and got a whole setup done by an external company. We got a bunch of Motorola SL1600 roamers, a couple of DP4800 for site agent etc, and a couple of DM4600 for the offices. Well worth the investment, batteries last long enough, range is brilliant, easy to lock down for staff use, and has a load of different talk groups/ability for announcements and other stuff. These required a license from OFCOM.

Praise the lord for rules! I'm only sitting at 103 deleted e-mails so far today... I wonder how quickly Accenture managed to nip it in the bud. Can confirm normal work e-mail is going through relatively quickly. FYI for everyone else, we were all recently migrated to the NHSmail2 platform, which is built around Exchange 2013, I wouldn't call that ancient personally.

Looks like a DB9 to me.

Make sure that new server is joined to your domain as a member server, then whilst installing SCCM it'll guide you through configuring the domain aspect for SCCM it self.

With more sites using random TLDs as part of their name blocking an entire TLD is not the right thing to do IMO. Here are a good example of popular IO sites: http://github.io Redis https://airbrake.io/ The world's #1 product roadmap software | Aha! https://c9.io/ Your filtering software should be looking at page content more than anything.

The APs pull their firmware from wherever the controller is based, either on-prem or in cloud.

I'll be fair to SB, they told me all of this before we signed up for anything, so it wasn't a problem. They also asked me roughly how long I think it would take and entirely worked to my schedule on readdressing everything. Scott from their NOC went through the entire setup over the phone with me and didn't hang up until we were both happy we had connectivity and filtering was working appropriately. As a network manager/IT technician/whatever you should have expected that from a company that's providing filtering/firewalling that's integrated with your on-prem devices/users.

If you decide to go down the NAS route (which I would personally, given you have two sites, just make sure you have some kind of hard offline backup too) Synology can do replication between two different NAS at two different sites so long as they have network connectivity.

You'd do yourself a favour in ditching Netgear if you're seriously looking at VLANs and routing, their management sucks. We switched over to HPE/Aruba switches.

FWIW I usually only allocate about 64GB on our servers!

We had another 10 - 15 min outage this morning, the support phone message said it was due to a Lightspeed Rocket issue. At this point I don't ever want to use Lightspeed again LOL, oh god

To be honest I'm completely fed up of SchoolsBroadband. I was so happy to get away from our LA's terrible support, but at least their broadband didn't go down. Since signing up with SB in the last 6 months or so we've had plenty of downtime/issues, and whilst SB have sent status updates out via e-mail it a) doesn't make up for the failed service and b) makes me look like a fool for switching to them in school. I wouldn't give a hoot during the holidays, but every time it goes down other people are telling me before I (who works off-site) knows, and before SB send anything out. What also irks me is that I've complained to Carole (The service manager I think?), our account manager, and Dave ( @SchoolsBroadband; ) but no one has ever replied. We have a simple FTTC line from Eclipse Internet for our SIP trunks (since SB couldn't get their own SIP trunks working through their Fortigate firewalls) which has seen better uptime.

I believe you should be completely ignoring the proxy, Worcester CC should have a way to give you access to a 'clean' Internet connection for these specific devices, the proxy is only going to cause you headaches in the long run. Back to the actual problem, there's about twenty different ways to set proxies in Linux and even then it is completely up to the software (in this case Ubiquiti's management software on the AP) as to wether it uses the proxy or not.

You'd be better off not screwing with the underlying OS on those APs and just creating a firewall exemption to allow whatever the management port is out to whichever IP your cloud management console is using. EDIT: Port information is here: https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/204910084-UniFi-Change-Default-Ports-for-Controller-and-UAPs

Not sure if they've picked up the Aruba OS feature set the 2920s have? We're using things like the Bonjour gateway now. Also what's the CLI like compared to the 2920? It doesn't look as full, or even like HP support using it.

Yeah, not touching Meraki with a barge pole - Infrastructure shouldn't be a "pay it or brick it" service.