Blue_Cookeh

Saying that, we leave IPv6 enabled but don't actually assign any addresses, no issues here. Did you demote the old DC properly?

There's a lot more than just the GUI taken out when you choose core, hence they can reduce security updates by around 50%, and if you choose Nano for your Hyper-V infrastructure I believe it cuts that further to 75%.

Well, the first things that come to mind are all the security patches we get for Internet Explorer etc and how much quicker Core seems to reboot than GUI. Overall, I'll be sticking to Core where we can to make the most of our virtual environment's resources.

Export the wireless profile (the XML file) again but this time specify key=clear, e.g. netsh wlan export profile key=clear otherwise other computers won't be able to import the profile because the Wireless key will be encrypted. Be aware the XML file will have your keys completely in the open.

Plan plan plan as others have said! We're a smaller school yet still run on a good few VLANs now. More and more devices want network connectivity so things like access control suddenly fall into my lap. We have VLANs for: Data Voice Third Parties Management Guest WiFi CCTV Mobile OS Point to point links Publicly routed addresses The management of these isn't complicated IMO and has given me a lot of flexibility. Without VLANs there's no way in hell I'd run things like our public address space, guest WiFi, CCTV etc on our data network.

SCCM tells me everything you listed in the OP in one console, without staff even knowing Also defrags dont matter if you have SSDs!

Doesn't look like you can activate Core using the DISM command. Oh well

Can you not tag the uplinks between the switches with multiple VLANs? VLAN2 wont be able to communicate with VLAN3 still (requires L3) but at least the VLANs will work across switches.

All binned! Think we decided that we had a good 13/14 years of life out of them...

We used to buy Dell until we had an entire batch DOA, now we just get servers from them. We have 3 different models in use by staff at the moment: Lenovo T440p Lenovo X260 Lenovo Yoga 460 All fantastic build quality, Lenovo's 4 year NBD support has been very handy, and their SCCM driver packs are nearly as good as Dell's. We bought the Lenovo's through @Millgate and @VeryPC. They're a little on the pricey end, but honestly if we can get 4 or 5 years out of them then they work out similar to Dell.

Ohhhh yes, here we go!

Will be doing our Hyper-V hosts some time fairly soon, with a view to get DCs and others up in a month or so

Because Microsoft don't recommend LTSB for daily use/workstations. We're already starting to see things like Minecraft for Education only being supported on current branch/Education/whatever

Does this stick around when you push a major update like 1607 out to those 1511 clients? My main gripe is that major updates reinstall all modern apps, reset default app associations and resets a load of settings back to defaults. Pissin' annoying.

I've had this a couple of times and not seen it resolve it self. Is this the issue where the logon screen is black, but still displays date/time? I've been reimaging those machines, thankfully SCCM makes it a 45 minute automatic jobbie :/ In the beginning I was totally in favour of Windows 10, now I'm starting to think I've done the wrong thing in deploying it to our staff/students, none of this stuff came out during testing. Tempted to move over to Chromebooks slowly.

Also if you're worried about them deleting mail, place them on Legal Hold.

Those DHCP options wont have much effect if you're getting past the boot stage and into the 'Loading files' screen. It suggests there's something wrong with your image/drivers/hardware IMO. I would suggest getting the latest Windows 10 ADK and using the WinPE image from that.

I think just about every single aspect of it is staged really... still a fun one to watch though!

Oi! Not all of us young'uns eat that rubbish!

We generally buy servers outright from Dell with a 4 or 5 year NBD on-site warranty. At that point I try to replace them as soon as my budget allows. Once replaced I'll keep the older kit around for a couple more years as a place to shove testing VMs so they don't take capacity on the newer stuff. Going to Hyper-V (just our choice of hypervisor...) has made this process a whole lot easier. Bare in mind we don't replace all servers at once, we have them spread out a year or two after another.

Jumping on this for some of those delicious new features around storage and Hyper-V!

I must admit, I just did in-place upgrades on our Hyper-V servers from 2008R2 to 2012R2, there wasn't enough to lose if something went wrong for me to be bothered about reinstalling fresh.

Since they posted that it's been found that the 'speaker grill' is actually a vent so that the barometric sensor can still work in the 'water resistant' sealed phone. They use it for tracking when you go up/down flights of stairs and to aid GPS. http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/16/12941040/iphone-7-teardown-plastic-behind-where-headphone-jack-used-to-be

Can anyone clear this up for us? For example, say at the moment we have x2 2012R2 Standard licenses on EES on two hosts, both then with x2 2012R2 VMs on... does this change with 2016? If so how?

For a rough idea of costs: http://www.4gon.co.uk/ubiquiti-unifi-ac-edu-indoor-access-point-with-public-address-system-4-pack-p-6640.html and http://www.4gon.co.uk/ubiquiti-unifi-ac-edu-indoor-access-point-with-public-address-system-p-6639.html We bought all our Ubiquiti gear through @Millgate without any hassle. We've been using various models of UniFi APs for the past 3 (I think?) years and they've been fantastic. You'll need to run a controller 24/7 on a Windows or Linux box somewhere onsite or in the 'cloud', there's no licensing fees or anything. You would definitely want a speaker in every room though, they're not loud enough to travel through walls well with a noisy classroom as you say and the speakers cannot run without an AP attached. We've not deployed the tannoys yet but we deploy an AP for each classroom anyway since this gets the best performance out of our iPad and Netbook trolleys. Be warned, the speaker assembly is quite deep so you need to cut a fairly sizable hole in your ceiling for them, the easiest install they do is with drop ceiling tiles.