jamesfed

Did an upgrade a few days ago to Server 2012 R2 and its done the same 2x since - so no luck there Built a new server and using DFS-R to replicate data over before switching over the name space. Weird issue to be sure!

Hi all, In the process of setting up a new Lync server for using with a SIP trunk to start getting rid of our old school PBX. Our SIP provider requires that the source of the data packets we send them comes from one of our public IP addresses instead of from and internal address that then goes through NAT through our firewall. To this end I have setup a DMZ with the network in the following config- Internet Router <---> Network Switch <---> DMZ VLAN <---> Core Switch <---> Public facing NIC on Lync Server With the default gateway of our Internet Router set on the Public facing NIC of the Lync Server I can see comms flowing freely between by server and the SIP endpoint (so all works ok here). Naturaly you can't have two default gateways so I have removed the default gateway from the private facing NIC on the Lync server. To get our clients to still be able to talk to the Lync server I have tried to setup routing as per this guide here - Windows 2008 / Multi-subnet clusters and using static routes. - Tim McMichael - Site Home - TechNet Blogs I've tried both the route add and netsh methods but arn't getting anywhere fast (whenever I do a tracert to a internal IP address it always tries to go out the public facing default gateway instead of along the route I have defined). So.........any clues on what to try next? Thanks! James

Update to my previous - just happened here again Going to do a Server 2012 R2 upgrade and hope for the best!

Well the issue has disappeared here - have been installing Windows Updates as well as that weird issue with Server 2012/VMware where Auditing plays a muck and can break things.

HP do the same as well now with most of their models of business class PCs Just wish Toshiba did the same so I didn't have to wade through 12+ pages of junk (even after filtering it by OS!)

Only seen it on 2012 here.

Most werid - seems like the same situation everywhere. Ran some updates a few weeks ago but has only cropped up recently. Going to take a look into that VMWare removeable disk problem - I can remember reading about it a while back and laughing about VMware screwing up (don't ask why I have it here!). IP/direct UNC path instead of DFS is the next thing I'm going to try if/when it happens.

VM hosted on VMWare - nothing in the VMware logs that I can find as well. Clock sync is bang on, nothing at all in the security logs and firewall is turned on and seems to be working good (although I shall enable firewall logging and see if anything comes up there).

Mighty weird one here - for the past day or so our Server 2012 staff file storage server has suddenly stopped working normally and prevents staff from browsing to it with access denied permissions errors. regardless of your personal permissions (in my case domain admin) its just not possible to access the file server over the network. However....logging on through RDP I can still easily locally browse to the files, see that the permissions are the same as always. Even more weirdly is there is nothing obvious in the logs, no high CPU usage, no weirdness of any kind what so ever. A restart promptly makes the issue go away (usually its about once a day with no particular pattern); our student file storage server which is configured identically hasn't shown even a hint of this issue at all. Going to remove it from the domain and add it back on tonight to see if it makes any change but does anyone have any other ideas? Worst comes to the worse I'll replicate the data over to another server and switch over but either way its a faf The file shares themselves are hosted on DFS and one thing I will be trying next time it happens is if a direct server name UNC path works any better.

Odd to hear about Milestone in such a way - found it to be heavier than some on the client CPU side but never had any issues with it as far as camera stability go. What kind of cameras are you running and what are network speeds like?

Quite keen on the web application proxy feature and will be playing around with the business skydrive uber thingy Quite a way off any big roll out though.

Not that I work there anymore but yep - Server 2012 Direct Access - Overview and from the users view - YouTube Got it at my new place but so far no one has been issued any notebook PCs!

Or just a licenced radio frequency with some decent quality handhelds?

Sooo much better not to have a silly start button On a training thing though my tech has been complaining about how difficult it was to get to things in Windows 8 until I realised that the problem is he didn't know about typing the name of the app right into the start screen.

Internal cert no but everything else yes Works a treat on Server 2012 with win7 clients but remember you need to setup a PKI.

A firm yes here - going to Windows 7 (from XP) this summer however have been laying all the foundations to go to 8.1 instead. With almost a year out in the wild I would be surprised if there were any more bugs inside it (not that I find that many these days anyway). Will do it even if my only reason is for the faster boot ups

Tried putting 8.1 on it just for the fun of it?

Windows 7 (Enterprise) works with Direct Access in Server 2012 as well - just need a Enterprise PKI setup (which isn't as hard as some people think) and you can deploy Direct Access and a SSTP VPN on the same server Crazy powerful tech - Server 2012 Direct Access - Overview and from the users view - YouTube The setup guide I used - 'Real World' Direct Access installation using Windows Server 2012 - Canberra Premier Field Engineering: Team Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

There are plenty of options here going from a DIY storage server (as some on here have made) all the way up to NAS boxes which host iSCSI mounted storage (cheaply). Some things I made myself a while back- Server for CCTV storage (although I wish I went with smaller faster drives in the end) - Inside a new Storage Server | my world of IT A make shift backup server - Time for a new backup server | my world of IT IMO storage using this kind of setup (at least for non mission critial things) is cheap and cheerful so why not just keep piling it up

Depending on the VPN tech you are using it might be possible to put in place a block rule to prevent the clients from talking to your WSUS server. Microsoft Direct Access could do something similar as well by telling the clients to look at the wrong DNS server.

Well after a good discussion (and a 19 slide PowerPoint) all has been sorted out The chaps at the MSP have also done some more reading at their end as well and have seen good things so....................pure SSD school on the way! Thanks to all that contributed and provided ideas/links!

Yep noooo option otherwise There are always ways and means to convince and knowing Edugeek all too well we have the power to convince

*cough* Mayyyybee........ Anywhos back on track....anyone with a SSD (or even better a batch of SSDs) which have lived longer than 4 years?

I'm afraid the only option is to buy the kit from this one company due to a contract that was agreed long before I started my current place Just need a little help on the whole long life of SSDs front really because all other options just aren't viable

It is a little more complicated than that.....(in fact I lie its a lot more complicated than that) - its a whole 'solution' they are providing us with the total cost coming in at quite a few 0s and so they are looking to minimise 'risk' wherever possible. All just business wangling but either way its not something I can change.