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Whilst not edu we recently reviewed a handful of offerings - Intune, Ninja RMM, and Zoho/Manage Engine and found that they were pretty much a much. (though Intune was the only one I could find that had a tickbox to say 'make sure it is bitlockered' the others would run a self written powershell script to tell you if it was but that just seemed clunky) We settled on Intune in the end as we had licensing as part of our wider EMS licensing and with no immediately compelling functionality available in the others over it it is 'acceptable'. It is by no means perfect or even close to a group policy / SCCM alternative but it ticked the relevant boxes for us - enforce encryption, plug into AAD conditional access, etc and it works across our Windows, and MacOS laptops plus Android and iOS Devices to give us a single point of management. I am still not sold on it for the future though so interested in which direction you go.

I really feel for you on this, the bug is a really nasty one. I unfortunately think they will push back and say that you as the customer didn't perform the routine maintenance to update the firmware which would have resolved the issue (in their eyes!) if it's a 2 now 3 letter company they released updates a while back for it and I know that isn't helpful right now it would be their stance. I'd push back on that though to suggest that they should have gone further to contact customers etc. The difficulty I think here is that if a supermarket or toy company recalls something you don't often get a direct notification of it other than a bit of press and a poster in store - whereas a call recall you tend to get it via the post through the rules there. Feel for you I really do, glad you have a DR site and good backups - a lot of places wouldn't have had those.

Did you clean up removing old ghost devices from device manager after p2v? (show hidden non present devices true) I've seen weird things happen when a vm thinks it's a hpe physical server when it still had hardware devices/drivers in place post migration. Other thing to check is the disk controller in the vm settings, and whether you're seeing any weird traces in procmon when you feel the hang.

Check your vmotion nic tcp/ip stack is consistent, check for mtu as well. Which version of esxi? What’s in the vpxa/d and hostd logs?

And pay attention at the next patch reboot when services start up and bind etc.

Hi there, There's a known issue now resolved I believe with access in Australia.

Hi there, If I’m reading your post correctly it’s expecting a domain account to talk to the individual vms it backs up. Sounds like you’ve added the hyper v hosts using local administrator account which is fine, and you’re on the application consistent backup page in the wizard where it wants credentials to talk to the vms. To confirm you could untick that box and it’ll do crash consistent backups which don’t need to talk to the individual vms. Only good for testing though you definitely want application consistent backups (vss in windows).

Tcp 443 and udp 3391 (optional but recommended) to the RD Gateway machine. Never 3389.

If you do the maths without PowerBI involvement do they make sense? I speculate you may have something like total staff cost as a large figure of all teachers (maybe you also have non teachers in the figure need to check if you want that), but does your total teaching hours reflect the number of taught lessons concurrently? Ie. It's a five lesson day (crude maths not including ppa etc) so five hours per teacher. But if you have 50x concurrent lessons your figure would be 5*50 because they are all teaching hours. Hard to know without insight into the spreadsheet the SBM has provided, they are probably best placed to help you understand the figures before feeding it into PowerBI.

Is this because they don't see them in the sent items folder? If so - take a look at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/troubleshoot/shared-mailboxes/sent-mail-is-not-saved

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I think we've seen this (or similar) with a race condition on the Windows Firewall / RDMS service - try to restart the firewall service and then start the rdms service.

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I'd be looking in the logs on both the stack and the core to see about spanning tree messages. I'd also check generally the configuration in terms of bridge priority but also looking at if you give the stack a different IP can it reach the network then? It would be worth simplifying things considerably too by unplugging the access ports on the stack if you can so you're left with empty stack connected to network. Does the problem still occur? Then gently progress adding ports into the mix whilst watching logs and experience. Hopefully you're going to find the smoking gun.

Can you get the config from it?

Can you ping the gateway of the printing vlan when it goes wrong? I'm wondering if something is stealing the gateway IP and the whole lot dies because of this. Also, put a pc onto that vlan and run pings from there too when it goes wonky so you can see if traffic still works within the vlan (that will help give you geographical representation too) The logs on your switches will be key too to see if there's something happening with spanning tree or whatnot.

Yep, good luck

Yep, look at the KB above (short version - add that registry entry and reboot) (usual caveat, take a backup first)

Hello, Being a single domain controller I think it's now caught in a vicious loop between DNS and AD not coming up. Please check in event viewer to see if you can see an ID "4013 - The DNS server was unable to load AD integrated DNS zones" https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/2001093/troubleshoot-dns-event-id-4013-the-dns-server-was-unable-to-load-ad-in

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That looks alright then there - it may simply show up when you run the job again (as opposed to a retry) - it reads to me as its frozen it out on the retry - the retry then completes but remarks all vms processed (Except the excluded one). A fresh run of the job should bring it in.

Hello, On the job where you see it in the list - look at the exclusions - https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/backup_job_excludes_vm.html?ver=95u4 I have seen disks/VMs land in here that leads to this confusion - though mostly on a copyjob/replication. Cheers, Kim

Hi there, The vbm file is less interesting when you only have a vbk so I wouldn't worry too much about that. (ie. Take a vbk to another machine with veeam even free and double click it and it will imort fine) Your thinking is fine if you can copy that huge(?) vbk up before it gets replaced during the next job run. Something like stablebit cloud drive would be worth a look. Google file stream can present a drive letter but I'm not sure it'll be fluid enough.

Hello, With reverse incrementals the large vbk changes on each run so you can't just lift the vrbs each time. With forward incrementals you could lift the vbk when it's created and then subsequent vrbs until a new full is created when the vbk will need go up again. Are the longer retention backups held in your datacentre configured as normal backup jobs or a gfs style copy job? (thinking around how long the files remain static) Are the sizes involved making this a daily (or more frequently) endeavour or is this more about extending the retention out using Google drive for longer archive? Thanks, Kim

Not done it (done it the other way into AHV) - but would imagine qemu-img can convert them though (it can from hyper-v to qcow/raw) Might be worth a look at this - https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/virtual_pc_guy/2015/06/22/handy-tool-for-converting-kvm-vmware-images-to-hyper-v/ - is old but I think the principle is still the same. You can probably do this directly on a Nutanix CVM and then pull over the resulting vhdx/vhd to wherever you need to.