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You define it in the backup plan. e.g. if files have been removed from local storage remove after x days.

They do make a drive product, but the regular CloudBerry backup we use essentially checks the backup folder for changes and then uploads them to Glacier (make sure you use forward incrementals!).

Yes. The storage costs are very reasonable because of the two fairly large caveats which you're already aware of: 1. There's no instant access to the backups. If you want to restore from them you need to wait until they're available. In testing situations we've found this preparation phase to be around 4hrs. 2. You pay a fair chunk to get the data back, especially if you're in a hurry. However, if your on-site live data and backups have been destroyed then you're probably at the point where you'll pay anything to get the data back. For long-term, archival type situations, it's great. With Veeam we use Cloudberry to manage the uploads automatically. If you're not grandfathered in with Veeam for the free copy of Cloudberry then it's fairly cheap.

OK, then it should just be a case of following the unmap guidance posted earlier. VMWare 6.5 with VMFS 6 can do auto-reclaim.

Is this an HP 4000 series SAN (StoreVirtual/SANiq)? It's only going to support space reclamation on thin provisioned LUNs if it's SANiq 12.0 or above and everything is set correctly for space reclamation. If it is that series and isn't upgraded to 12.0 then you can't get the space back once you've inflated a thin provisioned LUN. You have to create a new LUN or have another LUN with enough space. Migrate everything to the new/existing LUN with enough space. Delete the old LUN once empty. Now you have the space back!

You need to add the host to the Backup Infrastructure part of Veeam. I'm 99.9% sure that you can't use it as a target if it's running Free ESXi, it needs something even if it's VMWare Essentials as I hit the same snag with a host used for testing.

Couldn't you use Ruckus APs in wireless mesh mode if you can't cable to the area?

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I've got a lot of time for the Dell 3120 11 inchers. Dell Chromebook 11 | Dell UK They feel like you could drive a tank over them. Note: I haven't tried driving over them with a tank or otherwise.

No, I'm Spartacus!

Either of these should work, dependent on the supporting infrastructure. One drawback of network/VLAN level filtering without something joining it together is a double lookup for issues. Filter reports IP x.x.x.x looking at something inappropriate, which then involves the second step of jumping into Ruckus to see what user has IP x.x.x.x. Not exactly the end of the world, but a minor annoyance.

+1 for the Dell. We've had the original Samsung Chromebook, the cheap Samsung Exynos powered ones, Asus standard Chromebooks, and Dell. The Dell are by far the most robust of the ones that we've had.

I'd even let MDT do the heavy lifting of putting the drivers into the PE boot image. Johan Arwidmark has a good guide here, adapt as needed: Deployment Research > Research

HP do bundles of all the PE drivers you should need for their gear https://ftp.hp.com/pub/caps-softpaq/cmit/HP_WinPE_DriverPack.html Inject the appropriate ones into your images (backup first, natch) and you should be away.

Sounds like you're after a "VM to Host" DRS Rule.

Hi, Mr Billion VLANs here. Planning and understanding are the keys to success. I wouldn't call a large network with 25-30 VLANs particularly complicated, but then that's my bread and butter. Like most things, it's all relative. To the OP, don't do it "just because." Get stuck into some good material such as Cisco R+S and then Cisco Switch and Tshoot (or something agnostic). Design it, lab it, sim it until you've nailed it before you consider shunting that into production.

A gateway component sits in the VLAN with them and a port is open to that. There are ACLs in place to stop client traffic. You're right, it's not no-connection isolated rather it's isolated from domain traffic and vice-versa.

We initially did it with VirtualBox, but found that limiting to scale up once more than a few classes needed it. Now we have snapshotted VDIs in an isolated network running on Hyper-V managed by Ericom PowerTerm WebConnect. Once they're finished with they flip back to a known working state so no matter how much they're mashed up they just revert to a working state. Work can be saved out to school GApp or O365 accounts. The VDIs themselves are standalone - one good machine that's batch cloned and snapshotted. Access to the VDI frontend/portal is done with AD credentials, but the Ericom software then allows us to have a single user that exists on the VDI to be used on the VDI. That way there's no additional accounts and passwords for students and staff to worry about. Base image is on SSD, differencing on spinning rust. (The newest version of their software Connect doesn't yet support VDI in the same way. If you're interested in trialling it make sure you get a trial of WEBConnect)

Would TeamViewer in presentation mode do what you want?

Apply to PaperCut for a discretionary extension to your licence count to cover your controlled assessment accounts. That's what we did. https://www.papercut.com/kb/Main/ApplyingForAnException

Google's biggest competitive advantage is that it's been web-only from day one. They don't have to support either the legacy, or hybrid, that Microsoft do with 365. Use Office 365 online on Chromebooks, then you don't have to worry about local app confusion! You can even use Office 365/Azure as your SSO provider for Google Apps and run both with only one set of accounts to sync and manage.

If only I didn't need to eat this month.

What version of Veeam? Nothing untoward here with v8 and the 2008R2 and 2012R2 servers that have received the September patches.

We have one of these in our main server room. Ours is fairly basic, but there are tons of add-ons if people need them including the physical entry recording and wet-ropes to detect water on the floor.

ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\SystemData\S-xxxx\LockScreen_xxx Fun permissions too! Does the new image have the same filename? I've had a similar issue where I've overwritten the original image with a file of the same name (the original file, not LockScreen.jpg). I'm yet to try one with a different name and new lockscreen setting to see if this makes the alteration go more smoothly.