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This might be of use to you - Blogs - Mark's Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs It details similar debugging using some additional tools, though it is targeted at Vista/Win Server 2008. Obviously you'll need to swap some things out, ntkrnlpa.exe to ntoskrnl.exe for example.
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Its the kernel, so in other words it could be coming from anywhere, the address at the end doesn't help narrow it down either sadly.
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I'm also interested in this, I've read some comparisons that put Storage Spaces way behind in terms of performance when it comes to read/write with parity, but in a basic mirror it's quicker. Have to admit though in terms of flexibility its a no brainer.
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You shouldn't need to worry, that isn't to say you shouldn't follow up with them to be 100% sure (but since O365 relies on Azure AD I doubt it's possible for you to lose data in this way). The 'Access to Azure Active Directory' subscription is one that you will have activated by accessing Azure AD through O365 and a browser. By default you can use DirSync without activating any Azure AD features and without accessing it at any time. Did you find out what the trial was? I presume it was to do with Applications in Azure?
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Office 365 has Azure behind it and wont work without it. The trial you have is most likely for a different part of Azure. If you go to your Office 365 admin area - portal.office.com/admin/default.aspx , under the Admin section you should see Azure AD. Click this link to be taken to the Azure management area - https://manage.windowsazure.com/. Once you get to the Azure AD management area you can goto Settings, the first panel that will be displayed is your subscriptions. Here you can see what active subscriptions you have, and included in the list should be the trial you have signed yourself up to and since cancelled. The only thing I have listed is "Access to Azure Active Directory" which as you might expect gives me access to view Azure AD, nothing more.
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The actual file, that isn't a thumbnail image! - The HIstory of the Batmobile Photo Gallery - Autoblog
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PSA: Free 100GB OneDrive storage deal now available globally
JRowley replied to Arthur's topic in Cloud Services
The first link has expired it seems. -
Office 365 - Any areas for pupil restrictions we should be aware of?
JRowley replied to apearson's topic in Cloud Services
The problem with O365 is that it is formed from two distinct parts, Exchange and Sharepoint. Exchange handles Outlook, Calendar, People, Tasks, where as Sharepoint handles OneDrive, Sites, Projects (if you have it). Sharepoint doesn't respect GALs which is why the list isn't restricted. However I don't believe there is much in terms of separation for Sharepoint, you can do security groups and audiences but you still can't change where the sharing list is populated. Its good that MS are coming on-site for you, I would definitely press the matter, your best option is probably to push for the list to be able to have an audience or security group attached to it, its unlikely they will be able to get GAL support added in any reasonable amount of time due to the separation. -
Office 365 - Any areas for pupil restrictions we should be aware of?
JRowley replied to apearson's topic in Cloud Services
To my knowledge there isn't a way to restrict the look up, it doesn't respect the GAL and just seems to search through the entire user base of that tenant which is not ideal to say the least. This is what made us take a look at display names for staff as previously they did not interact with students with their staff email accounts, sadly to migrate them to O365 we had to rename them to the format J Rowley rather than full names. Your idea would be an ideal solution, sadly I don't think it's possible, not even in powershell. However I will say that beyond the name issue I don't think having them able to see everyone is too much of a problem, if a child decided to be malicious and send something to a teacher that they shouldn't, it would be immediately obvious who shared it and what they shared. So the disciplinary system can handle it perfectly well. Though having multiple schools under one tenant does present a number of issues in that regard. -
Another phone call from our contact, he stated that he could not find any documentation to support it being by design as the documentation he found simply states you are unable to edit, not open the calendars in this configuration. So as a result we did some powershell transcripts of some of our policies on both our on-premises server and O365, and took some network traces with IE11's dev tools and fiddler (both reproduced the error 500 regarding the calendar details) he is now escalating it internally to the Operations team so that he can remain our contact. So looks like we are getting somewhere, though he mentioned that this may take some time to resolve as they will need to investigate the issue and then action the engineers to develop a fix if one is required. Also we are still running RU 3 on our on-premises server, but he has tested it on servers up to and including RU 8 and it is present in all of them so he believes that if there is a problem then Exchange Online also carries it.
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It must only effect the basic broadband package I guess, on fibre unlimited I can use my entire bandwidth for p2p downloads such as torrents. I've spoken to Sky directly about this as well and they confirmed that they don't do anything for their fibre unlimited package, I had to ring because their CDN had an issue and it felt like YouTube was being throttled, but it was resolved within a day.
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They don't throttle anything from my experience with them for the last 3 years, unless you have evidence to say otherwise? This would be against their terms and conditions which I am extremely doubtful they would do it as they would be open to legal action from consumers and Ofcom.
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Sky don't throttle you when downloading torrents or anything else for that matter. If you are downloading on one PC then access will be slow on the other, by virtue of the fact that you are downloading something. Torrents if well seeded will consume all of your bandwidth.
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The biggest problem with Random in terms of technology is that actually it isn't random at all. Almost all algorithms use a seed value to generate a random number which is then applied to a data set. So you can generate the same random number over and over if you use the same seed value. Also generally speaking random number generators are designed to have an even distribution when you generate millions of numbers, but at low quantities you may get the same number one after the other or clumps of numbers which are close to each other. In programming terms you can do things like use a random number generator (based on cpu cycle count, or similar) to generate a seed for another random number generator, and repeat this process each time you want a new number as this would help mix up the values a fair bit, but beyond that there's not alot can be done. You can also do things like use something which is difficult to predict, such as the amount of solar radiation in our atmosphere as a seed, but you are still reliant on an algorithm.
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Here's the low down on Jamie Oliver's website virus issue
JRowley replied to bodminman's topic in General Chat
I don't have the first one as we just delete our notifications after a month, here is the oldest notification we have: Edit: Turns out this is the earliest one, I thought I had seen one before this but doesn't look like it. -
Twitter, full of porn - what do you do?
JRowley replied to grant_girdwood's topic in Internet Related/Filtering/Firewall
The same for me, though I suppose it's one of those where you have to go looking for it, and if you do it's relatively easy to find. Much like the internet on the whole really these days. -
Twitter, full of porn - what do you do?
JRowley replied to grant_girdwood's topic in Internet Related/Filtering/Firewall
Same as the above, for all social media. -
Our Access Level is set to allow Free/Busy access with time, plus subject and Location. So pretty similar I think.
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Just got off the phone. They believe it to be by design because while you can view Free/Busy information through the scheduling assistant (which uses the default permission), in order to add and view a calendar it requires you to have different permissions (which I can't find). These permissions apparently aren't support cross-forest even if the default permission would allow you to view the free/busy information. He also had no explanation as to why it worked previously or why it still works in Outlook, he also couldn't provide an explanation for why they had made the decision to not support this. I've requested more information as I find that to be a huge oversight which isn't documented anywhere, which the support engineer confirmed to be the case, he also couldn't find any information on it. I'm not really satisfied with this frankly.
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Hmm, sounds to me like they are rolling out a change on the backend which has broken the functionality as ours stopped working earlier than yours.
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It's stated clearly here that it is supported, I fail to see how or why they would remove the functionality personally - https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2807149?wa=wsignin1.0 Obviously we don't expect the permissions to work but we should be able to see Free/Busy information, I'll keep you posted on our ticket but it's looking like they will just mark it as resolved because they believe it to be by design. Edit: Has it been working for you in the past?
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Don't know what to suggest then without you getting into your DNS configuration and firewall rules. It's probably not worth it, just never look at that DPA again.
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Some of the root servers support IPv6, so it may be trying even though you don't have it configured on the cards. e.root-servers.net is IPv4 only so you might want to try that one on its own.
