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We have Dell R510's/610s and 710s with Internal USB ports, might make an internal recovery drive.

Hi all, I have been building a few machines lately which have had onboard USB ports. I've come up with this idea whereby you could leave a USB thumb drive in that port and use it as a recovery zone. For example in Acronis you can set the safe zone to live on the USB stick and on boot up you will be presented with the 'Press F11 for system recovery option', the USB stick will have a backup image of the machine. You 'could' even put a ghost image on that drive to rollback to I guess. Handy.

Have had a few off of ebay in the past but when you really need some, you cant find them lol.

Hi all, I have some servers i need to put H700 raid cards into (Poweredge). Anyone got any spare kicking around I could purchase ? Seem to be few on the famous online bidding site. Thanks

Yeah points to ponder, in this part of the building its running pretty decent wifi. Think Ill just move the laptops though and reimage elsewhere. Thanks

They do have Ethernet but with being laptops, the part of a building I was in was wifi only. Never mind, will take them off for a wander and plug them in.

Hi all, Quick question. Is there anyway I can run deployment services over wifi ? Is there a method of maybe creating a USB boot disk that would attach to the WDS server on boot up using wifi drivers ? Just a thought Ta in advance.

I could do with an old server if anyone has one lol More to add to the collection at home..

Yes, PfSense with OpenVPN.

No I dont believe we did, after trying a manner of different firmware upgrades we could not get it working correctly.

Ahhhh I see.

Whats wrong with running WDS & MDT on the same server ? Rather than using a "technician PC" ?

Bizarre could understand it if it was a switch port, next time im in the server room ill plug the link back into port 1 on the server and see when the pings drop if the lights go out on the NIC. Might confirm if its hardware. These things are sent to try us and resignation letter can go back in the drawer lol. Strange how it only affected this server, though the server it was affecting is the same make/model as the troublesome one and on the same OS... the rest of the farm is a different model and on 2012 R2. Perhaps they had just taken offence to each other lol... bullying in the server farm.

Another server has, as it turns out a dodgy NIC port. Other server also running Server 2016. Maybe thats the link perhaps ? as no other server is affected but these are the only 2 on 16. Anyway, through troubleshooting I Shutdown my other server and pings returned to normal on the server that was misbehaving and immediately thought thats odd. RDP and Screen Connect also worked perfect. Sure enough, turned other server on and as soon as it started posting, pings, rdp etc dropped out on the naughty server. Unplugged cable from port 1 on back of server and plugged into port 2 and everything is now working as it should be. Odd.

We have a result. A bizarre one too. But everything is as it should be....

Checked that PFsense not blocking it.. Everything drops out - Screen Connect is doing the same as well as ping.

Nope disabling VMQ has made no difference at all. Tried 2012 driver. Same Issues Guess it's a Windows 16 bug.

Not looked at that - I dont see it on the NIC properties. **Found it** Will test.

RDP to physical host from different Subnet. Put a Server 2012 R2 on the same link and no issues. Also no issues on the VM's on that 2016 host.

Thanks, as far as I'm aware we are NOT using teaming... How would I tell ? This is literally just a boggo build of 16 with HyperV with Virtual Switch. Pinging a VM on the host now and doesnt miss a beat. Ping the Host and its request timed out, then replies, the request timed out and so on. I'm also RDP'd into the Host and Its disconnecting me constantly.

Hi all We have upgraded a few of Our Dell Servers R510/710. NICs are having issues where by the network is slow and drops out. All drivers up to date according to Dell Update tool and Dells website. NICS are QLogic BCM5716C. Its not the network links themselves as a 2012 Server will sit on the same link all day long without issues, seems to be a 2016 problem. The weird thing is, I can ping the VM's on the Host and they ping continuously without hitch, ping the host and ping will drop out, reply, reply, dropout etc. Anyone come across it ? Thanks in advance all.

MDT & WDS - if you want Open Source try FOG project. I also use Acronis Backup & Recovery with the Universal Restore.

Hi all I saw a piece of software a while ago and I cant think what it was called nor can I find it, it basically created a database of software installed on your pc, and saves that to a file. You can then put that file on a network share or external drive and re-image/format your PC. Once formatted, run the software and open the database file, the software then tells you what you had installed and you could go ahead and tell the software to reinstall all the apps you had before or only certain ones. Anyone seen it ?

Hi all just a quick one. Does anyone know in the TightVNC viewer whether it is possible to populate the attach listening viewer with a domain name automatically? Just trialling something at the moment and would like to have it so that this box is populated already, once installed. Thanks all

The PSA 2.0 HDI's are bullet proof they just wont die! A testament to that is when your wife puts over half a tank of petrol through it and it still runs like a dream and does nearly a 600 miles on it, with only dribs of diesel to dilute. My next car however will have the VAG 1.9 tdi lump in it as I fancy picking up a Passat 130.