SHimmer45

thanks for the feedback, ordered a unit from stone the other week impressed with it (needs a display port screen to get rid of the chunky adapter)

As per the title, very interested in the form factor but dont want to have to "build" of the kits into a working PC stuff to do over the summer is mounting already so not having this extra to do would be grand.

for general use id be looking at a NUC. for something more heavy dutry perhaps a recon workstation?

at the other end of the scale i have a couple of Dlink AP's connected via a home plug kit to my "backbone" switch and router. (its a small flat) serves about 3-5 wireless devices and a couple of pc's and a NAS. planning on adding a smoothwall / pfsense box for shits and giggles

i may have used to make temp mounts for disks out of cardboard box flaps. like the look of the microservers for storage / upping the processor for virtual labbing which xeon cpu did you settle on @Dos_Box

done it that way for a long time without issue but its led me to find and use a better method

tried that exchange still moaned about trailing whitespace's tbh i might have been how i was creating the CSV in excel and then checking it in notepad and adding corrections where needed. since doing it with powershell i havent bothered with it as its MUCH quicker in powershell

i only looked at powershell as the DSADD way i was doing things started to give me problems running as batches due to whitespace issues which didnt become apparent until i tried to create the users mailbox....

the $."somename" would need to match the 1st cell in the column of you CSV iirc i use this for creating users currently Import-Csv D:\users.csv | Foreach-object { New-ADUser -Name $_.DisplayName -UserPrincipalName $_.UserPrincipalName -SamAccountName $_.Username -GivenName $_.GivenName -DisplayName $_.DisplayName -Surname $_.Surname -Description $_.Description -Path $_.Path -ScriptPath $_.ScriptPath -HomeDirectory $_.Homedirectory -HomeDrive $_.HomeDrive -AccountPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString $_.Password -AsPlainText -Force) -Enabled $True -PasswordNeverExpires $True -PassThru } 1st time doing it using powershell so i have kept it as simple as possible. my CSV headers are Username,GivenName,Surname,DisplayName,UserPrincipalName,Password,Description,HomeDirectory,HomeDrive,ScriptPath,Path

Certain Xeon's fit straight in i believe

i do the profile creation as listed about and works well

been looking at NUC's myself, i dont think i have seen a nuc with a VGA port however

goes back to a couple of odd experiences with CPU-Z on some older kit.

@tmcd35 intelARK is your friend for CPU info without the need to run a polling tool on a server which is something im always very nervous about doing

[slightthreaddrift] its something id love to be able to test the differences between RAID / HBA etc but only having aging test equipment is a pita. anyone purchase a smallish JBOD caddy for use with a HBA etc which doesnt cost the earth [/threaddrift]

misco / CCS media are good dell resellers

Discover isnt something that we really use anymore was used to set up some dynamic grouping. raised a query with Capita as the definitions in the settings are set so i was a little confused.

erk. well i havent had anything reported, we are running a fairly old version of .NET

again just stumbled across this, did the spring upgrade last night, does that include the fix?

completed the upgrade last night relatively painless Discover didnt upgrade and came up with an odd error message "Tolerance not met for target Discover Windows Services" so going to be speaking to capita re this. oddly i might have tried to install a compact version of SQL which isnt required on the host?

that was what i was checking so it will "chain" the other bits as it needs. as i havent deployed the database upgrades or anything yet

Im doing it this evening, reading the documentation it says you just need to click on deploy on your chosen upgrade. so would just clicking on 2015 spring install all of the required updates shown or do i need to click deploy on spring and then the database upgrades?

Have dealt with a company called upgrade options for dell parts in the past. Upgrade Options - The UK's leading provider of IT infrastructure and equipment

faulty module? some servers are very fussy about type (some will only support the vendors ram) and the order of installed ram in terms of which slots its installed in. id check the manual.

had something similar with a PCi-e Com port where for a couple of users would login and the board would not connect unless they clicked the find button, deleting all the active software settings in the profile and rebooting seems to have fixed the issue and they connect automatically without prompting, this is with the 5.9 driver on win7