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SAS controllers can use work with both SAS and SATA drives SATA Controller cannot iirc. unless you need a biblical amount of storage/on a tighter budget i would go with SAS, as others have said SSD is an option. out of interest what rack server are you looking at purchasing?

flexibility is what appears to be its biggest gain, coupled with the fact you can add in drives without the need to reboot (if hotswapping) and the storage can be added straight to a pool.

rack or pedestal ? either way id pop the cover off and see if there is a spare SATA/IDE port to plug a DVD drive into if you havent got a USB drive

have you tried using dism /online /cleanup-image /spsuperseded there are some other switched for image clean up iirc

bullet proof with proper servicing not sure if they have dual mass flywheels or not worth checking as stop starting kills them couple of mates have had seat/skoda's with the 1.9 SDI in ibiza's liked them i have a focus TD estate (not the TDCI) which is still going strong with 180K on the clock and it does 50mpg on a run and they can be picked up cheap. the 3/5 door hatches are badged as TDDI's rather than TDCI's

i think you need to run ADprep tool for joining an 2012 server to a 2008 based domain.

it wasnt something which i had alot to do with, i believe it was for cost savings, also there are certain things which capita allow which the LEA dont/wont support. however the capita support i have recieved so far has been very prompt which is nice

i was talking about these keys which are "generic" Appendix A: KMS Client Setup Keys

if your doing fresh installs the generic KMS key for win7 will cause it to look for a KMS host to register against, its pretty much a fire and forget process

does event viewer give anymore detail? port on the firewall open/server able to talk to MS to activate the key, as that to me would be the 1st area to look.

Installing Volume Activation Services Role in Windows Server 2012 to setup a KMS Host - Ask the Core Team - Site Home - TechNet Blogs is the best guide i have seen for 2012R2 and makes a change for MS guides to be as clear im guessing you could also run slmgr.vbs on the host to check its status but i havent tried this on 2012R2

upgrade options are decent if a little eager to talk to you lol

been bumbling about with this for a few days, (1st serious attempt at setting this sort of thing up so might be slight overawed) i have managed to setup a squid proxy which works fine if the browser is pointed at it directly but for the small LAN i need to provide internet for i dont want the users having to enter proxy information. i had originally tried using a smoothwall express installation for this but had issues with HTTPS sites/traffic not being allowed (if the proxy was added to the browser the problem disappeared even with https being allowed to pass through the smoothwall firewall. so i was thinking that a pure squid install would give me more flexibility, but its not working transparently i have it running squid 3.1 on centos 6.5 so im guessing something is wrong with my firewall setup on the centos install below is my squid.conf and IPTABLES (the iptables was generated from a script i found in a squid proxy guide..) IPTABLES # Generated by iptables-save v1.4.7 on Wed May 7 10:12:02 2014 *mangle :PREROUTING ACCEPT [265:23495] :INPUT ACCEPT [229:21595] :FORWARD ACCEPT [1:66] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [51:4904] :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [52:4970] COMMIT # Completed on Wed May 7 10:12:02 2014 # Generated by iptables-save v1.4.7 on Wed May 7 10:12:02 2014 *nat :PREROUTING ACCEPT [191:17945] :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] -A PREROUTING -i eth1 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.0.1:3128 -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 3128 -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE COMMIT # Completed on Wed May 7 10:12:02 2014 # Generated by iptables-save v1.4.7 on Wed May 7 10:12:02 2014 *filter :INPUT DROP [0:0] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -i eth0 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -i eth1 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -j LOG -A INPUT -j DROP -A FORWARD -i eth1 -j ACCEPT -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT -A OUTPUT -o eth1 -j ACCEPT COMMIT # Completed on Wed May 7 10:12:02 2014 Squid.conf # We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent # web applications running on the proxy server who think the only # one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user #http_access deny to_localhost # # INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS # # Example rule allowing access from your local networks. # Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks # from where browsing should be allowed http_access allow localnet http_access allow localhost # And finally deny all other access to this proxy http_access deny all # Squid normally listens to port 3128 http_port 3128 intercept # We recommend you to use at least the following line. hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ? # Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory. cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid 5000 16 256 cache_mem 512 MB # Leave coredumps in the first cache dir coredump_dir /var/spool/squid # Add any of your own refresh_pattern entries above these. refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080 refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440 refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0 refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320 visible_hostname doorstop #fireall options cache_peer 172.x.x.x parent 3128 0 no-query default never_direct allow all We are sat behind an LEA controlled firewall so the next question would be do i need to have ports opened for https traffic to be passed to the upstream proxy? help ang suggestions greatly recieved as they is alot of conflicting info on the internet

i dont think you can expand partitions unless they are "next" to each other. so you would need to move your data from D: to F:

if your not aware already if a KMS key is used it another client and it publishes itself to KMS it will start accepting license requests. i stumbled across this when i was 1st testing KMS and one of my colleagues used a KMS key by mistake

might have a "mastering server 2008r2" somewhere

i used rundll32 printui.dll PrintUIEntry /dd /m "printerdrivername" /C "computername" in a batch file works well u do need the correct driver name listed in oemsetup.inf of the driver

from memory the KMS key needs to be added to the KMS server host using slmgr.vbs /ipk "KMS license key" you will need to ad an entry in your DNS for the KMS host server (its _SRV record with _VLMCS as the service) key management needs to be enabled in the firewall if your hosting both office and windows on the same host in the future you will need the activation ID's to admin them otherwise the commands will default to the 1st license entered. this is simply explain in this guide: How to configure a KMS server in Windows Server 2008 R2 | ivan's blog

as well as the GPO settings you may need to adjust your user folder share permissions to allow the redirection to function properly see How to dynamically create security-enhanced redirected folders by using folder redirection in Windows 2000 and in Windows Server 2003 Which minimum Share & NTFS permissions do you need for the use of Offline Files and Folder Redirection in Windows 2008 / 2008 R2 - Romania Networking Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs as examples of permissions required

MBR is limited to 2TB i believe per partition. you can use the disk management interface to covert a disk to MBR or GPT (for example a single drive you would right click on the disk and select convert to MBR/GPT depending on what you require) are you using hardware or software raid?

CCS Media are good as well

i have found printer drivers for X86 clients on a 64 bit host to be very fussy to the point of having to use universal drivers on the server (as its essentially just spooling the job, and holding some default settings). the driver version for X86 and X64 need to match is what alot of the MS technet stuff says for best results

At least they are working on a better way of presenting and accessing their material..

Recently we have changed from being supported by our LEA for SIMS to direct with Capita, our LEA provided technical documentation for patches and releases etc and it was quite easy to find. i find supportNET quite horrid for finding any recent documentation (stickied items from 2005 really..) do capita have a section for patch and release installs etc. thanks

id say no not because the server wont like it but more because id be very nervous about a disk failure, have seen disks go from being fine when in use to being left for a bit which have then developed issues when being spun up again