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Frankly that just isn't normal for 99.9% of schools/business. If all you have is a 2 node cluster, someone obviously got a large backhander for that setup of the UPS! It's not about how long it currently runs, but how long you need and why. If you're talking into days you'd be better off looking down the generator route Steve

To give an example, our current cluster is using a Smart-UPS X 3000 (About £2k~) Now with 2 Node cluster, storage, and core switch on it, it's currently showing available run time of 24min 39sec (Obviously power dependant on your equipment) So if you're talking approx. £2k per 20mins, scale it to how long you're after basically Steve

What do you call a while though... Bearing in mind if you have a powerloss no-one is going to have computers etc to access said servers The normal point is to be able to shutdown them safely without losing data, or to hold over a small power loss for a few minutes etc Steve

Depends how long you're after really. Ours is more for spikes/power loss, but we aren't expecting to run it for hours. A single APC 3000 model would more than do a 2 node cluster Steve

How recently updated is the server? There are loads of old bugs with 2016 that give these kind of things, but most of these should have been fixed with updates Could try a few of the older ones to see if any help (Obviously won't fix it long term, but quick checks to see if any of the old bugs are still present) - Kill audiodg.exe in TaskMgr Restart Terminal (TermService) service Stop AppReadiness Service Steve

Regarding your staff/pupil ones, assuming that's based on computers etc not wifi, personally I'd do those per "areas" If something "bad" happens in block1 for staff, that design would still replicate the "badness" across your entire network. Also infrastructure/servers etc on it's own one is my preference Steve

Regarding the updates do you have an example update that isn't showing unless you go online? Not everything is under Win10, for example lets say Silverlight if you still use it etc, so it depends what updates showing as to what category/product Regarding approvals, best option would be to setup the auto approval rule then you won't need to do it manually (But again it could be because something else has superseeded it etc so it's not getting approved by default) Steve

Nope, it’s 16 cores minimum to license one copy of standard/dc (for the physical machine) One copy standard gives 2 VM One copy Datacenter is unlimited VM If you go over that VM limit you basically need to relicense the entire physical Eg 1 VM = 16 std or 16 dc 2 VM = 16 Std or 16 dc 3 VM = 32 std or 16 dc 4 VM = 32 std or 16 dc 5 VM = 48 std or 16 dc Etc If that makes more sense Steve

Nope to all the above I'm afraid. It's a minimum of 8 cores per CPU however it's minimum 16 per server. So you need 16 cores covered (8 packs of 2 if you're doing it in 2's) Then as the others said Standard = 2 VMs, DC = unlimited So if you're doing 5 VMs it's basically either 16 cores of DC (as the minimum), or 48 cores of standard (being 16 per server * 3 to cover 5 VMs) Steve

Those logs you showed aren't at that date when it first failed though. If you look on your original screenshot the original fail seems to have been the 1st May between 8-9:30~ where there's 2 checkpoints showing Any new checkpoints after that won't clear the older ones that are already broke Would be worth checking back to that 1st one and see what it shows there Steve

Just a thought but might be worth having a dig through your event logs on the HyperV host under Hyper-V-VMMS (in events -> MS -> Hyper-V-VMMS etc) and see what it says around that timestamp 1st at 21:35, it should generally log any failures in there Steve

There must be something that's affecting the backups to make it not merge them though, as it should be as soon as the backup finishes. Unless it's something silly like you have it backing up too often and it's not giving it time to finish merging. You seem to have one at 8:20 and 9:20 as if you're running multiple backups? While you physically "can" disable them, it's really not advisable as they're used to ensure all data is saved if somethings being written during the backup to the disks etc, but as mentioned if it's working properly it should just merge them instantly after the backup finishes. Regarding the fixed disk, you could still shrink them in HyperV (when the servers turned off) but obviously if you shrink them you need to leave space for real expansion. The speed aspect only really is when it's expanding, and isn't a big hit unless you're talking huge SQL queries etc, but it's no harm really anyway, as if it's fixed and you have space it's no different to expanding in that sense Steve

So the virtual disk can be larger than the partition in Windows if you've had it previously where you had more data, then shrunk a partition etc, but you might not have shrunk the virtual disk in HyperV (Edit - Also could be you used fixed disks rather than expanding, so it takes the entire space up at the start rather than expanding as needed) The AVHDX are differencing disks that normally occur during a checkpoint, backups etc make these, but they should disappear after the backup completes successfully and merges back into the server/vhdx The easiest way to merge them is normally just by turning off the server (VM wise) and it'll auto merge them back together (although this does rely on you having some space to do that in the first place). Are you fully maxed out? Steve

Still seems to be broken at least on mobile, can't set either mobile theme Steve

All I can think about while watching that trailer is power rangers... Who does it better I wonder! Steve

I haven't used it yet, but at least from the pictures on the app/demo it seems to be 1 point = £1, and 10 points per collection (If you use the link above and look at the screenshots that's what I mean) Maybe just demo data but suggests that's the case Steve

Have you tested it with a default boring template? Most common kernel errors with xibo are either memory running out with things like videos, or silly items like templates not liking embedded files (powerpoint etc) So just doing a boring blankish template should give a nice easy test as to if it's one of those it's not happy with Steve

Interestingly if you have a A3+ subscription it seems MS are releasing new options that will resolve a lot of what I mentioned under a new service addon for WUfB: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/announcing-the-windows-update-for-business-deployment-service/ba-p/2178419 Steve

Lots of 404 errors in dev mode, guessing somethings broke and the CSS is shot Steve

It says on the video on the site about it working when internet is down still, doesn't say much about it but guess it just logs the admin data and does the print direct Steve

As you said about them being 1Gb the big one to check normally is whether VMQs are still enabled on the NICs as they can cause problems depending on drivers etc Do you get the same kind of speeds if you copy it from an external pc to the VM etc? rather than the HOST? Steve

Then adding them as USB disks in the VM settings isn't supported. You need to use pnp passthrough on virtual connection/RDS to get them into the VM Steve

If you check in disk management what's it showing the USB as? (Basic or Removable?) It sounds like you might not actually be using a disk, and removable storage etc which won't give that option (Think USB HDD vs USB flash etc) Steve

What error is it giving you when you ask it to? You said originally there was no option for it, but spr above said where it was so will need some more info as to what the error says etc Steve

It's the same principle on a pc too, you can't share the USB with 2 OSs at once using pass-thru (OS level), so take it offline on Win10 machine, and then it'll allow it inside the VM Alternatively, if you're RDSing into the VM pass it thru as part of the client connect Steve