ChrisMiles

Yes but the "servername" part will be what your domain is called, not the name of the domain controller. It won't resolve to any IP addresses externally, but allows you to get ssl certificates etc, which you can't do for .local domains.

You shouldn't use .local or .internal or anything else like that. Those have been depreciated for a long time. If you are making a new domain from scratch best practice states that you should use a private subdomain of your external dns name, such as ad.myschool.org or internal.myschool.org.

I recommend https://github.com/jay0lee/GAM/, it's free and awesome for automation.

We have some older switches with as many as 8 trunked ports. Just a note worth mentioning here, that teaming multiple 1gb links in this way does not increase the bandwidth available to a single device, only bandwidth available for all devices. i.e. A device can only use one of the links at a time for a max of 1gb of bandwidth. 10gb ethernet is the way to go

WOW! Good job we didn't migrate to 2016... oh wait Honestly, how does something that low level and critical sneak into the release build!

Do your VMs have the "Operating system shutdown" Integration Service enabled? This is required for shutting down VMs from the Hyper-V Manager.

If it helps, this is likely caused by people double-clicking the submit button. You should teach kids not to do that. Almost nothing on the web requires more than a single click and double-clicking everything can cause all sorts of problems. To fix your problem you can use the Remove Duplicates option in Excel but you'd need to remove the timestamp column as it won't be the same.

Microsoft Print to PDF is an optional feature in Windows and can be removed using Remove-WindowsFeature or can be removed from your golden image.

I never recommend letting windows automatically create and allocate permissions for roaming profiles. Create the folders in advance and allocate the user only modify permissions. This prevents Windows and the user screwing with the permissions.

This is impossible to do using FSRM as it always works with file sizes not size on disk, so a 2GB file uses 2GB of quota even if it dedupes down to nothing. Regardless of what Microsoft may have said, this is how FSRM and dedupe have worked since dedupe was added. I strongly advise against using any quotas or any other FSRM functionality on the root of a volume. Create a folder in which to store everything in order to not interfere with the System Volume Information folder.

I left it enabled in group policy because I had other software with the same problem, although can't remember what. It doesn't do any harm as far as I know.

This is not possible and it's unlikely to ever be as the whole point of RDS is to run applications on a remote server. We run all our SIMS through RDP here for 4 schools and no one even notices that Office apps are sometimes remote. The magic of folder redirection and mapped drives mean they still have access to the same folders and files, printers are forwarded onto the server over RDP too.

Dear Matt, Are you having the problem where the installer just hangs for ages with a message saying "Please wait while the application is preparing for the first use" or something similar? This issue is caused by the Windows installer RDS Compatibility mode which you can disable in local/group policy: Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Session Host > Application Compatibility > Turn off Windows Installer RDS Compatibility We've had SMART Notebook running on RDS servers for years, on 2008 R2 and then 2012 R2. Not tried it on 2016 yet but it should work.

I've done this several times with our NPS server. The certificate is only used during authentication so it won't boot people off who are connected and as long as it is trusted on the device it won't cause a problem next time they connect. The only place it will cause an issue is with devices where the certificate is not trusted and the instruction to ignore this problem and connect anyway was given. These devices will again complain about the certificate. Don't be tempted to renew the certificate with the same key, it doesn't get picked up properly.

Getting this crash: Version=1 EventType=APPCRASH EventTime=131357883734624932 ReportType=2 Consent=1 UploadTime=131357883734944929 ReportIdentifier=dc053f50-193f-11e7-a954-e0071b6e83e1 IntegratorReportIdentifier=724f102a-7a92-448e-9301-8fbed4a8a82f NsAppName=vmcompute.exe AppSessionGuid=00001628-0000-001d-a761-f89749add201 TargetAppId=W:0000f519feec486de87ed73cb92d3cac802400000000!00009a90425c5aa0499eabe1958da033616d3ba5bd28!vmcompute.exe TargetAppVer=2017//03//04:06:26:29!1e0fd5!vmcompute.exe BootId=4294967295 Response.BucketId=ae3769d70f9079aa24b7e02c3e9ce458 Response.BucketTable=4 Response.LegacyBucketId=120717097638 Response.type=4 Sig[0].Name=Application Name Sig[0].Value=vmcompute.exe Sig[1].Name=Application Version Sig[1].Value=10.0.14393.953 Sig[2].Name=Application Timestamp Sig[2].Value=58ba5e15 Sig[3].Name=Fault Module Name Sig[3].Value=vmcompute.exe Sig[4].Name=Fault Module Version Sig[4].Value=10.0.14393.953 Sig[5].Name=Fault Module Timestamp Sig[5].Value=58ba5e15 Sig[6].Name=Exception Code Sig[6].Value=c0000005 Sig[7].Name=Exception Offset Sig[7].Value=00000000000c86ca DynamicSig[1].Name=OS Version DynamicSig[1].Value=10.0.14393.2.0.0.400.8 DynamicSig[2].Name=Locale ID DynamicSig[2].Value=2057 DynamicSig[22].Name=Additional Information 1 DynamicSig[22].Value=84e3 DynamicSig[23].Name=Additional Information 2 DynamicSig[23].Value=84e3bcc16d77029e73f0d8c077d5fdd9 DynamicSig[24].Name=Additional Information 3 DynamicSig[24].Value=0673 DynamicSig[25].Name=Additional Information 4 DynamicSig[25].Value=06732e203c3436ba1c74ee3be1ffe61a UI[2]=C:\Windows\system32\vmcompute.exe UI[5]=Check online for a solution (recommended) UI[6]=Check for a solution later (recommended) UI[7]=Close UI[8]=Hyper-V Host Compute Service stopped working and was closed UI[9]=A problem caused the application to stop working correctly. Windows will notify you if a solution is available. UI[10]=&Close LoadedModule[0]=C:\Windows\system32\vmcompute.exe LoadedModule[1]=C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll LoadedModule[2]=C:\Windows\System32\KERNEL32.DLL LoadedModule[3]=C:\Windows\System32\KERNELBASE.dll LoadedModule[4]=C:\Windows\System32\ucrtbase.dll LoadedModule[5]=C:\Windows\System32\sechost.dll LoadedModule[6]=C:\Windows\System32\RPCRT4.dll LoadedModule[7]=C:\Windows\System32\combase.dll LoadedModule[8]=C:\Windows\System32\bcryptPrimitives.dll LoadedModule[9]=C:\Windows\System32\shcore.dll LoadedModule[10]=C:\Windows\System32\msvcrt.dll LoadedModule[11]=C:\Windows\System32\advapi32.dll LoadedModule[12]=C:\Windows\system32\vmsif.dll LoadedModule[13]=C:\Windows\system32\VirtDisk.dll LoadedModule[14]=C:\Windows\system32\vmprox.dll LoadedModule[15]=C:\Windows\System32\OLEAUT32.dll LoadedModule[16]=C:\Windows\System32\msvcp_win.dll LoadedModule[17]=C:\Windows\System32\CRYPT32.dll LoadedModule[18]=C:\Windows\System32\MSASN1.dll LoadedModule[19]=C:\Windows\System32\cfgmgr32.dll LoadedModule[20]=C:\Windows\System32\WS2_32.dll LoadedModule[21]=C:\Windows\system32\CCGLaunchPad.dll LoadedModule[22]=C:\Windows\system32\vmwpctrl.dll LoadedModule[23]=C:\Windows\system32\IPHLPAPI.DLL LoadedModule[24]=C:\Windows\system32\XmlLite.dll LoadedModule[25]=C:\Windows\system32\wevtapi.dll LoadedModule[26]=C:\Windows\system32\FLTLIB.DLL LoadedModule[27]=C:\Windows\system32\DEVOBJ.dll LoadedModule[28]=C:\Windows\system32\NetSetupApi.dll LoadedModule[29]=C:\Windows\system32\fwpuclnt.dll LoadedModule[30]=C:\Windows\system32\MPR.dll LoadedModule[31]=C:\Windows\system32\bcrypt.dll LoadedModule[32]=C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntmarta.dll LoadedModule[33]=C:\Windows\system32\container.dll LoadedModule[34]=C:\Windows\system32\container_xml.dll LoadedModule[35]=C:\Windows\system32\wc_storage.dll LoadedModule[36]=C:\Windows\system32\vid.dll LoadedModule[37]=C:\Windows\system32\SspiCli.dll LoadedModule[38]=C:\Windows\system32\CRYPTBASE.DLL LoadedModule[39]=C:\Windows\System32\kernel.appcore.dll LoadedModule[40]=C:\Windows\System32\user32.dll LoadedModule[41]=C:\Windows\System32\win32u.dll LoadedModule[42]=C:\Windows\System32\GDI32.dll LoadedModule[43]=C:\Windows\System32\gdi32full.dll LoadedModule[44]=C:\Windows\System32\clbcatq.dll State[0].Key=Transport.DoneStage1 State[0].Value=1 FriendlyEventName=Stopped working ConsentKey=APPCRASH AppName=Hyper-V Host Compute Service AppPath=C:\Windows\system32\vmcompute.exe NsPartner=windows NsGroup=windows8 ApplicationIdentity=1D4B05C3DD517AD2FE7F352CE5DF9819 MetadataHash=-1371436347

We have some new HP DL380s and DL580s running server 2016 with Hyper-V role. On all the servers I have a problem where randomly the vmcompute service seems to lock up preventing any vm state changes like starting, stopping and rebooting. Restarting this service forcibly seems to fix it for a while but upsets the cluster service. Has anyone else seen this issue? I've browsed the web and found loads of similar issues with 2012 but the fixes for those such as disabling VMQ and QoS don't seem to work. I have the latest drivers and firmware as well as the latest windows updates.

Almost certainly not. They are likely just SQL database backup files and can be restored to any database server by anyone who has a copy of the file. To secure them you should compress them with encryption using 7zip or similar or just keep them in a secure location.

Does DC1 have correct DNS settings on the network adapter?

Just a random idea, but have your tried resetting the user profile for the admin account you're using, I've found this to fix alot of weird random problems before.

If you really want to remove the disks, remove the controller card too if you can, that should avoid any issues with configs. Then just put it back in after Windows is reinstalled and working. Although I agree with making a backup, you should have backups anyway!

I've set up a brand new machine, added it as an agent to SOLUS3 and included it in the SIMS, FMS and Discover Channels. The agent, SIMS and FMS were deployed successfully but Discover wont install. The agent log contains periodic errors like this: 2014-04-02 12:27:37.9938|Debug|Discovery trace: Start discovering SIMS Discover Client 2014-04-02 12:27:37.9938|Debug|Found 1 results for target SIMS Discover Client 2014-04-02 12:27:37.9938|Debug|Discovered Version for TargetId: 1412b271-a7f0-4931-bb9f-eb0144d00bc9 2014-04-02 12:27:37.9938|Debug|Results length: 1 2014-04-02 12:27:37.9938|Debug|Checking results for 1412b271-a7f0-4931-bb9f-eb0144d00bc9 2014-04-02 12:27:37.9938|Debug|result 1412b271-a7f0-4931-bb9f-eb0144d00bc9 has version 2014-04-02 12:27:37.9938|Error|Invalid version in config file for target 1412b271-a7f0-4931-bb9f-eb0144d00bc9 Anyone any ideas what could be causing this?

The truth is you can't. The VMware supported solution is to use VMware Converter to suck the whole VM into a new one with smaller disks: VMware KB: Growing, thinning and shrinking virtual disks for VMware ESX and ESXi If it's just data you could do an offline move to a new disk but thats about it.

Ah sadly Watchguard systems are terrible for schools. Ours is the bane of my life and is going out the window as soon as I can get some budget for something else. The SSO system they implement is truly awful. I'd look into the logs of the SSO client on affected machines, this is usually the first place to start.

Most definitely it is. However, I would think most schools request permission to photo/film students as part of the admission process, so you should only need to worry about those students where permission was denied.

Didn't mean to be mean In almost most cases joins are faster than subqueries. In a join RDBMS can create an execution plan that is better for your query and can predict what data should be loaded and processed to save time, unlike the subquery where it will run all the queries and load all the data to do the processing.