bdmichalski

We are rolling them out in computer labs and using VMware View to provide the desktop. We have had our growing pains, learned things. Running a pilot lab of 32 vs 5 labs of 32 is very different. If you are looking at just using Thin clients without VDI or RDS, I assume what you need to do is web based? Because the hardware inside a thin client is nothing compared to a desktop. You won't be installing Office directly onto a thin client and getting acceptable performance.

We have Exchange 2010 running in Vmware. Runs like a champ. Nowadays I wouldn't do anything bare-metal unless I absolutely had to, but that is another discussion.

I personally have never seen the problem you are describing, but if all this box is doing is AD, it is pretty easy to spin up a new DC and migrate the roles over. Something might just be fluky with this DC and migrating everything to a fresh install could be your quickest fix.