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Can I just ask, why Ghost? and Why not use WDS or SCCM to deploy Windows? It's far easier as you deploy a single image to different hardware using this method. It wouldn't be hard to Migrate from it. You could actually deploy the ghost image to a working computer and capture that to WDS after you Sysprep it.

Any insight will be greatly appriciated. It's just frustrating at times seeing these systems configured correctly but not working as expected. We have just migrated one site from a 2008 R2 to a 2012 R2 domain without any issues from VMware to Hyper-V which makes me think more of it being an issue with SMB 3.0 in 2012 running on VMware.

I'm looking for a driver for a school that is turning into an Apple Fairhaven. They have some printers that look ancient, RISO Comcolor 3010's. I'm struggling to find a Driver for Mac OS X so that I can share this from the Mac Server we have. Short of contacting RISO, has anyone come across any drivers?

We have various setups as each member of staff sets up something in their own flavour. I.e VMware rather than Hyper-V The majority of our sites run Server 2012 now. And we only have issues between 2012 to 2012/2012 R2 setups at the moment. Some of our older setups run on Server 2008, 2008 R2 and have no issues replicating to Server 2012/2012 R2. We seem to think it's an issue with SMB 3.0 in 2012 and VMware, as it mostly our VMware ESXI setup that have this issue. We have tested this in Hyper-V and we have no issues with replication, Physical to Virtual also runs without a hitch. It only seems to be Virtual to Virtual when we are using a VMware Hypervisor and a Hyper-V Platform. We do have one school with an old HP Tower Server running Server 2012 and it doesn't replicate to a Server 2012 R2 which is on Hyper-V 2012 R2. Edit: Forgot to mention that our servers do have Firewalls disabled. As we have our own or use LEA firewalls.

Sorry for the delay, got a free second to run the test at the site I wanted. This is the result, real names obfuscated. DCDIAGTEST.txt

Hi Guys, I'm getting an issue in a few schools now where there can be a Windows Server 2008 R2/2012 primary domain controller, and I have added a second using Hyper-V 2012 or 2012 R2. However the secondary domain controller doesn't advertise due to the fact that the SYSVOL folders aren't replicating from the PDC onto the SDC. One school had this issue with 2008 R2 to 2012 R2 and I managed to resolve it by flushing the DNS, restarting the DNS and Netlogon services on both servers. Since then this has worked a treat. However some schools have 2012 and 2012 R2 and yet they aren't replicating the SYSVOL folder. Trying my previous solution on this isn't working in this case. These domain controllers are nothing special. Most are standalone servers running roles such as AD, DHCP, DNS and WDS Some are virtualised on VMware Esxi 5.1/5.3 which were trying to move away from. I've tried commands such as DCDIAG /FIX and REPADMIN /SYNCALL. However I did "DCDIAG /test:CheckSecurityStatus /source:DC1" and I got the error telling me that it didn't respond, which kind of leads me to think it is an issue with the PDC. I am also wondering if any one else has had any issues similar to this using Server 2012 products. I have tried to replicate the error in a virtual lab on Hyper-V and VMware, but I only have issues when I use Esxi 5.1 hosting 2012. Our Esxi 5.1 servers have 2008 R2 on them for the most part.

Hi. I used to be a member on Edugeek awhile ago when I used to volunteer for two high schools in Blackpool, Montgomery High School and Baines School and Sixth Form. Since then I have been out of the loop with IT having a tonsillitis for a good few months and now that I am back in work again. I hope to be an active and a contributing member. ~Kyle