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Best tell MS to up their standard release cadence for patching as they are not GDPR compliant...... :-o

For those who have not seen this and now because there is an active tool to leverage this NTLM flaw in Exchange (all versions) here is what you need to know:- https://dirkjanm.io/abusing-exchange-one-api-call-away-from-domain-admin/

Hmmm, so it depends on the workloads... for Virtualized work loads you should be looking at read intensive SSD's, for DB workloads you should be looking at write intensive SSD's. That said in your environment i would guess that you are not going to gain the benefits from the different types of SSD's v the additional cost of the type of drive, I add this for completeness as you should be looking at your environment and be armed with all the info. On a side note from memory i thought MS said using dedup on Hyper V where VHDX files are stored is only supported for a very certain type of VDI deployment/ environment. My initial thought about this for your general purpose live environment would be not to do it, even more so if tyou are just going to buy general SSD's off the shelf. Just reread what @EddyAllen has written he is saying on the libraries not on the actual Hypervisor drive used for the VMs (I hope).

AirMagnet is a good survey tool, and you need to use a separate adapter than the one used by in a laptop/ phone.... to get a real propper heat map of a WiFi network, if you think it's a dead spot issue.

Nah just need to understand how the European hosted exchange environment is run. There are over 120k servers just doing the euro part and the way it's partitioned, means that you could find that it's even down to the individual mailbox so one users in your org may be fine while the user sat next to them may not be able to access their mailbox.

@maark I was in no way directing this bug at you directly, so sorry for picking you out with the screen grab and the initator of the thread. You just happened to have been the one to post and I had just been having the same conversation internally around scoping of issues and how they are perceived by our conversations to the end users.

I don't argue how essential mail services are, just trying to get us as a community/ profession to make a more accurate statement of the facts rather than a sensational headline.

I will expand as this type of statement drives me insane, if you drive a car and lets say a headlight burns out. Do you run into the house or to the closest garage and scream about your car not working and that traffic is coming to a stand still, its all bust and the worlds going to end? I would guess that's no one has ever done that nor ever will (I hope)... so why when it comes to alerting on an outage with tech do we define the scope as something that its not? If you pick up the phone right now and ring Microsoft and say that O365 is down they will tell you something different. Have any of you gone to your boss (who use O365) and said that your network is down due to an Exchange online issue? The screen grab @maark confirms my earlier comment around O365 being down, what it shows is the full scope of the issue they have an issue with Exchange and another issue with teams, that is causing connectivity issues for a subset of users. O365 is much more than Exchange and Teams..... as your car is so more than the headlight.

Yeah and even with the heat map I cannot see where it is saying that O365 is down?

Hmmm Office 365 is down? best tell MS sharpish.....

No should not impact your users.

code for a simple time below: $Time = 15*60 $length = $Time / 100 while($Time -gt 0) { $min = [int](([string]($Time/60)).split('.')[0]) $text = " " + $min + " minutes " + ($Time % 60) + " seconds left" Write-Progress "Pausing Script" -status $text -perc ($Time/$length) start-sleep -s 1 $Time -- }

How are you setting the timers up? i just want to be able to replicate your issue (post the code). Cheers H

What OS / ps version you using? I seem to remember that this could be painfully slow but would need to look at it again to be sure.

Yeah @Arthur has crafted a script with all the elegance of a ballerina where my munged version has all the finesse of a sailor on shore leave! Good improvements and good call on the memory slots @MartinByard. Like I said in my first reply the get-computerinfo looks like it is built in to ps 5.1 running on later OS's. So if you are win 10 you should probably leverage the built in cmdlet.

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https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Get-ComputerInfo-Query-23dd6042 Take a look at the ps gal above maybe overkill but it's a start. Not in a position to look at this in much detail right now but your approach needs looking at.

I have just upgraded from a little two disk NAS box that was essentially a snot of disk if I am honest to a QNAP TS-453B with 4x ironwolf 6tb disks and upgraded the ram to 16gb got one of their PCIe M2 dual SSD expansion cards along with 2 WD 1gb M2 SSD cards for cache/ tiering. Good box moved my server VMs on to it and my many many many tb of movies/ TV shows and backups, only regret is that i should have gone with more ram...

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/322692/how-to-raise-active-directory-domain-and-forest-functional-levels Should guide you on your way and means that I don't have to type it all in :-p Think it covers your questions.

Clearly there is no technical issue with using the same type card (the NHS use them!) I have just been looking at the policies around the use of them and hijacking them would certainly put NHS staff in line of a disciplinary. Just because we can does not mean we should and all that. I would contact the trust IT services directly before you start to get a steer from them. If this is indeed your intentions.

Just to understand are these cards actually being used within the NHS? Or you just want to use the same style cards?

The documentation should exist in the service portfolio, if you follow follow ITIL and everyone should follow some kind of framework these days for service delivery. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Portfolio_(ITIL)

That depends... They can all live there and use wmi filtering to apply to the correct users/ machines. Or you can place them at the level they are going to be applied at. If that is inedeed what is going on. Personal preference I would say. But not something I have seen very often.

A few years ago this would have been a No, but it's a fully supported senario now so there is absolutely no reason not to do in place upgrades. In fact it's now MS's default approche Windows 10..... https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started-19/install-upgrade-migrate-19#in-place-upgrade

Did you use the Get-clusterlog? (do that!) Also if you have used the Test-computersecurechannel command then this verifies the passwords being used for the computer accounts.