Jamie_Evans
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I work in very low socio economic school where more than half of the students are disengaged from traditional methods of learning. School has asked me to look into VR as a way of re-engaging students in this category and has given me a pretty big budget to play with + a big sized room. I was thinking of ordering some top notch equipment such as 4 65" Screens coupled with 4 PCs and 4 Valve Index headsets or HTC Vives However upon reflection I'm starting to think this is overkill; it's a lot of money for just 4 units. Is there even any games tailored to education for headsets that require such high spec PCs & high cost headsets? Has anyone used something like this to the benefit of learning or student outcomes?
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I work in a K-12 School in Australia and have been tasked by my principal to research and prepare a business case for our school to make a leap into artificial intelligence in education. I'm lucky to have a principal that's open to these sorts of ideas and willing to make the investment so I want to make the very most of this opportunity. Responses to any of these three question (if relevant to you) would be much appreciated! Are you using AI in your school? Is there something up and coming that I should keep an eye on? What's your experience with AI in education?
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Hello, my backup DC just died (about time) and I've been trying to create another one on a newer server however when attempting to use the same name I get handed the following error message: http://i.imgur.com/zFsP4nk.png So obviously the old computer name still exists in AD and I need to delete it right? well here's what happens when I try: http://i.imgur.com/cYXmPIk.png So now I'm forced to do a little research and come across an article on technet that references this: Fix an Unsuccessful DC Demotion - | Petri IT Knowledgebase Now all is well until step 11 where it asks me to list the server, the only server that shows is my current domain controller which I obviously don't want to remove.... Screenshot in case anyone wants to see for themselves: http://i.imgur.com/qiAaO1n.png Any ideas?? it really bothers me when there's a tone of articles out there that tell me to "do this" to fix it and nothing is what it's supposed to be!! Thanks in advance. For reference: BHome-Dc1 is the old dead DC that I want to delete from AD Bhome-Dc2 is the current FQDC
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Hi team, Trying to deploy a multi partition image and not sure how to implement a diskpart command file (diskpart.txt) into the autounattend file, I know how to create it but does anyone know which parameter actually enforces it? also where are you supposed to put it? (for the autounattend file to find) The goal is to make sure autounattend creates the 3 partitions I want before applying the image. Anyone ever done something similar to this before? Below is a copy of my current autounattend for single partition images:
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Added a new DC to the network, what to do with DHCP/DNS?
Jamie_Evans replied to Jamie_Evans's topic in Windows Server 2012
Thanks for your reply Ricki. I plan to keep the old DC up as a backup controller, I changed the IP because I've heard client computers are very likely to lose their connections to the domain if the original servers connecting address has changed. Is that incorrect? So connect to the old DCs DNS and use the same one across 2 different DCs? will they replicate off each other on both DCs? what would be the down side of just creating a new one on the new server and having the old one stay as a backup? Should I also do this with DHCP? if so do I create a new one as well and split the scope or just connect to the old one and have them both replicate to each other? -
Hi edugeeks! I've just recently added a new Domain Controller to my network (2012 R2) and have already promoted it to the Primary Domain Controller (Transferred FSMO roles & changed IP to the old DC's address etc). Question now is do I transfer the DNS/DHCP server from the (what I now call) backup Domain Controller (2008 R2) or do I create new DNS/DHCP servers on the new DC and have the old ones act as another backup? First time doing this in my 4 years in IT and I'm wondering what's considered best practice for such a situation. Thanks in advance.
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Group Policy: What's the proper way to do this?
Jamie_Evans posted a topic in Windows Server 2008 R2
I currently have 1 group policy object with about 30 different settings inside it and nothing else, is this the proper way of doing this? I've been told I should have 30 different objects each unique to their own group policy rule. Now upon asking 'why?' I wasn't really given a proper answer by my colleague just that it makes things look a lot cleaner and easier to use in case I need to find something. This is a fair point and I understand it but I know my policy settings inside and out and I'm the only network admin at this particular site so it doesn't effect anyone else. The question that's on my mind now is: Does this effect performance? does having GPO with 30 rules inside it perform better than having 30 GPO's with a single rule in each? To put "performance" into perspective I'm just talking about general computer usability and network login times/GPO related network tasks in general etc -
Double & triple checked this (gotta make sure I'm not losing my mind lol) and DHCP was 100% turned off - that being said it was turned off within the server 3 app, is there anywhere else where DHCP can be turned on? (the only other things installed were Deploystudio, Netboot and Workgroup manager) Thanks Michael.
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Thanks for your reply Michael, DHCP is running on the domain controller (Windows 2008 r2) Manager claims that the issue resolved itself when turning the Mavericks server off so the DHCP server itself is fine (I'd assume?) Defiantly not another DHCP server on the network. IPs were assigned by DHCP according to the manager. I was thinking earlier, I had mavericks pointing directly to the router (bypassing our inline firewall) - would it be possible for mavericks to some how initiated the router to start acting as a DHCP and giving out IP addresses? Still crazy confused about all this...
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Can anyone explain this? I wasn't actually at work on the day this happened but the network manager was sending me screenshots of devices with IPs that are in our DHCP servers exclusion range so it did happen and she claims that once the server was turned off it stopped happening? I have no idea how this might be possible... Additional information: I had installed deploystudio & netboot a day prior to all of this Had configured images etc within the server and imported them via netboot Nothing else that I can explain, the server was fine for the whole day previously during my attendance but currently I'm being blamed for this issue when neither I or anyone else can explain how it's even possible (can't turn it back on to test for obvious reasons). Any advise or theories are appreciated.
