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Are you running it Physical or Virtual? When doing DPM in the past, when we went from 2010 to 2016, we made a new VM with Server 2016 and installed 2016 DPM and essentially started from scratch, usually much easier and you know exactly where you stand, we then archived the data from the old DPM server inline with our retention/age policy. Whilst not a direct solution to your problem, could maybe prove better in the long run.

Never took preference on seller, but if we were buying third party, we tend to go with 2 Power, never had an issue with their batteries.

If you're only having two nodes, you could even consider SAS based storage as you'd then be able to connect them up in a two node config, then you eliminate the need for the switching and extra costs of a SAN. I'd say a two server setup with local storage could be a good idea, with the money you'd save on not buying a SAN, you could even put toward some SSDs for the server and you could use the old equipment as storage backup and Hyper-V replica seeing as it'll still be up to the job, but not 100% mission critical as hopefully you'll never need it. You could even look in to storage spaces https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/storage-spaces/storage-spaces-direct-overview

Is it a school environment? I just sometimes question if warranty is strictly needed, does the school need 100% all of the time? What if the SAN is goosed and you need to restore backups anyway, would having warranty help with this? Just in a time where schools are in a difficult position financially, personally for where I work, I feel it really isn't needed on a 4 hour call out. Take the system I'll be looking at implementing, 2/3 Refurb V-Hosts with fast local storage and then re-purposing an old but decent server to run Hyper-V replica, replicating core file servers and SIMS. Things like SCCM, printers, app server, door entry, classroom management and so on, I don't deem as mission critical, so being down for a few hours/couple of days whilst core systems are restored shouldn't majorly affect staff and students working. All this will also then be backed up to a DPM server which could be spun up as quick as the VHD copies or if the DPM server is up for, even on that. I think that system will be fast, each host will have 6TB usable storage in RAID10, 96GB RAM, 16 Cores. It'll be quick, cheap, hopefully reliable and I've planned for disasters and redundancy.

You can use the "Remove common program groups from Start Menu" and that should do it, but you would also need a redirected Start Menu too. Also, have you tried "Delete all files in the folder" instead or simply just not ticking any of the boxes so then it should delete the folder?

Got to say, the Microsoft Surface Laptop looks very very good and has apparently been well received.

Honestly, if it's a home lab, the biggest thing is RAM. I run VMs on my i5 2500k Gaming PC for testing and what not under Hyper-V and it handles it fine. As long as you aren't doing anything heavy, you could even get asocket 771 based system and fill it with RAM and it'd be fine. Or build a decent home rig and have the best of both worlds

One ear IIRC, but if you are worried about warranty and support, they now offer a servie called UniFi Elite. Personally, I wouldn't bother and it's so much cheaper than other competitors, you can just keep a few cold spares. Plus, people have been running the kit for years now without any problems. Heck, you could even keep a core switch spare for £500.

We controlled all PCs at once using Lanschool and went through the manual activation as the batch script didn't seem to like to work on more than one machine at a time.

Do you mind me asking how much you paid? I've seen the single controller 2x1Gb one for around £2000exVAT

From a quick Google, it seems like one of the cheapest SANs I've seen, especially from a big manufacturer, will be having a look into it!

Does this mean we can rename Chrome books?

Luckily PaperCut pair it with an App to avoid such anarchy and obviously you still get to monitor printing and billing as you would a PC, considering the discount offered to education, it is a really useful tool.

That may warrant the money to upgrade to version 17, didn't even know about this. Thank you!

This is why I'm scared of only having one SAN

If you have PaperCut and a Mac, you can do it that way

Be especially good for one-to one deployments where pupils take devices home or even remote support for staff

I get that, sadly these are only Pentium Duals and are starting to show their age, same story with the servers. As we are strapped for cash, we will be looking into refurb servers and refurb Dell machines with i3 2120s, 4GB RAM, 120GB SSD for £120 per unit, these should then see us into 2021, by which point we will hopefully have a more strategic and planned approach to replacing/upgrading equipment in the future. We also have new projectors to fork out for within the next year too!

Wishful thinking aha! I'm trying to get a rolling plan into place, but getting a meeting and finding out the budget is proving to be a difficult taks. Sometimes if it's urgent, yeah, buy it, but no forward thinking yet. Hoping it will all be ok come September though

Servers and SAN are nearing 9 years old, as are student PCs and budgets are oh so tight.

We use two UPSs, both slightly different, each server is connected to a separate UPS, this helps prevent damage from power surges, adds redundancy should one of the UPS fail. With regards to the knowing when to shutdown, it's over network, so the servers will be told to shut down by the UPS with the NIC in as its batteries start to drain, but most servers load balance PSUs too, they're not just for redundancy, so if the UPS are both the same or similar, the battery drain should be similar, should the standalone's battery go first, the load will be passed over to the other PSU linked to the other UPS. Hope that makes sense.

Are the other machines on the domain?

Is it on the domain? What OU is it in? What permissions does the user have?

If you're ok using Google slides, it's technically unlimited

I managed a free cloud solution using old netbooks running Linux and Google Slides: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/how-do-you-do/186630-simple-cloud-signage-solution.html#post1598522 I tried to explain it as best I could, but if you wanted to know anything, feel free to DM me.