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0k, I am going to share some info here and ask you some things. This is a Primary School, so the budget isn't tight, the budget is SUPER-tight. I started three years ago and when I came I found a physical tower with w2k3 x86 2GB RAM. It was no acting as a DC or anything, it was a computer with a shared folder on C:\ with all school data in it, of course "Access to EveryOne - Full". Also a SIMS Server acting as a normal desktop computer, used by an office staff member for everything, browsing, MS Office, Email, Installing software, etc, etc. A 24 port 10/100 for everything. Computers running Windows XP. Antivirus and printers installed manually. No trace of OS updates. After a few minutes thinking in "I am going to get the hell out of here", I rolled up my sleeves and started to move the school to the 21st century (with a small budget 20.9th century). I bought a new physical tower, install 2k8 R2 x64 16GB RAM, upgrade the old one with the same OS and 8GB RAM. Both are my DCs. SIMS was isolated. With two old tins and 2k8 R2 x64 and 4GB RAM on each one I installed Sophos AV Manager in one and WSUS on the other. I bought a NAS with (x4) 1TB HDD RAID 10 as a temporary FS (no more money left). Move every computer to W7 Pro x64. GPOs working as silk. Three 48 Network Switches, one Edge, one Core, one as spare. Now everything is deployed from servers, no more manually interaction. So the next move is a proper FS, so I decided to go for this Tower and force myself to be brave and start virtualizing things. It is great that DCs could be virtualized now, didn't know. Some questions to ask: 1- With less than a 1TB of information, but constant I/O operations, how much memory will be necessary? 2- Would it be a good idea having more than one server vistualized on just one box? I mean, if the box is down everything in there will go down, right? 3 - Should I go with just one VM in this box and when I have money to have a second one, start increasing VMs and have everything duplicated? 4 - what is your line of action in this? P.S.1 I want to start backing up the most important information on Azure too, so maybe I won't need two boxes. P.S.2 I am just working three days a week so is so, so difficult to find time for testing and to move quick.

But according to IT gurus it is not a good idea to virtualize DCs, is it?

Hi guys, I am about to receive a new Dell T330 16GB - (x4) 600GB SAS 10k RAID 10, so 1.2TB for OS (HyperVisor Type 1) and Data. My idea is install Windows Server 2016, add Hyper-V role (which is Type 1 as far as I know) and create a VM with Windows Server 2016 running as a File Server. This VM will be Backed up on a NAS. This FS will be a Member Server on my domain, it will be my sole VM, I have 2 DCs, AntiVirus and WSUS, running on Server 2008 R2 no virtualized. Am I doing this move right? Thanks.

Are you sure that account wasn't a member of Domain Admin? Because it would make sense this account vanishes if the computer no longer belongs to the domain.

I see, sorry I did not read that part Not very familiar with VM environment (I really wish), so I can only suggest a Group Policy applying maybe?.... although it would appears in EV or Task Scheduler ..... Is the VM doing some kind of operations that may runs out the memory/disk assigned?

You should check it in Event Viewer, there you at find the cause

You can find the setting on "Computer Configuration" too

User preferences, Admin Temp, Google, Google Chrome, "Set Google Chrome as Default Browser"

I cannot see the option in user config [emoji53]

Yes, but this setting applies only on computer level, if you want to customise home pages for different groups as far as I know, or at least I don't have the option, it is not possible. Maybe it is in the latest .admx [emoji53]

As far as I know, it cannot be done in Edge......

Are you using Edge, for real?

Here is my stuff. https://www.flickr.com/photos/vimagoes/public Please be free to give your opinions I am learning and critics are more than welcome.

just for ticking off; Have you check UAC and or Firewall on your W10 client? - - - Updated - - - just for ticking off; Have you check Firewall on your W10 client?

I haven't upgrade to W10 yet and I have no plan to do it soon, I have just one W10 as a testing machine, no rush to move to Server 2016 and W10, as you said in Primary schools money is an issue so we have to extend everything's life cycle. BTW my W10 1607 works flawlessly in my environment.

Well it's working for me. The sole issue I have is that the OS identified is "Windows Vista Enterprise Edition" instead of "Windows 10" and for that there will be no update/hotfix for Windows Server 2008 R2 but apart from that mine is working fine See MORE INFORMATION https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3095113/update-to-enable-wsus-support-for-windows-10-feature-upgrades#%2Fen-us%2Fkb%2F3095113

Try running "wuauclt.exe /reportnow" on your W10, wait a few minutes and check "Unassigned Computers" I am assuming you got your policy right because your W7 are taking updates from your WSUS server, so if this doesn't work try checking if the computer is in the right OU and the GPO is applying right to it. Try with a RSOP in your W10 and check if this policy is a winning one

Mine is working fine. Try to resynchronize and check "products and classifications"

Do you have the "Set Driver Isolation" in Isolated option? Because if it is not in Isolated it may cause problem with the spooler

Check the GPO is in create option and no other GPO messing around with a delete all option enabled

They disappear or they are shown offline? If offline sure the problem is SNMP status Enabled

How right you are!!! I have been asked to take care of laminators and even the fish tank among other weird things just because it has a plug!!!!!!! So my answer is with a question? "Is it connected to our network or is it a domain member? - they put a brick face and expel "I dunno...." So I say "Well I am telling you that it is not, so it is not an IT problem" Invigilating exams? Not an IT problem neither.

I've been using ZenPad 7" and they are awesome, the Kids Mode they bring is perfect for school but now they need new ones just for taking pictures, so I guess between Lenovo and Fire I'll go for Lenovo. Why? We all know how PITA could be staff, right now they are yelling for a device just for taking pictures because they shouldn't be using their own devices for that and I agree on that but we have severals cameras (point and shoot) that could do the job flawless; Problem? they don't want to plug the camera on their laptops, search the picture and upload it on twitter, they want me to do that of course and I refuse. I am just a three days a week SysAdmin and I cannot waste my time in that. So, they want a device with Wi-Fi connectivity and Twitter account access. As I said this is all they want right now but we all know that after a few weeks they will be asking if they could use the app they have in their phones and this is why I think pure Android OS will be better. Amazon AppStore won't have the same amount of apps that Play Store has, so I do not want to be asked about: HeadTeacher: Why cannot we use this app? Me: oh, hum... well, because it is not available on Amazon AppStore. HeadTeacher: Why in the hell did you decided to buy a Kindle then? Me:

Well, I have no idea of what has happened but last Friday was working 0k, I didn't change anything .....

Hi there, About nessy I have this problem. It is not a proxy filtering problem because they are browser independent and everything works fine on IE and Edge but no on Chrome. Although it shows NOT USE IE it is working on IE 11. It cannot be anything about my own filters because it doesn't work neither using Admin user nor using any other user that it is not filtered. the sole computer that works is one that is not joined onto my domain. I have tried almost everything and I say almost because it is still not working so I am missing something for sure. Any ideas????? Thanks