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So, how quickly are people planning to go up to Windows Server 2008 after it is released? I'm just having a play and think that some of the new features will make a lot easier! Too many to list in fact! So, your thoughts...

Hello, Has anyone been able to get ThumbnailPhoto from an on premises AD, to work on Windows 11? I have looked and tried several different powershell scripts, set up group policies, and followed this guide https://www.codetwo.com/admins-blog/use-active-directory-user-photos-windows-10/ as I have also tried their free software, but no matter what I do, the photos do not appear. Has anyone else been able to make this work? Thanks

Hi All We got a customer which is education based who enroll 100's of students every semester. and some students try to pull oone on the teacher saying they dont have an account when they do on AD so it leaves us sometimes creating multiple / duplicate accounts so they will have their main one Username then duplicate Username1 We dont have enough time to individually check the new users names on AD to see if they got an account already Is there a tool that will scan a CSV file - and detect to see if there is a user with that name already created? Thanks, Sam

Hi All, Recently setup RD Web access and associated roles (Connection broker, session host, gateway, licensing) on a server 2019 x64 standard VM running on Hyper-V. Locally web access works fine with published apps launching and working perfectly. Onto the issue... can't see the web page externally through out smoothwall. I have included screenshots of our smoothwall port forward config and gateway settings. Any help will be much appreciated as we're under a lot of pressure to get this operational.

Hi I want some advice. I currently am taking some exams for my Microsoft server course. but I've been hearing about Virtual PC's hosted in the cloud does any of you know a good place where i can install a few virtual servers that i can install in the cloud and practice for my exams? I don't want to be bound by my PC. would be an advantage to log in from any where and access the servers. Thanks

Hi Guys, I thought I sign up since I wish for some assistance to some of the network engineers/support there who would might know what is up with this specific weird issue we are having since I am scratching my head a little on this and it’s probably something simple but I am just not getting it. Some of our our servers today connection has become unidentified access and would not wish to communicate with our Domain Controller/DHCP. Nothing has been altered what so ever from any of us and this why it is weird. All Static IP information is correct and fits in with our IP range we was given, we have static IPs (the first 49) outside the DHCP Scope we have on this system (172.16.0 to 172.16.49 we have for static IPS and then we have made a scope from 172.16.12.50 to .16.254 in our address range) and we know the first 50 static IPs are fine since some of the servers we have been fine and the only ones that had been affected are some of them which is unfortunately our curriculum File server and our backup and printer server. How we got these to work as a temporary measure was to unbridge all our network adapters and have them go for automatic addresses but I am sure you can see why this is not the best thing to do and want to get them statically back and all network adapters bridged again to what they were. All of our environment is windows server 2008/Windows 7 so it is very strange that suddenly three of these servers have done this when nothing else has been altered. Even if we disabled some of the multiple network adapters to have one and put in the original IP details they are working fine, but when it is bridged it comes up with unidentified. We only have the standard windows firewall on and I have looked on group policy and nothign seems to have changed there. Static Ip addresses (0-49) have not been changed on bit and even some of the servers in this range are working still. Really do appreciate this guys and happy to folk out and pay for a beer if you can point what the issue could be  Regards, Gareth

Hello, First of all a bit of history...I HATE PRINTERS! We had all our printers managed by Windows Server 2008 R2 and was working fine for as long as I can remember. Then all of a sudden (I had installed some skydive sync tool which might have caused the problem) certain printers would appear offline to both the server and the user. We could still ping the printers (they all have static ip addresses) but not print to them. This was a good opportunity to migrate the printers to a new server running Windows Server 2012 R2. The move over was fine and users could happily print. Fast forward 3 months. Just come in this morning and about 20 of the classroom printers now appear offline on our web management window and getting helpdesk tickets about 'not being able to print'. The temporary solution to this is to turn it off and on again but am keen to find out why it's started to do this again. Most printers are OKi devices Using Pcounter as print management printers all have static IP addresses Any help would be great Thank you, William

Hi, we have a network of following servers; currently we only install the latest Service Packs on the servers. 2 x Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-v hosts (Failover Cluster) 1 x Windows Server 2012 R2 Physical Server (DC + DNS + DHCP) 1 x Windows Server 2012 Virtual Server (DC + DNS + DHCP) 1 x Windows Server 2008 R2 Physical Server (SQL 2008) 1 x Windows Server 2008 R2 Virtual Server (FileServer) 1 x Windows Server 2012 Virtual Server (Print Server) 1 x Windows Server 2008 R2 Virtual Server (Application + IIS Server) 1 x Windows Server 2008 R2 Virtual Server (KasperskyMDTFileServer) There are about 500+ Windows 7 & Desktops. I am looking to install a WSUS on a virtual server (Server 2012 R2). What sort of Windows updates do you install on your servers ? How often do you install the updates on your servers ? Do you also installs updates your Windows 7/8 desktops ? Any help would be much appreciated, thank you.

ZTI Error - Unhandled error returned by LTISysprep: The system cannot find the file specified(-2147024894, 0x80070002)Litetouch deployment failed, Return Code = -214467259 0x80004005Failed to run the action: Execute sysprep.The system cannot find the file specified. (Error: 800700002; Source: Windows)The execution of the group (Capture Image) has failed and the execution has been aborted.An action failed.Operation aborted (Error: 80004004; Source Windows)Failed to run the last action: Execute Sysprep. Execution of the task sequence failed.The system cannot find the file specified. (Error: 800700002; Source: Windows)Task Sequence Engine failed! Code: enExecutionFailTask Sequence execution failed with error code 80004005Error Task Sequence Manager Failed to execute task sequence. Code 0x80004005 Any help here would be much appreciated. This also doesnt work when running from the OS

Hi I'm possibly looking into setting up DirectAccess for our school so that the teachers can access their logins from home! has anyone got this setup within the LEA and have you got it working? is there anything i should look out for when setting this up or what do i need to prepare for it? As far as I'm aware / researched, I need to have a server that is a member of the domain 2 NICs one for internal and the other for external I need firewall ports opening up on the LEA firewall. and i need my Server FQDN in the LEA DNS. does this sound right? im currently studying for my 70-680 and read this in the book.

Hello people, just joined on here and just started a new career as an ICT Technician in a School. I was told to join this website as it was a good place for information but I wondered if anyone could direct me to any other websites that offer any training or info on any of the things I may be covering. I'm totally new to IT so any acronyms may confuse me. I would like to learn more about the network side of things like windows server, and I would like to know more about switches and cabling or anything you may recommend. Also one of the things that bug me a little is when teachers come to me with an issue about not being able to play a video, a file corrupting or just something everyday that end users seem to have trouble with. Just so you know I am going to be enrolled on a course in september but it would still be valuable to have some good websites to help someone who its just starting out. Regards Aaron

Changed from automatically assigning IP to manually assigning a few different free IPs with the relevant settings for subnet mask, DNS servers, gateway etc and this still didn't work. Another thread recommended uninstalling the network interfaces and then scanning for hardware changes which solved a similar issue, but that did not work in my case either. Any suggestions?

We need to copy a lot of large files from windows to AWS S3, we tried Azcopy but through our testing, the network got so saturated due to the bandwidth consumed. after doing a full search we found somehow to do it via the Azcopy command but unfortunately, it was ineffective. we are looking for a reliable way to limit the transfer speed while uploading to S3 to give our data center the space to run smoothly day and night.I know Azcopy is a strong tool but it really takes most of the bandwidth. Thank You

Hello all, I have just changed servers as the previous one crashed on me. One of my users was still logging onto their laptop signing in onto the old server creating a temp profile I would assume as the old server is offline. She was saving documents onto this 'temp' profile, so a good 6 months worth of documents. Today I have just changed the domain on the laptop to connect to the new server. Now I am unable to retrieve the documents that she has saved onto that profile. I have checked the local C: drive on her user profile/documents, but did not find any luck unfortunately. Has anyone come across this before, please let me know this urgent!!

Hi everyone In our school we use a software called Impero as an administration console for the teachers to use to block the students from certain websites or to disable Internet Explorer altogether, the students have found a way of accessing this even though its blocked they right click internet explorer and select "start without add ons", this enables them to use the internet with full access it even though its been blocked by the teacher on the impero console do any of you guys have a GPO that we could set in AD to combat this and remove the button when they right click?

Hi all, I am currently running Ghost console version 11.5.1.2266, on a windows 2003 server. We are looking at moving to a Server 2008, not neccessary virtual, in fact more likely to be a physical server but would like to know if it is an option. Also, is it stable on R2, and will it run on 32bit and 64bit? I have read a few articles claiming that it 'works', but I would much prefer confirmation from any of you guys that may have actually done this yourselves. If so is there anything to watch out for? I know licencing (Symantec) can be a pain, but I think I have that covered. Also is there a newer version to the one I am currently using? Bit reluctant to run the 'LiveUpdate' in case it installs, and I am not ready for this just yet. Thanks in advance. Steve.

Microsoft has released a few details about the upcomming service pack for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2. One of the more interesting new features is support for 3D acceleration support over RDP allowing users to play silverlight movies, use Aero or more importantly heavy graphics based apps like CAD that use 3D. Windows Virtualization Team Blog : Explaining Microsoft RemoteFX They are also teaming with Citrix to add this feature into their offering too. According to the posting it supports OpenGL also meaning it will work with the heavier CAD apps and Windows 7 will be supported as a VDI host under Hyper-V. I hope this means I'll be able to use this from my media center to laptop remotely as well. Other than that SP1 does not yet have an official release date but W7 and 2k8R2 versions will be released at the same time and are reported to be mostly minor bug fixes rather than feature packs as SP2 usually is.

I guess WSUS counts as deployment? Haha Having issues where some clients have updates that won't install. Some work, some don't. I'm fairly new to WSUS so just need some guidance on how I can resolve this without going to each individual PC and updating manually. TIA Gabe