@hobbit666 said in Unable to Connect to Hyper-V 2016 Remotely:

I gave up on using hyperv manager and used Windows Admin Center instead.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/manage/windows-admin-center/understand/windows-admin-center

Not sure if I had mentioned it, but that's what we normally used but it broke first. Then we went to Hyper-V manager and it was broken as well. WAC is our normal tool for this stuff.

@vhinzsanchez said in Re-Enable BitLocker on Windows 10 Home:

Thanks SAM, we are accepting the fact that the encryption will not be done at this moment.

Regards,

VhinzSanchez

https://www.howtogeek.com/234826/how-to-enable-full-disk-encryption-on-windows-10/

Docker in general IT is great for immutable server design. If you want to do OS updates, config changes, etc you roll out a new container.

The downside is if it's not for software you write yourselves, deploying a new version of the software might not be so smooth if the database or backing data storage has to also be updated. You can't design it to be able to be able to do a rolling update, or to be able to rollback, so it's not quite as useful then.

@emad-r said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:

AV = ESET is better

I've had the misfortune of dealing with ESET and I can tell you, I don't agree with you in the least. We won't even let ESET in the shop, we literally don't trust the company. And it's reliability was terrible compared to Defender. Worst I've ever dealt with.

@momurda said in Central File Sharing:

@jaredbusch How long has Windows supported this? I just did this with my NC, and it was easy.

Since Windows 98.

Ransomware is not fun.

NotPetya damages were in the 10 billion range. One enterprise I work for at times was down for weeks. Having backup is not enough - you need to be able to access your backup too. When everything is down you don't have any computers to access anything with. Sure you can reinstall but where are your image files? When you do have computers you have no DHCP, no DNS, no AD etc. You have no internet access, no email, no phones. Yeah, backup is not enough. You need an elaborate emergency plan.

@scottalanmiller said in Need some help with SQL Server 2016 Standard licensing (price confusion):

@jaredbusch said in Need some help with SQL Server 2016 Standard licensing (price confusion):

@dave247 said in Need some help with SQL Server 2016 Standard licensing (price confusion):

@jaredbusch said in Need some help with SQL Server 2016 Standard licensing (price confusion):

@dave247 said in Need some help with SQL Server 2016 Standard licensing (price confusion):

@jaredbusch said in Need some help with SQL Server 2016 Standard licensing (price confusion):

@dave247 said in Need some help with SQL Server 2016 Standard licensing (price confusion):

@phlipelder said in Need some help with SQL Server 2016 Standard licensing (price confusion):

@dave247 said in Need some help with SQL Server 2016 Standard licensing (price confusion):

Hi friends.

I am working on building a new physical server to replace one which is running older versions of Windows and SQL server, plus it is almost out of storage space so this needs to be done sooner than later.

This SQL server is running a 3rd party application and they currently only support up to SQL 2016, so that's what I have to install - not 2017. And it's going to be SQL 2016 Standard Edition running on Windows 2016 Server Standard with 16 cores.

I spent a while researching SQL sever licensing to try and get an idea of how much it's going to cost. I haven't dealt with SQL server licensing yet.

First, I assumed that I would still have to purchase SQL Server 2017 core licenses with downgrade rights. So looking on the SQL Sever Pricing page, it looks as though Standard - per core price is $3,717 (2 pack). So if my server has a total of 16 cores, this is going to cost about $29,736 to cover SQL licensing.

Then I checked over on CDW just to get an idea of prices and things and I had the idea to search "SQL 2016" when I found this: SQL Server 2016 Standard - license - 16 cores - with Server 2016 Standard for like $1,900.

Is this even applicable to what I'm doing or am I missing something? It does say in the technical details "BIOS locked (Lenovo)" but I have no idea what that refers to. But other than that, it looks like it's licensing SQL Server 2016 for 16 cores and bundled with Windows Server 2016. Surly this can't be correct... or is it? If it is actually what I would need to be covered, I would purchase it, of course.

Otherwise, can someone help me get an idea of what I should be paying for SQL Server 2016 Standard Edition for 16 cores if not the cost I initially calculated ($29,736)? And I don't think we'd do the server + cal licensing as we have about 80 users and 100 or more systems which would connect to the SQL server.

Simple rule of thumb to ask your Microsoft licensing rep for the following:
First option is license + CALs that allows internal access only with unlimited instances on the server and unlimited cores:

SQL Server Standard License SQL Server Standard User CALs (80 Users)

Second option is per core with a minimum of 4 to purchase:

SQL Server Standard Per Core 2-Pack (2x)

In the Per Core scenario we can license for the number of physical cores to use and delimit that in SQL Studio Management. When it comes to audit, a snip of that setting that only allows the four threads should be just fine.

So if you license + CAL, do you have to cover all users AND computers?

If you license by user you cover users. If you license by device you cover devices.

Well what constitutes as a device? I mean, users use a device to connect to the SQL server... so wouldn't I have to cover both? I don't get it.

That is never how Microsoft CALs have worked.

ok, I finally re-read the overview.. makes sense again. We have a pretty even user/device ratio with slight fluctuations in both over time. I suppose we'd just do user CALs..

There is almost no reason for anyone in the normal, day to day, business world to use device CALs.

Agreed, this is super specific niche stuff normally reserved for manufacturing shift work.

We have a few clients that run two or three shifts across one or more facilities. A shared device by two or three peeps per day is about the only time we've ever deployed Device CALs.

This here says you can go into regedit to remove the interfaces, but this doesn't appear to correct the issue. (new switches being created at every reboot)

The virtual switch configuration stored within the following key: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VMSMP\Parameters\SwitchList After they deleted the corresponding value within that key and rebooted, the virtual switch was gone. Source: Can't remove failed virtual switch from Hyper-V's Virtual Switch Manager https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/e49df568-4f4c-47b7-b30c-952d1e26ca58/cant-remove-failed-virtual-switch-from-hypervs-virtual-switch-manager

This issue is now resolved. I had to issue the command git checkout master before the standard upgrade process would work again.

@coliver said in Receipt Logs for Office 365 Emails:

@momurda said in Receipt Logs for Office 365 Emails:

@coliver This is done whenever MS feels like it, yes? I mean, you may not get the results for a while.

Nope it's done whenever you submit the search. It's stupid powerful. I do one at least once a week and never have had to wait more then a few minutes.

Yep, that’s my experience as well.

@dafyre said in Installing the Rocket.Chat Snap on LXD:

@aaronstuder said in Installing the Rocket.Chat Snap on LXD:

@dafyre How did you install it?

snap install rocketchat-server

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The same works on Debian 9 as well

I would say that all services often have a need to backup, none completely do. Comes down to the resiliency that you need.

O365 or G Suite are very much bricks, they rarely lose data. For a normal business, the impact of email loss at the rate that they experience it has a very low impact. Annoying, but only so bad.

If losing email would destroy your business, they you need to backup any service. Because even the most reliable provider in the world is at risk of account mistakes.

Webroot here. It has been excellent.

That's better... Run directly on XenServer host

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@rojoloco said in Dell support site:

Got it sorted - cleared cookies and rebooted. I guess the update to the site broke my open tab with a cached version of the page.

Yeah, it has been working here too.

@dbeato said in Azure Ethereum Network:

@irj said in Azure Ethereum Network:

You can now build your own Ethereum Network in Azure. I am sure we will start seeing blockchain integrated into Office 365 in the future.

Definitely Interesting!

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-stack/azure-stack-ethereum

Interesting for sure.

I am pretty damn excited! I got into both Microsft Blockchain workshops at Microsoft Ignite! I am going to get a hands on look at this!!!!

@dbeato said in Public IP for Server remote management:

I wouldn't place it on a Public IP, I would just manage it over Firewall Access Rules to locked down to few IP addresses or VPN.

Agreed. This is how I handle was well.

@jaredbusch said in SAS SSD vs SAS HDD in a RAID 10?:

@dave247 said in SAS SSD vs SAS HDD in a RAID 10?:

delete

You can delete your own post. it is only visible to you and a mod, until mods purge it.

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ugh, I swear that wasn't there the last time I looked... I can't delete it now though since it's been over 2 hours.