Aww... I'm not trying to use WSUS - I'm trying good ol' MS update servers here.

@RojoLoco said:

@DustinB3403 said:

If you were the owner, would you honestly care about the feelings of your employees? Or would you find another employee who doesn't care about the words coming from your mouth?

Exactly... If I owned a bank, I would always be busy with my hot wife and giant pile of money.

hahaha That is awesome

Thank you for the information

The tech company to watch in the future will be KanyeCo.... after a semi-successful presidential campaign, Kanye West will join forces with Elon Musk to form the forward thinking corporation. After a failed IPO, a single tech innovation will skyrocket these 2 into the annals of history.

/satire

@akp982 said:

@oschaudhary FAN hasn't been updated in years (well 2 years)

https://download.centreon.com/ has a more up-to-date nagios core and centreon front end, moving from one to the other is a @@@@@@@@@@ but its much better supported by the community and has a better update process.

Its missing nMap by default I believe but its easy to add in 🙂

Whoa! @akp982 is back! Dude haven't seen you around in forever!

@gjacobse said:

Well we can call it a moot point now as the supervisor told him to 'deal with it'..

That works.

I'll throw another vote in for OwnCloud.

@PSX_Defector said:

@Dashrender said:

It's truly inconceivable to me that that it would be possible to host a server in a DC less than you can in house. Of course this makes a few assumptions.

in-house I don't pay a fee for the server location I don't need specialized heating/cooling Not concerned with redundant ISP links Not concerned with generator backup power
etc

Do I need to pull out the old Out of the Closet and into the datacenter document? You ain't doing it right in the closet.

Yeah, if you skimp on most things and ignore everything, odds are it's gonna be "cheaper" to host inhouse. Most of the time if you get more than two "servers", using a cloud based box instead would come out cheaper in the long run.

When it comes to hosting a critical service that you are providing to the rest of the internet, I completely agree. But when you bring up internal things like @johnhooks did, it's time to consider more items - but yeah, even then it can totally be worth hosting everything in a DC.

Apparently he is not the only one with confusion around this...

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1186383-unable-to-join-esxi-host-to-the-domain-no-suitable-fqdn

What perfect timing!

@IRJ said:

Is the OS up to date?

Yes, the latest os 9900 V 7.1
as per my search result

@dafyre Unfortunately there is only 1 SATA Controller on the Tyan boards. The other board has its own onboard controller that could be used, but the LSI is wired to the backplane that the HDDs are slid into, so I would have to do some rewiring. Which is possible, but I will need to figure out how to fix this problem either way.

Thanks for help everyone, Im hoping I can get it figured out. I am seriously considering some kind of issue with Server 2012R2 and this type of configuration. Does anyone else have this configuration or could mock it up to see if you experience the same problems?

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@JaredBusch said:

Can AD not handle old copies? I was under the impression that it could.

The latest version can, but only the latest. It's a new feature that MS just added.

This is my understanding as well. As long as you only have 2012 (and maybe it's only 2012R2) DCs then you can restore backup of a DC without any issues (according to the documentation 🙂 )

Pretty sure it is 2012 R2.

@hubtechagain said:

ah just looks different i suppose. 08r2 here.

That was from an 08R2 server.

@Dashrender said:

Why is a VPN a security risk? because they give you (generally) full access to the network?

Correct. They create unnecessary exposure. Direct access to all hosts (typically) for all protocols and ports. The protections of firewalls and proxies are bypassed. They are generally the least secure form of access because they are the laziest - just expose everything and hope for the best.

@scottalanmiller Yeah... I know..

It was just never bothered with. .. 😞

I'm making a snapshot right now using NAUBackup of my VM's before running the upgrades. As ya never know if something will get broken.