I've only ever used Redgate, but have heard good things about ApexSQL.

@black3dynamite said in Migrating on-premises VHD files to Azure is not rocket science:

I can believe Azure still doesn't support vhdx.

Although if you use an Generation 2 VM it is the only file supported
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-R2-and-2012/dn282285(v=ws.11)
Still open case with Azure
https://feedback.azure.com/forums/216843-virtual-machines/suggestions/4271962-upload-vhdx

Just setup Veeam Backup for Office 365 and going to give it a test to try and avoid this scenario.

@tim_g said in Everything You Need to Know About Microsoft Windows Hyper-V Server:

Windows is an operating system... that's like saying Microsoft Windows Office 2016, or Microsoft Windows Skype.

It just doesn't make any sense what so ever.

Correct terms:
Windows Server 2016
Microsoft Office 2016
Hyper-V Server 2016
Windows Server 2016 with Hyper-V Server Role Installed
Windows 10 with Hyper-V Feature Installed

Microsoft Windows XBOX One. :face_with_stuck-out_tongue_winking_eye:

I've had this happen on multiple occasions. The system was configured to use the internal windows database instead of sql, and there were too many records so the refreshes and etc. would take forever, or you'd get the reset server node issue. After I migrated the database to sql, the problem mostly went away. It still occurs on slow connections.

@dbeato said in How to change you Server 2016 Evaluation into a Standard License:

@jaredbusch said in How to change you Server 2016 Evaluation into a Standard License:

I have had to do this a couple times and always need to look up the command.

So I thought I would drop it here so I can search here first in the future.

DISM /online /Set-Edition:ServerStandard /AcceptEula /ProductKey:XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX

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Technet Article for doing this on Server 2012: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj574204.aspx

Great job on the powershell, others usually do the command prompt.

Right click on Start open Powershell. I use that only because it is default. The command works in both. I have no preference for something like this command.

Nowadays they wouldn't get away on this. Maybe Troy Hunt will say something 😛

It's a crazy way of looking at it, but it's MS after all.

@nerdydad said in Hyper-V Host - Member of the domain or not:

@jaredbusch said in Hyper-V Host - Member of the domain or not:

@tim_g said in Hyper-V Host - Member of the domain or not:

@jaredbusch said in Hyper-V Host - Member of the domain or not:

@jmoore said in Hyper-V Host - Member of the domain or not:

I enable the local admin and set a secure password for everything here as sometimes machines quit responding to the Windows domain controller and I have to have a way to reset things.

By stating that you enable local admin, I want to know how it was disabled in the first place.

I don't know what the issue is here.

When you install Hyper-V Server, you can't log in any way other than local admin. Maybe after you join it to the domain you can disable the local admin account, which is weird to do...

That is entirely my point.

This was supposed to be more of a "Best Practices" question. I really don't have a problem situation in front of me, but wanted to better understand best practices when setting up a Hyper-V host.

I have setup a number of Windows 10 client devices and noticed that the local admin is disabled. I assumed (though never experienced) that the situation would be the same for a Hyper-V host.

Local Administrator account in Windows Servers and Hyper-V is enabled by default. Windows desktops has the local administrator account disabled by default.

@tonyshowoff said in MS SQL Server 2017 on Linux Has Released:

Does it allow odd number processors yet or do I still have to disable one if I don't have an even number?

Even only for licensing, I believe. No change there.

@tim_g said in Microsoft Announces Merging of Skype for Business into Teams:

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft Announces Merging of Skype for Business into Teams:

I've been on G Suite for two weeks and so far my impression is that provisioning is broken, GMail is actually just as bad as Exchange, and Keep is the only good thing that they make. Google Docs aren't bad, but not great. That they are fast and completely hosted is nice, but they are no LibreOffice, that's for sure. Hangouts and Meet are crippled to the point of useless. Hoping once @Romo takes over management of G Suite that he can sort some of this out. But overall, not impressed, at all.

Why'd you go G Suite over MS?

Already in place, and with engineering moving with pedal to the floor, not a good time to rip and replace the existing infrastructure. Won't put in MS, though. We've got zero dependency on that stuff, no reason to consider Exchange.

Have not used it, I'm afraid.

I buy Microsoft licenses when something stops working...

J/k

No but seriously