@CCWTech said in Can you run a Windows desktop OS as a server to run AVImark Veterinary Software?:

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Very impressive, so few people are actually looking to research and learn, just to argue. Kudos to him.

@CCWTech said in Windows defender quarentined my VM... WTH?:

@Obsolesce said in Windows defender quarentined my VM... WTH?:

@CCWTech said in Windows defender quarentined my VM... WTH?:

Server down this morning...
VHDX File is just gone... It's missing...
I found out that Windows Defender had detected it was (or had) a virus and quarantined it...

How Windows defender even would ever quarantine a VHDX is beyond me.

Come on Microsoft!

That's odd. VHD/VHDX files are NOT ever scanned by the host, unless of course they are mounted in the same way as a disk or USB disk is to the host OS for example. Otherwise, they are treated like a black box. So something else had to have happened for it to be quarantined by the host OS. That doesn't just happen willy-nilly.

Additionally, VM files are automatically excluded when the Hyper-V server role is installed. So again, something isn't configured correctly or something weird is going on.

What happened to you isn't default behavior.

Not sure, we 'inherited' the server. We don't do HYPER-V any longer. Everything is KVM now. (Proxmox)

But it was for sure quarantiined. Funny thing is that Windows defender scan of the actual VM shows no virus... So weird.

My guess would be that the VM's AV cleaned it up separate from the host's AV killing the VM.

@Pete-S said in Dell Server: The server power action is initiated because the host device initiated a warm-reset operation.:

@scottalanmiller said in Dell Server: The server power action is initiated because the host device initiated a warm-reset operation.:

Just verifying that this log entry tells us that a human hit the power button on the server? This is a log entry in the iDrac.

I don't think so. Warm reset is a reset, like the reset button or alt+ctrl+del.

If you press the power button you get a shutdown / power down but not reset, because after power off it will not start again.

If you have another Dell server available maybe you can verify.

Power button press = Graceful Shutdown
Power button press and hold = Power Off

@G-I-Jones said in GPO to create scheduled task to run netlogon batch script:

Did you ever figure this out?

No and the person who was working on it has been OOO all day, so its not a priority either.

Thanks for adding more technical content!

@wrx7m said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD:

@black3dynamite said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD:

@wrx7m said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD:

@dafyre said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD:

@dafyre said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD:

@pmoncho said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD:

@wrx7m

Just curious, when you chose UPD, did you choose to store all settings or just certain folders?

Some applications don't play nicely with roaming profiles.

UPDs mount at the usual C:\Users\user.name and the applications can't tell a difference.

Right. But, only when the user is logged in. After they logout, that path doesn't exist. I am trying to figure out how to work around that for adding the custom (for each user) erp shortcut on their desktop in their session.

Add the shortcut to C:\Users\Public\Desktop.
That way it will always show up on each user Desktop.

This would be nice and easy, but each user has a custom shortcut- It has a workstation ID in the target path.

https://www.pdq.com/blog/pdq-deploy-and-powershell/
Create a script that creates the shortcut each user Desktop and append the workstation id in the target path.

@Pete-S said in Comparing Server CPU Capabilities?:

@wrx7m said in Comparing Server CPU Capabilities?:

... And I don't have to run a Windows server for vCenter server or upgrade manager anymore.

I haven't played around with VMware much. How does it work with vCenter? Does run in a VM on each hypervisor or completely separate from the hypervisors?

It is a virtual appliance. You can upgrade and migrate from an existing Windows version. You can run it on a single server.

Looks like adding under [Timer]

OnBootSec=10min OnUnitActiveSec=4h

Would do what I'm looking for, going to test.

@JaredBusch said in SSH Access to Windows 10 Pro Workstations:

@DustinB3403 said in SSH Access to Windows 10 Pro Workstations:

@scottalanmiller said in SSH Access to Windows 10 Pro Workstations:

On Server, no issue. SSH the same as with Linux. SSH on Windows 10 is "single user" just like anything else on Windows 10.

So then why would they have the statement about "usually to correct problems" as to me this would be a two person use. One who is using the desktop and the other administrator who is working on fixing an issue via ssh (presumably while the other user is using said system).

I'm not bothering to reread anything, but MS has long allowed admin connections.

Yes this has been a known fact for as long as i can remember... Admins are exempt for administrative purposes.