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.

To add to this- I have an error that started appearing after updating their Fedora 29 and 30 instances. Further testing found that the error appears in different regions using their server type template installers or even a custom iso option that I used with net install. All I have to do is deploy, run dnf update and reboot. The error is present in every boot after the update. https://mangolassi.it/topic/19903/fedora-29-and-30-edac-skx-can-t-get-tolm-tohm-error-on-vultr

@DustinB3403 said in Setting up an HP DL185 G5: @Dashrender That is where I was thinking a surveillance system would be a good use. I could use it as a backup repo for my VMs as well with a simple NFS share. Just needing some things to do with it, maybe something the kid could eventually use. (years from now. . . she's almost 1 already.) All these things basically go directly to what Scott said - make it a giant storage array.

@IRJ said in Windows Server 2012 R2 - Share Auditing for Changes: I know you use wazuh.. Check this out https://documentation.wazuh.com/current/user-manual/capabilities/file-integrity/index.html Thanks! Checking out setting this up. Hopefully, it will reveal the culprit.

@WrCombs said in Database Server vs File Server: What's Different: @scottalanmiller said in Database Server vs File Server: What's Different: @WrCombs said in Database Server vs File Server: What's Different: Is it possible for a File server to run a database server ? how would that be classified at that point ? No, conceptually that would not mean anything. A file server and a database server are discrete concepts. A single operating system can run neither, either, or both. But as servers themselves, they are discrete. I gotcha. It was one of those hypothetical questions What's messy is that technical file servers are a very, very specific form of database server. Because a file server presents a file system over a network. And a file system is a special case database. No one really thinks about this and absolutely no one will talk about file servers this way, but for understanding what is actually happening... file servers are special purpose database servers. And that is very easy to prove. So a file server is a database server, but a database server is not a file server. But file servers are so common, unique, and discrete, we treat them as totally different animals and no one considers the two to even be similar.

@Emad-R said in Linux NFS SSD caching: AID 10 on Linux File Server machine, how can I speed up this NFS storage by an intelligent cache, for example I wish to add another 250 GB SSD to act as cache, how will tha Yeah the RAID 10 is on HDD, due to cost effectiveness. Will check LVM since its baked in.

@JaredBusch I don't know if you ever finished up with this client, but for $1236 you can get a decent server that would work well. Add $99 if you wanted the 3 year warranty

@EddieJennings said in Typical virtualization host server config?: @Pete-S said in Typical virtualization host server config?: We've calculated guesstimated 8GB RAM and 50 GB SSD storage per VM on average. How did you come up with your guesstimate? Do you have some workloads in production right now that you'd be virtualizing with whatever host your configure and buy? Yes, actually we have the hardware now but it hasn't been configured completely yet. We are still figuring things out. The workloads are running on physical servers (Windows) and it's latency that is our primary concern, not capacity. We are moving the applications to linux and making them multi-tenant and horizontally scalable at the same time. So that's why we are guesstimating based on the config of the physical servers.

@flaxking said in vTigerCRM Installation - Troubleshooting: Is SuiteCRM's Cases feature decent? Not a sales guy, not sure how it is.

@Pete-S said in DELL PowerEdge T410 - Memory Configuration Issues: @PhlipElder said in DELL PowerEdge T410 - Memory Configuration Issues: As a rule, the primary slot in each channel should be populated. So, 4 sticks per CPU. Make sure Memory RAS settings are default and not stripe or mirror. That may be part of the problem. Make sure the sticks are in the primary slot for each channel which is usually a different colour than the secondary and furthest from the CPU. T410 is old 5500 series chipset which is triple channel, so I don't think you gain anything with 4 per CPU. Yeah, that era was three or six.

@black3dynamite said in Server Time Zone configuration: @dashrender said in Server Time Zone configuration: @black3dynamite said in Server Time Zone configuration: What does BIOS time use local time or UTC? Whatever you set it to? BIOS: local time or UTC OS: UTC Or is only an issue if you are dual booting? In general I don't care about the BIOS/UEFI time because I sync my devices from a time server. that just means I need to set my devices to the correct timezone, then the time will come over as desired.

@dustinb3403 said in Veeam Free Windows Server Backup Agent: @jaredbusch said in Veeam Free Windows Server Backup Agent: @dustinb3403 said in Veeam Free Windows Server Backup Agent: So the biggest item missing from the Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is it lacks a central management component. Which isn't horrible but it does leave some things to be desired. . . No, it is not missing. That is a feature of the Veeam B&R product. You can (or soon can) manage Veeam Endpoints that point to a Veeam B&R instance. Yea with licensing, the topic is solved. Veeam Endpoint works without limits. But it lacks a central management interface. B&R is a licensed product, right? Yes, it is.

@dbeato said in Goto Linux Server OS: @scottalanmiller said in Goto Linux Server OS: @dbeato said in Goto Linux Server OS: @bbigford said in Goto Linux Server OS: @scottalanmiller said in Goto Linux Server OS: @bbigford said in Goto Linux Server OS: RHEL if support is required, CentOS if I'm being lazy on updates (joke); beginning to just use Fedora Server for everything not requiring support. I will probably start phasing out CentOS. That's what we are doing. CentOS is nearly gone now. Only required for Zimbra. Zimbra actually requires CentOS? Can't use FS? Zimbra does not require CentOS, you can also use Ubuntu which others might not like. We mean in the context of the RPM distos. It only supports Ubuntu LTS and not current which is arguably not even a form of support since Ubuntu’s own support path can be to force you to current meaning Zimbra isn’t actually supported in that ecosystem. Yeah, Zimbra supports Ubuntu 16.04 LTS but yeah we are almost on 18.04 Yeah. So far worse than only supporting CentOS 7 in the RPM world. At least RHEL 7 offers full support from the vendor, not partial.

@thwr said in Flushing GPOs: @dbeato said in Flushing GPOs: You need to setup the settings to Delete or changed to not configured, wait until it applies and then delete the GPOs after confirming they are not applied any longer. Get-Content c:\temp\gpos.txt | foreach { Get-GPO -Name "$_" | Remove-GPO } http://jeffwouters.nl/index.php/2013/08/remove-group-policy-objects-through-powershell/ I bet you could do something like this to set all GPOs to "on delete remove from client" too This assumes a txt file with all GPO names. You could also just use Get-GPO

Before you can get in to what OS to run the clients on, do you have to ask what apps the business needs to run? If they need some kind of CAD package and it's only offered on Windows, the linux client goes out the window. (pun intended)

https://i.imgur.com/nj3PBpF.png This is missing a few: Protected access for admin over all files & PC's, Visuals (graphs) , Easy to use interface. Here is what I have so far for important features outside of the standard. Do you guys see anything that is more important than another? Anything I'm missing completely? This list is not complied by priority, however it needs to be ( my Boss asked me to make a list) so any / all input would be greatly appreciated.

@emad-r said in Hyper-V 2016 Server free file server included ?: @dustinb3403 said in Windows 2016 Server free file server ?: Not legal. You can't legally use Windows Server for production purposes without it being licensed. Also I dont see any licensing options for file server role, FYI. It's not a role. To license the use of any non-hypervisor functionality the license is a full Windows Server license.