@nashbrydges said in Microsoft HTML5 Web RDS Client: Wonder if this will be better than my Apache Guacamole install for RDP. Likely, only because it needs one fewer components in the chain. But less flexible.

@dustinb3403 said in Phoronix Publishes Windows vs. Linux Network Benchmarks: That is surprisingly disappointing. Server 2016 is supposedly the best thing ever. . . Of course it is, if you get paid to support it!

@nerdydad said in MS Windows Server 2016 Datacenter not activating: @aaronstuder said in MS Windows Server 2016 Datacenter not activating: @nerdydad any firewalls in the way? No firewalls this go around. There have been some network changes, but nothing in the way of firewalls. @tim_g said in MS Windows Server 2016 Datacenter not activating: @nerdydad said in MS Windows Server 2016 Datacenter not activating: Have a MS Windows Server 2016 Datacenter that won't activate. I have tried GUI in system properties and settings and have tried DISM. Ran for updates and all patched up. Tried activation again, and not working. Anybody have any ideas? What's the error you get? Typically it was that it can't upgrade the server to that licensing because it was already there. @black3dynamite said in MS Windows Server 2016 Datacenter not activating: Have you tried activating using Windows Software Licensing Management Tool? slmgr.vbs I didn't know this existed, but will hold on to it for the future. Thanks. The SLMGR is awesome https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askcore/2016/10/19/windows-server-2016-volume-activation-tips/

@dashrender said in Windows Server 2016 NIC Teaming - No internet: @thwr said in Windows Server 2016 NIC Teaming - No internet: @tim_g said in Windows Server 2016 NIC Teaming - No internet: @thwr said in Windows Server 2016 NIC Teaming - No internet: @tim_g said in Windows Server 2016 NIC Teaming - No internet: Are you setting the NICTeam IP or one of the adapters making the team. Leave the individual adapters alone, and just set the Team Asked that before, he's configuring the team, not the NICs Before it's a team you can mess with the NIC settings, and it effects the Team afterwards (in my experience). Should not happen because Windows will unbind all IP protocols (v4 and v6) from each member NIC. At least in theory. Don't ya just love theory??? I'm more on the practical side.

@r3dpand4 said in Microsoft Removes Storage Spaces Direct from Windows Server 2016: @tim_g said in Microsoft Removes Storage Spaces Direct from Windows Server 2016: @scottalanmiller said in Microsoft Removes Storage Spaces Direct from Windows Server 2016: @darek-hamann said in Microsoft Removes Storage Spaces Direct from Windows Server 2016: The implementation of an Azure Stack would be something to get our heads around for the time being. Hopefully it is better than the actual Azure system! It is Azure, same thing, but you have a physical node on-prem. You pay for the hardware, and you get Azure a little cheaper, but it's fully managed by them. It's really only for remote places with bad bandwidth imho. Think like, needing cloud from an 18-wheeler in a remote location. This sounds like a crappy version of the AWS Snowball Completely different. This is like making your portion of the AWS cloud in-house, including the entire AWS stack. Again, not too useful unless you are trying to bring the cloud to a remote location to avoid excessive latency or to somewhere the internet doesn't exist... like linking it to a satellite connection during a disaster or something. There are other real uses, but that would be for bigger enterprises... for most SMBs, Azure Stack would never be a consideration.

good article thanks and handy script

@dashrender said in Configuring Windows Server 2016 Core. Part1: Installation: @jaredbusch said in Configuring Windows Server 2016 Core. Part1: Installation: @wirestyle22 said in Configuring Windows Server 2016 Core. Part1: Installation: @aidan_walsh afaik there is no reason to install it as a role. All it does is create unnecessary licensing dependencies. The main reason some people do it is for auto activation of guest windows machines. That is no reason to ever do it IMO. If every physical server is a Datacenter license then it is pretty transparent also. But I still do not feel that Installing in this way makes sense. Yep, KMS server to the rescue. Correct. If you are big enough to have Datacenter licensing, spin up another VM and setup KMS.

Where will his EHR be hosted? Local or cloud? I would say it can be done a good bit cheaper that $80k,.. I mean wow. I know NTG could spec it out less. So much of HIPPA is simple common sense with no all users seem to understand. You don'[t keep patient data on the local computer. IIRC - Bitlocker isn't 'approved' for drive security - Vera Crypt I know isn't. But if you do an RDS session to the server - keeping all the data on the server, you may be fine with that. Keeping everything off the local prevents multiple failure points.

@dashrender said in How Many Windows Server VMs Can You Run on Hyper-V SAMIT Video: @jaredbusch said in How Many Windows Server VMs Can You Run on Hyper-V SAMIT Video: @msff-amman-itofficer said in How Many Windows Server VMs Can You Run on Hyper-V SAMIT Video: @jaredbusch said in How Many Windows Server VMs Can You Run on Hyper-V SAMIT Video: @msff-amman-itofficer said in How Many Windows Server VMs Can You Run on Hyper-V SAMIT Video: @jaredbusch said in How Many Windows Server VMs Can You Run on Hyper-V SAMIT Video: @msff-amman-itofficer said in How Many Windows Server VMs Can You Run on Hyper-V SAMIT Video: @tim_g @tim_g said in How Many Windows Server VMs Can You Run on Hyper-V SAMIT Video: @msff-amman-itofficer said in How Many Windows Server VMs Can You Run on Hyper-V SAMIT Video: Oh and they provide the hyper v integration as cab file (guest agent): windows6.x-hypervintegrationservices-x64.cab I cant belive I complained when VIRT IO Tools was repackaged some time ago and they changed some folders in there ISO image, while MS gives you a .cab file and not even an executable. What do you mean? What VM are you trying to install? You shouldn't need any integration tools at all for any modern operating system on a VM. They come built in and are updated via Windows Update (if running Windows OS) If you install RHEL or CentOS, you can download a Linux Integration Services .ISO if you need to. You simply run the ./install.sh file. All other modern Linux OSs already have the Hyper-V Integration built in to the kernel. This is what i am talking about: https://support.microsoft.com/en-US/help/3063109/hyper-v-integration-components-update-for-windows-virtual-machines Method 2: Microsoft Download Center The following files are available for download from the Microsoft Download Center. Operating system Update All supported x86-based versions of Windows 8.1 Download Download the package now. All supported x64-based versions of Windows 8.1 Download Download the package now. All supported x64-based versions of Windows Server 2012 R2 Download Download the package now. All supported x64-based versions of Windows Server 2012 Download Download the package now. All supported x86-based versions of Windows 7 Download Download the package now. All supported x64-based versions of Windows 7 Download Download the package now. All supported x64-based versions of Windows Server 2008 R2 Download Download the package now. Go to the download, and it is all .cab files. WTF are you talking about. This is not DVD media. You are doing it wrong from the beginning. Ofcourse I know this is not DVD media, those are the Hyper-V agents that MS wants you to install on your guest machine, MS calls them Hyper-V integration components. ESXi and KVM Virt IO all provides much better ways to get this installed on your guest machines, and dont provide you a dumb .cab file. Just because you are not capable of providing a share to get access the files from within the VM does not mean the process is stupid. Who wants to mount ISO files from the hypervisor all the time just to update software in a guest VM? That is the stupid thing. Okay, granted what are the commands to create share in Windows hyper-V standalone? I tried and failed, or the only way to do so is to have share outside hyper-V like NAS ? if so both KVM and ESXi can be easier in sending files directly to the host. I dont want to go to fight about who is the best Virtualization platform cause that is pointless, but my trial wit Hyper-V is everything required 2 extra steps to get it configured. While the competition it can be done with one step. Why are you trying to put these files on the hypervisor? They have no need to be on the hypervisor. You cannot download them there anyway why are you trying to put them there? The guest VM does not care where they are shared from. Just put them someplace accessible. or even download them directly in the guest VM. I am not arguing best hypervisor platform. I am simply stating you are doing things wrong and causing your own problems. I'm guessing that he might be saying that he has no NAS, and doesn't want to create a share from his desktop machine to make those ISOs available to the hypervisor. ESXi allows you to have a folder on the DataStore that you can then reference. I did this for my ESXi server. Same goes for my XS, I had a local piece of storage on the hypervisor for ISOs. I don't see an actual issue with this. The biggest one I seem is that you might be using more expensive disk to store ISOs instead of storing them on a NAS. And Hyper-V lets you access share a folder too. It is all windows, so the admin share is there and active. \\hypervservername\c$\somefolder

@Tim_G said in Fedora 26: connect to Windows File share: @FATeknollogee said in Fedora 26: connect to Windows File share: @Tim_G said in Fedora 26: connect to Windows File share: Try this: mount -t cifs -o username=administrator,password=urPassword,domain=domain.local //fileserver/share /mountLocation No workie, says "Host is down" Makes me think that your Linux box is trying to connect via an unsupported method. For example, do you have SMB 1.0 turned off on your Windows file server... and your Linux box is trying to connect via SMB 1.0? I tried calling out "SMB3.0", but, I get the error "For more deatils see mount (8)"

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/315271/how-to-use-dumpchk.exe-to-check-a-memory-dump-file http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463009.aspx

@Tim_G said in Installing VPN access on Windows Server 2016: I don't remember experiencing or hearing about an MS RRAS server that was compromised or hacked do to the fault of the MS Software directly. It's always been because of dirt poor implementation and security oversights... connecting a Windows server directly to the internet, ..... If you consider exposing the server as a mistake leading to compromise, that's really the point that we were making

@Mike-Davis said in Authenticate Laptops to Wifi against ActiveDirectory: and on the Meraki side, you chose WPA2 Enterprise, correct? Definitely WPA2 on the Meraki. I'll check my conditions though. Thanks for the tip.

@TheDeepStorage said in Deploying a 2-node StarWind VSAN Free for VMware ESXi 6.5: @hobbit666 said in Deploying a 2-node StarWind VSAN Free for VMware ESXi 6.5: Thanks just that I might have some kit becoming available but they are all different Dell models, just wondered if the Hard Drive space/RAID matched that would be OK for a test lab, e.g. R610, 64GB RAM with 4x 600GB SAS R410, 64GB RAM with 4x 600GB SAS Sounds like it will work just fine for a test lab, anyways, once you get down to testing, DM me and I'll get you in touch with an engineer, who will review your environment to make sure everything will work perfectly. See now I want to purchase more lab equipment to test this. . . .

This turned into an awesome discussion. I need to bookmark this one, some dynamite licensing info here.

@Tim_G thanks

@Dashrender said in Downgrade Windows 2016 Licence: I maintain SA on my servers, CALs and until next year Office. I'll be dumping Office for O365 next year ( I hope) Staying current is what I consider worthwhile. Sure we stay current.. but for example office was release every three years (2007-> 2010 ->2013 - >2016) It was cheaper to buy new outright than to use SA.

@JaredBusch said in Windows Server 2016 Pricing: @scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2016 Pricing: @travisdh1 said in Windows Server 2016 Pricing: @jt1001001 said in Windows Server 2016 Pricing: Didn't VmWare try licensing by RAM not too terribly long ago? I don't think they licensing by RAM so much as limit the amount of RAM you're allowed to use according to license type. The free tier was really quite limited, is it still 128GB? That's kind of the same thing That is also not very limited at all. Most SMB do not have that much in their servers. If they have more, they bought too much. Same for cores. Most SMBs that have more than sixteen per server bought too much, often way too much. Especially if they are Intel cores.

@Dashrender said in Free Windows Server DataCenter License with Purchase of SA of equal or greater value: @IRJ said in Free Windows Server DataCenter License with Purchase of SA of equal or greater value: I learned Hyper-V inside and out when I was studying for my MCSA 2012. I have given up on Hyper-V. Other Hypervisors are so much better and have less issues. I tried using Hyper-V for about a year, it just isn't as good as other products out there. In what ways? and at what scale? For starters the compatibility with non-Windows Machines suck.

PS is really coming along

Thankfully I do not have Exchange in house, and I would only be doing this process with DCs.

Downloading? It was done downloading before my finger was off the mouse, lol. I can't wait to dive into 2016, though. They're bringing a lot of improvements that me and this team I am with here are excited about in the RemoteApp and VDI realms.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/microsoft_press/2016/04/20/free-ebook-introducing-windows-server-2016-technical-preview/