Yes, totally forgot about Robocopy! But I got something in the meantime and works like a charm

Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier

Would be great if this is available for MAC, atleast I don't need to switch back and forth. Luckily files are copying now, praying not to have such issues on the transfer!

Over SMB, yes. Its painful to move on windows and when things go wrong, manage using MAC to rename and then copy. Reason I am using windows is, I have teracopy which handles file copy much better than default file copy tool in windows.

Apparently a rename from MAC works! I can't imagine doing the move and rename each files when i have the long names, have to go through 2.5TB!

Can't do that, its on a folder on Netapp, mounted to server, and I have full permission on that folder, its just that windows can't delete due to the long file name, just wondering then why/how does it allow the save such file!

I am cleanup an old archive drive on our server and we have some really long named files which can't be deleted. Tried different options used eraser but no luck. Any solutions?

@thecreativeone91 Did you try the feedback feature? http://www.howtogeek.com/197604/how-to-send-feedback-to-microsoft-in-the-windows-10-technical-preview/

I would love to continue using Windows XP!

I can see that its available on my machine now!
http://www.myce.com/news/windows-update-silently-installs-windows-10-downloader-75647/

Will try that as well, but just checked the same download again from home Windows 2012, both browsers, and still looks better on FF!

Will test this from home and also am travelling end of this week, can try from different places and see if that's the case

Yes, its too early to judge, but was bit surprised to see this. I am using the same sourceforge direct link to download the files, will check this for new downloads and see how it goes

So I just moved from a MAC to Windows laptop for work (due to the new work nature on SharePoint and more windows environments and testing), and in search of different tools to work more efficiently. I used to have a download manager long time back and thought of installing one again on this machine. During my search, one forum post said "just put this on FF and it will take care" Out of curiosity, I downloaded Zorin OS using both Chrome and FF and the result was surprising. (No additional download managers on both browsers)

Seems like somehow FF boosts the download speed. Both using the same link to download and I started downloading via FF only after the download started in Chrome for sometime! FF already finished the download and chrome is still downloading it!

@sreekumarpg did you manage to do the tests?

Youtube Video

Also thinking on using Windows AD with centrify to get the users login from a central system, thus managing user password policies too. But just wondering, if I use AD via centrify, do I still need to get the CALs? Or to reduce the CAL cost may be I could do an open LDAP server for Linux and AD for Windows and split the network drive share authentication (Windows users will be accessing a share dedicated and controlled via AD, and Linux users via openldap?) Just ideas as of now, need to see how practical those are!

Checking on chef now, seems like a good project integrating all. Once succesfully completed, I would probably write about the whole setup if time permits.

So chef can be used to customise a Zorin OS with the softwares required and deploy on multiple machines? And probably the password reset and other things can be updated via chef and push it back to the machines I guess!

@scottalanmiller So If I need to choose between Chef and Puppet, what do you recommend? I think Chef is free and Puppet is paid if you need advance options

@thecreativeone91 said:

ZorinOS- seems to be a good option. Both Win & Linux will be using a central storage (still thinking between QNAP & Synology), but I assume both can be used to share files, and no need to be added to the AD.

@scottalanmiller I need to deploy the OS to multiple machines rather than doing it manually, with the packages required as mentioned earlier. I haven't tested puppet/chef yet, which would be an easy and one to setup and free?