I work for a financial institution and I've been in IT for only like a 1.5 years, so I'm still learning this stuff. We have regular IT audits and such and now that I'm the only IT guy, I got to sit with the auditor and helped him fully scan our environment with Nessus. Results came back for around 150 systems and there was something like 500 vulnerabilities, 80% of which were missing critical Windows OS patches.

I was pretty shocked because I always stay on top of monthly Windows updates. The auditor says, "well, it says there's some here from as far back as August of 2016" in a condescending tone. I was pretty pissed but just accepted it and let him finish the scan and then I got the full assessment a few weeks later, which I'm now combing through.

So, first of all, I'm wondering.... don't Windows OS updates supersede past updates? --- meaning, if I miss some critical Windows OS updates for a month or two, but then I get all the critical updates for the following months all the way up until current time, then those newer updates take the place of those missing updates, meaning I no longer have to worry about those missed patches, correct? I assume the only thing Nessus is seeing is that those individual KB's are not listed in the Windows registry, and therefore flags them as not installed, despite the fact that it doesn't matter since all updates after those have been faithfully updated.

Other than that, I was thinking, we currently don't use WSUS because when I came on my job here, they had a 3rd party patch and software management tool called DesktopCentral by ManageEngine. That's how I do updates now, and I can view all the missing updates for every system and all I see are the missing updates for this month and a few for last month (machines that were turned off for weeks).

Additionally, we used to have Kaspersky 8 AV installed which was so unbelievably fucked up... I think it was even managing our Windows updates at one time. Then when I ripped it out of our environment, I had to use their special uninstall tool in safe mode.. so God knows how that messed things up. Some of my servers and computers that used to have Kav can't even run Windows update themselves.

Anyway, I'm hoping someone here has had a similar thing happen so you can maybe give some advice... otherwise, I'll just be knee-deep in manually patching super old updates.

@dashrender said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@net-runner said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:
http://hv-manager.org/.

At least you get 5 VMs, but the 5Nines gives you 6..

I'll bring it back around and say that now that I've gotten past the couple of annoying obstacles with Hyper-V and remote management, Hyper-V is freaking awesome. It seems lightning fast.

So this is an issue I've been having for a while, unable to solve. Also, I don't really know if it's truly a problem, per se, but I know I do not have this problem on my 2012 R2 servers which are NIC teamed.

I have a handful of 2008 R2 Enterprise servers and they have Broadcom NICs (3 of them have Broadcom 5720 QP) with NIC teaming enabled.

A while back, I did a scan with Wireshark to look for duplicate IP addresses and the results I got back all pointed to duplicate uses of IPs on the servers with the NIC teaming. Further inspection revealed that each teamed interface had a different MAC but the same IP was assigned to all interfaces. So, it kind of is and isn't a duplicate IP... more like, multiple MACs on the same system sharing the same IP.

Anyway, I also have NIC teaming enabled on all my 2012 R2 servers and I do not have this issue at all. I have tried upgrading the NIC firmware and software drivers several times. I have also called Dell support and went through a lot of steps to solve the problem but they could not fix it. The only thing I haven't tried is to install a non-Broadcom NIC, which I will do eventually.

In the mean time, I just wanted to see if anyone here has seen this before or if it's even really an issue. I only assume it's an issue because it was my understanding that all the NICs in a team will have the same MAC and IP. That's how it is on 2012 R2 anyway.

Screenshots:

ALSO: The rest of the interfaces have different MACs as well. I just highlighted the first two I could find in Wireshark.

@dashrender said in Building a Hyper-V 2016 host Take 2:

@dave247 said in Building a Hyper-V 2016 host Take 2:

@dashrender said in Building a Hyper-V 2016 host Take 2:

@dave247 said in Building a Hyper-V 2016 host Take 2:

I've successfully added Windows Server Management to my Windows 10 system and am now able to connect to my Hyper-V 2016 server. However, I am having trouble viewing server info such as hard disk space. I get this error when trying to go to disk management:

did you run this command as noted above

Enable-NetFirewallRule -DisplayGroup “Remote Volume Management”

Yes, I ran that on the server but not my pc. I just ran it on my Windows 10 pc too and now it works.

THANKS

Do I need to change something in my instructions to make that specifically stand out more?

Maybe, "Run these commands on both server and management workstation"

@brrabill said in Building a Hyper-V 2016 host Take 2:

@dave247 said in Building a Hyper-V 2016 host Take 2:

@dashrender said in Building a Hyper-V 2016 host Take 2:

@dave247 said in Building a Hyper-V 2016 host Take 2:

I've successfully added Windows Server Management to my Windows 10 system and am now able to connect to my Hyper-V 2016 server. However, I am having trouble viewing server info such as hard disk space. I get this error when trying to go to disk management:

did you run this command as noted above

Enable-NetFirewallRule -DisplayGroup “Remote Volume Management”

Yes, I ran that on the server but not my pc. I just ran it on my Windows 10 pc too and now it works.

THANKS

Yeah has to be done on both sides. A gotcha for sure, that as you found out is not easily Google-able.

Today I learned...

@dashrender said in Building a Hyper-V 2016 host Take 2:

@dave247 said in Building a Hyper-V 2016 host Take 2:

I've successfully added Windows Server Management to my Windows 10 system and am now able to connect to my Hyper-V 2016 server. However, I am having trouble viewing server info such as hard disk space. I get this error when trying to go to disk management:

did you run this command as noted above

Enable-NetFirewallRule -DisplayGroup “Remote Volume Management”

Yes, I ran that on the server but not my pc. I just ran it on my Windows 10 pc too and now it works.

THANKS

I've successfully added Windows Server Management to my Windows 10 system and am now able to connect to my Hyper-V 2016 server. However, I am having trouble viewing server info such as hard disk space. I get this error when trying to go to disk management:

I've been googling for a while now trying to fix it. No dice.

Also, NICE WRITE-UP!!

@brandon220 said in Question about this fiber rack mount thing:

Telcos normally install a 24 strand fiber to a building. It normally gets spliced into a larger cable. They usually will "activate" 2 fibers. Very common to see it done this way.

ok, makes sense. Thanks!

I know very little about fiber, so I wanted to come here and get some help with this. Don't laugh

We have a couple 3rd party VPN T1 lines coming into our company. On of the vendors called and said they were going to upgrade our T1 to something like a "2.5 meg Ethernet connection". This was months ago and they gave me no details. Then the other day, a telcom company shows up to install fiber and runs a new line from the telcom poles outside all the way to our networking room.

I ended up getting pulled away all day with IT issues and they finished up and left without saying anything. I went into our networking room to check everything and saw that they had installed this in our rack:

Now I am trying to figure out what this is. I assume it is basically like a fiber patch panel that will allow more fiber connections in and out of the building, but I don't know how this works beyond that in both a technical and business sense. There is only one single white fiber line that comes into the building and connects into the back of this and so I am assuming that single line is being split up into 24 individual optic fibers. But does that mean other vendors can use this same line or is it typically limited to the company that owns it?

I'm partially confused because I don't get why one company would install this for use with one single connection. We do have one other fiber connection for our primary ISP and that is a single line that connects to a little vendor-provided, 4 port Cisco switch that converts the fiber to a regular Ethernet cable..

@dbeato said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

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@dashrender said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dave247 said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dashrender said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dave247 said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dashrender said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dave247 said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dashrender said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dave247 said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dashrender said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@nerdydad said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

Computer Management -> Action -> Connect to another computer... -> Your Hyper-V host

Exactly - what he's not telling you is that Computer Management is a completely different tool. It's the Windows tool.

If you came from ESXi or even XS, you're in for some surprises. Unlike ESXi and XS, there is no single pane of glass to see all of the things related to Hyper-V. Instead you have to manage all the components the exact same way you would a normal server. Computer Management handles a lot of them, but not all. For example, you can't look at Device Manager that way anymore - MS removed remote access a bit ago.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH... yes. Shit. LOL

yeah - this is why I #$#%^@ hate Hyper-V

ugh.. I wish I knew this before.. Maybe I'll just use the free version of ESXi instead..

no - you shouldn't do that. If you bail on Hyper-V, you should look at KVM instead, so you aren't leaving often needed/desired feature that are free in KVM and Hyper-V and cost a ton in ESXi.

well I do want to gain some experience with Hyper-V so maybe I'll stick it out.. I just need to find a centralized guide on this or something.. The way to do things so far has been murky and illusive.. Part of the problem may be that I'm so used to VMware with ESXi and vSphere.

I have a thread.
https://mangolassi.it/topic/15767/building-a-hyper-v-2016-host-take-2

it covers all the things to get all the pieces working.
It assumes an Active Directory though.

Oh nice! I will comb thru this. And I do have AD running here. Thanks!

You will find tons of guides here on ML.

I think this has become my favorite forum. Much nicer than reddit, less BS than Spiceworks.. everyone is nice and thorough and we have SAM ruling with an iron fist

Interesting, yet still you post on both....

Yeah they all serve their purposes for me, but this forum is by far the friendliest with actual knowledgeable people.

@scottalanmiller said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

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@dashrender said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dave247 said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dashrender said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dave247 said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dashrender said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dave247 said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dashrender said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dave247 said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dashrender said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@nerdydad said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

Computer Management -> Action -> Connect to another computer... -> Your Hyper-V host

Exactly - what he's not telling you is that Computer Management is a completely different tool. It's the Windows tool.

If you came from ESXi or even XS, you're in for some surprises. Unlike ESXi and XS, there is no single pane of glass to see all of the things related to Hyper-V. Instead you have to manage all the components the exact same way you would a normal server. Computer Management handles a lot of them, but not all. For example, you can't look at Device Manager that way anymore - MS removed remote access a bit ago.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH... yes. Shit. LOL

yeah - this is why I #$#%^@ hate Hyper-V

ugh.. I wish I knew this before.. Maybe I'll just use the free version of ESXi instead..

no - you shouldn't do that. If you bail on Hyper-V, you should look at KVM instead, so you aren't leaving often needed/desired feature that are free in KVM and Hyper-V and cost a ton in ESXi.

well I do want to gain some experience with Hyper-V so maybe I'll stick it out.. I just need to find a centralized guide on this or something.. The way to do things so far has been murky and illusive.. Part of the problem may be that I'm so used to VMware with ESXi and vSphere.

I have a thread.
https://mangolassi.it/topic/15767/building-a-hyper-v-2016-host-take-2

it covers all the things to get all the pieces working.
It assumes an Active Directory though.

Oh nice! I will comb thru this. And I do have AD running here. Thanks!

You will find tons of guides here on ML.

I think this has become my favorite forum. Much nicer than reddit, less BS than Spiceworks.. everyone is nice and thorough and we have SAM ruling with an iron fist

I'm not actually in charge. I just oversee the tags.

You are Scott Allan Miller, RULER OF THE TAGS

@dashrender said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dave247 said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dashrender said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dave247 said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dashrender said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dave247 said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dashrender said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dave247 said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dashrender said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@nerdydad said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

Computer Management -> Action -> Connect to another computer... -> Your Hyper-V host

Exactly - what he's not telling you is that Computer Management is a completely different tool. It's the Windows tool.

If you came from ESXi or even XS, you're in for some surprises. Unlike ESXi and XS, there is no single pane of glass to see all of the things related to Hyper-V. Instead you have to manage all the components the exact same way you would a normal server. Computer Management handles a lot of them, but not all. For example, you can't look at Device Manager that way anymore - MS removed remote access a bit ago.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH... yes. Shit. LOL

yeah - this is why I #$#%^@ hate Hyper-V

ugh.. I wish I knew this before.. Maybe I'll just use the free version of ESXi instead..

no - you shouldn't do that. If you bail on Hyper-V, you should look at KVM instead, so you aren't leaving often needed/desired feature that are free in KVM and Hyper-V and cost a ton in ESXi.

well I do want to gain some experience with Hyper-V so maybe I'll stick it out.. I just need to find a centralized guide on this or something.. The way to do things so far has been murky and illusive.. Part of the problem may be that I'm so used to VMware with ESXi and vSphere.

I have a thread.
https://mangolassi.it/topic/15767/building-a-hyper-v-2016-host-take-2

it covers all the things to get all the pieces working.
It assumes an Active Directory though.

Oh nice! I will comb thru this. And I do have AD running here. Thanks!

You will find tons of guides here on ML.

I think this has become my favorite forum. Much nicer than reddit, less BS than Spiceworks.. everyone is nice and thorough and we have SAM ruling with an iron fist

@dashrender said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dave247 said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dashrender said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dave247 said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dashrender said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dave247 said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dashrender said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@nerdydad said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

Computer Management -> Action -> Connect to another computer... -> Your Hyper-V host

Exactly - what he's not telling you is that Computer Management is a completely different tool. It's the Windows tool.

If you came from ESXi or even XS, you're in for some surprises. Unlike ESXi and XS, there is no single pane of glass to see all of the things related to Hyper-V. Instead you have to manage all the components the exact same way you would a normal server. Computer Management handles a lot of them, but not all. For example, you can't look at Device Manager that way anymore - MS removed remote access a bit ago.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH... yes. Shit. LOL

yeah - this is why I #$#%^@ hate Hyper-V

ugh.. I wish I knew this before.. Maybe I'll just use the free version of ESXi instead..

no - you shouldn't do that. If you bail on Hyper-V, you should look at KVM instead, so you aren't leaving often needed/desired feature that are free in KVM and Hyper-V and cost a ton in ESXi.

well I do want to gain some experience with Hyper-V so maybe I'll stick it out.. I just need to find a centralized guide on this or something.. The way to do things so far has been murky and illusive.. Part of the problem may be that I'm so used to VMware with ESXi and vSphere.

I have a thread.
https://mangolassi.it/topic/15767/building-a-hyper-v-2016-host-take-2

it covers all the things to get all the pieces working.
It assumes an Active Directory though.

Oh nice! I will comb thru this. And I do have AD running here. Thanks!

@dashrender said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dave247 said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dashrender said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dave247 said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dashrender said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@nerdydad said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

Computer Management -> Action -> Connect to another computer... -> Your Hyper-V host

Exactly - what he's not telling you is that Computer Management is a completely different tool. It's the Windows tool.

If you came from ESXi or even XS, you're in for some surprises. Unlike ESXi and XS, there is no single pane of glass to see all of the things related to Hyper-V. Instead you have to manage all the components the exact same way you would a normal server. Computer Management handles a lot of them, but not all. For example, you can't look at Device Manager that way anymore - MS removed remote access a bit ago.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH... yes. Shit. LOL

yeah - this is why I #$#%^@ hate Hyper-V

ugh.. I wish I knew this before.. Maybe I'll just use the free version of ESXi instead..

no - you shouldn't do that. If you bail on Hyper-V, you should look at KVM instead, so you aren't leaving often needed/desired feature that are free in KVM and Hyper-V and cost a ton in ESXi.

well I do want to gain some experience with Hyper-V so maybe I'll stick it out.. I just need to find a centralized guide on this or something.. The way to do things so far has been murky and illusive.. Part of the problem may be that I'm so used to VMware with ESXi and vSphere.

@scottalanmiller said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

Tags added.

hmm?

@dashrender said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dave247 said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@dashrender said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@nerdydad said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

Computer Management -> Action -> Connect to another computer... -> Your Hyper-V host

Exactly - what he's not telling you is that Computer Management is a completely different tool. It's the Windows tool.

If you came from ESXi or even XS, you're in for some surprises. Unlike ESXi and XS, there is no single pane of glass to see all of the things related to Hyper-V. Instead you have to manage all the components the exact same way you would a normal server. Computer Management handles a lot of them, but not all. For example, you can't look at Device Manager that way anymore - MS removed remote access a bit ago.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH... yes. Shit. LOL

yeah - this is why I #$#%^@ hate Hyper-V

ugh.. I wish I knew this before.. Maybe I'll just use the free version of ESXi instead..

@dashrender said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@nerdydad said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

Computer Management -> Action -> Connect to another computer... -> Your Hyper-V host

Exactly - what he's not telling you is that Computer Management is a completely different tool. It's the Windows tool.

If you came from ESXi or even XS, you're in for some surprises. Unlike ESXi and XS, there is no single pane of glass to see all of the things related to Hyper-V. Instead you have to manage all the components the exact same way you would a normal server. Computer Management handles a lot of them, but not all. For example, you can't look at Device Manager that way anymore - MS removed remote access a bit ago.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH... yes. Shit. LOL

@nerdydad said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

Computer Management -> Action -> Connect to another computer... -> Your Hyper-V host

Yes, I get that much. But I am not seeing a way to view the host's resources at all. And I'm not talking about the resources of virtual machines, I'm talking about the host in it's entirety.

So like if I have 32GB of memory and 4TB of disk space to spend on virtual machines, how can I view what's been used and what's left?

Am I supposed to just query with PowerShell or something? lol

I'm new to Hyper-V Server 2016 and I'll try not to ask basic questions for every little thing.. but I'm kind of confused about this one..

I've set up a single Hyper-V Server 2016 and configured the basic settings and everything and I"m basically to the point where I can start setting up virtual machines. I just realized that I don't even see a way that I can look at the amount of memory or storage space on my Hyper-V server. I mean, I know how much I have because I configured the server's hardware, but beyond that, I can't see how to monitor how much is left, neither in sconfig or in the Hyper-V Manager in Windows 10.

What am I missing?

@nerdydad said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:

DISCLAIMER: I do not mean to become political with this next statement, but want to ask a question historically.

Net Neutrality was an Obama era policy put in place by the FCC. So NN was not that old. What prompted for NN to be implemented in the first place? What problem was it supposed to fix administratively?

"Obama era policy".. I've heard this parroted over and over again. It's not even relevant who was president when the regulations were put into place. I feel like that's just a way to phrase it to put it in a certain negative light. The neutrality of our Internet was a concern to a lot of people back then and both Democrats and Republicans were in agreement on the issue, which is why the regulations were put in place.

Correct me if I'm wrong.