@scottalanmiller That's insightful and makes a lot of sense. Also, I never knew mapped drives were that much of a security risk.
I would say 95% of the customers I deal with still stand up new offices that way and have shared drives for the user base.
@mrwright4hire an overview of your critical system log files.
I had a 2003 server that the power supply was dying on and could not find a replacement so I did an image backup with shadow protect sever as well as ran the VM ware P2V tool and recovered it to a VM.
When I try to log in with the local admin-level account I have it says it's not activated and I can't log in until it is activated. I assume it broke the activation since the VM is a very different hardware profile but I can't even log in at this point.
I tried the solution here but it does nothing after the command is run https://sarithvs.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/this-copy-of-windows-must-be-activated-before-you-can-log-on/
How can I get a 2003 key that I can activate? Would that be possible with a volume license? Or MSDN subscription?
I really don't have much knowledge of the visual studio and MSDN subscriptions.
Any ideas?
@dustinb3403 I don't disagree that they made a pile of bad decisions but that's nothing to do with me as I am a private contractor so I don't work for them or care to help them with their management issues as that's not what I get paid to do.
I was hired to find a temporary fix and start the upgrade process. The upgrade process has started and concurrently I am trying to get a temporary fix going so I can concentrate on the upgrade and get paid.
The poor management issues are their business quite frankly,
Noticed that the LTO 9 tapes have just been released (been waiting a while) and I need to purchase some and a stand-alone LTO-9 drive (not a whole library setup or magazine) but not having any luck finding one online to purchase.
i have a small office customer that has a huge amount of data to backup. We currently replicate to a Synology offsite (in the same town) but they want the tape to store out of state.
Has anyone seen any single stand-alone LTO-9 tape drives I can order or anywhere I should be looking?
@travisdh1 yes plus a lot lower cost to get started with.
Should WSUS be a separate server / VM or added as a role on one of the 2 domain controllers?
What's best practice, experience?
@scottalanmiller SAM thanks for the video that does clarify it and makes it easy to understand.