@scottalanmiller said in Printer suggestion:

@Pete-S said in Printer suggestion:

We went from HP to OKI and have been happy. OKI B731 is probably what you're looking for. You can have up to 4 trays and they also have large capacity trays (2000 pages).

OKI is still around? Wow! I still think of dot matrix printers.

Yeah, OKI is still going strong. They only do business printers, not home printers, so they are not as big as some of the others. But good quality and value for money. You can still buy their matrix printers actually.

@Donahue said in Distributing documents:

ok, I really need to get a NC demo going.

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@i3 said in Windows 10 Home > Pro upgrade via MS Store:

Had a user purchase Windows 10 Pro upgrade through the MS Store so no key was given. We recently did a fresh install and the computer shows Home, I logged the user in with the same account that was used to purchase the upgrade but still will not upgrade to Pro. Anyone else run into this issue and how to resolve?

Reinstall selecting Pro during the install, it should still activate.

@i3 said in Journaling in Office 365:

Does anyone have any experience with using journal rules in Office 365? My specific question is can I have two different journal rules (destinations) based on the email address of a user or is it tied to the mailbox.

For example, I have 4 users each with [email protected] and an alias of [email protected]. Could I have two separate journal rules for domain.com going to one destination and domain2.com going to another destination? In other words, having two separate journal rules based on the email domain.

Yes, you can do so. Something similar as this:
https://vaultastic.mithi.com/docs/configure-your-email-server/office-365/configure-journal-rule-for-selected-users

All storage on that server is internal so no drive bays. It's far from ideal. And the server doesn't have any hardware raid. Also since some of the ports are SATA-2 they are not suitable for SSDs because they limit the performance to 50% of max. So you are really limited to two SATA SSD drives.

That being said, storing video streams are one of the applications where HDDs are actually very suitable. Depends on how much storage you want but if you need more than a couple of hundred gigs, HDDs should be your choice.

Assuming you want lots of storage I would get two 3.5" drives and run md software raid 1 on those. Something like 2-6TB drives. NAS drives (like WD RED, Seagate Ironwulf) if you are on a low budget, otherwise SATA enterprise drives (Seagate Constellation ES or similar).

I would also get one Supermicro SATA DOM (tiny enterprise SSD that plugs into SATA port) and put the hypervisor and VM's OS on that. Just have a backup in case the DOM ever fails.
https://www.storagereview.com/supermicro_superdom_review

I wouldn't get SSDs for storage for your use case - unless your needs are very small or your budget is big. But if you have a large budget I would get another server with drive bays.

Have you checked eventvwr to make sure it isn't powering on to run a backup or something?

So I got the "opportunity" today to play some more with IMAP and PST files. Basically they don't play nicely. In addition Outlook (at least 2016) applies a display filter that hides any emails that have been removed from the IMAP server. This means that those folders that look empty probably aren't. You need to remove the filter on the folders from the folder view settings to be able to see them. Not sure why this is the default, but it does.

@i3 said in Office 365 DNS query failed - delayed messages:

@dashrender Yes, it is listed in Office 365 as I had to verify the domain.

Then again - I'm amazed any email makes it out of O365 to their self hosted exchange server.

Still in favor of tshirts, however.

AT&T is definitely blowing smoke. The new tenant will "own" that IP equipment and can charge both the existing tenant and AT&T for use of the facilities, or just cut it off. The new tenant will own that equipment and that connection.

@scottalanmiller Thank you for the suggestion. I will have to look into KVM.

Thanks again!

@JaredBusch example follows my suggest of using the default VLAN and what he labeled VLAN2 for the wifi.

Why aren't you running DSET on the server regardless of OpenManage? DSET will reveal any issues and they should replace it.
http://www.dell.com/support/contents/us/en/19/article/Product-Support/Self-support-Knowledgebase/enterprise-resource-center/Enterprise-Tools/dell-system-e-support-tool

http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/SLN292237/EN

Make sure to ask for a manager.
You can also get all the most up to date drivers and firmware from Dell here:
www.poweredgec.com

@i3 said in Hyper-V Virtual Machine Remote Connection issue:

@Dashrender I did update the NIC driver. It is a Dell Server with Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit NICs. It originally shipped with a 16.0 driver version, I updated to 17.4 from Dell's site.

This seems to imply that the server came with an OS pre-installed. Is that right? This seems highly unusual for general best practices. If this is the case, perhaps a complete reinstall of the Host OS is in order?

@i3 said in RAID recommendation for Hyper-V host:

@scottalanmiller said in RAID recommendation for Hyper-V host:

@JaredBusch said in RAID recommendation for Hyper-V host:

@i3 you do not install server 2012 r2 onto the hardware. You install Hyper-V Server 2012 R2

This is very important.

Besides the licensing aspect, is it important for performance reasons? So the host can dedicate as as many resources to its vm's as possible?

Regardless of those other two posts above... what do you mean by licensing aspect? Just trying to get a feel for where you are.