@DustinB3403 said:
That's why our images are sysprep'd and OOBE'd
Doesn't make a difference it's still imaging, and what your are doing is against the EULA. To image computers you must use the Volume Licence Media to make the image and use the Volume Key. There's no other way for a company to do it without special system builder agreements with Microsoft.
@DustinB3403 said:
@Jason They are the OEM keys or images
You can't use OEM Keys in images legally either.
@DustinB3403 said:
For VL rights.
For VL rights you need to use your VLK and volume media (and not OEM or retail) as well, you can't legally use the OEM install converted to an MAK key.
Depending on the Glass, it can be very reflective of RF.
Looks like Some linux like Arch do. FreeBSD does as well.
@scottalanmiller said:
Traditionally this was done with a Linux LiveCD.
I didn't have one with me. I did have a USB stick with ESXi on it though. I wonder if newer consumer linux like Ubuntu would now have the drivers built in?
Yep. It was actually a business. Zero feedback on ebay though.
No idea what they do: http://www.buzzfile.com/business/Jot-Ventures-LLC-918-312-1658
They left me bad feedback on ebay for canceling the item cause it seemed way too fishy. They'd probably try a buyer protection scam.
What's with Ebay Buyers bidding then asking a bunch of questions after winning but before paying? I mean really.
@Dashrender said:
Why pay for something that you can get completely free?
You don't get it for free. You get something else for free. As has KVM, Xen and other been free for years.
@Dashrender said:
At this point investing learning on VMWare products is really only worthwhile if you are planning on working for a company who already has a heavy investment in VMWare and no planning on changing.
Which VMware is still and will be still heavily used in the enterprise (along with Xen)
@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Yes, Chocolatey is a full package management system and you can run the command
choco upgradeon a schedule. You can have it update every package an hour before people start work every morning to make sure that they have the latest patches before every day of work.Not a bad idea...
Except they tend to take a while to approve it. I can get the stuff out with a custom GPO msi faster than Choco gets things approved.
@gjacobse said:
What does a UG (Users Group) have to do with Hyper-V
VMUG is VMware. Advantage is $200/year for pretty much all software. I used to have it but, back then they limited you to 2 CPUs.
IS VMUG still worth it for home labs or is everyone switching to just using Hyper-V?
@DustinB3403 said:
@Jason said:
@DustinB3403 said:
Is it possible to import my existing .rdp files into this?
You can but I didn't.
How do you?
http://blog.royalapplications.com/2014/01/20/handling-rdp-files/
@BRRABill said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Because I doubt that it will work.
I was thinking about that, still in the mindset of using Server 2012.
You are right upgrading to 2016 from eval probably would be sketchy at best.
You can't switch from a Eval to a full version on a DC, member servers it's fine it's just a DISM activation command. But once promoted to a DC you can't have the machine ID changing. You'd have to bring up a new DC if it had already been made a DC before activated.
I figured out how to demonstrate fake RAID best to somone tonight, since they thought I was full of crap since windows has the driver built in the install even sees them as one drive. Take a USB with ESXi on it and boot it, try to make a data store and show them it sees each drive, not the Fake Raid. Works wonders to show people what's really going on.
