I can relate to his message in its entirety. I too am grateful to all members for the help and advise given on here and SW over the years. Thankyou *Raises a glass

Has anyone come across this issue before - Since upgrading to W10, if we reset default player for videos or music, it keeps resetting back to the Films and Music default windows 10 app....i read it was to do with an update KB3135173 but we dont have this update installed!!!

Anyone seen that before?

We dont officially support them but charge for the time they bother us! They didnt want a full service with us. If they did they wouldnt have been in this mess in the first instance and they certainly wouldnt be allowed to unplug or touch servers/hardware without our say so!!!!

But you are correct! The dangerous people are those who THINK they know how things work and go gung-ho with the troubleshooting!
They have been charged accordingly for our time

Hi guys
I'm trying to move a folder from one location to another within a sharepoint site. However trying to do so I get an error that says 1 file checked out so unable to move....I navigate to that folder, check it in, and then re-try only to be told 1 more file is checked out....This process has been going on and and on and I can see many checked out files...

How and is it possible to view ALL checked out files, regardless of where they are and check them all in at the same time?
Note, i am used office 365 sharepoint.

Thanks

OK this is now working.
The user account I was logged into the Windows 10 PC with didn't exist on the host server.
Once i created the same user and password on the Windows 7 PC it was working!!!

I'm a fan of leaving these kind of things as long as possible as they would eventually catch themselves up and return to the previous state. Otherwise if thats no option, you can try logging in under safe mode to find out what update failed then try and push it out manually.

We're looking to replace a server for a client and deciding whether to put the DC and FS on a single VM (which is what they have had for the last 6 years). I've always been in favour for splitting the two but wanted to know your thoughts.

The new server spec: Xeon 2620 2.10Ghz - 24GB Ram

They have 15 users (with roaming profiles).

Can you let me know if adding the two together are a big no-no or what the reasons are for not doing this. I understand converting a VM to a DC has a slight effect on write cache so could affect performance but in practice is this a huge downside? Trying to weigh up differences, pro's and con's

My PC protection is purrfect. In fact, it's pawsome!
Must run, I've got a hot date and about to whisker away

I've just left a new potential client...Their setup consists of 10 users with 1 old SBS 2003 server (domain controller) which is creaking and about to die on them.

Whoever was looking after their network previously talked them into buying a new server (Server2012R2) which they agreed and was installed prior to him walking away!!

However, the problem is, rather than migrating the AD from the old server to the new or even start fresh, he simply joined the new server to the original domain and moved their data across from the old to the new.

What I'd like to do if I get the gig is promote the new server to be the primary domain controller and then migrate the AD information across and then shut down the old server. Is there any easy way of promoting the new server to a primary DC and migrate the AD without loosing any data?

I've never migrated AD across before - i usually start fresh so thoughts welcomed.
Thanks

So I figured out how to do it.
It is possible to map a local shared drive to a Storage account in azure using the net use command in powershell. There is an access key generated within azure which is needed when processing the command.

I just need to play around now with permissions and GPO to see if I can get multiple connections working

Hi Guys has anyone come across an issue where the computer powers on but after the manufacters logo (dell for example) the screen goes black and it stays on that screen?

Note: i can use our RMM remote tools to log onto the computer but it's also stuck on a black screen (so cant control it). I can however do file transfers and navigate via remote background to the - therefore the computer is online and working but the screen for end user (and us remotely) is blank!

I've looked at new monitors, uninstalling graphics card drivers, running disk and hardware scans, system restores (fails) and a bit lost .... i'm seeing this happen more and more in the last couple weeks.

I dont know if Bitlocker has anything to do with it but have disabled this and rebooted but still have the black screen!

I have attempted to rollback updates and that also doesnt fix it!

Safe mode works fine

Have updated drivers, bios, chipsets all of that good stuff but still no luck getting this working in normal mode and was curious to see if anyone else has had this one! Very odd!

In all cases, it's resulted in a re-format.

I think Dell devices are more affected.

Hi Guys
I'm trying to delete a folder (well two folders) within a SharePoint online document library and get the following error (see screenshot). I believe i can do this via powershell but not sure how! Any ideas how i can delete this whole folder?

thanks

Hi Guys, has anyone ever come across this error?

In brief we cannot access the RDS Session hosts settings within server manager.
On occasion we have to log off users and do so via server manager > remote desktop services > then log off a user from a session.

Recently however we've been having an issue which is only fixable by rebooting the server. See below:

Whilst we have this error, all users are able to work fine and without a problem but from our own admin perspective cant do anything!

All services are running and I cant overcome this issue! Any pointers would be helpful.
Thanks

Hi Guys
Wonder if you can help share thoughts on this.
A client of ours has a technical team that often like to test new routers, factory reset them and set them up for small remote sites. The tricky thing is, these guys should not be local admins on their computer (needed to change NIC settings etc and configure static ip's etc).

I was wondering how we can get around this and thought we could have a Hyper V solution installed on their laptops with a Windows 10 image - which they have full admin access too and could simply play around and do whatever they want in that environment (including configuring a Local router). My questions are:

1. can we pass through NIC cards on the hyper V image? So if they plug in Ethernet cable to the laptop and into a local router, they can see this within the VM image and change/configure things from there?

2. Would it be possible to have that VM Image reset each time they finish? IE. Can it reset back to the base image each time the VM is either started or shut down?

Let me know thoughts on this.
Thanks
Joel

HI Guys

Odd one for you..

We have an RDS Environment where we have Excel published as a remote app (Remote Excel). Users launch this remote app from their local device and work happily,

Within Remote Excel is a button that when clicked converts the document they are working on into a PDF and opens Remote Outlook so they can send the PDF direct from there - all works well.

HOWEVER, randomly on Monday, users lost the ability to copy/paste. And by this I mean they would previously copy addiitonal files from their local device and paste into Remote Outlook (attaching more files to the email). They could also Drag and Drop - which is what they did.

It's not a group policy thing and i have ensured when they connect to the remote app they have enabled clipboard and drives in the 'local resources' tab of the RDP app!

I'm lost for ideas on how to fix it. I have just rebooted the server as i thought maybe it was a bug kind of thing but nope!

Note: users can COPY local files and PASTE to the Remote desktop (if they log into the fully blown RDS server - as opposed to just launch the Remote Excel) but they cant Copy and paste into Outlook!

Anyone got any ideas?

Hi Team
I have an issue with an old VMWare server. There is a host VM (DC01) which fails to boot.
Its stuck in a automatic repair loop and I dont know how to get out of it.

I noticed (see pic attached) it says 'VMWare Tools' - Not Running - is this part of the problem?
I have a sneaky feeling, i may need to look at running the mbr boot rec steps but my query is - what are the steps in doing this? It's been a while since last done - I can google but wondered if there was anyone here with VMWare experience who can assist or provide some troubleshooting steps.

Thanks
Jay

@Dashrender Always giving me sound advice. Thanks Dash. I actually figured this out whilst on site earlier today and just saw your responses.
Adding the computers into the security group we had for FolderRedirection and forcing a GPO update did the trick. Cheers

Hi Guys, can you please help here.
We have a client who have 10x Windows 7 computers and have folder redirection configured on a server via a GPO. It sync their local desktop/documents/fav items to the server. It works well.

However, we are rolling out W10 now and replacing their old computers and when joining the domain, its not syncing their profiles. I pressume I need to change the GPO to reflect Win10 path, but not sure where/how/what i should change exactly?

Does anyone know the best way to map the folders back. EG. I have just plugged in the 1st W10 PC and have a blank desktop, is there a simple way of reconnecting it to look at the users profile?

help and thoughts is appreciated.

Hi Guys
I have started to have a weird DNS issue with a remote server.
Short story, we have 3servers (Domain Controller, FileServer and App Server - They have an internal 10.0.10.0/24 range). The App server publishes Excel as a remote app.

We have CradlePoint installed on all servers (which gives the servers a 172.86.160.0/24 range). And more recent then not, a lot of the time users are either unable to connect to the Remote Excel or otherwise fail to access shares on the FileServer.....We reboot the CradlePoint services and then things tend to work.....I noticed on the eventviewer, the following error:

The system failed to register host (A or AAAA) resource records (RRs) for network adapter
with settings:

       Adapter Name : {4410502A-8F65-42DA-8A47-A905A8902F1D}
       Host Name : FS01
       Primary Domain Suffix : hq.DOMAINNAME.local
       DNS server list :
         	172.86.160.4
       Sent update to server : <?>
       IP Address(es) :
         172.86.160.6

The reason the system could not register these RRs was because the update request it sent to the DNS server timed out. The most likely cause of this is that the DNS server authoritative for the name it was attempting to register or update is not running at this time.

You can manually retry DNS registration of the network adapter and its settings by typing 'ipconfig /registerdns' at the command prompt. If problems still persist, contact your DNS server or network systems administrator.

I dont want to keep restarting services or running register commands....Is there anything i can check to keep this more stable?

Hi Guys
Wonder if you can help shed some light on this.

I have a Hyper V core host machine with 2x VM's installed (1x DC and 1x SQLServer).
We have a USB device (8TB) plugged into our host, (put offline) and then bought online within our SQLServer. This has been working well and we use the USB to backup.

HOWEVER, recently the USB from the SQLServer has disappeared and we cant bring it back online! We've rebooted servers but it still wont show up on our SQL Server.

Note: we use Windows Admin Centre to manage the host and VM's and in the pic you can see within Admin Centre you can see in the settings for the SQLServer shows our 8TB Hard Drive, however when we list disk's on the actual VM we dont see it!!! DiskMago.JPG

Can anyone help identify how we can bring our USB back online?
This did happen before and it seems the way we bought it back online was by going on site and using Hyper V Manager software to re-attach the drive but seems a long winded way to bring it back visible. Any ideas?

Thanks