@BRRABill said:

It seems as though you can install another DC, then replicate, then demote the EVAL one.

But I think I'll just go with not doing that. 🙂

Yes, it wouldn't be a functional AD if you could not do that. You risk schema issues, though.

I still have it around if you want to test.

@scottalanmiller thanks, that's good to know 🙂

As mentioned earlier, I would be interested, but would like to know more about the lab now that you have all in place, on what do we get to play with

@DustinB3403 said in SAM-SD Hardware Server Vendors:

@scottalanmiller is there a ballpark entry price for SAM-SD hardware? Are you approving all of all the systems designed? Or did you simply license the term (like Trump) licenses his name?

Prices will be available soon. It's full support, real support unlike SMB devices. So not super cheap 🙂

SuperMicro is beginning to make the lines between Tier 1 and Tier 2 blurry as they increase their level of engineering on their products and begin to offer more and more enterprise class support for their products.

@DustinB3403 said:

Maybe I miss-read it, but searching Kylin Ubuntu appears to be made by the Ubuntu Org (with specific feature request and additions by the Chinese Government/Programmers)

Did you look on Wikipedia? It's been made by the Chinese government (through a university) since 2001 before Ubuntu was around. They moved to Ubuntu as a base but I've seen nothing being done by Ubuntu themselves listed. Maybe I've missed some details but as far as I have seen it's all inside of China.

Exactly dashrender. the original OS that came with it was Windows 8.1. Single Language. I upgraded to Pro pack for the domain and have that key but it won't accept it as need the original OS first.

@Danp said:

FWIW, found the same item from NewEgg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883158230

Yep they are basicly the same as our conference computers. You can get them with dual display port not sure if that's standard or not.

I deal with enough servers at work these days, I don't care to have any at home.

Other versions?

@coliver You would be correct. They can go for as much as a decent used car if you get really silly with the config.

@PSX_Defector said:

Don't forget to force logoffs after an amount of time. Usually Acrobat only goes nuts when its been running for a long long time.

We have it set up to force logoffs, but I'm not so sure it is working like it should(obviously 🙂 ). We have to manual kick users off, quite frequently. Truthfully, I think the terminal servers and the session broker were set up incorrectly. I'm sure a few other things were missed as well. This was set up before I was hired. I really want to tear it down and build it out, correctly.

Thanks, great video!

@ryan-from-xbyte said:

FYI - For those of you who have already purchased a server from xByte, we can go after the fact and add Dell ProSupport.

Oh very nice. People will love that they can add it to pre-existing machines!

Very cool!

It's surprising that it hasn't been default for longer. Why would someone want "off" as the default for the past several years at least.

What is the advantage of having it off, anyway? Is there a performance or security advantage for those who are not using it?