@Mike-Davis said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

@Dashrender said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

@IRJ said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

@Dashrender said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

@IRJ said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

@Dashrender said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

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@Dashrender said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

No one here knows - we don't run that software.

No one here runs Server 2019 Essentials?

No - most here run standard Windows Server or some flavor or Linux. Essentials is only for SUPER tiny environments (I think it's limited to 25 connections)... a version that at least with 2012 didn't require User CALs, making it significantly cheaper for super tiny shops that required Windows, but once you hit over 25, you got a HUGE upgrade cost i.e. full server license and 25+ CALs.

Yep. It is generally not reliable either. At least earlier version weren't. Throw all MS services on one piece of underpowered hardware and then throw all your apps over it. What could go wrong?

I guess i was lucky - when they started calling it Essentials - there weren't that many services left - File/Print/AD/DNS/DHCP and what WSUS? that's all pretty typical single box stuff in my mind. WSUS could be shit for sure, but the rest can work together no issues.

Back when it was SBS server and had Exchange and possibly a corporate firewall and SQL server - OMG - yeah, kill me now!.

That's just the out of the box stuff that can be simple solved off windows very easily 😉

Dont forget that these businesses like to throw quickbooks and other poorly made sofware on their Essentials server including these other services which are already too much to have on one box IMO. It's 2019, virtualize 🙂

It would be interesting to know if Essentials allows for the install of 3rd party software like that?
Probably does..

QuickBooks is the reason I have so many Essentials servers out there. If the environment is large enough where you can't just make one computer "the server" and share QuickBooks from there, Server Essentials goes in along with QuickBooks Database manager and its 25 year old architecture and you call it a day.

Same kind of problem here.

@IRJ said in Microsoft culls secret Flash whitelist after Google points out its insecurity:

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft culls secret Flash whitelist after Google points out its insecurity:

Others seemed more peculiar; a Spanish hair salon, for example, was listed.*

Wtf

I wonder if it was always a Spanish hair salon or if someone else owned it.

@RojoLoco said in Microsoft S2D vs StarWind VSAN: See what clients say about true hyperconvergence:

@DustinB3403 how would their sales drones bug you if they just put the info here????

They already have my information and they actually don't nag me.

What does irk me is that every time I do want to read one of these I have to register or login to see the information.

Too bad it is KVM only right now. Not that KVM is bad, it's just early. The have LXC coming "soon" and that will be really awesome. I want VDI on LXC so that we can do it faster and on top of Scale HC3.

@dave247 said in Most of my Windows 10 1803 computers upgraded to 1809 despite it not being approved in WSUS / Dual Scan is a thing:

@scottalanmiller said in Most of my Windows 10 1803 computers upgraded to 1809 despite it not being approved in WSUS / Dual Scan is a thing:

@dave247 said in Most of my Windows 10 1803 computers upgraded to 1809 despite it not being approved in WSUS / Dual Scan is a thing:

@dbeato said in Most of my Windows 10 1803 computers upgraded to 1809 despite it not being approved in WSUS / Dual Scan is a thing:

@dave247 said in Most of my Windows 10 1803 computers upgraded to 1809 despite it not being approved in WSUS / Dual Scan is a thing:

e systems was a consumer version of Windows 10 which the previous tech installed - no idea where he got it.

Probably came pre-installed on the Dell Computer and not imaged.

Actually it had Windows 7 installed on it but then the co-worker put his version of Windows 10 that I think he got from college on it, and a few other systems. So idk.

Windows 10 will activate on a Windows 7 license. So should be all set from that perspective.

I don't think so.. and it was a fresh install, or at least I know he used the Windows 10 key that he had been provided. That key was also used on about 5 other systems at the time.

You can work around it, but should accept the Win 7 key, too.

@DustinB3403 said in O365 SafeLinks Service 503:

SafeLinks

I was wondering why I wasn't familiar with safe links. I only have Business premium.

@Obsolesce said in Microsoft wants to buy Mellanox – Speculations or reality?:

@Reid-Cooper said in Microsoft wants to buy Mellanox – Speculations or reality?:

This seems like a really odd pairing. Why would Microsoft want to alienate hardware vendors by getting into the high end switching game?

Probably for their Azure stuff.

Then they should just purchase the equipment, not the company. .

Troy Hunt uses it for the "I Have been PWned"
https://www.troyhunt.com/serverless-to-the-max-doing-big-things-for-small-dollars-with-cloudflare-workers-and-azure-functions/

@dbeato said in Using Windows 10 Public ISO with VLSC MAK:

Sot it just activated it right?

Yup.

@JaredBusch said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@computerchip said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@Dashrender I did an install last weekend of a freshly created usb installer from MS website, and there was no option to create local for the home version.

Do not connect to the network during setup is the only way around that on a home install now.

Yep,

The engine may end up being an "Enterprise Mode" like IE I think?

Edge as a browser works well but with a few show stoppers that killed any further usage for us:
1: Downloads mysteriously won't start or just plain stop for no reason.
2: Edge ate my favourites way too many times.

The containerized Edge, Application Guard I think(?), is a great idea. If Edge was as good as they had hoped it would provide a fantastic sandbox experience to protect users from drive-by attacks and bad GET commands from e-mail clients.

At least we are not getting stuck with the legacy ActiveX that keeps rearing its head every once in a while because of IE. 😛

@Dashrender said in Why, in 2018, is Microsoft adding security questions to Windows 10?:

@JaredBusch said in Why, in 2018, is Microsoft adding security questions to Windows 10?:

@Dashrender said in Why, in 2018, is Microsoft adding security questions to Windows 10?:

@scottalanmiller said in Why, in 2018, is Microsoft adding security questions to Windows 10?:

@Dashrender said in Why, in 2018, is Microsoft adding security questions to Windows 10?:

@JaredBusch said in Why, in 2018, is Microsoft adding security questions to Windows 10?:

@scottalanmiller said in Why, in 2018, is Microsoft adding security questions to Windows 10?:

@JaredBusch said in Why, in 2018, is Microsoft adding security questions to Windows 10?:

@scottalanmiller said in Why, in 2018, is Microsoft adding security questions to Windows 10?:

@Obsolesce said in Why, in 2018, is Microsoft adding security questions to Windows 10?:

This only occurs, that I've seen, during OOBE when you set up the PC as a local, non-domain, non-Microsoft-Account, user.

Correct, as a standard local account. The "normal" way. Most people don't use AD, even in business this is dropping off quickly. And lots of people don't want to deal with those ridiculous MS accounts that they try to ram down everyone's throats. And who knows how secure those are, anyway.

That is not the normal way to set up windows anymore and has not been for quite a while. The normal way to set up windows is with a Microsoft account. In fact you have to click no to setting up a Microsoft account multiple times in order to set up a PC without a Microsoft account

That's what they promote, but I wonder how many people are actually doing that.

Probably most that don’t use AD. Of course some will not, but not many.

I tend to agree - most home users will use a MS account simply because it's what's presented. IT folks and some programmers might not, but I'm willing to bet it's way over half that do.

Have you seen a lot of home users doing this? I have not, of course my cross section is tiny. But of the ones I see that have zero tech skills, they all skip it because it is scary and confusing.

The option to skip it's obvious enough for most people I run into - they just do it, even if that means setting up a new account.

It is obvious? not really. And even if they see it and click on it, you have to refuse once or twice more.

Whoops - I meant - NOT super obvious... normal users will be guilted into using an MS account in most cases.

yeah the first two times it took me a moment to notice you could skip.

@Donahue said in Where do I start with replacing the whole MS AD stack:

sing reservations.

I think your knowledge of FG is not allowing you to do this, just create a new interface with the desired subnet and leave or tick DHCP option. And they you can do it what you want with it. Create an IPv4 policy to give access to internet to the new interface.

Thanks all

Just had our first person report issues this evening.