@dave_c said in Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider:

@JasGot
I am an indirect CSP but I do not handle any non-profit organization.
My customers can see the subscription but they cannot change the licenses assigned to it from the Office 365 Admin portal; they need to request the addition/subtraction to my company or use the portal of my direct CSP. They can request the cancellation of a subscription but we need to authorize it.

The client is able to have subscriptions with more than one reseller and directly with Microsoft.

Thanks. That clarifies some worries we had about being trapped with a bad CSP.

@dave_c said in Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider:

@JasGot
We have moved many clients from other CSPs without needed to migrate anything: It was just an administrative thing, no lock-in. There was just one client that needed a full migration using BitTitan, but it was a special case involving a merge.

On the other hand, once the client accepts the link we are given management access to their tenant and we are able to perform many administrative tasks on behalf of the client.

I read that the tenant can see the licenses, but not the subscription. Does that sound right? Can you comment on that?

@black3dynamite said in Reconsidering ProxMox:

https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/latest-virtio/

Download the virtio-win iso file and upload that to Proxmox.

Since Proxmox is using LVM thin the controller is a virtio scsi so you will need the virtio-win driver.

I think we were typing at the same time!

@VoIP_n00b said in Reconsidering ProxMox:

@JasGot Make sure you run updates on the proxmox host.

You have to disable the enterprise repo, and add the no subscription repo first.

https://www.flash2hack.com/?p=416

Sadly, this either didn't Update Virtio, or it didn't solve the problem.

So, I grabbed the latest Virtio-Win driver iso from https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/latest-virtio/virtio-win.iso and attached it to the VM, I loaded the driver during Windows server installation, and all is good now.

@VoIP_n00b said in Reconsidering ProxMox:

@JasGot Make sure you run updates on the proxmox host.

You have to disable the enterprise repo, and add the no subscription repo first.

https://www.flash2hack.com/?p=416

I was just going to comment that I couldn't run updates because it was not enterprise licensed. Thanks to your post, it's updating right now!

I hope it updates Virtio-win!

@scottalanmiller said in Reconsidering ProxMox:

@JasGot said in Reconsidering ProxMox:

@scottalanmiller said in Reconsidering ProxMox:

@JasGot said in Reconsidering ProxMox:

And after all of that. It won't finish booting. It gets to here and then when I click OK, it reboots an d stop here again. Lovely.

Hardware virtualization definitely enabled?

Yes. Looks like a virtio-win issue. I need to find and install a newer version of virtio-win.

Did you load it from the downloaded ISO from Fedora? Or load with Chocolatey?

The whole debian package provided by Proxmox.
https://www.proxmox.com/en/downloads 6.1 ISO installer.

@scottalanmiller said in Reconsidering ProxMox:

@JasGot said in Reconsidering ProxMox:

And after all of that. It won't finish booting. It gets to here and then when I click OK, it reboots an d stop here again. Lovely.

Hardware virtualization definitely enabled?

Yes. Looks like a virtio-win issue. I need to find and install a newer version of virtio-win.

And after all of that. It won't finish booting. It gets to here and then when I click OK, it reboots an d stop here again. Lovely.

@JaredBusch said in Reconsidering ProxMox:

You are intentionally doing it the hard way. No hypervisor is designed to use a full install media to turn up guests, even if they have an option for CDROM. Just put the ISO on there like you should.

I understand this is easy to do. I also understand that if I was sourcing the media at the time of install, this would be super simple and I would not have even thought about local USB access.

But I also believe if I have bootable usb server media in my hand, I should be able to use it without much difficulty. After all, they made the CD/DVD an option..... and why? Most servers don't even come with CD/DVDs any more.....

Having found no documentation on how to use local usb for the installation source, I did upload an ISO. It took MUCH longer than sticking the USB stick in the USB port. (USB Stick - 2.1 seconds; ISO Media - 9 Minutes to download from MS, and 3 minutes to upload to PVE).

That's all. Nothing more, nothing less, I just think I should be able to easily use the resources that are already laying next to the server on the bench.

Auto batch file elevator: (documented here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/12264592/1016343)

Here is the variation we use daily. Couldn't get by without it. It can be scripted with GPO.

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:: Automatically check & get admin rights V2
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@echo off
CLS
ECHO.
ECHO =============================
ECHO Running Admin shell
ECHO =============================

:init
setlocal DisableDelayedExpansion
set "batchPath=%~0"
for %%k in (%0) do set batchName=%%~nk
set "vbsGetPrivileges=%temp%\OEgetPriv_%batchName%.vbs"
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion

:checkPrivileges
NET FILE 1>NUL 2>NUL
if '%errorlevel%' == '0' ( goto gotPrivileges ) else ( goto getPrivileges )

:getPrivileges
if '%1'=='ELEV' (echo ELEV & shift /1 & goto gotPrivileges)
ECHO.
ECHO **************************************
ECHO Invoking UAC for Privilege Escalation
ECHO **************************************

ECHO Set UAC = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^) > "%vbsGetPrivileges%"
ECHO args = "ELEV " >> "%vbsGetPrivileges%"
ECHO For Each strArg in WScript.Arguments >> "%vbsGetPrivileges%"
ECHO args = args ^& strArg ^& " "  >> "%vbsGetPrivileges%"
ECHO Next >> "%vbsGetPrivileges%"
ECHO UAC.ShellExecute "!batchPath!", args, "", "runas", 1 >> "%vbsGetPrivileges%"
"%SystemRoot%\System32\WScript.exe" "%vbsGetPrivileges%" %*
exit /B

:gotPrivileges
setlocal & pushd .
cd /d %~dp0
if '%1'=='ELEV' (del "%vbsGetPrivileges%" 1>nul 2>nul  &  shift /1)

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::START
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REM Run shell as admin (example) - put here code as you like
ECHO %batchName% Arguments: %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9