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@scottalanmiller said in OBR10 - Server Setup:

@joel said in OBR10 - Server Setup:

Ok, so if I want my VM's to have a drive for OS and then a drive (Data) -

Stop here. Before you ask this question, WHY are you asking this question? You don't normally want this. What is making you think you should do this? This is non-standard and should only be done when it makes sense, not by default.

*In the past I used to have a C drive for the OS and a second disk (D) for data.
So what is standard now? Just one Drive with everything on there?

@jaredbusch Thanks, yes this is what I was meaning, I'd be placing the VM on that Initial D drive.

Ok, so if I want my VM's to have a drive for OS and then a drive (Data) - Would it just be a case of adding an additional Virtual Hard Drive and storing it in the initial D partition? eg.

My HyperV server will be in Raid10 with 2 partitions - C:\OS (100GB) - D:\Data (1.9TB)
(on D drive, create folder called VM\DomainController)
(on D drive, create another folder called VM\FileServer)

Then, I can provision DomainController
Add Virtual Hard Drive - C:\OS (130GB) - (Location: D:\VM\DomainController)
Add Virtual Hard Drive - D:\Logs (20GB) - (Location: D:\VM\DomainController)

Provision FileServer
Add Virtual Hard Drive - C:\OS (130GB) - (Location: D:\VM\FS)
Add Virtual Hard Drive - D:\Data (1.6TB) - (Location: D:\VM\FS)

Make Sense?

Thanks guy so to confirm, when I boot the Hyper Visor for first time, I should go into Intelligent provisioning and configure the Raid in R10. Then I should create two partitions C:\ for the Hyper-V's OS, then a D:\ for my VM's data store?

Then using Hyper-V Management tools, I can connect to HV01 server, and install 2x VMs (storing the data on the D:\ drive partition).

Then, when it comes to creating the VMs (DC and FS), do I just partition more of that inital D:\ drive to be the C:\OS and D:\Storage for myVMs?

Oops - sorry i meant to post this as a reply in another thread i created about OBR10

Hi Guys
Please forgive my ignorance with this and just picking up the thread and it's been a while since i built a server:

I'll be ordering the new server. We'll be getting 4x 1TB drives. I'll use OBR10 as mentioned and install Hyper V Server on the physical tin and then would like to have 2x VM's on there (1x DC and 1x FS).

Can someone dumb it down for me and explain how i partition these?
I presume once in OBR10, i can just create 1 partition for Windows and another for all the data? Again, excuse my ignorance.
Thanks

I dont know anything as much as they want to backup 45TBs lol!
I'm trying to schedule a meeting to have a chat and find out more so will come back once (if) they come back to me...It was someone I met over the weekend so I dont know so much just yet. Just making initial enquiry to suss out what others do with this amount of data.

No 2nd building but I'm sure they could find a home to host a secondary NAS somewhere. You think that's best option?

Hi Guys,

So I met someone recently who has an on-site server and NAS and have told me there is 45TB of data they want to backup. I understand they currently backup to a number of different external drives under a few different schedules but want to try streamline this. I havent handled this amount of data before (large media/raw video files etc) so wondered how best to backup 45TB's of growing data?

Cloud would be best but think it could be expensive?

Yes, we'll have a Hypervisor and on there, will create 2x VMs (one DC and one File Server)

HI guys
When provisioning new servers whats todays best practice? Previously I would use RAID1 and have the OS drive mirror across 2 drives, then the same with Data storage D drive.

I read a great post a long time ago about not using RAID and just get as many disks you can budget for and create one big raid...Or just bunch all the disks together and create seperate partitions for the c drive and then the d drive - is that still good practice?

I'd about to replace an old creaking server for small business (only 10 users). Was wondering how best to build it and welcomed thoughts.

What do you guys use as an alternative? ZeroTier?

hi guys

I have an odd query which i need some help with pls...

I have 3 virtual servers.

1x domain controller (internal: 10.10.4.5)
1x fs01 file server (internal: 10.10.4.7)
1x app01 server (rds) (internal: 10.10.4.6)

All have pertino VPN client installed so users can access the APP01 and FS01 resources from anywhere.

The servers have internal IP's (shown above) but also have an IP from Pertino on a 172.86.160.X range.

Recently weve run into problems where random people at random times cant access the servers (not all at the same time. ie totally random). someones it may be 5 users cant access one server, but everyone else can, then another 10 users cant access another server but everyone else can and so forth - its random.

ive checked event viewer and see this error recently which i think is related....

The system failed to register pointer (PTR) resource records (RRs) for network adapter
with settings:

       Adapter Name : {7F022283-1684-4AF5-AC79-07855C065DEA}
       Host Name : app01
       Adapter-specific Domain Suffix : hq.MYDOMAIN.local
       DNS server list :
         	10.10.4.5
       Sent update to server : <?>
       IP Address :
         10.10.4.6

The cause was DNS server failure. This may be because the reverse lookup zone is busy or missing on the DNS server that your computer needs to update. In most cases, this is a minor problem because it does not affect normal (forward) name resolution.

If reverse (address-to-name) resolution is required for your computer, 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. See event details for specific error code information.

Do i need to configure something in DNS?

I manged to resolve the issue once i restart the Pertino services on the 'broken' server and then it works but it keeps happening and I need to fix it permanently. I have disabled IPV6 on all servers and on the Pertino adapter as i used to get IPV6 replies when pinging which I didnt want.

PLEASE CAN YOU HELP? I'm not sure how to go about this one.
Thanks

Does anyone know how to get the search function working on Shared Mailboxes and Public Folders in Office 365?

We're using Outlook 2016.
One user (User A) has 2 shared mailboxes (User B, User C) as well as Public Folders.
When User A wants to search for mail within User B's or C's mailbox, no search results come up - only data from UserA's mailbox appears....even when selecting 'Current Folder' after selecting UserB/C's mailbox.

This is the same behaviour with the Public folders. It seems Office 365 doesnt let you search for content within shared mailboxes or public folders.

I have tried the steps in here - https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/3169741/no-search-results-or-content-displayed-in-public-folder-favorites-in-o but no luck!

Has anyone been able to successfully search these additional folders?

Loving the discussion. Yes you're correct we were asked by a SMB to enable it because they suffered some spoofing emails recently. ie someone internally (and externally) received an email appearing to be from someone inside the office and was in reference to obtaining card details etc.

So in a nutshell, whats actually the different between DKIM and SPF? Office 365 give you the DNS records to apply when you set it up and give you the SPF by default. If DKIM was better/more important you'd expect them to add that in also when you setup the tenant?

I have a meeting with the client today so will discuss it more with them. Apparently the CEO's friend works for Google security and said they should enable the DKIM records hence why they asked us to do so.

thanks

set our own key?

Hi Guys
I was asked to setup DKIM records for Office 365.
I dont know exactly what this is but understand it helps stop spoofing. Can someone advise what records / where i find the necessary records to set this up?
Thanks in advance

Hi Guys
I'm trying to pass PCI compliance and failing on one error: see below.
Can anyone advise how i can fix this kind of thing? I am not too familiar with IIS.

We're running Windows Server 16

type : Microsoft IIS
Server version : 10.0
SOLUTION:
Modify the HTTP headers of the web server to not disclose detailed information about the underlying web server.
IMPACT:
The HTTP headers sent by the remote web server disclose information that can aid an attacker, such as the server version and languages used by the web server.
THREAT:
The remote web server discloses information via HTTP headers.
CVSS Base Score: 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
ID: 6166091
Category: Web Servers
CVE ID:
VULNERABILITY DETAILS
PCI Severity Level:
PCI COMPLIANCE STATUS

I think they backup local SharePoint servers not those direct on Office 365?

Hi Guys, any suggestions for best way to backup Office 365 data (sharepoint and mailboxes) but more specifically our data in SharePoint needs backing up? Any applications/software can do this i'd love to know?