I have a small business with a Dell PowerEdge T30 Server. This server is only about a week old running Windows Server 2016 Standard. At random times throughout the day, the server will go offline and when I go to the physical server to look at it, it will not wake up. I have to hard power it down in order to get it working again. I look at the Local Server log and the only thing that is displayed is below. Per my knowledge the 10016 error should not affect performance and the SidebySide Application is lync. Can anyone give me direction on how I can figure out why it goes offline and non responsive? The time that it froze was between 8:44 and when I had to reboot at 9:18. Thank you

      6008      Error      EventLog                      System                                                      9/25/2018 9:18:52 AM
      41              Critical      Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power              System          9/25/2018 9:18:32 AM
      10016      Error      Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM      System      9/25/2018 8:44:27 AM
      10016      Error      Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM      System      9/25/2018 8:42:14 AM
      35              Error      SideBySide   Application                                              9/25/2018 8:41:19 AM

DELL M4800 WORKSTATION LAPTOP stuck in startup. This computer had not been turned on in six months. Upon trying to turn it on I found the battery was dead. I hooked up the power supply and attempted to boot. The Dell logo appeared normally for a few seconds. Then the screen went black. The hard drive led kept flashing and has been flashing for an hour.  It is randomly flashing. Sometimes fast and sometimes slow. It appears that it thinks it is doing "something" not just stuck in an endless loop. Should I let it continue this activity or take another action. Note: the laptop has a 1 TB SSD and the laptop has seen under a month of use. Virtually like new. Note: The caps lock, num lock and other key leds are operating properly.

I do not see an option to close this question prior to any comments being given. I was worried that it might be destroying data so I forced a close and rebooted it. It seems to have liked that procedure and all seems to be OK at this time. I rebooted once again to make sure and all is OK.

I'm buying a new Dell PowerEdge R740XD with a 4port 10GBe NIC and am looking into the best Switch to connect it to. We are primarily a Cisco Shop so I've been looking at Cisco Catalyst 3850 series. I'm looking for everyone's opinion here.

Keyboard function keys not responding as intended.

I am using a Dell Inspirion 13 7000 Laptop.  The function keys are not working as intended.  When I press the F2 key in my Excel program, instead of the EDIT function enabling, the volume control pops up. In order for me to envoke the EDIT function, I have to hold the FN key and press is simultaneously with the F2 key.

How can I fix this?


thank you

Glen

We just received two new Dell systems and have been trying to connect them in a workgroup - for explanation sake, we have Bell1 and Bell2 for system names.  Bell 2 can see itself and Bell1 but cannot connect to Bell1.  Bell1 does not see itself or Bell2.  Bell2 has Norton AV installed on it but worked before that was installed.  After turning on all the sharing, turn off password/firewall - still same issue.  On Bell1, we even did a Factory reset and erased everything (not much on them to start) - but same issue.  I am not sure what we are missing.

Hi Experts,

This morning we conducted a high availability test on our virtual infrastructure. We have 2 esxi 6.0 hosts connected to a dell md3400 direct attached storage. When our esxi host was shutdown the HA worked fine, but the LUN from the storage was gone.

All looks well on the Storage Array itself, the host is in the group and LUN and port identifiers for the host appear to be fine on the MD3400. On the host the PCI storage adapter is there, but no storage.

I did a re-scan on the host and rebooted the host again and still no storage.

Thank you

I'm having issues setting up SSH on Dell  S5148F-ON. Telnet works but SSH doesn't work at all. Can someone provide the configuration for it please :)

Dell Inspiron 15 laptop, running 64 bit Win 7 Pro, and there were no recent hardware or software changes.
When starting up, I'm getting the message 'Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. Yada, yada, yada...', then gives the option to start normally (which will bring me right back here), or Launch Startup Repair.
Launching startup repair just takes me to a black screen, like the one I’ve currently been staring  at for about an hour. Now when I say black screen, it's not black like its off, it’s lit, just never gets to any progress bar, etc.
I tried booting from a Win 7 DVD, which will give me the ‘windows is loading files…’ screen, then go to the ‘Starting Windows’ screen, then it will go to a blank (black) screen, with an oversized cursor (arrow) that will move with the trackpad or a mouse.
I have stared at that screen for close to an hour, as well.
I have also run the diagnostics & everything checks out fine.
What’s my next best move?

We have two identical Dell PowerEdge servers running WS2012 R2 set up as a cluster to a Dell PowerVault SAN.
There are 14 Hyper-V VMs occupying a little over 3TBs. As we are looking to expand the storage of the PowerVault,
I need a good backup solution for the VMs.

What is the most common and best way to backup these VMs?

I have a home/work network with 3 Dell machines. Two machine running Windows 7 Pro and now one running Windows 10 Pro. I installed Windows 10 on the one machine yesterday. But now I cannot get the W10 machine to connect to the home/work network so the other machines can share files and folders. I did all the usual stuff...turn on network sharing...file and print sharing...added the W10 machine to the Workgroup...but still I cannot access it form the other machines. I thought W10 was supposed to be easier. What am I missing?

I want to compare the Dell Latitude E7480 laptop with its replacement, the E7490.  All things being equal, is there any great difference between the two?  If the 7480 has the same features at a lower price point, is there any reason to get the 7490 instead?

I'm looking at both laptops on the Dell small business outlet site.  They have good deals on refurbished, scratch and dent, and returns.  They all come with the same warranty as new.

The customer I'm buying this laptop for is not a power user, but wants to be able to take advantage of new hardware as it becomes available.  We need some idea of the relative value of various features.

For standard laptops, not 2 in 1s, how useful is touch versus non-touch.
I won't get one with resolution below 1280X1024. But some of the 7480s come with 2560 X 1440 touch (and gorilla glass).  Is it something to jump at?
USB C versus Thunderbolt 3.
NVME versus standard SSD drives.
(NVME are blazing fast, but how much difference does this make to an average user?)  How important in terms of the future?
They both take DDR4 memory.  Looking at user manuals, memory seems to be a relatively simple upgrade on both. To me a lower amount of memory, 4GB versus 8 or 8 versus 16 isn't a deal breaker.  Do you agree?
6th versus 7th versus 8th generation Intel processors.
Windows 10 Home versus Pro. (almost all are Pro but I just notices a Win10 Home.  Is that a deal breaker?)

Any other observations?

Thanks,
Alan