Good day,

Recently deployed two Dell SonicWall NSA 3600s with High Availability configuration. Between our two sites, our ISP provides us with an MPLS link (primary connection). We also have a VPN connection between the sites.

I would like to have the VPN kick in when the MPLS link goes down.  I have tried to follow SonicWall's guidance, but based on what I've read, the monitoring requires certain information.

I am seeking guidance with implementing this fail-over.  Any guidance will be appreciated.  Network diagram attached.
MPLS-VPN-Diagram.pdf

Had Win 7 Dell original install & activate of Off 2013...about 5 years ago...PC getting old so got new PC...

Installed Off 2013 on new PC...2ed activation...about 10 days later the PC died...would not boot...took it back to Micro Center
and they swapped out the bad PC for another PC...same model...

Trying to install Off 2013 on the new PC....3ed activation and it won't activate...says too many activations...

Try to activate by phone and says Office 2013 no longer supports phone activation...

Is there anything I can do to install and activate Office Home & Student 2013...???

I just purchased a new Dell laptop for a customer - booted up fine out of the box, did all of the Windows updates, no problem - rebooted a few times, still no problem.  Turned it off and put away for customer - turned on and get spinning dots on startup.  Ran diagnostics, no issues.  Turned off UEFI secure boot, no difference.  One time after I removed battery and hit power button for 30 sec and replaced battery; I got it to come up to recovery options and tried to reset PC but said it could not do it - any thoughts on what to do?

Hi all,

Really need some help please.  Have a small domain network running on 2012 with less than 10 users set up on it that is running painfully slow for all users.  Even saving a 20K file can take a minute.  600MB folder transfer is reporting as needing about 20 hours.

I have just installed this brand new Dell R430 server, 32GB Ram, Dual Xeon Processors, Perc H710 card with 4 x SAS 10K drives in Raid 5 for the main data partition.  Running Server 2012 R2  as a host server and have created a single VM running 2012 Standard which has been set up as a single domain controller/file share with DHCP and DNS server roles. I made sure I updated all of the Dell drivers on the host before installing the VM and have run all updates on both the host and the VM.  There is a brand new 24 port gigabit unmanaged switch into which the server,  a Watchguard T30W Firewall, a Wireless access point, a Synology NAS device and 4 laptops are all plugged in.

I've checked there are no IP conflicts, get a steady ping to the server at <1ms.  DHCP is working fine and there are no issues accessing websites however everything is so slow.

I've disabled VMQ in the advanced properties of the VM Host NIC and also disabled SMB signing so I know the issue isn't with those.

Would really appreciate any pointers.

Thanks

Adam

Hi All,

The following (see attached screenshot) are the updates that have been failing to install on my Dell laptop. – they appear to download ok but when it comes to the installation phase they stall at about 97% and then the whole process of uninstalling starts. It takes about 3 hours to go through this process. There seems to be two that are a problem KB4022715 and KB3126568.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Mallony
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I want to reformat using Windows 7 CD, when I try I get the "No drivers were found. click load driver to provide a mass storage driver for install" I suspect it wants the controller card driver for the PERC H310 it has. When I go to dell.com I cannot find such driver

tag number: JWY0HX1

please advise
thanks

I push Dell. Dell doesn't supply Windows 10 media like they did with Windows 7. They give you the product key in the BIOS of the computer then you download the "Retail" ISO from Microsoft and install it. Or at least that is the way I have been doing to.

   So where does OEM stand with respect to Windows 10?

Will a Dell PERC H200E work on a Dell PowerEdge T430? We only need to use the external SAS ports for a Tape machine.  The OS will be Windows 2012

Got the error "C" of the dell tape drive. What's the problem and how to solve it
error.jpg

Hi
is the above possible like the dell command?
Thanks

We currently have a Dell Sonic Firewall that is our firewall as well as our company router.  This is our main router for all of our sites in the company.  We have 16.  We implemented through our EMR (Electronic Medical Records) software an upload to a billing company.  They in turn configure and print bills and send them out to our customers.  This has worked fine for over two years.  When this was implemented, we were not required to make any firewall changes at all.

A week ago, the user doing this procedure received an error that the file could not be uploaded.  She called the EMR company, who in their effort to troubleshoot the problem, changed the upload method from ftp to sftp.  She then tried to upload and she got an additional error that port 22 was unable to send.  Seeing that error, the EMR said that the problem has to do with our firewall.  I spoke with the billing company who tried to do a trace route to our external IP.  They were unsuccessful, but I was able to do a trace route to them.  The only caveat is that the user can do this procedure from home with no problem.

I am willing to make firewall changes if necessary, I just don't know what they would be or why it is necessary now, if no one has made any changes other than the upload method from ftp to sftp.

Please help.  I am desperate.

I teamed two of the NICS on a Dell server, and then I lost connection.   I was doing it remotely.   I can access it via the iDrac.  
How can I fix this?

I have a newly built Dell Poweredge T430. Built from the setup disks that came with the system. It is Server 2012R2 and is a file server and running Quickbooks Enterprise. It is running slow and when opening task manager I see windows desktop manager using 25% of the cpu. What could be causing this issue on a new build?