We have SCOM 2016 and have a number of different versions of Server. This has been happening when we had SCOM 2012R2 though as well.

When servers are put in Maintenance Mode, they come out of Maintenance Mode before the date and time that was set.

Has anyone seen this? Reasons why?

We are looking to create a two node storage spaces direct hyper-converged cluster.  The storage would be a hybrid system with the following drives per server two NVME cache drive and two NVME drives for performance tier and 4 4TB SAS capacity drives.  The issue I am having is originally all of the NVME drives for cache and storage were supposed to be 1.6TB intel DC P3600 AIC cards. I was not able to get 8 matching drives due to price and availability. My back up is to get 4 2TB intel DC P3500 drives.  The 2TB DC P3500 drives are about 1GB/sec faster then the DC P3600's but the 3600's have much higher drives writes per day at 3.5 where the 3500's are only .3 drive writes per day.  I know that storage spaces direct wants to use the higher speed drives for Cache but I would loose the higher storage capacity and write endurance if the 3500's were selected as cache.  My question is since i don't have all the hardware I cant test this is there a way to manually select the slower but better write endurance DC P3600 drives as cache drives even know there are faster drives in the system?

Hi Experts,

my KMS host is WIN2012R2 server.
VAMT is installed.
WIN2016 KMS key is installed but after some days the office installations are not licensed.
Office 2010 KMS key is installed but after some days the office installations are not licensed.

How can I troubleshoot this ?

Hello Ee,

I have 3 sql 2016 enterprise servers in AWS running on 3 windows 2016 server instances. I wish to add these 3 as a cluster however , when I check the nodes in the cluster validation I receive " connectivity to a writable domain controller from node ' sqlnode1.somedomain.ca' could not be determined because of this error : Could not get domain controller name from machine ' sqlnode1.somedomain.ca' .

I am however able to disjoin/join the server to the domain ok on each of the 3 nodes and able to run "nltest /dsgetdc:somedomain.ca" and nltest /dclist:somedomain.ca ok on each of the 3 sql boxes and all domin controllers returned from nltest have the following flags :  GC DS LDAP KDC TIMESERV WRITABLE DNS_DC DNS_DOMAIN DNS_FOREST CLOSE_SITE FULL_SECRET WS . The domain Controllers are 2008 R2 and all 3 server 2016 boxes are on their own subnet as per aws instrucitons.

Please provide some guidance on this matter.

Greetings,

I have one question regarding Windows Server licencing and I do not understand that part.
I am using Windows Server 2016.

I have a licence where said Windows Server 2016 / 10 cores per server. What does that mean in practical explanation?

Next, I have CAL fpr win2016 serv = 25 CALs - that means I can add 25 machines/ users to Active Directory and they can access server, or I can use the same licence key for 25 devices, including client and server machines?

Thank you

I have a powershell script running on my Windows Server 2016. I have repeatedly changed the execution policy several times with the command below.

set-executionpolicy unrestricted -scope LocalMachine -Force

After I change policy

        Scope ExecutionPolicy
        ----- ---------------
MachinePolicy    Unrestricted
   UserPolicy    Unrestricted
      Process    Unrestricted
  CurrentUser    Unrestricted
 LocalMachine    Unrestricted

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Here is the script I would like to run
Script I would like to run

After I try running it I get a popup letting me that the execution policy will be changed

Here is the error I get.

Set-ExecutionPolicy : Windows PowerShell updated your execution policy successfully, but the setting is overridden by a policy defined at a more specific scope.  Due to 
the override, your shell will retain its current effective execution policy of Unrestricted. Type "Get-ExecutionPolicy -List" to view your execution policy settings. 
For more information please see "Get-Help Set-ExecutionPolicy".
At line:5 char:1
+ Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : PermissionDenied: (:) [Set-ExecutionPolicy], SecurityException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ExecutionPolicyOverride,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.SetExecutionPolicyCommand

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Now my my policies look like this after attempting to run script and getting error

        Scope ExecutionPolicy
        ----- ---------------
MachinePolicy    Unrestricted
   UserPolicy    Unrestricted
      Process    Unrestricted
  CurrentUser    Unrestricted
 LocalMachine    RemoteSigned

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Also went into Local Group Policy editor and set "Turn on Script Execution" to "Enabled" and "All Scripts"
here is the link to change policy I already did this.

Change policy



Not sure what to do next

I am setting up windows server 2016 for the first time and wanted to know if I wanted to setup additional server AD, hyper-v, other servers to add to a domain etc, would I need to have a separate server for each (physical) or create them as I've seen in videos after installing the initial windows server 2016?

This is for a home production environment?

I need to create a script to spin up an Domain Controller (RODC and Writable) from the script in the event of the emergency.  In case the DC  tanks Admins should be able easily spin up a replacement using a script.  This would eliminate a human errors and increase a recovery speed.
Can someone point me to the right direction, how its being done and experiences.
Thanks in advance!

How can I Setup HyperV VDI using RemoteFX?

Windows 2016

Hello,

I'm setting up a test RDS server in our environment for testing before I deploy one in production. I would like to create a GPO for the start menu and all the guides I've read reference the "Export-SatrtLayout" cmdlet in powershell. Every time I run the command I get a COM error. I'm running powershell with elevated permissions but still no luck. It does create the xml file but the file is defiantly not complete.



OS: Windows Server 2016
Build 14393.rs1
Release 170731-1934

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Hi,
 I would like to create a  Windows 2016 remote desktop server as a virtual machine running on Windows Hyper-V Server 2012.
 The machine will join the domain a member server with other servers

It seems that Windows 2016 Server Essential Edition would be the cheapest way to do it because it does not require Windows Client Access Licenses.  

I am wary of low level restricted Small Business type licenses. What is your experience using

a) Windows 2016 Server Essential Edition as  Virtual Machine?
 
b)  Windows 2016 Server Essential Edition Remote Desktop Server  as Virtual Machine

Can Azure AD can be used for replication between AD sites/DCs?  Say one DC in US and another one in China.  
Install AAD Connect on both Domain Controllers.  Can they be synced through AAD?  Or, has to be a direct connectivity?

Company is on BIND DNS.  I setup a new AD with new Zone for that AD.  
In Windows DNS have BIND Forwarders IPs with Unable to resolve in Server FQDN.  
Do I need to enable BIND Secondaries?  

What else I need to enable on BIND and Windows DNS to have users connected to successfully resolve new AD?