Hello - we have a shared printer from Server 2016.  It's a Konica Minolta bizhub C364.   I changed a few settings on the shared printer from the Server's GUI printer properties window.   I click the Advanced Tab and select "Printing Defaults" then change the following settings.   1.  Set to Grayscale   2.  Set to 1 sided printing  3.  Set the "Account Track" password

I then install the Shared printer on one of the computers and see both numbers 1 and 2 above get set on the installed printer, but not number 3.   I reached out to the Printer company that supplied this machine and they are scratching their heads.   We tried to reinstall the printer, removed the drivers and downloaded the latest from Konica.    We can only print on workstations if I manually set the "Account Track"  on the shared printer after I install it.    Would like to get that "Account Track" code pushing down to workstations.   It was working on the previous Server (SBS 2011) but i can't seem to find what's making it work on that server and not the new one.

Anyone seen this before?
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We have a file server cluster in one of the sites running on windows 2012 R2. We will be migrating the file server to windows 2016.
We had an incident earlier that the hosting infrastructure that runs all the virtual servers went down. Now the company wants this to be considered and make a solution that in case such incident happens in the future, the users should still be able to access the files from the second site.
We have two sites with good bandwidth. I am thinking of using the new feature in window s 2016 DC i.e the storage replicas. We want an automated switchover if in case infrastructure in any of the sites has an issue, it should be accessible from the other site.
We have file server cluster in both sites. Either one of them goes down it should AUTOMATICALLY fail over to the other site.

Are there any issues when creating an Active Directory Forest Trust between two forests ? one of the forests  has windows 2008 R2 domain functional level and the other forest is new and has windows 2016 domain functional level   ?   Thank you

None of the command or script approaches for controlling the Windows Update on Server 2016 is updating the date and time of Last checked shown in the GUI. The only time it’s updated is when I press [Check for updates] in the GUI.

The value can also be read using this Powershell commands:
 $windowsUpdateObject = New-Object -ComObject Microsoft.Update.AutoUpdate $windowsUpdateObject.Results.LastSearchSuccessDate

I have tried several things, but none is working – see below
 Does anyone know how to get Windows update to set the date and time?
 OR where the value for LastSearchSuccessDate is stored on a Server 2016, as it has changed from Server 2012R2

I have tried

Powershell:
 install-module PSWindowsUpdate
 import-module PSWindowsUpdate
 get-wulist

Windows Server Core management:
 sconfig

Windows Update command also used in TaskScheduler:
 usoclient StartScan

VBscript:
 Set objSession = CreateObject("Microsoft.Update.Session")
 objSession.ClientApplicationID = "TST"
 Set objSearcher = objSession.CreateUpdateSearcher()
 Set searchResult = objSearcher.Search("IsInstalled=0 and Type='Software' and IsHidden=0")
 wscript.echo searchResult.Updates.Count

hello,
i've domain controller win2012r2 and everything is ok and normal, i added win 2016 as additional domain after that i found some people and the are random that they are becoming not connected to the internet and it didn't happen before. i workaround it by restart or re-logon and they are working  but i don't know the new domain is there any thing extra should i do?

i checked the replica and it's working normally

Currently i have two on-prem domain controllers. One physical and one VM.  On VM I only have an Azure AD Connect.  Wonder if make sense to move that VM DC onto MS Azure Cloud. So I can avoid all these environmental issues.    VM Host fail, process chewed up CPU cycles, cooling issues, etc.  
Any drawbacks to have that Domain Controller in Azure Cloud?  Roughly ~500 users already and growing.

I've got a user on a MacBook Pro, who's connecting to a 2016 server via rdp 8.0, but cannot use his local printer.
Of course this all worked fine under the old 2008 terminal server, but hasn't worked with the new & improved stuff.
When trying to add the printer, I can see other macs showing up, like TS009 (Joes-MacBook-: PRN2:# 9), but am not seeeing this guy's mac listed there.
Went back to try installing printer on the server & while I see full function software & driver for all desktop OSs, the servers listed stop at 2008.
Is printer just incompatible with that server, killing the whole idea right there?
Looks like that printer is about 8 years old, is it time for a new one?
Any other work arounds?
Thanks!

VMware cloning of a DC to test some things, I've read some of the previous articles but wanted to see if anyone has done it recently? it will b e cold clone and offline to test an upgrade and i see some snapshot the server to then clone but pretty sure snapshot of a DC is no-no?

Configure VMs with Site-aware Failover Clusters in Windows Server 2016

I want to configure VMs with Site-Aware failover Clusters in Example:
in this link https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/clustering/2015/08/19/site-aware-failover-clusters-in-windows-server-2016/

it show you how to build the sites and i already build it and added the nodes to each site.

now i want to add the VMs to the Nodes and keep the failover of this VMs only on this nodes with the site.

is there any way to do it.

Regards,

How to transfer the Domain Based DFS from one server to another server on the same domain. The share drives are on the NETAPP storage.

After a fresh install of  Server Administrator Openmanage I cannot log in.  I've tried the server name and the IP address.  I tried Administrator and the password.  I tried domain\admnistrator.  They all fail.

What needs to be done?

Hello,

We are migrating our server from Exchange 2010 to 2013.    Both servers are in a single AD server environment.

The databases are mounted on both exchange servers and I am able to open my mailbox on the new exchange server using owa

We just set up a new server running 2012 R2 with all the latest patches

We've disabled the firewall on it for now and the one on the 2010 server for now.

Both servers are now set for internal DNS resolution

Each server only has 1 nic with 1 ip per new server 10.10.150.16 old server 10.10.150.15 - nothing on the network had those IPs.

There are no vlans - this is just one subnet - dumb switch.

2010 can telnet to 2013
2013 can telnet to 2010

2010 can ping 2013 by name - gets the correct internal IP address

2013 can ping 2010 by name - gets the correct internal IP address

I can telnet out from 2013 to any other exchange server outside the network

I can telnet in from any other exchange server in the outside world to the 2013 server

I migrated one test mailbox from the old server to the new server.

When I send an email from the 2010 server to the 2013 server with the test mailbox I get the message stuck in the queue -

Queue - Hub version 15 451 4.4.0 Primary target IP address responded with 421 4.2.1 unable to connect.

There are no other messages in the queue but that 1 that I just sent  - no other outstanding queues

When I do a test-mailflow from 2010server to 2013server I get

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Hello
EDITED 12th Oct 18

• Summary
• We have attempted to run Microsoft Azure Site Recovery (ASR) - Hyper-V Replication without success.
• We are running Windows Server 2016 with 3 VMs
• The ASR service has been installed by an external service company
• We have been able to successfully complete the initial backup of the servers to the cloud
• However the system  cannot keep up to date with the amount of changes on the server
• All the upload bandwidth is being saturated (80 Mbps) and not keeping up with changes
• (See attached screen shot of message from ASR)

These are the answers I received from the service company to my questions:
1. Could you tell me what the replication method we are using is called.
Azure Site Recovery - Hyper-V Replication
2. What the problem is. Is it the MySQL databases?
We don't know if it is the MySQL Databases for sure. As explained before the problem is too many changes are being made and the Azure servers cannot keep up with the constant changes.
3. Is the problem correctly described as being too much “data churn”?
I have forwarded the screenshot I had of the exact error message. (see uploaded image)

The service company cannot resolve the issue and say it is up to us to solve the data churn issue
They have asked Microsoft for help but they say they cannot because the issue is likely with …