Have a 4yr old box running server 2012 with HyperV and running 5 VMs - am replacing with a New server 2016 and moving the VMs across.
Can i just enable replication of the VMs to the new box and then turn the old off ? Am I better to export and import in ?
Will I get issues with hardware being different / Host server name being different ?

Any pointers appreciated - its a live system so dont want to mess it up and have downtime.

I asked this before and like to expand a bit deeper.  
 For some reason we have two DNS partitions.  company.com and company.local
No immediate problems to resolve, but there is potential for corruption.  My thoughts to remove it completely but like to research first.
The zone shows up on all Domain Controllers, but for some reason the replication is only pushed out via one particular.  All DCs replicate 5 partitions, but that one replicates 7.  The additional 2 are the partitions related to company.local
Its behaving like old 2003 AD partition where we only had single source replication from the PDC.  Could that be because I have all the FSMO roles on that DC?

This one always frustrate me.  Simple command to see all the domain or forest details. And it doesn't show the list all the servers or sites.  
For example: Get-ADDomain | Format-List
Gives me
ReplicaDirectoryServers            : {server1.company.com, server2.company.com, server3.company.com, server4.company.com...}   how to get all servers?

Same for this:  Get-ADForest | Format-List

Gives me:
GlobalCatalogs        : {server1.company.com, server2.company.com, server3.company.com, server4.company.com...}  how to get all servers?
Sites                 : {site1, site2, site3, site4...} how to get all sites?

I'm probably missing something very simple.  Just annoying issue!

A client is looking to do a migration from their SBS 2011 server - i have never worked with SBS but people i talked to tell me its difficult to work with. Basically the client wants to not only migrate\upgrade to Windows Server 2016 Active Directory but they want to migrate to a new domain as the company has been bought out and they want to start fresh.

Is this doable? Would ADMT be the best route to migrate users, computers, servers? Exchange would also need to be migrated to Exchange 2016 on-premise. We suggested O365 but they are pushing back.

Thanks

Does anyone know what TCP port "Remote Desktop Licensing" listens on?.  Mr google (well my search skills) are failing me at moment.  

I am troubleshooting an error connecting from a new RDS server I built and want telnet test the ports required between servers.
Cheers
String

I am currently pursuing my MCSA Server 2016.  I purchased the IC2 by Will Panek but I am a terrible book learner.  This is probably not the section to ask this question but I was wondering if there is any experts that can help guide while I am studying 70-740 or if there are currently any videos that will be uploaded in the near future.  I looked under the certification option on the site but could not find anything.   Is it possible to use this to ask questions if I am studying and get stuck?  I am not sure if this is limited to just technical issues.  Thank you.

Unable to Raise Forest Functional Level from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016. The log states that the 2 current DC's are running early versions of Windows which they are both at Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard 6.1 (7601). According to my research, that should suffice.
Does anyone have any ideas why its saying this?

Is there a way to have multiple hidden shares (on one file server) to show up for a user with the proper permissions? I have heard that it is possible, but haven't found the right instructions for setting this up.  I have tried a test with just two hidden drive/shares, and wasn't able to see any hidden drives, even if I had permissions.

We will be having a single file server (FS01), Windows Server 2016, Active Directory environment.
This server will have multiple hidden shares (\\fs01\acct$, \\fs01\sales$, etc), one for each Department in the company. Each department will be its own drive on the file server, with share and security permissions to the drive.  And then just security permissions for the parent folder in the drive, and child folders.  Will be using groups to apply permissions.

However some users have access to other departments as well as their own.  We want to use Group Policy to map the file server ( F = \\fs01), and then when the user goes into the mapped drive, they would see all the network shares on that file server that they have permission to, and the rest of the shares that they don't would stay hidden.

What does permissions (sharing and security) need to be set to, and where do they need to be used, to allow this situation occur?

I am still new to asking questions on Experts-Exchange, so please let me know if forgot to include needed information to get the proper assistance.

Thank you.

Hi Windows Server experts,

Just need a general guidance on this scenario pls

In AWS EC2 Windows Server 2016 (serverA), have manually installed softwares,  imported/configured SSL certificates, etc for one of my application, my application works fine in https....all good at this stage.

As you know, in AWS, we have an option to create an AMI (Snapshot) from an EC2. Using this AMI we can create subsequent servers instances (serverB, serverC, etc , so we dont have to reinstall and configure softwares once again.

My Request is:
If I launch and create new EC2 Windows server based on above AMI, Do I have to perform anything extra for SSL certificates to work on serverB, serverC, so on? would that works as it was working on the serverA.

please suggest. and advice.

Thanks in advance

I am currently experiencing an issue with one of my clients.  Each time they lose power I am forced to power their units up manually since they do not have an active WOL setup.   After I log into the servers after bringing the DC/ FS back up I noticed that no one is able to get any internal connectivity to the network or internet.   The only way I am able to restore internet/ local lan connectivity is to flush the DNS cache, re-register the DNS cache reboot the DC and then everything is restored.


Windows Server 2016 Standard
NIC - Embedded LOM 1 on Port 1
DNS set to 127.0.0.1
Secondary 8.8.8.8

Not sure what else to include this is a class c network with only 3 servers a couple of managed switches and 1 ASA.