FYI - to get into a Volume License agreement with Microsoft, you must purchase 5 licenses to start. Any 5. For example 5 Windows desktops Software Assurance licenses.

The cheapest option that I am currently aware of is 4 Windows Server CALs and a single Windows Desktop upgrade or SA.

Old thread but I just found this out after wasting a few hours last evening trying to get Hyper-V 2016 on my Dell 2950 lab server. Processors need to support SLAT
http://www.nodefinity.net/post/hyper-v-on-poweredge-2900-2950-the-end-of-the-road-is-windows-server-2012-r2

@JaredBusch said in Are MS Windows Update servers capped to 10mbps:

@Dashrender said in Are MS Windows Update servers capped to 10mbps:

I definitely haven't had a cap while downloading updates, I'm pegging my 100 mb down pipe.

Right, but then the sad thing is why was the download taking so long if I was only seeing the backup running.. F'n windows update process.....

yep.. the process lies about what's going on.. I think there must be some type of post download processing going on, but it's still listed at downloading, but the network speed shows no download happening.

OK, finally got that solved using this, and guess what the results are....

Failed the test.

Yay..... now lets see what Microsoft has to say about the results...

Lets see how this works...
Uninstalled Skype 7.29
RegEdit deleting all references to skype
Restart
Installed fresh download - 7.31

Also disabled the JABRA connector for my headset.

Ohh they updated it!

@Minion-Queen said in Microsoft Exchange Online outage:

We got mail just fine it's the sending that got us all day.

That, also, would explain the overall silence.

@scottalanmiller said in Azure Announces 22% Price Increase for the UK in January 2017:

@JaredBusch is that a Christmas theme on your Telegram?

In the built in gallery. a little ways down. a star field/nova/milkyway. not sure exactly which. but by space fanatic daughter loved that background. so there we go.

@travisdh1 said in Microsoft, at least they found and fixed the problem themselves this time.:

I mean, even I make sure that GPG is enabled. Guess this could be included in the "Burned by eschewing best practices" thread as well.

Are they DSS compliant? That's one of the big checks according to the STIGS. We even have to make local repos GPG check and encrypted.

@StuartJordan said in Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation:

I would say everyone should raise a glass to Microsoft for this move.

They've been doing such a good job the last year or two. Very impressive.

@thwr said in storvsp.sys - Hyper V question:

@scottalanmiller said in storvsp.sys - Hyper V question:

@thwr said in storvsp.sys - Hyper V question:

But, TBH, do we have such a List for GNU/Linux, BSD or MacOS?

MacOS, no. Proprietary and gone since the 1990s.
Mac OSX, no. Proprietary and not that documented.

my bad

Linux and BSD, yes, because open source is natively documented by definition.

For the most part, yes. Just a little example: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/w1/slaves/w1_therm

Could you tell from just looking at this file how exactly a virtual sysfs w1-therm temperature data file or even the virtual file structure looks like for a DS18XXX sensor? I had to try it the hard way, because there was no such documentation a year ago.

That's just one simple example. I know, I could (and probably should) improve that on my own...

Spoiler:

cat /sys/bus/w1/devices/28*/w1_slave 62 01 ff ff 7f ff ff ff 91 : crc=91 YES 62 01 ff ff 7f ff ff ff 91 t=22125

@JaredBusch Sweet!

@nadnerB said in Windows Phone Apocalypse Has Begun:

@momurda said in Windows Phone Apocalypse Has Begun:

Some of the WP10 updates broke things. There was one that left me unable to use any Hotmail contacts for about 7 weeks. They disappeared after one update, then a bit later came back wouldn't open and I couldn't use them to text/call/email people. Another seemed to lower battery life to less than a day.
Since late summer though there have been no problems I have noticed.

That doesn't instil faith in their abilities.

He's talking about during the beta. I haven't heard of these issue since the RTM of Windows 10 Mobile.

@Dashrender said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@Dashrender said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@Dashrender said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@Dashrender said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@Dashrender said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@Dashrender said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@wrx7m said in Microsoft disbands the band:

I would imagine that it has to do with the fact that nobody wanted to use it and nobody knew it existed. I was like, Microsoft Band?

And that people associated with the dead phone platform. We all just assumed that they had died together or that the Band would be crippled on any current phone platform.

I'm not sure why you say people associated it with a dead phone platform, no one even know MS had phone platform.

They did, enough to think that the Band was part of it. And honestly, wasn't it?

All the literature I saw specifically mentioned about how the band worked with iOS, Android and Windows Phone.

Worked with isn't the same as "did everything the same" on all platforms.

Does anything?

They talked about this in Windows weekly. And Mary Jo Foley (tech writer) said the same thing I did. To her, MS wasnt considering the band linked to Windows Phone.

I don't care if anything else does, nothing else is from Microsoft. That all the features were on a dead useless platform was the concern. I don't care if my Apple Watch only works with iOS because I use iOS. If the Band is for Windows Phone, then it's useless.

But it's not.
I have the band tied to my Nexus 6P. I get everything I had with Windows phone with the possible exception ( which I just haven't tested) of send SMS from the Band via Android.

That's what I was asking.... does the Band with fully or almost fully with other devices? MS did nothing to assuage fears of that, which likely did a ton to cause the product to fail.

Yes it worked nearly feature complete on all three platforms.
MS never really advertised the Band. It's like it was more of an experiment than a real product launch.
They put no real effort into promoting it.

Like the Phone. Just a failed experiment. It never felt like they were serious about it. That's exactly how it felt when I tried one. It was half finished and half assed and they just seemed to give up.

It was probably that way in Windows Phone 7, but Windows 8 and 8.1 (only versions of the newer OS that I used) seemed pretty complete - though I'll admit I never tried to do VPN on it - I know that was a huge sticking point with version 7, not sure if it still was on version 8?

I used it post 7. It was 8 or 8.1 and just like the desktops that they made in that era, it felt like an internal joke. It was pathetic and the features that they raved about were stupid and things you would want turned off. It was really sad.

@Dashrender said

LOL he said made in America.

Yes he did 🙂

@Dashrender said in Unable to connect to RDP:

@JaredBusch said in Unable to connect to RDP:

@Dashrender said in Unable to connect to RDP:

@JaredBusch said in Unable to connect to RDP:

@Dashrender said in Unable to connect to RDP:

Does it work from a computer on the same network at the server?

Looking to see if it's an ZT problem or a Server problem.

Same error over normal IP also once I brought up my IPSEC tunnel

OK but you still haven't tried from another PC on that network - i.e. no VPN.

Does not matter. No one connect on network. Also two differnt IP protocols do not work. Issue is not whatever the hell you are driving at.

two different IP protocols? 😉

/sigh... IP subnets.

@BBigford said in Raspberry Pi Ships 10,000,000th Unit:

That's awesome. One of my favorite cases is still the Ninja Coupe. Only as much case as needed. Super low profile and very slick looking.

0_1474042634615_ninja.png

Nice, I like that.

While a good idea, they should...

Stop blocking the existing functionality for this, because it is there, they just disabled it. Make Skype actually work first.