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Reset the machine account password with netdom. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/260575 That'll fix it 99% of the time. Assuming the computer object still exists.

I wish I had kept track the number of times I heard people complain about "Vista eating all my memory" because of the "free" counter showing zero...

Interesting that you're seeing the highlight, but it's a default behavior (sort of). For example, without seeing the highlight, whatever tile is in that first position will execute if you hit enter. I keep my "desktop" tile there, so if I hit start I can just hit enter and go back to the...

Yeah, sounds to me like it isn't done exporting, yet. If you want to do them all at once, or let the export run in the background, try adding the -AsJob switch.

I agree, but it's always nice to have hard data to show the customer/client to justify upgrading.

Check this out: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2589410/en-us I've seen this before, but it ended up being related to the customer disabling opportunistic locking on their NAS device. I would say that you definitely have a bottleneck in the disks, though. I can't imagine those two disks...

That sound suspiciously like malware or a bad piece of software. The fact that it's happening on DCs and workstations would have me seriously concerned. Also, prevent lingering objects by enabling strict replication...

Real enterprises don't permit end users to have admin access. If they do, they have ridiculous white listing and intrusion detection systems on every endpoint (which are arguably effective if you've already got admin rights). The cost of an intrusion will be much, much higher than the cost of...

Will work - yes. But will not be supported if it breaks or you have problems making it work. Not supported and won't work are two different statements :)

AD is not supported over NAT. You need fully routable, non-NATted networks. Yes, you might get it to work... If you call support, you'll get very limited support before you're asked to try it without NAT and see if that works. You're better off building a site-to-site VPN tunnel...

You know that all of the stuff you mentioned has nothing to do with the OS and has everything to do with the vendor not writing a Win8.1 specific driver, right? Drivers tend to be OS version specific...

I've been using Storage Pools since 2012 was in beta and have had zero issues. That includes multiple OS reinstalls.

Awesome, glad to hear it worked. I'd check to see if the ScheduledDefrag task under Task Scheduler->Microsoft->Windows->Defrag is running properly. That should be taking care of the defrag periodically.

Just some shots in the dark: Is it a thin provisioned space? Thin provisioned spaces support UNMAP/TRIM and I think that is handled by the defrag service. If defrag isn't running, you probably won't see it TRIM until something calls the function (like adding another space)...

lol, I'll see what I can do, though I'm just a lowly field engineer. Hopefully this type of thing is the strategy going forward. As far as testing, this isn't official guidance or anything, but in my experience I would roll it out to a set of IT users, from there have "test" groups setup in...

The update is more geared toward enterprise customers as it addresses a bunch of stuff most home users probably won't run in to. Check out the hotfixes in the KB (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2775511/en-us) . We just put it on the blog to get the word out since most of our readers are...

Yeah, they do include hotfixes. One of my customers forgetting to install SP1 on their new DCs so they constantly run in to this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977158 But it's included with SP1. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=269 Bottom link on that page lists...

More here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2013/03/12/slow-boot-slow-login-sbsl-hotfix-rollup-for-windows-7-and-server-2008-r2-available-today.aspx Many of the fixes address slow boot/slow logon issues.

Most people I know never encounter a single bug, yet you've managed to hit seemingly hundreds on just a 16 server rollout.

It works full screen, it works in Hyper-V, and I'm pretty sure it works in VMware. But thanks for being condescending.

Windows-C.

WID has a limit of 524GB - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh852344.aspx That said, I made the same mistake in my original deployment with the drivers. It filled a 100GB disk pretty quickly, but WSUS itself still ran OK.

I'm sure you went through TechNet docs to ensure you were configuring it properly and then opened a support case when you were sure to try to address all of these "bugs?"

This is exactly how I've setup my HTPC. Mostly... My HTPC is running Windows 8 (iSCSI Initiator is out of the box) and media server is running Server 2012 with an iSCSI target configured. I mount the 2TB drive and store all of my recorded TV there. You could make the iSCSI initiator work...

Which features? I'm running lots of 2012 servers in my lab at home without any problems. As for WSUS, I usually find the problems are in the GPO. GPResult /h will give you some pretty good output so you can verify that the policy is applying properly and that the settings are correct.

Event 4768 is a normal event. It indicates Kerberos AS request for a ticket granting ticket (TGT). You should also see 4769 for Kerberos TGS requests. How large is the environment? Seven a second may be normal depending on the number of DCs and the number of users and computers.

For the extensions, you could do something like this. $Extensions = ".bat",".exe",".gif",".jpg" #etc Get-Childitem -Recurse | where { $_.PSIsContainer -eq $false -and -$_.LastWriteTime -lt (Get-Date).AddMonths(-2) -and $Extensions.Contains($_.Extension) -eq $true } You could break...

Try this: Get-Childitem -Recurse | Where { $_.PSISContainer -eq $false -and $_.LastWriteTime -lt (Get-Date).AddMonths(-2) }

My Surface hasn't arrived, yet, but whenever it does I can give it a try.

I agree with everything HalfJaw said. I'm running 25 VMs across 5x1TB WD Blacks in a storage pool... 4 of the 5 of SATA 6GB connected. I only have issues when starting them all at one time. I'm also running 64GB of PC1600.

Update your touchpad driver. This functionality is implemented there. If you have a Synaptics device and get the Win8 version of the driver, you get all sorts of touch functionality. For example, I can swipe from the right to open the charms menu, swipe from the left to "alt-tab" and more...

It will automatically find it. You will need to "online" the disks and set the virtual disks to read/write (they default to read only), but it will work. I did a clean install from 2012 RC -> RTM with no issues.

I have a relatively vanilla HTPC - Win8 Pro w/ Ceton tuner. I have a single SSD for the OS and I use an iSCSI target on my 2012 box to store all of the recorded TV (connected via gigabit Ethernet). I find the modern UI is pretty good for a 10 foot interface. It's been perfectly stable since RTM...

Yes. I haven't used it on RTM, but it worked fine on CP and RP.

You can set preferred bridgeheads, but it's not a best practice. It's prone to error and can cause other issues (ie, you have two domains in a site but only set preferred BHs from one of the domains). My best advice is to let the KCC and ISTG do their thing unless you've got a really good...

I've been using Storage Spaces on my 2012 box for a while. I have 5 1TB WD Black drives in a single pool (I use an SSD for OS). In that pool, I'm running four virtual disks. One is for VM storage (1.5TB). Currently I'm running 25 VMs (AD, Exchange, Client, ADRMS, ADFS, ADCS, etc) on that VHD. I...

MCSA/MCSE are back in 2012. I would just skip 2008 and go right to 2012. I just finished my MCSA 2012 upgrade last week. I've got one test to take in the next week or two for the MCSE on 2012. Here's what I recommend: Build a lab. Nothing is better than real, hands on experience. I didn't...

You can add lots of drives using mount points. Lettered drives are limited, but you can create a G: drive, for example, then subfolders underneath that. After, add mount points that point each folder to a disk. You do that in Disk Manager (diskmgmt.msc)...

I picked up an ArcTouch mouse and Arc keyboard for my HTPC. It works great. Something like Smart Glass or the Xbox companion would rock, though. Ceton's got their companion, but I'm not sure how it works as it's not out for Win8, yet.

Laptop, desktop, and HTPC have all been upgraded. But I'm biased. And Win8 is awesome on a large TV.