@art_of_shred said:

Thanks for the help, especially Chad. I doesn't seem very intuitive that you can take a brand new device out of the box, install it, connect it to the (very basic) network, download the controller, see that the controller sees it on the network, see the solid LED display on the device that says it's working properly on the network, and then be required to reset it to factory settings to get it to automatically work perfectly. What about the settings was not "factory" when I took it out of the box 5 minutes ago???

Likely a returned unit.. Maybe a QC unit that didn't get reset after testing.

ROFL! LOVE IT!

That's pretty major! I would definitely worry a bit about Vultr for production at this point. We are using it in this one instance for something internal that has a good amount of ability to go offline for a while without it being an issue. Vultr is saving us a fortune in this instance.

Amazon and Azure are really the big players now for production stuff. Rackspace is there but their quality is definitely lagging. We still use them (for ML for example) but are using them less and less. I've run into almost non-stop issues with using them for anything of scale. Their support is just so poor.

Why are you looking to host Exchange in this day and age?

@dafyre said:

If you haven't, make a specific AD account for the TFS server and let it run under that account and see what happens?

That's the plan, well not a specific one. we have a service account and it should have been setup that way but it was not, now I have to deal with the issues. It will have to wait til tonight when no DevOPs are doing anything to check it.

@PSX_Defector I have narrowed it down to the Persistent Reservations. This is a Nimble Storage system, and I believe that can be en/disabled per lun. AFAIK, this will be the only Windows Cluster accessing the Nimble systems in a Failover Cluster, so they probably don't have it enabled.

And yes, everything is in the same DC. Most likely in the same rack, lol... and no, not doing anything fun with iSCSI over the WAN.... although that does give me an idea, for new things to try on my own servers, lol.

OK more digging this morning and I found this.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/cbowen/archive/2015/05/12/internet-explorer-9-pinned-site-shortcuts-vs-internet-shortcuts.aspx

Basically starting with IE 9, MS introduced Pinned websites vs Internet Shortcuts.

To create the classic internet shortcut, hold down the shift key while dragging the icon to the left of the URL out of IE to the desktop when creating a shortcut.

So yeah I ran the Disk Cleanup tool on some of them. We have approx 14 servers with less than 10GB left on the C Drive (which is only the windows install, nothing else all 40GB).

Anyway the tool sometimes caused them to have less disk space free after it ran. for example an application server went from having 1.8GB free to having 215mb free after running disk cleanup and the superseded cleanup stated here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/joscon/archive/2011/02/15/how-to-reclaim-space-after-applying-service-pack-1.aspx

Haven't had any startup issues using them in Linux VMs.

The APs pull their firmware from the controller. So they either get downgraded or upgraded based on the controller version.

Have you seen the new price increase on LMI? We've been told it is more than doubling with the next re-up. Ours was going to jump from $1500 to $3700!! All while going from rock solid to unable to stay connected.

That is a nice idea and implementation

How about temporarily opening it when you need to run updates?

So the service is nothing but the GUI, as expected. 🙂 Thanks for verifying. Nice to know for sure I'm not crazy from time to time.

I deal with enough servers at work these days, I don't care to have any at home.

@scottalanmiller said:

"Have you tried turning it off and back on again?" 😉 Tee hee.

Ha, beat you to that one 😛

@thecreativeone91 said:

@Minion-Queen said:

Office 365 does provide downgrade rights.

I haven't seen how you actually use it though.

As long as the rights exist, I am pretty sure that you just get the installation media from another source (VL, for example) and install that way and either sign into O365 or track the licenses manually. They provide the rights but don't make it easy or encourage it.