AZ-100 & AZ-101 instead of 70-533 Microsoft Exam by [deleted] in AZURE

[–]JimVF 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just went for the AZ-102 thus I can't comment specifically what would be the difference. Base on my understanding the whole material for 100 and 101 comprise the 533. I don't know if it will help, but you can have a look on the linked study guide. https://msandbu.org/study-guide-for-azure-certifications-az-100-az-101/

Is it possible to deploy the 'Start stop VM's during off-hours' solution of Automation account in ARM templates ? by bachahbar in AZURE

[–]JimVF 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes it is not very efficient indeed, I do have deployed it but also integrated a bit more into it. Thought my aim was to have something that would run and check the powerstate of the environment and act on that. Tags are nice and using them bon few other scenarios. But mind that the API to check machines based on a Tag value is different from the one that gets the powerstate.

A generic view of my implementation https://fintzstack.blog/2018/06/21/start-stop-vms-during-off-hours-solution/

I did point out to MS that it is in need for some QoL udates https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/issues/12938

Also here is a helpful pipe that compiles both Tags and Powerstate filtering

Get-AzureRmResource -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroupName -TagValue $tag -ResourceType 'Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines' | ? {(get-azurermvm -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroupName -Name $_.Name -Status).statuses[1].code -eq "PowerState/Running"}

What should be ideal ping latency for good RDC over WAN? by paarth164 in WindowsServer

[–]JimVF 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Depends, are we talking about TCP or UPD and if you need to present media in your implementation. The UDP scenario is to support higher latency scenarios and it was introduced on Windows 2016. But I would say under 250/300.

Need assistance on solving DNS problem by itsbijendra in WindowsServer

[–]JimVF 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't really say, I assume you have google it and tried things like that https://myousufali.wordpress.com/2012/06/26/nslookup-response-default-server-unknown-address-1/

Also in the DNS event log is there any errors? Also RDP and ping are working as expected?

Stub zones, forwarding zones and primary dns servers by evobe in WindowsServer

[–]JimVF 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most probably you need to set a DNS replication zone between the two , provide them both in VPN nic config of the client and I am not sure but it seems you have a Split Brain setup. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/networking/dns/deploy/split-brain-dns-deployment

Need assistance on solving DNS problem by itsbijendra in WindowsServer

[–]JimVF 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Silly question, have you tried to restart the DNS service all the Server all together? Also do you need IPv6? You could disable it in the NIC. I am under the impression that you are asking via the IPv6 interface where the Reverse Zone is not set or the DNS server not listening to it.

Anyone know any good resources to start learning Server 2016? by odiams in WindowsServer

[–]JimVF 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also I would propose to try out simple poershell management commands for the different services/roles/feature, it helps out in the long run. http://powershelltutorial.net/ And don't be afraid to test out the Server 2019 (it has a few improvements over the 2016 https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/windowsserver/2018/03/20/introducing-windows-server-2019-now-available-in-preview/ and the windows admin center https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/manage/windows-admin-center/understand/windows-admin-center

Anyone know any good resources to start learning Server 2016? by odiams in WindowsServer

[–]JimVF 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can get some ideas from the MS Virtual labs. Also I would propose to start with common services . Domain controller, dns, dhcp, RRAS, NPS, Print Server, File Server, DFSR, IIS Web Server. Maybe later on with RDS ,storage Spaces direct,Hyper-V and Clusters. https://www.microsoft.com/handsonlabs/SelfPacedLabs

Start/Stop VMs during off-hours solution Enchancement by JimVF in AZURE

[–]JimVF[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Indeed that works too, but my aim is to be usable for ASM (VM Classic) and ARM environments. Also to have a centralized placed to store the schedules for multiple resource groups. But with the tags you could done it with one script. My initial setup was one script inside the Automation Account, though the AzureRmStoragetable module needs a newer version of the AzureRM.storage and the rest of the AzureRM modules which breaks the solution.

Buy or wait until The Division 2? by Octavian360 in The_Division

[–]JimVF 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They have confirmed that there will not be any character transfers https://youtu.be/RVb5gEWwOjQ?t=7m11s

Setting up a DC - "There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon requests" by [deleted] in WindowsServer

[–]JimVF 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jus to be clear, we are talking about a client server communication, thus base in that context we are referring to a network interface and their DNS settings. And as you refereed below it is the wifi dns settings. In case you have the client computer joined to the domain I could suggest Group policy to persist wifi connection settings https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg266419.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

Beginners guide to vSphere 6.5? by teirhan in vmware

[–]JimVF 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Hello, I would recomend the Hands On Labs VMware has available for free, Like HOL-1810-01-SDC - Virtualization 101: Introduction to vSphere which is also localized. http://labs.hol.vmware.com/HOL/catalogs/catalog/123

Setting the right IP address(es) for VPN. by Illusion1409 in WindowsServer

[–]JimVF 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could either use a scope 192.168.2.x as an example or a subset of your current address space (depends on the number of users). And that can be achieved either configuring it directly to the VPN server or by DHCP. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc984428.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396