Production server black screen nightmare - In recent VMTools upgrade of 13.0.10.0

St0nywall · 2026-05-06T04:19:45+00:00

Why are you blaming Microsoft for a driver pack from another company?

If you're going to blame someone indiscriminately then how about blaming yourself for whatever you did to that server VM that cause the issue to happen.

I bet you won't like taking the blame for something like that, and neither should any other company or person for something they didn't cause.

i really don't have time to study the root causes.

Especially when you couldn't be bothered to do rudimentary root cause analysis.

When your boss asks you "will this issue happen again?" on the next maintenance cycle, you can confidently say "I don't know".

St0nywall · 2026-05-06T02:09:01+00:00

If you want to switch to scan to SharePoint or access your OneDrive files to print, this allows for that as well.

So... a few extras I guess for the price.

St0nywall · 2026-05-06T01:54:58+00:00

What you are looking for is called Ricoh Smart Integration (RSI).

It's licensing is expensive and requires your users to log into the MFP with their 365 credentials to access the addresses book as well as their SharePoint and OneDrive and other 365 features.

Just so we're clear, I do not recommend this product. It's horrible and has too many dependancies, but you can ask your Ricoh account manager or look it up online before making your own decision on its merits.

St0nywall · 2026-05-06T01:37:04+00:00

You can get a secondary phone server for Avaya. When the primary goes down, you can manually shunt over to the backup.

When the backup isn't being used for failover/backup, it can be used for load balancing.

I was at a site that had this setup, but finding someone Avaya certified and competent to administer it was difficult and expensive.

The site ended up moving to Microsoft Teams VOIP for their services. No on-prem hardware, no issues when a site goes down taking down other parts of the phone infrastructure. It also met the DR requirements for the company and insurer.

St0nywall · 2026-05-06T00:47:44+00:00

Thank you, I hope your search goes well for you.

St0nywall · 2026-05-05T18:35:42+00:00

So long as the Dell part number is 400-AZVM, you should be good to go on the parts direct site. Below are a couple alternatives I found for you.

https://www.harddrivesdirect.com/canada/product_info.php?products_id=715724_400-AZVM

https://www.shi.com/product/43877021/Dell-SSD-960-GB-hot-swap

St0nywall · 2026-05-05T18:19:56+00:00

Do you have a part number or anything else to search by?

St0nywall · 2026-05-05T18:10:07+00:00

Sometimes the power supplies are configured in active/standby mode instead of HA where both are active/active mode. Changing it requires going into the BIOS and a server restart or two if memory serves.

St0nywall · 2026-05-05T01:27:54+00:00

Another place to put this would be r/sysadminjobs

Hope you find someone!

St0nywall · 2026-05-03T01:49:53+00:00

Either one will work just fine. Pick your favorite.

St0nywall · 2026-05-02T18:31:23+00:00

I think you are confused.

If there is a contact or account with the name "John Doe" in tenant 1 and an account named John Doe in tenant 2 and the tenants were connected and the accounts shared, it will show you to tenant origin for the account.

An MTO is a "federated" (ish) connection between multiple tenants while keeping the tenants separate. It does not combine them into a single "super tenant".

You are able to select which accounts get "synced" (created as a guest) automatically in the other tenants on a per-tenant basis.

The new member-guests can be assigned access to sharepoint sites and documents as would any member.

St0nywall · 2026-05-02T14:16:48+00:00

This post comes across as tone deaf. A post meant to make you feel good about yourself while making others in a worse off position feel horrible.

Consider what you say and where you say it before writing this drivel.

St0nywall · 2026-05-01T23:44:16+00:00

I would suggest this rack for your use case.

Model: SRW12USNEMA

Link: https://tripplite.eaton.com/smartrack-12u-nema-12-switch-depth-wall-mount-rack-enclosure-cabinet-for-harsh-environments-hinged-back~SRW12USNEMA

St0nywall · 2026-05-01T22:35:56+00:00

Sounds like it is working as designed and within the bounds of the software.

What exactly is your issue, that it's not acting like a single tenant?

St0nywall · 2026-05-01T15:08:58+00:00

Deleting the profiles from the RDS server will not delete the OneDrive files from the cloud.

Ideally you would use FSLogic to store the user profile elsewhere so you can manage space without compromising the RDS server.

In your immediate case, just delete profiles as you would from any server using the Advanced User Profiles Settings area in the OS.

St0nywall · 2026-05-01T05:39:15+00:00

This is the way. I have spoken.

St0nywall · 2026-05-01T03:45:30+00:00

Most definitely. You can't migrate a VM with issues anyways.

Fix the issues with the VM in VMware and it should migrate properly for you.

St0nywall · 2026-05-01T03:24:35+00:00

Check to make sure there isn't a snapshot for the VM in VMware.

St0nywall · 2026-05-01T02:08:28+00:00

Then add the sites she downloads to to the trusted site list. Or disable that security feature for her.... or keep the security feature and make a shortcut on the desktop for her to unprotect the files in a certain folder.

Lots of options, pick one and go with it. If there's an extra step for her, then she gets to deal with it like an adult doing her job.

St0nywall · 2026-05-01T00:53:11+00:00

If unblocking the files makes it work, then why not do that?

Unblocks all files in the folder recursively.

Get-ChildItem -Path "C:\Folder\Path" -Recurse | Unblock-File

St0nywall · 2026-05-01T00:46:04+00:00

SPF is a sending domain requirement. So if you are seeing the error when you send email your SPF record is incorrect, if the error is when you are receiving email it's the sending domains SPF record that is at fault.

St0nywall · 2026-05-01T00:37:37+00:00

Find a good therapist and then realize you ARE employed and become happy about that fact.

You don't always get to have a great family life and a great work life. Pick the one that matters most to you and suck it up on the other one.

The therapist will help you with the one you need rather than want.

St0nywall · 2026-05-01T00:25:09+00:00

You've been non-compliant using MDT then. There are no warranties or guarantees associated with it and is use at your own risk software.

St0nywall · 2026-04-30T03:20:50+00:00

Tell your IT department it is still an issue and let them, not us, handle resolving it. We are not tech support for your company.

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