That's great - thanks for your prompt reply Ronnie.

Regards,
Chris.

@Youssef-Karami,

The list of product keys can be found using your search engine and typing "KMS Keys Appendix A" https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj612867.aspx

These keys will allow you to procede with the installation but it will not activate your OS. So this will not give you free copies of the OS but enough so that you can install and create your own sandbox environs.

If there are not show notes listed...which in this case I don't believe there were any, then the notes were probably not kept. This is one of the early episode in which we did a lot of things just on the fly without consideration of posting show notes with thing like commands used for the show. So those would have be gleaned from watching the show and taking notes. After these early shows, more notes began to appear and now, it's just a standard operating procedure for us to include things like this with our shows. I cannot say that we have notes for this show. I will try to see if there are any notes archived for this. I also just noticed that the transcript for the show didn't appear either. I will ask and see why that hasn't happened. But you may be able to get those notes from the transcription of the episode...if we have a transcript to post!

It depends on the domain functional level. If you installed Windows Server 2012 on your first domain controller, but chose 2003 domain functional level, FRS would be used for backwards compatibility. As long as you chose 2008 or higher domain functional level, DFS will be used for SYSVOL replication, no migration necessary.

@Don-Brubaker
Mike and Ronnie are planning shows now around Word & Excel in Office 2016 that will include objectives for MOS exams while providing assistance for business end users. They are currently planning to record these in early December. These shows will be available for download. Office365 exam objectives are still in our plan for the next 3-6 months. Thanks!

Angie
angie@itpro.tv

@David-Clarke
Course length times should now be correct. Please let us know at support@itpro.tv if you suspect something is wrong. Or you can email me directly. Thanks!

Angie
angie@itpro.tv

@Denis-Hancock,

Thanks, we'll try and post an errata to that particular show as well.

@Jorge-Paez122,

The best place to begin is with the CompTIA A+ certifications. This is the foundational certification for all the other certifications. It is industry recognized. After that the CompTIA Network+. These two validate the fundamental skills you must have to work daily in the industry. From that point you can venture toward vendor specializations (e.g. Cisco, Microsoft, etc.) or area specialization (e.g. Systems Admin, Network Admins, Security, etc.) All these specializations though build upon the solid foundation of understanding: Computer Hardware, Operating Systems, Networking and Supporting Users. This is what the CompTIA A+ and Network+ training will validate.

Cordially,
Ronnie Wong
Edutainer, ITProTV

There are several PowerShell storage cmdlets that you can use to retrieve information about drives and StoragePools. Here is a link to the Technet reference: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh848705(v=wps.630).aspx

A few in particular would be Get-PhysicalDisk, Get-ResiliencySetting, and Get-StoragePool. Most of these cmdlets will return more information when piped into a format-list cmdlet.

Hello Mr. Wong, thank you very much for response. There is now only one 70-410 exam show. Is that complete or still incomplete version? Did you please forward my previous message regarding problems of non-matching content of your shows with the exam objectives? Thanks.

@Angie Much appreciated for the quick response Angie. I'll probably keep digging through my books for now as I hope to attain this before the next 6 months. I shall keep my eyes peeled for the courses though. Thanks!

@David-Beem That's awesome! I am bookmarking the crap out of that. :) Thanks so much!

@Ralph-Dejesus,

Does VHD (X) type and size determine at all how large a checkpoint is?

Not necessarily. The VHD when you shutdown the machine you save the changes. If you make a checkpoint, the size is normally just the difference between the last time you saved vs when you just created the checkpoint. If you make a checkpoint while the VM is running, normally this will make your checkpoint size larger than if you shutdown the VM first because it has to save whats in RAM and paging file too.

Cordially,
Ronnie Wong
Edutainer, ITProTV

Everyone,

We're in a little backlog of these shows being posted. We should start seeing them soon (I'm assuming within this week start seeing some of the shows). We're not completely done yet. There are a handful of episodes but the majority of it is in the can. So hopefully soon!

Cordially,
Ronnie Wong
Edutainer, ITProTV

Christopher is correct. Typically, you will have to pick the right command from a list of choices. Knowing the correct cmdlet to use, like New-ADUser, not New-User, is a big part. Then, being familiar with some of the commonly used parameters is helpful. They don't expect you to memorize all possible cmdlets and parameters, thankfully :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

No definitive answer Art, but I would think of it more as an 'unknown' like they aren't sure of what it can do or how it could be misused, only that the potential exists. Chance are it's probably low, but I would operate as if it were Critical just to be safe.

Personally I would make it a point to patch everything except low within 30-60 days max (depending on security requirements at your company)

Here's MS's official document on the classification system, if you hadn't already reviewed it:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/gg309177.aspx

The answer in that case lies in the images being created beforehand. As long as they're having to manually roll those settings out, if they don't have a script they can run people are going to defer to simply shutting them off for expediency.

There's always a ton of talk about security and compliance, but when the rubber hits the road, no one wants to spend the necessary time to get to that point. That's at least true here in the states (and my personal experience)

So, three choices:

A netsh script solution to configure the Windows FW as you like A powershell script solution to configure the Windows FW as you like WDS Server and images with preconfigured firewalls for your company's needs. (This last option may be somewhat overbearing if you don't roll out a lot of machines but honestly I'd rather do it and be prepared for large growth)

To OP:

What do you not understand about the Windows FW that you'd like to know? To answer the only question I see posed, as far as I've been able to determine it will not block outbound on most common ports by default and it will allow response traffic for that session to get through. We aren't technically requiring it in our environment, yeah? I have been leaving it configured as it was going to be an upcoming requirement and so far I haven't had to create or modify the outbound rules for anyone's applications, only allow inbound.

To Daniel:
Sad they would do it over ping, but you'd think they'd at least just disable 'Domain' firewall rather than switching the whole thing off. Been there though.

@Shawn-Russell,

If you're already running a linux box as a host. I would instead but Oracle's Virtual Box on your system. It's a type 2 hypervisor but it work like a charm and doesn't require you to switchover completely. But it does have limitations such as working with hyper-v.

Either is a good choice...you should be able to run your linux machines in hyper-v as well. I just think about what I want to be my daily use machine!

Cordially,
Ronnie Wong
Edutainer, ITProTV

@Russell-Azari,

I will add the request to official request list but see the above post where I post about our hesitancy in producing the MCSA for Windows 7, Desktop Administrator. As with all production at ITProTV, it's about the demand, so the higher the demand the more likely it will get scheduled! :)

Cordially,
Ronnie Wong
Edutainer, ITProTV

@Matthias-Keller,

Are you devices already connected to receive email from Office365?

If so that's fine because it means you should be able to get access to email, calendar and contact info as well from mobile devices.

You will need to test this out before deploying the solution:

Delete the account Create a new account using the ExchangeActiveSync. Do a manual configuration (not automatic) Specifie your user info in the fields:
~~ username = email address (e.g. ronnie@itpro.tv) ~~
~~ servername = m.outlook.com ~~

Hopefully, the device should configure the rest and in a few minutes be able to see your email, contacts and calendar.

Cordially,
Ronnie Wong
Host, ITProTV

Good to know.

In regards to selecting products... are there any not-so-obvious ones that I should select? "Windows 7" for example is a pretty obvious one I'd want to select. However, are any of the WIndows 7 derivatives such as language packs, dynamic updates, etc. worth installing? There's not a lot of info out there that I could find on which updates do what.

Also, about the network share... During the initial install for WSUS, it asks where to store the WID database. It states in the dialogue box that a network UNC path can be entered. If WSUS updates can't be placed on a network share... what is this functionality used for?