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    Cloning a Windows 10 Drive, why doesn't it work!!!???

    In this case that wouldn't have worked because the new drive is smaller than the old one. dd will work if both drives are either the same size or the destination is larger than the original.
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    Cloning a Windows 10 Drive, why doesn't it work!!!???

    Actually it is very likely that the source drive was a GPT formatted drive. The partition structure looks correct for a UEFI-based Windows install which typically use GPT boot volumes. My guess is the UEFI system partition is not setup correctly on the new drive and it can't find the Windows...
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    Windows 7 Upgrading to Windows 10 Questions

    Retail licenses that are upgraded to Windows 10 keep their retail status including that ability to later transfer that license to another computer and don't become OEM licenses as explained here and here Prior to the latest update, you would have had to first install your retail copy of Windows...
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    Weird pinning of drive in Win 10 File explorer.

    Are you sure drive W: is not an external drive (or marked a removable?) By default Windows 10 will show external/removable drives separately below "This PC" as well as under "This PC" just like you are seeing. I am not aware of any way to change this behavior but I have found it quite handy...
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    Windows 10: netsh congestion broken

    Are you sure the VM is not already using CTCP? Starting with Windows 8, many connection settings are done per connection instead of globally and you configure them via Powershell. I just checked 2 of my Windows 10 machines and they are both using CTCP for most connections by default. To...
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    STP/LCAP to switch connections??

    Windows Server fully supports NIC teaming that can be configured for failover and for load balancing and it works quite well. The teaming feature is included in all current versions of Windows Server but not in client versions of Windows. Look at...
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    Finally upgrading to Win10, several questions... about several systems...

    The behavior you describe would only occur if you are installing the OS in MBR/legacy mode. In MBR systems, some motherboards will only check the first hard disk for a boot sector and will ignore any other drives. Windows works around that problem by ensuring that the boot sector is always...
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    School me: Moving from Acronis to MDT

    If you want to use your existing images, couldn't you just restore the Acronis image to a PC, run sysprep, and then boot into WinPE and capture it to a WIM image using DISM? I have migrated several images created with Altiris Deployment Solution to WIM images using this technique and never had...
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    AD security groups not updating

    Being able to move computer objects from one OU to another OU doesn't have anything to do with group policy at all so I am not sure why you are running gpupdate and gpresult. Did you grant the appropriate permissions to the xxxadamin group on the source and destination OUs? Have you checked...
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    WMI error twice.

    I believe 0x80041003 translates to "The current user does not have permission to perform the action" which would mean that something was trying to run the referenced WMI query under an account that didn't have permission to access that WMI namespace or object. However, this query would have...
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    Windows 10 and antivirus? Defender good enough?

    No, safe mode wasn't removed in Windows 10. In fact the way you access safe mode in Windows 10 is identical to the way it is accessed on systems running Windows 8 and 8.1. There are several ways to do it but one of the easiest is to boot the system normally and then hold down shift when...
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    Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard 5CALs

    In most cases (with a few exceptions such as RDS), CAL licenses are not enforced by any technical means. A server with only 5 CALs will happily serve as many clients as it's hardware will handle without complaining at all. Doing so is a licensing violation of course, so in your case you will...
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    Windows 10 steals a partition and won't let go

    It has been highly recommended to have a separate system partition for the bootloader and bitlocker support since Windows Vista. Usually a bootable small installation of Windows PE also lives in that installation to provide a recovery environment for things like startup repair (and can be used...
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    Win 10 updates- trying to update nonexistent device

    Did you ever actually uninstall/remove the card from Device Manager? I do think most of the driver uninstallers do this because they are typically used by those wanting to do a clean install of a new driver - not replace a card. Open Device Manager and select View->Show hidden devices. Then...
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    Making The Jump To Windows 10

    Exactly! I really don't understand why so many people are upset about the EULA for Windows 10. It really isn't much different than the EULA that was included with Windows 8 and 8.1. The part about being able to access files is directly related to the OneDrive integration. The EULAs for...
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