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Done.

Just to confirm, if you run resmon.exe and click on the memory tab, does it say the "missing" ram is Hardware Reserved?

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MDT has no concept of editions, and will work with all (you can even use it with embedded versions). As long as it can be bootstrapped from WinPE, you can use MDT to install it.

You could do this, sure - please note Microsoft recommends in fact that you put the paging file on the SSD because in general it uses small reads (4:1 or more ratio of reads to writes to pagefile.sys on a typical machine) and large sequential writes - precisely what an SSD was designed for. Read for yourself: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/05/05/support-and-q-a-for-solid-state-drives-and.aspx

Are you preinstalling things into the WIM that you could perhaps install afterwards? If you're simply re-updating it because you need to update patch levels or constantly-changing apps, it would be better to script those post-install. Microsoft actually makes a tool to do just this in MDT 2010.

I'm not familiar with that device, so someone else who is would have to tell you specifics. However, if you're talking generalities, you'd have to open ports for whatever mail protocols you used, and if the firewall can configure ports based on source IP, you'd base those open ports on the source IP of the end network's public IP addresses, for example. As to specifics, again, I can't give that as I haven't used that router before (I've not heard of it before this, in fact). I did some quick research on it and it looks pretty spartan, so this may not be possible, but you could always ask the vendor (Draytek) if they know how to do such a thing.

I'll make it easy for you: Note that newer Windows operating systems like Windows 7 make this easier for you to see - for example, on a Win7 system you can simply run "resmon.exe" and it will show you where the additional RAM was allocated (hint - it's almost always allocated/reserved by the BIOS, and as such Windows never "sees" it as available for use, so it can't use it).

That could be true, as hyper-v server 2008 core is specifically tailored for running hyper-v only, and not for running other things.

See this to see if it helps any.

I wrote this awhile ago, and might work better depending on your needs.

You would need to enable the guest account on the server, and explicitly provide guest account access to shares and folders (NTFS permissions will still apply, and "guest" is not a part of the "Everyone" group!).

It might be better to configure routing rules on your fw to allow certain traffic to your mail servers from certain IPs (external), so that if the internal VPN link goes down, those clients can still get to and use your mail services using the same name (but hitting public IPs). This is called a split DNS, and I've used this extensively in many environments. If you're a Microsoft shop, using something like ISA or TMG firewalls makes this easier, but it can be done with any product if you know the ports in and out you want to allow, and to which IP address ranges.

And that would be one thing I don't know how to do... I can force it to write to that folder by deleting the log files that are there and then opening and running the programs that whatever it is creates log files for and they will show up. That part is no problem, I'm lost on the rest of it though... That is exactly what you should do then, all while running procmon. Then save, compress, and upload the .pml file (don't even bother to filter this time) and we'll have a look.

This functionality, out of the box, does not exist on Vista or win7. Your only real options without 3rd party software are the sidebar gadgets on a stock install. Otherwise, you would need additional software if it exists.

If it works directly at your forwarders, but not at yours, it is time for clearing your server's cache and using the logging tab to get at the root of the issue.

Assuming data is still being written into it, save all events to a native pml file, zip or rar it up, and upload it somewhere if possible.

So, to whom are you forwarding requests? Do you get the same results in nslookup when using those DNS servers via nslookup as well?

Actually, did you install just the ATI driver manually, or did you install the ATI driver using the installer? If so, a lot of the ATI components *are* .net components, including the control panel. That might explain why the ATI driver is "causing" the crash...

A Process Monitor running with a filter on that file path is probably the best way to find it.

Is your DNS server configured to use forwarders, or just root hints? If it just uses root hints, what happens if you configure all domains other than internal to use forwarders (and point them at a service like opendns as the forwarding servers)? It's either poisoning (if you're just using hints) or a problem with the upstream servers you're using for forwarding.

Never had any issues with it - do you have any .net-based apps installed (that may start at logon or startup, especially)? I've installed (and used) .net4 on XP SP3 systems for a while now with no issues, so this could perhaps be an app issue.

You might want to consider breaking those out into their own svchost.exe - attaching to a shared svchost can be a bad thing.

The error, given how the NAS is working, does make sense. Remember, error codes are also return codes, and this one fits. If I had a debugger and a NAS I could prove it, but experience says this is where you end up.

Make sure you are not installing the VMware tools into your reference image.