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So is there a reason for the 2 IP addresses on the windows 7 machine? an easier approach would be to have a second NIC that you use as your "internet" connection for the VM machines, this would be added on your RRAS server and act as the internet gateway. Adding your ISP's DNS servers to your DNS forwarders list in DNS will get you get out to the internet. In your DHCP scope you can add the RRAS servers IP (internal scope for your VM's) as the DHCP gateway.

what OS is running on the endpoints? for XP run gpupdate /r then gpresult on the endpoint for windows 7 or 8, from an elevated command line run gpupdate /r then a gpresult you should see your group policy listed in the resulting list of group policies applied to the machine. If not run a group policy modeling wizard from the GPMC console on one the machines that should be getting the policy. at that point you may have to turn on verbose logging on the machine for GPO if it applying but reciving the settings.

take a look at this tool :\Windows\System32\spool\tools>PrintBrm.exe /? PrintBrm -B|R|Q [-S <server>] -F <file> [-D <directory>] [-O FORCE] [-P ALL|ORIG] [-NOBIN] [-LPR2TCP] [-C <config file>] [-NO ACL] [-?] -B Backup the server to the specified file -R Restore the configuration in the file to the server -Q Query the server or the backup file -S <server name> Target server -F <file name> Target backup File -D <directory> Unpack the backup file to (with -R) or repack a backup file from (with -B) the given directory

powershell has an cmdlet packet for bits http://blogs.msdn.com/wmi/archive/2009/01/23/introducing-bits-powershell-cmdlets.aspx lets you spool up a job, pause, stop etc.

you would be able to get mail at that address yes, you would need to be able to set up MX records with hostgator to point to your Exchange server on your Domain

when you create a image through MDT, it also creates a lite touch PE to boot the PC with, are you using this PE to boot machines? this contains the client parts needed to find the MDT share to launch the WIM install with windows 7 on it.

Nice catch Gosh, i have used their demo software before and it is fantastic!

is this your only DNS server? could you verify that at least one DC is a global Catalog?

follow the same steps you did for standard but for the Enterprise build as well, opening a Image for a specific build (std, ent, web etc) only opens that image. new files added are only given flags to be deployed with the image they were saved into. if you re-add the same files to the enterprise build, the pointers will be added to the exist files saving space.

wouldn't it be easier to do network load balancing across the 2 servers?

unfortunately the menu bar doesn't have the flexability to do that.

each user in this casse would need to 2 CAL's 1. the normal user CAL that allows connections to servers (Ad logon, httpp etc) 2. the RDP CAL to connect to the terminal server and use the application from there.

unforunately it will be up to ubisoft to update their drivers in a patch. since the game was from 05 you might be out of luck

What service pack are running on the vista computers? have you seen any errors in the logs trying to connect to the drive?

the ::1 specifies localHost from a IPV6 adressing point, the local host file handles IPv4 and 6