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Re: How to: Enabling MFA for Active Directory Domain Admins with Passwordless Authentication
Microsoft will literally do anything except give us a simple universal TOTP method (or using the Authenticator app) for on-prem second-factor authentication. I just don't understand this. Passwordless is controversial. I know Microsoft prefers it, and there is data to support it being better than passwords. But it is not the industry standard. Password + TOTP is the standard. Why we can have this in Azure but not on-prem is the biggest mystery of all.Re: Outlook Navigation Bar Move back to bottom
That's because they plan to replace the desktop Outlook entirely with the web version running as an embedded Chromium app (like Teams or Slack). Give feedback on that as well because it's a terrible RAM-slaughtering idea that will remove 75% of the functionality of Outlook.Re: How to change Virtual Hard Disk Path when creating new VM in Windows Admin Center
That's extremely cumbersome, especially on a S2D cluster. WAC makes everything more complicated while being slower than MMC. It's truly an amazing feat of overengineering to the point of being useless to the end user.DPM 2022 - Restore Test Strategy
I was disappointed to see DPM 2022 still does not include "boot from backup storage" features that are a staple amongst competitor products, like Veeam, Datto, Unitrends, etc. Now that DPM 2022 has iSCSI mount point management for item-level replication, I'm surprised this wasn't added. To me, more important than providing instant recovery of a VM (albeit in a reduced performance capacity), the biggest benefit of this feature is it allows instant backup verification of VMs. These products will boot the VM in a sandbox, verify it's running and even run custom test scripts. Then it just tosses out the test VM and reports the results. Nothing beats a manual complete restore test, but this is a great daily check that goes above and beyond a simple consistency check. So other than wishing for this feature, I'm wondering of the community has any strategies to automate daily/weekly restore tests for data integrity between the big annual/semiannual/quarterly restore test that we *ahem* should be doing?Re: How to change Virtual Hard Disk Path when creating new VM in Windows Admin Center
I never figured it out. I just went back to using the Failover Cluster Manager MMC. It's weird how MS completely stopped updating MMCs when their WAC is absolutely not ready for primetime and at the rate of development, it will be another five years before it is.How to change Virtual Hard Disk Path when creating new VM in Windows Admin Center
I have a Windows Server 2019 Storage Spaces Direct cluster. There are multiple S2D volumes. I place different VMs on different volumes for different performance considerations. I'm trying to learn WAC more. I can't figure out how to change the path for the Virtual Hard Disks. When I select a different path in the create VM dialog, it only changes the configuration path. The storage stays the same. See below.
