Question re: DNS configuration on 2012 R2 Essentials Server BPA

Just a basic question here for BPA re: DNS settings on server and workstations.
During server installation DNS server role was auto installed, I presume as a subset of ADUC. We have a small law firm with a single server and 17 users. I have made no forward or reverse lookup entries in DNS. The pri and sec DNS
settings on the servers lan adapter are set to Time Warner provided dns addresses. The workstations are set to the local server IP address for primary DNS. Is this an acceptable scenario?

Hi,
I am sorry to say that I am not quite sure of your environment.
Did you mean that you have a local DNS server in a workstation? Based on my experience, you can configure as below on the DNS server:
Primary DNS server : itself
Secondary DNS server : 127.0.0.1 (As the BPA for DNS indicates that DNS servers on <adapter name> should include the loopback address, but not as the first entry)
In addition, if you want to perform external name resolution, please configure a DNS forwarder (You can point it to your ISP DNS server, if the time provider can perform external name resolution, you can also point it to the time provider) on the DNS server:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/library/cc754941.asp
Then please point the DNS server on the clients in the workstations to the IP address of your local DNS server.
Best regards,
Susie
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Am configuring my laptop for demo so installing windows 2012 r2 essentials (which requires to be the DC). I know SharePoint 2013 server is not recommended to be installed on the DC. I have seen the Workflow 2013 is not supported on the DC but
still can work with the 2010 workflow. any other SharePoint 2013 features are not available on the DC ? From the SQL Server perspective this will only be a security issue the way I see, but am using this laptop for demo/test only.

HI,As you said,SharePoint 2013 does not support installation on to a domain controller. A single label domain (SLD) names or single label forests is also not supported. Because the use of SLD names is not a recommended practice, . Therefore, there may be
incompatibility issues when SharePoint 2013 are implemented in a single label domain environment.Apart from this no issues.you can find the detailed installation of sharepoint 2013 in below.
http://expertsharepoint.blogspot.de/2013/11/detailed-sharepoint2013-installation-i.html.
you can find the details on latest patches in the same site.
Anil Avula[MCP,MCSE,MCSA,MCTS,MCITP,MCSM] See Me At: http://expertsharepoint.blogspot.de/

DNS configuration

Hi All
This may be a silly question so please forgive me, I haven't set-up a DNS in a while and I know I have forgotten something simple in my configuration.
I have set up an Xserver 10.5.6 with a fully qualified domain name for example:
mydomain.com
machine name: ho.mydomain.com
For some reason I am unable to access the external hosted web site without www (https://mydomain.com) on the internal network.
From out side I can access the external hosted site with or without www, so my external hosting configuration is correct.
What simple thing have i missed in DNS configuration my configuration?
Primary Domain:
mydomain.com
www. machine (external ip address of web host)
ho machine (server ip address)
Please help, what have I forgotten to do?

Hi,
I think you want to replace
www. machine (external ip address of web host)
with
A record mydomain.com -> external IP
This sends an external request outside and comes back in;
that way you can reach either www.mydomain.com or mydomain.com
Ensure you have an alias record in the website setup for the www.
HTH,
Harry

Access Database (.mdb) on Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials

Hi guys, thanks for your time!
SCENARIO:
- Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials
- Windows 7 Ultimate Clients (3 clients)
- VB6 application on clients using a MS Database (.mdb) hosted on the server.
- Clients access the database (.mdb) via a mapped network drive (K:).
PROBLEM:
- Microsoft Database (.mdb) on server gets corrupted frequently.
- Clients don't "flush their changes" back to the database: database was not updated.
WORKAROUND:
- Database was moved from the server to one of the Windows 7 clients.
- Application is running OK.
CONFIGURATION:
- Permissions are correct: network and NTFS.
- No faulty network hardware: switch, cabling, NICs.
- Computers and Server hardware is new.
- UPS are used everywhere.
SOME LINKS:
SMB 3.0
- Opportunistic Locking and Read Caching on Microsoft Windows Networks.
- Windows 7 cannot
open the shared MS Access database if it's opened by another user
- Initializing the
Microsoft Jet 4.0 Database Engine Driver
- Moved to
Server 2012 getting Access Database Corruption
Oplocks
- Configuring
opportunistic locking in Windows
- Understanding
offline files
- How to
enable and disable SMBv1, SMBv2, and SMBv3
- Is it possible to
monitor and log actual queries against an Access MDB?
Now, server is useless if it is not hosting our database. Any ideas, please? Do I need to diagnose using Wireshark? Or using Sysinternals Process Monitor? I think that is a waste of time.
Thank you!

Thanks for your reply.
Software is from a 3rd party provider. It currently supports concurrency. It was deployed on Windows XP. SQL Server would be a nice upgrade, however that is
not an option.
Something has changed with newer versions of Windows. That is what I am going to study in a lab I prepared with a real server and some clients.
File-sharing databases (Microsoft JET databases) are very old technology even before I was a college student. However, I have been very busy researching this technology.
It was made for multi-user environments. It is highly tied to file sharing services from Windows: SMB protocol.
Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8 use different versions of this protocol. I think that is the root of the problem. With old technology, application was running fine.
With new technology, application is troublesome. I will check several things: JET drivers vs. ACE drivers, SMB tweaks, etc.
UPDATE:
Basically, there are 4 general answers to this issue:
1) Migrate your Access Database to SQL Server Express (or another RDBMS engine).
2) @Server: disable SMB 2.0/3.0 protocol stack by powershell command. Network speed decreases.
3) @Clients: disable client redirector caches by using regedit.
4) @Server: disable the leasing on the file server.
5) @Server: tuning Broadcom NIC parameters.
References:
- https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff686200(WS.10).aspx
- https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365433(v=vs.85).aspx
- http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Windows/Q_28482197.html
- http://tipsntricks.sherr.co.uk/stop-smb-corrupting-files/
- http://www.dataaccess.com/whitepapers/opportunlockingreadcaching.html
- https://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/windowsserver/en-US/67baa9fd-5eaf-438e-9cc4-dc1a531b9e19/disabling-oplocksmb2-vs-fileinfocachelifetime
- https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/7336d31b-6c24-468a-9c47-750244ae3a8c/moved-to-server-2012-getting-access-database-corruption
- https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/e9567167-22db-4b8c-9f96-a08b97d507f9/server-2012-r2-file-server-stops-responding-to-smb-connections
- http://support2.microsoft.com/kb/2957623
- http://support2.microsoft.com/kb/2899011
- http://support2.microsoft.com/kb/2955164
- https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/7bd0aa5b-eb95-40a8-a56d-c6013273665c/extremely-slow-smb-network-speed-server-2012-r2?forum=winserver8gen

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