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Thanks Paul
In the case of servers, I have three and I have set them up so they never show on the network.
My problem is the 4 clients that use a WDMYCLOUD to backup to.
Your suggestion about having the server move the backups is good, I may set that up as added safety.

Paul T, thanks for all you input. I learned a lot this weekend about encryption & hard drives.
However it will not fix my customers has they are a little resistant to change.
I believe that I will go a different direction.
The # 1 problem I have is getting clients to remove their backup device after a backup and plug it in again for the next backup.
One client lost all his files, documents, Quick Books, Turbo Tax and every backup he had made. The Virus was LOCKY ransom ware.
The other problem is how to hide network storage devices. How to hide a WDMYCLOUD is my number one issue.
One change I will start is not allowing mapped drives to be used.
Rather then map a servers folder, it’s just as easy to use the network path like \servershare name.
I do this with my home. I setup Word, Excel and other apps to use the network path as their default folders.
This way my desktop, laptop and wife’s systems all get & save their documents to/from the server.

However if you have any good ideas feel free to share them.

cheers RonB

To Paul T
Thanks for setting me straight and the links.
The links were helpful and answered some of my questions.
The only thing I’m not clear about is:
Can you turn on BitLocker on an existing system drive and not loose anything?

Paul T – Thanks for your reply, but I’m not sure we are on the same page.
1 There is no software involved SED is a hardware feature. So the question is: If you have placed data (an OS or just files) on a drive with SED not in use.what happens when the BIOS key is set and SED goes into use, is the data toast or readable?
2 I know Bitlocker supports TPM hardware encryption but I have not found anywhere that it supports the drives by using their SED feature.
3 & 4 We know that BitLocker will support any drive that is attached to a system but as far as I know only with TPM or software not the SED BIOS/Drive feature.
By the way TPM only stores encryption keys and is not a hardware encrypt/decryption device.

Paul, I do not have your answer, except that they were wanting to get away from 8.1

1) Except for a couple of home users that did their own up grades all had fresh system images backups.
2) Home users make their own choice about upgrading.
My business clients all had a mixture of Windows 7, 8.1 and 10.
They made the choice to upgrade so that all systems had the same OS.
For one customer, their application vendor wanted as many of their clients as could off 8.1 and on 10.

The event log for the most resent one shows that updates were in progress when the system was shutdown.
When I questioned the client he said when he told windows to shutdown,
he was ask to shutdown or install updates and shutdown.
He chose shutdown. It looks like Windows should not give that option.
I think the message should be ” updates are in progress, shutdown will happen after they finish” or something like that.

I tried to upload the event file, but that turned into a bad experience, could not get the upload to work.

My problem is, they are all client systems.

Yes I have though about doing a fresh install and I may if I get any more failures.
The problem is that 5 of the systems are in doctors offices and a fresh install would require a 3rd party to remotely reinstall their application.
I will wait for a repeat failure on one before getting serious about a fresh install.

Thanks for the reply. My server is headless so I seldom look at it.
To make a long story short, I have found the problem.
My battery backup battery had gone bad and we had an extended power outage.
When the server came backup it did not know the network so it went unknown.
After I rebooted the router the network problem cleared up, everything is good.

I want to thank everyone that offered input.
I think we have enough information to manage what I ask for in my original post.

Y’all have a great day until next time.

When I use the Media Creation Tool I do not get this download box.
So where are you downloading from?

BruceR
I think your correct and thank you for the link, I will book mark that one..

medab1, what you are trying to show me is not the answer to my question.
From time to time Microsoft updates the ISO file to a later version.
It is that version information I’m looking for. After I install it once, I can use a command prompt and the command “WINVER” to get the information of this ISO.
Knowing when Microsoft has updated the ISO so we would know to download the latest version, would be enough.
Because Microsoft seems unwilling to tell us this, the next best thing would be to know the current version sitting in the download.

The numbers you are trying to show me do not equate to the Windows version after it is installed.

None of these suggestions gives me the Version of the file.
Like will it be 1511 after install or something else?