Just put windows 10 on it. Enable hyper v and run server in a VM. On Fri, 7 May 2021 at 7:01 pm, Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> TGIF Folks, my Domain Controller under the desk is running on a 12 year > old box with 3 metal drives and whirring fans. I decided last weekend to > replace it with something modern, small and quiet. My local shop was > selling various NUCs which look pretty cool and Sci-Fi, so I bought a > NUC10i3 with 16GB RAM. It's low-end, but fine for the home dev network. Now > comes the trap hidden in the fine-print... > > *Windows 2016 server will not install on the box, nor can it be cloned via > R-Drive.* > > This is actually stated in some Intel product PDFs, but I never thought of > looking, as it's just Windows and a chipset (I thought!). Apparently it's > to do with drivers, and some people have apparently found a workaround by > installing unsigned drivers, but I don't want to do that. Maybe I'll ring > the shop and negotiate a swap to a NUC9 or 8 which supports servers. > > I just mention this in case anyone else falls into the lazy trap. > > Any suggestions for the smallest, quietest, cheapest box I can get as a > low-end server? > > *Greg* > -- David Connors da...@connors.com | M +61 417 189 363 Telegram: https://t.me/davidconnors LinkedIn: http://au.linkedin.com/in/davidjohnconnors
