Windows 10: Windows Server 2016 mapped drives

I recently installed two HP ML350 Gen10 servers for two different clients. The servers are running Server 2016 Standard edition. Both environments have around 5 PC with Win10 and Win7. Both sites are having issues when accessing mapped drives. Random times throughout the day, accessing a file or folder, renaming a file/folder causes Windows Explorer to lock up between 1-5 minutes. I've disabled AV but the issue continues. DNS is managed by the server and it resolves to the correct IP. HP doesn't think it's an issue with their hardware as we updated all drivers and firmware. I was hoping to see if anyone else had this issue and resolved it. Your help would be appreciated.

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Questions about Windows Server 2016 and 2012 R2

Hey guys, hopefully this is the right section to post my question in. I'm looking at helping out a friend who is working on a server solution for his small business (about 25 employees). He is currently looking at a Dell PowerEdge T430 server, and I am trying to come up with an alternative that doesn't cost like $4000 USD. It seems that Windows Server 2016 charges by Cores and CALs? What are CALs? We're looking to install it onto bare-metal, meaning it's not running in a VM, windows server is going to be installed directly onto it. I was also looking at Windows Server 2012 R2 because it seems a lot cheaper and doesn't do stupid shit like charging per core. Is Windows Server 2012 R2 still a decent option?

I think his main goal is to have people log onto the server as a domain and share files off of it, and save his archives to it. This was going to be my recommended build:
System Builder - Ryzen 7 1700 3 GHz 8-Core, HAF X ATX Full Tower - PCPartPicker

Again, I'm trying to figure out about Windows Server 2016 vs 2012 R2 and what version of 2016 to get if he decides to go that route. For a raid card since I want to be running those two 6tb hitachi drives in raid 1, I figured something like this LSI card would suffice:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/LSI-9267-8...987173?hash=item21175e7565:gNIAAOSwAuZX5C28

Any thoughts and suggestions? Really could use help with the OS side of things, I think that the hardware I selected is pretty good. I already have a HAF X case I'd just throw in for like $100, which will suffice for a case. Thanks for all your guys' thoughts and suggestions.

Edit: Just to explain why I am so desperately trying to help him get away from Dell, I took a screenshot of the hard drive selection for the customizing Dell Server. They want $163.17 USD per 1TB 7.2K RPM Sata Drive, which is not just ridiculous but it's highway robbery.

 

Windows 2016 Nano Server

Hi ,

Can we hibernate the windows 2016 Nano server .

What are the steps to proceed with it.

What are the steps to create nano server with bare metal process.

Thanks

NKG

 

Microsoft Windows server 2016

Hello Guys,

I'm actually new to the windows server, just installed the trial for windows server 2016 on a Dell Precision Tower with four hard drives.

Drive 0: 1TB SSD

Drive 1: 1TB SSD

Drive 2: 2TB Hybrid

Drive 3: 2TB Hybrid

The OS is installed on Drive 0 for speed. What I want to do now is make the Drive 2 available for everyone on the network so they can read and write to it. I've gone through the Active Directory and the Group Policy thinking a could do it using the drive
maps wizard or using the file explorer. I have the server connected to a router with a static IP address assigned to it.

After all this, I'm now stuck at the point where I can't figure out how to map the drive I've tried //servername/foldername but it's now working...