To help with Windows updates on the LAN:
I would also suggest setting the active hours to not be automatic and make it so that the active time leaves the gap between say 3AM and onward, so that it won’t look to automatically restart from updates until after a late night game session.
As well for Dell updates you will have two Dell programs usually:
-Support Assist, which does updates and other cleanup and diagnostics
-Command Update, which does updates only.
I use Command Update at work more as it’s lighter. Current release is version 4, which you can update through itself, support assist, or the Dell website.
Keep the service tag code handy if you have to contact support, they are usually pretty good for us as a business customer.
As for DCS:
The Dedicated Server install is currently 93.1GB once installed. I would install NotePad++ on the server for config file editing and also put a shortcut to the task manager on it’s desktop as remote software doesn’t always pass Ctrl+Alt+Delete (security shortcut) or the direct task manager shortcut of: Ctrl+Shift+Escape.
The DCS server, and SRS server run as normal programs and not as Windows Services - meaning you have to be logged in to run them. I don’t set then to autostart by any means incase of a problem so on a server restart, you’ll have to remote login and get them going. When you are done, from the Start menu just choose LOCK and disconnect. That leaves the user signed in and programs running.
Share the savedgames\dcs.openbetaserver folder to yourself, makes tossing a mission file over easy. You cannot overwrite IF that mission is running. Change mission, update, change back. The share also lets you quickly check the logs from your own machine.
That is all I got at the moment! I’ll be happy to go over more configuration and the like when you get to it.