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Originally Posted by Arthur

It looks like Dell are on a spending spree.

www.dell.com/wyse

DESKTOP PC FLOGGER Dell will buy thin-client vendor Wyse for an undisclosed sum.

Dell has spent the last five years trying to shrug off its image as a beige box shifter with a significant push into the enterprise. Michael Dell even said, "Dell is not a PC company". Now the firm is moving further away from its tin box roots by buying Wyse, a company that's well known for its thin-client

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This article was originally posted on the Microsoft Schools blog on 20th Jan 2012
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukschools/ar...d-hyper-v.aspx

Building School Networks for the Future - with System Centre and HyperV
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Ok... so a departure from my normal belongings - but a bit of idle (well maybe not) fun and games...

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The DARWIN Awards!

It's with great pleasure that I announce...it's that time again. The Darwin Awards are out! These Annual Honors are given to the persons who did the human gene pool the biggest service by killing themselves in the most extraordinarily stupid way.

You may recall that last year's ...

So, as you will have gathered from my recent blog posts... there is some serious systems change happening at my place!

Quite simply put - without SCCM and Windows Thin PC, there is no way I could have got it done.

THat being said... there were a few times I was pulling may hair out with it! So, this post is a heads up on what might go wrong... and in no particular order...

1. Error 8004005 - Cannot retrieve policy for this computer and a reboot before ...

Couldnt quite work out what to call this blog post - as it ties so many different areas in together.

As Ive written about before - Ive been busy doing a mass upgrade and virtualisation project at my new place. First step was getting the HyperV hosts all set up. That was a breeze, as was the SAN - all bar a bit of waiting whilst it all initialised.

Once that was done, it was time to get the roles onto each of the nice new HyperV Clients. An SQL cluster, a pair of SCCM ...

OK - so some of you now know I moved on from my last School - where I was very vocal with Sharepoint and later SCCM.

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Laptop House Education Show: 17th June 2011

After a break of two years, it was time for these guys to have another Trade Show. Like last time, they didn’t disappoint! So, first for a bit of an intro…

Laptop House are an independent IT equipment reseller founded in March 2002; and based just outside Stoke on Trent. They are able to supply major brands including Dell, HP, Toshiba, Acer, Sony, Apple, Fujitsu & IBM, Promethean, Bretford, Smart and many more.
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Ok, so after I left you all wondering on the AppV score - I thought it was about time to show where we had go to...

Well - progress is good, very good! AppV (as if it needed any more ranting and raving) is a seriously cool piece of kit. Take this one problem... using CS4 on out ICT Suite machines and to bring in CS5 would bring a learning curve for staff and students alike. Well, what if you could run the two side by side. Normally, not a chance, but with AppV you can. CS4 sequences ...

So, yet again I find myself starting my blog with "Ive not written in ages, and here's why..."...!

Well, first off - Ive moved workplaces. A number of you will already know that - but this blog is going to concentrate on essentially the setup of a new network on the side of the old one!

Why did I move on? Well, after 5 years, all that could be achieved had been - and the system which Id written from scratch (ably assisted by my senior) was in a good state ...

Microsoft Recently released a Service Pack for Windows 7 and it has worked fine until it has been made available via WSUS/Windows Updates for Automatic Install. It has been known to cause a few problems where the system has halted upon startup with a Fatal Error as shown below:

Fatal Error C0000034 applying update operation (Update 282 of 103814)

Many people have turned to re-building the system but there is a fix to getting the system back up and running and it is ...