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20th May 2013, 10:26 AM

Sam_Brown started a thread Best way of allowing Staff to update SIMS? in MIS Systems

One of the pains we have is that when one of the major updates comes out we have to manually go round everyones computer and logon as an admin user...

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17th May 2013, 11:56 AM

Sam_Brown started a thread Kicking People Out Of SIMS? in MIS Systems

Morning Guys, What's the best way for kicking people out of SIMS and making sure no one is conected to the database when it comes to running...

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12th May 2013, 05:14 PM

Sam_Brown replied to a thread SOLUS 3 - What's the opinion of it? in MIS Systems

Nice to know you have a bit of control over what is installed and when. Thanks for the heads up everyone. Ash - That's good news! I'm happy to...

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12th May 2013, 01:47 PM

Sam_Brown started a thread SOLUS 3 - What's the opinion of it? in MIS Systems

It's my understanding that SOLUS 2 is being retired in the Autumn and all schools will be forced to use Solus 3. What's the general opinion with...

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11th May 2013, 11:30 AM

Sam_Brown replied to a thread EES Renewel. - Server std vs Server Ent in Licensing Questions

We have already virtualised about 20 servers. For the 3 hosts we're going to be purchasing Data Centre Licenses so that should cover us for those. ...

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11th May 2013, 11:09 AM

Sam_Brown replied to a thread EES Renewel. - Server std vs Server Ent in Licensing Questions

So if I have 17 Physical Servers with Windows Enterprise on I only need 17 Standard Licenses? And not 34 like I was quoted?

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10th May 2013, 10:12 PM

Sam_Brown replied to a thread EES Renewel. - Server std vs Server Ent in Licensing Questions

So 2x Standard = 1 Ent? Or am I being mugged off?

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10th May 2013, 06:24 PM

Sam_Brown started a thread EES Renewel. - Server std vs Server Ent in Licensing Questions

Evening All, Just getting round to doing some Microsoft licensing for the first time. We're in our second year of our EES agreement and it's to...

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9th May 2013, 05:11 PM

Sam_Brown replied to a thread Spring release + Server 2003 = Slow in MIS Systems

I know it was mentioned already but he's the latest update from SupportNet. This is what? Patch number 4?

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8th May 2013, 10:01 AM

Sam_Brown replied to a thread Spring release + Server 2003 = Slow in MIS Systems

It is better. But no where near as good as before. Still getting massive spikes on the server.

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7th May 2013, 07:15 PM

Sam_Brown replied to a thread Spring release + Server 2003 = Slow in MIS Systems

Just downloaded the patch and applied it using SOLUS. Only took about 30 seconds but managed to apply it with no issues. Started SIMS and managed to...

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7th May 2013, 01:46 PM

Sam_Brown replied to a thread Spring release + Server 2003 = Slow in MIS Systems

Maybe you get different things shown depending on what you selected when signing up.

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7th May 2013, 01:41 PM

Sam_Brown replied to a thread Spring release + Server 2003 = Slow in MIS Systems

Just rang up support to request the patch and they are saying they will look into deploying it... Has anyone actually downloaded, installed and...

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7th May 2013, 11:27 AM

Sam_Brown started a thread VB Script to check if someone is member of a group then map a drive if they are? in Scripts

Is there an easy way to do this at all?!?! Want to create a new single logon script instead of using the 20 we have at the moment. Want to map...

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7th May 2013, 09:52 AM

Sam_Brown replied to a thread Logon Script Issue in Windows Server 2008 R2

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7th May 2013, 09:44 AM

Sam_Brown started a thread Logon Script Issue in Windows Server 2008 R2

Morning Guys, Bit of a strange one. Logon scripts are failing to run randomly at the moment. Running them manually once the user has logged on...

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6th May 2013, 11:37 AM

Sam_Brown replied to a thread SIMS Server and SIMS Databse - On the same server? Or on seperate servers? in MIS Systems

Excellent. For as long as I can remember it's been set up like this where I work but I never really understood why. Now the old boss is gone and...

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6th May 2013, 11:22 AM

Sam_Brown started a thread SIMS Server and SIMS Databse - On the same server? Or on seperate servers? in MIS Systems

As it stands we have our Database and Document Server on a separate box to our SIMS Server. At the moment both the box that holds our SQL Server...

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6th May 2013, 10:48 AM

Sam_Brown replied to a thread Spring release + Server 2003 = Slow in MIS Systems

Just managed to log in. Here's a SS from the support net article.

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6th May 2013, 10:42 AM

Sam_Brown started a thread What's the relationship between Office 2013 and Office 365? in Office Software

I've not been paying attention to this at all so apologies for the ignorance. The lines seem to have become very blurred between them in regards to...

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5th May 2013, 09:50 PM

Sam_Brown replied to a thread Spring release + Server 2003 = Slow in MIS Systems

Performance improved but no where near to the standards it was before the recent upgrade. One of the issues I think was that for us the staff log...

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5th May 2013, 09:45 PM

Sam_Brown replied to a thread Spring release + Server 2003 = Slow in MIS Systems

There was a sticky on support net with all the details in but I can't seem to log into it at the moment. Seems to not be letting me log in... ...

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5th May 2013, 06:00 PM

Sam_Brown replied to a thread Any computer scientists out there? in Coding

Try this thread... http://www.edugeek.net/forums/coding/112728-any-computer-scientists-out-there.html

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5th May 2013, 05:39 PM

Sam_Brown replied to a thread Migrating to Windows 7 this summer. Is SCCM overkill for a secondary school? in O/S Deployment

What sort of specs is the box you run it on? The required specs from Microsoft seem a little high for a secondary school!

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5th May 2013, 05:10 PM

Sam_Brown started a thread Migrating to Windows 7 this summer. Is SCCM overkill for a secondary school? in O/S Deployment

Been looking up SCCM 2012 over the last few weeks and looks like it will do everything we want it to do... and more. But I will admit it does seem a...

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5th May 2013, 04:20 PM

Sam_Brown replied to a thread Tapi Partition in Windows Server 2000/2003

Well now or never. Sometimes with things like this you can never be 100% sure but the fact it's not been edited since 2005 is a good indication it's...

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4th May 2013, 08:10 PM

Sam_Brown replied to a thread Tapi Partition in Windows Server 2000/2003

Can you use ADSIedit to look at the information stored in the partition?

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4th May 2013, 08:54 AM

Sam_Brown replied to a thread Spring release + Server 2003 = Slow in MIS Systems

Phil, I'm a bit disappointed that the update has been released so late on a Friday afternoon meaning we have to wait until Tuesday for the service...

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