Well I decided I need to brush up heavily on my server skills as I havent installed one in nearly 2 years, so I am going to get a base unit running with the following
Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1
System Centre Configuration Manager
System Centre Operations Manager
Exchange Server 2010 with Service Pack 1
Will be nice to have a few things up and running. Got a dummy laptop set up with W7 but it will be the base for the SCCM and SCOM imaging and what have you, as well as the Group P
After 2 days of travel we are finally here in Philadelphia, admittedly in a hotel by the airport 7 miles from the city centre and wondering why I'm wide awake at 5am local time.
I HATE jet-lag
Travel from Preston to London went without a hitch on Virgin Trains and all was well as I made wy way to Kings Cross St Pancras tube station, swiped my Oyster card and made my winding way down to the Picadilly line to get the tube to the hotel at Heathrow. Mere meters from the platform the emergency al
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.
Also on offer are additiona
Well today i had fun in trying to get Microsoft let me take my exam on the 30th before my exam voucher runs out. Well they won i will have to wait to the 1st of july so i guess another £48 pounds is to be paid out. But on the plus side I’m sat here taking practice exams and watching the cbt nugget
i feel sorry for a friend of mine who is doing his mcitp and the questions are now based on the windows 2008R2 !!!!! didn't see that coming...surely they must of told people about this.
once i ha
Well it seems that I am now addicted well and truly to this website! I have always been a fan of collaborative websites with like minded people. Especially in the realms of IT there is just too much for any one person to know. I'm sure that most IT Proffesionals are with me when I say that the "One Man Army" effect which most "Pre Secondary School" IT Administrators exist in proves to be a real challenge.
While I regard myself as a specialist in Windows Server / Client technology and would fe
I am using WampServer2.1e and Configured MRBS 1.4.6.
I am logging in with administrator credentials. I am able to create an Entry and book a Room. The only Issue I am facing is that I cannot delete an Entry. I am receiving the following error.
Access Denied
You do not have access rights to modify this item.
Return to previous page
Entry and deletion for both I am using admin account.
Can some one help me on this?
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 rather ni
I think most people are already well aware of my opinions of Apple as a company, and sometimes this also derides confusion as to whether I also "hate" their products too, so maybe a little detail without a thread are in order, for those that care to read.
I have a HUGE amount of respect for a company that can get into that level of being, where their products' names are used synonymously (is that a word?) to describe larger groups of products in the same way that Hoover did. Is that a good or
I’ve recently been tracking down a number of web 2.0 tools to ensure I register / protect my online identity. I am known as Tony Sheppard and as GrumbleDook with such equality online that it is hard to separate the two. However, since there is a rather good Jazz musician called Tony Sheppard I have opted to protect my identity as GrumbleDook.
Most people recognise my avatar or variations of it and I am always looking for ways to tweak it a little, make it more interesting or relevant, but wit
well what can i say
I hate Microsoft unfortunately this is my 3rd attempted at my windows 7 70-680 exam and i got yet again a score of 646. I feel like I’m on one of them marathons where you "hit the wall". for the people are about to take the windows 7 exam don’t take it lightly don’t think it will be the same as the xp one because if you go into thinking that then you might as well put your money down the drain because it is hard and I’m not ashamed to admit that.
This is going to be my l
We have used the DigiBlue cameras for some years because of their excellent animation facility - the kids love it. But we are changing over to Win7 and as yet there are no drivers for them.
Anyone got a recommendation for replacement camera??
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 ready for someone else to take on
First blog post, but this is a subject I don't feel comfortable butting into other threads with or a forum thread of it's own, It's entirely opinion and as a result, people are free to reply with their own opinions or ignore it
My thoughts on "The Cloud" have always been fairly negative, and it's highly unlikely my opinion will change on it until the UK's internet infrastructure is 1. up to it and 2. when 1. is able to do away with the home computer as a fat client.
I will and do talk ab
Another year has been and gone for the EduGeek Conference. Set every year near Preston in the Summer Half-Term, education professionals from around the country came to mingle, share ideas and listen to the talks put on by suppliers and fellow professionals. Here is a quick recap:
(Please note these are personal opinions of the talks!)
Data Protection: Dos_Box's brother, known on here as Drummer Boy, gave a good talk about the data protection act regarding the myths and the musts of this co
I have just joined a networking company.I would like to do CCNA .Which is best ,either doing on my own or going to center to pursue?if center which is the best one to do? I am damn confused:( so help me
There are many blogs and posts on how to do this, but I found most of the were incomplete or missed out vital information. It took me hours of trial and error before I got it right.
The deployment method I've detailed here is very basic...there are far more professional ways to do it, but that's outside the scope of this article. I'd recommend, when using the deployment method below, to test the deployment to a test server first.
Pre-requisites
Access to a copy of Microsoft.Sharepoint.d
There are many blogs and posts on how to do this, but I found most of the were incomplete, or missed out vital information. It took me ages of trial and error before I got it right, so here goes:
Pre-requisites
Access to a copy of Microsoft.Sharepoint.dll
Visual Studio 2008
Initial Setup
Open Visual Studio 2008.
Go to New -> Project, and select a Windows Class Library.
Name the project 'OurWebpartLibrary'
Delete the Class.vb file.
Setting up the Properties Page
Proje
Well, it's about 6 weeks since I put my first blog piece up, so thought that now would be a good time to continue.
Does the general theme continue?
You'd think so, from recent events!
Things have actually been improving. After all that had happened, and being very down, I was introduced to a family friend, who'd also had a bit of a rough time, and we clicked. Straight away! So, things were starting to get a lot more positive. Ok, so she lives 100 miles away, but that is a good separatio
I'm potentially looking to bring in either a gap-year or a trainee ICT Technician.
I might only get approval for one year at the outset so I was wondering if anyone had experience of doing that recently and if there were any channels to get help, advice or even suitable candidates.
I do have the occasional rant about things. Most of the time it is down to having passion about things I believe in or it is intend to grab the attention of others to make them think. At TeachMeet Midlands 2011 it was a bit of both.
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I have adapted the SIMSPERM batch file so that it can be applied as a Startup Script via Group Policy.
@echo off
if not exist "%ProgramFiles%\SIMS" goto end
if exist "%ProgramFiles%\SIMS\doneperm.txt" goto end
path \\[color="red"]server[/color]\netlogon
SubInAcl /FILE %WINDIR%\SIMS.INI /GRANT=[color="red"]domain\group[/color]=F
SubInAcl /SUBDIRECTORIES "%ProgramFiles%\SIMS\*.*" /GRANT=[color="red"]domain\group[/color]=F
SubInAcl /KEYREG HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes /GRANT=[color=
Over the past few days I have been experimenting with the RC version of Windows Thin Client, a cut down version of Windows 7 which will replace windows fundamentals for legacy PC's for those of us
with Software assurance.
Due to the impending upgrade to windows 7 over the summer, around 20 machines will not be able to run Windows 7. These machines are all fully functional but not worth upgrading. As a small school
we do not have the resources to deliver Virtual Desktops however we do
