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Activating Windows 10 Education with Server 2012R2 KMS

So, in the hope of helping someone else avoid the head to desk banging that I have gone through to get a Server 2012R2 KMS server to activate Windows 10 Education, I'll tell you what you have to do.   Install the following patch to your KMS host: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3058168 Request the following KMS key from VLSC "Windows Srv 2012R2 DataCtr/Std KMS for Windows 10" and install on your KMS host Slaughter a fatted calf in the centre of a pentagram during a waning moon.  

sparkeh

sparkeh

Windows 10, SCCM and SCEP

If, like me, you have a pathological avoidance of reading instructions (Except when playing board games, where, strangely, the instructions must be read, in full, and explained to everyone, in detail, before we can begin. Thinking about it I haven't been invited to Games Evening is a while...) and prefer to 'have a go' you can find SCCM a bewildering place to be. Thus is was when I tried to deploy SCEP to Windows 10 and found it didn't work as expected.   So, in an effort to save other people t

sparkeh

sparkeh

Outlook 2016

I fully expected outlook 2016 to automatically pick up my office 365 group memberships.   But it doesn't.   It finds the ITSupport group in "search people". I subscribed even though I'm a member.   Still nothing in groups section under mailbox :-(   this is a disaster as I told the deputy head that outlook 2016 would solve all our groups problems. The main one being people want to stay in OWA where the groups are, and not use outlook 2013.   It's not going to go down well if I have to tel

browolf

browolf

Windows 10 & Outlook 2013 not sending e-mails

I've just dealt with for the fifth time on various machines an issue with Outlook 2013 running on Windows 10. One of these times was on my own home machine but after dealing with my neighbours last night, I guess its worth putting up something about here so others can see if it's searched upon.   These machines have been running Windows 10 and Outlook 2013 for sometime, all configured to send e-mail using IMAP connecting to a service like Gmail and everything works as expected then suddenly fo

FragglePete

FragglePete

Setting Higher Than Supported Resolutions on Netbooks

It's rather common knowledge now that you can enable down scaling (if the hardware supports it) in Windows to increase resolution beyond the max supported by a display. It basically involves searching for every REG_DWORD Display1_DownScalingSupported and changing the value to one. The problem I ran into was I needed to do this to a multitude of different model netbooks and the key name changes between models since it is named by GUID. So a simple registry export/import wouldn't work on dissim

Duke5A

Duke5A

"Surveillance", Monitoring Tools, User Safety

A recent thread regarding a popular network management, monitoring & user safety tool has prompted me to scribble another blog post rather than dilute the thread in question. Nothing more needs saying on that, certainly not from my part; I have a habit of putting my foot in it and don't wish to keep doing so   Whilst reading up about who these people "reporting" the security issues are and what they do, I stumbled across an odd mentality. It seems to form around "free speech" and many beli

synaesthesia

synaesthesia

In space, nobody can hear you scream... about bad DRM

I should buy a space boat.   Back in March of 2014 EA offered 2008's Sci-Fi survival horror game Dead Space for free to anyone who wanted it through their Origin "On the House" promotion.   The official reason being that EA wanted to give back to gamers, though the cynic in me thinks it's just to get people hooked into a series. Especially so, when the last game in the series has a boat-load of DLC and microtransactions.   I've only recently started playing it and I'm really feeling it. So m

X-13

X-13 in Gaming

Database-Driven Tabbed Reports in SQL Server Reporting Services – Part Three

In Part One I gave an overview of why and how you might implement tab strips in SSRS reports using tables in your database to manage the strips and formatting. In Part Two I gave you the necessary SQL. There is now just a little bit more hard work to do in this final step to get the required SSRS report template set up in BIDS/Visual Studio. We will create a single report to test the effect of what we've set up and then turn this into a template for all future work. At the end of Part One I made

Pico

Pico in Reporting Services

Database-Driven Tabbed Reports in SQL Server Reporting Services – Part Two

In Part One I described one approach to creating tab strips in SSRS. In this part I will go over the necessary table design in the database. Nothing hinges on the fact that I use SQL Server, so the following T-SQL code should be adaptable for other DBMSs.   We need two tables and one view to set up our tab strips. I've given some code towards the end that will populate these tables with some sample data that we will use in Part Three.   Tab Strips Table   A tab strip, in this context, is a gr

Pico

Pico in Reporting Services

Database-Driven Tabbed Reports in SQL Server Reporting Services - Part One

Reports created in SSRS don't have an out-of-the-box tab strip control, so report designers have to find ways to work around this. Here is one possible workaround.[1] Is it the best or even an advisable approach? I withhold judgement on that, but I make a couple of comments on this right at the end, along with suggestions as to how to build upon this technique to create other effects.   In Part One of this blog post, I will describe the motivation for coming up with this solution and give an ov

Pico

Pico in Reporting Services

AXE's MIT AppInventor Launcher - Updated

AXE's MIT AppInventor Launcher. - New version, much more configurable.   It's available to download from: http://rnfxportal.com/MIT_App_Inventor_V2_Launcher.zip Try it out. Suggestions welcome.   Main benefits: - Launcher with two big buttons, 'Open Website' and 'Run Emulator' - No command prompts. - One window for the emulator, all extras are hidden. - Config is reset each time. No pin codes, wallpapers, deleted shortcuts, etc. - Included in the package is a client app update tool for

AXE

AXE

How to avoid MCQ’s exam mistakes

By www.cert-express.com   Multiple choice questions is a form of theoretical exam in which examiner are asked to select the best stated answer (or answers) out of the options from a list. If guessing an answer, there's usually a 25 percent chances of getting it correct answer from a 4 possible choices. Finding the correct answer from multiple choices can be automated using multiple choice question answering systems. The multiple choice format is most frequently used in educational testing, in

haffy

haffy

Deployment model

The plan was to sell TTSync as a hosted service, but no one is going to trust their private data to an unknown company, and it will stay unknown until I get a bunch of customers. Problemo. So.. plan B - package it up and get people to install it themselves. There are several issues here straight off...   - its in Java. Its dead easy for someone to to reverse engineer and run off with the fruits of my labours. - How do I license it? - Its a bit complicated to configure.   I've looked as obfus

jim_potter

jim_potter

Interesting Videos #1 Published on Apr 30, 2015

Jon Ronson, author of books like "the men who stare at goats" and "the psychopath test" talks about his new book "So you've been publicly shamed". It's about the stories of the people who have been massively publicly shamed online.   Jon Ronson has a lot of stories... and a wonderful way of describing them and events that have occurred to him or people he met. Funnily enough I've never read his books but I like listening to him talk about stuff.       If you like that; definitely check

browolf

browolf

Ruckus Outperforms the Competition in Vendor-Neutral Testing: CARNet

Download the Full Report   Ruckus Wireless ZoneFlex™ Smart Wi-Fi technology outperformed Aerohive, Aruba, Cisco, Cisco/Meraki, HP, Ubiquiti and Xirrus in an exhaustive head-to-head enterprise performance and capacity testing of 802.11ac and 802.11n indoor access points (APs) conducted recently by the Croatian Academic and Research Network (CARNet).   CARNet is a widely respected public institution established in 1991 and based in Croatia, CARNet operates under the Ministry of Science, Educatio

Net-Ctrl

Net-Ctrl

My New Favorite Album

is actually 2 albums. They are "Hybrid" and "Mechanics of Emotion" by Elsiane.   If you like Zero 7 or perhaps björk, I think you'd like this too.   The singer, a peruvian woman has an incredible voice that it's hard to believe isn't being post-produced in some way. This video from a russian radio station illustrates its live quality (they didn't believe it either)     this is the produced version is at

browolf

browolf

Marketing a new enterprise

Over the years I've met or heard of edu IT staff who have written some software and started up in business selling it. Sounds easy. I've decided to give it a try, and (possibly by way of free advertising) keep a journal of what happens.   Me: about 10 years ago I did an OU degree in software development, then landed another network manager job, and my new found skills were left on the shelf. However, over the years I've noticed a gap in the market - electronic student timetables. Wouldn't it be

jim_potter

jim_potter

Lifting and Other Animals

Oi oi.   Well, I have little to contribute tech-wise as I'm never up on the news, don't drink the Linux kool-aid and can't write scripts/software for shoot. So this blog can feature some lifting.   JUST finished a dreamer bulk (2g protein/lb bodyweight every day, 400g carbs, 4k calories. I/You WILL get fat) but OH BOY did I engage beast mode! Managed 7x100kg bench; best working set ever. Seeing as I'm VERY loth to try squatting or deadlifting anymore, as I have to save what little my hip has

Miscbrah

Miscbrah

Behaviour Management in schools

Hi All,   Looking for advice. Have been asked by a Pupil referral unit school to create marksheets to monitor behaviour in every lesson.   Each student is given a behaviour grade each lesson. This is then averaged on a weekly/termly/yearly basis.   Currently have a marksheet setup in the MIS RM Integris. This has been working but now would like to link this to the timetable to produce report on subject classes.   The columns work something like this: [TABLE=width: 711] [TR] [TD][/TD]

RCowderoy

RCowderoy

It's not "Gambling" if you can't loose!

Hit on this through a friend and made £100 in a month. That was being cautious with it and only doing 1 bet at a time.   It's called Profit Accumulator, which is a sytem for doing "Matched betting". From what I can see, matched betting has been around for years, but not as simple as this.   It takes a while to get your head around how it works.   Makes money from bookies's free bets. Converts about ~75% of the free bet into money in your pocket.   Using tools on the Profit Accumulator web

browolf

browolf




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