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Oh yeah... your cluster name gets registered as a computer object in AD so I would check that's not been disabled/deleted too SA

First things I would check is Network Comms - can your hosts talk to each other over the cluster network? Do you have separate networks for Cluster Coms and LMs - if not you may get timeouts on your Cluster due to the traffic you're LM generates. Are you using Broadcom NICs? There was something a while ago that I saw that some Broadcom cards can cause issues If you're getting Kerberos errors i would also check the time is correct on your servers too

@PurpleTentacle will be able to help @Ebstar he's done more work on it than me lol

Ouch, necro thread alert We've been running it on v4.6 for years - we'll be moving to V5 soon. I did it by sequencing the simsapplication installer not SIMSInst, map the drive and ensure the correct .net apps are installed.

do your current user folders match usernames?

https://www.livingmadeeasy.org.uk/communication/amplified-ringers-for-telephones-p/ringplus-telephone-ringer-amplifier-0023760-1330-information.htm We use one of these in our Canteen. the little Mic sits on the telephone speaker which causes the main unit to sound when the phone rings

Do you give your staff a direct link to the webclient or is there a way of automating it? I've installed it, got it working fine when I navigate to the URL but the default RDWeb site shows as usual which loads the MSTSC version hope that makes sense??

Yes, add it to the local list on the Default Policy - we've had to do this a number of times. As mentioned before; any sites added to this are available to everyone regardless of settings in other policies. The traffic to these sites is effectively anonymous.

I had to add this site into the default rule to get Wix to work: static.parastorage.com The CC thing is a nightmare as they all use so many different portals for verification

We're seeing a lot of these type of errors in the console when trying to figure out what's going on. Basically, it appears that sites don't like that the that the request is blocked as it appears that the request is coming from an unknown location for that site - and this has been the case for a large number of sites over the last 2 weeks The only way I have been able to sort this is by adding the offending sites into the Default Web Filter Rule thus avoiding the authportal redirect. Hopefully, once the new inline stuff gets out of Beta issues like this will become moot

in which case my point is moot, however, I would highly suggesting virtualisation if you can, the benefits are unparalleled

Our SIMS/FMS is virtualised, we use VEEAM to take a backup of the entire server every night, a restore can take as little as half hour depending when it goes down. VEEAM has built-in transaction processing to sort the SQL transaction logs out etc...

Our users have a home drive, their Desktop/Startmenu etc is redirected there and we use GPP to create the shortcuts

Tidied it up a bit for you* Const CSIDL_COMMON_PROGRAMS = &H17 Const CSIDL_PROGRAMS = &H2 Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application") Set objAllUsersProgramsFolder = objShell.NameSpace(CSIDL_COMMON_PROGRAMS) strAllUsersProgramsPath = objAllUsersProgramsFolder.Self.Path PinToStart("Accessories","Calculator.lnk") PinToStart("Accessories","Paint.lnk") If exist fso.FileExists "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\WINWORD.EXE" Then PinToStart("Microsoft Office","Microsoft Word 2010.lnk") PinToStart("Microsoft Office","Microsoft Excel 2010.lnk") PinToStart("Microsoft Office","Microsoft Powerpoint 2010.lnk") PinToStart("Microsoft Office","Microsoft Publisher 2010.lnk") end if If exist fso.FileExists "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office16\WINWORD.EXE" Then PinToStart("Microsoft Office 2013","Word 2013.lnk") PinToStart("Microsoft Office 2013","Excel 2013.lnk") PinToStart("Microsoft Office 2013","Powerpoint 2013.lnk") PinToStart("Microsoft Office 2013","Publisher 2013.lnk") end if sub PinToStart(Folder as string, Link as string) Set objFolder = objShell.Namespace(strAllUsersProgramsPath & "\" & Folder) Set objFolderItem = objFolder.ParseName(Link) Set colVerbs = objFolderItem.Verbs For Each objVerb in colVerbs If Replace(objVerb.name, "&", "") = "Pin to Start Menu" Then objVerb.DoIt Next end sub *not tested it however

More importantly (I have emailed Carole btw) is it going to work for the remaining week that our students are in and are we going to have to make any changes (thinking authportal) after the works

I'd take a look at the functions here: https://www.tachytelic.net/2017/10/function-check-file-exists-vbscript/ Then it would just be a case of adding the file path for the word exe: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office16\WINWORD.EXE" (obviously this is Office 2016 on a 64bit machine) *There may be easier ways but if you're not good at VBS then this is a good start

@MYK-IT We've just moved to https://www.softlinkint.com/product/oliver Our librarian loves it (although rubbing two sticks together would've been better than MLS and their horrendous support) I can't comment on the functionality as I don't use it but let's just say that our librarian is the personification of a technophobe and she gets on with it just fine and the Softlink support has been top notch the few times that it has been required

Ah ok, fair enough, yeah we set our RDC to boot off idle/disconnected sessions after a certain amount of time

we run ours via GPP on logon

Dave, I don't want to put words in other people's mouths but if they're anything like us then the start of the summer holidays will be too late for us to schedule in the downtime/transfers that moving to V6 may incur. We have very limited manning and available maintenance time due to staff being in for end of year tasks, exam results and the such. Granted if there is nothing for us to do then I can understand that and ideally, doing any form of migration to a new version at the start of a school year is a big no for us due to the complete madness that a new year brings. Ideally, we could do with knowing before the start of July so that we can properly schedule it in with the other work that is already planned in.

Have you run a constant ping to the VM in question? Are you dropping packets? VMQs can be a nightmare, and if you're using 1GBe then it's pretty much pointless - this article explains it really well: https://www.altaro.com/hyper-v/the-hyper-v-virtual-switch-explained-part-1/

AFAIK the MAC on your vEthernet switch is tied to the hardware you assigned it too (I may be wrong) I would try your Hyper-V Virtual Switch settings first

We had this recently. Depending on how you set up your hosts, Hyper-v creates a pool of MAC addresses that are dynamically assigned to vNICS when VMs are created. If you go into hyper-v on each machine and look at the virtual switch manager you should see the MACs there. We had a number that ended up with the same pool thus when the VMs were created the same MAC was applied to different NICs. This caused the slowness that you described (and the event log messages) Give that a go see how you get on

https://mikrotik.com/thedude Takes a bit of time to get configured but works great!!

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