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I will be a dad in T minus 4 days! Eek!

Hi all, Anyone tried using RES workspace manager? I am looking at evaluating and wanted to get some opinions on use in education. Express edition may be good for us (cost especially.... ) It is difficult to tell from RES's own documentation what the differences are between the versions! http://www.ressoftware.co.uk/products/wm-express

That's either PNP monitor drivers which aren't picking up the correct resolution or you need to get the proper GFX card driver for your onboard card. In the BIOS you need to disable the onboard GFX card if you want the BIOS to appear out of the secondary card, the secondary will then become the primary/only card and BIOS etc will show.

Is it a particular user? Have you checked the user shares on the server for allowing offline caching?

on the client station run GPResult /h N:\pathicanwriteto.html Will show you what is going on, could be a local policy.

This is usually firewall or DNS settings which seem to cause that here. Try pinging the station and NSLookup the DNS name then the returned IP and ensure they match

You would still need to resolve the fullname plus domain suffix even after you have allowed anon logon readonly on the zone

Can be because your DNS servers only respond to domain clients? See if anonomous logon is added to the security permissions of your forward lookup zone

Basically if your servers netbios name is SERVER1 Its DNS name will be SERVER1.domain.suffix like SERVER1.contoso.lan or similar. Test by pinging those names in your non domain joined machines

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I keep saying: Wait until Windows 9....

@Benji2665 just noticed you have to add a permission to the local PC to allow your staff users to elevate to near admin when the task runs. Add the staff group or the group of staff required to run sibelius (and have checkout enabled) to the Computer/Windows Settings/Security Settings/Local Policies/User Rights Assignment/Impersonate Client After Authentication. The checkout will then work for the group you specified in the policy above.

Try testdisk or photorec they will discover any old partition data and retrieve anything it can find. Takes ages though

These are my opinions on Windows 8: Love the startup and shutdown times Love the speed of use HATE the fact that you sign in using a Windows live ID, its not a phone its a PC!!!?!?!?! Surely the apps should request this not the whole OS HATE the full screen start menu - I have a 24 inch monitor, the icons are ridiculous! HATE the metro apps, tried closing apps with a touchpad the other day, the drag from top to bottom is plain poo!! HATE the fact they have muddled two distinct user devices which should be kept apart! I think Ubuntu have a really good idea when it comes to the design of the Phone vs PC experience. When you plug a keyboard and mouse into the OS it becomes desktop ubuntu. When you take it out, it becomes android. The UIs are really different for a reason! I think MS have done another Windows Mobile v5 thing, but this time they have brought the phone OS to the desktop, not the desktop OS to the phone like the failed Windows Mobile was! I REALLY hope that this is another Vista and they don't keep going down this road. I love the idea of being able to use a surface like a tablet. BUT if its a tablet, it DOESN'T NEED A DESKTOP MODE!!! Same goes the other way, if I want to use my desktop, I don't want a full screen start menu designed for a touch screen when I am struggling to use my mouse!! Regardless of this fact.... WHY oh WHY did Microsoft create a Metro IE which is completely independant of the desktop IE. No shared bookmarks or tabs? Its totally bonkers! Consistent user interface? No. Just plain no.

What is the reason Offline Files gives for the sync conflict. I sometimes get "a file was changed on the server and the client" was something to do with Google Chrome not playing nice! What file server you using? Is it Windows?

Ah I need to Go Advanced!

O dear Edugeek has decided that some of the permissions from iCacls are sad faces! lol It does explain how I felt discovering this though!!! If you need more help I can stick the files up on my website.

This is my install file Install.bat: (Run as Admin) The Changereg PS1 file is: The Scheduled task XML is: (Launch Sibelius.xml) Those are the files I use to install and the scheduled task runs the sibelius exe. This is done for staff only, the students run the standard way as they don't check the licence out.

I would guess that RM are using some RM magic to map the drives not standard scripts, so being that it is a non RM build of Windows 7 it would probably be expected. If you have already split the Windows 7 clients in to a new OU structure, have you tried using a 'REPLACE' loopback policy and redesigning a user policy down in the Windows 7 computer OU? It will get you out of jail while you start to move away from RM (which is what i;m guessing you are doing)

Are you domain controllers replicating correctly? I have always used MDT its quite a bit easier once its set up!

The first warning you get is related to you having either logon/startup scripts or software installation policices attached to the workstation. You cannot run these policies without restarting so that is all that means so its nothing to worry about. Not seen the second error before though? Have you tried pinging the DNS servers? and pinging the workstation from the DCs? Could be DNS related errors, usually duplicate DNS entries in the system, or an old DNS entry taking up the IP of the current imaged workstation.

MDT here

Thanks everyone I did think of doing multiple purely for the reason above, however we are trying to condense similar functions together, all file services together in this case, so if we have to reboot or take down the server with all those shares on it, its going to be something rather bad, which will have probably already impacted the network radically anyway. From what people are saying here then, single server it is! Going to put each share on a separate VMDK we think, that way we can migrate between datastores quicker per disk so lower downtime per share. Also lets us adjust quotas a little easier.

Difficult to suggest what the performance counters suggest as some currently are not just sharing files, one is a DC, one has a lot of web sites attached is a IAS server and runs 2003. So performance is going to be different which ever way we look at it. We are not getting bad performance, rather just looking for what best practice dictates as one or more servers is going to be created next week! I don't see what difference you are suggesting by the storage location of the VM disks? They will all be running off one of the 3 SANS we have here.

What are all your thoughts on the below: We are looking at provisioning a new file server. We currently have shares scattered among different servers making management more difficult. Bearing in mind we run a VMware system with ESXi servers, would it be better to: Create 1 server, with loads of RAM and multiple processors to house all Staff, Student, SharedStaff, SharedStu, 6thForm shares Create multiple servers which are less powerful and spread the shares between them Are there any recommendations as to how much RAM to dedicate to such a server given that we have 700 client PCs with the shares listed above, so it is likely that many open connections will exist at the same time to the different shares for each user. Either way we will be running Server 2008r2 Thanks, James