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What was LH's announcement the other day. His Tw@tter feed had a pic on him with a motorbike and said 'big announcement tomorrow' And Vettel is a complete pudding for crashing into Stroll.

Go to the properties of your graphics card software if installed (if not install it for the appropriate card) and set it to Mirror the displays. The setting should stick.

Y I think you're maybe confusing Pcut a little bit. What if you print test pages or the spreadsheet directly to the printers bypassing papercut. What happens then ?

I've tried that for you @Steve21 Works as it should for me... Mono set in the driver ---> Open Excel (2010) ---> change driver to automatic ---> colour the sheet and print ---> comes out colour. Tried this on both the actual print driver, and the virtual queue. Works as it should..... but I've got that script I previously posted that may be different to your setup.

Well, I'd get rid of 2 queues for a start hence posting the script. Check that the drivers aren't forcing mono. I know its a charging issue but all papercut does is hijack the windows print queue. I think you might have some inconsistent settings in your drivers. E.g. You print colour, the driver forces mono but papercut still sees that its a colour print.... or vice versa.

Heres ours. Its pretty simple. Chooses between colour and mono on a single papercut queue. You could add in your shared account PIN etc. --------------------------------------------- /* * Color print jobs require user confirmation * * Color printing is expensive so users should be encouraged to print * in grayscale whenever they print in color. No confirmation is required * for grayscale jobs. */ function printJobHook(inputs, actions) { /* * This print hook will need access to all job details * so return if full job analysis is not yet complete. * The only job details that are available before analysis * are metadata such as username, printer name, and date. * * See reference documentation for full explanation. */ if (!inputs.job.isAnalysisComplete) { // No job details yet so return. return; } if (inputs.job.isColor) { /* Color job, ask the use if they want to print. The job cost is displayed * prominently to encourage users to consider black and white printing instead. */ var response = actions.client.promptPrintCancel( "This print job is color" + " and costs " + inputs.utils.formatCost(inputs.job.cost) + ". You can save money by printing the job in grayscale. " + "Press Print to Print in Colour. Press Cancel to convert to Greyscale", {"dialogTitle" : "Color print job", "dialogDesc" : "Consider printing in grayscale to reduce costs"}); if (response == "CANCEL" || response == "TIMEOUT") { // User did not respond, cancel the job and exit script. //actions.job.cancel(); actions.job.convertToGrayscale(); return; } } } ​ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Apply it to your Virtual print queue (Follow Me)

2 print queues set up for one physical printer? Or 2 printers, one colour one mono? How do the users choose which is which? EDIT: Doh. You have 2 queues. I've got a script if you want it.

@Steve21 Are you using scripts for users to choose between colour and mono.. if so, pop it up. Have you printed them to see what comes out? Is background printing turned off in the programs ? It should be if you had even a coloured full stop in a doc it should charge colour. EDIT: Also, if you're printing black only in Word, surely it shouldn't charge 5p, it should query the queue and detect that its mono and charge accordingly.

Hi all, I'm looking to do an upgrade of Smart Notebook to 17.1 and am having bother with the serial number I have. The serial worked on all versions up to 2013 that I've tried. We have old Smart 680 boards. Should I be able to license the newest version (17.1) with serials from those boards? Cheers in advance EDIT: OK so they've changed their licensing structure. I can apparently run Notebook in limited mode after a trial expires but in the meantime get the screen nag asking for a license key.

With the help of Smoothwall support I managed to get our proxy to talk to the 2nd DC by adding conditional forwarders. Still yet to test the local performance but at least that's one step forward. Local resolution seems to have improved since the other day but still to test properly.

I dont like Kvyat and he's not a shining racer. Glad he's going. He's probably better off out of it if a Honda power unit is going in the back of that TR anyway.

FSMO is on DC1. DHCP failover - DC2 in hot standby, replicating leases with DC1 fine Both are global catalogue servers.

Yaay!!!

015 isn't set in my scope options. I assume that by virtue of a machine being joined to a domain it will add its own suffix. No ?? EDIT: As in all my DNS A records show the FQDN of each machine. Also no IP helpers here due to no multiple VLANs.

Aaaw. Im sorry. I take it back. Your fella needs a better phone! :(:(:(:(:( I would ride a bike in a skirt !

Are they? God my eyes are going!

I hope that's not a skirt you're wearing @Joanne. Get some proper trousers if so !!!!!

Yep. They replicate fine. EDIT: sorry just re-read. I'll have to wait for out of hours to do some proper testing. Internet goes down or slows to a halt when I take DC1 down.

The benchmark conclusion passes with every check passed. Must be something in my DHCP but I cant find what. Both DC's pass dcdiag and dcdiag /test:dns without error.

@Michael Yes all patched. No VLANS. Both DCs are VMs so technically yes - the hosts are on teamed NICs. Issue is the same when they are on the same host. @Steve21 I ran that rather handy util Speeds reported were negligible. Well under a second for both DC's. Something isn't configured correctly somewhere - spotted that Smoothwall loses kerberos authentication too - so it isn't picking up the 2nd DC. For DNS timeouts, MS say: (Numbers are Time (seconds since start)) Action: 0 Client queries the first DNS server of the list 1 If no response is received after 1 second, client queries the second DNS server of the list and at the same time queries again the first DNS server 3 If no response is received after 2 more seconds, client queries again the first DNS server 7 If no response is received after 4 more seconds, client queries again the first DNS server 9 If no response is received after 2 more seconds, client stops querying When mine do resolve it could be 8-10 seconds. Seems the above states that the 2nd DC is only queried once anyway. DHCP 1 DHCP 2

Yep but still slow.

Hi all, Need a little help please...... I've got 2 domain controllers, both DHCP, DNS ----> DC1 (2012), DC2 (2016). DC1 is authoritative and FSMO. If I take DC1 down I get horribly slow DNS performance ---> internet and local. In DHCP both DNS servers (DC's) are listed, and in DNS I also have both and a few forwarders listed - our ISP's and Google. Im sure this makes no difference to clients, but the networks properties on both DC's point to each other, then themselves. In the event that DC1 is down, is it that a client must be rebooted in order for it to connect to DNS from DC2 first via its DHCP host? Any ideas? Cheers in advance

Hi all, Got a primary school here that is using cloud hosted Junior Librarian by Microlib systems Ltd. Its unreliable, slow, and they appallingly terrible tech support. I need some recommendations please for library management software that is preferably cloud based but not essential. Good support is a must and a reliable simple system that can easily be used by primary aged kids (and staff!) Cheers in advance

Awesome. Cheers @howartp

I'd stick with the lapels? If they're any good they should be perfect.