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Yes they do. their wording was the single most problem for me as It would confuse me. in most questions it would be at least 1 answer would be definitely wrong and 2 answers would read somewhat very similar with a subtle difference and the correct answer would be based on the elaborate circumstances detailed in the question. The hardest thing was fine tooth combing the scenario for the tell tail clue of which of the two were correct.

Cloudcentral... sorry don’t have info to hand on cost. If I know the school it’s cheap cheap. They didn’t even opt in for any support agreement so guess who blind fixes when something goes wrong. Muggins here 🤯

I hope not ... [emoji23]

Oh yeah forgot about GRC... great tool. if GRC cant recover it then I doubt any can

I use ZAR (paid version) and R-Studio (Paid) before now and generally had more successfully recoverys than unsuccessful. rstudio (and I think ZAR) will give you an indication of whether it can be recovered before buying a license

Look for the updated sims technical roadmap. gives you a graphics of what becomes unsupported and when https://www.egfl.org.uk/sites/default/files/Finance_data/Data_collection/SIMS%20technical%20roadmap.pdf As of March 2018, Sql 2012 and server 2012 will remain support for the foreseeable future which is Spring 2020 release

Ahh one problem with this is if you do not have an automated password reset facility your users will become locked out in 30days or whatever your password age policy is as this will not flag the password never expires check box example here https://passwordreset.scomis.org/default.aspx As you have figured the passwords that are generated are in a stronger format than most of passwords you will come across on your own network so by routine we set the password never to expire but advise parents on issuing there password to follow the my account link to change their password to something that they would remember better. has worked well for years now Parent App is hosted and has SSO with MS, Facebook or Twitter so no need for thousands of parent ad accounts.

Gamma sell through a reseller. Funny I contacted them today as we had our first outage in about 3years. Happened late last night and was resolved in hours but the issue had a knock on effect to our internal system which required restarting. Otherwise they seem reliable

In ad take a look in the user account tab. Is “user must change password on next login” checked? If so I recommend clearing that and checking the password never expires.

Hard hitting but true there is only so much help people can give I’m afraid. Don’t be put off in future about posting for help. Personally I take comfort knowing there are people on here that can help. On countless occasions I have come to a resolution from help on here quicker than the vendors support network.

I have moderation footage which I am burning to DVD (yes I know DVD... exam boards... shoot me know) I am importing several MP4 to convert to a DVD with a menu system however on converting each individual video looks like its had a second stripped off the end before it returns to menu. apparently that last one second could cost students marks. Anyone come across this and have any suggestions?

What version is your ADP? you will have a few lines for it by looking in uninstall programs and look for sims ADP* no worries at all. I too had several issues which only trial and error and experience got me through. if I can spare you pain I had I should be able to sleep better tonight

It’s ok SLG can be a mind field. We have had ours for 5/6 years now I think and I’m still learning things. Sounds to me that your adp service isn’t working properly maybe from the task scheduler for some reason and when we performed the batch command it has release a load of updates. Now something to understand about adp which will explain why your parents passwords keep changing. Every time you reprovision the account it gets queued in adp task. Adp will execute the requests in batches as they have been submitted therefore depending on how long the service hasn’t been working you may have thousands of requests queued. Also Depending on how many times you reprovisioned the user will be the number of times it changes the password which probably answers your last question Keep running that script as administrator and refreshing the browser where you see requests until no more request get filtered through. At least then you know your data is up to date then you can give the parent and students there most up to date passwords As for consolidation this is process which you would carry out after the provisioning service has created the ad user. First in the browser click on account tools The consolidation tool will appear Select the security group Enter part of full name in name boxes Click search The boxes to the right will then become active then run find matches based on similar criteria between the real ad account and the slg ad account ( I use first and surname) This will match the accounts up Select the accounts you want to consolidate Preview Choose an account to keep which will be your real ad account in this situation I suspect Then consolidate

Sp_dboption was deprecated after sql 2008 replaced with alter database. What version of dBattach is it? The version on our 2012 box is 1.49.40.0 From what version of sims is the dB? Have you not got a sims support sla. Most do and it may be your council, or even I private contract. It’s ok knowing sql and how to install applications using a sql database... but sims is a beast, a frankeinstein that defies all logic and understanding. If you can find them they will most definitely be able to help you in this situation.

Ask them what the ICO would make of it. see what their response is then?

sound like we have a very similar setup to you and would suggest the same as @pantscat My only additional advice is let your LEA know the situation. From experience it will stop them harassing you at the most inconvenient time asking why your server is not contactable and is swamping them. not as if a localized power failure will present those types of symptoms ...

Spoke to someone at groupcall who helped answer my question

I have Groupcall installed on my SIMS server where we exchange data with are LEA. Does anyone know how to enable/ disable certain reports in Groupcall. I can see several tasks some reporting Disabled and some reporting Idle with no obvious way of controlling the jobs scheduled. I’m sure functionality was there a year. Was this removed in an update? We have requested that our LEA only collect specific data, which was mutually confirmed at one point last year that the report in question was disabled. Sometime in the last 6 months the report seems to have enabled itself again. is this possible without internal intervention as I can not get to the bottom of how it suddenly enabled itself?

I’m going to assume the server instance that you redacted matches the sims server and sims database instance? If correct then the provision service should have queued the requests in https://localhost:1103, click on clients, should should the number of request changes the adp service is waiting to process and the number of blocked. This number should immediately increase with the changes calculate then slowly reduce down to 0 zero again The requests are then detailed in pending request before moving to completed requests. If the requests have been blocked then these should appear in the blocked log. Can you double check that they are not being blocked

Ok yes I understand. Your adp service is not doing what it is supposed to be doing. save this code as a bat or cmd file on your desktop and run as administrator Report back the status of service. if it may hangs for up to 10-15 mins and fail, try running it again. this sometimes happens to me but returns successful the second time. @echo off :RUN cls c: cd \program files (x86)\sims\adpclient\changetracking\ adpscheduledprocesses.exe pause also look in the event log on the adp server for a log called ADProvisioning. it is under the folder "application and service logs"

Do the users appear in AD?

Ok so you have provisioned the users within sims but the adp service hasn’t created the user ad yet. The sims report shows this by showing no username and password as you have described. Firstly the adp service should be running as you have confirmed Secondly the process is called by a batch script in task scheduler typically daily at a certain time. Has this task ran since you have provisioned the users? Also is it running in the highest privileges . These are the commons things to look for

I feel knackered at the end of the day. It started not long after the birth of my now 2 yo son. [emoji64] Joking aside. If you don’t feel like yourself for any justified reason go get yourself checked up by a gp. I sometimes have sleep issues when I have had a mentally challenging day and my head is still working on it when I go to bed but I find listening to YouTube videos of thunderstorm sound of rain in forests etc helps relaxes my overactive mind

We don’t use count down clocks for the same reason as @Linfit mentions however we have used a clock displayed on a projector before now. Just google online clock app. Plenty to use just be careful on the spelling. One letter out and could return something completely different [emoji23]