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  1. as promised here is the driver that i have extracted from my WDS. the rar has both x86 and x64 drivers. we run a slightly different configuration. we run a 64 bit server with a 32 bit image but these group of drivers works, https://www.dropbox.com/s/3q5b70m4nulusl1/400g3nic.rar?dl=0 Goodluck
  2. We did have this exact issue. I'm not saying it will solve your problem but I will explain our scenario and you can judge whether it matches your problem. We run smoothwall which is county lea fed (cheshire). Our primary connection. We also have an additional bt infinity line which is sometimes load balanced but mainly for failover use only. We had reports of microbit displaying a blank page. Investigation We first ran a tracert to confirm which connection microbit was coming in on. It was routed through our Lea feed. To confirm a routed my request to microbit first through the bt infinity line. Microbit website worked Then tried microbit on an test staff account which was priority fed through cheshire. Microbit showed the blank screen Logged on as admin = blank screen Logged on to a workstation as admin with proxy exception port 801 enable through cheshire and it triggered a ddos arrest 403 error page. Basically smoothwall doesn't know how to interpret this error as in the logs it also never showed anything other than 200 ok Turned out microbit had blocked the ip address of the whole of cheshire. Do a few tests sèe id you situation is similar to mine and If you are lea fed speak to them.
  3. I have some prodesk 400 g3 myself. I will see what driver I have on my WDS server tomorrow.
  4. If you have a 64 bit server and 32 bit image then you would need 64 bit and 32 bit drivers for you nic in the WDS drivers and the 64 bit driver injected in to the boot image. Have you tried downloading the driver from the nic vendor eg realtek, rather than from the manufacturer website eg hp Have you tried an older version of the driver? Fail all that get a USB gigabit network adapter that support pxe (or a non pxe usb nic but you would have to create a usb discovery image) and use that for the persistently troublesome computers. In my experience very few are troublesome and have always managed to find a driver that works before resorting to using a USB nic.
  5. Good option. No point adding more stress to your working day then you necessarily have too. I assume your 3tb p2v is your file server. Piece of p!ss. You'll be fine.
  6. I have always tried to leave all server maintenance until the end of the school day with prior notice to the users. i wouldnt like to suggest doing it any other time to anyone. if i have had to reboot a server during the day i would have to have a bloody good reason if disruption if any was noticed. I run that risk myself but i would always suggest server maintenance to be carried out at the end of the day with prior notice to your users. then you are covered. This scenario does not sound like an emergency and therefore could wait
  7. Had to go check and was my mistake its using 256MB. really dont know why i thought it was 64MB. i have it in my head for some reason that it was less than 100mb for some reason. Apologies for this embarrassing faux par. lesson learnt alway check before you post
  8. Nagios here. very powerful, scaleable and the cost is somewhat nothing financially and on your resources. Requires some linux background knowledge I have set up a nagios server using Ubuntu on my vm host with a 10gb VHD and 64mb RAM and runs comfortably. We monitor Servers HDD space, memory and CPU load mainly and specific IP address of switches but i know you can develop nagios to monitor various things on specific ports on those switches. EDIT: Had to go check and was my mistake its using 256MB. really dont know why i thought it was 64MB. just had in my mind it used next to no resources. Apologies for this embarrassing faux par
  9. im running solus 3 on windows 10 on my pc. seemlessly upgraded through two sims versions with no problems
  10. First try running simsapplicationsetup.exe in sims drive Fail that try reinstalling sims client through solus 3 or using simsinst installer in setups. Not to be confused with sims server and its database. You would be in a whole heap of sh!t if you remove that
  11. Additionally we have a range of AP, including standards, pro, ac pro and outside-pro be mindful though that the standard ap are 24v POE and dont work on POE switches which deliver 48V. the standards require the POE injector which are included in box. the other thing to be mindful of if you use the poe injector they do not ship with UK 3 pin plug so you would need to negotiate as i did with my supplier to ship uk 3 pin to clover leaf or buy them separately
  12. I really like the unifi system. never had any problems in the years we have had it When we upgraded from Netgear to unifi we swapped 1:1 and remember having the same concerns, as we had a netgear AP in every room. whilst it seems overkill unifi will throttle power and manage channels automatically. this can also be manually overridden if you do have issues. We have never had any issues and we have just left everything on automatic. based on my experience i would be surprised if you had any issues. if i were to critisise unifi on something it would be because we have had to replace a few aps under warranty and a couple which just fell outside of warranty as they developped hw issues. wasnt too much of a headache though as the warranty replacement was speedy and the price of replacing one really isnt that bad when you consider the cost of a ruckus/cisco system
  13. I had an LSI raid card in my old backup server and have only just discommisioned it. It was good little worker for the price it was but it died after a fair number of years in service. it was a sad time... remembered as cheap and cheerful and a right hard drive HOAR. I think some Raid cards see the port as occupied (this one included) and wont allow you to select it in a new RAID config without removing the first. i am sure i came across this and had to destroy the RAID when i upgraded with bigger HDD
  14. Not sure if this would work but I am just going to throw it out there. What happens if you archive the academic year. (in line with your housekeeping procedures of course) you can add a couple lines to the sims.ini to load a specific year in NT6 but don't think it is possible within SIMS
  15. why do you not want to use VB. its easier with VB. In your sheet hit Alt + F11 open Sheet1(Sheet1) paste the following code Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range) Target.Value = UCase(Target.Value) End Sub hey presto
  16. we use vericool and whilst we have had our run ins with verisool in the early years of its deployment, you get to learn its quirks. Support and software have come on leaps and bounds. The support is always good also. I cannot comment on any of the others as i have never used them
  17. I bought 12 of the original one before Toshiba decide to rerelease the c50. We had no reason to doubt Toshiba as we have had many of the C850 before them and image deployment was no bother. The only work around we found was specifying the 66/67 option within DHCP under the vlan you use to deploy the image 66: IP address of your WDS server 67: boot\x86\wdsnbp.com We also had to put an IP helper within the VLAN on our HP core switch pointing to the wds server. these can be enabled and disabled whenever you require them if you are security conscious hope this helps EDIT: I assume you have also disabled secure boot and enabled legacy boot within the c50 BIOS 2nd EDIT realised that you must have done to actually get the PXE E53 error
  18. You're going to need to determine which of the 4 have failed. Member or commander? What configuration is your stack? Ring or chain I would recommend reading the hp 2920 stacking tech white pages. This explains how to effectively remove a failed switch and add a new one. Good luck
  19. Just deployed never 10.Exe written by Steve Gibson. Copy never 10 into sysvol share Created a shutdown script gpo linking the Exe Change the run parameters to "update disable delete" https://www.grc.com/never10.htm Hope it helps
  20. Try adprintx.exe. a command that allows you to add printers via script. Using cd switch will create as a default printer. You can include these script in group policy. Group policy would be a lot easier and recommend getting access but as you don't have access this is probably the next best thing
  21. I second this solution. If you are uncomfortable changing compatibility mode in sql server management I would request capita for the patch that does it for you. I am surprised capita did not advise this first as it is a well known issue
  22. Have you tried setting group policy loopback - setting to merge
  23. Big hero 6. It ace.
  24. Here is the script i referred to before. It has only been tested on an onsite exchange 2010. i would advise testing the script if you have any other configuration. i realised this is a script that adapted off the internet so i cannot claim credit as i did in my first post https://www.dropbox.com/s/jw3891sne6e4yr9/PasswordNotification.rar?dl=0 if you havent done it already you will need to set the execution policy to bypass or have the script signed. set-executionpolicy bypass or remotesigned. google it if you need help on this feature 1 - Extract folder onto your exchange server or a server that has access to your exchange powersehell commands 2 - modify the variables in PasswordChangeNotification.ps1 3 - Modify the [email protected] which is at the bottom of the script (i dont know why i didnt set this as a variable in the first place) 4 - Modify PasswordNotify.cmd making sure the location of PS shell and the location of the PasswordChangeNotification.ps1 are correct. this script calls the ps1 script 5 - once you are satisfied it is working, create a schedule task to run the cmd script (rather than the ps1 script). i created a trigger of monday and friday morning 6 - Personally i would create a schedule task user that has permission to run tasks on the server but for testing you could authenticate using your own domain admin account
  25. Check when opening the file in the footer of the application does it say something like opening such a such a resource from \\server\share. Press esc to continue. This is likely due to a server that has been decommissioned. In my experience just save as doesn't work but copying the contents into a new document and save as does. Once saved delete the old file
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