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http://www.edugeek.net/showthread.php?t=162105 You will see I have rem out the psshutdown command. Feel free to fix it if you want.

I use to use psshutdown however something happened that broke it one day and never had the time to work out a fix. I replace psshutdown with the resident command shutdown which works however removes the ability for the user to abort the shutdown. I have a script i designed myself which pings all my vlan then creates a list of active computers. After finding them it will proceed to shut them down the computer after 10 minutes of warnings. I will post the link to another thread that I shared my script once i found it.

I had a server a decommissioned to scrap last month. It had been active on a number of roles for longer than I had been there. Don't know exactly the build date but i have been there for 13 years). It was a custom built admin dc/file server when we had a split admin and curriculum networks. When the two networks were merged, it was recommissioned a number of time as backup servers. It had all the same hardware inside with the exception to replacement hard drives. I could have shed a tear whilst removing all of its internals listening to a fitting track, the hollies - He ain't heavy, he's my brother. Rip. Fyi It was heavy. Bloody thing nearly killed me removing it from the cab.

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Could do with knowing what other vlans you have. expand your vlan scope from a /21 to a /20 which will give you 10.235.144.0 - 10.235.159.255 if you have the space without overlapping. This shouldn't need any switch Config. Alternative if that range overlaps another vlan create a new vlan with a new /20. This would give you 4000 odd addresses. This would require to switch Config though

Just a thought when you say takes you 15 secs to logon... try sticking a process exception in your anti virus software for sims load. Exe and pulsar.exe. Also an exception for your s: drive. You should have av on your sims server.

Im sure... you can customise the design of that stock report to show what you want?

Check the connect.ini in windows folder on the computer has a redirect to you s drive

Check the connect.ini on the computer c:\Windows points to s: drive. Should have something like redirect = s:\sims Or should be an exact clone of the connect.ini on your s: drive. Redirect would be better as it's easier to manage the connection in one place than in 100's

Totally agree with twin turbo. As a support engineer of a school by introducing undocumented hardware with out the consent from your ict team is an act of work place misconduct and could land your wife in very hot water. Her ict team will have detail documentation of the networks layout and introducing an unmanaged node could have your ict searching for many hours if it were to cause a network issue which will have a knock on affect not just to you but potentially every other user on that network. I advise your wife to speak with her ict team and come to some agreement. If her ict team have said no I am sure there is a valid reason for their decision whether that is funding, compatibility or otherwise you don't mess with the network. Sorry if this sounds harsh but I have been on the receiving end fault finding because a staff member taking it upon themselves. They never thought to own up as they never understood the impact of their actions.

I have great success in deploying printer thru login scripts. I find group policy printers can leave the client hanging on some drivers for some time. Scripts are alot faster to run. We use adprintx.exe to deploy the printer and set the default. If you want a local printer to prioritise the default over a network printer you can set a reg key thru group policy user tying that machine. Hkcu/Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Copy the device key in to group policy

had this years ago. if i recall it had something to do with outlook anywhere. can be disabled in the account setting in outlook or set via Group policy.

what method of deployment between 7 and 8.1. what do you use to deploy your image? If you use WDS Are you using the same boot image that you used on XP with Windows 7 and windows 8.1? you will need to create a new boot image for each OS (not to be confused with the install image) Image deployment could be a driver issue. Try importing Windows 7 disc into deployment server, create a windows 7 boot image and a win 7 install image the link your answer file and reimage your client. do you experience the same problem?

+1 on bossman we had similar issue. we had 2 x LOM then a 4 port HP HBA card. we have them teaming separately using the HBA as the network and the LOM as the Heartbeat Does the network come back temporarily if you reboot the Host. Maybe try this as we experienced similar outages on our HP Hyperv servers which had broadcom NICs. ran this ms fix on all network adapters as it caused similar symptoms to the ones you describe but the difference the network would come back after a reboot briefly. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2986895

They are right you are not entitled to the Ent edition as they replaced it with Education edition which comes under your EES. i think they are being facetious and knew what you meant. Are you using the search facilty or filtering through the list. i find the search crap. The EES agreement has the education edition only. Our KMS was added automatically however i cannot recall whether we had to request the MAK key or that was added automatically also. I would look through VLSC again for the edu edition then if that is not there phone MS again tell them you want a MAK for edu edition

As good as powershell is sometimes it can be like hitting a nail with a sledgehammer. I have a dsmod command script that does similar but changes the password but i have included the switch for the "office" field in AD (i assume this is the field you mean to change) ChangeUserDetails.cmd for /f "eol=; Tokens=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 Delims=," %%a in (%1) do ( dsmod user "CN=%%a,OU=removed,OU=removed,OU=removed,OU=removed,OU=removed,DC=removed,DC=removed,DC=removed,DC=removed,DC=removed" -upn %%a -display %%b -samid %%a -desc %%c -fn %%d -ln %%e -office %%g -pwd %%f -mustchpwd no ) [/Code] ChangeUserDetails.CSV format [Code] User,Display name,Description,First Name, Last Name, Password, Office [/Code] Adapt your csv and script to suit in elevated cmd prompt [Code] ChangeUserDetails.cmd ChangeUserDetails.csv [/Code] EDIT: Subsititute the -office switch with -Title. didnt see the job title field first time i looked

Just check that the compatibility setting in sql did apply to your sql database. We are a 1600 strong school and Our sims.mdf db is 15gb with discover and fms running in the same imsrance and it runs fine. We experience the odd crash every now again but nothing as to what you sound like you are experiencing. Try housekeeping techniques. Archiving attendance marks etc which will shrink the db abit. Does your staff have access to designing reports? Check for old reports and obe We found a report that had been created by stupid staff that slogged the server resources filtering rules that weren't valid criteria. When the staff member ran the report it would lock up and sometimes crash everyone out of sims. We had this issue for 3 months before the teacher decided to ask for help because this report was not outputting what was wanted. When I investigated the reports I was annoyed at the number of outdated reports and the faulty report.

I would ask the power company and the maintenance manager to investigate as a matter of urgency. Sounds as though you have provided sufficient protection to the school network as you can. Unfortunately there is not alot that can be done if there is no electric. And feel that the problems experiwnce are beyond the scope for ict They need to find out what is causing the power cut and resolve it as one day you may come in to find switches and server won't power back on. Although ups offer a line of defence against power spikes if the ups fails then your hardware connected will take the hit

Which user are you running the task under? I think It will be running but on the user that you set in the task scheduler. If you change the scheduled task user to reflect your test user account you logging on as, does it show?

Used it before as our sims support sla included it. It worked never had to use it for recovery but alway seemed to report well on backup completion or not. We no longer needed it after updating our dpm servers allowed integration with azure.

Log on to the client and check the fms version reflects was s3 says it is. Log on to the affected client. Is there an available update on the client agent? If so try updating from the cliebt agent. Ping the affected machine then tracert the ip address that is resolved. It should be name you pinged. If not then dns is incorrect and it is likely what computer s3 thinks its deploying to is not actually the computer. You may want to reinstall the agent. When Client errors in s3 in normally times out after 30 mins (default setting) tend to timeout after 30 mins during the update. Have you tried restarting the pc that is stuck and redeploying.

I don't go out of my way too but if a parent, student or teacher were to ask I would offer advice freely

I'm sorry I can beat all of you. We never bother with quotas as we have always had plenty of storage however couple months ago I noticed our storage drop 400gb in roughly a week. So I went snooping. Turned out a sixth former bought in a USB hard drive and uploaded to our network loads of dvd, music, years of photos. I archived it all off on to a spare server i am still waiting for her to come claim and it today

My god I'm not the only one. I spent 30 mins arguing why it was illegal to rip frozen to show to 8 classes before xmas to which their response on numerous occasions was everyone does it. After I told him to leave me too it (because it was lunch time and really got to the point where blood was going to spilt) After lunch I emailed him good news I am pleased to offer the attached solution. The attachment was a quote for 8 copies of the dvd frozen from hmv.

Different grades of illegal. All videos are someone's intellectual property so unless they specifically tell you yes you may download it then you are stealing their intellectual property. Whilst that is more a grey area and would be open to debate, Downloading copyrighted material is obviously clearly illegal.