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send them down to DT and tell them to fabricate something

i think that then falls under the same as videos and DVD's do, as long as the teacher or someone owns a copy you can show it

you don't thats with hosted virtulazation such as GSX/Server/Player/Workstation not ESX(i)

the source code is still availble Download details: Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2008 Source Code

have you phoned them? there education deals are different. 100mb line is nearly the same price as 10mb for us.

why don't you just inject the vmware nic driver into the WDS wim? instead of swapping the NIC in the vmx file.?

have you checked this link? (iBoyd) » SCCM: Content downloaded to the client does not match the content specified in the content source Binary Differential Replication & Hidden files

are you following distmgr.log on the server when you refresh? be careful opening the DP directory in windows explorer, it may create desktop.ini files or thumbnail files which then make the hash invalid.

i didn't think you were being lazy, i was just trying to explain that there probably not much use outside of our environment. out of interest do RM support server virtualization?

don't 16bit programs not work in 64bit windows? didn't they get rid of the 16/32 WOW

no its not, i 've got installed on xp32

vanilla system is very doable with 1 member of staff (if you know what you are doing) (i wouldn't recommend it with 1 member of staff though) 2.5 is what we roll with here it really depends on your skill set(s) what you want out of the system whether you feel restricted by CC4. personally I would not work on a CC4/Viglen/ type of network, as I come from a vanilla background and find "managed" systems too restrictive with certain procedures such as provisioning new pcs/rebuilds locked to a particular methodology, and while the method is generally okay it has problems with specific applications, whereas with a vanilla system I can pick and choose different methods for the appropriate situation, the cost of these "managed" systems seem to me to be excessive. I can also change my method as and when I choose when suits me and the school, not when the "provider" deems appropriate. also with a vanilla system, you can pick and choose different components for different tasks, such as print billing from one company, os deployment from another, os virtualization from another, app virtualization from another, classroom monitoring from another. etc etc. often as less cost that the "managed" system, also with the managed system they also can often blame third party components such as an easy scapegoat not to provide support (thinking viglen more there than RM) vanilla systems are also more configurable in areas such as where you place your users home areas / profiles / etc. allowing a better load balanced / performing system. having said that, these systems do have there place, especially with a lack of staff or skills (in the particular area of vanilla windows, I'm not saying people who operate RM networks are unskilled) and as another member posted on this forum in a different thread, it can free up time to work on other projects, such as sharepoint or moodle development. GPOs? just make them, its not that hard, I'm not exporting our schools GPO's for you as a lot of it would not work without being in our network, and you would have more work finding the problems than it would be to setup some from scratch. when I did our complete rebuild a few years ago, I setup the basic GPO's in less than an hour. if your not prepared to setup GPO's as part of your testing then I think you've answered your own question. CC4 it is

i used to use ghost, not any more SCCM now. but when I did, I switched from using BartPE to standard WinPE from the AIK, as once you get your head round peimg.exe and imagex.exe its less hassle than bart pe.

not biometric, but mifare cards

information protocol stack is that not correct??

i exported the mailboxes as PSTs and then reimported. I also extracted/reimported all the user accounts with a program i wrote in c#, I don't have it anymore or I would send it to you, but there are plently of programs about on the net anyways.

ours had been made worse post-viglen so in our case a rebuild was the only option, I didn't examine the viglen system too deeply. But i suspect you can't just transfer roles and that was the mistake my predecessor made, I seem to remember that it did something very strange with group policies. personally i would rebuild.

that 3com i have is a pain if you need to config via the serial port, the cli is complicated (i do it when i have to but id rather use the web browser with particular switch) our edge switches i'd rather use the cli

surely the 12gb into 1gb is the problem here?

can't you get a few more nortels and add them to the stack? wouldn't that be cheaper than replacing the whole lot? i haven't seen them, but surely they allow for more than 2 in a stack?

so you've got 12 x 1gb ports connecting to the "server" core via 1 x 1gb fibre.?? who's your boss ? person i think it is?

how are the netgears "bolted on"

what switches are they?

what we had was really weird at times, it would ping some hosts and come back with times of 600ms and others <1ms, and would out and out refuse to talk to some other hosts, and talk to some no problem,

Toby, I had very similar problems on our two backup servers, with all the hp nic teaming stuff installed, they were much better once I rebuilt using built in 2008 R2 drivers