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Oh, and a definite second for Person 4, fantastic story with some of the best written characters I've come across. Other Atlus games, such as Devil Survivor, are worth a look too. 999: 9 Hours, 9 persons, 9 doors is very heavy on story line, but its gameplay has put me off the multiple play throughs you need to get the most out of it. The sequel, Zero Escape: Virtue's Last reward apparently fixes some of those issues. Finally, The World End With You has a fantastic storyline, and if you own a DS, and like RPGs, you owe it to yourself to give it a try!

Anything Bioware, including Jade Empire. Deus Ex: Directors Cut - the latest version is definitely worth a play through. Amazed it hasn't come up already, but Chrono Trigger has an excellent storyline. MGS3 probably has the strongest storyline, though I do like MGS1 (I'm sure I heard there was a HD reboot coming along...) Planescape Torment (there is a reported Enhanced Edition of this due, could be a year or two away though). I remember really enjoying the story of Neverwinter Nights 2, but I could be in the minority on this one.

Wouldn't it be better for the stuff that's shown on the whiteboard be made available to the student, either via a shared area on the network, or VLE or similar? An alternative could be to use something like Impero or AB Tutor and then the Member of staff could share their screen with the student? Not sure if that works across a domain or not. Is it the viewing distance that's the issue, or the content? I remember staff saying that black on white can be one of the worst colour schemes for students with impaired vision or dyslexia, and that a softer contrast sometimes helps...

Worth checking the permissions of the printer to see if there's an issue there... Is it installed per user or per PC?

Just to update, my Data Manger came back to me and mentioned it was something to do with the Alternative Curriculum being carried over from this year to next that was causing the issue, so @vikpaw had it absolutely spot on. Thanks for the help, much appreciated! I did try to look it up on Support Net, but I find the website a touch unwieldy...

Apologies for the slight thread hijack, but can anyone point me at a good 'teach yourself vLanning' website, book or training course? I'm pretty keen to vLan off the wireless and servers myself!

Sadly the solution on this thread: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/educational-software/86829-sims-nova-t6-error.html didn't help, so I'm hoping someone has had a similar issue before. Our data manager ran a Cycle export this morning for the first time, which seemed to go through okay. She then went to export the curriculum data, but got the following error: "Nt6. Access violation at address 00014042 in module 'NT6.EXE'. Read of address 0000000C." We tried a different machine and a different user account with no luck. We also tried loading previous datasets and garnered the same result. I had hoped changing permissions on C:\Windows\SIMS.ini to give the data manager modify rights would help, but no dice there either. Any advice on any troubleshooting steps would be greatly appreciated!

In SIMS, choose Focus - System Manager - Manage users and find your training accounts. If under login details it has a straight forward username, then you aren't using AD integration. If you have something like DOMAIN\Username then you are using AD integration. With the latter, just unlink your training account (so give them a username, taking out the DOMAIN\) log into SIMS with that account, sign out of SIMS, and then reattach them to Active Directory. It's an absolute PITA, but I've only experienced it with one user, and not since I posted back in December...

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In my experience, moving My Documents usually causes an issue with Offline files or the Sync centre. Try changing giving them a new profile (and call their old folder found in C:\Users\ on the workstation username.old) and see if that sorts the issue out. You may need to wipe their profile registry entry found in HKLM - Software - Microsoft - Windows NT - Current Version - ProfileList (Leave the S-1-5-18,19 and 20 alone).

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Looks awesome, but just so far away! If anyone knows of similar groups a bit further south, I would be interested in a PM (I don't want to hijack the thread!). Is it worth joining as a member even if you can't make the meetings?

I'll just add, that after implementing the above script, my laptops now DO receive Group Policy Updates whilst on batteries and connected via Wireless. This is going to be a massive time saver looking forward.

Background info Wireless has, for the most part, been the bane of my existence as a Network Manager. It's flaky, it's unreliable and it can ruin your otherwise lovely day. Combined with some odd behaviour with Windows 7 and domains, student logins tend to be a bit of a lottery, with around a 1% chance of getting an error "there are no logon servers available..." and another 1% chance of logging in fine, but having no My Documents or Start Menu as they haven't mapped properly on login. This 2% error rate has fluxuated depending on model of WAP, it was a lot higher with the Netgear and stand alone Cisco WAPS, but since the introduction of Aerohive, I can be relatively assured that the issue is going to be with the laptop/Windows, rather than the wireless itself. Not that Aerohive is 100% faultless, it has a tendency to put APs that are next to each other on the same channel, and the odd WAP occasionally needs to be prodded with a paperclip, but it's generally a good, reliable system. The interesting bit But to the more helpful aspect of this blog. After receiving a complaint from a teacher that everytime she closed the lid of her laptop to move lesson, she would lose network connectivity and thus any files she had open would be made read only, causing her some grief. It wasn't insurmountable, but if we could look into it, that would be appreciated. My first thought is power settings, change it so that when the Lid is closed, nothing happens and problem is solved. Whilst digging around in the power settings, I can across a setting I hadn't seen before, and is definitely not in the GPP for power settings: Wireless Adapter settings. On the default power settings for Windows 7, on battery, Windows will reduce the performance of your wireless adapter. After a bit of research to find out if I can change this setting via Group Policy, I found out that this has caused other people grief with poor wireless performance, and that is isn't possible to change via GPO or GPP. Indeed, our very own EduGeek has a thread on the subject: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-7/83351-wireless-power-gpo-settings.html I wanted a simpler solution to the one offered by @VeryPC_Tom_M and wondered whether the 'high performance' plan built into Windows 7 had enable 'Maximum performance' on Wireless adapters, which it has. This being the case, I've set a script to run on start up for laptops for the following: Powercfg -setactive 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c This should ensure that all laptops are set to High Perfomance, and hopefully reduce that 2% down to 0.2% or lower. Now, if I could only get laptops to receive Group Policy updates over wireless I'd be onto a real winner...

Apologies for raising this thread from the dead, but I thought it as worth mentioning that our simple reports (Name, reg, address block, previous school for one year group) would time out and not run at all. Ran the 'Rebuild index' as stated by @jinnantonnixx and they now run within a few minutes. Still warns the report will take a long time to run, but at least I'm getting the reports now!

I'm hoping it's a simple process, but as it's the only time I'm going to be upgrading my SIMS server myself before we go back to a hosted environment, I want to be sure I get it right! My assumption is, to deploy the Spring release 2014, I deploy the SIMS Database 2014 Spring (3.62.143) and then the SIMS Database 2014 Spring (3.62.147) updates first. Then the SIMS 2014 Spring (7.156.31), SIMS Discover 2014 Spring and finally the patch (3.62.122-3.62.147) PRB7167. Are there any gotcha's or anything I should check first before deploying these updates? Thanks,

Interesting, hope it works for you. I remember rebuilding to Windows 7 over the summer holidays, creating a mandatory profile the XP way, and watching in horror on the first day of term as no students could logon. That was a bit of a pressure situation to get a working profile!

You'll most likely see issues when you try to login with a different user account using the same mandatory profile. I almost guarantee it won't work (that was the way it used to work with XP, much simpler days). The first run issues I think do occur with mandatory profiles because they're aren't saved anywhere useful in the profile (at least, not as far as I'm aware of) and are more likely to be registry changes. There is a group policy that prevents the IE welcome screen, not sure about Media player as I never use it, preferring VLC across the school.

Have you redirected any other folders? If not, then add something to the Start Menu or Favorites folder of your Mandatory profile. If they appear when you login with an account using that Mandatory profile then it's probably safe to assume it's worked!

Just to give Capita their due, they've got in contact with a quote, and their support service sounds pretty good. Waiting to here back from SMIS. Thanks to everyone who replied and PM'ed, really helpful!

@Chuckster looks good, I'll get in contact and see what they can do!

Essentially, yes. There are other people on the support desk, but only one who knows SIMS in depth enough to help our Data manager. The other people have moved on as the County budget has been reduced year on year.

We're an school in Oxfordshire looking to replace our LEA for our SIMS support. Whilst the person at county is excellent, she's extremely busy supporting the entire county, and so we're looking elsewhere. I've contacted two separate people at Capita last week about getting a quote, and neither have got back to me, which doesn't instill a sense of confidence in using them for support. However I would be interested to hear people's opinions of Capita's SIMS support team, or anyone else they use for their SIMS support. Thanks,

I've used this guide t o get a machine ready to create a mandatory profile: http://idsuwarno.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/sysprep-a-windows-7-machine.pdf Then this to copy the profile and make it mandatory: Customize the default local user profile when preparing an image of Windows But, in fairness, I tend to have both a mandatory profile and a load of GPOs to lock down students...

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