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The registry key is located here HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList You can look through all the sids and it will tell you what path it (normally C:\users\%username%) in the entry ProfileImagePath. Delete the entire key relating to that and see if that works.

I read that and still felt the need to post - and It was always deleted. One of the first things I do when building a server is show hidden files. i think its something to do with the sid in the registry and the folder sids matching so it tries to apply the settings it thinks it should. I never got around to deleting the registry key for the user but it. @googlemad give me a minute and I'll find the location in the registry.

I've had this before and never quite worked it out. I always found deleting the contents of the folder never worked. renaming and creating a new folder did. Never worked out why it works though!

What I would recommend doing is setting up a Network switch within ESXI with no physical network cards assigned. You can then run the VM's completely isolated from your Physical network. You can convert everything and run it seperately (obivously when you do a final change I would reimport the physical machines).

I would go with take a clone of the drive. Install new drives in a raid and then cloning the server back.

Have you been working with WSCC schools again?! Had that exact problem too!

Is the back wall fixed? I think you might either need to get something projected from the back. Or have one at a large angle facing down from a height.

There isn't any - they custom make 90% of there stuff so having standard pricing doesn't really work. Give them a call and see what they say. Then when they give you a price laugh at it and then bargin with them!

Windows 7 has a client limit of 20 - so if you share data from it only 20 clients at once can connect to it. as domino mentions - FOG Appliance for ESXI

ESXI is an OS as itself. You would need to install that onto the Bare metal assign it an IP address and walk back to your desk and do everything from there via the VSphere console.

Some bios allow you to choose what days you start it. Is the bios the latest version? as that may give you more control. You can see more information on the different states supported for WOL in windows are here Sleep States for Wake On LAN The one you mention is S5 and you need to be able to set to wol from that.

You might find that in the Bios you can auto-on at a time, What machines are they that they don't support WOL? Is it deffinatly enabled in the bios? It might be listed as wake from S4 or something similar.

You would need to buy windows 7 licenses now. You may as well buy something install Free ESXI on it which will run all your vm's on it. For waking up devices, shutdown and deployment you should be able to use FOG which is also free and runs on linux.

I went under the Kent County Contract and has similar click charges.

I might buy a laptop just to do this!!

Originally we were going to buy separate Papercut for ITS and Devices from Ricoh, but we had a competetive quote from a third party (who I can't remember) who bundled it all together. Which made Ricoh hook up with ITS to offer an All in one solution at what was essentially the same cost. The school was going for MF with biometric integration which was a far chunk of money (about 17K I think). @CyberNerd - if you want I will PM you the name of the account manager round here - very nice lady One thing to note is that some of the suppliers will charge you double click fees if printing to A3. Whereas Ricoh direct don't. If you don't print much in A3 that should be ok then!

I went with Ricoh direct just before I left my last place. They will also now do Papercut MF as part of the lease agreement.

Talk to Stone - they will no No-OS devices if requested.

They can also be paid (market supplement) if the Governors feel they want to pay them more I believe. Toby

If all is virtual give it to veeam. I run hourly replications of some clients servers and you can't even tell. These run over the interweb to a DR site which only has a 10mb connection.

My last place in a school of 1600 1 x head 2 x deputys 3 x assistant (was 5, 1 retired 1 redundant!) 1 Bus Manager lots of busy bodies (I mean Heads of Departments)

If SQL servers are VM's there is no harm in just letting Veeam back those up to. If possible I would also recommend having a replica of each VM taken offsite for Veeam. Whether you partner with another school and just get a Nas Device and send it over to them and replicate to it.

When you run the CSR generator it will tell you everything you require. I use the multiple domain UCC from godaddy - SSL Certificates | Secure Your Data & Transactions - Go Daddy

For the cost of getting a second (and considering your primary san might be showing age) You could probably get two devices running Open-E and have Active-Active ISCSI failover from one to the other. Meaning you can completely take a San offline and nobody will notice. Plus there is no size limit. If you want you could use the 36 bay supermicro chassis

Not quite true - VMware does rely on drivers (which can be a pita to get working if they are not in the main release). But with it being based around linux the drives tend to work about 9 million times better then windows (ok slight exaggeration). In all the ESXI installs I've done the only HP hardware I've had a problem with is an ML350 Gen8. But VMware have a release with Specific HP drivers to get the machine running.