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The e-mail says it's part of the Microsoft Home Use Program. Includes one copy of Microsoft 2013 Professional Plus (or Office 2011 for Mac).

Came in this morning to find an e-mail about how as we are a corporate MS customer, we can buy a copy of Office 2013 pro for £8.95 for home use. Don't mind if I do!

Plenty of time for both!

Yea, keep it tidy. Delete the SIMS folder form the x86 directory. Maybe check D:\Program Files\SIMS (and D:\Program Files (x86)\SIMS) to see if you have a SIMS .net or FMS folder there. If you have, get rid of them too. The process is easy when you know how and gets easier the more you do it. Just be grateful that you don't have SOLUS3 or Discover to contend with too!!!

Yep, it usually means you've installed SIMS and FMS into the Program Files (x86) directory rather than the Program Files directory on a 64 bit device when FMS is configured to look for the SIMS executable in the C:\Program Files directory. FMS accesses SIMS .net for personnel links. FMS has a global setting in the database for the location of the SIMS executable (pulsar.exe). Back in the day when 32-bit was the norm, FMS was set to find SIMS in C:\Program Files\SIMS\SIMS .net. Now with 64-bit O/S's being more popular, most schools have mixed 32 and 64 bit devices. If your environment is mixed, FMS will almost always be set to point to the C:\Program Files folder. If you then install SIMS and FMS to the x86 folder instead on a new device, you get the above error and will need to reinstall both clients into the Program Files directory. You should always install SIMS and FMS to the C:\Program Files\ directory even if it's a 64-bit device to ensure the link is not between SIMS and FMS is not broken when FMS is used, unless every single device in your estate is 64-bit, both SIMS and FMS are installed into the x86 directory, and FMS is configured to look in C:\Program Fles (x86)\SIMS\SIMS .net for pulsar.exe.

After having it downloaded for a long while, I've finally been giving Planetside 2 a go it it's really good fun. Free to play FPS action on epic scale! I've only put a couple of hours in so far and am still very much still getting to grips with it all! It seems @ZeroHour plays it a fair bit and thought that there may be many other Edugeekers out there who play. It got me thinking how it may be cool to get a "call to arms" out there for Edugeeker's to get a squad or two to get together and cause havoc on a grand scale! What do people think?

SIMS Server simple refers to where the SQL instance and databases sit. If your databases are attached, you can delete them. If you have space somewhere else though, may be worth holding on to them for a month or so just in case. Yep, completely scrap all of what your doing there. FMS does still requires the SQL 2005 Native Client! It just needs installing. Download it from here: Download Feature Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - November 2005 from Official Microsoft Download Center It's the sqlncli.msi you need. Install it and try FMS again. If you get a runtime error 217 after that, it means there is no default printer installed/selected.

Yep, SIMS and Discover both work. Data transfer works a treat.

This applies to new installs of Discover from Summer onwards! Previously installing Discover via SOLUS3 or manually with the installers, the physical database file names were called Discover.mdf and Discover.ldf. With the summer installer, Microsoft have changed the default naming of physical data files with the SQL Server 2012 Data Tools. This means that if you install Discover, the database files are now called Discover_Primary.mdf and Discover_Primary.ldf. If you back up files based on specific name, be sure to check the physical names of your database files. There is a fix onthe SupportNet thread about this which you can access here (hopefully): http://support.capitaes.co.uk/newforum/main.asp?params=%95%9E%A1%9B%A0%A6%C8%A0%B0%A2%A4%B4%A9%8E%F1%97%C6%D1%DE%D9%DC%E6%DE%A4%DC%D5#

Just for you @X-13...

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70 tabs?!

AH-hoy-hoy!

I use Firefox as my main browser. I only have a small number of plug-ins and extensions, and only ever have around 8 tabs open. Memory use seems to exceed 500Mb and I'm wondering if this is about average? It seems a little excessive to me.

OK, don't use SIMSInst.exe as it sounds like it's really out of date. Is your sims database attached yet? If not, that's the first thing to do. Run the SIMSSQLApplicationSetup.exe and install it to your SQL's Binn folder (C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.SIMS2008R2\MSSQL\Binn). Once done, run dbAttach form the Start | All Programs |Sims Applications folder and get the SIMS database attached. Once done, install the SIMS Document Management Server software with the SIMSDocuemntManagementServer.exe and double check the folder structure once installed. It shoudl be C:\DOCSTORAGE\\SIMS2008R2\SIMS. Then install SIMS .net by running the SIMSApplicationSetup.exe. Run SIMS and test a login. Once logged in, Tools | Setups | Document Management Server and update the server name if it's changed. Once done, save and test.

Can you just clarify what's been completed so far? - SQL2008 is installed? - SIMS and FMS database attached to the new instance? - SIMS .net installed? - DMS installed? Can you scroll down and provide a screenie of the SIMS installers too? Some of those files look very old and I'm wondering if the SIMS installers are out of date too. EDIT: Ignore that last bit, completely blanked the second screenshot!!!

If it's trying to install SQL200 for you, then yes, it really is out of date! Sounds like you need the latest SIMS Infrastructure package. You can request it from your support unit and they can release it to you in SOLUS2 along with the SIMS Summer release.

I have no interest in Sport and have no interest what so ever in hearing/reading about it on the news. This interests me, therefore I'm happy to see it reported on.

Error message?

I'm working on automating the migration process for schools in our LA and am using a VM for testing. The VM is running a Green Abbey SIMS, FMS and Discover system, all on the Summer 2013 release. I've had some issues getting the process to run via a script, so am trying to do it manually. As per Capita guidance, I want to migrate SIMS and Discover at the same time but get this error: http://i.imgur.com/rlpJjYy.png It's weird as I built this VM specifically for testing. The SIMS and Discover databases are both used by the Discover services so I'm confused as to why it's giving this error. It's obviously not happy with something, any suggestions?

Do you get an error? SOLUS3 is a hog when it comes to permissions. One area a user needs full permissions to is the Machine Keys directory. Also full permissions to the SOLUS3 UI and SOLUS 3 service folder is essential.

Good stuff, let us know how you get on.

Sounds like it. The same thing happens if you try to install a SIMS Spring Discover database against a 2012 instance.

No issues at all with installing and using SOLUS3 on a Windows 2012 server. We are still using SQL 2008 on all of them though as 2012 is not supported yet and I don't think the SOLUS3 database installer will work if you try to install a new SOLUS3 database on a 2012 instance (that's what I found with the Spring Discover database installer when trying to install it to SQL2012 in our test environment).