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We had exactly the same issue with FMS. Select 'Targets' then the 'Databases' tab. Your SIMS & FMS Databases should be listed, if not add them, if they are listed double check the settings. Our problem was that we had mis-typed the server name. If they are set up correctly if you select 'Agents' and the 'Targets' tab and find your SIMS server the current versions of your databases should be listed. If they are blank then the settings are incorrect.
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Why do people use PowerPoint to print Graphic rich documents
SeanVin replied to Davit2005's topic in Office Software
Because it is better than word! You should see the carnage when our food and textiles students try to rescale a graphics intensive word document produced on A4 to A3, when the deadline for their exam course work was yesterday! It is the same every year, and every year we tell the teaching staff that to tell the students not to use word. Frankly it is unfair on the students if they are not advised to use the appropriate software. -
We finally solved this problem. We have "Delete cached copies of roaming profiles" set for our students. An application (Trustee Rapport) is preventing a folder in %USERPROFILE%\appdata\local from being deleted, however the profile is deleted from the registry. The next time the user logs on to the same PC, a new local profile is created, but because the %USERNAME% folder already exists, %USERNAME%.Domain.00x is generated for the new profile.
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This is an old thread, however I think I have stumbled upon a fix. Stale user profile folders are not deleted completely in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2
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HAP booking system not showing booking on main page
SeanVin replied to SeanVin's topic in Home Access Plus+
Hi Nick, Sorry its taken a while to respond - we have had other priorities (change of broadband supplier). It turned out that ~\bookingsystem\Default.aspx was causing the problem. We're not sure why, but replacing it with a copy from .zip file cured the problem. Thanks again for HAP+ and for the support you provide through Edugeek.net. -
Firstly thanks Nick for an excellent piece of software. After our upgrade from v10 pre-release to V10 final, we can no longer see any bookings or booking slots on the main page. They are still visible on the overview pages. The date picker does not work and it looks like the date isn't being loaded. Our server is 2012 R2. We would appreciate your advice. Sean
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HAP+ v9 - Basic CSS - Tweaking the colour scheme
SeanVin replied to mattgrimley's topic in Home Access Plus+
We wanted to keep all the Booking system time slots on-screen without having to scroll. It can be done in ~\BookingSystem\default.aspx. style="min-width: <%=(188 * (config.BookingSystem.Lessons.Count + 1)) + 2 %>px"> -
HAP+ v9 - Basic CSS - Tweaking the colour scheme
SeanVin replied to mattgrimley's topic in Home Access Plus+
We wanted to keep all the Booking system time slots on-screen without having to scroll. It can be done in ~\BookingSystem\default.aspx. style="min-width: <%=(188 * (config.BookingSystem.Lessons.Count + 1)) + 2 %>px"> -
We love Impero, however like synaesthesia we only found out about 4.022 by accident and had to request it, and agree their communication could be better.
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Whether to virtualise our main servers
SeanVin replied to Jollity's topic in Thin Client and Virtual Machines
Virtulisation is a no brainier. A modern two socket server will have ample processing power, however get as much memory as you can afford. A SAN is nice if you have the budget, but with Veeam not essential; however you will need to backup to a NAS or fast (USB3 or SATA) external hard drive. Hyper-V on server 2012 R2 is a vast improvement over 2008 and very nearly as good as VMware. I would recommend that you run a separate physical DC. -
[pics] A Printer That Eats Its Way Down a Stack of Paper
SeanVin replied to Arthur's topic in Jokes/Interweb Things
That's going to be fun when someone walks past and knocks the stack over! -
An interesting article but I think it is approaching the problem from the wrong end. The car analogy is very good. But what is wrong with the fact that I can just get in my car and drive? It does everything I need it to do, behaves in a predictable manner, thanks to Sat Nav I rarely get lost, it rarely breaks and if it does I give it to an expert to sort out. I can’t wait until it drives itself. That’s how IT should be. In the words of the song “But I got a girlfriend and things to get done” (see link). It’s not people; the problem is that the technology that is still maturing.
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We used to get canned cheese in the ration packs in my RAF days. It's actually quite tatsty, like eating a very dry cheese triangle. We feed the fish with it during a diving expedition, they seemed to love the stuff. The thing that has always puzzled me, is how do fish know that canned cheese is tasty and safe to eat?
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We’re going through a similar exercise and re-structuring our server rooms, but are taking a different route. We are currently running two file servers, to share the workload and provide redundancy, as we can move the users to the other server if one failed. However we have audited our sever performance and found that the file servers are working at a fraction of their capacity, and having each server acting as a back-up for the other adds a layer of complexity. We are actually planning to go to a single file server and use the second purely as a stand-by. It greatly simplifies data replication and management of user home drives. Using some of the new shared storage and the replication features in Server 2012 we are confident we can get instant fail-over to the stand by server. We are also planning to use VM replication to provide a similar set-up for our virtual hosts (i.e one live and one for fail over). Our servers are Prolient DL380s (G5s, a G6 and a G7) with duel Quad core CPUs. We are going to have to increase the memory on the virtual host. Sean
