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Hi, We currently have an Alcatel Lucent OmniVista 4760 VOIP solution. We also have just started to run Office Comms Server 2007 R2. I know its possible to run the two fully integrated using Unified Comms. Anyone had any luck in the past or any advice with similar solutions? Thanks Mike

We are deploying and using Windows 7 with a Server 2008 domain (not R2 domain) To access the more granular GPO's just use the GP Management Console from a Windows 7 client. Mike

Fixed it 1. End Task on EXPLORER.EXE from Task Manager. 2. Start the Registry Editor 3. Look for the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderTypes\{EF87B4CB-F2CE-4785-8658-4CA6C63E38C6}\TopViews\{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} 4. Rename the key so it looks like the following: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderTypes\{EF87B4CB-F2CE-4785-8658-4CA6C63E38C6}\TopViews\{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}.BACKUP 5. From Task Manager click on File | New Task (Run) and type EXPLORER.EXE and hit return.

When I type something into the serach field in the Start Menu, I used to get the program I was after (or close matches) Now I just get a blank icon saying "Programs" Any idea's. I had just gotten used to not pressing "Winkey + R" for the run box and now I am having to go back Thanks Mike

What setup are you using for your base machine? I am trying to do something similar using AppV. On Vista\XP we had a VM Workstation with a non persistent HDD for the install and snapshot (I have used Wininstall so I am using the same terminology so not to confuse things) Our Win7 VM doesn't want to work reliably though, hangs at bootup on the Win7 splash screen. Any advice?

We have rolled it out through WDS to around 600 Machines. We are hoping to have all 1500 done by the end of the month. To be honest, its not been that difficult, but then again we are moving from Vista to 7 and not XP to 7. We have created a base image Win 7 Pro (Used Pro incase we need to use MAK for any reason) Office 2007 SP2 Visual Studio 2008 Pretty comprehensive list of pre-requisities (C++, .NET's, Adobe Reader ect....) Seems OK so far, the curriculum staff that are using it love it! P.S - The problem with WSUS and driver updates isn't affecting us. We dont tend to upgrade drivers, if they work in the current version, why risk upgrading? Bedz

Open the properties of the service from services.msc In "startup type" select "Disabled", apply and then restart the machine. Mike

Does anyone know if you can disable or administratively complete the "Select your network location" box on Win 7? Its the one which asks you where you are located (Work, Home or Public) Thanks Mike

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Discovered our first big problem with our Win 7 image today. Environment: Win 7 Pro with Office 2k7, Vis Stud 2008 and Adobe CS3. Symptons: When booting the machine, the network appears to be unresponsive, upon investigation, the gateway given by DHCP appears to be 0.0.0.0 Cause: Adobe CS3 installs the "Bonjour Service" which seems to cause some confusion with Windows DHCP client when getting an IP address. Resolution: Disable the Bonjour Service, NOTE: For some reason its not always clear that its the bonjour service, its sometimes called ##Id_String1.6844F930_1628_4223_B5CC_5BB94B879762## Hope this helps Mike

Hi, My name is Mike, I am a Systems Support Technician (posh for server\network support) at an FE College in the West Midlands. Our stats are: Desktop\Laptops\PDA's, Devices Basically: 2000 Users: 650 Staff and 12000+ students Servers: 25 Physical, 60 Virtual IT Staff: 8 (2 Systems Support, 5 Customer Support, 1 Network Engineer) Latest Projects: New Build Migration, VMWare Expansion, VOIP Installation, RFID Door Access Solution (we have moved into a new campus, can you tell?? he he) I have been in IT for going on 5 years now, started a desktop support junior on a uni placement and now i'm here. This is quite a nice setup. I'd heard about this forum in the past but only stumbled accross in person a few weeks back. Thanks Mike

Found the MAK keys. I was been an idiot! Under "Product Keys" click "New MAK Keys" Mike

Any idea's when these are going to be available?

No, there is no 2K8 R2 yet. Well we are an FE College and we have Pro not Enterprise on MVLS, the KMS key we have doesn't really specify which edition we can use. Mike

The ISO's are on MVLS for those of us without Technet Plus or MSDN. Mike

We used Pugh for a while but were experiencing the same issues as you are now. Gotta say that for 90% of our software orders we tend to go through Academia now. Just google the name for the web address. The name of our contact there is Chris Eaton. I haven't heard of WStore but I will drop them an email next time we order something, thats if we ever get this years budget! Mike

I am running the following script on a scheduled task to check the replication status on our Exchange server(s) $FromAddress= "HIDDEN FOR OBVIOUS REASONS" $ToAddress= "HIDDEN FOR OBVIOUS REASONS" $MessageSubject= "Exchange Replication Report" $MessageBody= get-content ./filename.txt $SendingServer= "HIDDEN FOR OBVIOUS REASONS" Get-StorageGroupCopyStatus -StandbyMachine glblade3 -server wmexchserver1 | select-object identity, summarycopystatus | format-table -wrap | Out-File filename.txt $SMTPMessage= New-Object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage $FromAddress, $ToAddress, $MessageSubject, $MessageBody $SMTPClient = New-Object System.Net.Mail.SMTPClient $SendingServer $SMTPClient.Send($SMTPMessage) In short it runs the test "Get-StorageGroupCopyStatus", outputs to a text file and then emails the contents of the file. Problem is the formatting on the contents is terrible, the text is cut off in places and it is plain text so it doesn't know when to do a carriage return, this makes it horrible on the eyes. Any idea's ? Mike

That screenshot is impressive. We currently have 5 Servers, Dual-Quad Core's with 32GB of RAM running our ESX farm and I thought that was good!

Hi I am having a little trouble with this script i have put together, I get a type mismatch on Line21 Char 1. Line reads set Domain = GetObject("LDAP://"& "ou=" & recordSet & ",OU=Wisemore Campus,OU=Student Computers Vista,DC=walcat,DC=ac,DC=uk") Any idea's? Thanks Mike Full script follows 'Script to create Active Directory OU Groups based on a list of names in a CSV file. Option Explicit dim connection, recordSet, orgUnit, inputFile, Domain, inputFileLocation, newOU inputFileLocation = "c:\" 'Location\Target Path of CSV file inputFile = "c:\ounames.csv" 'File Name set connection = createobject("adodb.connection") set recordSet = createobject("adodb.recordset") connection.open "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source = " & inputFileLocation & ";Extended Properties=""text;HDR=YES;FMT=Delimited""" recordSet.open "SELECT * FROM " & inputFile, connection, 3, 3, &H0001 'on error resume next do until recordset.EOF 'Continue until end of file (EOF) orgUnit=recordSet(0) set Domain = GetObject("LDAP://"& "ou=" & recordSet & ",OU=Wisemore Campus,OU=Student Computers Vista,DC=walcat,DC=ac,DC=uk") set newOU = Domain.Create("organizationalUnit", "ou=Computers") newOU.SetInfo set newOU = Nothing recordSet.movenext loop msgbox "Finished Creating OU's"

Midget - Fine you win, still im goign to sulk all day about not been able to post URL links VMWare - Sorry, i often forget that we dont all have free hardware to run ESXi on. Still the Server 2 edition is good. Bedz

A big thanks goes out to the EU. Once again they have stepped in and made a decision where one wasn't required. Has anyone ever thought, damn my Windows install has IE with it, what will I do? Or to simplify it further. You can buy a different car stereo to the one you have pre built into your car, are the EU going to force ford to stop putting ford stereo's in their new cars and instead replace it with a sticker saying "You could have a ford stereo or you could have one of these?" I dont think so! Overpaid, underworked idiots, and we think that the UK government is bad!!

Get VMWare, The last version of ESXi is now free I can't post the URL as this is my first post (great rule that one is, did someone win an award for inventing that?) If you google VMWare ESXi Free you will get what you need. Its so much better than anything VPC has to offer in my opinion. You can also get VMWare converter for free to convert your physical machines or yuou VPC's to VMWare images. Bedz