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You may be better off posting the question to Capita's own SIMS forum support net. Anyway, will give the question a try. A marksheet is normally created by attaching a student group to a template (e.g. classes, reg groups, year groups). Any supervisors for that group will then see that marksheet in their list. You may have to create a user defined group and then have the relevant senior science teachers as supervisors. When creating the marksheet simply select the user defined group you have made as the group you are attaching to the marksheet. You may be tempted to use the year 11 group in the pastoral structure in the marksheet. The problem with that is that adding the science teachers as supervisors of year 11 will give them access to all year 11 marksheets. That may or may not be ideal.

Hi James, I don't think the access point has a firewall. The funny thing is, I can RDP to other computers while connected to the same access point, just not the Windows 7 PC in question. I don't remember doing anything in the switch settings which would block cause this problem either. Also I have no problem with RDP if use a cable to connect to the network. Strange...

This is a very strange problem. I am trying to use RDP to connect to a Windows 7 PC over WiFi. I only seem to be able to establish connection when I am near one access point. At other access points I can access all the normal network services but just not an RDP connection to the Windows 7 PC. At the same access points, I can use RDP to connect to servers. This doesn't make sense. The access points shouldn't affect RDP connections just to one PC.

Is the problem just with PowerPoint point files or other file types as well? Are you using offline files? If so you should check that it is working properly on all client machines.

Yes. This is the first thing we checked. We can ping the servers and also get out to the Internet.

No. The servers and clients are in different VLANs.

Oh. Forgot completely about site and services. I thought it applied more to computers in geographically distant locations. Still doesn't explain why active directory operations succeed on non-default VLANs but with a noticeable delay. Confused

HP ProCurve switches through out.

We have a strange problem. Computers on non-default VLANs take a long time to process Computer Settings policies. It also takes a long time to go from the log on box to showing the desktop when a user logs in. It can take as long as five minutes from power up to a full log on. After a user has logged in there doesn’t appear to be further problems with network speed. Access to the file shares or networked printers is at normal speeds. There are no unusual slowdowns when accessing the Internet. In fact if the computer was not on the domain you would not notice there was a speed problem at all. Computers on the default VLAN act like normal domain clients with no slow downs during start up or during login. Can’t see what we have missed. Should there be such a big difference in the operation of domain clients on different VLANs? Any ideas? TIA.

Yeah but I don't remember if gnu tools binaries had a find equivalent.

To do things programatically I would probably install cygwin then use a mixture of find and sed If you want to use only Microsoft tools then you could probably a mixure of FOR /R to crawl the folder tree and a VB script for the find a replace. I suppose you could also Word as an IDE/runtime and knockup a quick app in VBA. It's the tree crawling that would be the tricky bit.

Yeah I know. That was a pretty dumb thing to do but I don't get to practice this procedure all that often.

Oh bother!!!!! Restore went OK but everybody starts using email again before I was able to replay log files from yesterday. Now what am I going to do? Is it going to be a case of restore to recovery group, replay and then exmerge Thursday's messages?

Thanks for the tip Dos_Box. I did think about using ESEUTIL but the timescales Microsoft gave were just not workable. We have mock exams next week and we can't afford to be offline that long.

Thanks for the vote of confidence but we'll know for sure in a couple of hours. I don't think staff 'll let me out alive if this doesn't work.

Perfect storm: Power failure during overnight backup makes raid cache loose data which corrupts pages in mailbox store. Came in to find server waiting for key press during POST Before anyone says UPS, it was a power supply in the server that failed. So much for redudant powersupplies. I attempting a restore from last known good backup Wish me luck If anyone doesn't mind being on the end of phone then please PM. It's very lonely in the server room at the moment.

Interesting... OK so this updates the class/group memberships but what about new accounts? Has anyone been really flash and used AD authentication?

For some reason the printui.dll seems to ignore the /q which is meant to install the printer quietly. Your best option for invisble installation is a proper scripting language like VB Script or KiXtart

Has any one got their SIMS and Fronter installations talking to each other e.g. using IMS or do you just use text files to update users and classes?

why not use a REG ADD command in the batch file to make the change or run a VBScript file.

Oh you've got to be kidding me!!!

Well I installed it yesterday. SIMS itself appears to be OK but we have had some issues with PARS and bulk entry screens. TASC software has released a couple of updates 311 yesterday and 312 today. 311 is now the minimum version for use with SIMS Nov 2008 Why did they have to tie PARS.net so closely to SIMS:mad: Updating SIMS wasn't quite so traumatic with PARSql

The Apple Training Series books are good but they are bit like official Micrcosoft coursware, a tad bland and don't spill the beans on all the akward stuff. Now if you are a dyed in the wool Windows user and you're still wondering how to right click with only one mouse button then you might need Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual by David Pogue. A really good book is Mac OSX Help Line (Tiger Edition) by Ted Landau. It covers Mac OSX but in the kind of detail needed by IT techs. It lists common problems and how to solve them. It does have its flaws such as that that it only covers client Macs not OSX Server. For people deploying Leopard, it obviously doesn't cover the new features but the troubleshooting techniques it teaches probably make up for that. It only briefly touches on UNIX but it's probably better to get a specialist book for that. At 1177 pages, it's also quite heavy. Not something you can carry around with you day to day a like an O'Reilly Nutshell book but you could take it on train trip to visit Aunty Morag in Fort William. All said it's a great book. It bears favorable comparison to the classic works of Minasi, Mueller and Myers .

There is a Fronter support site Fronter support. This looks to be used most for service annoucements and FAQs. There is also a forum for Fronter admins http://fronter.com/fronter You'll have to approach your account manager for a logon as the site is a customised Fronter building. It doesn't seem to get many posts but maybe edugeek members can do something about that

What about Centrify? Anyone tried that?