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We have been quoted £70 on microsoft schools agreement for each lience for the data centre. Yes it is per a processor licence. Yes if you have standard you need one for the hyperv host and one for each virtual server that you use. Data centre will allow you to use has many virtual servers has you want on the server. Enterprise I believe was only 8. Yes all versions of the server is included on the install disc. Yes you can you any version of SQL etc. The licening is only for the servers, doesnt matter about anything else Cant see why you couldn't move you current licening to other servers

I may be wrong But when you get to thuis error, to you get to chose what to do with the hard drive? ie format, new partition If you don't this sound like it has a problem with the cd drive not loading, this is normally sloved by restarting it a few times. Does the laptops have an internal cd drive, or is it external? Another easy way of sloving this problem Setup a Windows Deployment Server, is is easy! (Thats if you have a server to use for it) You you can be asked to maked a deployment image, you can use use the standard iso you downloaded, to deploy to the laptops

ok updated again - how would I setup exchange to failover to the second exchange server if the first one went down? Or should I just setup each server like this? MAIL01 - Student Database MAIL02 - Staff Database I like the idea about the physical server, but at the moment I can not see a server we can use for it, I dont want to use a VM host server Cant use the old server 3, has this is not x64, so no good for 2008R2

ok updated the plan document tell me what you think, still working on it

should do mate,everythink you have it itunes should all store in the itunes folder

5 images for us (all windows 7, dont use anything else now) x86 and x64 for domain (every piece of software is installed on this that is needed, so we dont have to use managed software on them after!) x86 and x64 for workgroup All I do different for the workgroup and domain is, I copy the domain image, open it using WAIK and delete the powershell script that normally makes our computers join on the domain. and a x64 admin image (admin computer are x64 captable, so 32bit is not needed) What Im gonna try soon is to make it so staff laptops are joined to the domain with offline files so they can get their work at home and that also makes it so they cant install loads of rubbish on therir laptop, less chance of virues and you remotelly update software when needed That way I will only have three images then Drivers are not a problem has server 2008 r2 you can add driver packages to the wds console (when I get round to doing that)

That's weird my post must of never went through Had to install php 5.2 from the Microsoft web platform to get it working in the end Any one know how to get it working with php5.3?

Pretty sure they don't do, haven't seen that was I was searching last night for ages

Ok sorted I think, external connector via licening on a schools agreement £400 each server, that's a lot saved, dontvknow why they didn't quote using that to start with

The 500 series shouldn't have seperate power lead and ps/2 connection They do have a serial port, which you use the smartborad serial to usb cable We have a similar problem do, one of our powers up, but the computer does not connect to it.

Whats the cheapest way of doing this I have been quoted from our support company (a2z) Win Rmt Dsktp Svcs Ext Conn 2008 Sngl 1 Lic - £1,593.36 BI have done some research on this, if you read the bit below (important part is in the blue!) I did has him for a quote on rds cals, gussing he throught this was cheaper External Connector Licensing Overview The Windows Server 2008 External Connector (EC) license is an optional licensing alternative to address a specific customer scenario. If you would like to allow your business partners or customers to access your network, you have two licensing options: Acquire Windows CALs for each of your external users. Acquire External Connector (EC) licenses for each server licensed to run one or more instances of the Windows Server 2008 R2 software that will be accessed by your external users. An external user is a person who is not an employee, or similar personnel of the company or its affiliates, and is not someone to whom you provide hosted services using the server software. An EC license can be acquired for servers running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, and Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based and Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-Based Systems editions. It is not applicable to Windows Web Server 2008, Windows Web Server 2008 R2, or Windows Small Business Server. In addition to using the EC license with Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, you may opt to use it with an earlier version of the server software, provided the version is no earlier than Windows 2000. Due to technical incompatibility, the Terminal Server and Remote Desktop Services External Connector licenses cannot be used with earlier versions of the server software So it may work for students has there not employees correct? Could we get away with a few staff using this? Of buy a few rds cals for the staff Or buy has many remote desktop cals has needed (device licenced) We do have two servers with two processors in it each (Xeon 5110 @ 1.60) with 4GB RAM Not sure how many people can login there at one, only really worth getting the amount of cal needed for the total amount we can get onto the two servers So thats 4x tha amount showing above for the total price Just found this! even 25 per a server, thats pretty damn cheaper than quoted above Would you say thats look the correct thing? 6VC-01251 Microsoft RDS Dev CAL Lic /SAPk MVL

out of intrest what soft of profile you using? Roaming or local?

Ok will try to soft out where to place a physical dc, don't know where tbh. Don't really want to put it on a vm host, want them use to be a host only. Agreed about dns on both dcs has well has using 2 dhcp on both two with splitting the scope, and splitting the CMOS roles on them two. Ok have I got this right? A failover is where one vm host goes down? All the vms transfer to other vm hosts? (shared SAN) How about if you was to restart a vm host, would the same way happen? If this is the case, is it worth splitting some of the sites on the website.? Ie I could move the vle to it's own VM Gonna put in a share pint vm too, have can get that ŵorking and that will replace word press has our school website, even I have just got word press point there are a lot of limits, chaining things ain't easy, got to work with php coding in the theme files, which I don't know how to do

sorry couldnt talk to the boss today, everytime I went to the office they were boss or not yet Promise I'll collar them tomorrow (need to speak to them about other things anyway too)

Ok sorry for me being dumb here but how does the failover feature work? Is it just when a server goes down it move the vms over to a another server? If that is true does it do that when you restart a host server too? So if a vm image goes down, it case of manually fixing it like a normally on a normal server? Well it does seem we have spare ram going, so we could do two exchanges I would say one for students and one for staff.

can't see her saying no, most of these laptops have sat around at least a year doing nothing! Ok nephilim If we get the say so tomorrow, what you you want done with the laptops? The basic installs? Adobe Flash, Adobe Shockwave, Adobe Air, Adobe Reader, Java, All Microsoft Updates Anything else, Open Office? Quicktime? Realplayer? 7Zip? Up to you, just let us know what you want installing Also each laptop can come with a carry case, we have like loads and loads of spare laptop cases!

even install the old 5.2 on there aint working, even pasting back my 5.2 ini file that I backed up with all the settings

nope it's running server 2008 x86

nope nothing in the logs

just waiting on the headteachers approval at the momment, then we decide what to give to people, might be able to give one or two out to other people, hopefully I'll be able to get an answer tomorrow nephilim, should be getting all or nearlly all if we give one or two out to the othere guys here, his school is most in need of them!

sorry I meant to say only read

Hi Guys I have just been updating our web server Updated moodle fine Updated mysql fine Now php is the problem Ok I uninstalled 5.2 And installed the latest 5.3 Now everytime I go to the website, it doesnt open - if you want to try - http://www.ockendonschool.com/ But php is working because I can pull up the phpinfo.php phpinfo() Even tried copying over the old php.ini into the php, that hasent helped eithier Any ideas? Could removing php 5.2 removed some setting in iis7? I did set this up to start with, with the microsft web platform Wish I have never touched it now

did is what you have done wrong You need to add the user security group on the shared folder Authenticated Users - To at least read and write

Because If you have standard, you have to buy a standard licence for each VM (not the host) Enterprise allows for 8 vms you only pay for how many processors you got on the hosts (unless you buy more licences, to be able to use more vms), so only 10 licences needed for us, will be more expensive but will allows for more headroom in the future. Datacentre is licenced the same way has enterprise but allows for unlimited vm (doubt we will go for this one unless it not much more the enterprise) Not a bad idea there How can you have two DHCPs? Through you can only have one per a doamin? Well at the momment we only have one server for the exchange, so im assuming it will be ok still, or do you think to have two? Maybe one for students, and one for staff, or just a backup? Ok thats a good idea Why would you recommend doing that? I through dcs were fine all virtual? I was thinking of having the hosts not on the domain, has the dcs would all be virtual, which mean they start up after the host, so there wouldn't be any problems

agreed, that we have it enabled in our default domain policy