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Hello yashabee, Welcome to Edugeek. I've only ever seen that error when the supplied password doesn't meet complexity requirements. Are you using a sufficiently strong password?

Wow, thank you for your thoughts everyone! Lots to read and try :>

CyberNerd, Thanks for that I had heard someone else mention solenoid (the old man I believe), I will check it out when we get to a day off with some reasonable weather! Thanks again

Evening folks, I have a summer project of restoring a 1978 MGB Roadster. At the moment every now and again it will 'cut out' and attempts to start it again return lots of battery clicking and no attempts at turning over. (Internal lights function fine throughout suggesting battery is OK, no fading etc, replaced battery with spare just inc) Leave it alone for a bit and it will start up fine (and wow does it sound lovely). Not so helpful when it does it mid run though So, I figured I'd ask here (seeing as everyone who lurks in 'General Chat' is an expert on everything ever asked about) for ideas on what it could be I was thinking fuel pump originally but I'm not much of a mechanic so I figured I'd keep my trap shut and let someone who knows what they are talking about offer up some assistance. Grateful for some thoughts. Cheers very much. Kim

Wonderful news, a lovely end to the weekend appreciating new life.

What do you see currently when you don't use www. Do you: a) Get page cannot be displayed / DNS error b) A webpage that you don't expect It might be DNS as per above or it might be a need for configuring the vhost of the webserver to "know" you want to use the non www address to access it too.

An opportunity to work with the man Mr Rochford; anyone would be lucky for such an op. Good luck to those who apply.

Was a problem with Cloudflare, may just take some time to update in caches.

With pleasure.

I'd be looking at buying two reasonable servers as virtualisation hosts for certain. Couple of boxes with Windows Datacenter (or Enterprise if you only need a few VMs on each box) and breaking your roles down and split across the two boxes so you end up with better performance and resiliency. The current server could be a physical DC / backup server. £5k's quite a chunk of cash, should be able to pick up some reasonable boxes for that and sort your licensing out. Quite a lot of network managers on here have done this on shoe string budgets too, I'll let them tell their stories

Hi nit, Does it disconnect on "applying personal settings" or immediately after entering the password? I have a customer with a similar problem that we weren't sure whether to link to Netsupport or not. Grateful for your time. Cheers, Kim

Start at the top, are all of your servers in correct time with each other? What exactly is the security error you are getting. What happens when the student tries to log in, does it fail on the password or afterwards? What has changed that could be related to this? Do you have an RM Support contract?

Similar here, was a cold one out clearing the car and drive for the wife to go to work 6am this morn. Was nice to go back to bed though :>

Hi Ranj, Try http://www.alliancetechpartners.com/virtualization/veeam_datasheets/integrating_veeam_backup_and_symantec_backup.pdf

Doubt the snow'll be that deep.

Kev, So fantastic to hear you're on the mend mate. Must catch up soon. Kim

If the hypervisor is set to get it from the vm and the vm from the hypervisor I think it will just loop. I tend to recommend a physical dc as your time provider for the whole network and point everything to that. That dc itself is then pointing to something on the outside to provide time for your whole environment, if the internet link drops and begins to drift or w/e at least your internal stuff is drifting with the dc.

Anything running virtualised? (could be getting time from the hypervisor) Any logs showing what it's talking to that's changing it back?

You could probably use AutoIT to automate some/all of this but without knowing exactly which tools and how the windows / apps are presented it's hard to be specific.

And what do you currently have in it.

Seen this before with dodgy print drivers. Any new printers / drivers ?

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/general-chat/88160-schools-kit-scam-could-cost-schools-millions.html

If you go iSCSI shove it on a separate switch, no need to make your core cry unnecessarily unless you need to get at it from elsewhere in the building (but even then you could cheat this). Excellent post from glennda, rep+

I just noticed you're newish here, welcome You've been here a month and not ran away screaming for the hills, that's a good thing. I am sure you do & will continue to contribute just fine! You might be able to run the fileserver off of the QSAN box if it's any good (I've never used them), and back it up across onto whatever new toy comes along to play with. That said, a DL380 with a bunch of disk will probably work just as well (decent disks!!) as a fileserver and you could start your virtualisation project on top of the QSAN but it depends how resilient it is as a system as it's one of the great unknowns! Of course, this is even assuming you NEED a SAN at the moment, you might be able to get away with (as many folks do) a few boxes each with some local disks raided up and virtualise on top of that; yes you'll lose the vmotion and ability to shift stuff around as easily but you might not need that if you have a decent raid set up and back up regime. You've made (and I'm pleased, so many people don't) the right connection that comparing the logon/logoff patterns in commercial to Edu simply isn't close. You need kit that can take almost the full complement of your student PC estate logging in & out every hour in large chunks so a/some capable fileserver and sensible profile management is the biggest win you could possibly get. There's probably some argument here also that whatever you do do in fileserver land if you only deploy one for now it's probably still worth setting it up in DFS style so if you need to bolt on more fileservers later you don't need to worry about updating unc path links and messing about you just throw the box into the mix. What's your network like at the moment? Do you have a reasonable core switch that the servers are connected close to or is it a bit of a mish mash? So many things to think about

Hi there, Many thanks for the detailed overview of the current environment, that is very helpful indeed. I think you have quite a few options available to you on how you could improve the current situation whilst also looking at the future. I would standardise on HP as Steve mentioned as they are good boxes and it makes sense, my advice would be to look at DL360's or DL380's if you need more disks. I am a stickler in always recommending to keep a physical DC in a virtual environment, some people say I'm stuck in the old days but I don't like all of my eggs in one basket and a physical DC keeps me breathing when the SAN takes a turn for the worse or a 'bad thing' happens and everything goes a bit titsy wobbly and you're left scratching your head with the whole world dead, at least with a single physical dc you can have something. You have a lot of fileservers there for 1100 users, any particular reason you know of or was it simply a cobble together? Do you have access to any i/o details from these boxes as to whether they are being hurt on read or write or are they just generally quite tragic? I'd expect a fairly reasonable SAN would handle this load without too much trauma depending upon how big the profiles are and what kind of 'usertypes' you have with log on / log offs etc simultaneously and what kind of network throughput these boxes are getting combined (ie, if you have 6 of them all on 1GbE links think of the total combined together!). I'd be looking to team the nics together in sets and segregating the LAN and iSCSI/Storage sides either physically or with vlans so you can keep the traffic separate for monitoring, scaling etc. The various roles you have there are largely fine for virtualising and actually some of your existing tin isn't bad so you could quite easily find yourself a physical DC and potentially a backup server attached to the LTO library for D2D2T if you're playing with DPM. (I'm also a stickler for making sure you have some form of 'out of the server room' back up and if you have a capable LTO5 library I'd go for it). I'd break the printserver onto it's own box and let your DCs be DCs too, I'm not a fan of mixing roles and in a virtual environment there's not normally a need to! Virtualising the rest should be relatively painless but you'll want to make sure you specify enough spindle to handle the fileserver requirement (or everything else will suffer) as I'm a bit uneasy about the number of them + their disks! ( How much data is being stored on them? ) I think you'll have a fun project on your hands with this but you should be fine to go at it with a couple/3 HP DL360's stuffed with RAM (go for big modules even if you don't fill the board so you can expand later), a decent SAN and give your network a good think through and I think you'll be laughing. Oh, and I don't think you need to worry about 10GbE if I'm brutally honest in your budget at the moment (far more interesting things to buy), I'd probably just look at quad port gig cards in your boxes and team them together but if you do look at replacing switches it's definitely something you need to think about so look for decent switching throughput/fabric and the expansion ports being decent. HP again not a worry. Sorry, not many specifics in there just more thought provoking stuff.