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So is XG the retail name of Copernicus or is Copernicus something different again?

The initial question gives me horrible flashbacks If you click back through Steve's links you'll find the really useful Technet Blog: Support Tip: ConfigMgr 2012 update scan fails and causes incorrect compliance status - The Official Configuration Manager Support Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs As well as the patch and cleanup suggested in that article I've found Nikolaj Andersen's SCCM Software Cleanup console extension really useful. https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Clean-Software-Update-5ae68ba2

The update has been reissued! https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3097877

I find KeePass incredibly useful. I'm not sure about different users as I've not looked into that feature, but as a password database/manager it's excellent. Features - KeePass

We did test some ac products but we ended up going with Ruckus and their top dual-band n points as we don't, and won't until this system is due for a refresh, have enough ac clients to take any real advantage. The main measuring tool was the good old stopwatch for the how long will this take question. Test, re-test and verify which took a fair while. We went through plain speedtests and then moved onto what we considered "real" scenarios e.g. Classroom A had everyone streaming iPlayer live whilst Classroom B all logged on, that sort of thing. The final test involved 135 devices in more or less class sets (between 20 and 30 per room) all connected and all hoofing traffic through simultaneously. The tests were artificially hard in some sense as you'd expect to get some stagger in logons IRL. It may sound like a daft thing to say, but it wasn't until we were there with a stopwatch that I truly appreciated how much better the 5ghz band performed.

When we were looking at upgrading our setup we did a 5 AP test over 2 floors with the vendors we were seriously looking at. (The time it took to set up and conduct meant that we couldn't do more than a few) The final stress test had 85+ devices constantly streaming while 2 class sets of laptops (20+ in each) simultaneously logged on. We tried to make it an extreme version of a "real world" scenario.

Microsoft's Office Labs Community Clips is pretty decent and free. Hasn't been updated in a while, but still seems to work ok. Comes with an MSI too for deployment, just add a restart switch.

Check the upgrade paths and caveats too. Personally, I'd go sequentially and take a bit longer for an easier life, but if you are skipping a release in the upgrade chain then you need to be careful how you do it. E.g. Upgrading to 9.10 is best done from 9.9. Firstly you need the support entitlement as mentioned above, but also you're prompted to factory reset the box if you jump from 9.8->9.10 rather than 9.8->9.9->9.10 (as 9.9->9.10 doesn't require the reset). As far as I'm aware you also couldn't jump straight from 9.6 as the release notes of 9.9.x I'm looking at have 9.7 listed as the lowest supported upgrade path.

We've done similar and coupled those cards with an SSD for a cost-effective performance boost.

Toshiba NB300 netbooks? Pretty sure they've only got b/g/n wifi cards so they're only going to connect on the 2.4ghz band.

Yes, if using GADS (Google Apps Directory Sync). We do it my defining search rules for the org groups and the users from particular base DNs. The top org groups are manually matched and then sub org groups (OUs) are automatically created and populated. The users then get put into those org groups within Google Apps that match the on-premise OU structure. Google support were really good with helping us to get it set up as I was searching on the wrong objectclass to begin with - DOH!

I'd rather not be the "winner" but I'll go in at 151 physical print devices, 89 deployed print queues (from the 151), and a partridge in a pear tree. (The above doesn't even include the specialist printers e.g. label printers, sublimation, laser cutters and all that jazz) Our toner supplier must make their yearly bonus on our account alone.

Airserver does have a reasonable deployment guide, but for whatever reason they don't (or didn't when I needed it) make it freely available on their site. If you drop their support a line they'll email it to you and it has all the various deployment options and switches for the MSI deployment.

The bin file sits on the ASA box. Assuming a version has been installed previously, you should point your browser at the management interface of the ASA box and you'll get a webpage up asking if you want to run it as a Java app or install ASDM as a local application.

Just to double check, can you route between the VLANs? If not, one factor could be that you will need to be able to route between them for it to work.

Yeah, I love the 3750 switches. Matching up mixed stack software revisions was fun the first time, but the ability to make a stack with a brand new 3750X and a more mature 3750G is very handy. However, CNA is pure evil

The 7372 was first supported in 9.5.1 so Q1 or Q2 2013. Projected lifespan not a clue. When EOL is announced you normally have 6 months to fill your boots with any more you want to buy. Software maintenance ends approximately a year after that and then warranty hardware replacements end another 4 years after that.

Unless you've gone for a controller that's under-specced for the situation then that shouldn't be an issue. Cisco still tunnel back to the controller (unless they've changed things very recently), and as others have said you can run it in bridged mode too. We found that Ruckus gear was far more forgiving with certain wnics in the 2.4ghz band when we ran head to heads. Unless you're planning on replacing a load of clients at the same time always test the gear with the clients you expect to be running with the system (and a range of randoms too if at all possible). E.g. if you have 500 of laptop model X that aren't going to be replaced for another 4 years get the ones that work best with those.

On the client itself it depends on the NIC. Intel normally have a setting in device manager called "Roaming Aggressiveness."

That is a bind. I liked the ability to quickly add blocks of time with the inline options, but also having the ability to manually add time and assign it to different people who had worked on it via the Labor section. Can you revert to the classic look in 7.1 or is it new or nothing?

Exactly like that. We use the Chrome Group Policy Templates supplied by Google to manage the browser, disable auto updates, lock safesearch etc. Then we push a new MSI out when an update is required.

Have you swapped to the new helpdesk look? On the classic helpdesk (7.0.01329) the inline time has a minimum of 15min, but the separate "Labor" button is still available for any amount.

The segment is up now. Just search on "idents"

VLANs do cut down broadcast traffic, but that's not their only function. Given that VLANs are also subnets you're going to have to re-IP anything you change, at least the mask and default gateway. Why do you want to get rid of them? This. A thousand times this.

Yeah, that's what I thought I was hoping I could use RDP with RemoteFX goodness instead of HDX as a cunning solution but didn't want to shell out for a monster graphics card if it wouldn't. I'm not sure HDX3D and a full Xen deployment is worth the premium in this case (as opposed to sticking with moderately priced fat clients).