ChrisH

Installed Spiceworks last week. Hardly had to do anything, it just scanned the network and categorised everything. It will even attempt to look up the warranty at the manufacturers website.

Not going to be an issue now. I am trying to take an exam at a Prometric test centre and the last three I have booked at this month have closed or temporarily closed. It is getting to be a joke. My last attempt is now Manchester on Tuesday.

On a normal setup you will find it at S:\Sims\Setups.

Our users don't have admin rights for SIMS. Try using simsperm.bat and that should give the necessary files, folders and reg keys the right permissions.

I'm using SIMS on windows 7 without much problem.

Grr I need to get to Bradford on Saturday morning.

You want a normal hosting package which offers php and mysql and get someone to install it for you if you are not up to it.

As long as you have another healthy DC I would prep another one and transfer or more likely seize any FSMO roles over the other one may have had and then don't turn it on again. You can then remove the account and look at metadata clean up options if needed. Is there a chance the AV is interfering ?

Why does it need to be the same name?

Sysprep is in the c:\windows\system32\sysprep folder on a Windows 7 Install, so you don't need to download it.

I always use the first part of our domain name when referring to our DFS paths and I don't have any problems as ours is quite long as well. I think you only really need to be bothered about the FQDN when you are working in a multi domain environment and even then you can get the clients to use a suffix search list.

MCITP covers lots of different areas. You can be an MCITP in anything from Enterprise Desktop Administration to MCITP: Database Developer. All these require 2 or more exams to achieve. See here: MCITP (Microsoft Certified IT Professional) | Training Courses for IT Professionals MCTS is what you get for passing one of these. So at the moment I am an MCTS for Windows 7. If I wanted an equivalent of an MCSA I would be looking at MCITP: Server Administrator (Which I am currently working on) and MCSE would be MCITP: Enterprise Administrator. Now when I say equivalent there is a catch, the MCITP qualifcations are only valid for the life time of that product and as such will expire (unlike my MCSA). You would have to take a full exam to get the full qualification I would have thought else it would be considered easier to do them in these small chunks.

You need to look at grade sets, aspects, result sets and templates. Do some reading up one these and start planning your templates. You can assign mark sheets through the templates to the appropriate classes and in turn these are assigned to the class teachers. This assumes you have a fully updated timetable in SIMS. That is the abbreviated version but it is something to start looking at. A training course would be best though.

I can't seem to find it. I have tried a few combinations of what url I remember it being.

Add a script after the domain join to do a gpupdate /force maybe.

It is something to do with how the system thinks the speakers are set up. We have exactly the same problem if we use Windows Media Player. Instead we get staff to use Media Player Classic. It seems to be assuming you have more than a 2.0/2.1 setup for your speakers under Windows Media Player.

I think you maybe thinking about group policy applying to them rather than replication between domain controllers. Group policy should apply on start up or during the specified interval. To force it you can use gpupdate /force. If you are on about replication then log onto the other DC and look in Active Directory Users and Computers and see if they are there which they will be.

Dont forget our wiki people. Some of the stuff might be a bit out of date but for the most part it will be relevant. Nagios - Wiki

You will find books by Mark Minasi to be wrote in an easy to read style. I use this one to fill in the gaps that the MS press books leave out. You will also find that the MS press books are not always the best to learn from unless you are planning to do the exams as well as unfortunately the have a habit of lots of errors creeping in. Other things you can try online are the Microsoft Virtual labs. These will allow you to log onto a VM via your web browser to complete a specified lab. They are usually short and very specific, but they are good none the less.

Have you tried Ctrl-alt-del and run try to run explorer from new task?

It will only work if it is a designated form period and not a Lesson marked as a form period or if you look at it another way the group has to be a form and not an academic class.

School closed early and closed tomorrow. We had Ofsted in so that has been abandoned.

Got a light covering here but it will probably be gone by morning.

If it's not in any of your answer files, then it must be in registry. Mount the image using dism and mount the registry offline and look for the usual run once and auto admin logon entries, edit and save and unmount and commit.

The best way to do this kind of process is build your original image on a virtual machine and use lots of snapshots for the various different stages. I have stages like this snapshotted: Base install all windows updates. All Adobe, Flash etc Extra applications (Ones that are hard to deploy) Other customisations Just Before sysprep This way you can start back from scratch or go to just before sysprep and add a new program then recapture. You will find that DISM is great for adding drivers, features and language packs etc but it wont add just any old type of package as they have to be a specific format.