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Hi, I've just started a new Role at this school and the Head has asked for a Risk Assessment on the current IT Infrastucture as they are not confident on how the last technicain managed the system. I've never really had to do this type of assessment before and I'm looking for some pointers in what I should be looking for. The kit consists of Windows 2003/2008 Servers, an Exchange 2007 Server and a couple of Hyper-V boxes playing host to a number of Windows guests. They use DPM to backup the data to disk and Tape but this hasn't worked in a while because the overnight tapes are being filled up. So far I've come up with Backup, MS Update patching, Antivirus but was also thinking about Disaster Recovery, prehaps holding virtual images of all machines offsite to use along with a working backup. Cheers.

I might try adding the printers locally on one of the PCs and not use a print server.

Hi, We have a number of Windows 7 Pro PCs that the teachers use. The TCP Printers are shared from a Windows 2003 Server and are assigned via a login script. We have an intermittent problem where the script just hangs at the point of assigning the printers. You can close the script and the Desktop will then load but if you try and open "Devices and Printers" it will just show the progess bar at the top. Normally I would have to restart the Print Spooler to solve this. The XP PCs are not affected. I have tried using a Windows 2008 R2 Server as the Print Server but the problem still remains. The printers are a mixture of Brother and HP. I removed the HP printers from the script and just assigned the Brother printers but no joy. I have also tried using Group Policy to assign printers but the PCs will just stay at the "Welcome" stage after login. I have also tried using the HP Univeral Print Driver, PCL5 and PCL6. I have changed the Bluetooth service to Automatic as there were some posts on the web that described similiar problems but this didn't work. Has anyone come across this problem or prehaps can provide some troubleshooting tips?

Hi, We currently use Classlink 2000 on our 2 Windows 2000 Servers. We will replace these Servers over the summer and are looking to remove Classlink, in its place we will use Group Policies on the new Windows 2008 Servers. Has anyone had any experience in removing Classlink 2000 and are there any problems I should be aware of? We will also reimage all the PCs in the School. thanks.

Hi, this is the first time I've come across this product and I'm interested in using it at our school (we are setting up our network for the first time - new server, accounts for students & teachers....) Are Microsoft shipping this as an alternative to the likes of RM, Viglen (with future updates, services packs etc)?? thanks.