richbrowncardiff

Hi all thanks for your input. we need to implement the vlans as the broadcast traffic is quite high and the performance is starting to drop slightly i want to regain the performance (and all being well improve it) by implementing vlans i feel this would be the best way forward as we have good switches which like many we currently only use a fraction of the functionality available (Stacking, RSTP & Qos) am planning on using the l3 routing on the switches. cheers

Thanks for your response guys. i was going to ask that question DMcCoy. Not sure what would be best the switches support l3 routing so can i use that or would i be better investing in a separate router ?

Hi Everyone, so it's come to the point where we need V-lans. i understand the concept (hence knowing it's time to implement them) but am not really sure what to do for the best, as we have over 500 devices and only 12 cab locations i was thinking of segregating the network in two ways. 1. by cab location 2. Or Device location I.e It Suite etc if i go for option 1 would i just need to put all ports into say vlan 2 and leave the uplinks on the default vlan 1 ? so other traffic can pass ? so my setup would look something like Cab 1 - All ports vlan 2 uplink(s) vlan 1 Cab 2 - All ports vlan 3 uplink(s) vlan 1 Cab 3 - All ports vlan 4 uplink(S) vlan 1 Or option 2 would be cab 1 switch 1, ports 1-20 vlan 2 uplink vlan 1 ports 21-47 vlan 4 etc any help ideas, or best practice much appreciated as always,

Thanks for your feedback everyone. I think i will leave it for now. Office 365 / Google apps is fine with me but as a school i want the staff to use mail more buy having it integrated into their desktop experience. personally i don't see the issue with using the browser to access mail but a local / network client would work better for the staff at present.

Hi everyone sorry if this is in the wrong place / been asked before! I have a problem with people not using email often enough and want to allow access to outlook for all users so they make better use of calendaring & email. before i make any decisions can you please let me know what mail clients you use and if it is outlook what do you do with datafile storage etc? Capacity isn't such an issue but i want to ensure correct config from day 1 so want all mailbox configs to be stored on \\mail01\%username%\Mail\inbox.pst etc (i don't want the users my docs & App Data being used to hold the config and data files etc.) Are their any scripts which will set this up at logon ? Any help would be appreciated as always

Thanks all for your input. Roaming profiles make sense for us as many use outlook and their logins are as quick as 15 seconds so i am happy to keep them. I will take a look at some patches and see how it goes. Many thanks

Hi Everyone hopefully someone has a quick answer to this... anyone know of a how to reduce (or prevent) w7 / server 2008R2 roaming profile corruption ? Roaming profiles all working beautifully but we seem to have 4-5 a day which need "refreshing" aka deleting to resolve iffy backgrounds, missing shortcuts and other random niggles. really strange but i have exhausted everything i can think of. its not a show stopper and no-one is complaining but its annoying me! many thanks as always !

Many thanks ! I forgot about wisesoft perfect.

Hi thank you for your help. I have set the script as below (xxx is where i put my domain name etc Set oContainer = GetObject("LDAP://OU=Intake2004,OU=Students,OU=xxxxxxx Users,DC=xxxxx,DC=xxxxxxxx") oContainer.Filter = Array("user") For Each User in oContainer on error resume next strOldSN = User.SN strOldFN = User.FirstName User.SN = strOldFN User.FirstName = strOldSN User.FullName = strOldSN & Chr(32) & strOldFN User.SetInfo wscript.sleep (100) If err.number <> 0 Then msgbox "Error: " & strOldSN end if Next when i run the vbs nothing seems to happen. do i need to add anything else ? Many thanks

Hi Everyone, any idea if i can bulk swap surname and firstname in AD ? When uploading CSV's to setup our users in the sumer i rushed it (never a good idea) and consiquently some users now show surname in the firstname field and first name in the surname field. Any whay i can change this without doing it all again ? Many thanks

Hi All, sorry if this has been covered elsewhere. iv'e just got google apps setup and working for my school but want to get AD sync up and running (quickly) Has anyone got this working correctly ? If so please could you give me some pointers for the LDAP settings. Many thanks Rich

Hi Everyone, Sorry in advance i'm sure this has been asked many many times ! What is your preference ? Google apps or Live @ Edu (Office 365) Can google the version sync with AD ? Anything to watch out for ? Do you have a policy in place to cover your school for cloud based email services ? Do you SLT use this or is their confidential stuff sent using their official .gov accounts ? Many thanks as always!

not tried the reg actually. will do in the morning and report back. Cheers Steve.

Hi Guys, no erros (on my end). all completes as it should. time out doesn't seem to be the problem. Its as if their are no users in the provisioning list (but their are) All services running and have been restarted as a precaution.

Hi All, Ok i'm loosing my patience now and i'm sure its probably something I've missed..... for 1 user (so far) his outlook settings and favourites keep disappearing when his pc is rebooted. His pc is in the same container, with the same policy's applied (we are using folder re-direction) as everyone else and they have no problem but this one user / pc is a constant nightmare. any ideas ? thanks in advance !

Hi All, any help as always will be much appreciated. i cant seem to provision new users from Sims into SLG. It was working pre summer upgrade and as requested by support have changed the default application pool .net version to v2.x rather than 4.x but still no joy. in sims i have allocated the new staff to be provisioned and have allowed both overnight job to run and run the provisioning script manually but still no joy. Any ideas ? Many thanks in advance.

Hi everyone. Has anyone had issues with user profiles and folder re-direction with w7 and server 2008r2 ? 90 % of the users on the network (new domain) all logon a few times fine then start getting the black background and cant click documents (from the start menu) to load their redirected documents. instead they then have to goto their drive in "My computer" Poor them! still its bugging them and me. any ideas ? thank on advance as always!

Thanks all I found out that the policy had been changed to move contents.

Hi All, any advice much appreciated. Just been looking at one of our calls and it states that when a user logs on their work is missing. looked at all of the usual stuff and have tested it myself and their data does infact get dleted / vanishes from their my docs! we are using folder re-direction and all (according to the policy / event logs = success) Any ideas ? many thanks

Thank you thats great !

Hi All, Hope we have an Excel expert who can help.. I need to redo all user accounts (long story) Can anyone tell me please how i can get Cell 1 (Reg) Cell 2 (Forname) Cell 3 (Surname) to show as: (Reg)(1st initial)(surname) been trying Cell1+Cell2(char(1)+Cell3 but cant seem to get it right. Many thanks as always!

Perfect thank you. I have been hunting for this all day. Had turned it on so must have seen it before! Many thanks

Thanks for your help but I want users to be able to be able to add drives adhoc as they need to. We use gp to push out the std mappings. Crust can't seem to find the tick box to ad/ remove the mapping button

Hi All, what a start to the new term! anyone know where i can enable drive mapping via gpo on server 2008r2 ? looking through my policy's and cant seem to see it! many thanks as always.

Hi All, Anyone know much about SLG ? I can logon but cant access any info. I have attached a screen shot but if its not viewable i am given "sorry the requested information is not available" I have been onto our server and all the services are running. Looks like it could be a routing issue? Thanks in advance