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We have a couple of 27" flat panels that we move around with student as they progress through the school. The Windows magnification tool gets used quite a lot and in the past it used to be visually impaired software called Magic.

Have you tried setting a static address on the wireless NIC?

Need some more information on your wireless setup. How are your devices authenticating, pre-shared key or Radius?

If I was looking at general portrait and scenic picture work I would love to try a compact mirrorless body, but I shoot sports as a side business. A good friend of mine got me into it a few years back and I was able to work it out with the district I work for that they'll pay me to cover their sports. It's a lot of fun and the equipment has paid for itself a couple times over now. My current load out of gear consists of: Canon 60D Body Canon 6D Body 70-200 F2.8L 70-200 F2.8L IS 300MM F4L 16-35MM F2.8L Ultra Wide 430EXII hot shoe flash unit http://mjmmedia.smugmug.com/Sports/2014-04-23-Varsity-Baseball/i-zrgsvRv/0/XL/IMG_1790-XL.jpg I honestly don't think there is any appreciable difference between Nikon and Canon equipment anymore. The used equipment I first picked up was Canon, so I stayed with what I was already invested in.

Treat the copy on the local machine as the primary and have a script copy the library up only once to backup. Having the library hang off of a network share would be extremely slow.

20GB for staff and 4GB for students here. I was trying to get quotas put in place for years and finally the student with 110GB used in their home folder finally convinced the powers that be. I've never seen such a comprehensive collection of anime in my life, and doubt I ever will again.

Sheesh, summer is re-image season around here. There isn't a stray student machine that doesn't get blown off and loaded cleanly during this time.

We're using Exacqvision on a couple HP storage servers with POE cameras; it works extremely well.

I think my school district could rival London in terms of CCTV coverage: we're running two storage servers with 68TB of combined storage and 180 IP cameras of various models on a 1GB backbone network. The servers can spike up to 250Mb of utilization at times. All of the cameras are AXIS brand with most being low resolution models and about 35 or so high resolution ones. Frames are limited to 8 or 10 per second with above par quality settings. The software that drives the entire system is Exacqvision running on Win2012R2. Storage consists of two HP DL180G6 servers with each having 8TB of internal disk and an MSA60 shelf filled with 3TB drives totaling 30TB usable after RAID5 and hot spare. Crazy, I know... It does work though - remarkably smooth I may add. There really isn't a hit on the backbone since this setup is spread across seven buildings with dedicated 1GB links back to the core. You'll be fine with 1Gb backbones, but at the very least you need to put it all on it's own VLAN.

Disabling data rates 18Mb and slower might help too.

Don't install Java x64; just keep it x32 and remove the icons out of the Start Menu for the x64 version of Internet Explorer.

Every imaging solution I've ever used didn't really care what size the drive was as long as it's be enough to hold the image; it shouldn't treat an SSD any differently than an HDD either. If what you're looking to do is copy an existing image over then try this: How-to: copy HDD to SSD with correct 4k alignment - Correcting alignment | Hardware.Info United States

By fully automated install I take it you don't pre-build your images. I would try disabling the Windows Error Reporting service in your sysprep answer file. If you need it to be enabled then you can re-enable it through policy after the machine is deployed or script as a run once with a single auto login on image completion.

If the drivers were added to the boot WIM and not just the console it should work. Do you have a functioning Windows install on one of these machines? Get the device and vendor IDs of the NIC in question, open the driver INF and see if they're in there.

Multiple domain controllers? Probably just needed to replicate.

If it supports 802.11n and you have gig links to the access points I'd say you are OK, but if not then it's time to start upgrading. I've got a Cisco setup here with about 250 access point across three controllers and a mix of 1130 and 1140 access points. The 1140s are gig with N while the 1130s are 100MB with G and the difference is quite noticeable. Aside from just being faster, the 1140s can support a greater number of clients before you start seeing a performance hit. A cart of 30 netbooks will bring an 1130 to its knees while the 1140 doesn't even break a sweat.

Create a new Group Policy object > Computer Configuration > Preferences > Windows Settings > Registry and create a new registry item. Set the action to replace.

Why the need for something third party? Can't they just add a new printer in Windows by searching the directory, or if you want something extremely simple I guess you could just add an icon on their desktops that points to the UNC path of the print server to bring up a list of all shared printers.

I'm a bit late to the party, but as soon as I saw the thread title this classic Saturday Night Live skit came to mind: https://screen.yahoo.com/sofa-king-000000974.html

Yes, startup scripts run with computer credentials, so it's using that security context to try and update the computer object's description field. Try delegating the security group "Domain Computers" to have read/write of the description property on computer objects within the OU where these computer objects reside. By default all domain joined computers are a member of that group.

No, this is only true on domain controllers; domain joined servers still have a local admin account. The OP stated that he was was logged on the WSUS server as a local admin, so I took it that WSUS is not running on a DC.

My school district has seven buildings spread across a small city connected by private fiber. Using old equipment and some eBay purchases I setup an offsite ark in one of the other buildings that consists of two Dell Power Edge 2950s and an HP DL380G5 with an external MSA60 storage shelf. The Power Edges are running free ESXi 5.5 and the HP is running Windows Server 2012R2. The virtual servers are hosting two spare domain controller VMs and the storage box has 12TB of disk to serve as an offsite repository for Veeam. All the equipment is spread across two rack mount APC UPS units with monitoring cards. The UPS units themselves are pulls from elsewhere in the district with new batteries. Storage volumes on all the equipment are RAID5 with each having a dedicated hot spare. This setup isn't really a warm site as I wouldn't be able to bring up all of our services, but it's all backed up and done nightly. The Dells were bought off of eBay for a lousy $250 a piece and came with dual quads, 16GB of RAM and remote management cards. The UPS batteries are only $25 a piece and we needed 16 of them. Reliable offsite backup doesn't have to break the bank if you're willing to shop around.

Ignore inactivity outside of operating hours? Do these machines have the Intel management engines in them? I think the interfaces will still respond to ping if they're enabled with the machine off. -Edit- Also, are these machines plugged in to managed switches? If so, the easiest way would be to monitor SNMP on the switches for the state of the ports. You could bake this functionality into your home-brewed software, or use an SNMP poller like the 'The Dude.'

What OS version? Can you open said key in regedit and poke the security permissions on the last key that exists? If I had to guess I would say the previous install set security on that registry key that only someone with domain admin can alter and not local admin. Try logging on as a domain admin and try it again.

Maybe a subnet mask is incorrect on your firewall rules on the Smoothwall and it's clipping the part of the internal network your second DC is on.