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If possible/practical, a dedicated switch for the cameras would make sense as you can at least scope and then guarantee the bandwidth needed is available. Running a separate VLAN for the cams will not help with the bandwidth restrictions as it still has to traverse the same uplinks/trunks. As for recommendations for the equipment, I have none I'm afraid.

Yes, CCTV cameras should absolutely be on their own VLAN! The bandwidth usage for HD 1080P (depending on quality and codec) should be between 2 and 12.0 Mbps per camera.

I'd be interested in the recording too please!

Count the 11 cores and then multiply by four, this gives you the 'comfortable' ratio of logical to physical processor count. To discover current ratio, run the PowerShell command in this link - Using PowerShell to find the virtual processor to logical processor ratio of Hyper-V - Ben Armstrong - Site Home - MSDN Blogs - you will find the same page linked from VeryPC_Ed's reply above. You can run to a multiple of 8 (under 2008 R2) but that is the maximum you should do. Hth

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@mjgreen; Sorry I hadn't replied before, no email notification of updates! When you image a new machine and install the SCCM client, a GUID is created and assigned to the PC. This is reported to your SCCM server and an entry is created in the Database. When you then rename the machine, it essentially adds another entry into the database! After 30 days (by default) the original record will be marked as obsolete, or you can just delete it from the 'All Systems' collection and force a re-load of all collections to remove it. For simplicity, set the name of the machine prior to installing the SCCM client. @the ScarfedOne The beauty of collections is that you can create them in many different ways, they are just query sets, so link them to OU's if your AD structure is setup to allow this, use Security Group memberships, use direct membership, or any of the above, they are flexible and some methods will suit some more than others!

Sort of... If you want to link to OU's, you'll need to enable the "Active Directory System Group Discovery" and "Active Directory System Discovery" discovery methods. When the discovery has run (I think you can force it through fairly soon) create collections that use the below as your query statement; select SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceID,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceType,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Name,SMS_R_SYSTEM.SMSUniqueIdentifier,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceDomainORWorkgroup,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Client from SMS_R_System where LOWER(SMS_R_System.SystemOUName) like "domain.forest.local/OU/OU/OU" Where domain.forest.local/OU/OU/OU is the Canonical name of the OU containing your machine accounts - this can be obtained from the 'Object' tab of the OU properties in ADUC. HTH

Hi, I apologise for dragging up an old thread, but I was hoping to find this solution is still being used and is continuing to be successful... Could anyone that is using it give me a quick summary on usefulness and their confidence in the product? Many thanks

We have 400 of the laptops some of wich are 3 years old. I am trying to get some answers out of Asustek, but they are not being very helpful tbh. The BIOS is/was flashable, but they have stated there is now way to change this setting . I have tried a couple of BIOS editors anyway, to no avail.

It failed, read-only... Thank you for your efforts though. I guess I have a lot of accounts to pre-stage and edit!! FYI the Ergo model is Ergo Ensis L4000L, watch out for these in future!!

I'm in the process of doing this now, thank you very much for the files... I had originally looked for something like this, but have been told by Asustek (Ergo re-badge their laptops) that the UUID is read-only on this model!! So, I'll let you know if I have any success...

Surely that will give each pc the same computer account? If not please let me know as I have 400 ergo laptops to RIS & I don't fancy building them all by hand!!

Hmmm, not exactly, it will show what's going on if you select the correct settings, if you have perfect connectivity to the workstations... However, if you run rsop.msc from the workstation when logged in as the correct user, you will get the exact current session information. This is where you are more likely to find the errors. If you find that there are policies not applying that should be, run gpresult from a command line, this will then give you a text based on/off type list for the policies that apply to user & machine.

This is less effective than running rsop.msc on the workstation. Running this on the workstation will show you exactly what is being applied and if not, why not...

Yes, set that/those options. But, also ensure (under the logon scripts section I think) that the run scripts synchronously is enabled. I'm pretty sure that that is the correct name, but not 100%, but if it is wrong, it is very close . Then, wait for fifteen minutes or so and refresh the policy on the workstations, reboot & try again...

Hmmm, have you tried the RSOP (Start - run - rsop.msc) tool to check that all the GP settings are being applied correctly, I have only come across this issue twice, both times the fix above was the cure...

I would suggest checking your group policy settings relating to how the computer processes the scripts (timings mainly). Check that "wait for network"is set & that scripts are run synchronously... Apologies for the vague information, but I'm away from work atm. Edited: PS, the "wait for network" setting should fix the H:\ issue...

No probs...

Thats amazing!! mine got twice as fast One thing to bear in mind though is that the Ultimate version of Vista is big and clunky because it does everything, I started with Business edition (which flies) and then moved to Enterprise (which also flies).

Tsk tsk... I have been running Vista at work, desktop & laptop & at home since BETA, its awesome... I have not yet found one single application that I couldn't get to work on Vista. Some of the software I use for support is also quite old. When you get used to its differences, realise that UAC should be off, its brilliant...

That is correct aj, Callum had only installed the console, its a good job I dont sleep much!!

its attached to my profile atm

okly dokly...

You can, but not yet, am in the middle of something atm, be about 10/15 more mins...

That is a username entry, not a host name entry