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Long term, definitely move SIMS to it's own VM, unless you seriously hammer the document storage, splitting this out will probably not yield much benefit but introduce many more headaches. Capita will give you advice, but charge you to do a migration. Short term, split Solus3 out into a new server. It's a complete resource whore and if it goes wrong it will almost certainly ruin your day by screwing everything else on the same box as itself with an unsatiable need for power and memory. Solus3 only needs an SQL Express instance, and runs well on it's own (or with other low usage apps). Hope this helps!

Morning all We seem to have some kind of plague ripping through all of our smartboard speakers, the amps appear to be going in them as turn the volume past a certain point results in the speaker dying. These are speakers fitted to SB680s... Has anybody found success in using 'compatible' speakers, ie they fasten to the brackets of the SB but they aren't the same ridiculous cost? Or has anybody had success with repairing failed speakers? Cheers

Morning all, We're trying to install Solus3 using Capita's scripts which we can get by exporting the install files from Solus3, however there is no directives in the scripts to run the install silently or to accept the EULA. We think we've passed an argument to accept the EULA but we can't get the installer to run silently... so I'm hoping one of you knows jscript so that we can have great success? Below is what we've got at the moment. I'm sure the solution is simple but I am stupid when it comes to code. I would have put this in MIS forum but I'm hoping more exposure to people with coding brains in this forum. Thanks all var wshShell, wshSysEnv; var fso, f1, typeLib; fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject"); typeLib = new ActiveXObject("Scriptlet.TypeLib"); wshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell"); var logFileName = WScript.Arguments(0); var agentAddress = WScript.Arguments(1); var dsAddress = WScript.Arguments(2); var keyFileName = WScript.Arguments(3); var msi32 = WScript.Arguments(4); var msi64 = WScript.Arguments(5); var msi = ""; var license = "1" if (is64()) msi = msi64; else msi = msi32; wshShell.Run("msiexec.exe /lv* \"" + fso.BuildPath(wshShell.Environment("SYSTEM")("TEMP"), logFileName) + "\" /i \"" + wshShell.CurrentDirectory + "\\" + msi + "\" ""/qr"" \"" "\" AGENTSERVICEADDRESS=\"" + agentAddress + "\" AGENTID=\"" + typeLib.Guid.toString().substring(0, 38) + "\" DEPLOYMENTSERVERADDRESS=\"" + dsAddress + "\" RSAKEYPATH=\"" + wshShell.CurrentDirectory + "\" LicenseAccepted=\"" + license + "\"", 0, true); function is64() { var shell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell"); return (wshShell.Environment("SYSTEM")("PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE").indexOf("64") + 1); }

Morning all, A quick question, we're hoping to deploy Solus3 as computers build here (MDT) - I see in the documentation there is a method for deploying Solus3 using group policy, but it leaves a few unanswered questions... It asks you to pass a couple of directives to the installer (site addresses), are there any arguments in the command line for this? And it asks for a unique GUID for the agent, where does this come from, and does it need an argument to be passed to the installer? Hope somebody has tried to do this themselves, Capita are a bit behind at the moment as Solus has gone bang so hope somebody here will know what to do. Cheers! Steve ps - the computers built from MDT aren't captured, each computer is currently built fresh each time it needs reinstalling.

@j17sparky Seriously unhealthy working conditions! What is the maximum/minimum temperature in the workplace? Make sure you take lots of regular breaks.. do you have a very local pub?

The amount of buzz-word bull**** in that one paragraph almost sent me into an asshat-induced fit of rage. I see what they are getting at but seldom will you find $institution saying that outsourcing has 100% worked for them...

I've got a reasonable idea with 2007, I've spent a lot of time playing around with it and have got my head around quite a lot of it. We have spare capacity in our esxi cluster to bring a new box up, and we have SQL licenses. Do you have the SQL server for this on it's own host, share it with the SCCM services or share it with other SQL databases? We are on EES subscription also...

Cheers for all the responses guys. It's really just being used as a glorified app deployment solution at the moment, none of the other features are being used. TBH it was installed by (then Ramesys) who didn't have much of a clue about it, so it's always been a bit flakey... we've never had the time to rip it out and start a fresh. Is there a cost involved with going from 2007 to 2012? The improvements in 2012 do seem excellent but cost will be prohibitive unfortunately. What do you all use SCCM to manage in your environments? I would love to get it working properly and use it for a lot more than just deploying apps.

Evening all A quick one for you, we are currently operating SCCM2007 in our enviornment, which is Windows 7. It is currently working (ish) but it is a beast of a server, and I am interested to find out what you all use to deploy software/remove software/keep software up to date? SCCM is a powerful utility if you have the time to spend infront of it, but we are never going to use it to it's full ability. So if you have some great suggestions I'd love to know so we may be able to scrap the server come the summer. Steve

Evening all Cheers for the responses, been a bit nutty at work recently so had to move this to the side for a few days. Epheylon - How much data are you backing up and from how many VM's? How much storage do you have on the disk based backup for this? We're not intending on keeping many servers physical. The only things which are going to stay physical (at this point in the plan) are a single DC, anything operating as an iSCSI target and the actual box handling the backups. Your solution sounds quite similar to what we are after, would it be OK to PM you to go into a bit further detail? We are unlikely to have the funds to do a full on DR solution like yours but the main part of it interests me. Zag - When you say Veeam are deprecating the file backup, are you using a seperate utility from Veeam to do a file backup, or are they removing the ability to 'explore' virtual disks and pull files out of them that way? I have toyed with the idea of moving to Hyper-V but we've put so much money into VMware now it is illogical for us to move away when ESXi is working well for us... though hyper-v 3 is an awesome piece of engineering.

Afternoon all... We're looking into renewing our backup strategy (as part of a wider picture) but I was hoping you all could help me with a few questions. At the moment we're using BackupExec 11 to back up physical and virtual servers with agents... far from ideal. We're looking into the likes of Veeam, DPM, Backup Exec 2012 and Appasure. What does everybody use? We intend to have around 3-4 physical servers to back up by the end of the summer, with another 10-20 virtual servers on 3-4 ESXi hosts (currently 3). At the moment we are doing a full backup weekly to disk which is duplicated to tape, and we have differentials that run each day to disk - also not overly ideal. We're interested in doing continuous backup of some servers. I am curious to find what you all use, how it works for you, whether it is something you would recommend or if you have experience with something different which may be worth a look? I am also interested in cost, so if you have any figures that would be appreciated. Cheers all Steve

Bin them! Sky ADSL is excellent, in fairness I can see the exchange from my living room window so I get a 19-21Mbps sync speed, but if you can get Infinity/Sky Fiber do so! It's not that expensive, there's no usage limits (if you pay for that) and in my experience the customer service is brilliant. If you aren't in a FTTC area though, you may be best sticking with VM for internet as ADSL can be quite poor at a distance from the exchange. See if Freesat will offer what you are after, iirc you get more HD content through Freesat. Defo bin VM TV though it sucks. If you are going to pay for anything, go for Sky. The picture quality is better, the customer service (in my experience) is FAR superior and you get way more for your money than you do with Virgin.

Not sure if they will go as far, but I can recommend Blackbox - they did additional cabling for us in our new build boarding house (which has ridiculous cable routes) and were quick, efficient and professional the whole way through.

+1 to this. If your school has a Facilities Management company in charge of site (likely for any new builds) they likely have a hazardous waste box somewhere, or a 'lamp coffin' - we chuck ours in there and it is disposed of properly!

Bloody hell... I remember this, I was in Year 9 when this happened! Had not long been home when it came on the news.

We have WPAD forcing proxy settings into Windows laptops etc in our Boarding House (Meru wireless) but things like iPads need the proxy settings entering manually, as the network these things reside on has been isolated from the main network with ACL policies, breaking transparent authentication.

Jordan's got potatochop open again

Swear I saw Photoshop open on your screen just now Jordan...

Unfortunately mate being an Academy means that they can take what comes back from the Borough/Council/County as 'advice' and then set the salary as they see fit. Make sure you go into the meeting armed with examples of Senior roles from other schools, which are very similar to what has been proposed. I would not take that wage if you are going for a 'Senior' title, it's a bit insulting really. That wage is for a normal Technician (and even then that is pushing it), if they don't budge on it then definitely move on as they only appreciate how cheap you are, not how hard you work or what you put in to their institution. Good luck!!

Morning all! Trying to publish a set of files to interweb so that teachers/students can access them without remoting in, however I am having a lot of problems getting security to work the way I want it to on IIS. The site is stored on a network share on our file server, with security set on it accordingly. Trying to publish this site through a server running IIS6 with authentication so not just any random tom dick and harry can access it. At the moment I have it set to digest authentication with our AD domain set, however if I try to log in to the site I get 401.3 errors which should mean problems with NTFS security, but that is correct. Does anybody know how I should be doing this as I have no doubt I am doing it wrong. Cheers

Tried that one, worked fine on my Win7 machine as a test but installed it on a 2k3 server and it went a bit berko! You got any experiance with it Geoff? Cheers

Hi guys Just need a couple of suggestions, have a syslog server set up and have tried a few eventlog to syslog clients which have not worked very well. Do any of you have some solid suggestions which might work quite well for us? Cheers!

Figured it out! My own stupid fault, SELinux was enabled! Turned off, rebooted, and now I am in the words of the famous Charlie Sheen - WINNING! For now at least...

Looks as though that is the tftp server which is on the CentOS repos... it's being a right PITA! Tried all other kinds of permissions combos now with no luck

Hi guys Hope you can help me out... experimenting with Frog on a CentOS 6.2 box (Ubuntu refused to install properly, and I really couldn't be bothered with faffing around) and it's installed fine and the web service is up and running, but the tftp server is causing me endless problems: Transfering file pxelinux.0 from server in octet mode... Transferring data from 10.1.2.40... Packet will be sent. len=50, opcode=1 Packet received. len=22, opcode=5 Error occurred during the file transfer (Error code = 0): Getting that from a tftp client on my workstation. Have tried the suggestions on the Fog wiki to no success, and mucked around with directory ownership/xinetd users and still having no luck. At present the /tftpboot directory is owned by fog:root and the tftpd server is running as root (if I run it as 'fog' I get tftp open timeout errors) and I am now a bit clueless! Any ideas? Cheers