Homer

Sorry to drag this up, those lumbered with SIMS and running Sophos Intercept in conjunction with Sophos Central - what settings have worked for you? I'm still having a lot of issues with SIMSApplicationSetup.exe hanging open on these machines. SIMS is making me greyer.

Their certificate expired. Only issued a few minutes ago, to Cyber Security Leader | Imperva, Inc. with all of the various PPG sites as alternate names. Interesting setup...

Yep it's busted - no SSL certificate is being presented so some clown has screwed up something pretty basic (once in production)

Yeah, it does 🤦‍♂️

Seems their service desk has also died.

When did they change that?! Solus should be checking in to see if there's updates available, at least that is how I thought it worked. The whole thing drives me to complete distraction.

We are going into procurement as a trust for MIS so we'll have to see what comes out of it, we're still on half term here so I'm going to hold off deploying Autumn for a couple of weeks. I hate SIMS updates, Solus invariably decides to kamikazie itself on a variety of machines so they never update, or we have staff interrupting the update, plus all of the other little utilities that depend on SIMS being up to date stop working... headaches galore without fail.

This sounds like fun 😶

Have people had more issues today with connected? We had a few reports from finance of locked sessions earlier...

Our trust moved into cloud based FMS this month (don't ask) I think there have been a good few teething issues. No idea beyond that...

I shouldn't rise to this but take my upvote

ahhh play.com man that was the one! I used ebuyer a lot during my "I have no responsibilities and a job" days where I would build whatever I wanted. Used them for work on and off, just really sad they're gone. As for the Hovis/Kingsmill bread merger, they're both failing because their bread is crap. Supermarket bread is better.

Looks like ebuyer have gone under https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/ebuyer-reportedly-closing-its-doors-staff-at-uks-second-biggest-pc-retailer-sent-home-early-company-sued-for-liquidation Their site is now a landing page for studio 😔

See below, had to rip Solus off loads of machines post domain migration last Summer so automated it. Get your Solus installer from the Deployment Console, and package it in with this powershell script to do an automated remove/reinstall of Solus. Make sure to delete the machine from the Solus console first though or it'll faff around and not bother to actually install or update SIMS. In the AgentInstaller.js it exports make sure to uncomment the product selection line so that it actually does do something useful. ## new ini settings $connectdata = @" [SIMSConnection] ServerName=SERVER.FQDN\sims2016 Connectiontype=TrustedAuto DatabaseName=sims commandtimeout=70000 "@ $fmsconnectdata = @" [FMSConnection] Server=SERVER.FQDN\SIMS2016 Database=FMS= SQL_Driver_Version=5 "@ $connectinipath = "C:\Program Files (x86)\SIMS\SIMS .net\connect.ini" $fmsinipath = "C:\Program Files (x86)\SIMS\FMSSQL\FMSConnect.ini" ##### nuke section below ###################################################### # Array of product GUIDs (add any others here if needed later) $msiGuids = @( '{D8D4C490-37C1-4DB8-A038-FC5BD7EA7944}', # original version '{2FFAD32A-DD51-4CBD-8D05-8291532C76E5}' # new version ) # Service associated with the product(s) $serviceName = 'Solus3Agent' # Stop the service if it’s running $service = Get-Service -Name $serviceName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue if ($service -and $service.Status -ne 'Stopped') { Write-Verbose "Stopping $serviceName..." Stop-Service -Name $serviceName -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue } # Uninstall each GUID that actually exists on the machine foreach ($guid in $msiGuids) { Write-Verbose "Checking for product $guid ..." $product = Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_Product ` -Filter "IdentifyingNumber='$guid'" ` -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue if ($product) { Write-Verbose "Uninstalling $guid ..." Start-Process msiexec.exe -ArgumentList "/x $guid /quiet /norestart" ` -Wait -NoNewWindow Write-Verbose "Finished uninstall for $guid." } else { Write-Verbose "Product $guid not found – skipping." } } ############################################################################### # Check if the uninstallation was successful if ($uninstallProcess.ExitCode -eq 0) { Write-Output "Uninstallation successful." # Place further commands here } else { Write-Output "Uninstallation failed with exit code $($uninstallProcess.ExitCode)." } $msiInstalled = Get-WmiObject -Query "SELECT * FROM Win32_Product WHERE IdentifyingNumber = '$msiGuid'" Write-Host "Solus has been taken out back and shot" Write-Host "destroy the old crypto file " Invoke-Command -ScriptBlock {Remove-Item C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys\1db350c* -Force} # clear up solus crap Invoke-Command -ScriptBlock { write-host "cleaning up solus crap" Remove-item C:\ProgramData\Capita\* -Recurse -Force Remove-Item 'C:\ProgramData\Solus 3\*' -Recurse -Force } & cscript /nologo AgentInstaller.js "agent_installer.log" "net.tcp://localhost:52966" "net.tcp://REPLACE-WITH-YOUR-FQDN:52965" "Solus3.Keys.DeploymentService.Public.xml" "SOLUS3AgentInstaller_x86.msi" "SOLUS3AgentInstaller_x64.msi" Write-Host "Updating ini files" Set-Content -Path $connectinipath -Value $connectdata Set-Content -Path $fmsinipath -Value $fmsconnectdata -ErrorAction Continue

Really helpful to know this, thank you!

Yeah I'd be inclined to agree there, but the trust reprocured for 3yrs 😕

Evening! Has anybody gone down the route of using their own hardware for their inventry installations? Our machine is getting very much EOL now, from what I know it's been in since around 2017 and is becoming a bit troublesome (and slow) I begrudge the £1600 price to replace it considering the machines aren't anything special and that I could custom something together with a half decent touch display for far less. Am I off my nut, or is this a viable option? Hoping for some guidance. Cheers

Just us - the auto renew flag wasn't set for some odd reason.

Anybody else having issues with it this morning? We're waiting for their support to open at the moment as apparently our account is disabled... unless we've not paid a bill somewhere!

I just called them, spoke to a lovely person but she had absolutely *no* information to provide me from Classcharts, I feel she was a bit embaressed by this herself. I asked to speak to a manager - none that she can put me through to so she did suggest I complain via the support email which I have done. The complete absence of communication through any means is very concerning at this stage. This is what I have sent; Patience with their complete outage and failure to communicate is wearing pretty thin here...

Exactly my thinking at the moment - breached.

USB keyboard, the built in one doesn't send the correct characters

Use this: https://bios-pw.org/ But you will *need* to use a keyboard to do the CTRL+ENTER We use it all the time for these, not because of the DFE (we did get all of our passwords) but because one of my predecessors didn't bother to note any passwords down...

I'd keep the box alive, but shut down ready for use on demand through RDP once you're past the early days post migration. Yes, you could export the GL/suppliers/etc but you may miss something and it's just not worth the agg if finance can't find something. That's just what I'd do!

Check out containers from https://github.com/linuxserver - use the swag container to tie it all together and get your certs and everything auto generated.