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haha ill try and find it too! thanks again mate

Hi Dave, thank-you for your reply! Both of those tick boxes are already unchecked I have attached our current settings. I think we might be going down the wrong path, our startmenu for all users works fine (as in all programs menu), its the script that pins items to start menu that isnt running for all users, Only some. It could be that we were having this discussion in another thread and ive got the two mixed up?

Anyone get this working in the end? Im trying to find out the best way to deploy this across our network too and have the 3 DVD's worth of content to go with it!

Not to worry, i found an online method from another PC and imported the license onto the server!

Hi, Our school purchased a Sibelius 7 network licence and im trying to activate our license but its coming back with an error about internet connectivity. My guess would be because of our proxy server. There doesnt seem to be any settings you can add to the client so has anyone managed to activate this software through their proxy server? If so how? Many thanks

EDIT: i dont think the second one is relevant as to why the script isnt running! The script is in domain > netlogon > environment > students > scripts and has authenticated users in the security tab. All student accounts are the same but some get it, some dont

These are the 2 errors in event viewer that i can see:

For us, its about a 50 / 50 split as to wheather they have the redirected menu or not. All users are in the same OU with the same GPO's but only random users actually get the directed menu?

Backup rerun, only took an hour this time and exchange still working as it should be. Network useage now virtually nothing compared to maxed out as before. Will look into adding another 2 vCPU's and the VMXNET3 cards to help speed things up in future. Ping is <1ms or =1ms now which is fine and roll up 7 for service pack 1 has been installed! Cheers for your help guys!

Backup was stopped and exchange restarted.... suprise suprise back to <1ms pings and outlook working perfectly. I have a feeling as soon as backup runs again its going to kill it. They did allocate 16GB to exchange too. What should the network card speed be set to? Can we just add another network card VMXNET3 copy settings across (ip, subnet etc) and remove the E1000 cards?

You're right we do seem to have 2 NIC's on different VLAN's. Im guessing because we are part of the academy's forest aswell. This is whats in windows

We use Backup Exc 12 to backup to our SAN and then every friday onto tape, however it was only implimented on monday which is when it started to choke. They gave us no training on VMWare which is why im a little new to it, sorry guys! Not sure why we are using E1000 instead for vmxnet for above reason, it was just setup like that from the company. Whats the difference?

Domino - Im sure we could allocate two more vCPU cores if it would help! Speaking to the company who put it in, they still think its a memory issue, im not convinced. A backup of our exchange has so far taken 22hours and backups were only setup earlier this week which is when we started having issues. I think the backup may be causing all the network traffic!

Here a bunch of screens on performance from the VMWare console for exchange:

Thank-you. The PC's that are pinging the server are going directly into our core switch with a gigabyte link, so there shouldnt be an issue! Il try and get some screen shots of the VMWare console performance tab for the exchange

pinging is still 56 - 200ms which is worrying. how much memory is your store using up? How much memory does your machine have allocated? Will check on the NIC setup, a company come in and installed it for us

Yep Exchange 2010 and only one exchange server. Yes i believe there are two NIC's trunked together. Our store.exe is taking up 11GB out of 12GB which i believe may be slowing the server down. Going to take it offline later, bump the server up to 16GB and limit the store.exe cache size to something like 12GB, leaving 4GB for other applications. Hopefully that will improve things?

Hi For the last 2 days or so our exchange has been grinding to a halt and outlook 2010 freezes and crashes, constantly displaying this message to users: Pinging the server also seems worrying: Exchange is a virtual server with 12GB allocated memory. Its sitting at a constant 11GB useage and doesnt fluctuate atall. Is it bottlenecking? What else could be wrong? Our old exchange used to only have 4GB memory and coped fine! We upgraded to new servers in the summer, coming away from an RM system. Its been working fine for the last 3 weeks but has just started happening this week. Tried cache mode, still the same if not worse.

We get a very simular error and sometimes takes upto 40mins for users to logon!!

Cheers, tried the sleep command and it didnt work for those users who didnt have it. Its still blank for a majority of users For those who are working, it seems to work fine each time they logon and instantly appears. Thanks David, sorry im a little new to this setup, where do i find that out?

We get a lot of these errors in eventviewer: Also this error: Windows failed to apply the Folder Redirection settings. Folder Redirection settings might have its own log file. Please click on the "More information" link.

how do you add in a sleep command? Sorry im new to scripting The PC's in question are older dualcore PC's and mine is an i5 2500 machine, however different users are logging onto the same machines and only a very small amount actually get the menu items, the rest are blank

Strange findings so far. One user gets it on all PC's, Other users logging onto those PC's dont get it, cant see a pattern at the moment between their accounts. Errors in event viewer refering to access denied to a redirected folder

Hi, Yep all PC's have the programs in the same locations, all 64bit machines

Perfect thank-you! The script works, however it appears to only work on some machines and not others. For example a user logged onto a PC in library, pinned items appeared, logged onto a pc in our office and menu was blank. Any ideas why?