ndavies

Hi guys, My job is now up for grabs, I'm moving on to a support role at a well known Premiership football club. Result! Here's the job spec and details. http://tinyurl.com/anna2qt Any questions just ask! Ta Nick

What format do you have the SQL database in from restore, is it mdf and ldf or .bak? You can use Server Management Studio to restore a backup of SQL dbs quite easily providing you have the correct credentials,

Hi all, We have a supply teacher account whose password is changed on a daily basis. Is there any way I can automate this using powershell. 1. look up "today's" password in an xml,csv or similar file 2. set it to a variable 3. set the variable to a specific user's account password I think I've found the command for 3, but how can I achieve 1 and 2? Nick

Thanks. It's dban I''m running currently and it looks like 40 min for 232gb hdd. most of our machines are about 40 - 100gb so this might be the best way forward. cheers Nick

Hi all, We're leaving our current site this summer and selling off our ICT estate. I need a bootable USB tool to quickly wipe the hard drive contents. The ones I've found seem to want to take between an hour and three and half hours for a "fast" 1 pass, copywipe, dbn, killdisk. Any faster solutions out there. I really don't want to spent any large amount of time doing this. I suppose other option is to get 30 sticks and a room all in one bit go. cheers Nick

Thank you. RM and cleaners now on the case.

They should all shut off at 8.30 and I believe they do, because we do package installs of an afternoon which get installed the morning after. @Chris_ It was bought in 2006... @cpjitservices My best guess would be something on the motherboard has blown, and sparked, or the power supply has given up the ghost, or as once before, the usb ports on the front have become bent in on themselves by students, and shorted the front circuit board. RM techie once told me about such an instance in the past.

I asked RM this morning, we have hardware support on them, but they said this kind of thing isn't covered.... Precise time? elementary my dear Turpie, the lost switch had some ruckus managed wireless APs on it, and we get an email when they drop off the network.

Amazing, the fire was contained to just that desk, lost a switch to this as well, smoke and residue everywh. Everything else *looks* alright, but not going back in until the industrial cleaners have sorted it.

Anyone got any ideas why I can't get windows working on this machine. I've tried turning it on and off... http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1336924/fire.jpg Found this morning. We reckon it happened around midnight last night somehow....

Hello, just found this forum. Excellent! We've got two AV-3016 with buzzing inside and crackling audio. Anyone know where I can take them in Manchester area to get fixed? Thanks Nick

hiall, Hope you're all well. been ages since i've been on here, so apologies. Things have been running smoothly until now!! In two IT suites next to each other, some users start to use Dreamweaver, then the LAN starts to stall in those rooms, file accesses are slow and it stutters. they come off dreamweaver and it goes. I've done a network packet trace and can't find anything of any interest..though I'm not entirely sure what I'm looking for. There are lots of ARP requests, but it doesn't look out of the ordinary and a fair few SMB packets, but that was me, testing out the access performance of the shares. can't find any traffic related specifically to dreamweaver or to specific machines with excessive packets, so a bit baffled. the only thing I am yet to prove is my introduction of a virtual web server running MVA on VMware,used to host sites that the pupils create in dreamweaver. Dreamweaver connects to this machne to transfer files. but this was setup months ago and it's been fine in the early stages. doesn't seem to be much traffic in the capture, going to and from this machine. any ideas about how I can troubleshoot this?

Sorted. The other network card wasn't disabled (we swapped it over, during summer, because it became faulty). It was "cable unplugged" status. Disabling it seems to have done the trick.

New year, new problems..harumph. The FRDC is intermittently losing the default gateway value (in ipconfig /all), but it's still there in the GUI dialog. Repairing the connection fixes it. This is impacting on DNS and subsequently our SMTP. Any ideas? Faulty NIC?

Oops that was just a typo. I did notice the same typo on a few of the support articles...maybe it's something that happens on the clipboard.. Anyways..found a different way of achieving the same thing. Basically created a WMP playlist (which powerpoint does open ok) for each and every video. bit of a ballache but it's all done and working now. cheers!