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We moved from Capita UNIT-e to Corereo REMS about 18 months ago, and it hasn't made many people happy at all.

We put in four NetGear ProSafe WFS709TP controllers with around 80 APs in the summer of 2011. We replaced the whole thing in the summer of 2012 with Meraki. I still have the controllers, if you want them, for free. Might even be able to find a couple of the APs still around, although most of them have gone to the scrappy already.

You've got three options: 1. Look back at the installation report for the fibres when they were new, it should say what type of fibre it is. 2. Physically examine the fibre to see if it says OM1 62.5/125 on it. 3. Find someone with fibre testing equipment to test it for you. If you're running at 100Mbps, it's most likely OM1.

Assuming it's OM1 multimode fibre, here's the cable you'll need: 62.5/125 (OM1) LC to ST Cables (The other post in this thread linked LC to SC which is not what you specified)

Hi all, Is anyone able to spare a DB9-DB9 (9-pin) serial cable please? I've got some equipment that requires a console connection in order to make it not be broken any more. All I have laying around is DB9-RJ45.. willing to trade! Many thanks, Andrew

Hi Chris, I'm convinced I tried that, and it wouldn't let me in. Oh well, too late now. Thanks anyway

Well, maybe things didn't go quite as well as I'd hoped. When I came to demote User again, Windows refused. Although it was showing as being a member of the Administrators group, different parts of the OS couldn't agree on whether the user really was or wasn't an Administrator. This tallies with the warnings given by NTPassWd, so although this utility is great as a last-resort to restoring access, don't expect everything to be smelling of roses once it's done its work. I couldn't demote the account, I couldn't even delete the account. I've ended up reinstalling the OS after all. And this time, I'll be sure that the Administrator account is NOT disabled!

I initially tried NTPassWd to promote User to a member of Administrators, which didn't work. After reading sted's reply, I booted back into NTPassWd and used it to unlock the Administrator account. I also, for giggles, tried promoting User again. This time, it all worked. Now I've booted back into Windows, User is an Administrator, and the Administrator account is unlocked. Not sure why NTPassWd failed to do it's job the first time. Looks like my bacon is saved. Thanks for your help guys.

OK, I'll give NTPassWd a try. I'd forgotten that can do user promotion as well as password change. Will report back how that goes.

Hi guys, on a scale of 1-10 how stuffed am I? Building a laptop with Windows 7, and we're only tentatively dipping our toes into the Windows 7 waters at the moment, so still got a lot to learn. I'm applying my XP knowledge to this brave new world, and getting my fingers burnt. In XP, we'd have two users on the machine - Administrator, and User. User is a member of the Users group, whilst of course Administrator is a member of the Administrators group. AutoAdminLogon is set to log the machine in automatically as User (after the Novell login has happened), and when we need to do administrative stuff on the machine we do a RunAs on Computer Management, launch it as Administrator, and add User to the Administrators group. Now, I came to replicate this procedure on Windows 7. I have successfully made User a member of the Users group instead of Administrators, and that's fine. However, the problem comes when I need to add them back to the Administrators group. It won't let me do a RunAs Administrator. It says there's some kind of policy in place to disallow that. We don't have an Active Directory, we're not using any kind of Group Policy, so this must be a default Local Policy. So, my problem is that the only user on the machine that's a member of the Administrators group is Administrator, and I can't log in as Administrator. I've tried in Safe Mode and that didn't help. The Administrator account definitely has a password set, and the prompts that appear say 'to continue, type an administrator password, and then click Yes'. Well, there's nowhere to type a password, and Yes is greyed out. Does anyone have any suggestions please, or am I going to have to wipe the machine and start again? Thanks.

Adobe Creative Suite 5 is 64-bit only, so you've got no choice if you plan on using new version of Photoshop, Dreamweaver etc.

Watching my email server today I noticed some emails unable to be delivered to a btinternet.co.uk address. I did some researching and it appears to me that btinternet.co.uk has no MX record. I tried the same email address at btinternet.com and it came back and said the recipient didn't exist at that domain. So either the user has got the email address very wrong, or someone at BT/Yahoo has slipped up and lost the MX record.

I've been very much against the idea of using re-manufactured or compatible printer consumables for many years now, but unfortunately today's financial climate is forcing my hand to look at this again. I'd like to hear your opinions. Do you use remans or compats? Laser toner, inkjet ink, inkjet printheads, or perhaps you mix and match depending on the usage? Thanks.

No, it just lists on screen.

I'd suggest running WinARP Watch on a machine, you'll notice when new devices join the network from there. Although the original developer's homepage no longer exists, there are plenty of mirrors around.

I thought it was going to be that the C in "c:\" was in lower case. I've only ever seen it capitalised.

30 calls a year for 900+ machines being used by students intent on destroying them seems reasonable to me.

I'd recommend uStream.tv along with any webcam of decent quality.

What about user management and network/file permissions?

Never clean the filters, but they do get replaced along with the lamp whenever it goes pop.

I'd like to add my experience of using Stone Computers. They've been our PC supplier since they were named Omega (and then OEE and OE Group), and the PCs were Pentiums running at 60Mhz. We have never experienced the problems that are being alluded to by some people in this thread. We currently have over 900 Stone machines on campus, mostly PCs but a fair number of laptops too. Since November 2001 when my records begin, we have logged around 300 support incidents. I don't think that's too bad, personally. We have 8 year old PCs still going strong (D845GERG2 with P4 2.6GHz), although many of the D865GLC and some of the D915GAG motherboards are starting to experience capacitor leakage. But that's Intel's fault, not Stone's, and unsurprising given their age. Most of our machines are Small Form Factor. Most common failure is power supply, which is unsurprising given the unorthodox size and shape of the PSU to fit these machines. Some of the 40mm rear case fans in older machines have also had to be removed or replaced due to the bearings going. In newer machines, the only problem we occasionally experience is needing to reseat the RAM, this this is very rare. I really cannot fault Stone. Yes, their prices are slightly higher than competitors, but it's not always about price. It's about service and overall satisfaction. For that, you can't beat them.

We've had a few 1001's where the screen goes bad (more than half the screen either black or covered in digital noise), and several damaged power adapters although this is malicious user damage not accidental. The custom graphics driver doesn't like it when you put XP into 'Classic' theme, it keeps forcing it back to 'XP' theme, I had to give up in the end and leave it as such. But other than that, not bad little devices. The bad screens were repaired under warranty without too much fuss.

We have an Axstor Ai-4000 iSCSI SAN which has 8 SATA disks. - has it been reliable? Yes. We've had it running since 2008, and in that time we've only had one occasion where it locked up solid and required a reset. It's since had newer firmware installed and has been problem-free for at least 2 years now. - has it met your requirements for performance and storage Absolutely. We run all of our VMWare ESX servers from it and it also holds all the network data for both staff and students. We bought it filled with 500GB disks but have since swapped them out for 1TB disks, which was simply a case of replacing them one at a time and waiting for the array to rebuild before repeating the process with the next disk. Each LUN can have its own RAID level, so more important LUNs can be configured for greater redundancy. - was it good value on initial purchase We paid £6,357.00 (ex VAT) for it back in 2008. I feel that's pretty good value. - has support been good if \ when required The unit was supplied by our general IT support company and they have supported it since. - would you buy a similar model again? No qualms about that whatsoever. I've been very impressed with it.