Gaz

Excellent thanks guys.

I'm using group policy preferences to make some drive maps. Is it OK to use the same drive letter for multiple drive maps (the drive will mapped be to different user groups) so each user will only have 1 mapped drive but in GPP there will be multiple maps to say K:\ for example.

Hehe KDR means nothing if you don't keep it up.

Lol what rank are you?

Yes me, you can add me via the group.

Brother has their own recycling program like many manufacturers. Recycling | Brother UK - Brother at your side

Do the cameras need night vision? A little out of budget but as they aren't in stock I don't know how much the multiple discount is, but you could try and see if they will do a deal for 10 cameras for £3500 they are usually good at stuff like that. AXIS M1144-L Indoor Fixed PoE Box IP Camera w/ Night Vision (1 Megapixel) 0436-001

Just take a very good look at the source code of whichever template you decide to go for because there are loads of malicious templates out there with obfuscated code.

I've gotta ask! Why are you replacing a high end model (I use that term loosely with D-Link) with a low end model? Have you tried a firmware update? I doubt it'll work because as synaesthesia said, its probably not compatible.

This looks like a good deal, FUJITSU TX131 Intel Xeon E3-1226v3 1 X 8GB 2 X 500GB NOT HOTPLUG 3.5 INCH DVDRW | Servers Direct although I don't know if Fujitsu servers are any good.

The budget for the server at the time wasn't great and the best way was an "all in one" approach to the server. I'll definitely be looking for another server to act in a failover role. @zag when you say "instantly" do you mean you can source the parts yourself i.e. from a retailer or do you have them in stock? @plexer do you have an example of such a spec? Cheers.

Server is backup and running. The engineer while waiting for a replacement motherboard decided to reseat the CPU there was a little bit of dust around the ZIF socket, once he removed that and reseated the CPU the server booted. No idea how that could have stopped it from booting. In the event log in the before the crash are lots of Event ID 1004 ipmidrv messages, a quick google reveals no solid answers to a solution but there maybe a firmware update for the iDRAC

Yeah lessons are learned all the time, I will be looking into setting up a secondary DC. All but 1 stick of RAM was removed during the testing, with the same result. Error code #2 with no display and fan at full RPM. The Data for the DC should be fine if its just the motherboard. I do have a backup of the DC but hopefully I won't need to use it. If it were near the summer holidays I'd be tempted to upgrade it to 2012. Just waiting on the new motherboard to arrive.

Have you tried using Deploy Printer to GPO under Printer Management?

Sorry for the late reply. To say its been busy today would be an understatement. :/ @Kenny_G I did try that but to no avail. @Sagima it wasn't getting a display at all so no chance of booting to anything. Support has been down and think its a duff motherboard which confirms my suspicions. Although there is still the potential for a duff CPU.

Support are coming down to site to take a look they haven't advised me to do anything yet. I was wondering if anyone had experienced that error before. Because I'm not getting a display leads me to believe its either the mother board or the cpu. If the expansion card had died I'd it should still POST.

What a great start to the morning. Our one and only DC decided to stop functioning without warning, Its a Dell T310 and the diagnostic lights on the front seem to rest on #2 and there is no display on the monitor. That error code leads me to believe its related to an expansion card and the only expansion card is our storage adapter, there is also a little green LED on the storage adapter that is flashing. The Fan is also spinning at full RPM to indicate a fault. I've logged a case with support but I didn't have much to give them as there isn't much to go on, no BIOS beeps etc. So if anyone has any ideas that could help I'd appreciate it. Cheers.

Well I've got the drivers but I want to do a manual install its for an HP Officejet Pro X576dw so I was going to see if they had a zip file with the .inf files. I can't extract them using uniextract unless there is a better program as that hasn't been updated in 4 years. I've looked to see if they are in a temp directory but I can't see to find them.

OK Glad its not just me then.

Can anyone access the HP driver site? I keep getting The system returned: (104) Connection reset by peer It doesn't work on my phone either. h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/readIndex?sp4ts.oid=5146495

Cheers for the replies. I think its going to be a bit too much work for the reward so I'm just going to lock them into their respective domains for now with the exception of 1 which will definitely need to roam between sites I'll leave it off the domain. We'll be renewing our DC next year so I'll revisit this then.

The problem is we've got the two buildings with a public road in between and no money for a connection (wired or wireless) only the internet can be used to connect them and one of them has a static IP which is fine but the other site has a dynamic IP.

I'm not really sure where to post this one. We've got 2 networks, one with server 2003 R2 DC and one with server 2008 R2 DC. These networks aren't connected by any means. We've just bought some laptops and I would like the laptops to be used on both networks. I know I need to use a domain trust to accomplish this but I don't want the networks to be connected, can a trust be established so that users can use these laptops on both networks but without the 2 DC's actually establishing the trust together? Sorry If I've not explained that very well but if I need to rewrite it let me know.

What do the event logs say? Are there any errors being recorded?

It depends how much cabling you have to do, that is OK for the odd run but if you are cabling a whole room then this would be better. Peak Electronic Design Limited - Atlas IT - Network Cable Analyser - Model UTP05 I've got the standard version but you can buy more terminators and effectively turn it into the ultimate version.