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Hello, We have a a backup server here based on an Intel S5000PSL mother board with a SAS Controler card. Had to re-install for variours reasions, so have a clean install of Server 2008 x64, installed DPM (x64) with SP1 and the march 31st hotfix updates. Now the SAS Controler Card looks after the raid 5 array of disks used for the DPM disk pool and also contects (via exteral connector) to our SuperLoader 3. All was good and working until I tried to inventory the library. Every time I do so both the Disc array and the Superloader go ofline and only a reboot will re-connect them to the OS. The autoloader is connectable and managable via the web interface at this time. Anyone got any idea's because i cant see why this is going on. Thanks .Adam

Right, We've done a huge network upgrade and have tones of switches left over, all in good working condition. Just off me a price and it's yours + the shipping (I just need them out of the office). Allied Telesyn AT-8000S/24 x6 Allied Telesyn AT-8000S/48 x3 Allied Telesyn AT-9424T/GB x2 Allied Telesis AT-9424Ts x1 Netgear FS526T x3 Netgwer FS726T x5 any questions just send me a PM .Adam

Our local capite Support Rep (i think thats the best way of putting it) send an e-mail to all the local schools about 2 days before easter telling us about this. Thankfuly were were on the Spring Relase test phase but.... 2 day notice is a bit daft.

Hi, is this http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows/44528-exchange-2007-mail-contacts.html what you were after? .Adam PS make sure you go to the second page for the most up to date one

Thanks for the info on synergy; Very useful but I would like to drag and drop windows accoss all systems. Is this possable?

I dont even know if this is possable but... Could you Extend your desktop onto another system via software? I'm sure i've read somthing on this somewhere but can't for the life of me think where. Thanks for look at the crazy idea

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Ok; 1) Check your LA's not screwing around(personal experance): Create a new rule in ISA to publish a webserver (http) using a machine which just has a clean IIS on it and check that the site is accessable from outside. 2) Getting the gatway working: First off create a listener with the following settings; Network: External, Conntections: HTTP+HTTPS Do not Redirect, Certificates: Assign Cert. to web listener for your external name ie tsg.contolso.com, Authentication: HTTP Basic Windows, Forms and SSO leave alone. 3) Create Firewall Rule: Run the Exchage pubishing wizard select Exchange 2007 and the outlook anywhere tick box, single web site, use ssl, the internal site name should be the same domain as your external site name i.e. gatway.school.sch.uk (you may need to setup a new forward lookup zone in your DNS), next accept only traffic from gatway.school.sch.uk, Slect the web listener you prevoiusly created, on the auth page slect No deligation but client may authenticate directly, select all users (just for testing) and test your rule. Your should now me able to make a connection to your school from the outside using RDC and entering the correct gateway address in the advanced tab. Once this is working everythig else shouldn't be that big a deal. Shout if you have any problems with this.

Hi there We have a TSG published through ISA here which works; we are on ISA 2006, the TSG is on Windows 2008 R2. what sort of issues are you having?

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I agree, I know that lots of schools have very streched budgets as it is and for smaller schools £350 is that new PC that so and so has been after for a while. Which i sopose brings me back to my rant about capita producing a tool which doesn't work and that they wont support (in a few cases at least). Now if the tool worked me and my NM would be doing the SIMS migration no problems knowing that should anything funky happen we did it the 'capita way' and there should be support (well I would hope there would be). Instead of the 'dirty' way where we could end up in a complete mess, I'm sure that most of us here are capable of doing it this way its just if your willing to take the risk, personaly I would I feel happy to do so but it wasn't my call.

you will need to create a new forward lookup zone on your internal DNS for school.county.sch.uk and place an A record in there for your tsgateway box. Since your using wildcard certs the name doesn't matter just the IP.

Yep that is on the same server, but i dont see why they would charge extra to move it to a different one.

I know they need to make money but how many £1000's does each school spend each year with them? As an update on what were doing about this problem, it's now Capitas problem, the NM decided that we shouldn't take the risk of playing around with SIMS\FMS when it could all go so horibly wrong. (i'm 99.9% sure we wouldn't screw up but oh well, not my call). Just so you fokes know they are charging £350 +VAT to move your system + up to 8 workstations if you book before the end of the month (March 2010).

Setting the TS\RD Gateway is a relitivly simple process, just run throught the wizard and the set up the CAP's for thoses users who are allowed to access the Gatway and the RAP's for the resources which they are allowed to access. When it comes to publishing the gateway through ISA, you need to use the Exchange 2007 publishing wizard and treat the TS\RD Gateway as if you were going to publish outlook anywhere. There's are good artical on this the the Feb 2009 Technet mag which you can find here

just to thow a spanner in the works, i've had this error when tring to export by database to a flat file using the advanced options box. A why oh why wont SIMS support a tool that they provided!

Heres a qucik powershell script which should do the job, just change the path to were your files are and run a CSV file from your MIS with the kids names and admissions numbers (student codes), change the path on line 8 to where this csv is. #Get a list of all files in the structure $List = Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Path c:\Windows\system32 #fore each file foreach($item in $list) { #import report containg students names and adminision numbers (collum heading name and adno) import-csv "s:\students.csv" | foreach-object { #check each line in CSV file if it contains the current file name if($item.Name.contains($_.name)) { echo found #rename file to admission number Rename-Item $item $_.adno } } } Hope this helps,

just offmy head im not sure (will have to check) but i think that PAC files ignore white space so you might just be able to put a carrage return in.

This is my PAC file function FindProxyForURL(url, host) { if ((host == "172.16.100.102") || (host == "172.16.127.200") || (host == "172.16.100.34")) || (host == "172.16.100.194") return "Direct"; if (isInNet(myIpAddress(), "172.16.64.0", "255.255.255.0")) return "PROXY 10.142.34.33:8084"; else return "DIRECT"; } basicly if i try to reach any of the IP address on the top line i'll go direct via the default gatway, if (isInNet(myIpAddress(), "172.16.64.0", "255.255.255.0")) looks if im in that subnet and if so will you the proxy given, else it goes throught the Default gateway. so yours should look something like function FindProxyForURL(url, host) { if ((host == "172.16.100.102") || (host == "172.16.127.200") || (host == "172.16.100.34")) || (host == "172.16.100.194") return "PROXY 10.142.34.33:8084"; else return "DIRECT";

LOL, well thats made my morning.

Can anyone see why this script isn't working - see comment in code. function get-dn ([string]$SAMName,[string]$type) { $root = [ADSI]'' $searcher = new-object System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher($root) switch($type) { contact{ $searcher.filter = "(&(objectClass=contact)(cn=$SAMName))" } group{ $searcher.filter = "(&(objectClass=group)(cn=$SAMName))" } user{ $searcher.filter = "(&(objectClass=user)(sAMAccountName=$SAMName))" } computer{ $searcher.filter = "(&(objectClass=computer)(name=$SAMName))" } employeeID{ $searcher.Filter = "(&(objectClass=user)(employeeID=$SAMName))" } } $user = $searcher.findall() if ($user.count -gt 1){ $count = 0 foreach($i in $user){ write-host $count ": " $i.path $count = $count + 1 } $selection = Read-Host "Please select item: " return $user[$selection].path.toString() } else{ return $user[0].path } } function generateUniqueUserName([string] $PreferedSurename, [string] $PreferedForename, [string] $YearofEntry, [int] $repeate, [int] $forenameIncremant) { #If using whole forname for username kill script if(($PreferedForename.length) -eq 1+$forenameIncremant) { echo "No Unique name found" BREAK; } #If using full surname start incrementing the forename if(($PreferedSurname.length) -lt (3+$Repeate)) { $firstletter = $PreferedForename.substring(0,1+$forenameIncremant); $lastletters = $PreferedSurename $forenameIncremant = $forenameIncremant+1 } #Use Default Naming alowing increase in surname chars else { $firstletter = $PreferedForename.substring(0,1); $lastletters = $PreferedSurename.substring(0,3+$repeate); } $YearNumber = $YearofEntry.substring(3,1); $username = $yearNumber+"-"+$Firstletter+$lastLetters if(((get-dn $username user) -as [string]).contains("ou")) { generateUniqueUserName $PreferedSurname $Preferedforename $YearofEntry ($repeate+1) $forenameIncremant } else { return $username } } ADD-PSSNAPIN -name Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Powershell.Admin Add-pssnapin -name Quest.ActiveRoles.ADManagement #Change legal forname field to forename1 import-csv "s:\studentsimport.csv" | foreach-object { $newUser = $false #Set Working Varables $LegalSurname = $_.Surname $LegalForename = $_.Forename $PreferedSurname = $_.'Legal Surname' $PreferedForename = $_.Forename1 $YearofEntry = $_.'Year of entry' $TempPassword = read-host -AsSecureString $admissionNumber= $_.adno -as [int] $RegGroup = $_.reg -as [string] #check if user with admission number exists $LDAPPath = (get-dn $admissionNumber employeeID) -as [string] if($LDAPPath.Contains("ou")) { #update User $workingUserName = $LDAPPath.Substring(10,$LDAPPath.IndexOf(',')-10) echo "known user" } else { #new User $workingUserName = generateUniqueUserName $PreferedSurname $Preferedforename $YearofEntry 0 0 #Safty $workingUserName = "Test"+$workingUserName $newUser = $true } $Sam = $workingUserName $max=$Sam.Length if ($max -gt 20) {$max=20} $Sam=$Sam.Substring(0,$max) $Name=$workingUserName $DisplayName=$PreferedForename+" "+$PreferedSurname $Alias=$workingUserName $UPN=$workingUserName+"@shsg.org" $ProfilePath ='\\SHSG-D02-FNP01\Users$\'+$Alias $HomeDir='\\SHSG-D02-FNP01\StudentUserData$\'+$Alias $HomeDrive='U:' $Company='Southend High School for Girls - Student' $Office=$RegGroup $Description='Student' $ourdomain='@olympus.local' $HomeFolderMasterDir='\\SHSG-D02-FNP01\StudentUserData$\' if($RegGroup.contains("7") -or $RegGroup.contains("8") -or $RegGroup.contains("9")) { $MailDatabase = "shsg-d03-exs01\SHSG KeyStage 3\SHSGKeystage3" } if($newUser -eq $True) { new-item -path $HomeFolderMasterDir -name $Alias -type directory New-Mailbox -Name $Name -Alias $Alias -OrganizationalUnit 'olympus.local/Creation' -UserPrincipalName $UPN -SamAccountName $SAM -FirstName $LegalForename -Initials '' -LastName $LegalSurname -Password $TempPassword -ResetPasswordOnNextLogon $true -Database $MailDatabase set-qaduser -identity $alias -homedirectory $HomeDir -homedrive $Homedrive -company $Company -office $Office -displayname $displayname -profilePath $ProfilePath } else { #Why does this not work? #Permission Denied Errors Set-Mailbox -Identity $alias -Name $Name -Alias $Alias -UserPrincipalName $UPN -SamAccountName $SAM get-qaduser $alias | set-qaduser -homedirectory $HomeDir -homedrive $Homedrive -company $Company -office $Office -displayname $displayname -profilePath $ProfilePath } $Foldername=$HomeFolderMasterDir+$Alias $DomainUser='olympus\'+$Alias $ACL=Get-acl $Foldername $Ar = New-Object system.security.accesscontrol.filesystemaccessrule($DomainUser,"FullControl","Allow") $Acl.SetAccessRule($Ar) Set-Acl $Foldername $Acl }

changing the cert on exchange 2007 has always been a simple process for me, all you would have to do is add an ssl cert. into IIS7 and then change the website to use the new cert. If you have issues it would only be a two second job to change it back. You also siad that you have errors regarding to unsecured transports and fqdn issues, these are seperate from you main point and shouldn't be effected by placing a cert. on OWA

hi everyone, Just a quick question, is there in IIS 7 install guide anywhere? Thanks .Adam

true, but this is with the install disk not a 3rd party util.

I've just had a student come to me because she couldn't remember her password for her mac (i dont know....). I told her i would take a look at it, I put the install disc in and poked around and found that you could re-set her password with a simple util. I'm I the only one that see's a HUGE issue with this? Is there a way that you could force your account not to be re-set by this method? rant over.... thanks .adam