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David, I have just had a look at HAP+, from what I can see its for remote access to files through a web interface. I would have thought (but may well be wrong), that the logon tracker section would track the logons to the remote file service? I used to have a set of logon and logoff scripts that wrote a CSV file to a hidden share on our file server, whilst this was a rather crude method, it did work reasonably well to give us an idea of who was logged on and for how long. Perhaps if I can dig up the old scripts these may be of use to you? Alternatively if you are fairly comfortable setting up a MySQL server I can give you the scripts that we are currently using that uses MySQL to store the timestamps of logon/logoff/shutdown/startup events, although to extract the data from this would require some coding experience as I haven't yet got round to completing the back end for it. Ash

David, No problem, what did you want to know? I have used several methods over the years, currently using a combination of VBScript and a MySQL database with a php back end for us to search etc. Ash

Well I have my Raspberry Pi and an xibo server set up. I only have an 8Gb SD card at the minute though and I keep filling it up. When my bigger SD card turns up I'll make a concerted effort to see if I can get the pyclient up and running on the pi. Ill post my findings here when I have had chance to try it. Edit : Sorry, I have just realised I might have resurrected a seriously old thread. Ill post my findings here anyway..........

I did look at the DRBD within openfiler but to build redundancy into it fully required lots of addon packages. Also, due to it being open source rather than a purchased product there is no real support that goes with it. As I am still reasonably new to implementing and supporting SAN I would really like a product that can offer after sales support while I get to grips with it fully. Does anyone have any experience with IBM SAN technologies. In particular I have been recommended an IBM V7000 to support redundancy and virtualization. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Many thanks, Ash

I couldnt find any threads similar to this one. Our storage server is well out of warranty and we have decided to upgrade it. What I would really like to do is put either iSCSI or FC SAN in place (to allow me to cluster Hyper-V) and so that we can scale up and down without all the rig ma role of dropping services. I'm a complete noob when it comes to SANs, I understand the most basic concepts but the most I have ever done regarding them is implement a test deployment of both openfiler and freenas. Can anyone either point me in the right direction of a "complete beginners guide" so to speak, or tell me what equipment I will need to get it fully implemented. I would ideally like the cost to be as low as possible (< £15,000) and am open to all suggestions. But the biggest importance is that Hyper-V can use some of the storage for clustering, and there should be some redundancy in there. Any help would be much appreciated, all the guides I find assume a reasonable level of knowledge of SANs already and I have tried playing with openfiler and the iSCSI target for Win 2K8R2 and neither seem to have the option for redundancy reliably. Thanks, Ash

or Powershell scripts. (stop-computer -force -computername "COMPNAME") set as a scheduled task? you can build a list of computers in a text file and use Stop-Computer -force -ComputerName (get-content "Full Path to computer list.txt")

The two things I can think of are.... Is there a firewall running on the remote server? and if so is it set to allow WMI queries through? And also try setting the impersonation level for authentication on the remote server. I have a script that gets the current user of the remote machine that works using WMI. Dont know if it will help so I will paste the appropriate piece of code below. Function GetLocallyLoggedOnUser(strComputer) Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Set colComputer = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_ComputerSystem") For Each objComputer in colComputer 'WScript.Echo " " & objComputer.UserName GetLocallyLoggedOnUser = objComputer.UserName Next End Function

Good good. Glad its all working. Keep an eye on any errors within DSFRS (eventvwr) though as I would hazard a guess that the error originated from there somewhere.

I would probably be inclined to start looking at DNS for a solution. Active directory uses file replication itself as a way of replicating changes to the directory and to the SYSVOL shares. If replication is failing then the chances are that policies will not be updated on all other servers when changes occur. take a look at the technet site here for some ways to troubleshoot the first error you posted. In particular from the technet page, try nslookup on "yourdomain.local" and check that it returns an IP address of a domain controller. This event usually appears as a warning (if I remember correctly), and usually isn't something to worry about. Its just information to say that the domain controller is now up and running.

Are there any error events for replication on any of the domain controllers (something along the lines of replication failed/paused)? Can you ping all of the domain controllers (by FQDN) from the client/clients in question?

I have had it where some of my clients get strange DNS addresses. I figured out that it was due to a rogue device dishing out DHCP requests on my VLAN. The only thing that I can figure was happening was that the correct DHCP server was responding in time for the IP to be assigned and then some how the other server's response dished out the DNS. Check that DHCP isn't enabled on any other device on your network. First place I would look would be your gateway as its where you have seen the IP for those DNS servers before. Things like Internet Connection Sharing on a client will set up a crude DHCP server on that client. Alternately depending on your standard lease time from your DHCP you could temporarily stop the DHCP service. Then run ipconfig /release & ipconfig /renew on a client and see if it still gets a response (if it does then the IP of the DHCP Server will be your culprit)

I have that problem too. Its really annoying. I would have fixed it but its on my ever extending "to do list". I believe it is something to do with trusted sites etc (as your opening a link that resides on a network location you have to tell the clients to trust that location). Worth starting there.....

There are two locations to apply the permissions. You have the share permissions which should be set to Everyone - Full Control (Dont worry you will actually lock the permissions down with NTFS). Then you have the NTFS permissions which should be set to allow admins and system full control and the approved users/groups Read&Execute. I have found an extract from a site about folder redirection which may help..... Here. Its actually aimed at Terminal Services and uses 2003 but the principles are very similar. The bit that would most apply to yourself I think will be....

Have you checked the permissions on the share that you are redirecting to?

Cheers for the replies guys, I'm only trying it at the minute to see if it will do what we want. So I'm installing the technet eval. I have finally managed to get it installed on a physical machine instead of a Hyper-V machine. The only reason I am looking at it really is because I want to get a new method of deploying software. Currently we have to re-package everything into MSI format to deploy via group policy software deployment. I had a look at wpkg but it didnt seem very friendly and easy to manage. (I need something that is friendly for my colleagues to use). So far it seems ok. A little bit fiddly for the config and the setup of the system but the software deployment (that will be used by my colleagues) seems very user friendly and simple.............. so far. Ash

Hi Guys & Gals, I'm becoming increasingly frustrated with my attempts at installing SCE 2010 on Server 2008R2. I have tried installing the program numerous times and each time it fails. I have been through the prerequisites with a fine tooth comb and rebuilt my Hyper-V machine several times. Each time the program fails telling me to look in the log files (14,000 lines of log file in illegible format and about as much use as a chocolate tea pot). So I have tried installing the resource kit to use the LogParser.exe to perhaps get Microsofts oh so useful log file into some kind of format I can understand. Every single time that I install the resource kit it installs everything except the LogParser.exe. After some reading I have seen that other people have had exactly the same issue as me and after obtaining a copy of the exe from somewhere have been able to troubleshoot their install. Does anyone please have a copy of LogParser.exe included in the SCE 2010 Resource kit that they could send to me? I'm beginning to pull my hair out....... Many Thanks, Ash

That sounds about right to me. Just checked my F1 app and Bahrain isnt on this seasons calendar in the app.

It's the second I have seen. But it seems to be the one gathering pace quickest. And it will take one getting ahead of the rest before it becomes "the one" as morpheus would say.

Well there's a petition up and running as I expected against this. Petition for totally FREE-TO-AIR Formula 1 from 2010 - Petition Online - UK The 2010 title is wrong but I'm sure the bloke who started will be able to correct that (despite it being hard coded into the link to the page). If anyone is interested I'm sure it cant do any harm if it gets a fair few signatures.......

Take a look at the ADMT (Active Directory Migration Tool) by Microsoft. It will do all of the users. I'm unsure about the files though. I created a logon script to copy the files into the users new home directory location at first logon (so that each user would still be the owner of their files for quota reasons). I can probably dig out the old script I used if it would be of any help? The ADMT is a bit fiddly to set up correctly but once its done it makes life alot easier. Edit : Link to ADMT 3.2 (Mods/Admins please remove if links are not allowed)

I have found a few things from a website that is for the exchange of experts information (am unsure of the rules of links to 3rd party sites on here can PM you the link if needed). They were for Server 2003. But i can imagine that SBS will be very very similar (Never used SBS myself). That suggested using ERD Commander to reset the domain admin account. I was always under the impression that as a DC does not use a SAM you would not be able to reset it via ERD Commander but others on the site believed you could. So may be worth a try? The other suggestion was...........

What version of Windows Server is it running? If it is Windows 2000 then as per the KB article Here then you could try using the backup software to restore Ntds.dit to %SystemRoot%\NTDS folder (default location of Ntds.dit..... the location can be changed at promotion time but usually isnt). As for breaking into the password I would be inclined to run something along the lines of ophcrack on a client and see if the admin password on the clients is the same as the directory services restore mode or admin on the server (Good reason to have your clients administrator account disabled, and the password completely different to any domain passwords). Are you only running a single server with no redundancy? That would be where I would start at least.........

Thanks Los0jos but I have solved it now. In the 6 months that I haven't used Visual Studio I forgot that when you are referencing something within a panel that the top left of the panel is always 0, 0 regardless of where the panel sits within the form. Schoolboy error. The corrected and properly functioning line is now........... lblRoomSelect.Left = (pnlRoomSelect.Width / 2) - (lblRoomSelect.Width / 2) Thanks for the help anyway

Does your left mean left within a panel or a tab control? My left means left if I'm referencing say another textbox or another label But all of my margins are set as 0 and all padding is set as 0 and still when I reference the left of the panel its left plus a bit. EDIT: My bad I'm just being a complete tit and forgetting that when I reference within a panel that the left of the panel is 0 regardless of what the location of the panel is in reference to everything else. Its been a while since I wrote anything in VB. Solved it.

Thanks for the suggestion Los0jos. I have tried it but it results in the same. I'll continue to play and see if I can find out why it is doing it. I have just tried setting the left of the label to the left of the panel and the label ends up about 10 - 20 pixels away from the left of the panel. Grrrr why cant left actually mean left not "left plus a bit" lblRoomSelect.Left = pnlRoomSelect.Left That would be where my problem is coming from.