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I have a Qnap TS-869 Pro here loaded with WD Red's. It works really well for us, fully featured and fast. I have it running RAID 6.

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Does anyone have a copy of the feedback document they can send me please as I'd really like to read it and I wasn't able to attend the session in the end. Thanks.

Hell would have to freeze over and an unnamed deity would have to ride in on a flying unicorn before I'd turn mine off. Portable AirCon all the way.

Personally I wouldn't shut them down. I would find a way to ventilate that room. I have been in your exact situation some years ago and had to come up with some pretty ingenious solutions to keep the room ventilated.

Thanks for the offer.. Will do if frog comes up for discussion here.

Use Veeam Veeam: Modern Data Protection Designed for backing up VM's.. It really is excellent.

As for deleting the local profile manually you have a couple of options. There is a guide somewhere on technet I think to hunting down the relevant reg keys and manually removing them from the client PC. Alternatively, you can create a new user account for that user (so it therefore has a new SID) and it will create a brand new profile on the PC leaving the old one "orphaned". You can name it the same as the old user account if you rename the old one first.. copy their home drive to the newly created users area (making sure the NTFS permissions change as appropriate). You just need to get the user to set the password to whatever it was before. Anyone else know how to get round this ?

Ok, take a breath... Stop and collect yourself for a moment. Start thinking about exactly what you have changed.. write it down if necessary and start backtracking the changes you have made.

Don't just delete the local profile from the computer as this leaves all the registry keys behind and will cause all sorts of problems. Go to Control Panel > System > Advanced System Settings > User Profiles Settings.. And delete it there, this will remove all the associated reg keys too. Alternatively use a tool like delprof2

@abillybob Deleting "desktop.ini" from the user folder will return the folder name to normal on the server but it will be recreated as soon as the user logs in again. You need to look at some of the solutions already mentioned, i.e using scripts/powershell or FSRM to block access to desktop.ini to stop it renaming all the folders to Documents / My Documents. As a side note, If you feel virtualbox is not robust enough, VMware workstation single licence is less than £100 (I use this on my workstation)

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I use FSRM to stop it creating desktop.ini in the user shares. Works well.

I believe the iTunes picture and cable means that the iPad is in restore mode and needs iOS restoring or a backup restoring from iTunes. I only have 2 iPads here and they refuse to update cleanly and I see this message regularly.

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Here's a script I run that will parse every folder on a given start drive letter and find and delete the hidden ".DS_Store" files that a mac creates on windows shares. I run it once a week on my home based server as a scheduled task. Works a treat and I thought it might be useful to someone: START_FOLDER = "D:\" PREFIX = ".DS_Store" Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") ProcessSubFolders oFSO.GetFolder(START_FOLDER), iCount Sub ProcessSubFolders(oFolder, iCount) Set cFiles = oFolder.Files For Each oFile In cFiles If Left(oFile.Name, Len(PREFIX)) = PREFIX Then oFile.Delete iCount = iCount + 1 End If Next For Each oSubFolder In oFolder.SubFolders ProcessSubFolders oSubFolder, iCount Next End Sub WScript.Echo "Files deleted: " & iCount Save as .vbs, edit the START_FOLDER at the top and run or schedule it. It reports back in a little pop up window how many files it has found and deleted. I should mention, this is not my script so I take no credit. AS ALWAYS, USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Indeed. I am almost ready to make the switch

I was told at the February 2012 Winter Conference that moodle would be updated to 2.x. we are still on 1.9 also.

Some of the Issues I have raised: * Firewall Stability * Zimbra 8 & Zimbra 8 Migration * L2ICT Helpdesk * Lack of Communication * Large Price Rises (on the whole) * ePortal Issues * Shutting down of the Hive Server (Has made some staff very angry) * Some others I cant recall right now Anyone got any others for the meeting ?

So our internal staff email keeps getting junked.. I'm told they can't whitelist the internal domain and staff should just keep marking "not junk" as a way of 'training' the filters. However this is now how many weeks along and it's still happening. L2ICT tell me there's nothing they can do.. Which doesn't help me at all as staff are banging the door down demanding to know why they keep getting junked, this despite my usual "it's Link2ICT's fault" speech. Is this happening to anyone else? / Does this sound right ? (Or am I wrong in thinking it's a simple thing to whitelist the @schoolname.bham.sch.uk domain)

I'm just waiting for the "benefits" of the new firewall to kick in

Has anyone heard from their Account Managers IF/WHEN granular filtering might be making an appearance ?

Looks interesting.. might give the trial a whirl. Thanks.

Thanks for the suggestions. I was feeling lazy and was after something more point and click.. guess I'll have to get some scripts on the go. Not sure I can use DFS for this scenario.

That's unfortunate. Thanks for the quick response though.