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Try this: http://support1.toshiba-tro.de/tedd-files2/0/thws-20080916103428.zip (Can't recall if I sent you that link already) This should be the HWSETUP tool you need - also your EduGeek Inbox is full Az

I'd bet cash that the problem is literally either: 1) BIOS configuration 2) Dodgy NIC As we've ruled out that it can't be the servers, switches, cables and damned near everything in between. I'm leaning toward the BIOS as #2 will require you to send it back... again. Have a look in Vistas' control panel for the Toshiba BIOS utility, unfortunately I don't have one here to check otherwise I could tell you exactly what to look at and what to change Az

I'm in the same boat as Stevehill06 really - except I'm in Somerset as opposed to Sunny Devon So I have to hold off booking anything until I know what the schedule is - who is speaking, what are they speaking about - what's the timeframe for the entire conference? Not all of us can simply 'grab' a day or 2 off work and then find the cash to get to the conference. Some of us actually need to organise it and save up - of course if we don't know what's going on at the conference, then it's very difficult to actually justify the time or money. Az

Hey all, I'm undertaking learning C# (and ASP.Net - but want to learn C# first) through various online tutorials and websites. Why? Because I want to. I have some background in C and VB (neither are .Net) and VBScript/KiXstart/AutoIT scripting languages. I'd rather learn C# as I feel more comfortable with that than VB.Net as I could never really get on with VB (I started learning VB, found it too restrictive and then jumped to C). Now - understand I'm learning in my free-time, but one thing I have found is learning by doing tends to help me understand better. All that said - do any of you have any ideas for very basic C# projects or programs I could write for you - something you perhaps want to do but aren't sure how... The reason I ask is because if I'm given little projects, I learn by undertaking the project and learn far faster than by going through a book doing the odd exercise there. Of course I'd never ask anyone to trust what I'm doing - so if you have anything I'd be only too happy to provide the full source code along with the compiled project. (Will be using Visual Studio 2008) Any thoughts or ideas here are welcome - trying to enhance my learning practices and also get back into programming because in a sick way - I kind of enjoyed it Az

Most of the MCTS exams I've taken were 40-45 questions. It's 700/1000 - each question is weighted, so one question may be worth 20 points and another may be worth 10. HTH, Az

Why would I want/need an ISA Server to learn SQL/ASP.Net? I understand that they do support SQL but I wasn't aware about ASP - I thought ISA was a firewall application - not a web-based application or am I thinking of something else? Az Edit: It just came to me that you probably meant IIS - which IS a webserver, not ISA which is a firewall

I've been advised to look into learning ASP.Net and SQL (Both Server and Language) to diversify my skillset for future employment. I have only basic SQL experience (I can install it and configure it) but that's about it. So my question is - where do I start? Are there any good books or websites I could look at for tutorials in ASP.Net and SQL? Thanks, Az

I apologise for the vague title - but I wasn't sure quite how to word it. I'm trying to gain practical and useful experience in Exchange 2003/2007 in order to act as a good foundation for undertaking the MCSE: Messaging extension certification (I already have the MCSE). Unfortunately the school doesn't use Exchange as it's provided by our LA. So my question is - where should I start? Are there any websites that give simple information on Exchange 2003/2007 - or perhaps something that gives you exercises in how to learn more about Exchange through doing things with it? I can't set it up in the school as we have no plans to host it ourselves but I want to pursue the Exchange certification tracks (as I'm already looking at the Security tracks). I know many of you run Exchange in your schools - but where did you start? Normally I'd simply build a server, connect it up and have a play - but Exchange (like AD) is one of those things that you may not experience all kinds of things without a user-base who use it regularly. Any thoughts? Az

C:\>ping 127.0.0.1 Pinging 127.0.0.1 with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out. Az

Go for it mate - the doubts are only natural... and at least in the BC you may have progression and be able to possibly 'transfer' to other council depts later if you so wished. Az

We currently have Server 2008 servers. I have chosen one to run as our WDS server. It has been running happily with WAIK 1.1 (Vista and 2008) but I have decided to try and make use of Server 2008 R2 images in WDS. I know I need WAIK 2.0 for this - so I install it and find I then cannot edit any of my existing .wim files. So my question is - do I need a seperate server for WAIK 1.1 and WAIK 2.0? If not, then I'm having issues in the fact it will not let me edit images using DISM and if I go back to PEImg it works perfectly okay but I then can't use WDS etc with 2008 R2 as far as I'm aware as the WAIK 2.0 adds Windows SIM support for 2008 R2/Win 7. Any thoughts? Az

If you could keep me posted on your Captive portal efforts I'd be grateful - we have one but for some reason it doesn't work properly. Uses ISA 2006 and Collective Softwares' Captivate add-on. Az

@CookieMonster - ah yeah I forgot ole 70-642 I'm not sure if you can, I haven't specifically seen any but that's not to say there aren't any - but as DFS is part of Server 200x, I'd imagine it would be covered in a bigger book on the server itself. Az

In short - none of them cover it in the entireity. As a guess, 291 and 293 should cover Networking, which did have some DFS in it but it all depends on what you are expecting. Why exactly do you specifically want DFS? Az

We have done this and we use a group for it. If a student is in this group - no internet. Thankfully we have the support of Pastoral - so only they can authorise someone to be added or removed. Az

I can probably dig that script out for you if you are having issues still. In regards to GP, yes you can redirect my documents via GP and I'd definately push for training. To redirect my documents: Open the desired GP object (as if you were going to edit it) Go to User Configuration -> Windows Settings -> Folder Redirection You should see 'My Documents' - if you right click this and go to Properties, it will allow you to configure it to your liking. It's worth noting that 'Grant the User Exclusive access to my documents' and 'Move My Documents to the new location' are better off disabled as they can cause no end of hassles. What kind of training are you thinking of? HTH, Az

What's the e-mail and re-direction you have to keep putting in? Is that your Outlook PST settings etc? If so I've got a script that our LA used to use for Outlook that would do all this for you - we don't use it here as most of our Outlook users use archiving and the script has trouble handling that. If by re-direction you mean folder - this could be done via Group Policy, if it's anything else (but simple registry tweaks) I could always whip you up a quick Group Policy template to do this for you in Group Policy - so you have less to do when it goes wrong We have Year 7 until Year 13 here - but still lots of roaming, except our kiddies share a single mandatory profile - if only our staff did I'm going to look at pushing out UPH Clean (the tool that round2it posted a link to) as we used to have this on every XP box but since our numerous XP image updates, it may have fallen through the cracks and may well solve the problem or at least eliminate a possible avenue of enquiry. As for the Symantec issue - it seems that there was an issue that regularly caused profile corruption with Symantec AV where it would perform virus-scanning at logon - we don't run Symantec here so it's a non-starter for us. HTH, Az

I would love to know what causes this - we have a similar issue here to a much less of an extent yet I've never managed to find a single method to reliably reproduce the problem. The quickest 'fix' is to simply wipe the profile and let it rebuild - but every single time it gets corrupted it's so hard to find out what happened. I'm sorry if it seems like I'm asking too many questions solitaire89 but I'm aware of how frustrating these 'undocumented features' can be and have been working for some time to isolate the cause and find a solution. What size school are you? Primary/Secondary - I was going to suggest you turn off 'delete cached copies of roaming profiles' so that you can have an idea of what stage the problem occurs - but in a secondary environment where many people roam - it would be less than a good idea, particularly if all of your users have roaming profiles. I'm going to kick things up a gear here and see if I can grab a corrupt profile before my colleagues fix it and try to wrangle the info out of the user... hurrah! I will keep you posted though on anything I find out, even if it's pointless to us - it may well help you or someone else with a similar issue later Az

So - they login with their normal profile - do things but upon logout their profile is deleted. Subsequent logins give them some kind of profile that doesn't work (does it have any errors when they login at this point - like can't find the profile etc?) which then roams with them until that profile is fixed? If I'm understanding this right (and I hope I am) - then it's like the profile unload part isn't working properly. I would assume that you have 'delete cached copies of the roaming profile' group policy set. Do you have any other profile-based policies set? Anything set on the server profile area like file-screens or quotas? What filesize is the ntuser.dat (once it's broken) - 256KB by any chance? Az

Have you had a look in the event viewer on affected machines? I ask this as it could be other issues that are causing profile issues, such as group policy getting its knickers in a twist and such. The easiest way to grab event viewer data is to do the following: 1) Ensure that the user account and PC definately reproduce the problem. 2) Clear the event log fully 3) Reboot the PC 4) Login as troubled user - load Word or whatever you like, then logout. 5) Export the event log information given. That way - you have a consistent set of information on the problem that you can recall at will on any PC. Give that a go - see what you come up with, as already stated, large roaming profiles can cause horrible issues - so can logging on numerous PCs with roaming profiles (of the same user) and then logging off randomly, which some of ours here are famous for. We'd take them all to mandatory but it's all politics... HTH, Az

It all depends on you. Assuming when you say 'module' you mean module in a single book for a single exam. On average I get through around 2 a night, but I've been busy busy so I'm down to 1 a night. If you mean Exams... that's a tough one - for my 70-646 (MCITP: SA) I took 2 weeks flat from doing the MCSE Upgrade to 2008 exam, for my current one 70-647 I'm looking at 3 weeks. I'd say if you put aside around 2 hours a night (giving you a chance to unwind after work), aim for a chapter a night. If you did that - you should be ready in 3 weeks but TAKE the practice tests, treat them as if they were a real exam. What do I mean by this? DON'T view the answers (as the risk is that you memorise the answer to the question, rather than learning the answer) - take it as a real exam. Bear in mind that in the exam room it's a more pressured than the self-test stuff, so this may well help or hinder you, so plan accordingly. Take a couple of mints with you (if you like mints) or boiled sweets to suck on during the exam as this will help you to stay calm and collected and the sugar boost will help you think. Bear in mind this is what works for me - it may not work for you but feel free to give it a blast - the best bit of advice besides all that has been given above - DON'T go for the exam if you don't feel ready. In short - you should be booking the exam when you feel it's a 50/50 chance of passing, make that date a week or 2 weeks off - so you have time to continue studying. The worst thing is you book the exam and then pressure yourself and beat yourself up if your self-test scores aren't great - the self-tests are to help you locate your weak points to improve, but don't ignore other things at the cost of that. Cover everything - if you have time (and you should) - recover things you are weakest in as you can bet that's what they'll ask HTH, Az

What I used for my MCSE training was to have the MS-Press books in their eBook form (easier for me to read) - I also used VirtualBox as opposed to VMWare as VBox is free and light. As for tips and tricks... when the MS-Press books say 'Exam-Tip' make sure you read the tip and anything related to it, you'd be surprised how many "light coverage" items are actually more than light in the exam. I'm working toward my MCITP:Enterprise Admin - but you said 2 exams? I was aware only of the 1 exam - 70-647. Az

It was like a bad trip... Az

Absolutely Epic. Bits of the Bourne Supremacy, James Bond and more epic goodness. Az

Yeah - it shows as stopped in the Admin area which is why I'm puzzled Az