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I assume all Dc`s are running server 2003 standard?

The migration process should redirect the old instance to the new 2005/express, sort of similar to a redirection that the royal mail do when you move house.

The migration process should redirect the old instance to the new 2005/express, sort of similar to a redirection that the royal mail do when you move house.

We had a similar problem after installing a patch that supposedly solved a duplicate entry problem relating to the Autumn Census. It seems that Sims was writing to tempdb but not shrinking the database. Believe it or not but it was all resolved by a patch from Capita (yes thats right a patch from Capita that does some good).

After narrowing things down a bit, I have found a solution. Re-install the OS and SIMS etc then it seems to work nicely. I can only assume that when the August Update was applied, it upset a setting perhaps in the registry on laptops with a certain config. Have used known good Sims.ini and Connect.ini files but to no avail. So currently spending half a day rebuilding a laptop is quicker than spending several days trying to work it out. Have also tried reinstalling sims after completely removing it and running SimsApplicationsetup and neither works. Being part of the Network support staff I decided against detaching and reattaching the database but nice to hear it doesnt work! In the mean time if anyone finds a more subtle solution please share

Valid point about the offline files, though it doesnt seem to be the cause of this problem as the laptops login to SIMS fine over the LAN connection just not the wireless. Seemed to have solved one by running a batch file created for a previous problem that replaces a few of the .dll files, but this hasnt worked on any of the others. Have also tried replacing the connect.ini files but to no avail. Capitas only idea is to detach and reattach the database.. Any ideas would be helpfull, or anyone else who is having a similar problem

Thanks for the reply DNS/DHCP settings working fine, connect.ini file shows no abnormalities. Also the laptops are mapped to the s:\ drive so i dont think its an issue with accessing the drive. Thinking it may be an issue with authentication. We have about 7 known incidents out of about 150 laptops, so it seems somewhat isolated.

I am having some trouble with Sims (I know nobody can believe that right). Upon logging in an error message appears "SIMS Connection failed for Login (username), reason: 5" This seems to only effect laptops that are connecting via wireless network. Any help available would be appreciated. We have had some nice chats with Capita but that is about as far as it goes!