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It is all to do with when the code is executed, that place in the code is executed before the form has even been created on screen so the default values have not yet been assigned, you could use the onLoad handler which should mean the buttons exist by that stage but the other ways discussed are better and much cleaner.

You can read the XML in the zip from the second blog raw and get a good idea, the sequence does all the formatting then installs the OS and only enables bitlocker just before the first restart.

Yes they will need to be added but no you won't need separate names as the variables are local to the handlers and are not seen outside them. The better - code reuse - way would be to have a subroutine that you run from the handlers. This would be passed a variable like add/remove/default then the one bit of code could use a case statement to pick which actions to perform from the variable psudocode: private sub PrinterAction (Action as integer) Dim SERVERNAME as string = me.textbox1.text Dim PRINTERNAME as string = me.textbox2.text 'run checks on the two variables and Action to make sure they are not null or have invalid characters, maybe even ping the servername 'Dim objNetwork 'you'll need it whatever statement is run objNetwork = create... Select Case Action Case 1 objNetwork.add... msgbox Case 2 'delete printer objNetwork.del... msgbox Case 3 'default Case Else 'something has gone wrong End Select end sub then PrinterAction(1) or whatever from the button click personally I'd pass the two textbox values directly in the routine to make it more reusable so Printeraction(1,TB1.value,TB2.value) with private sub PrinterAction (Action as integer, PrinterName as String, ServerName as String) and ditch the extra lines which are only a little useful for debugging. But that's probably enough to make your head spin for now

Not MDT but close @TheScarfedOne has a series of blog posts which may shed light SCCM, Windows 7 and Bitlocker - Part 1 - Blogs - EduGeek.net http://www.edugeek.net/blogs/thescarfedone/621-sccm-windows-7-bitlocker-part-2.html http://www.edugeek.net/blogs/thescarfedone/630-sccm-windows-7-bitlocker-part-3.html

You might start by spelling it properly

Still have not managed to convince any to get one, they are still hung up on their unfulfilled 1990's dreams of the teachers teaching everyone - including themselves - robotics with the lego mindstorms stuff that has only made it out of the packet once or twice. If you manage to convince them please share your methods.

Beat me to it, at the moment it is populating those variables with nothing as it runs when the form is created and the user has not yet entered anything in so the value is null. By putting it in the onClick handler it only runs when the user has (hopefully) added the required information.

The idea with wireshark would be to run a summary on the connections to see if there are a lot of a certain type of connection from a certain client or clients at the time of the issue. You would probably want to set up a mirror port on your switch to mirror the traffic from your server to a capture pc so as not to put more load on the server and run performance counter logging on the server to give you a graph of when it was maxing. This is another bit of software that has a bunch of summarizing features that may help that takes the place of wireshark Packetyzer | Free software downloads at SourceForge.net You could also look for other TCP type issues by following this: The packet dump will be HUGE over the course of a day so will take some serious time to run summaries on and go through so make sure your capture machine is beefy with a stack of free space to store all of the inbound and outbound traffic your server deals with during the capture. I usually use Wireshark/packetyzer/microsoft network monitor as a last resort because it is such a huge amount of data but it does shine a light on exactly what is happening on the network (assuming the issue is on the network).

A long winded approach but getting a wireshark packet capture and slowly working through it would show you what was happening at the network level and may shed some light.

Argh, way to make it suck down power for no good reason, if it is just doing file shareing an Atom will smash the task, they are not that bad, the first gen mobile ones were a bit flimbsy but the embedded variations have always been alright. The new ones are based on the core architecture. I would just use one of the Atom ones as they will be more than fast enough. I run a first gen hyperthreaded dual core atom here as my own little NAS and it will happily movie files over the network at 80MB/s off a single ancient and slow drive which is faster than many old servers I have worked with.

As above, you can either back up to another NAS or continue using the external USB drives, both NAS units come with software and USB ports that allow you to replicate off the NAS onto an external driver or another NAS as already stated.

Is Microsoft making a LiveID SSO assistant so we can use stuff like surface2 and the app store with Office 365 credentials? If Google can tie in surely MS can.

A NAS or a microserver should do fine. A nice QNAP or Synology four bay NAS with dual gig Ethernet will be way faster, can offer out storage via smb/cifs, run DHCP and even a host of other things like a wiki server via apps for it. A microserver would be the other option using Windows server but it does not sound like you need the featureset.

Are the buttons broken or have they been locked out by the config. The console is almost certainly serial even if it does look like a network port, just needs a rollover cable to serial to talk to it. Even if it is locked out it should still output bootup status when it is powered on.

Sounds like it is having trouble upgrading the AD schema to support the 2012 DCs, this could be because there is still a DC account of a previous server that has not been removed cleanly in AD or a permissions issue or something similar. You should look at running DCdiag on your 2k3 servers and seeing if that throws anything up DCDiag Tutorial Examples. Check your Windows Active Directory (+ Free Download) If not I'd try running the schema upgrade manually on one of the 2k3 DCs before you start the wizards which may well sort it.

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep! But one problem at a time, it just sounds like DNS is squiffy, can you ping your DNS server and see if dhcp is setting it as a DNS server, if nslookup is working this is probably a DNS fail. SMB shares may still be running by name thanks to windows falling back to NetBIOS or something similar.

Was just about to say, DLP only. We have them in some tech rooms and they seem to last alright, use the ultra short throw kind here which usually puts them closer to the board and further away from the environment if only by a little bit.

Check out the screen on the Surface Pro 3, it is rather nice but not coupled with a gaming gpu just yet.

Guaranteed supply, Apple goes to factory X and says we'll have Y amount of screens over a couple of years and puts that in a contract. Factory X can now use that to get loans to make the screens to supply. As part of that contract they can demand exclusivity of the process through that factory making sure that only they have access to them. Apple can do this as they are sitting on a cash mountain and can buy out supply chains in advance, not many other companies, like Dell with Alienware will have that kind of cash and do that kind of volume with a high res screen. Disturbingly I hear complaints from teachers about these nasty tiny new fangled screens - 1080p - on 15" laptops as they are 'too small' to see. Untill resolution scaling is used better by more people or they actually admit they need classes so that their screen does not have to have pixels the size of lego bricks this probably won't change. Eventyally more factories will make the panels and any supply agreements will run out making it easier for other vendors to get them in smaller quantities.

What issues did you have stacks of 8.1 machines on a Sever 2k8 network without any major issues.

I just looked at the vendor sites themselves, if Google couldn't explain itself or its products they miss out on my adding them as options, I am not their marketing department I was also looking at raw volumes that you could add ACLs etc to rather than a shim over onedrive or gdrive. it depends on the features you need and what you want to do with it.

and Storage Service | Microsoft Azure I think Google's one needs a whole API layer that you have to write yourself.

Oh, you want cloud, I didn't read it properly: AWS Storage Gateway - Connecting On-premise to the Cloud hope your internet connection is amazingly flawless and vividly fast though.

Not sure I understand, to add storage it will have to go somewhere, whether that is adding another drive to a server, buying a NAS that can do iSCSI and offering it out to the server or clouding it. You could try compression or upgrading to 2012 and using single instance storage which may give you a chunk more space on the same hardware but other than that I don't think physics allows adding more space without adding any.

Does it have a newer version of IE thanks to updates, I know that cooked one of my automated deployments as the settings keys don't stay the same between versions. Also, did you capture it manually with imagex or dsim and did you use the /flags ENTERPRISE switch on the end of the capture?