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we have recently upgraded our sims server (about a month ago) to server 2008R2 running SQL 2008 it all seemed fine until the bursar came in today and found that he didn't have the correct access rights so phoned me and asked me to add them I tryed and I don't have access no one does!! I have phoned our help desk but they have no idea how to get them back waiting on capita at the moment has any one had this before or know a fix ? I run the password transfer script as part of my back up so do see how this has happened any Ideas??

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At my last school we had badgers living under the mobile block they had a habit of eating the network cables under the floors even through the steel channels. The teachers did seem less annoyed tho when we told them it wasn't the rats.:-)

Not if your planning on using the VESA mountings to mount it to the wall, the braket is ment to fit it to the back of the monitor when the monitor is on the stand on a desk I have used quite a few of these they are really nice but ended up screwing them to the wall behind the monitor.

its on clients and I don't think office 2003 uses RPC printing but you could give it a try?

are you using Microsoft office 2007/2010 with windows 2003 server? we had a issue with print spooler crashing, it turned out to be because said office programs try to use RPC printing protocol and server 2003 doesn't support it, it took ages to find as the pop up error message was suppressed by our RM system only found it when It popped up on my machine we used the following reg key to fix it might be worth a try? Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Printers] "EnabledProtocols"=dword:00000006

I would quite happly not spend the money but the childrens centre have asked me to come up with idea's on how it could be spent and I don't like to dissapoint! I had allready sugested Ipad, RM slate, They wil spend the money regardless so I thought it might be nice just to spend it on something with a bit of inovation because the way funding is they won't be getting anything new for the next few years

The money will be lost if we don't spend it and it has to be spent on the childrens center, I could use it for a thousand other nice thing else where in the school, the childrens centre already has loads of new computers and laptops whiteboards and projectors I know it would be Great to spend it when I need it but unfortuatly I can't so hench the question

has any one got any ideas what I can spen £500 £600 on for the childrens centre I support some thing nice and gadgety but also must be robust has any one got any ideas thanks

Thats what I was planning on doing if I can't find the right bits £6 doesn't sound that bad tbh was that from dell direct? planning on sell/giving them to a primary school so they can pick up the bill ;-)

hi I was wondering if any one had any blanking plates knocking about or if any one knows where I could buy them, for the small form factor CDROM drive bay on dell optiplex gx620 SFF we have a load of them that I can't use because they have gaping holes in the front of them and someone has chucked out all of ours any one got any Ideas??

finally bit the bullet and uninstalled and reinstalled spiceworks and it now works perfectly thanks for the help

Just to get you started ;-) this poped up at just the right time as were putting subject icons on our moodle server Business Drama ECDL Enterprise Exp Arts French Health & Social Care Humanities i-Enquire (Year 7 English, Maths, history, Geography and IT blended together) Inclusion Media Music Performing Arts Photography Spanish Travel & Tourism

Hi all I am setting up spiceworks helpdesk 5 today new install (i have it running at 3 other sites perfectly) come to setup active directory integration bit but it just sits there saying testing for hours its driving me mad I have everything in there correct and I am using the @ not the / in the domain name, any one got any ideas?????

microlib are chasing me at the minute to renew the help desk and every time they phone the cost comes down so I am waiting for an acceptable price so asking for a discount may be a good idea they wanted £270 to renew this year they are down to £200 but I would like the bit that updates users from sims as well so waiting for them to ring again I'll let you know what they come up with.

there is a newer driver than that one version 5.5 from their website seems to work better with serial boards, you get the option of installing serial drivers as well as USB worth a try I would scrap the becta box there just a pain in the bum!

I would try 7 on them first I installed 7 on a dell gx270 2.8GHz with only 512mb in and it flies windows 7 on, it seems to cut back on graphics performance when you have less ram and they run great much better than XP SP3 with a gig in, if you can get the ram go for the most you can get.

spice works works really well I have it at 3 primary schools and will be moving it to our secondary as well, does alot more than just a help desk as well

another vote for cunninghams we had an other system before this that didn't work at all never have a problem with cunninghams

only if there is one loop I had 8 loops in one school had to search every room and network point!!

Still blocked on yhgfl (yorkshire and humberside)

we have had this for the last few weeks we just left the pcs on over night and they started reassigning the packages and 99% updated ok we have had to redo some packages but we put that down to windows 7 are you using XP there is some update for this but we aren't using it so haven't bothered

its in C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool

C:\WINDOWS\system32\dhcp should be in there

I use a manadtory profiles and changed the font when i set them up works a treat for everyone!