Tall_Paul

HP here too. Full lifetime warranty and superb customer service if something breaks.

Congrats! Am currently transferring all my real estate from my old HP SAN to my new HP SAN.

Another vote for VEEAM and VEEAM One here. Both fantastic tools. Can't wait for tape support in v7 then it will be bye-bye Backup Exec.

I have a GPO that does it. Runs a batch file at logon and logoff. Works perfectly and is very fast! echo %USERNAME% Log In %Date% %TIME% %COMPUTERNAME% >> \\YOURSERVER\YOURSHARE$\logs\%date:~-10,2%-%date:~-7,2%-%date:~-4,4%.log For the Logon.bat echo %USERNAME% Log In %Date% %TIME% %COMPUTERNAME% >> \\YOURSERVER\YOURSHARE$\logs\%date:~-10,2%-%date:~-7,2%-%date:~-4,4%.log For the Logoff.bat

I agree, but it's difficult arguing with your boss when they're determined they want it. I've pointed out all the pitfalls and they've gone ahead and ordered an Acer slate anyway. Best thing is to let them play with it them and find the problems themselves.

This is a big problem for me too. I am being forced down the W8 route by my very keen vice-principal. However, to roll it out and support it properly I will need to upgrade SCCM to 2012 SP1 and I just can't seem to find the time to do it amongst the myriad of other refreshes we have going on at the moment. Ideally I would like to look at it next year, but I suspect I won't be given that luxury.

I had a T25 Devon Eurovette for about 4 years. Great fun, and we loved it. But it was starting to rust in the seams and every time I took it out I was wondering what would be the next thing to break!

Take a look at Robocopy. Superb for situations like this.

I'd be only too willing to show someone what we do (and it would definitely be a big plus mark if they applied for a job here).

We've just been through a similar exercise. Looked at HP, Dell, Overland, Nimble, EMC and NetApp. I ended up going with HP as they gave us the most 'bang for our buck'. Nimble was very interesting, and if I was buying a backup SAN or another SAN I would probably have taken a more extensive look but I decided to go for a more established vendor at this moment in time.

Ours is pretty standard, with some relevant spiel concerning our network access policy (which no-one ever reads, and then look mortified when you point it out when they're in trouble).

I installed it on my workstation, and and uninstalled it later that day. A lot of our internal systems have web consoles and I found they didn't work well with IE10 at all.

I'll shortly be in a similar position and was thinking about GiffGaff but they get some terrible reviews on Trustpilot. I was also looking at Tesco Mobile. Anyone here got any experience of them?

Another vote here for Procurves. We have various models through the school, and they are easy to manage through either the individual web interface or Procurve Manager.

Probably a daft question, but how did you guys manage to get the exe to install silently?

I'd be interested to know if anyone has managed to resolve this. Having played with my wife's XPS12 this was my first question. EDIT - having done a bit more research someone managed it with a USB ethernet adaptor and booting from a DVD. The thought of doing this for a class of 32 fills me with dread!

Flip! Just have to hope Symantec can make BE 2012 as reliable as 2010 has been. I'm not touching it with a bargepole until they do.

Anyone here done it and running it successfully? We're looking at new storage appliances that come with Storage Server 2012, and I don't want to move to BE 2012 until Symantec have fixed it's many problems.

If, when running the SCCM 2012 prerequisite check from the installer, you get an error message stating Internet Information Services (IIS) website bindings for HTTPS communication protocol is required for some site roles. If you have selected to install site roles requiring HTTPS, please configure IIS website bindings on the specified server with a valid PKI server certificate. You need to follow this guide from Microsoft to issue a certificate from your certification authority.

I had the same collation problem after installing SQL Server 2012. To fix it you have to essentially reinstall SQL Server which is what the link you provided details how to do. I didn't use the strong password switch, and it ran fine and passed the prerequisite check.

Another update: If you have your WSUS server on a separate box to your SCCM server you will need to install the WSUS Admin console on your server. The Microsoft download is no longer supported under Server 2012 so to install it you will have to: Start PowerShell Console (as Administrator) and run : Install-WindowsFeature -Name UpdateServices-Ui This will install the console only and not run a post-install task. Just connect to remote WSUS Server To run a Primary site prerequisite check, use the following command from within the BIN\X64 folder: prereqchk /pri /sql FQDN of SQL Server /sdk FQDN of SMS Provider (in my case these were both the server I am installing SCCM 2012 onto).

It's not RM is it? Whoever it is need to be back and fixing it sharpish. You've been treated disgracefully.

Who on earth has replied back to you with that? Unless you have made those significant changes they mention I would be going mad at a 'buck passing' unhelpful reply like that.

Thought I'd add to this thread as I go through my install. Firstly, the SCCM 2012 Prerequisite Checker is very useful.

Thanks for everyone (especially Norphy) who has replied so far. Hopefully I can return the favour to you all at some point, and let's hope this thread might prove useful to other people too. I will update it when I've done my install, though I'm sure I might be back with more questions!