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Check out this website » Free Online School Tools - Detentions, Praise Postcards & Room Booking. Free software for schools We use Bob for room booking but there are various tools available which are all free HTH

We're planning to upgrade our existing network infrastructure (2 X 2003 32 bit DCs) to 2008 x64 over the summer. Obviously because this is cross-architecture we need to reinstall the OS but I need to do this in a way I can reuse the existing servers. My plan so far is as follows: Transfer all FSMO roles from current forest root to users server Wait for replication to make sure all DNS records etc have migrated Demote existing forest root Run adprep etc against users server in preparation for 2008 Reinstall OS on forest root with server 2008 x64 Promote new FR as DC Transfer FSMO roles back to FR Server Demote users server Reinstall OS on FR server Promote users server as DC and install DNS etc Wait for replication to occur then perform DCDiag Can anyone see any potential problems with the above, or have any experience of a similar migration? Also, any ideas how I can reinstate the shares on the servers after the migration? The data will still be there because its on a separate disk. Cheers

6th November @ 11:25

That sounds like just the ticket. I actually just managed to get in working using a backup of the master.mdf file from an old backup. Just dropped it in the SQL data directory and we were good to go after restarting the service. Looks like tranferring the logins is the best way though. Cheers

Hi fellow edugeeks I'm trying to set up a brand new server with SIMS. Initally this is just for testing the process alongside our current SIMS server, but will eventually replace the old server. I've seen a few threads on here with details of using DBAttach to detach the SQL database, copy the SQL files to the new server then re-attach. However, if possible I'd like to use the .bak file created as part of our nightly backup to restore the DB on the new server. I can do this using dbattach with the /restoreui switch but it doesn't copy the user logins. Detaching, then reattaching the DB doesn't help Has anyone successfully copied an entire SIMS DB, including logins? If so how did you do it? Is a db detach/reattach the only way? The reason I want to use the .bak file is it doesn't affect the current system Cheers

This might point you in the right direction. Found on the Edugeek wiki: http://www.edugeek.net/wiki/index.php/Setting_a_time_limit_a_user_can_use_a_computer Haven't tried anything like this myself so can't be any more help in afraid

Thanks for that i'll tell them to do that in future. Certainly never going back to roaming profiles

Hi We've just switched over to mandatory profiles and we're now having a problem with Dreamweaver 8. Any time a student creates a site definition, it is held for that session, but once they log off and back on again the setting is lost and they have to re-define the site again. I've read a couple of posts on this a few years back which said this is due to the fact that the preferences and various other settings are stored under HKCU, which of course gets wiped every time with mandatory profiles. Anyone else come across this and have any ideas? Cheers

We use AB Tutor Control here. Allows you to take screenshots, disable internet access on demand etc. Pretty happy with it for the last couple of years and cheap too

I'm having trouble with this... Mandatory profile is working fine but redirected folders aren't working. When I do a GPResult it tells me it couldn't create the folder under the root path. I've double checked the permissions and even started again just to be sure but its still not working. I had a look at the microsoft KB article at Event ID 101 and Event ID 1000 Messages May Be Displayed When Folder Redirection Is Set Up with Group Policy but I don't have this applied. Also its just started popping up an offline files synchronization box at every logon and logoff. I've made sure the share has offline files disabled so not sure what else I can do. Any ideas?

We do use quotas on that partition but I use the File Server Resource Manager so I only have them set on the actual work folders and not the profile folders. We redirect My Documents, the desktop isn't something users can save to so we don't redirect this.

No haven't changed anything recently. I'm pretty sure the issue is corrupt profiles because the users complain of their desktop being 'old' aka Windows 98 style, and they can't access their documents etc. Looking at the NTuser.dat file of a corrupted user, the file size is only about 256K instead of the usual 1Mb. Deleting it and then letting the system create it from the default user profile at next logon usual cures it.....for a while anyway Cheers galway, never though of redirecting favourites that way. I shall definitely be looking at mandatory profiles again. I assume I could do the swop over fairly seamlessly without much disruption to the users?

Thanks for the quick reply. I looked into delprof but ended up using a startup script I found on here which deletes all cached profiles. Seems to work ok. I had looked into mandatory profiles when I set the server up about a year ago but how do you get round the students having their own favourites/application settings? Has it really been much of an issue for your students?

Hi We are having some pretty major issues with roaming profiles at the moment and I wondered if anyone had some advice.... We are getting approx 50 users come in per day asking for their profiles to be reset because they are corrupted. It's not a permissions issue as far as I can tell because the problem has only been in the last couple of months but has been working for 6 months prior to that with only the occasional problem. I've installed the UPHClean fix from the very beginning but this doesn't seem to help. The station GPO's are configured to not cache the local profile (i.e. delete at logoff) This seems to be working ok on the stations I have checked. Any ideas anyone? This is driving me nuts at the moment

Hi, Just downloaded Edusweep 2.1. Really like the program, it will save me hours. One little problem however, when I view the results of a scan and try to quarantine multiple items I get the following error message: See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. ************** Exception Text ************** System.ArgumentException: An item with the same key has already been added. at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentException(ExceptionResource resource) at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2.Insert(TKey key, TValue value, Boolean add) at EduSweep_2.Views.TaskProgress.buttonResultsQuarantine_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) in C:\Users\Paul Beesley\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\EduSweep 2\EduSweep 2\Views\TaskProgress.cs:line 397 at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam) ************** Loaded Assemblies ************** mscorlib Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.3074 (QFE.050727-3000) CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727/mscorlib.dll ---------------------------------------- EduSweep 2 Assembly Version: 2.1.0.1194 Win32 Version: 2.1.0.1194 CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/EduSweep%202/EduSweep%202.exe ---------------------------------------- System.Windows.Forms Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.3053 (netfxsp.050727-3000) CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll ---------------------------------------- System Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.3053 (netfxsp.050727-3000) CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll ---------------------------------------- System.Drawing Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.3053 (netfxsp.050727-3000) CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll ---------------------------------------- System.Configuration Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.3053 (netfxsp.050727-3000) CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Configuration/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Configuration.dll ---------------------------------------- System.Xml Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.3074 (QFE.050727-3000) CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll ---------------------------------------- System.Xml.Linq Assembly Version: 3.5.0.0 Win32 Version: 3.5.30729.1 built by: SP CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml.Linq/3.5.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.Linq.dll ---------------------------------------- System.Core Assembly Version: 3.5.0.0 Win32 Version: 3.5.30729.1 built by: SP CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Core/3.5.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Core.dll ---------------------------------------- System.Management Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.3053 (netfxsp.050727-3000) CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Management/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Management.dll ---------------------------------------- Microsoft.mshtml Assembly Version: 7.0.3300.0 Win32 Version: 7.0.3300.0 CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC/Microsoft.mshtml/7.0.3300.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/Microsoft.mshtml.dll ---------------------------------------- ************** JIT Debugging ************** To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this application or computer (machine.config) must have the jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section. The application must also be compiled with debugging enabled. For example: When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer rather than be handled by this dialog box. I've narrowed the problem down to files with the same name, but in different locations. Could you please have a look into it? Cheers