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Why not? If you're worried about Group Policies - you don't need a Server OS to create new Windows 10 ones, you just get a Windows 10 PC and create/edit them on that via the RSAT for Windows 10.

After a bit or research, MonitoringHost.exe (which was using shed-loads of RAM) is used by SCOM and nothing else so in Resource Manager I ended the task and watched it slowly release all the RAM it was using and now the server is running as it should with loads of free RAM! Just need to work out how to restart the SCOM client on the server now as we use that to monitor replication etc.

Our monitoring system is saying that one of our Hyper-V Hypervisors is running at 86% RAM - the server has 256GB of RAM and around a dozen Virtual Machines on it so it should have plenty free, but it hasn't... This is what task manager is showing: This confirms that 86% of the RAM is indeed in use. SCVMM says all the VMs are only using 133GB of RAM: Resource Monitor says 61% of Physical Memory is being used: If Hyper-V is only using 133GB of RAM, where is the 'missing' 123GB? Some will be used by the Hypervisor server itself, but task manager shows its fluctuating between 8GB and 12GB so theres 100GB allocated to something somewhere is is there a memory leak or something?

Has anyone used SCCM to update the BIOS on a Dell Vostros 15 before? I notice there is a silent install switch (/s) along with a restart option (/r) so easily added to SCCM but am I asking for trouble or does it just work? I'm assuming if people have successfully done this then to just use the /s option and put a restart in the SCCM Task Sequence straight after it instead so that SCCM maintains control of the restart?

Are they all the same brand? Toner isnt just powder put in a cartridge, in a decent brand of Toner there is also some lubricant that will only become apparent 6-12 months down the line when your printers all start making funny grinding noises! If they are out of date then the lubricant may have dried out and this wont cause you issues in the short term but will in the long term.

I need to replace our Librarians back office PC and all I've got left to do is install Eclipse but when doing so I get a message saying it Can Not Locate A Library System On That Server. I've tried it's NETBios name, FQDN and IP address and get the same message. Anyone come across this before and know how to fix it?

RemoteRebootX can be scheduled to shutdown/restart computers and it's free. You have to manually add computers to it but you can save the settings in a file and if you schedule it to reboot/shutdown on whichever days you like.

As a 'quick fix' if you use a classroom management program like Impero you could block the URLs whilst you get it sorted. This sort of thing does annoy me though as your managed print solution provider should be looking in to this and contacting Xerox themselves if they dont know how to stop this feature as there must be way.

Just checked Outlook and the 2 new groups are still not showing up and the error still occurs if you try and get Outlook to refresh/download the OAB. If I turn of Cache mode in Outlook, they show up, they are also visible on WebMail and my mobile phone. As soon as you put cache mode back on Outlook the OAB starts being used and that's clearly where the issue is. There is a way to see when the OAB was last changed as follows: When I run the Get-OfflineAddressBook | select whenchanged command on the CAS server I it comes back with: 05/09/2018 05:25:50 so it is definately updating the OAB but for some reason the Outlook clients cant get it.

That's correct, but you should still be able to run the update - it might only 'update' to the current one, but it should still go through the process rather than just sit there and do nothing. I gave up waiting after 20 minutes or so, but a colleague kept his running and we then got this:

I use them to store spare parts in - they're nice and sturdy and stack well on a shelf.

I've just added a couple of new Email Distribution Groups on Exchange 2016 and they're not in the Offline Address Book yet as they're new so I went on to the Send/Recieve tab in Outlook and tried to manually download it but it's not working correctly: It has been like this for a while now and hasn't error-ed out yet so I don't have an error message to go by. In Exchange 2010 I seem to remember restarting a service, but I cant see any address book services in Exchange 2016 to restart!

Sounds exactly like what HDGUard does - I guess test them both and then see which is the cheapest!

What has Capita told you need to do to migrate your server? Each time we migrate SIMS at one of our Schools/Academies that we support we contact Capita telling them what the school currently has and what we'd like to move it to. They then email the relevant guides and if we get stuck (or more often than not, what the guides says happens doesn't happen or exist) then we give them a call and they either talk us through what we need to do or remote on to the server and fix it for us and then hand the server back to us when we can then continue with the next step of the guides they sent us.

Would one of the newer Lynx tablets be up to running all your software? If so they're lighter than a laptop so easier to carry around. A small/medium size suitcase (with a bit of padding inside) is ideal for carting up to 8 of them around (easy to move if you get a suitcase on wheels with an handle). What I would do is install Windows, all the software they need (create an image) and let them log on as local admin so the schools can do whatever they like to them to get them to work on their network. When the laptops come back to you, just re-image them. I've not used programs like Clonezilla for years but there may be a way of using something like that to store an image of the laptop on a hidden partition or something so when you get them back you just restore the original image without the need to connect to a network etc. - if this is possible you might even be able to automate it via a USB stick you could give to the department. If you have some money to spend on this project you could maybe use HDGuard to restore the computers back to your original image after a school has finished using them? - https://www.hdguard.com/

Try uninstalling the ADK and then re-install the latest version - after that then try and recreate your boot images.

Without a certificate how will you be able to prove you have adhered to the WEEE Regulation that first came in to law in 2006? Not sure if it's a legal requirement to have a certificate but literally all WEEE companies issue one. Donating, selling and disposing of are 3 different things. Donating is probably not a good idea, selling them 'sold as seen' for a nominal fee maybe better than donating (ensure all makes/models/serial numbers are recorded so if they end up being fly-tipped somewhere you have documents showing you sold them on and were not the last owner of the equipment).

It makes perfect sense - if you want to copy/rip a DVD that you do not own the copyright to then you need to apply for permission to copy it.

Have you tried doing it as a different user - such as a local admin account rather than a domain admin account? When I get odd things happening with Windows Updates this tends to fix the installation issues so might be worth a try.

Worked like a dream - thanks!

Thanks for that! I've renamed 'public' to 'rainbow' - that's a lie, it's not rainbow but I'm not putting the one I actually use online! Do I need to ammend the above command to say --zone=public to --zone=rainbow or is that not what public in this instance is referring to?

Nope! No idea how so I'll search for a command that does that then

I'm trying to add our Snipe-IT server to our Mutiny network monitoring system but it's not working! Snipe-IT is installed on CentOS 7 so it's this I need to install and configure SNMP on. This is what I've done so far: # yum -y install net-snmp net-snmp-utils I then copied across the pre-configured files from Mutiny's website (snmpd.conf and snmpd.local.conf) # systemctl enable snmpd && systemctl start snmpd restarted the server When connecting via SNMP it's saying there is no SNMP response so either something is missing or it's getting blocked somehow?

It makes mathematical sense! If a PC costs £200 and delivery by DPD costs £7.99 then the total comes to £207.99. If they incorporate the cost in to the price of the PC it would be £207.99 per PC. 20 x 207.99 = £4,159.80 If they sold it for £200 per PC plus £7.99 delivery then that would be £200*20 = £4,000 + £7.99 = £4007.99 £4,159 for 'free' delivery or £4,007.99 for delivery you pay for! and when ordering in bulk, a £7.99 discount for genuine free delivery is not a big ask. Even £100 for a pallet delivery is still £59 cheaper than the 'free' delivery option.

£7.99 delivery on a £15K order is just daft but £7.99 delivery for 1 PC is fair. They either add the £7.99 delivery charge to each PC and say 'free' delivery or keep the cost per PC down and then charge you £7.99 per order and they absorb the extra cost. For me, it's when they spring it on you at the last minute that annoys me as the margins are so tight on ordering like-for-like PCs that you can be comparing what you think are two orders that include delivery when only one does and if it's £100 for two pallets then that could suddenly make the cheapest quote the dearest quote.