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Never heard of Annodata but have used Ricoh both at my last place of work (a large retail companies head office) and in the secondary school where I currently reside. The Ricoh engineers are very friendly, knowledgeable and helpful. They can talk you through things over the phone or send out and engineer to help with non-faults such as setting up a scan to folder option etc. Definitely would recommend Ricoh.

Something odd must be going on at Impero then as there software has been quite buggy recently and the version numbers seem to be rocketing along as they fix/improve things! I blame Windows 10 as it's the root of all evil according some!! Been with Impero for years and never had a problem getting through to support - when we have left voicemail messages we always get someone getting in touch to help us out or (more often than not) answer a question we have about how to do something in Impero.

Not if they've been printed out using a laser printer as the paper is only designed to go through a laser printer the once and (without getting too technical) the paper comes out of all laser printers slightly curved and putting them back in to a laser printer means they are more prone to jam etc. (the cheaper the paper the great the curl - that's one of the the main reasons for price difference in paper). If they've been printed on using an inkjet then they should be fine going through a laser printer as they paper has not been heated by a fuser unit thus extracting all the moisture from the paper etc. causing the curl. The best way (as you've already said) is to have it in the header and footer of a Word Document and bung it on your Intranet/VLE/Shared Area for everyone to just edit and then print.

One of the Primary Schools we support uses Spiceworks. We ourselves use Hornbill SupportDesk as it's cheap (a few hundred quid a year) and it's FITS compliant. Simple to use, easy to log Incidents and answer questions/queries. It has loads of other features from an Inventory to a KnowledgeBase that you can take advantage of. THere are 2 main reasons we have a helpdesk system; the first is so we cant forget to do something and secondly it's a great way to communicate with everyone who has logged an incident/question/query.

MUTINY! It's great, simple to use, easy to set up and configure and as it's done by a University in the UK you get approx 90% discount so pay a couple of hundred quid a year for it which includes support and all the updates. Best of all, it's free for 10 or fewer devices so in small Primary Schools there may not be a cost involved! It also means you can have a play with it so see how it works etc. It has a WallBoard which we have on a wall mounted monitor and we use it to proactively monitor our servers and network devices. When a HDD gets to 80% or 90% (or whatever threshold you set) it notifies on the screen and via email so we can take action etc. - the same with RAM useage etc.

I could be wrong, but if you get them to do it remotely they might simply be able to talk you through it over the phone - I seem to recall something about them having instructions they can send you on how to do it and if you get stuck you can just give them a call and they can remote on and help you out and as it's support you dont have to pay them a days consultancy etc.

What exactly are you wanting to monitor? We use Impero and Policy Central Enterprise Edition for monitoring keywords on our computers and when it finds something you can get them to email out screenshots or even (via Impero) automatically ban a user until a teacher goes in an un-bans them. Both PCE and Impero provide their own keyword lists and you can add your own too. For PREVENT/radicalisation keywords we just monitor and a screenshot is taken and emailed to an exchange email group but for games keywords the window is closed so when the little rascals try to run a game in a spreadsheet etc. it closes the window so they cant!

One logical step at a time! It's pointless rushing it and getting in a mess, do it in a logical way that makes sense to you is the best way forward.

I think you missed the last sentence of the OP's thread: I'm sure they've heard all of this before and may even be planning to move away at some point, just not at this moment in time or maybe they are happy with how the RM network works for them.

Thanks for the replies guys! I created my instructions after finding someones blog and as I followed it I wrote down what I was doing and it's those instructions I have posted above. Like I say, when I used the Default Profile (using Copy To) it works OK - but no quicker than not using a mandatory profiles - if anything the logons as a few seconds longer when using this. My understanding is that when a user logs on to a computer, a cached profile is created (if one doesnt already exist) by using the local Default Profile as a template. By copying this to a network share and making it a mandatory one etc. I'm cant see how this is supposed to make logons quicker as purported by lots of people saying they have 10 second logons etc. even on old dual-core machines from the dark ages!

Any chance you could elaborate further please?

I've read for some time of the amazing 10 second logon boasts to Windows 8.x due (to some part) to Mandatory Roaming Profiles and recently I've had some time to start having a go myself. I've used them before (back in the Windows NT4 days) where all you had to do was copy the profile to a network share, point the user account(s) to it, change it from .dat to .man and it just worked! I've had a go with creating my own profile from scratch (details of what I did below) and also from copying the Default user profile to the network share (just for proof of concept). And the copy of the default user one works (I put a text file on the Desktop in the mandatory profile as proof) but the one I made from logging on as a new local user doesnt. Here's are my notes on what I did to create a mandatory profile: • Create a local user called 'profileuser' • Log on as that local user • Make any required changes • Log off • Log on as local administrator • Open File Explorer and browse to c:\users and copy the profile • Load the NTUSER.DAT file in to the registry editor: ○ Regedit > click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE ○ File > load hive ○ Enter a name for the key/hive ○ Expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE ○ Right-click on the hive you've just loaded ○ Set permissions for Authenticated Users to FULL CONTROL and remove the 'profileuser' ○ Add Domain Admins and local admin and give both FULL CONTROL ○ Right-click on the hive > Find and replace 'profileuser' with %username% except for the Shell Folders entries • Shell Folders: ○ HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > 'Loaded Hive Name' > Software > Microsoft > Windows > Current Version > Explorer > Shell Folders ○ Delete them all apart from !Do not user this registry key and Fonts • Delete this key: HKLM > Loaded Hive Name > Software > Microsoft >Active Setup > Installed Components > {89820200-ECBD-11cf-8B85-00AA005B4340} • Click on the hive you loaded in • File > Unload Hive • Click Yes to unload • Delete the following folders from the profile: ○ AppData\Local ○ AppData\LocalLow ○ The .log1 file(s) ○ The .log2 file(s) ○ The .blf file(s) ○ The .regtrans-ms file(s) • Copy the profile to the network share (everyone has Full Control on the share and NTFS permissions for testing purposes) • Use one of the following extentions on the folder name depending on the OS you're using: § .v2 - for Windows 7 § .v3 - for Windows 8 § .v4 - for Windows 8.1 § .v5 - for Windows 10 • Create a Group Policy - Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > System > User Profile > Set Roaming profile path for all users logging onto this computer When I log on myself (domain admin rights) then it works OK, but when I log on as a pupil it just logs me straight back out. What are we doing wrong?

That's been a life saver for us! Some of the old projectors we replaced had the lens on the opposite side to the Epson's we replaced them with and Smart Corners meant we didn't have to move any ceiling brackets or whiteboards!

We get everything and anything from Amc Computer Supplies (Danny does some amazing deals) and for refurbished Dell servers and storage with a full onsite warranty we Server Source - Europe's Leading provider of Refurbished Dell PowerEdge and PowerVault servers

We started to use the Casio ones a few years back but we now use the Epson ones as for us the TCO was a lot less with them and the lamps are replaceable for around £50 whereas if the Casio ones start to fail (a couple that we have, have started to fade) then you cant change the lamp when they're out of warranty.

Because they're sitting on the opposite side of the room.

I've created our first attempt at a Windows 10 image ready to be deployed using SCCM 1511 The image has been created OK, added to SCCM and then deployed to a test computer. All was going well until we started to randomly get gpsvc and Group Policy Client service failed messages It doesn't happen all the time when you log on just sometimes!

A wireless keyboard and mouse.

What a way to run a business! They could of at least put a notice on their website saying they were on holiday so will be ignoring all their customers! lol

We had a laser printer that was misbehaving and it ended up being something to do with the electricity. A small/cheap UPS should help solve your issue.

lol - you'll be fine. As with anything like this, just make sure your backups are working before you do anything! We have 2 main Hyper-V Hypervisors that have our most important Virtual Machines on them and we upgraded them from 2012 to 2012 R2 with no issues. We then upgraded the 2008R2 Virtual Machines on them to either 2012 or 2012R2 - all without any issues. We also used the offline time to virtualise a couple of physical machines including an offline P2V of our first domain controller which was took forever so we were wondering if it was working but all went fine. Good Luck and dont forget to let us know how you get on!

If this was true Microsoft would have gone out of business years ago as thousands of companies around the world would sue them for breaking their servers! We've never had any issues upgrading the OS on any of our servers (both Virtual and Physical).

Create a new Group Policy and then go to User Configuration > Control Panel Settings > Printers Right click in the right-hand pane and click on New and then add the shared network printer. If you're assigning this to a Computer OU then you'll need to enable the 'Configure user Group Policy loopback processing mode'.

Surely this would be a great use of a 3D printer?!

We've been using SSDs in our servers for around 4 years now - just make sure they are Enterprise grade. We only use them to mirror the C: drive where we bung the OS and use SAS drives for data.