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Cheers for the reply, honestly not sure...I have limited knowledge of sharepoint but managed to get an internal site up and running, can authenticate against it from within the app just not view any folders or anything If I setup a hosted site within the office365 interface that works fine however only allows me access to cloud based material....why oh why can't they just integrate webdav

Hi Guys, Hoping someone may be able to help us here, we are testing the office suite for iPad and so far so good. The one fundamental issue we cannot get around is connecting to our existing file server, we have installed sharepoint and setup a web part so can access files via a browser. Now from what Im read it doesn't sound like we can do what we wanted to and connect to our existing files on our file server.... Any ideas?

Im thinking that may be the way to go to be honest as looking into it sounds like its going to be a nightmare to try and setup. Do you think it would be easier to setup a new dhcp server and decomm the old one? Thanks to everyone for your replies, much appreciated Mike

Hi, The ranges are; 10.74.202.x and 10.43.40.x if that helps? Thanks Mike

Hi Guys, Wondering if someone would be kind enough to help me out. Ive just found out we have an additional range of ips available to our site, great news! We have an LEA switch (cisco 2950) which provides the feed coming in, apparently we have only been using Port 1 (admin range), Port 2 (curric range) is not patched in but according to the local LEA and the grid is ready to go. How would I go about adding the additional scope into DHCP? My current scope (admin range is) 10.x.x.x with a subnet of 255.255.255.0 and works fine, how would I go about adding the new scope which is 10.x.x.x.x with a subnet of 255.255.252.0? Im confused about what I would set as the default gateway and dns servers of the second scope, would I use my exisiting default gateway and dns settings? Sorry if this doesnt make much sense, Im aware of how to create and authorize the scope just dont have the knowledge for dealing with multiple ip ranges Thanks Mike

Good to know, if the RDP client for Mac doesnt support it might not be much point , We also use irdesktop on ipads to connect to the RDS server allowing teachers to fill in sims on their ipad

Ok sounds like a much better plan, this our first attempt at setting up anything for remote access since our manager went off long term sick Ill have a google of the Remote Desktop Gateway, vpn we already use SSL Explorer which works great other than it doesnt support macs via RDP

Hi All, So after receiving all our ees documentation and the additional CALS etc we successfully set up and configured a RDS server for users to connect to. This all works great internally, Id like to open this up for external access, now doing a quick search Ive logged a change request with the SWGFL to allow traffic on port 3389 and assign us an external ip pointing to our internal static ip Is there anything else I should take in to consideration? The server itself is fully patched with the latest A/V and users are locked down via GPOs Any guidance or a pointer in the right direction would be great Thanks Mike

Thanks for the continued ideas guys Just got off the phone to the LA who are sending across documentation as well as looking into both our switch and the routing in that I can get to other schools (Ive counted 4 so far!) interfaces. We are a single site, Ive had a look for rogue dhcp server after being stung with that in secondary!!!! Hoping to make it to the end of the week so that I can spend all next week tracing cabling, ripping stuff out and double checking everything!!!!! M

The kiwi syslog server is good, thanks for suggesting it! Switches are ok now, , spoke to HP and upgraded the firmware rebooted and they went back to correct settings which seems to have fixed the problem....never seen that before! Yep definitely agree, have asked the LA to provide me with a network map, I can ping the servers of some of the other schools and even get onto the web interface of one secondary's core Aruba switch

Cheers very kind and useful! Behind the Cisco who knows it goes off into the SWGFL/Swindon LA infrastructure! The only other abnormally Ive found this evening is that the Procurve switches for some reason seem to have running with 192.168 addresses almost as though they've been factory reset.....setting back to static addresses now!

Hi Rob, The 2950 is connected directly to a linksys switch (unmanged and being replaced during summer break), other than that our edge switches consist of some newer procurve models and then its a bit mix and match (netgear, linksys etc). Ive just got back from checking each cabinet, definetely no loopbacks Checked all classrooms and any other points I know of and unable to find any sign of a loopback on the network There is still a lot of activity showing on the switches around the building, Ive turned logging on and am in the process of setting up procurve manager. As it stands at the moment the network appears stable, Ive been through the logs on the hosts and there is/was no excessive amount of traffic from the nics/hosts/servers that I can see. Is there any other tools I can consider using? Ive left a contiual ping running with timestamp from my iMac to the core switch, The LA have informed me someone will be onsite at some point tomorrow to check out the 2950 Thanks M

Thanks for all the advice guys overwhelmed by the response Ricki my infrastructure runs on 3 hosts (VMware), Ive taken each of the servers down individually as well as restarting the hosts. The core switch comes in at a central location with all other switches connected via cat 5 or fibre convertors, have restarted all of them. Ill wait till schools out and start investigating further, some great advice here S

Hi Michael, When disconnecting it earlier it seemed to resolve the issue, although by no means conclusive. I will restarting again later. The switch is currently back up and running but as it is managed by the LA I am waiting for them to come back to me. Just installing the trial for procurve manager which will hopefully allow me to look at some of the edge switches in more detail, wireshark hasnt yielded anything yet but then Im a first time user so reading up on its usage to ensure Im not making a newbie mistake! Thanks!! M

Good call, Ive been obsessed with checking the classrooms, all cabs are under lock and key so nothing should have changed but always worth a look! Some great threads about this sort of stuff already , strange thing everything seems stable other than my continual ping to the default gateway.....scary as other than take down individual cabs havent done anything else Thanks for all the input thus far guys

Thanks for the reply! I have indeed logged a call on the Capita helpdesk as I know a couple of other schools within my LA had their 2950s replaced. Hopefully have someone come back to me later today Cheers M

Hi All, Having done a search and reading through various threads I was wondering if anyone could add anymore advice to help me track down my problem. Around 10am today for no apparent reason our network decided to go down, by down I mean the following behavior; -Clients unable to access network resources -Clients unable to browse to internet -Switches showing a lot of activity (mixture of entry level procurves and a few random unmanged) -Unable to ping from one static machine to another -Fibre convertors showing lots of activity Now at first I thought this must be either a loopback or a virus as Ive seen both have similar affects on a network, Ive taken each server/host (we are virtualized on vmware) and rebooted, also taken all switches in building down. Thought it might our Ruckus wireless controller however this is now back up and appears ok. We are back up and stable (ish) now...no idea why or how and Im in the process of troubleshooting further. Sophos is showing no viruses arp -a resolves as expected I can now ping internal resources with no packet loss eg; server to workstation, workstation to server etc I can traceroute to google.com successfully What I am noticing is that pinging our default gateway (a LA Cisco 2950) I received constant time outs on, this is from any area of the network...would it be reasonable to assume this could cause the issue given nothing has to our knowledge changed on the network? Ill be doing another walk around later today to ensure there are no visable loopbacks/damaged cabling etc any other advice or ideas much appreciated Thanks for reading M

Ok so doing a clean install works fine, I think Ill look at transferring everything across from the old box to the new box, thanks for all your input guys much appreciated

Thanks Ill take a look whilst the other vm installs fog, would make sense I guess with regards to the two locations for dhcp!

Yeah Ive got a second VM building as we speak, dont want to spend hours on something when it might be quicker to just rebuild from scratch Ill take a look at the PXE menu tho, thanks for the suggestions....just strange how everything was working fine and now its broken!

Same error, tried a couple of different nic cards too just too make sure Me neither

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Not the usual menu Id expect to see, Ive attached some screenshots of what actually happens.......hope this makes it clearer [ATTACH=CONFIG]14573[/ATTACH]

Its boots to PXE boot, looks like it fails to get a DHCP address and fog sits at booting from local disk, usually I would have the fog menu and be able to select the task etc No error as such or if it does it flashes up too quickly to see!

Have only got options 66 and 67 set in DHCP, option 60 doesnt exist In option 66 Ive specified the ip of the fog server, can login to the management interface just fine Cheers