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+1 on @tosh74. We had this issue and change the startup policy time to 60. But I found that ironically this didn't work, so I found we didn't to deploy the reg key instead of GPO and this worked for us. We had a similar issue with our laptops where they booted up without getting a network connect so GPO's wouldn't apply. Hope this helps.

Hello guys, just a quick one to add. I have spoken to our LA and they have informed that the patch is now within The SIMS Summer release. We ran the sql script which shows the affected students, luckily there wasn't many records. But our LA did advise that this is a complete manual task to do this one by one and checking paper records etc. Not a happy bunny!

Hardtailstar, I have seen the Dell Optiplex models and I was concerned about the screens they look a bit flimsy. What are the screens like on the HP Pro one? Would you say these are stronger?

Hello everyone, I am looking into replacing our computers around the school with all in one PC's, currently we have the old RM all in PC's which were great. We have a lot of issues of pupils pulling cables out of PC's etc. I am looking for an alternative, preferably ones which have some cable management so the children cannot disconnect keybaord or mouse and hard glassed ones would be better. I have looked at a couple of alternative but no jump out at me. I want to know what other people use at schools which are similar? Cheers.

What MIS do you use? Most of our schools use Inventry which works really well and the support company are very good as well. Deffo worth a look. Visitor Management Sign in Solutions for Education | InVentry

Hey chaps first of all thank you to @hutchings_18 great post. I have this error today I fixed this by going to SQL management studio and then finding DOMAIN\SERVERNAME$ and checking the user mapping and noticed that the user did not have any access to teh SQL Database. I ticked all the options and hey presto it worked a treat. Cheers everyone!

To configure SIMS so it works with AD you just need to do the following: On a domain computer with SIMS installed logged into the domain 1. add the following to the connect.ini ConnectionType=Trusted 2. Log into SIMS System manager locate an existing user and then click on the magnifying glass next to the name, type in the domain and click search this is where you can map the SIMS account with an AD account. The Username field should now display the domain\username ie. School\j.smith The password should appear blank

Second this, we perform the task above and it normally fixes the issue.

Right, have a look at SIMS on the Data Managers PC. I have seen this error before and this occurs because SIMS .net is using to much system memory so it crashes. You could try changing the GDI objects of the applicaiton. I have resolved a similar issue on one of our client PC's have a go at this: Windows 7 Error -12 Out of Memory When Creating Extensive User Interface - National Instruments Be careful though as if you configure this incorrectly it can cause BSOD etc.. Let me know how you get on - - - Updated - - - 2nd this aswell, deffo worth a go

Try re-installing the re-reqs by running SIMSINFRASTRUCTURE onto the machine. Also try a repair of .net framework. I would advise taking a look in event viewer on the machine and see if gives you more information.

There's a patch which does the same thing the patch number is 18985

I had a similar problem today at work. However when we reinstalled Options this did not fix the issue. On the machine where options was working we had a look at each implementation and found that the .dbf file it was looking at was an inactive implementation and therefore it generated the error message. We decided to rename the IMPxxxx folder and this solved the issue. Also we had a look at the SIMS share and the permissions were not correct. However be careful when renaming folders and always take a back up just incase. I am new to options so proceed with caution.

Thanks for this info

Yes, many schools have this view about the sims data, and at the moment Cloud systems are very expensive.

Do you have a command time out in your Sims.ini? This would make the report timeout hopefully before it brings the server down. Also take a look at the sims.ldf file and see if it can be shrunk?

3s-getch, looks like you need to shrink the Sims log file this would improve performance 1.1 GB is massive for a log file.

Saying that Capita have said that they want to go web based for about 6 years.

Really interesting points here. I agree with the single point of failure. However for some schools this might be a great solution, for example Primary schools who do not have the in house IT infrastructure or expertee to maintain the DB etc then this may be the way forward. I have seen some schools reluctant to move to hosted for data protection reasons which I can understand. how can Capita guarantee that the data is secure and where would the data actually be stored? Having a cloud environment you are never completely sure where the data is being hosted. If a school moved to hosted then this would take away the need to manage Sims upgrade and patches however this might be an issue in it's self for example if the upgrades get applied when they are released they may contain bugs which have not been noted before they are deployed to all schools on a hosted environment. I can see both arguments really. However surely this is the way the future is heading soon most systems will be hosted and schools could save hugely on server hardware and operational costs...

You can run SQL 2014 IN 2012 mode if you do not want to revert back and then once the problems have been fixes in SQL 2014 you can revert back.

Correct this is a known error which usually relates to permissions to the users home drive or my documents types Or the Re directed my documents pointing to an older user document server is a classic.. When sims launches it creates two folders one called tempreportSims or something similar and a My sims documents if Sims is unsuccessful it will flag the error you mentioned . First, take a look at the following registry key: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders, inspect the personal key and where it is pointing to, that will give you an indicator.

Look on the mapped drive which is usually S drive then Sims and then Star folder. Or go to Sims, and go to Routines | Statutory Returns | School Work Force census and it will tell you the location of the Census folder.

here's the command if this is easier for you: dnscmd %computername% /zoneadd youtube.com /dsforwarder 8.8.8.8 dnscmd %computername% /zoneadd googleapis.com /dsforwarder 8.8.8.8 dnscmd %computername% /zoneadd youtube-nocookie.com /dsforwarder 8.8.8.8

I couldn't agree more rich_tech I wasn't a fan of the new movie.

I would agree with Liam, try disabling the firewall on the machine with this command: To Turn Off Firewall: NetSh Advfirewall set allprofiles state off To check the status of Windows Firewall: Netsh Advfirewall show allprofiles Make sure the windows firewall is off and then remove PC in the solus deployment UI and then re deploy. I have also seen it before where a flush dns command can work a treat if you run this on the Solus deployment server.