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I have no idea why you assume admin was separate from curriculum. I have run them combined for around 13 years now. I think you should take a deeper look into how active directory works and the different ways you can grant or deny permissions and on what levels. Suffice to say, allowing authenticated workstations read access to the SIMS set up folders is very unlikely to result in a compromised system. I am sure you could walk into my school and plug in your laptop, but the dhcp server giving it to you would be the one on our guest vlan. Have fun with that. Managed switches - look into them. You do know SIMS runs on SQL? Because who stores a database file on a file server? Especially one as inefficient as the SIMS database. Not even the LEA stores the SIMS database there. I guess you work in a primary school using RM where things like you describe do go on, but please don't assume everyone is on your level. May I suggest that in the future, when you hear or read, a different way of doing things you take a step back and think before attacking it just because it is different from the way you do things. I offered someone a solution, and you leapt out to attack it, basing all your attacks on assumptions. I have just checked, and I have SIMS on 117 computers. To upgrade these takes me a few seconds to change a batch file. Then when they switch on in the morning they upgrade. This has worked without fault for a very long time because I took the time to work it out and try something new. Maybe you should too.

Grow up. Why assume anything about the permissions on my SIMS folder. This script works and has for about 8 years, which is more than can be said for Solus. The start menu thing is because the installer used to do a shortcut which checked for updates then ran SIMS. Guess they changed that at some stage. Good call on FMS. I don't know anything about it, but I guess it would only be on the admin computers not on the classroom computers, and hopefully they are in different OUs This is certainly better than making teachers local admins, power users or on having your network hanging because Solus has caused chaos.( I am assuming that most people are running around 100 SIMS workstations, like we do) Sometimes if you have nothing helpful to say, then work on saying nothing. Nwikie, if you are still getting stuck then PM me. I will move off thread and leave matt40k beating his chest.

Apply to an OU where your SIMS workstations are installed as a start up script: Check folder versions as in script below - currently V7, and everytime you upgrade SIMS, change the check and then the created folder at the end of the script to a different version. Pretty sure someone will pop along and tidy the script so it checks for SIMS presence and version so it can be domain wide script, but this will work. Just restart PC and wait 5 mins after applying via group policy as a COMPUTER start up script - not USER if exist "c:\Program Files\SIMS\sims .net\V7" goto :end ELSE :inst rd "c:\Program Files\SIMS" /s /q net use s: \\server\simsfolder /P:No s: s:\sims\setups\SIMSInfrastructureSetup.exe -a {QuietMode} s:\sims\setups\SIMSapplicationsetup.exe /s {QuietMode} {NoServerApps} [sIMSDirectory]="S:\SIMS" [sIMSDotNetDirectory]="C:\Program Files\SIMS\SIMS .net" [sIMSSetupsDirectory]=\\server\simsfolder\SIMS\Setups s:\sims\setups\SIMSAMPARKSetup.exe /s {QuietMode} {NoServerApps} [sIMSDirectory]="S:\SIMS" [sIMSDotNetDirectory]="C:\Program Files\SIMS\SIMS .net" rd "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\SIMS Applications" /s /q xcopy s:\SIMS\setups\connect.ini "c:\program files\sims\SIms .net\" /h /y rd "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\SIMS" /s /q xcopy "s:\sims\Start Menu" "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\" /S /y xcopy s:\SIMS\sims.ini "c:\windows" /h /y c: cd "%ProgramFiles%\SIMS\SIMS .Net" md V7 net use /delete * /y :end