Julian

You may need to run the Office rearm tool before running sysprep. "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office16\OSPPREARM.EXE" Warning this application can only be run 3 times, make a snapshot before use, and revert to the snapshot after finishing sysprep. My limited understanding is that this acts as sysprep for office, so that each copy of office has its own GUID, which is required if you are using a Office KMS server.

We also use WSUS here.

Do you have a photocopier that can do A3? Large photocopiers that can do A3, usually have a document feeder, and can scan.

Eportal, and Facility updated last week. No Problems found yet, I hope that the census will be boring.

It is usually recommended that the host machine has multiple network connectors, 1 reserved for managing the host, the other(s) for the virtual machines. If you are using vlans, then you need a virtual switch, to send the different vlans, to the different clients.

Windows 10 has 2 proxies, one for IE/Edge set via GUI, and one for Windows system, set via command line. To set the Windows system proxy 1. Set proxy for IE/Edge. 2. search for "cmd.exe", right click and select "Run as Administrator", to get a elevated command prompt. 3. netsh 4. winhhtp 5. import proxy ie You should now get listing showing that the system has imported your proxy settings. This gave me problems first time I came across this issue, This also applies to Windows 7 and 8.

Please find below some of my thoughts about virtualisation You can use either VMware or Hyper V. VMware is more mature, Microsoft catching up rapidly, and Hyper-V comes with Server 2012r2 When virtualising servers, the number of servers greatly increases, I am running a server for just one application, this makes sure that application X will not fight with application Y. (we went from 5 physical servers to 26 virtual servers). Creating a new virtual machine is easy, useful for testing. Server 2012R2 Data Centre edition is expensive, but allows for unlimited virtual clients (per host). Server specification, we have 128 GB memory, 2 * 6 core processors, (with hyper threading) - 24 logical processors / host. Your serves are the heart of your network, if they die so does the network, it is worth paying to get good kit.

We have a limit based on the total cost of the job. Whilst this does not stop 20 copies of 1 page, 20 copies of 10 pages will get stopped. Also a 2 minute ban on printing the same document.

Nominet mange .uk domains, they do not do hosting, when a company like Eclipse Internet register a co.uk domain name, they register the name with Nominet.

I agree, only install the software that is needed, on that server, (and do not use a server to browse the internet).

Nominet (Nominet - The Official Registry for UK Domain Names) manage the .sch.uk domain (for DFE). School ip address are in the format school name . county . sch .uk (with no spaces), your LEA will be managing the DNS server for county . sch . uk, they may be able to help.

Please use "www.pcidatabase.com" to look up manufacture and device Vendor id 10ec = Realtek Device Id 8168 = PCIe GBE My experience with Realtek network drivers, is that Realtek provide one very large driver, that covers all the different chipsets. Please try the link below Realtek

What is your domain name? It is usually helpful to have your email address the same as your domain name (end users know that they are speaking to you!). We own "joa.herts.sch.uk", so all emails are [email protected]. We are using Google as our email provider, so the MX record for the joa.herts.sch.uk DNS lookup (held by Herts CC), points to Google mail servers. Before Google we were using Microsoft, then the MX record pointed to the Microsoft mail servers, but the end user address did not change. What I am trying to say is that you can decouple the email address, and the provider, and change provider, without changing your email address.

If at all possible, for activation of Office, (and Windows) I prefer to use a KMS server. I assume that you are running the Office customisation tool, and putting the licence key in the space provided?

You have got your local drives mapped, because that is the default setting for MSTSC. To change which drives are mapped At the Remote Desktop Connection dialogue box, click on "Show option" . Select the tab "Local resources". Click on the button "More..." at the bottom of the dialogue box, Click on the "+" for drives. You can now select which (if any drives) are mapped. If you wish to save this configuration, that is available on the general tab.

Papercut MF, with "Follow-Me" printing, also charging for photocopying. Pupils get a weekly allowance. Staff select which department will get billed. Heads of department get weekly email, with a breakdown of costs (automatically generated). Finance department gets a monthly list of the costs for each cost centre / year group (automatically generated). AD groups are used allocate teachers to cost centres, which make management easy.

We have multiple vlans, with our servers on their own vlan. This minimise the effects of a broadcast storm, to only the vlan with the loop, and not the servers.

WE had a problem where the length of the USB cable was to long, we solved it by putting a powered USB hub after 5M (Smart board is now interactive).

WOL and vlans are a challenge. WOL is only layer 2, so will not be routed between vlans, It is possible to get WOL to work, but the program sending the magic packet must include a suitable layer 3 ip address (either the old ip address of the computer, or the vlan broadcast address). I used some PowerShell to query DHCP for both the ip address, and mac address, which was then used to generate the magic packet.

I agree, disable the shutdown / restart buttons via GPO (only applied to RDS server). That is what I did for our RDS servers.

No you can not just edit the path, however that should not matter. You will have to get the msi's you wish moved to uninstall from old location, and reinstall from new location. This will slow down the next computer switch-on, so careful scheduling may be needed.

I would suggest not using 1 vlan for all network computers, but use several, so that a broadcast storm only takes down a small part of the network (if you have to pay some to set up vlans, get it done right!). With a network of ~400 computers, and 35 switches, we ended up with 20 vlans. A computer on one vlan has no problem speaking to a computer/ iPad/ server on another vlan, as the data is routed from one vlan to another. We also use vlan's so that BYOD, are kept separate from our main network.

How big is your hall? In our hall the AV installer put in 4 speakers, which gives a nice ambient sound, without being to loud at the front, and too quiet at the back.

DHCP requests, come from the server, but go through the central switch. When the server is on one vlan, and the requesting computer is a different vlan, then switch has to be programed how to handle the request. In addition for the switch to route between vlans (layer3) the switch has to have its own ip address on each vlan (this address will be the gateway address for that vlan). Because of both of the above points, when changing the range of ip address DHCP gives out for a vlan, it may be necessary to change the settings that your network switch uses for routing your data.

You have not mentioned what brand of central network switch you are using. This will also need programing so that it can get the data from your revised vlans to where it is needed. If you are merely tweaking your existing vlan, that is simple, completely different ip ranges (ie 172.16.*.* to 192.168.*.*) is more work.