bobclay

Appreciate your rapid reply but that isn't our understanding. Their website claim it is compatible (prior to SP1 anyway). We have worked it fine with SIMs, and providing I use the above workarounds, still does. This mapped drives issue could become a problem for other software if I'm reading it right, I just wondered if anybody else had come across it.

We only have a Vista machine in the Server room for testing. After SP1 (as far as I can tell) we have encountered a problem with SIMs and it's location on the mapped 'Admin' drive. We encounter an error with connection when starting SIMs. Turn of UAC, problem disappears. The mapped drives (made by a logon batch file in Netlogon) appear and are browsable ok within Windows, but SIMs is clearly having a problem. Research tells me it is due to the mapping of drives at different elevations of user (hence with UAC off it works ok). Alternatively, (with UAD on) I can open a command window with elevated administrator privileges, enter 'net use F: \\server\admin' to essentially duplicate mapping of the SIMs drive and the problem disappears. But this is on a 'user only' basis and disappears with subsequent logins, which means doing it all again at next logon. We are using Windows 2003 servers and there appears to be some issues with Vista and it's user account policies and the Domain Controller policies. Just wondered if anybody else had encountered such problems.