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In the next few weeks I'm planning on reimaging all our office/admin machines. Because I'm lazy I'm looking to install all apps via a scripted RIS install. I've got most apps sorted, including SIMS.Net, the only one left is FMS, so I'm looking for a list of commandline switches for the FMS installer. I've searched Capita's support site but they only have info on SIMS installers. I've also contacted the local SIMS support team but they have no info either. Has anyone found such info before, or am I going to have to kludge it using AutoIT?

I need to: Build admin RIS image Modify curriculum RIS images Reimage all admin & curriculum machines Build new Success Maker server Rebuild 10 iMac's for Success Maker Fix problem in user profiles Build & install firewall/proxy Change IP range Finish building website Link OSX mailserver to AD Add new students Look for holes in new AUP (SMT created) Build machine for OCS and install Network documentation DRP Software/Licensing audit Convert iMacs to webkiosks Build new admin machines Plan & cost replacement network - create proposal Finish modifying MRBS - Roll out Implement helpdesk Upgrade to SSPR 2.1 But as I'm not contracted for the summer hols, my list is more likely to be: Find book Find tree Read Unless I can get the school to authorise some overtime

@wesleyw: I've got the spring 05 CD sitting on my webserver if you want a copy. It's my home DSL link so it's pretty slow, but you're welcome to grab a copy. I'll PM the details if you're interested.

You could always take my approach, stick them on the inside of the cases. It's still not exactly legal as MSFT say they must be on the outside, but I doubt they'd crucify you for it

What I'd be more concerned with about a rougue box supplanting an HTTPS server is that if it was done right, a user of the HTTPS website would never know it was fake (especially if you use self signed certs and tell users to accept them as I'm sure some of us do). Imagine the HTTPS server was your remote file access server, $teacher connects, enters username & password, rogue box logs details and displays believable error message, $teacher accepts & gives up non the wiser. Rogue now has $teacher login, if $teacher is as imaginative as most users, rogue may have SIMS password too. DPA breach in 5 easy steps.

@pete: You and I seem to be in the minority, although I prefer to use NoScript rather than disabling completely. TBH I'd rather avoid JavaScript and use CSS :hover and CSS2 selectors, but IE6 doesn't implement them properly/at all and if our userbase is primarily IE6 I may have little choice in the matter.

My predecessor had some 'fun' getting SIMS working over Terminal Services when all our clients were Macs, had to admit defeat in the end and give the office staff Windows clients. I'm told Capita now support TS so I wish you better luck than he had ^^ The FMSSetup.exe is 21.6 MB (22,746,112 bytes), file version 1.510.3.0 CRC: 1580E370 MD5: a86d7fa9888e4aab25b93b9a3f43718f Although now I think about it, you can't run FMSSetup directly, you have to use the setup.exe to pass it the proper commandline switches (I've asked our SIMS support for details of the switch options but they couldn't tell me, and Capita don't have any KB articles on them either) setup.exe: 2.05 MB (2,153,472 bytes) CRC: 25BB48F6 MD5: 6f534fd605330ae78a83db897a9e44d9

If I'm understanding you right, you've got the FMS client installed on workstations with the DB running on this server, but you don't have the FMS client installed locally. Yes? If so, you'll need to run FMSSetup.exe from the Spring05 CD to install the client as the FMSApplicationSetup.exe in your setups directory will be a Solus update, and unlike the SIMS installers, the Solus FMS update cannot perform a new install. There's also a known problem with the 6.78 FMSSetup.exe in that it overwrites the current (update) FMSApplicationSetup.exe in the setups directory meaning you'll have to rerun Solus (backing up your Setups directory first works just as well [or better if you're on Solus2]) Capita KB 9852 has the full destructions.

I'm pretty sure we'd finalised on v2.0, but I'm planning one more small update during the summer anyway. I'm going to stop storing answers MD5 hashed and simpy store them as plain text. It's less secure, but it's annoying when they not only forget their password, but 1 or 2 of their reset answers too (or at least how they spelled them). And sods law dictates if they can only remember 1 reset answer, it won't be the one you didn't hash >_< But like most other changes I've made, there'll be a switch in the config file so you can have whichever method you prefer. Unless anyone has any other suggestions (or bugs), I think that'll be it.

@mark: No probs, I'm more miffed you got there first

It's nice to know that others are finding this useful, you'll still get some muppets who forget their answers too, but that's inevitable. But if you can get away with charging for resets (I can't), it'll help with the weekly biscuit (or beer) fund

Curriculum: 1 DC/File/Print - 2K3 1 Mailserver - OSX server 1 Webserver - LAMP Admin: 1 DC/SIMS - 2K3 Adding next month: 1 SuccessMaker - 2K3 1 Proxy - Smoothwall/Dansgardian || Censornet 1 OCS Inventory - LAMPP (maybe) ~600 students ~50 teachers/support staff ~45 desktops ~75 laptops and ~30 old iMacs/eMacs gathering dust

If you mean for resetting Windows passwords, you're after Self Service Password Reset. Just check my sig | V EDIT: Beaten to it >_<

E2BN already have it blocked for students but not for staff. I'm not complaining, I'll be using it later ^^

If they're anything like our RM laptops they'll get very hot very quickly. Kids keep putting them away without waiting for them to shut down, and if they're halfway through a WSUS update they sometimes get stuck and don't sleep or power off :x

Vandalising a swimming pool (with the owners's consent of course )

@mark: I agree that's a perfectly fine way of doing it. Thing is, we currently use a paper system for laptop bookings, teachers have been told (and it's printed on the sheet) that all bookings must include the room they want to use the laptops in and the initials of the teacher who wants them. In theory it's fine. Trouble is we still get bookings that don't have rooms listed (and sometimes no initials either), and since there's no money available to add a psychic to the department, I end up chasing staff regarding bookings. I'm pretty sure this won't change when I introduce the electronic system in September, so I'm going to add an extra field to MRBS so they can't book without listing a valid room (valid being the building with the laptops and wireless, not the one without. And yes I do get people booking them for the laptopless/wi-fi-less building )

JScript is Microsoft's version of ECMAScript, while JavaScript is Netscape/Sun's version of ECMAScript. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JScript http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript So yes, JavaScript is like JScript, but they're not entirely interchangeable

MRBS is probably your best bet. I'm currently modifying it for a combined equipment/room booking system, but if you simply want room booking it'll work out of the box, it'll integrate with AD via LDAP, and best of all it's free

To help with a couple of projects I'm currently working on, I need an idea of what proportion of EduGeek users use what browser, and if you surf with JavaScript enabled or disabled. If your browser isn't listed can you let me know what you're using. I was going to have 'IE < 6', 'Mozilla' and 'Other' but ran out of spaces, damn poll limits >_< Cheers

I had that happen on my old admin/SIMS server, the spooler ate every spare byte on the C:\ drive. The look on the Sims manager's face when I told her she'd just crashed SIMS with a PDF was a classic. At least it helped prove the point of why it needed replacing. IIRC it was the SIMS manual that she was trying to print

That sounds remarkably like my recent experiences with RIS. Reimaging 50 machines, couldn't get more than 6 going at once. I blame all the problems on lack of bandwidth due to my naff network (cat5 and hubs). I ended up having to stagger the installs, booting 1 machine every 5 minutes. It worked but ended up taking the better part of 2 days. And people still don't believe me when I tell them the network is ludicrously outdated/overworked

I use Norse mythology at work: Thor - DC - File - Print Odin - Admin - SIMS Vor - Webserver Heimdall - Proxy Webserver - Mailserver (don't ask, was there when I started, too lazy to rename ^^; ) And random character names at home: Tachibana Yomiko Lain Mahoro Natsuki Noriko Alicia Aika Ping Nanoha Fate Hayate

Geeks in ...... Drag? Not that I'm referring to anyone inparticular

Also blocked for students by E2BN