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Great opportunity to join our friendly and highly skilled IT Department in the glorious Shropshire countryside. Lovely staff, great students and well funded. More details here: https://concordcollegeuk.com/about-us/working-at-concord/ JD: https://concordcollegeuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Job-description-Helpdesk-Support-March-2024.pdf

Hello, We have a job opening in our small, friendly and talented ICT department at Concord College. Please see link for job vancancy details: https://concordcollegeuk.com/about-concord/general/job-vacancies/ Any questions please feel free to ask. James Sumnall Network Manager

Hello everyone. Our SIMS server did its weekly reboot last night at 3:00 am. It came back up with it's NIC Team broken. I traced this to incorrect VLAN assignments on the switch its NICs were connected to. Anyway, the teaming wasn't working so after pressure of getting the SIMS server backup I dissolved the team, pulled the cable from one of the NICs and disabled said NIC in device manager. I then reassigned the correct, original IP address to the remaining NIC and all was well, network connectivity restored. Only now in DNS, every hour, the DNS for the SIMS server reverts from it's correct address to it's DHCP assigned IP from the second card which is disabled. This is causing big headaches as I have to keep amending the DNS records on our 2 DNS servers to the correct, statically assigned address. I don't even know where to start troubleshooting this one... I've checked the hosts file on the DNS servers nothing there. I can't see what is publishing these updates to the servers. Any help would be a life saver. Thanks as always.

You are a star sir, I've been after this information for years!! Thank you, no more ghost boot CDs!!

Found some information on MS Technet. You can't set a trust between 2 domains which at any point have had the same name. Even though the domain has been renamed it still has the same SID prefix as before which will be identical to the un-renamed domain. Looks like I'll have to investigate ADMT pants...

Hi everyone, Now I know that the thread title might have people rolling their eyes; as it did me when I found I had 2 domains both called domain.local. Now I've performed a domain rename on one of the domains, that all went really well, hurrah! I've practiced creating domain trusts in some vbox vms so I pretty confident I get the domain trust set up ok. This is where I get stuck. On the newly renamed domain (now newdomain.local) I go through the New Trust wizard and type in the domain I want to set the trust up with: domain.local. The wizard then tells me that it can't continue as I'm trying to setup a trust with the same domain that I'm currently in (or managing). I'm guessing that this some form of residue from it's old domain name? DNS replication is setup between the 2 domains, no problems there. Any bright ideas? Any DNS cleanup tools I can use on the renamed domain? Thanks as always

Thanks for the replies chaps, tried all of the above still to no avail. So I took the side off the PC and started fiddled with the supplied RAM. Turns out that the extra RAM was SIMM and the supplied RAM was DIMM and they were mixed up in the same channels. So separating them into their own channels sorted it out.

Hi all, Any ideas on this one. Just got me a new PC (woo!) and stuck in the recommended HP RAM to get the system up to 8GB RAM from 4GB. BIOS (even after flashing to lastest version 1.09) doesn't recognise the extra RAM, only shows 4GB. Weirdly Win7 knows the system has 8GB but is only using 4GB as shown in cap. Er, help?! Thanks in advance

Thanks kmount, indeed I'm in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Any takers?

Howdy all! After redesigning our comms room we have 3 Cooper B Line cabinets looking for a good home. We have 2 x 42u active cabinets which are 1000x1200mm which will take standard rack mount servers and have cable management bars on either side of the internal frame. In addition to this we have 1 x 42u network cabinet which is 800x800mm. We've used them for about 4.5 years so they're a little dusty, but we've cleaned them up as best we can. They're currently dismantled but have all the feet, plinths, tops, sides, door, screws, nuts and bolts for them. They're free to a good home. The only stipulation is that the cabinets are collection only. They look something like the image below: If you're interested please send me a pm.

True, but I was only using it for copying data from a few fields which had been mistakenly deleted. We also use AD Trusted Auto so we don't have to dish out all the extra usernames and passwords.

I had to run the following query in SQL Studio to allow me to login and the sysman account: exec sims.db_p_reset_sysman_password

Ok, got this sorted out now, working on this on a Saturday night! sad huh? Here's the working httpd-vhosts.conf file: NameVirtualHost *:80 DocumentRoot "C:\xampp\htdocs" ServerName localhost DocumentRoot C:\Xampp\htdocs\xibo ServerName [color="red"]http://[/color]xibo.concordcollege.org.uk That pesky little http:// fixed it! Bizarre huh? Hope this helps someone else in the future. Thanks to Arthur for the tips on sorting this out

This is all I have in my httpd-vhosts.conf file: NameVirtualHost *:80 DocumentRoot C:\Xampp\htdocs\xibo ServerName xibo.concordcollege.org.uk And if I browse to xibo.concordcollege.org.uk I still get the root of the web server... grrr I've tested XAMPP on another system and have exactly the same in the httpd-vhosts.conf file and that works... my head hurts

Thanks for the replies. I've already uncommented the NameVirtualHost *:80 line and using the example Arthur has given sadly doesn't resolve my problem; in fact it makes it worse as none of the sites are accessible. I can't see what's wrong... Any other ideas?