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Over the last few months we've started having a weird issue. We noticed one of our Fileservers was becoming almost catatonic due to high disk usage. After some investigation with Resource Monitor, we determined this to be related to our roaming staff accounts having Chrome setup to roam with their Appdata directories. Sure enough, if we disable the roaming policy for Chrome, the issue goes away. I'm wondering - has anyone else has encountered this? We're not really sure what to do as Chrome is pretty much the standard for our users at the moment. Not being able to have their user data roam means they lose bookmarks each time they log off.

Isn't an option I'm afraid. Otherwise I would have done so.

We're trying out Azure. We can't RDP to the server though because of the county proxy. I'm having to use a 3G router to get across to it. This isn't something I can keep using, so I've tried to get Teamviewer working on the VM but no matter what I do whenever I log in using Teamviewer through our normal internet connection, I get the error: "The screen cannot be captured at the moment. This is probable due to fast user switching or a disconnected/minimized Remote Desktop Session." This is with unattended access setup and I've given the server rights to interact with the desktop. I've also tried something called Ammyy Admin and that yields a similar result. In short, is there anything I can do to get this working properly?

This is an FYI for whomever may encounter this incredibly infuriating issue. I've just spent the last two days troubleshooting this installation error. Adobe, technet and other various forums had absolutely nothing of value to say. I tried the following: - Removing Startup items in MSConfig - Visual C++ - .Net uninstalled + Re-installed - Uninstalled/Disabled Antivirus software - Run the setup as admin and/or domain admin user - Checked compatibility and ran in XP mode - Run the installed locally - Disabled the proxy - Uninstalled/Reinstalled Java (Don't ask) - Ran SFC /Scannow - Re-imaged the machine - Disabled Windows Search Service None of these worked. I began Googling for HRESULT 0x80070308 (found in one of the install logs) and discovered this magical command: REG LOAD HKLM\COMPONENTS C:\Windows\System32\config\COMPONENTS REG DELETE HKLM\COMPONENTS /V PendingRequired Running this from an elevated command prompt and restarting solved the issue and allowed me to install Adobe Reader. This fix is totally unrelated to Adobe Reader and has something to do with Windows update. I hope that this helps somebody!

Is there any way to do this? Bit of a Lansweeper newbie. We want to have the content of a registry key created by group policy to link back to a custom asset field. That way we can just view the machine summary and view the required information. Failing that, is there not a way to display the scanned registry keys on the summary page? Thanks

I'm trying to write a powershell script that will give me the free space of a network drive with a quota. So far I've got: $FreeSpace = Get-WmiObject Win32_logicaldisk -Filter "DeviceID='N:'" | Select FreeSpace But this returns the literal free space of the drive (in this case, 2TB) instead of showing me the quota (500mb) - Normally this wouldn't be an issue but our student quotas change frequently so we would need something to perform a lookup before doing percentage calculations. This script is intended to run as the logged on user. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated!

Hi guys, thought I'd update you on this. I managed to do the majority of work by going through switch Arp tables and tracing IP's through DHCP and in turn getting device MAC addresses from those IP addresses. I then went to the devices and marked the ports they were plugged in to. We ended up borrowing one of these too for a while and it worked brilliantly, but I only really used it for the points I could not find endpoints for. I appreciate the suggestions raised in this thread. Thanks fellas!

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I'm in the middle of a network infrastructure audit of our site and it's a complete mess. The majority of the patch panels are not even labelled and the ones that are do not correlate with the labelled connections they have in other rooms. I need some ideas/methods on how I can begin to start mapping these correctly. Is there any way to getting a network card to pulse packets to make the switch it's plugged into flash distinctively? I'm open to any ideas!

Forgive the necro - but I have an answer! We require both Examquest Chemistry and Biology modules to be running and registered on the same workstation. I won't go into how I deployed this as we use PDQ and it involves Xcopies and various commands. The trick is to edit the exampro32.ini file that lives in C:\Windows on the client machine. If you open the .ini on a machine with Examquest installed and registered, you'll find it looks something like this: You want to grab the other license and paste it underneath so your .ini looks like this. This is where it can get a bit technical. You'll notice that the second paragraph mentions looking in the same directory as the previous. What I had to do was install one copy of Examquest (in this case Chemistry) and on a remote machine install the biology package. Then I xcopied the two .ext and .exl files from the Examquest\Data folder and pasted them into my local install. After that I had to create shortcuts. You should format your shortcut targets like this: Chemistry - "C:\Program Files\ExamQuest\ExamQuest.exe" RA_CHEM Biology - "C:\Program Files\ExamQuest\ExamQuest.exe" RA_BIO I hope this helps!

Legendary, thank you guys!

Anyone know where I can find an .msi for Smartboard 11? We've got an .EXE installer but it's no use to us as we're trying to deploy it over CC4. I've tried putting it through RM's package installation process which failed miserably. I've also tried extracting the .msi from the installer file but when I open the .EXE there is no .msi present. This is becoming increasingly frustrating as we need to push Smartboard 11 very soon. You'd think Smart would just publish an .msi to make life easier for everybody!

Hello, We're having some issues getting machines to WOL. We recently Vlan'd our entire network and I suspect this is what is causing the problem. We don't want to think about reconfiguring switches etc yet so I'm looking to write a powershell script that would invoke a wake up. I've googled around but half of the scripts I've found don't work (I get script errors etc) I just think it would be easier to write my own, but I'm not sure what cmdlets I'd have to push to get the desired results.

Hi. Last week I initiated a move of our SIMS data to a new server (from server Windows version 2003 to server 2008). I followed the usual SIMS method using DBattach etc and all seemed to go well right up until I attempted to log in. So I call Capita and somebody dials into our servers. After a few minutes we manage to get the sysman password changed and we go in and we can see all the data - it's all there apart from user passwords. We change my password and I can log in and I confirm that yes the data is all there where it should be only problem is nobody else would be able to get in (Thankfully the database isn't live yet.) They then say they need to escalate the call. This was last week and I've heard nothing since. I've been pestering them quite a bit but have heard nothing. Has anyone else had the same issue? I really need to get this resolved soon as possible.