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I never actually deployed an update to it (because we abandoned FMS when we became an academy) but I had the configuration as normal, except I had 2 FMS database targets set up. The only never really thought about was the connect.ini and logging into the different databases on the client (and only thinking about that now because I can't remember how it works). Don't know if that helps?

Might be worth keeping an eye on/adding to this thread: Re: Dirsync - Password synchronization failed - Directory integration services - Office 365 - Microsoft Office 365 Community - looks like there is one problematic user. I can't download the DirSync from the admin portal to see what version it is (I just get Error 500).

Pretty much as I read it, but atleast then you don't have to go and remove/reinstall all of the agents. Actually that has raised another fairly big point which I've maybe skipped over - what happens with the Solus3 share, presumably that needs to be moved and recreated...

I don't read it that way: I don't particularly understand all the migration of SIMS and other database targets in the Installation Guide, but then I'm not really back into Solus3 fuzzy logic at the moment... The Solus3 database and Agent migration seems easy enough though (famous last words!)

Hah, you made the common mistake, your Robot doesn't have a plug on it so it isn't IT's job!

Too late I realise, however someone has just asked me about this one, which with £100 cashback looks a very tempting purchase! ACER V5-571P 15.6" Touchscreen Laptop - Silver Deals | Pcworld

Woohoo! Have you extracted the gobstoppers from someone's dreams (or are we back to marbles? I wasn't paying attention sorry.....) Could I have number 10 please?

I'm just wondering what those of you have configured as options for mail sent to Student accounts concerning Spam. More in particular, do you quarentine it, just send it to the Junk Mail folder or delete it straight off? I'm just trying to sort our settings out at the moment, currently it quarentines messages however as the content policy is set to increase the spam score if it's a bulk mail message our quarentine folder is filling up with facebook status updates (something I'll need to ask someone else to address if they want to address it). Any advice on quaratine steps or content policies would be appreciated

Lovely. And as it's a hotfix, it's not available through the Windows Update Catalog.....

Multicasting doesn't work on 2003 as far as I'm aware, the infrastructure isn't there within that version of WDS (no menu options for managing/configuring the multicasting or anything like that)

£160ish is what we pay on our EES for a Datacenter Licence

Yup, I tried elevated and normal, both just gave Access Denied. It was something to do with Powershell, Windows permissions and using local drives/paths that I didn't really understand but trying to change it to the user who's home directory it was always gave Access Denied.

I tried numerous versions of that, but every time just kept getting Access Denied in my script and could never work it out. Hence I went to icacls.

I've extracted the variables and bit of script I use for student home directories if that helps, it was fairly easy to use Powershell for the permissions bit (a lot of it was making sure inheritance was right and then just adding the user to it with Full Control) it was changing the owner I could never get to work: $userfolderdirectory = "E:\Users\Students\Intake" + $_.IntakeYear +"\" + $_.SamAccountName $domuser = "domain\" + $_.SamAccountName $sharename = $_.SamAccountName + "$" ##Create HomeDirectory and subfolders # Create Home Directory and the associated redirected folders New-Item -Path $userfolderdirectory -ItemType directory New-Item -Path $userfolderdirectory"\Documents" -ItemType directory New-Item -Path $userfolderdirectory"\Music" -ItemType directory New-Item -Path $userfolderdirectory"\Pictures" -ItemType directory New-Item -Path $userfolderdirectory"\Settings" -ItemType directory New-Item -Path $userfolderdirectory"\Downloads" -ItemType directory New-Item -Path $userfolderdirectory"\Settings\Favorites" -ItemType directory New-Item -Path $userfolderdirectory"\Settings\Links" -ItemType directory New-Item -Path $userfolderdirectory"\Videos" -ItemType directory # Create Subject Folders in Documents Directory New-Item -Path $userfolderdirectory"\Documents\Art" -ItemType directory New-Item -Path $userfolderdirectory"\Documents\Citizenship" -ItemType directory New-Item -Path $userfolderdirectory"\Documents\Drama" -ItemType directory New-Item -Path $userfolderdirectory"\Documents\DT" -ItemType directory New-Item -Path $userfolderdirectory"\Documents\English" -ItemType directory New-Item -Path $userfolderdirectory"\Documents\History" -ItemType directory New-Item -Path $userfolderdirectory"\Documents\ICT" -ItemType directory New-Item -Path $userfolderdirectory"\Documents\IVB" -ItemType directory New-Item -Path $userfolderdirectory"\Documents\Maths" -ItemType directory New-Item -Path $userfolderdirectory"\Documents\PE" -ItemType directory New-Item -Path $userfolderdirectory"\Documents\Science" -ItemType directory New-Item -Path $userfolderdirectory"\Documents\Spanish" -ItemType directory ## Set permissions and Change Ownership # Use Powershell to add the user with Full Control to the Folder $Acl = Get-Acl $userfolderdirectory $Ar = New-Object system.security.accesscontrol.filesystemaccessrule($domuser,"FullControl","ContainerInherit, ObjectInherit","None","Allow") $Acl.SetAccessRule($Ar) Set-Acl $userfolderdirectory $Acl # Use icacls to set the user as the Owner of the folder and Sub Directory icacls.exe $userfolderdirectory /setowner $domuser /t /c /q ## Share the Home Directory # Use Powershell to create the shared folder New-SmbShare -Name $sharename -Path $userfolderdirectory -FullAccess Everyone It won't be the recommended way of doing it and it doesn't use functions or anything fancy like that, but it's worked for me so far.... which is all I'm bothered about

This is where my ignorance of powershell shows as I learned just what I needed to create my user script. I would guess it will either be: program.exe -t $domuser:P or if you need to escape the : (don't know whether you do or not) program.exe -t $domuser' or if neither of those worked the last thing I'd try (and might help meet your needs better if it does work) would be to try and create a string for the program and just passing it that: $username = Read-Host "Enter Username" $domuser = "domain\" + $username new-item -itemtype directory -path "C:\$Username $programparams = "-t " +$domuser + ":P" program.exe $programparams The only external program I've called is icalcs, if it doesn't work then perhaps @Arthur might be able to provide better advice? It's at this point, like you, I'd come asking for help

In my user creation script I knocked up before the end of term I used the following to set the owner with icalcs within powershell. icacls.exe $userfolderdirectory /setowner $domuser /t /c /q I assume your getting an error when you run your script, so how about chucking it into a domuser variable like I did (I can't remember why I did it, maybe just because I've used it several times in different places for my script) So your code would become: $username = Read-Host "Enter Username" $domuser = "domain\" + $username new-item -itemtype directory -path "C:\$Username program.exe -t $domuser The other thing I might suggest would be what happens if you just use Username and at the prompt type domain\username?

Using Autodesk's model would be great, but like you say very unlikely to happen. I've had some refreshed pricing through for the EEA for a more reasonable FTE which is much more inline with the EES model so might be worth enquiring again if anyone else is looking/looked previously.

That might explain your problem. Are you using Solus 3 to deploy the updates or have you got Solus 3 installed on your clients and your doing the updates through Solus 2? If you have the Solus3 agent installed on a pc and are using Solus2 to deploy the updates on your server, then the Solus3 aspect of it disables SimsLoad.exe from checking the server for updates (hence having to manually update it) - this is the only way I can see of your solution of manually updating using SimsApplicationSetup working as that file no longer gets updated when you start using Solus3. If not, how was Solus3 pushed on you and how does it currently sit in your network?

We were inspected in May and Ofsted never came anywhere near the IT side of things so they wouldn't know. As an academy on the other hand (and as a maintained school by the LA audit's actually) our backup procedures came under scrutiny and the Academies Financial Handbook mentions that all backups should be securely stored (and I'm pretty sure it mentions encrypted too).

I attended a webinar over a month ago now and Adobe was in discussion with the DfE about producing a much more affordable FTE solution for schools. It was on my list to follow up with before the end of term, but things dragged out and I never got round to it, but hopefully much better pricing ala EES should be coming to schools (fingers crossed!) Eduserv remained the best option for Higher Ed, but there was no option for Secondary Schools/Academies to join Eduserv (I was specifically told this)

It took me 3 goes to read and tally up the screenshot because it does look right at first glance, but it is wrong and should be failed - out of curiosity what does it list under the Deployment Detail, is it referencing another installation or I wonder if the Discover Client deployment has 2 parts to it and one part is succeeding and another failed? Guess the only way to really tell that would be to look through the deployment log and see exactly what the client tried to do. Either that, or Solus 3 is just behaving it's normal self

Ah ok. All our migrations went fine as far as I'm aware (nobody has been to tell me they've lost their email) apart from the Read Receipts (but we aren't using easymail). I did notice I lost a large chunk of my messages, but they did originally migrate across. I realised that I had deleted them from the old mailbox to make some changes and that the daily synchronisation of the migration had deleted them from the Office 365 mailbox - the joys of IMAP I guess. That is something else to keep in mind I suppose.

Which incompatability? The imap migration one or another one? Just wondering if it's something I've missed which might explain something else....

Just a qucik update on this if anyone else is looking for an answer. I managed to get around it by disabling Automap for each of the users who needed access to the Admin mailbox and were configured with Full Access. Once that is done, you then add the mailbox as a seperate Exchange account by manually configuring it and then you end up with 2 distinct accounts and you can use the Contacts folder in either your personal or Admin account. What a faff!

vBulletin has gone drastically down hill over the last few years so, if you were going to purchase a vBulletin licence I would stick with either version 3 or version 4 (4 being what's used here).