Marc_Lemar

OK I have an update, I have just installed SP3 on my 2008 R2 DC and after rebooting the server went into BE to check all was ok, when I went into test\edit credentials everything passes fine except for 2 devices. On closer inspection its testing against the following; 1. C (OS) 2. D (RDX Drive) 3. E (Images Drive) 4. F (Data Drive) 5. System State They all pass ok but then it fails against drives H & K which have the same icon as my RDX drive but they do not show up in BE or in Device or Disk Management in Windows, I am wondering if these 2 rouge disk storage devices are what is upsetting my SDR. Is there anyway in BE 2012 to delete these to eliminate this issue.

Good Morning, Every month I spend a couple of days checking that the SDR Backup will restore ok onto my spare stand alone server, last month everything was fine and worked ok but yesterday I hit a snag the finance server recovered fine but the curric server didn't presenting me with an error message once it had rebooted after the recovery process had completed. I did not think much about it at the time and thought it may have been the SDR disk so burnt another one and left it recovering overnight, but today I have the same error message as follows; Windows could not parse or process the unattend answer file for pass [specialize]. The setting specified in the answer file cannot be applied. The error was detected while processing setting for component [Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup]. The only thing that has changed to my knowledge in the last month is the BE2012 was removed and reinstalled and the RDX Disks where re-cattalogued, I am still using the original SDR image and did not create a new one as I didn't think I would need to. Does anyone know what the error is and how to get a round it ?? I have since re-created the SDR boot disk but the error still remains. Many Thanks in Advance.

Has anybody used Cheap Laptops, Ultrabooks, Tablets & Laptop Deals at SaveOnLaptops site before ??? I am after a laptop for my own use and they seem ok and the pricing is also acceptable but I have no experience with them. I see I can pay via paypal which is a bonus I suppose and I can collect from my local ASDA within 72 hours. Having never used them before though I am a little cautious so would like peoples opinions if they know anything about them at all.

I have been trying to get OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard working with Virtualbox but it does not seem to work, I have set up the VM and have turned of EFI, it boots up fine using a file called hackboot 1 but does not seem to like my OSX image. Has anyone else tried doing this and managed to get it working, is there anything special I have to do with the image ??? if I put the disk the image came from in my macbook it works fine. The image is in ISO format and the process seems straight forward but it does not want to work, am I missing something ???

I did try handbrake but the output was multiple mp4 files instead of one complete file.

It has just come to my attention that we appear to have an issue cutting and pasting pictures into word 2013, one of our teachers tried to copy and paste a picture from the web into word but nothing appeared she tried with the mouse and the keyboard shortcuts but still nothing. We then tried to paste the same picture in MS Paint and it worked first go so I know it has to be something to do with Office, has anyone come across this and found a solution ??

Thanks guys I will have a look, just trying ansygoodmans suggestion at the moment and it look quite promising

At the moment our KS1 Assistant Head had decided he would like some old educational DVD's that he has found backing up to an AVI file so that it can be held on the network and ran from a mapped drive etc. I have checked and there is no copyright infringement as these are from the DFE but the problem is every time time I try to copy the DVD to avi it copies each individual Vob file to an avi and all I want is the whole disk as one complete avi file, I have tried selecting just the .ifo file as well and that did nothing either. Can anyone suggest a piece of software that might do it, I don't mind paying for it as its use would be invaluable.

It sounds similar to an app we use called 'fone home' you can even ask that to take a photograph when its switched on then it emails you to say the picture has been taken, sadly not all the iPads have been upgraded to iOS 7 yet so they don't all have it installed and this was one of them.

No sadly not they are just iPad 2 16GB wifi, i know with iOS 7 you can lock the device even if its been wiped but not sure if that works with iOS 6.

I believe we may have had an iPad pinched but cant be to sure, find my device was active and the iPad was using ios 6 but it's not appearing on the map either because it has not been switched on or it has been wiped clean. Is there anyway of tracking the device via its serial number or do I just have to bite the bullet and presume its gone forever ???

Since setting up Smoothwalls SSL VPN as per there youtube video I have a lot of warnings in event viewer for eventid 20171 which reads as follows Failed to apply IP Security on port VPN2-79 because of error: A certificate could not be found. Connections that use the L2TP protocol over IPSec require the installation of a machine certificate, also known as a computer certificate.. No calls will be accepted to this port. Not really sure what it means but it does only seem to have happened since the smoothwall VPN was setup, but in addition to that the time it is logged are right throughout the day as well as evenings when I would expect to see staff connecting. Could this be from a legacy VPN system that used to be in place, can I just stop the routing and remote access service or are there other things that would be dependant on that service ???

All sorted thanks guys, turned out to be the connector module a local shop charged us £50 to repair it, cant go wrong for that price.

I'm afraid to say it is an original cable :-(

That's what I was fearing :-(, as its out of warranty apple wanted £25 just to talk about it.