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We are currently using Sims, and still use Capita's Active Directory Provisioning to create users, generate a pasword, and add them into the correct user groups (for email distributiuon lists etc.). This also allows us to automatically de-provision leaveers. The school are currently lookign at a move to Arbor for it's MIS system, hwoever I'm aware that Arbor cannot provision accounts directly to on-prem AD. Is anyone aware of an alternative solution to take data from Arbor and use it to provision accounts automatically on on-prem AD? This is the one major thorn in the side of the IT department surrounding this move. THanks in advance folks.

Good mornign all, Following a failure of one of our DC's, I'm having to set up a new KMS from scratch:- * I've downloaded the Office 2019 Volume Activation Pack and installed that on the new server * I've downloaded the VAMT tool from Windows ADK * I've inserted our Windows 10 KMS key using slmgr.vbs /ipk on the DC * I've scanned the domain for machines using VAMT * NSlookup shows I have the correct DNS entries for volume licensing * slmgr /dli all gives me current count of 2 and total requests of 3079 (suposedly all withing grace period) * Trying to activate a client with using VAMT, or using slmgr /ato on the client gives me an error code of 0xC004F074 no KMS could be contacted * The windows firewall on the server is currently switched off for testing * Trying to telnet to {DC}:1688 gives a blank screen and no response * Trying to telnet to {client}:1688 from the DC gives connection refused I'm at a loss where to look next as I've tried everything I can think of, as well as trawling Google.

Godo mornign all, Since running an in-place upgrade frm Server 2016 to Server 2019 on our VMM server, SC-VMM service failed to restart. I've had to remove and re-install the VMM Console and servce on this machine, linking it to the same database that was used previously. I'm not getting host not responding on all of the VM's in this cluster with an access denied error 20406 on the job log. I've tried changing the accounts the service run under (even going so far as setting a domain admin account to test with, and still no luck. I've tried updating the Run-as account in the cluster properties, yet after saving the updated cluster settings, if I go back in it has reverted to the previous settings. I'm at a loss where to look next. This is our smaller cluster we use for tesitng and an extra DC, however we need to run the same process on our main cluster and I'm concerned if things go wrong on that one, then it's going to be a much bigger issue Can anyone help? Cheers

We're having a number of issues with netowrk performance, which testing suggests is resolved by the updated driver. I have scripted it as a startup script now using pnputil and a check for a flagfile to see if it has been done THank you all for your input and help

Godo morning all, I have the need to update the NIC driver on all of our staff machines (the current driver is 6 years out of date). I've tried puttign the driver into a package and deploying using a task sequence in SCCM, but this doesn't work. Can anyone suggest an easy way of pushing this update out

It's something I've been asked to look at as a familiarisation exercise

Good afternoon all, I'm trying to install Microsoft App-V server with a remote databsae. I've run the setup on our SQL server and installed the databases, then run the setup again on our App server. I've set the access group to {domain}\{security group} that I've created and populated with my user account, the user account that has admin access on the SQL instance, as well as the App server record. I've also tried the follwoing link: https://msitproblog.com/2015/10/27/installing-an-app-v-5-1-server-infrastructure/ I'm still getting an error stating [h=1]Error[/h][h=2]You do not have access to this information. Please check your credentials.[/h] I'm at a bit of a loss right now where else to look Can anyone help?

+1 for schoolcloud

Good morning all, I am looking for a course / training / CPD to increase my knowledge and skills with adminstering Apple devices as it's an areas I have only briefly touched upon up to now. Any suggestions?

Excuse what is potentialy a noob question - but which certificate do I need to find on the DC, and how do I make the webserver trust it (or vice versa). I can only think that it is a certificate issue but not sure how to debug further

Anyone? This could be a deal-breaker for a system we're investigating if we can't provision/update accounts into AD on premises

I'm trying to connect to ADDS to manipulate user accounts using PHP, and whilst I can connect succesfully without SSL (e.g. on port 389), as soon as I try to connect using port 636 for SSL, I'm coming unstuck: The following code works perfectly fine (Obviously I've removed the section that sets the login account variables for security):- // User directory. Such as all users are placed in // the Users directory by default. $user_dir = "OU=Test-PHPCreate,{redacted}"; // Either an IP or a domain.$ldap_server = "dc02.ad.domain.org.uk"; // Get a connection$ldap_conn = ldap_connect($ldap_server) or die("Not Parseable"); // Set LDAP_OPT_PROTOCOL_VERSION to 3 ldap_set_option($ldap_conn, LDAP_OPT_PROTOCOL_VERSION, 3) or die ("Could not set LDAP Protocol version"); // Authenticate the user and link the resource_id with // the authentication. if($ldapbind = ldap_bind($ldap_conn,$username,$password) == true){ However if I switch to this it either comes back with a 504 error, or with the error that I'll post below:- // User directory. Such as all users are placed in // the Users directory by default. $user_dir = "OU=Test-PHPCreate,{redacted}"; // Either an IP or a domain. $ldap_server = "ldaps://dc02.ad.domain.org.uk/"; // Get a connection $ldap_conn = ldap_connect($ldap_server, 636) or die("Not Parseable"); // Set LDAP_OPT_PROTOCOL_VERSION to 3 ldap_set_option($ldap_conn, LDAP_OPT_PROTOCOL_VERSION, 3) or die ("Could not set LDAP Protocol version"); // Authenticate the user and link the resource_id with // the authentication. if($ldapbind = ldap_bind($ldap_conn,$username,$password) == true){ Line 33 is the ldap_bind command Hopeing one of you gurus can point me in the right direection (btw I have run ldp.exe from the web server, and another DC and connected correctly on port 636)

Plus one for Xibo.. I've used it a several schools, and have just finished deploying it in my current school

Good morning, We have a student virtual print queue in Papercut whivh I'm told is supposed to release and grayscale jobs automatically to a specific printer, yet hold colour jobs for release by a teacher. I'm struggling to see how this is/can be configured (I'm fairly sure it's not doing that at the moment). Has anyone got any tips for how to achieve this?

I've now had two users reporting that when printing either timetables, or class photo sheets, it consistently prints the first 2 jobs correctly, but reports and invalid handle on the 3rd one. This doesn't matter which class/studnet/size of job, but always after trying the 3rd print job Has anyone else come across this, or have any idea what could be causing this Cheers

Thanks all, I've removed time sync and it's gradually corrected itself

I've turned off time synchronisation on al DC's and run the sync commands again - still to no avail

Yes it's a hyper-v VM

I've noticed that the time on our network is out be 2 minutes (well 100 seconds to be accurate). I've tried setting the time on the DC using:- * w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:time.windows.com /syncfromflags:manual /reliable:yes /update * w32tm.exe /resync /rediscover /nowait Despite the event log stating "The time provider NtpClient is currently receiving valid time data from time.windows.com (ntp.m|0x0|0.0.0.0:123->20.101.57.9:123).", the time is still 2 minutes ahead I've also run "w32tm /stripchart /computer:time.windows.com /dataonly" which confirms I am 100s out. I can't change the time manuallyu (the abvility to change time is greyed out), so am looking for support from you lot on how to resolve this Frustrated!!! Cheer

We're running a report to print ID cards for our 6th form students directly from Sims. I've found that when anyone runs the report, they are needing to turn on displaying and printing hidden text in Word before they can see the output. Can anyone explain why this is happenign? Why is it flagged as hidden text?

Thanks @Wave_Lee - If I remove the DB file, will that still retain the config? In other words, will it only affect the current logged on users list?

We have come across a situation wher we have a large number of stale entries in the Live Users list on the Sophos Transparent Auth App on all of our DC's. Does anyone know if there is a way to remove them in bulk rather than 1 by 1? (e.g. maybe using the database etc.)

Good mornign all, I have recently had an issue where my tape drive began being listed as a stand-alone drive, rather than part of the tape library. I've tried various things, including removing the tape drive and library from device manager (including drivers). I've re-added the devices and drivers however the library is no longer showing in the DPM console. I've tried running DpmDriveMappingTool - but that also reports no libraries available. Can anyone suggest how I can resolve this?

We are trying to deply the software for our large format printer (Canon Posterart Lite) via SCCM, but I'm struggling to find a silent install option. Has anyone used this software and managed to do a silent deployment?

It's looking at the moment like we're another school where pretty much our entire estate will not meet the specs. We have a large number of machines from before TPM was a thing, and those that may have TPM are no later than 6th gen chips. I'll be doing some more research to find exactly how we can move forward Nightmare!!!