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I am on the PS side of this as well, my though on this is if you have an MIS system in your organisation then why a spreadsheet? we use PS to connect to our MIS data. This means as a department we no longer get involved in account creation/ management. We have scripts that deal with this so when a staff member or student comes or goes it gets marked on the MIS database and the scripts sort it all out, even to the point of updating or staffs digital photo board.

If you have an i fondleslab then the remote app will let you use that as the remote! if you just want to be able to stream from your fondleslab then you can use what has been mentioned above AirServer or you can do the same via a Pi as well Using a Raspberry Pi as an AirPlay Receiver - Tuts+ Mac Computer Skills Article Seems a bit much installing aTVs all over the place at apples prices.

We use Pi's for this as well, have a staff photo gal that we build from our MIS database so HR add/ remove staff and the screen gets updated all done in powershell, Pi then connects to a web server and displays. Another screen connects to a PowerPoint and we use another to connect and show vids and tv and the like. (as a side note also use a Pi for a print release station) they are fairly flexible.

0x8004005 thats what I would start with, check out the iis logs on your server.

DA if your staff and students have laptops supplied, HAP is very good as is RDP tend to find that there is no best fit for just one solution in my experience.

Paper cut here, built a print release station out of a Pi, £20 MiFare card reader and a 10" usb touch screen works a dream.

DFS is indeed the answer to some of this, and then its all a matter of cash! If the disjointed classrooms already have internet access then getting into leased lines is a cost that you probably would not want the burden of or indeed if you are sharing/ do not own the building its not so easy to get all the t's crossed and i's dotted for this type of installation and then you still have to convince the telco. Simplest thing that springs to mind is VPN back to your main site DFS setup in such a way that it only replicates in the wee small hours of the morning and the like, cost is less and hassle is less.

One advantage of 365 is that it lets you use office app on the apple fondle slabs without you users having to pay the £79.99 a year sub fees. Mind you if you are want to you can setup an Office Web App Server and deliver it like that I suppose. I like to offer multiple ways for my users to access stuff but it adds to the admin burden I suppose.

This don't look like the Default Domain Pol more a copy I hope, and my heart did stop when I read the title Default Domain Policy! Never touch the Default Domain Policy if you need to Policy add new (Microsoft do have a tool to recreate the Default Domain Policy). Also WMI filtering on polices is prone to being a tad slow, I would disband that and organize your Directory so that you an apply settings to win 8 and win 7 workstations that way.

HAP+ for students/ staff who do not have a laptop and setup DA for those who do (DA easier with server 2012 than previous versions mind)

With Ex13 and indeed Ex10 its is rarely a case of just throwing more CPU/ Memory at your deployment, I still think that this is a sizing issue and you need to follow the best practises on this as best you can. How many mailboxes? and sever specs? are needed to even start trying to solve this issue as anyone giving any advice on here without that info is just guessing like I said further up. So Server / is it a VM? mailboxes numbers? are you running this along side an Ex10 deployment? have you had a look at perfmon? if so some IO info off the server would be a help. Network info like connection speed and some perfmon on that. Anyone on here will try to help out but the quality of that help is only as good as the info we have to work with! help us to help you.

This is a tough one to sort, I guess and with limited info (that's all this is) that its sizing issue. Have you followed the role calculator here Released: Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator - Exchange Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs for your deployment? if not my be a good starter for 10.

Import-Module ActiveDirectory New-PSDrive -PSProvider ActiveDirectory -Server "Name of your DC HERE" -Root "Name of your AD Root HERE" -Name Name of the drive -FormatType Canonical cd Name of the drive: cd "where your computers live:" Get-ADComputer -Filter * | FT DNSHostName #this is just a simple way of getting all the computer names, you can make this filter find whatever you like. you don't need this line as we pipe the results into a var below. $computer = Get-ADComputer -Filter * | FT DNSHostName #put the list of AD computers in a variable Stop-Computer -ComputerName $computer -Force #put the throttlelimit in here if you are shutting down a lot of computers, you can also use the asjob and then get the results back use get-help stop-computer -examples

is your EX13 server running all roles? how many mailboxes are you talking about?

powershell stop-computer "%computername%" -Force will do it for you, you could write a task to run the script. You could also poll the computers on your network to see if they are on and pass the names to it and I suppose you could even check if it has any active sessions on it as well.

Each to their own, I have just ran this by the network guys at the uni and they have just said yeah that's what to do, how about you start at 16:00 hrs and then at 16:01 clear your desk and collect your cards from the front desk! I suppose this can only happen in the primary and secondary education sectors!

Don't know what your other switches are, so just few starters for 10. You should be able to find the MAC address out from DHCP so you could do show mac address-table address, this would tell you what port on what switch this is connected to (if its a trunk then do the same on the next switch up). show cdp neighbors can also give you a starting point as would show lldp neighbors (cisco) show lldp info remote-device (HP/ Others) I think. The other commands tend to work on most switches the outputs are shown in different ways but it should start getting you to the physical switch port that the switch is connected to, then the rest is down to finding out where its terminated. Oh and just a word to the wise unplugging sections of your networks to find errant devices is like carpet bombing to swat a fly, although you will take down the fly the collateral damage to the rest of your network and its users is a little much! we have far better tools than carpet bombing to find devices on our networks.

It would be a migration if you have exchange installed, take a look at the ADMT here ADMT Guide: Migrating and Restructuring Active Directory Domains

As Neil says above, I will also add I used to do wi-fi surveys when I ran my own company, thing is the hardware in most laptops is very rarely the best solution to do wireless surveys with. Also getting the software to suite the OS in this case is a little like the tail wagging the dog! wi-spy kit is one that I used and fluke AirMagnet as well.

just had a quick look in to this and dug this up just in case you have not come across this - Outlook 2013 Free/Busy Fails After Updates

Just a thought on this, Exchange 2007 with Outlook 13 is not a supported deployment!

Right that was not a dig at anyone, more a general gripe. No way of attaching tasks to events in server 2k3 from event viewer, the PS Script should do the same in 2k3 all the way up to 2k12, may need to look a little different if using PS v 1.0 but use the above as a starter for 10.

Have you run the EMT on this? First place to go when you have issues with WINRM while running the exchange management console. See here Blogs - Exchange Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

I never understand why people insist on using third party software to do what is core OS functionality, in W2K8 you can achieve the above by using event viewer and attaching a task to an event, PowerShell is just another way of doing this and is not a bad way to start learning how to use the OS to report on events that happen without installing odd bits of software. Try it you may find that you open up a whole new world and at the end of the day the time you spend installing and learning new bits of software could be used gaining new skills and a better understanding of the OSs you administrate.

now I have had my first coffee of the day and give this a little more thought why are you not using the APC stuff? *Edit* Just like what Marshall has posted above!