Morning all, I too have been given to lovely job of setting the POP up. Ive installed the Service to our exam server, the AD dash to the exam officers PC and the ID to the teacher PC in a class room, (thankfully starting with just 1 room 30 test players) and the test player to 30 PCs, this has gone ok.
We did a demo test booked from Edexcel as part of the install as you cannot book the kids onto the exam till a demo has been ran. This worked ok.
Kids were booked and came to sit the exam Wednesday, and they were unable to access the tests. Downloaded the package on the Amin Dash all ok, assigned to the room and invigilator all ok, kids went to use the software and were getting the error "could not retrieve package download address, make sure invigilator dashboard running and logged in" (which it was).
Called our support person and went through 1st, 2nd, and 3rd line support with no one knowing whats wrong. Stopped and Started the service, deleted and recreated the database and still to no avail. Had been told by support that there is a 24 hour turn around on Wed for support calls, so called Thurs and got told they were still working on the error.
Inset today, and H/T next week so will be picking this up again on the 24th (SAN+NAS install for us next week) but it seems that even if you get everything installed ok, and run a demo test it does not mean to say that its going to work on the day sadly.
Hope everyone else has a little more luck then we are having at the moment.
Sput