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(...not yet, as I was hoping I might be able to fix it, and wasn't sure if that might cause more of a mess unless I started backing up databases and stuff...)

I recently installed Sharepoint Foundation 2010 on our WSUS server, which broke WSUS because they were both using Port 80. I uninstalled Sharepoint again and rebooted, but WSUS is still broken. (In the course of trying to get Sharepoint to work I also installed SQL Express 2012, which I haven't removed. Goodness knows what else the Sharepoint install might have done.) While trying to fix WSUS, I followed advice to delete the WSUS mmc configuration file in %userprofile%\Application Data\Microsoft\MMC. If I run "Windows Server Update Services" and try to connect, I now get "The remote server could not be contacted. Please verify that IIS on the server is correctly configured." The error I'm getting in the event log is Event 7032: Any ideas? I can't even see how it was previously configured. If I found out and and reinstalled, will things just carry on from where they left off or is it more complicated than that?

I've changed enough projector bulbs for one lifetime, so I'd prefer to make sure any more of the things I purchased were the "lampless" variety, though I'm not completely sure about the best way to manage things from an environmental aspect. One other thing I noticed is that standing in front of our (non-Casio) LED projector is pretty dazzling, and short-throw or ultra-short-throw might be kinder to staff. (Last time I enquired, there weren't any ultra-short-throw lampless models available, but I'd have thought there must be by now.) Like pcstru says, projectors tend to become obsolete after a few years anyway...I've currently got an EMP82E sitting on my desk which is going to have to go off to the scrapyard because the cheapest bulb I can source is £370+VAT.

That's a big "if", but I'll ask...thanks all...!

...but we want to be able to maintain these lists ourselves (without emailing a request through every time there's a change)...

(...thing is we can't get at the council's Exchange Server to manage it, so I was wondering if we'd have to set up our own or if there was an easier way...)

The email service they're using is provided by the local council, with accounts hosted on their Exchange server(s).

...neither of those...!

What's the easiest way for me to set things up for a handful of Outlook 2010 users so they can access a set of centrally managed distribution lists...? Will I need Exchange Server, or can I just leverage Shared Contacts or something...? Thanks for any thoughts...

That's so sweet. I'm glad I didn't have any speakers plugged in, I think I might have been overwhelmed.

We have an ancient HTML-based multimedia package about Castles by "Avant Garde Multimedia"...can't find it in Google and I doubt if they're still trading. This thing was installed long ago in a shared Windows 2003 server folder. It includes videos, but these don't show; just a little "graphic not available" indicator. (If you look at its properties, Protocol/Type/Address etc all say "Not Available".) The program works OK if it's copied to the local drive, and I'm told it used to work on this networked drive, though I can't be 100% sure. The server has since been demoted to "member server" status in a Windows 2008 server domain, and the browsers upgraded. The line in the webpage which is supposed to show the video is: (The "@" symbols are "."s...I've had to replace them because the forum code messes them up otherwise.) I've tried IE and Chrome, and running the thing from a subfolder in the Intranet, but it makes no difference. Since it runs OK from the local drive I'm wondering if it's some kind of browser security setting. Any ideas...?

OK - cheers!

...yeah, it's a Dell - I've just discovered I can find it by Googling 59 pin DVI.

Why are there so many different types of DVI socket? And what's the one on the left? http://snpi.dell.com/snp/images/products/mlrg/en-uk~a2587435/A2587435.jpg

(Cheers, I see there's a ton of threads on this so I'll sift through those...)

We used to use NetOp School 6.0. However, I just tried to update this to a later version which would work under Windows 7, and although they still provide downloads for older incremental releases they won't provide a working serial, which basically seems to mean a new licence for their new product NetOp Vision. Is it worth it, or is there something else...?

PCs with Windows XPSP3 / IE8 tend to randomly lose their homepage/proxy settings occasionally , so I've just been trying to create a shortcut or logon script for staff that zaps the registry and gets them going. I've had a go with several that are floating around the Internet but so far I haven't got any of them to work...anyone nailed this...?

Try the patch at the end of this thread... http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-7/97140-windows-7-location-not-available-logon.html

I'll shortly be moving out of this noisy server room into a distant office (hooray). Any recommendations for a specific network-based device to replace my USB KVM switch for controlling half a dozen servers...?

Currently underway - lots of servers and sound technology weirdness... http://www2.ppauctions.com/auction.php?id=71

(So apart from the new students, other student accounts definitely work and are seeing network folders, Internet etc...? Can the new students log in on a given laptop wirelessly after they've logged in with a wired connection...?)

That's solved it for me. I hadn't realised I wasn't able to map to these folders from the Admin account either. I used the "Fix it for me" link on this Microsoft article... How to re-initialize the offline files cache and database ...and it did the trick. Many thanks!

OK, I'm looking at a Windows 7 client. If you log on under a certain student user "A" (students share a common mandatory profile), and open up My Computer, various drives show up. All of these work except the (redirected) home folder, which gives the error: "Location is not available - H:\ refers to a location that is unavailable..." etc. This user "A" can log onto other machines with no problems. Another identical user "B" can use this machine with no problems. I've tried deleting the local profile both via the profile management thing and Delprof2 (checked the users folder and the registry to make sure it had gone), making them a local admin, recreating their home folder, all to no avail. I know that if I wipe this machine and rebuild it, it will work. I suspect that it's something to do with the fact that it's a redirected folder since other mapped drives work OK. Offline files are disabled. Any other ideas...?

Great, thanks for the pointers...

Cheers...shared mandatory profile for students, roaming profiles for staff...