BKGarry

Just got home lol

Just boarded my first train of the day, so I could get the slightly cheaper ticket into London, as I like to have more time at changeover, just in case. See you all later

I'll be there

Tickets booked, same times as @elsiegee40

glad you solved it

That is what I am thinking, she hasn't collapsed the left side shortcut bar in SIMS .net and means that by chance :-)

Well in your SIMS Drive should be a SIMS folder and in there is personw.exe but I do believe you have to set a LAN ID somewhere in computer properties to even use it. I honestly thought it wasn't to be used at all anymore.

Errrrr, I know this sounds like the dumbest thing every, but I though the Personnel module was scrapped about 12 years ago and everything moved into the Staff part in SIMS .net I mean I can't even launch the programs as they are not supported on a 64bit OS

That does look yummy, the sharing patters, the blighty is very European ;-)

Ooooooo Somewhere new, now that is interesting prospect.

I would use @Garacesh 's script, that is a lot cleaner

The CACLS command line tool can do this. When I am in work tomorrow I will knock together an excel sheet where you can put in the path and the folder name, and assuming it is the same as the username, you will be able to copy the last column into notepad and run on the file server.

Riddle

I would double check the permissions to the folder path on the server, she will probably need write access to the attend folder and below

I think you may be correct, may be worth asking the online supplier just to be right. Lesson Monitor is for individual lessons, AM/PM is covered by the standard core SIMS license under Attendance

Does the web based system write back to lesson registers in SIMS?

Just a shot, have you got device manager to show hidden drivers and removed any old drivers kicking around? Sometimes an old driver in there could be an issue.

I know it sounds like a long shot, you said that the WAPs are a bit close in the rooms (we do not have that issue thankfully) What would the negative effects be on your wireless network is you disabled the 2.4ghz radio transmissions on those WAPs to see if it is them interfering, in theory cutting out any interference. I am not saying it is a permanent solution, but could help you narrow it down, before you go and end up physically moving APs

forgot to add, check the Graphics drivers for updates, find sometimes it is actually the intel graphics driver that get's buggy rather than the wireless card (although they both work together)

On the topic of not connecting, we sometimes get that, but discovered a full restart is not needed, you just need to restart the wireless card on the laptop (airplane mode on and off doesn't work, you have to disable and enable the Wireless card in network connections) Our work around solution for this, is a shortcut to a powershell script in the start menu of staff with the following in it. Performs it in under 5 seconds, so no need to restart the laptop $adaptor = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_NetworkAdapter | Where-Object {$_.Name -like "*Wireless*"} $adaptor.Disable() $adaptor.Enable()

What is wrong with your adapters, ours are fine. There has been an issue on LTSB 2017 (i think it is 2017) where a Cumulative update has caused the laptop to label all as a default name and you have to remove them from the known devices in settings, but any laptop on the main windows 10 channel is fine

@mrstrong I would highly recommend that you download the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit. (MDT) You will need some aspects of the ADK installed but it will make your life a hell of a lot easier, you used WDS to boot and then MDT does all the installations and the Unattended files for you. It is free and can run on your WDS server, as it uses a network share and a MMC for it's part and makes boot ISOs for booting from WDS

One thing to look at is Microsoft Tiered Storage with Storage Spaces. We have our hosts set up with 2 x 128gb SSDs (mirrored on RAID Card) for the OS, 2 x 512gb SSDs (Mirrored on RAID Again) then 4 x 2TB SATA HDDs (in RAID 5) In windows we installed the OS on the 128gb SSD, we used a powershell command to declare the 512 as an SSD, then we put them with the other HDD drive into a tiered storage pool. It then uses that like a very very big SSHDD with your most used data (at block level) on the SSD part and lesser used "cold" data on the HDD. We have been running this for 4 years with no issue. Combined with Data Deduplication for the VHDs in the the hyperV side, it works very very nicely

This is one of the suppliers I am looking at, just awaiting a quote to come through. Just want to see what they are like compare to our LEA offering

Just waiting for a price back for a Sophos XG. I am looking at the possibility of splitting it this way