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Ive just found my original computer guide i created when i first installed this network. Just adapting this to try it out. Problem with having more than 1 or 2 pages is that people wont read it. We proved this when i was a apprentice by doing a little experiment.

How do you give out your users and password to people? At the minute i just get them to write the temporary password down and tell them that the school email link is on their desktop, i then let them use it and let me know if theyve got any issues. Im thinking it would be nice if we had a sheet of A4 with their logins but also a quick guide on the basics. Anyone else do this?

Game looks worth it though. I tried playing it last night and the computer said no. Seems games are now 64bit only. Going to have to reinstall tonight. Machine is on the lower limits of requirments though so not sure how its going to cope. Anyone here play on Ritz's server? Or on a decent server anyway?

Got around to fixing this yesterday. If you just select certain folder in a drive then it doesnt do a fast backup. I cleaned out the drive so it would all fit, selected to backup the entire drive and its back to normal now.

One of the downsides of remote desktop. Removed the need for me to gin there on hot days. Wow pyroman. Thats a tad warm, our room only got that hot when on of the students got on the roof and blocked the aircon vent which meant the hose came of the aircon unit so it just took air in, split it into hot and cold and dumped both back into the room again. Up to 23c in the room and 48 on the CPU.

I know, they get better treatment than us Cooled room, peace and quiet, dusted and cleaned. Our bin hasnt been replaced for a week now and the floor hasnt seen a hoover for even longer. Weve got a1 sheets of paper ive stuck up for blinds. Im mooving.

Normally 18-19c in the server room and 47c CPU's Up to 22c in the room now but 47c CPUs. How are you coping. Dread to think of the temperature in my old schools server room. 3 servers in a cuboard and a tiny fan. Tried for years to get something else in there.

As long as your esafety policy is up together and the servers dont crash on the day then i havnt had a issue before. This year they are checking that your web filter supports https on google images though. Make sure safe search cant be disabled.

These are mainly school trip photos. Would have to check if there is a need to keep them now. They cant be used on the website as far as im aware so can only be shown to future students as intro to a trip. I know i wouldnt want my photo shown in my school 5 years after i left.

Just looking through our server and finding pictures of leavers from 2010 onwards. These arnt on the website but are still held in the staff area. For pupils personal folders i copy them of the main file server onto a archive drive. Is there any rules for images of past pupils? Could save myself alot of server space if there is. Thanks

Yeah spotted that. Found the option to not add in the extra stuff like firefox etc but thne you dont get the things like the networking manager for ip addresses etc. Just wondering if we should stick with the desktop version. Just checked the status of the UFW firewall and its disabled so cant see any differences. Comparing moodle on ubuntu desktop and server 2012 iis shows how much more performance you get in ubuntu even with a gui.

Hi All, Looking to setup a moodle web server but my terminal code skill arnt up to much theseday. I've done everything on ubuntu desktop which works but i would like to be able to disable the GUI mode when not needed to reduce resources. If i were to run apt-get install ubuntu-desktop Would this just make the server OS identical to the desktop? Looking for best security so im assuming the Ubuntu server is better locked down and more stable to run 24/7. Thanks

Looks like it could be the Elites then. Roughly £50 more for the 8300 Were coming from having AMD Dual Core 5000B processors with a 1273 Passmark Benchmark. The 8200s processor is better than what ive got in my desktop. If we can get the 8300 for a good price i would go for it but the 8200 would be good to. I5-2400 (5822 benchmark)

Thanks Ben, Was that in the SFF range? I've got a 8200 in front of me (LEA machine). Just trying to find pic of the 6300 3rd gen. Seem to be in similar cases from what i can see.

Have a choice between a HP Elite 8200 SFF i5-2400 and a 6300 Pro i3-3570 SFF desktop. Processor is better on the 6200 but the 8200 is HPs top Elite range. Is this a realiability vs performance thing or is it just a marketing ploy to get you to buy the Elite's? I know our LEA insists on going down the Elite line for all of their products. Cheers,

Morning, Ive been given the task of timetables this year, weve just added our new staff members into SIMS and set the start date to September. Now trying to import into NT6 but they don't seem to be showing. They are in both staff and classroom staff in SIMS, they have a unique code and ive set the organisation and time. Anyone know if NT can import future Staff? Many thanks,

Thanks ITGURU, looked at this but want to give the user a option of recovering in their current session. Just to save a few helpdesk call to recover data. Update:Went for it after testing it out on only students that start with A Seems to be ok Found theres also bins in my pictures, my music etc as well so will do that later.

Hi, Just going through the server and alot of space is being taken by peoples recycle bins. Ive created a logoff script rmdir /s /q "\\fs1\private$\Pupil\%username%\Documents\$Recycle.Bin" rmdir /s /q "\\fs1\private$\Pupil\%username%\Desktop\$Recycle.Bin" rmdir /s /q "\\fs1\private$\Pupil\%username%\Downloads\$Recycle.Bin" but also want to delete the ones that rarely login so made this script to run on the file server. for /d %%i in (D:\Private\Pupil\*) do rd /q/s "%%i\Documents\$RECYCLE.BIN" for /d %%i in (D:\Private\Pupil\*) do rd /q/s "%%i\Desktop\$RECYCLE.BIN" for /d %%i in (D:\Private\Pupil\*) do rd /q/s "%%i\Downloads\$RECYCLE.BIN" pause All loook OK? Having one of them days today so just want to get a second eye over it before i click the run button and schedule it for each Friday. Many thanks.

Looked into this but it doesnt look like you can script incremental backups in WSB.

Super thanks. Shame it cannot backup to multiple location in one schedule as that would be OMG good but this is still brilliant. Im thinking of setting up dfs on my second virtual server that currently holds a copy of files, that way both will have the most up to date data and i can have two scheduled nightly backups. Hardware is there already so wont cost anything. Either that or a robocopy on the second server that copies the data from the first and then runs the scheduled task. Might be safer as im a bit weary of DFS-R. Will have to draw a backup map as they will be going everywhere. Just encrypting one of my backup drives. 1% per hour.

Hi Joanne, Hows this going. Did you get it all setup? Weve got a 4tb drive to backup onto but server 2008 r2 backup doesn't support it so using robocopy at the minute. Just wondering if i can create a smaller VHD and mount that.

Its a hard one. I got different answers. The general answer is that you dont need a OEM for server, but i couldnt get a definate answer with EES.

Only downside ive seen is the graphs on the dashboard have no labels so the network I/O could be half way up the graph but this could mean that your transferring 1mb per second or 1gbps.

Not sure if it applies to Win 7 but our Server 2008 R2 machine had this when the registry hive was huge. So big that the RAM was eaten up and it failed the login. Have you got any large files in C:\Windows\System32\config ?

Not sure sorry, dont have that many items. Might enable SNMP on a few workstation to try it out. It seems to refresh every few seconds so could have been just overload itself with SNMP requests. I did wonder how it would cope with a large number of devices seeing how quickly it refreshes. As far as i can tell its free like the spiceworks inverntry app. One page does say try for a month but cant see any pricing info anywhere.