phildyer

I'd be cautious of doing away with a secondary core, I have done this and been in the unfortunate situation where the primary has failed. I'd consider having 2 small L3 switches with HSRP configured. Cisco do some really affordable and sold 2960's which are stackable and capable of taking 10GB SFP+

Morning guys, it looks like its already running in compatibility mode. Our LEA suggested adding a line into the connect.ini: CommandTimeout=600 This only seems to affect the workstations though and the server is still going hell for leather.

Thanks guys its a VM so I've made a checkpoint. I'm going to make the changes at 3pm as staff get visibly upset if you make changes to SIMS while its live.

Hi all I'm having an issue with my SIMS server. It is constantly running at between 80 and 99%. Its definitely something to do with SQL 2014 but I'm not sure why its started all of a sudden. The server is a virtual machine running in hyper v 2012 and has 6 AMD Opteron 2.59GHz cpu's and 16GB of ram: I'm not great at SQL so I'm a bit lost where to look. Any help would be appreciated.

Here is mine: I've had a couple of issues with GPP: 1. Unless you set it is a user policy it wont set printers as default, which means you need to mess around with loopback processing 2. Item level targetting is flaky at best I've found in most schools that they don't breakdown the computer OU into classrooms or areas. The first line of this script looks for the computers name and if it matches delivers the printer underneath as the default printer. Enabling Point and print restrictions is useful too.

I came to a similar conclusion yesterday and wrote this: @echo off setlocal set "root=." pushd "%root%" for /d %%F in (*) do ( robocopy /mir D:\data\test "%%F\library") I just ran an elevated command prompt from the file server and set the directory to the folder containing the users. The Library folder contains some files which are too long to be deleted so I've used robocopy to copy an empty folder over them so it blanks them. I then have second script set to delete the folder: @echo off setlocal set "root=." pushd "%root%" for /d %%F in (*) do ( rd /s /q "%%F\library")

I've got del prof to get rid of the local profiles but unfortunately the library folder gets added to their network home folder which is really infuriating. I'm not particularly good at powershell so I haven't really had a look at it because I'm convinced i'll break something

This post has been really useful, I was wonder if there is a way you could do the opposite? Batch delete just one folder in multiple folders. When our users log onto the iMacs OS X creates a Library folder in their root of their home directory %homeshare%\Library and I've tried doing things like for /d /r %a in (library) do echo rd /s /q "%a" at the root level of the users folder to try and delete the Library folder in the root of everyone's account but its not working. Any suggestions would be welcome.

If anyone is curious I've just found a zip here: Windows: Quest AD PowerShell cmdlets | Mohammed Wasay

I've been following a really good tutorial on how to audit AD with machine serial numbers & populate the MDT database from it: https://deployhappiness.com/importing-computers-into-the-mdt-database-with-powershell/ The powershell script they've supplied uses QAD however I'm pretty poor with powershell so wouldn't really know what to do to make it work.

I use a little VBS to set the volume to 0: Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") wshshell.LogEvent 4, "setting Vol to min" WshShell.SendKeys "{" & chr(174) & " 50}" wshshell.LogEvent 4, "vol set"

Hi all Does anyone have a link to the quest AD cmdlets? I've looked everywhere but I can't find anything, any help would be much appreciated. Many thanks Phil

Thanks for the replies, I've heard good things about Impero and Password Control. I'll definitely investigate further.

Hi everyone, I'm just wondering if anyone knows of any software (preferably free or reasonably priced) that would allow staff to reset pupil passwords? I've debated installing RSAT and giving staff delegation of control to the pupil OU in AD but I'm not comfortable with staff having access to AD. We have about 1200 pupils and I'D say about 30 of those struggle to remember their own name so I've got no chance with passwords. Any help would be great. Thanks Phil