artfulmatt

I'd check you bandwidth too if your looking at cloud (we looked at using sims cloud solution and with 2mb up and down for a single user we'd have nothing left for general internet, so upgrading internet would cancel out the savings in not using sims locally) We are part using onedrive for business for staff (MS are GDPR ready - servers are in europe) but have had issues with filename length, special characters etc....plus the app doesn't really work with non MS applications Azure is def worth a look, get the Premium edition and saves needing DC's at other sites (if using a single domain)

Hi all, We have used Xirrus for years and recently our off site 6FC closed and the students were moved back with the lower school kids. I wanted a survey completed as I weren't sure how it would perform with the extra load from the 6th formers and the BYOD. I then found that every array was broadcasting at 100%, so each device was being screamed at and getting confused. The radios were also bonded. BUT.....since the arrays have had the power dropped im getting complaints everywhere that WIFI is **** lol I have quite a few rooms with DB reading -75 Im tempted to turn the arrays back to full power, but annoyed knowing its not setup correctly. Anyone had similar issues?

Sims 8 is browser based isn't it? We have a similar issue with using personal mobiles and connecting to outlook 365 school account. Something I think we will need to stop. I'll look at the timeout options on remoteapp.

Hi all, I've been looking at the new regs and just curious if any of you allow access to sims from home? Staff here have laptops to use both in school and at home, and we use MS remoteapp to access sims. My only worry is if the laptop is left logged into sims then anyone could potentially access the data. I did think about the lock screen timeout, but then when in school using them in lessons they don't want the laptop locking them out mid way through. Cheers, Matt.

Awesome thanks - don't suppose anyone has something relating more to schools? Gonna be a great nights reading haha!!

Hi all, I'm now beginning to take a look at the new regulations - I keep seeing websites regarding being compliant but not found any checklist or paper actually saying what the new regs are??? Has anyone got any links?? or started looking into this? Cheers, Matt.

Purely testing at the moment, if this ms app was ok, then we could use fog to create an image and role out. But a long way off doing that - I will be looking at windows imaging and config designer.

I've just been testing and its a lot of work - things I've found so far.... 1. On install, if I was behind the internet filter, it would skip the join azure and go through the option of creating a local account. 2. Once setup is complete and you sign in with an 365/azure account, you have the student profile which is really well locked down - had to use cmd to enable the local admin account and rename the pc. but once signed in as local admin, I still can't access the c:\drive. 3. unable to map a network drive on logon, users can manually do it - but not what I want - if anyone has a way please let me know. (domain GP won't work for obvious reasons, but can't use local GP to run a script because I can't save the batch file to the c:\drive lol) 4. All student work has to be done via onedrive (web browser) nothing shows in explorer and onedrive app doesn't seem to open. 5. Profiles are local, so over time with hotdesking, the local users directory will become very full Still lots more testing to do, but seems microsoft need to be doing a lot more work before it can be used.

Microsoft have really made something which should be fairly simple, bloody complicated !! Have modified the startmenu layout and exported the xml via powershell - great and easy !! Now the prob begins....We have server 2008 R2 as the DC and would use GP to import the xml file, but the ADMX file is missing as we are using the local store and not a central store :-( Really don't want to start mucking around with Group Policy for the sake of a menu lol Other option is to use the import shell command, but can't find where to add the file? I talks about using Windows Image File, but we don't use that to image our machines so rather stuck at the moment.....

Awesome - working :-D ....Now for modifying the startmenu !! oh joy this is gonna be fun !

Thanks, what permissions are meant to be set on it?

Hi, Trying to use the "copy to" function within advanced system settings and profiles. I've logged on as a domain account with no profile path set in AD and a local profile is created on the Win 10 domain machine. I now log off and back in as a local admin account and the try to copy the local profile to a share. For some unknown reason the Copy To is greyed out for every account except the default profile? I've googled and found lots of solutions to Windows 7 and nothing seems to be working? Anyone know a way around it? Cheers, Matt.

What time you back in - in the morning?

No the restore ??

PMSL....What you doing on here ;-D You have some emails in your inbox at work lol OK - so is that using dbattach

It was the indexing patch - It was knocked out because users still had active connections in SQL (we use xenapp so although they may not connected, their session is still active within SQL) I still have one connection active who I can't seem to kick out ? Ran :- SELECT db_name(dbid) as DatabaseName, count(dbid) as NoOfConnections, loginame as LoginName FROM sys.sysprocesses WHERE dbid > 0 GROUP BY dbid, loginame Shows active connections, I still have one on the sims DB ??

OK....completed restore and everything ok

I've never had to do a restore - just to check, can I simply copy the restored DB (to another location) then attach the db's?

Hi guys, We have been experiencing sims running very slow and was advised to run the indexing patch....Ran the patch which never finished and received an error ( I don't know what the error was as I was never there to see it) Anyway we can no-longer login to sims with an error stating :- "unable to set application role" Any Ideas ??? Thanks in advance

Hi Guys, Got an odd problem - but persistent whereby a script we use to copy the profile from a network share runs, but occasionally (like today) it won't? Give the machines a reboot (or two) and it will - logon locally and run the script and it runs fine? Any ideas or direction would be great as this is now causing me a headache Cheers :-) Script is as follows:- On Error Resume Next Set shell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell") Set WshNetwork = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network") Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") shell.Popup "Waiting 2 seconds....", 2, Timer, 64 wscript.sleep(2000) 'Delete profile if it already exists: If objFSO.FolderExists("C:\Documents and Settings\Default User") Then objFSO.DeleteFolder("C:\Documents and Settings\Default User") objFSO.CopyFolder "\\server.domain.local\profile$\Default User", "C:\Documents and Settings\Default User", True objFSO.CopyFile "\\server.domain.local\profile$\version.txt", "C:\Documents and Settings\version.txt", True objFSO.CopyFile "\\server.domain.local\profile$\wallpaper.bmp", "C:\wallpaper.bmp", True ' Error Handling: If Err.Number <> 0 Then shell.Popup "An error occured replacing an existing profile on: "& WshNetwork.ComputerName &". Please report this error message to ITS: "& CStr(Err.Number) & " " & Err.Description, 30, Timer, 64 Set objMessage = CreateObject("CDO.Message") objMessage.Subject = "Profile Problems - " & WshNetwork.ComputerName objMessage.From = "[email protected]" objMessage.To = "[email protected]" objMessage.TextBody = "There is an issue replacing an existing profile on : "& WshNetwork.ComputerName &" - Error Message: "& CStr(Err.Number) & " " & Err.Description objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _ ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing") = 2 objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _ ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = "[email protected]" objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _ ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport") = 25 objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Update objMessage.Send 'Clear the error message Err.Clear End If shell.Popup "Default User Profile Replaced", 2, Timer, 64 'Copy profile if it doesnt exist: Else objFSO.CopyFolder "\\server.domain.local\profile$\Default User", "C:\Documents and Settings\Default User", True objFSO.CopyFile "\\server.domain.local\profile$\version.txt", "C:\Documents and Settings\version.txt", True objFSO.CopyFile "\\server.domain.local\profile$\wallpaper.bmp", "C:\wallpaper.bmp", True ' Error Handling: If Err.Number <> 0 Then shell.Popup "An error occured copying a new profile on: "& WshNetwork.ComputerName &". Please report this error message to ITS: "& CStr(Err.Number) & " " & Err.Description, 30, Timer, 64 Set objMessage = CreateObject("CDO.Message") objMessage.Subject = "Profile Problems - " & WshNetwork.ComputerName objMessage.From = "[email protected]" objMessage.To = "[email protected]" objMessage.TextBody = "There is an copying a new profile on : "& WshNetwork.ComputerName &" - Error Message: "& CStr(Err.Number) & " " & Err.Description objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _ ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing") = 2 objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _ ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = "smtp.blah.co.uk" objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _ ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport") = 25 objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Update objMessage.Send 'Clear the error message Err.Clear End If shell.Popup "New Default User Copied", 2, Timer, 64 End If 'Set Default Background const HKEY_USERS = &H80000003 strComputer = "." Set StdOut = WScript.StdOut Set oReg=GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" &_ strComputer & "\root\default:StdRegProv") strKeyPath = ".DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop" strValueName = "Wallpaper" strValue = "C:\wallpaper.bmp" oReg.SetStringValue HKEY_USERS,strKeyPath,strValueName,strValue ' Error Handling: If Err.Number <> 0 Then shell.Popup "An error occured setting the wallpaper on: "& WshNetwork.ComputerName &". Please report this error message to ITS: "& CStr(Err.Number) & " " & Err.Description, 30, Timer, 64 Set objMessage = CreateObject("CDO.Message") objMessage.Subject = "Profile Problems - " & WshNetwork.ComputerName objMessage.From = "[email protected]" objMessage.To = "[email protected]" objMessage.TextBody = "An error occured setting the wallpaper on : "& WshNetwork.ComputerName &" - Error Message: "& CStr(Err.Number) & " " & Err.Description objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _ ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing") = 2 objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _ ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = "[email protected]" objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _ ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport") = 25 objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Update 'objMessage.Send 'Clear the error message Err.Clear End If shell.Popup "Wallpaper set", 2, Timer, 64 On Error GoTo 0

Hi guys, Got a problem with outlook web access 2010 - basically if you navigate to the exchange control panel (options within OWA) and say you make a change to your signature, then click save - you receive an error stating " the server method set object failed " I've been on google most the day and all I seem to find is to remove the host heading (within the bindings on iis 7) but I don't have any? Driving me mad now Thanks in advance for any guidance. Matt

Sorry - post is full time 9-3:30pm Mon - Fri, but only term time so Pro-rata. It's not a temp post either - it's pernament, but aimed at more an intern position at grade 2.

Hi all, IT technician needed in suffolk at Bungay High School to start asap. Job role:- Mainly to be interacting with students and staff fixing day to day issues. These problems will be varied ranging from projectors not working to issues with sims.net. You'll report directly to the ICT Managers Basic knowledge of Pc's and networking although a lot of training will be given. You'll gain experience in the following:- Windows server 2003/2008 Active Directory Group Policy Exchange 2007 Sharepoint 2007 Sims.net Citrix Xenapp\Xenserver Networking To apply please visit the Bungay High School Website (http://www.bungayhigh.co.uk) Click on Job Vacancies on the homepage. Alternatively email [email protected] Thanks, Matt.

Hello Peeps We have a sharepoint site that we want to have anonymous and authenticated access to dependant on where they go. Sharepoint is behind ISA 2006 We basically have the root site with 3 subsites and we want access as follows; Homepage (root) :- Anonymous Learn :- AD Authentication Communicate :- Anonymous Engage :- AD Authentication Is there a funky rule I can make to publish the above - AD authentication works fine, but to enter the site your asked for credentials although the homepage and communication subsite are set to anonymous. Cheers Matt

I'm setting it up correctly then lol We ideally want a wildcard, but have two domains with two IP's shall carry on with this tomorrow - cheers