JordanT91

How much room is available? Would a gaming graphics card be any good (not huge but certainly larger than an NVS300)?

As far as I'm aware SCCM is included with the Windows Desktop Education licence bundle we have. I only really use it for software deployment at the moment, still preferring to use WDS and WSUS seperately until I can really get my head around it.

Give it time! I think mine came a week later.

I use PRM Green Technologies. They're free if they are collecting a reasonable amount of devices (30?) and you get a free mug out of it too. They're not exactly local, either (Staffordshire to Northumberland).

The sad thing is that even I can't view the Youtube stream, restricted mode has been forced on us by County for over 6 months now...

It's all fun and games until you have to slit a chicken's neck because it's the holidays and the science teacher is off and the caretaker has grown too attached to it...

Apparently Hamachi uses this IP range because they know that it's empty and not used.

The MoD used to own large IP address ranges. It could simply be that WHOIS or whatever hasn't been updated to show the new owner information for that address.

I'm not sure if this is the correct section but here goes... I created a visual impairment GPO which changes quite a few registry entries. The policy is filtered so it only applies to users part of the VI group but while testing it I added myself to the group... I logged onto a couple of PCs at the time to test on different monitor sizes. I have since removed myself from the VI group. Now, however, when I log on to those PCs the VI settings are still applied. I'm assuming this is because the registry was changed on logon when testing but it has not changed back to the original settings, even though the GPO no longer applies. Does anyone know of an easy way to correct this? Would I need to set up a 'non-VI' GPO that applies to all users except those in the VI group and set this GPO to supply the registry with the default settings? Deleting the user account from the registry and logging back in fixes the issue but this obviously isn't an ideal solution.

The client removal tool is bundled in with the package of MSIs that you should have received. You can redownload it from the Future Digital support site located here: https://futuredigitalfootprintltd.freshdesk.com/support/login

I assume it was a typo, you're going to need some serious line bonding to get 10Gb from ADSL!

The ones I was looking at last year were Virgin Media, RM, Schools Broadband, WebAnywhere, Exa and BT.

Our oldest desktops are: Dell OptiPlex 780 Intel E7500 Dual Core CPU 2GB RAM 500GB HDD and HP Compaq Elite 8000 Intel E8400 Dual Core CPU 2GB RAM 500GB HDD Very soon they are being replaced with Very PC Glides - i5, 8gb RAM, 250GB SSD Our worst laptops are Dell Vostros - i5, 4gb RAM, 500GB HDD. Gradually replaced the teacher laptops with Very PC Thinbooks - i5, 8GB RAM, 250GB SSD. The class sets aren't a huge priority at the moment.

You may need to pay a one-off charge to get the support company to set you up with your own account, it is technically a change to the system. Have you looked into getting a support contract with the company? We took one out and it covers call out charges, hardware replacement, tech support etc. At ~£300/year it gives me confidence that any problems I come across that I don't have the knowledge to fix or any major changes to the system won't cost the school a fortune. Something to consider.

It does the job OK. We don't have anything too complex - we have mostly digital phones with 6 or so IP phones. If we had a larger environment or one where we need to make regular changes I would probably go with another system. The NEC SV8100 isn't really meant to be used by non-telecom engineers, I only really know how to do a few basic things like change extension numbers and names, ring loops etc. Personally, I like having more control over the things I'm responsible for.

We have a support contract with a local company but we actually own the equipment. To find the IP address of the SV8100, on NEC phones (we have NEC DT700s) if you pull the power out then when it's rebooting if you press HOLD, TRANSFER, *, # repeatedly until it gets you into the service menu. Don't changed anything in this menu unless you know what you are doing. It will ask for a username which should be prefilled with ADMIN, the default password is 6633222. Go to 2 SIP Settings, 2 Server Address & URI, 1 1st Server Address. This will be the IP address of the SV8100 which you should be able to browse to on a PC. Can I ask what you are going to change on an extension? The web interface is complicated and I might be able to help you with what you need rather than going in blind. Edit: Of course you'll still need a username and password for the WebPro interface. You may have to be quite forceful with with the telecom company to get any credentials out of them but if it's your equipment and not leased they should give it to you or at least set you up with another account.

I've managed to solve the problem. When I was using DISM to insert the drivers to the boot image I was specifying index:1, I have now used index:2 and it worked. I don't know what the difference is though.

I'm having trouble imaging a batch of Very PC Thinbooks. In WDS I created a capture boot image, loaded the network drivers in to it using DISM and successfully captured an image from the reference laptop and uploaded it to the deployment server. I created another boot image for installing the image and did the same thing by inserting the drivers with DISM. However, when I load into this image I get "a matching network card driver was not found in this image". The device ID of the NIC is PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_8168&SUBSYS_54551558&REV_12, I have downloaded more drivers for this ID and tried them in the boot image but I still get the same error. As far as I can tell Realtek don't do specific WinPE drivers. I have tried the Windows 7 and Windows 8 drivers included in the driver package from Very PC. I don't understand why the capture boot image worked fine once I inserted the drivers but this boot image won't work. Has anyone got any ideas? EDIT: I put the drivers on a USB stick and loaded them with the DRVLOAD command from within WinPE. I then checked ipconfig and it got an IP address so the drivers obviously work.

Is it open for everyone with a firewall/filter at the end? - Protected with WPA2. Our internet connection uses a Lightspeed Rocket filter managed by our LA - domain computers have the Lightspeed client installed which recognises which user is logged on. Non-domain devices will be unable to access the internet until a school username and password is entered. Do you only allow district or school devices? - The official policy is only school-owned and managed devices can connect to the network. Exceptions are made when necessary. How do you handle guests or personal staff devices? - Officially not allowed. The SMT and I use our phones on the network. How do you handle personal student devices? - Not allowed. Not even allowed in school. What about public events such as a sports game or school play? - Not allowed.

Ah! I scheduled it to reboot every night because of a print driver issue I had a while back, it seemed to help avoid the printing issues until I could find a permanent solution. I found a permanent solution, but I forgot to remove the scheduled reboot! I just assumed that Windows Backup on the host was doing the reboot nightly for some reason. Thanks for the help guys, I just needed a fresh perspective I think.

Hi all, I've got a bit of an odd issue with a virtual print server. Both the VM and the Hyper-V host are Windows Server 2012 R2. Every morning when I go to check PaperCut the webpage doesn't load. I then go to RDP to the server and it times out. Pings to the server are absolutely fine, no dropped packets and all responses under 1ms. The server still serves print jobs. To fix the issue I have to RDP to the host, connect to the server and restart it. When I'm in the server I can see there is pretty much nothing using the CPU, RAM or NIC. The RDP and PaperCut services are all running. The server is shut down at midnight every night for backups. I can't think of any possible reason for this. Has anyone got any ideas?

I've got three of these (non-PoE models) and they are great. The modules and transceivers are expensive if you go for genuine HP parts though.

Using model specific drivers seems to have done the trick. I'm not aware of any issues since changing from the universal driver except on one printer that I forgot about. Thanks!

No but that's going to have to be my next solution. I've only ever used the universal driver but hopefully there won't be any issues with clients not having the correct drivers if I switch to model-specific drivers.

For the past couple of weeks (ever since I created a dedicated print server) a couple of printers around school (seems to be just HP CP2025n and HP M451dn/nw) print non-stop when you request more than one copy. Pressing the red stop button on the printer stops it printing eventually but we are ending up with hundreds of wasted pages (and toner) every day. I did a bit of Googling and a lot of people recommend unticking 'enable bidirectional support' in the port properties. I have done this for all printers on the print server and it has not helped. I am using the latest HP Universal Printer driver on all printers, regardless of model. Has anyone encountered this before and managed to fix the issue? Thanks.