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I had this twice first thing this morning, got a timeout message, restarted the SQL service both times and its been OK since.

Uninstalled what @BOOT suggested, rebooted the server and the upgrade ran through fine. All seems to be working, checked a few records, ran a couple of reports. Give it a few days make sure all OK and run the summer update. Cannot wait for ISAMS...

Are the ODBC drivers not required or are they reinstalled in the upgrade? Cancel that don't think it needed.

@BOOT Thanks for the advice, I'll give that a go.

Tried the upgrade this morning and ran into issues, had messages that saying that it couldn't find the installation package for ODBC drivers 17 and 18. We use Action1 and I think they have been updated using this which is causing the problems. Think I'm going to try reinstalling the drivers not using Action1 on Friday and give it another go. Rolled back to how we were.

We are the same, we haven't done anything with next gen logons for our staff as we are leaving. Have you managed to change your effective dates in the redirects? ours looks like its going to start redirecting from the 3rd of July. Had a case logged this morning with parentpay and what they are saying doesn't make much sense.

I was going to do at half term but didn't get chance so I'm going to try first week of the summer hols when I'll have plenty of time to sort any issues. Fed up with Sims at the moment, can't wait to see the back of it, we are moving to isams next easter, so having to sort all the next gen redirects which are been forced on us that we don't want to do.

Thanks for the feedback. I was going to go for it just wanted some reassurance. I'll check the compatibility, knew it still needs to be 2012.

Hi All, I need to upgrade SQL on our Sims server over half term as 2016 is running out of MS support. Is it as simple as just running an in place upgrade of SQL on the Sims server for SQL from 2016 to 19. Anyone had any issues? I logged a call with parentpay and got a KB article about moving servers and un-attaching the database's and reattaching, just wondering if I need to do any of that. I'll have snapshots etc if I need to roll back. We are moving to isams in 27 so want to keep the Sims server ticking over for the next few months doing as little as possible. Any advice appreciated. Webbobfc

Thanks for the feedback.

Is any one else having Outlook issues this morning? Had a couple of undeliverable emails, or emails been received very slowly. Nothing indicated on the Office 365 status page related to this. Thanks

Hi All, We have come back from the Christmas break and we appear to be having issues with Azure AD Connect and we are getting the below issues when we are trying to logon with my account which is a azure administrator. I can logon to Azure admin portal OK and it has been syncing OK. Can anyone point me in the right direction. Thanks

Just to add to this, we went with the Apple TV setup with a quality HDMI splitter to the 3 screens and its worked brilliantly.

Hi All, We are looking at using Veeam Cloud Connect to run some backup jobs to an immutable cloud storage (yet to be decided who). I'm just wondering how other schools set their Veeam jobs to backup to the cloud repository to minimise space usage\bandwidth etc and I'm trying to work out how much space we will need. Are you running daily or weekly backups with incremental, and what sort or retention policies are you setting for the jobs? I am thinking about a weekly backup with a 4 week retention as this is just for a worst case disaster recovery purposes for key servers Sims\DC etc. We already have immutable onsite and cold backups in addition our regular daily backups. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks Webbobfc

Our import status is failing on CPOMs as it has all week. Despite numerous calls to CPOMS and Groupcall we are getting absolutely nowhere just saying we are logged in a queue to be looked at. All looks fine on xporter on the server and the jobs seem to be running. Anyone else having similar issues with CPOMS?

Hi All, We have just had a new gym refitted in our school, and as per usual nobody consulted us and now we have some AV requirements that we need to find a solution to. The gym has had 3 new 40inch TVs fitted and they would like to play Youtube vids etc from an IPad simultaneously to the 3 TVs. Our idea is to wall mount the IPad, then have an extra long lightning cable going up to false ceiling. From here we will use a lightning to HDMI converter and another lightning cable going into a power socket to charge the IPad https://www.amazon.co.uk/Apple-Lightning-Digital-AV-Adapter/dp/B009WHV3BM/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=apple+lightning+to+hdmi+adapter&qid=1660567272&sprefix=apple+lightning+to+%2Caps%2C93&sr=8-3 We will then use 3-1 HDMI splitter with a HDMI from the converter mounted in the ceiling and take HDMI leads to the TVs over the false ceiling. The HDMI lengths will be 10-15m. Can anyone see any problems with this, or have any sort of similar setups. Don't want to order the kit and it doesn't work due to the IPad\converter splitter scenario? Any suggestions on the HDMI splitter to use, I've just been looking at the cheaper ones on Amazon but open to suggestions. As usual needs to keep costs down. We want to avoid any wireless setups. Any advice appreciated. Thanks Webbobfc

Have you spotted Sibelius licence server on any of your windows servers. This should tell you how many concurrent licences you have if its setup this way. You may also be able to contact Avid, we have a logon with them which lists all our licences and subscriptions etc.

I suspect this may be something to do with the VSS writers in a failed state on your dc. Has it had a reboot after the updates? https://www.veeam.com/kb2041 Maybe worth logging a call with Veeam if you have support.

Is the Sims Document service started? we sometimes have to manually start it after a reboot.

We have had issue at my school this week with Wonde and xporter not working for classcharts and cpoms. Wonde advised to give the server a reboot (didn't say why) which we did and it did solve the issue, and Cpoms made a change their end and it seemed to kick into gear. All seems related to the Sims summer update to me. Have you rebooted your Sims server since the summer update?

I once had something similar, turned out the be the network recycle bin. https://www.qnap.com/en/how-to/faq/article/how-to-set-network-recycle-bin-to-clear-automatically Something to check.

Thanks, I'll give it another go this afternoon.

Did you have any luck getting these to work, I ordered the almost identical one from Amazon and had no luck, trying the "set" and "mute" button plus manufacturer key it suggests. Are they just cheap rubbish as I suspected? Remotes going missing all over the place here.

Hi All, this question gets posted every so often but I'm just wondering who people are using at the moment. We have recently been let down by the company who used to take all our used toner cartridges, and they won't send anymore boxes and don't even respond to emails, calls etc, filled in a couple of online forms for other companies and never seem to get a response back. Can anyone recommend anyone reliable in the Yorkshire region who provides boxes and and comes and collects FOC, don't want any money for them or they can be donate to charity, just need somebody reliable who will send boxes and collect when asked. Starting to get swamped in empty toners! Thanks Webbobfc

I think I know the answer to my own question but just looking for re-assurance. Our onsite exchange 2016 server has been getting low on disk space and upon further investigation I have we have found loads of log files in c:\inetpub\logs\logfiles and then in 3 folders W3SVC1, 2 and 3. From what I have read they are just used for troubleshooting and diagnostics. Is it safe to just go in and delete all these and is there any specific way of doing it, stopping services etc. We have never had any need for the log files in the past but could save the last few weeks etc, they are going back years. I see you can stop the logs files from been created in IIS. Thanks Webbobfc