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[sims] Remote machine cannot be contacted.. Where to begin troubleshooting?
NokiX replied to Garacesh's topic in MIS Systems
It sounds silly but I've had this issue before even when the firewall was disabled by policy and found if I enabled the service and check to make sure the firewall is in fact set to 'off' you can simply stop and disable the firewall service again and it seems to fix the problem. I'm not sure if it works with windows 10 but I found when all else appeared to be okay that was the last thing I could think of and it seemed to work! -
Cannot Connect to domain printer W7 Client "A Policy is in Effect"
NokiX replied to pscowan's topic in Windows Server 2008 R2
Hi There, I believe this will be a recent windows update: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-7/172860-kb3170455-preventing-printer-installation.html If you remove kb3170455 from WSUS and uninstall it on the machines that should hopefully sort your problem. -
Some tech support gore - Album on Imgur My favourite one of the bunch: 'Lets count how many things are wrong'
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Home Access Plus V10 - Windows Server 2012 R2
NokiX replied to ITBlandster's topic in Home Access Plus+
It depends on if you want the server to handle the requests itself or have traffic go through some sort of firewall/proxy on your end. It's pretty easy to make the server accessible externally since you just have to create the required DNS record on your domain controllers to point a specific sub domain to your HAP server and then the server will serve the default website on IIS to that address. You will of course need an external IP address as well so users can access HAP externally, as we use virgin for our ISP we just ask them to point one of our external IP's to a specific internal address but as above if your using a firewall/proxy then it would require some more fancy networking. -
Home Access Plus V10 - Windows Server 2012 R2
NokiX replied to ITBlandster's topic in Home Access Plus+
Nice spot, missed that one, that will also be something you require so just use a self signed while your testing. -
Active Directory and Mac server Profile manager
NokiX replied to vgulzar's topic in Windows Server 2008 R2
Basically both your mac clients and mac server need to be connected to AD as the only reason that the server is connected to AD is so that your able to apply restrictions and policies to AD users and groups when they are connected to clients. Also it allows the users to authenticate to the mac server as the server will know the user is an AD user rather than an open directory user. So lets assume your set is as follows: Mac Server Connected to AD with Open Directory Setup Mac Client default install not connected to AD or Mac Server. The first step would be to get the mac client enrolled to the server so you would visit the URL to your server from the client (https://YOURSERVER.local/mydevices/). Once on that page you need to select profiles at the top and then download the trust profile and install it to your mac as this will ensure the connection is trusted once the device is enrolled. Next go back to the devices page and enroll the device and once completed you should see the device appear on your server on the profile manager. At this stage you need to start work on your profile manager so open up the web page (https://YOURSERVER.local/profilemanager/) and go to device groups. Create a new device group and select the settings tab for that group and then the edit button to start changing the group settings. Once opened scroll down until you see the OS X section of the restrictions as these will apply to your OS X devices and then select the Directory section under that group. Select the configure option and then in the drop down select 'Active Directory' which will adjust the page form allowing you to enter your domain credentials which will allow your mac's to connect to your AD environment but make sure they are correct and the OU is also set correctly as moving the devices manually afterwards in AD isn't advised since Mac's are flaky at best with AD. Once setup select the okay button and then save the Device group. You can now add the device you have enrolled to this group and again save the group settings which will start a push of the profile to the enrolled device. This should deploy fairly quickly and create an active task within a few seconds so if this doesn't happen there will be either an issue with the server or there's an issue with the client communicating with the mac server. If it does work however you should find you can now log into the client with an AD user but you will need to try making another change to the group you created to see if the mac can accept changes even when logged in as a domain user. I hope the above has enough detail, I hated setting up our Mac platform but I hope you don't have to suffer for as long as I did! Regards, Chris. -
Active Directory and Mac server Profile manager
NokiX replied to vgulzar's topic in Windows Server 2008 R2
The way we setup our mac-server is so that once enrolled the device isn't part of any device groups but once you add the device to the domain group it pushes out the AD settings to each of the mac clients. Unfortunately we had to reset our mac server so currently I don't have any of the mac's on the server to show you but you should have something like this: The Pupil Mac group would have all of the pupil restriction in however you would also create another group just for the AD connection as this will allow you to test to see if the profile pushes to the mac client and if it does you can then test further setting changes as a domain user. -
Active Directory and Mac server Profile manager
NokiX replied to vgulzar's topic in Windows Server 2008 R2
From the sounds of things your setup looks to be fine since your AD is connected and your server setup also sounds correct. We don't usually log into the mac server itself unless we need to check logs but we also use a local account when doing that since there isn't much point using an AD account for the server itself. I would say the best bet is to contact Apple enterprise support since I've been in contact with them a huge amount due to issues with our setup and they will allow you to send them your server logs to take a look at and will advise you if there are any configuration issues. The odd thing in your case is that the deployment does work but only with local accounts so all I can suggest is going back to basics by re-installing one of the macs and then adding it to your mac server manually by downloading the trust profile etc from the device via safari. I also recommend setting up a group on the mac server which has all the AD settings but nothing else so once the device has been added drop it into that device group and see what happens since if it works you know there's a setting somewhere that's causing domain users to not accept changes. -
Home Access Plus V10 - Windows Server 2012 R2
NokiX replied to ITBlandster's topic in Home Access Plus+
If you go to the location of your HAP files you should see a file called 'Web' which will be your web.config (see below image): If you open the web.config file in a text editor (notepad, notepad++ etc) you should be able to use CTRL + F to find the following line: Once found delete the following section: Save the file and I would also recycle the application pool and restart the site on IIS just to make sure the configuration applies correctly. You should find that HAP is now working once those changes have been made. -
Home Access Plus V10 - Windows Server 2012 R2
NokiX replied to ITBlandster's topic in Home Access Plus+
Did you remove the entries in the web.config that are not required as you have to remove some depending on which version of IIS your using so if your using IIS 8 then remove the following section from your web.config: Hopefully that helps -
We use offline files here for app data and the staff desktop although some users also have some of the staff drives mapped so they can access data while at home without needing a network connection. It works pretty well and as long as you don't need to sync a huge amount of data and the user only needs to have the laptop on for a few minutes with them logged in for it to update everything. The only problem is that if staff don't let the offline files sync they may end up seeing very old data on the mapped drives that has long since been deleted which can be a bit confusing.
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Active Directory and Mac server Profile manager
NokiX replied to vgulzar's topic in Windows Server 2008 R2
When you enrolled the devices to the mac server did you use a local account or domain account to enroll them? I've had all sorts of issues with our setup but I've always used a domain admin account to login to the profile manager and also when enrolling the devices the same account is used. Also do you use any sort of proxy at all which is based of the user accounts permissions since the profile manager needs access to specific URL's and ports so if domain users are hitting the proxy restrictions that could be another potential issue. -
Mines the same as edugeek so I'll add you tonight! Feel free to poke around the overwatch thread (http://www.edugeek.net/forums/gaming/169941-anyone-playing-overwatch-battleborn.html) as theres a few battle tags on the thread which you can add as well.
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Downloaded them all, if you downloaded all the links you can use the chrome plugin tab save to download all the documents for you.
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Article: EduGeek Members: NetSupport DNA - Exclusive Offer!!
NokiX replied to Dos_Box's topic in Legacy CMS Comments
Amazing deal, big shame we don't have the money available for this type of change from Impero but I'm certainly interested to see how people find the trial. -
It means you can finally be a better player! lol I do like that new hero and some of the clips so far as seriously funny especially with some of the buffs they have added. Here's a good example of some of the fun you can have: https://gfycat.com/GrimyMenacingAfricanaugurbuzzard If anyone's interested in the patch notes take a look here: https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/blog/20178523#patchnotes
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Nobody? Are camera's that unpopular?
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Hi All, We are looking to purchase some new camera's to replace our old and tired set we currently use. We have 6 still cameras along with 4 video camera's but originally we had 5 video cameras and 10 still cameras. It's been a fair number of years since these were purchased and we are not quite sure what to look for since they are for general use and are mainly loaned out to staff and pupils from anything to form photo's or to video a lesson. We don't have a budget for this either but of course we want to get the best we can for the cheapest possible price although we may get at least 1 more expensive video camera for us to use to film events at the school. Any suggestions for either camera is hugely appreciated. Regards, Chris.
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BBC iPlayer - Robot Wars - Meet the House Robots Looking good, can't wait for the first episode.
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McCree kid incoming. It's high noon.
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@DalekSec Genji has a cool feature: I've been trying to learn it, it makes getting around that little bit easier Also is everyone up for some games tonight? I'd do tomorrow but I'm helping with year 11 prom so won't be back till midnight!
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I shall add you tonight
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Well not all the time......actually I can't argue with that
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By any chance was it that one where I could only just see your head and you were running cause that was a total luck shot. Edit: Also did you impress her? I don't really like sniper characters either, I could do with practicing them more but I like playing support which is usually Mei, Roadhog or Mercy. I have tried to mix it up recently with Mcree since his nerf has made his weapon a bit like a sniper with each single shot so you could try playing him a bit.
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I'm terrible with hanzo but i got lucky
