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Thank you. One of the docs there confirms the timetable mentioned above (About Becta - Publications - Exploiting ICT to improve parental engagement, moving towards online reporting: An introduction for schools - Becta) Best get cracking!

Hi Does anyone have a reference for this requirement?

Do you mean VSS?

Hi MSSQL will happily dump any active connections and shut down for you. Hopefully your application uses transactions appropriately, in which case data should be left in a consistent state.

Have you considered that he might be very skilled in IT, but even more skilled in taking the P***? ;-)

Hi Outlook 2000 spits the dummy when a PST file hits 2Gb. This link may help: Download details: Exchange 2000 Tool: PST2GB Don't know about XP or 2003, but 2007 gives you a friendly warning and allows you to do some archiving without data loss.

Hi there I have just bought a PE2900 III with 2 drives as RAID1 plus 4 independent. I *believe* that the machine will take another two as well (making 2x internal, 6x caddies), but don't quote me on that. I have to admit I didn't do this via the website, I have a nice friendly account manager, so whether this is an unusual configuration I don't know.

Hi. If fire is somewhere along the electrical supply you're done for - remember it's not just the servers that have to be powered, but all the components inbetween. Laptops = difficult to read outdoors in bright sunlight. Difficult to read outdoors in pouring rain :-) Also, your health and safety person will (should!) go mental at the suggestion that somone should, rather than evacuate immediately, log in, download some files, print them out. AND, while I am on a roll (sorry!) the laptop and printer suddely become mission critical equipment, with all that entails. And we know how reliable laptops and printers are :-)

Have you got multiple instances of SQL going on there? Is the instance name in the backup script the same one that you specified in the password change command, i.e. -S servername vs -S servername\instancename Also - am assuming that you are running the commands from the same machine that is running the backup script, is that correct?

Along a similar theme: FUGAZI [raises glass to DOS_BOX]

So, who would you cast as Dirk?

Hi For people who set this kind of homework, what monitoring of access to resources do you have in place? Would it be appropriate to ensure that people for whom school is the only access they have to the Internet/VLE have preferential access to those resources? What of impact in areas outide the curriculum? If kids are having to do their homework at lunchtime or just after school, this surely interferes with their ability to take part in clubs and societies. They are unable to take part in these 'extension' activities because they're busy keeping up. Also, we're suggesting that Internet-based HOMEwork could become more common, and that if kids don't have access at home, then they can go to the library . . . . Are we happy with the implication of this, that a child may have to *routinely* travel across town to the library and then spend potentially long periods of time there working? None of this is opinion, just trying to widen the debate. karl

Yes. Logging on via /console switch is your get out of jail free card in this instance.

How much free disk space have you got? I had similar problems last week, and realised to my horror that I'd got only 2Gb disk space! Deleted some stuff (I have (well, had) lots of VMs on here), then closed everything down and ran defrag, and it works fine now.

Hi folks. In the event that someone else finds this useful . . . . This evening I got asked to have a look at a machine that was running the OCR Scoris Examiner Hardware Validation Tool. One of the tests it runs is to check which version of Flash is running - it requires v7 or greater. The machine being used had Flash 10. It correctly detected this, put a tick in the 'Capture' column but a big red cross in the 'Assessor' column. I decided that this was dodgy version detection ("if ver = 7 or 8 or 9" - I've seen it done!), and so uninstalled v10 and installed v9, which was hairier than it sounds. I had to hunt down: Archived Flash Players available for testing purposes Click on Flash Player 9 (99 MB) Then extract and run flashplayer9r124_winax And then it passed both tests. HTH.

Apologies if you already know this, but you'll need an offsite backup too, as FN-GM says. If there's been a serious fire, it's likely to be quite some time before you can access the burnt-out wreck of a building to retrieve all your stuff - assuming it's ever safe to do so.

Nasty, nasty website! I pitched up at it with FF3 with NoScript turned on, suffice to say that it was a non-starter..... Anwyay, I stumbed across this page, which describes how to download the file. SUPER © Download.Helper Am downloading it right now, hope it's as good as it's been billed after all that ;-) K

Have you got data in all of the tables? If you're trying to join like this via a table with no data in it, you can get 0 rows returned. Feel free to send over the DB you're prototyping against and I'll have a look. K

It's one of these: Hertfordshire Grid for Learning Fortunately whoever it was put it back where they found it.

Come on, own up. Someone must have it.

I have a theory on hosting companies, that they go in cycles of good -> rubbish -> good. @ninjabeaver, I used to use 123-reg in their Webfusion guise, and had excellent service for a couple of years followed by a period of torment that prompted me to move some stuff over to Fasthosts. Webfusion fixed their infrastructure problems and appear to be OK again. While I haven't had much in the way of direct problems with Fasthosts, I currently have a support issue unrelated to the current security problems, but haven't been able to access their support line 'cause it's been engaged, presumably with irate people who can't access their servers. I managed to edge into the queue (at 35th place!) this evening - 3.5 hours ago! Am now third in the queue. Wonder if my call is important to them? Oh! Just been bumped up to second! Best case scenario: knowledgable person fixes problem in 5 minutes Worst case scenario: numbnut cuts me off What do you reckon will happen?

Note also that the install dumps around 1.6Gb into your C: drive during install time, even if you specify another drive for the install.

Just out of interest, how many VLEs conform to this standard? I was at a sales presentation recently, given by one of the larger VLE providers. One of the teaching staff asked about how she could take her work with her when she moved schools . . . and the sales guy told her that she couldn't, there's no 'export' function. You could almost see everyone deciding that it's rubbish, and not to be used. And to be frank, I can't blame them. Hang on - I feel a rant coming on. I'll stop here.

Hi OK, so it would seem the errors you are seeing are happening as a result of the database trying to increase in size, having filled up. You might find that someone logging in causes a log record to be written that tips the DB over the edge, although as Geoff says it could be coincidental. Depends on how good their error handling is ;-) Although you have MSDE there, you can manage it via the SQL Server 2005 Express Management Studio. This *should* (never tried it, take a backup first blah blah) be able to connect you to the DB such that you can change the growth property (properties > files > autogrowth > elipsis > blah blah > may need a restart, I don't know). By default this setting will be 10% of the current DB size, so you might be able to knock the number down or change to an MB increase, so that when someone logs in (if the above *is* the case) the critical size isn't hit.

Domino, I am not sure I understand your post. Grommit has already commented that s/he doesn't use the SIMS backup.