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Having difficulty finding packet/NDIS driver to ghost a set of Dell Vostro 3500 laptops. Anyone been able to do this? Looking at device manager the network card is a Realtek PCIe gigabit ethernet and the dell site says it's an RTL8111DL Have tried a universal ghost driver (which was fine on Vostro 1520 laptops) but didn't work Thanks

SOLVED: my startup path for the SQL database was incorrect - the database file had been transferred to 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL$NET2\Template' - Copying this back to the correct 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL$NET2\Data' directory lets the service boot correctly... ah basic mistakes Michael

further update: when trying to start the SQL service It fails and I have this error in eventvwr : 'Error 2(error not found) occurred while opening file 'Error 2(error not found) occurred while opening file 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL$NET2\Data\master.mdf' to obtain configuration information at startup. An invalid startup option might have caused the error. Verify your startup options, and correct or remove them if necessary.' event ID 17113 Thanks Michael

Update: read this SQL Server 2005 WMI Provider Error - Technical Weblog of Eric Charran - Site Home - MSDN Blogs and ran the command C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Shared>mofcomp "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Shared\sqlmgmproviderxpsp2up.mof" as suggested this fixed the problem of being denied access to SQL Configuration Manager (NOTE: I had cd to the 'Shared' Directory then run the command minus the directory path) Hoorah! What settings should I be looking for in regards to getting my database connections correct again? Mark, you mentioned TCP/IP - could you elaborate? Thanks Michael

Thanks for the responses - The server didn't change name I'm having difficulty changing settings for the SQL installation on the server as Server Configuration won't open - Have attached another screenshot for this Sorry should have included this earlier Any other ways of editing the config? The process was Virtualised server (MS) to Virtualised server (Citrix XenServer) - V2V? Thanks Michael Shot_SQL_Error2_local.bmp

I'm getting what looks like a connection error when trying to access a SQL database - it's started doing this after virtualising the server it's installed on from a microsoft virtual server to a XenServer This is the eventvwr error on the server : [17113 : initconfig: Error 2(error not found) opening 'C:\MSDEMSSQL\Data\master.mdf' for configuration information.] and there's an error that occurs when trying to connect to the database instance from another server (screenshot) It looks like it says it can't connect probably due to the server switching Any ideas? Thanks Michael shot_SQL_Error.bmp Shot_SQL_Error_local.bmp

If I understand it right you want to automate the process of mounting a folder or a shortcut to the desktop for each user in a group - if not then i haven't grasped it! haha I am not familiar with workgroup manager as I don't have OSX Server but if I understand correctly, it allows you to manage what would be 'group policy' objects on a microsoft server environment - Apple Automator similarly to VBScript allows you to automate tasks such as logon/logoff scripts and it can be done with a kind of WYSIWYG editing format - so for instance to map a folder you would set click drop-down box 1 to open Finder tools, then drop-down box 2 to select 'connect to server' etc. - But of course there is the ability to script processes to maintain efficiency I'm going to stab a guess that WGM allows integration of Automator files/scripts but I might be wrong and my 2 and 2 together are making 3... haha Anyway if it does indeed let you execute Automator files then somewhere in the process you would set the folder mounting path to "~/Desktop" and the user's folder to "~/Music" so that your username becomes the variable (~ tilde is used for 'home' variable) and thus the automator file can be run by any of the users in the group to achieve the same outcome Thanks

What method are you using currently to map the shared drives? Not to throw any more complications into the arena but could you assign an Automator sequence to your group in order to map their "~/Music" drive at logon? Michael

Thanks for that - we have Java installed yes 6.0.150 - not up to date but only by a few months Michael

Hello - we have a set of Dell Vostro 1520s and a set of samsung p29s - on the samsungs we can open links on this page Oxford University Press | Online Resource Centre | Drag and drop activities for example 'Start questions 1-10' but can't open them on the Vostros. Both are running IE8 and both have flash player installed - any ideas why this might be? The Vostros are running Windows 7 and the samsungs XP - we've successfully opened the links on a different Win7 machine so have ruled that out. Perhaps settings in internet properties are the cause? BTW when I say 'won't open' I mean a tab opens but remains at the 'connecting...' stage and never times out. Thanks Michael

Thanks for the thoughts Michael. We're using logon scripts so that users can map specific printers depending on their location - using GPO would take away the 'dynamic' aspect of the situation - in other words - we only want users to be able to print to the printer nearest them rather than mapping all the printers in school and subsequently printing to the furthest away printer(!) A little extra information: logging on to machines as administrator and running the script locally succeeds and then users of that machine are able to map successfully from then on - that would indicate that the administrator is altering something in group policy specifically to that machine, right?

Hello, users are getting this error when logging on with a printer mapping vbs script: "Windows cannot open this program because it has been prevented by a software restriction policy Code: 800704EC" We haven't set any software restriction policies so it's odd - I have been into the OU's security settings to disable - 'Devices:prevent users from installing printer drivers' by drilling down to (computer OU)/ Computer configuration/ Windows Settings/ Security Settings/ Local Policies/ Security Options using policy object editor. We've forced gpupdate on machines/ rebooted /all the usual but no success Is there anything we're missing? Thanks Michael Software Restriction policy Error_edit.bmp

Learn Flash | Adobe Flash Developer Center <-- the adobe developer site is a good resource for flash examples and guides/walkthroughs - For Actionscript there are really good starting point tutorials at Adobe - Flash Developer Center : Sample Files <-- for example this page contains a zip of 'interactivity' examples for coding mouse interaction and because it's by adobe it's clear and accurate Michael

Hello - having some fun configuring AppSense on XenDesktop but had a little setback with proxy configurations: We need the user to log on with the Automatically Detect Proxy Settings check box unticked in order to use our proxy - I can't seem to find the ADMx setting in AppSense Environment Manager that will do this. Has anyone else done this? If so, was it done using AppSense or was a registry key change? I've forumed itand returned useful things like the location of connection settings at_ HK_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Connections but having trouble finding the correct key/hex value to edit - even exporting my local configuration (with the box unticked) and importing it into the mandatory profile required for logging on using AppSense doesn't do the trick. Thanks Michael

Hello I am also looking for Hitachi cambridge interactive whiteboard pens - could you direct me somewhere? Thanks Michael