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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

We want to run Windows Movie Maker on client PCs from Server 2008 and have used the following website as a guide: Ing. Lele's Blog - HeadQuarter: Windows Movie Maker on Windows Server 2008 x64 Movie Maker successfully runs, however when attempting to 'Import' files (any type) nothing happens - not even a sanity-checking crash or freeze. In-built functions like 'Titles' can be set-up fine but nothing else... Any suggestions? Thanks Michael

Well, at least it's a fresh start, hey?

Hello Karl - reading through the 'Accelerated Reader Software Manual' it states that running Accelerated Reader Management requires access at 'Administrator Access' level - "When you first log in to Accelerated Reader, you need to use the default password, admin." Hope that helps Michael

Thanks for all your responses - we're very grateful. In the end it was a simple solution - we had two sets of logon/logoff scripts. Therefore the first set mapped/removed all the drives correctly and then the second set attempted to map/remove once again causing the errors. The second set has been removed and now we are error free - hurrah! Michael

Yes they throw no errors

Powdarrmonkey: no it's not the home folder - thanks anyway Jamesb: here is the logon script: Option Explicit Dim objNetwork, strRemotePath1, strRemotePath2, strRemotePath3 Dim strDriveLetter1, strDriveLetter2, strDriveLetter3 dim strMessage dim WshNetwork Dim strUNCPrinter1, strUNCPrinter2, strUNCPrinter3 strDriveLetter1 = "G:" strDriveLetter2 = "S:" strDriveLetter3 = "T:" strRemotePath1 = "\\hades\VCD Files" strRemotePath2 = "\\artemis\sims" strRemotePath3 = "\\prometheus\tregelles\shared teaching data" Set objNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network") ' Section which maps drives, G:, S:, & T: objNetwork.MapNetworkDrive strDriveLetter1, strRemotePath1 objNetwork.MapNetworkDrive strDriveLetter2, strRemotePath2 objNetwork.MapNetworkDrive strDriveLetter3, strRemotePath3 ____________________________________________________ The error points to "objNetwork.MapNetworkDrive strDriveLetter1, strRemotePath1" here is the logoff script: Option Explicit ' Defines variables Dim objNetwork, strDriveLetter1, strDriveLetter2, strDriveLetter3 Dim objWMIService Dim objPrinter Dim strComputer Dim strPrinter Dim colInstalledPrinters ' Inializes variables with drive letters strDriveLetter1 = "G:" strDriveLetter2 = "S:" strDriveLetter3 = "T:" Set objNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network") ' Section which removes strDriveLetter objNetwork.RemoveNetworkDrive strDriveLetter1 objNetwork.RemoveNetworkDrive strDriveLetter2 objNetwork.RemoveNetworkDrive strDriveLetter3 ________________________________________ The error points to "objNetwork.RemoveNetworkDrive strDriveLetter1" As I say, when running the scripts manually they run correctly Thanks Michael

We are becoming more and more confused by this little problem: We have a logon script to map drives and logoff script to remove them. These are implemented by the user on Server 2003. On logon all users encounter the script error: "Local device name already in use" Code: 8007055 Source: WSHNetwork.MapNetworkDrive The line and character references point to a "G:" drive. On logoff all users encounter the script error: "Network connection doesn't exist" Code: 800708CA Source: WSHNetwork.RemoveNetworkDrive Again the line and character references point to the "G:" drive. Therefore, users are unable to disconnect from the "G:" drive as it apparently does not exist (which is does as it is visible) but adversely are unable to connect at logon as it "already exists". Peculiar no? When executing the scripts locally on a computer they run correctly so could it be a server problem? Thanks Michael

Hello thanks for both replies - the user copies text from an email and pastes it to a text box (the command line for now) it's not as complicated as streaming directly from email (yet) michael

Hello, I'm writing a C++ program that scans emails for words on our school "banned word list". I have got to the point where we can paste text from an email into command line which gets saved in a .txt file called 'emailscan' - this is then read by ifstream and scanned for the chosen word which if found is returned with its location My pickle is that the user cannot paste more than a single paragraph of text. For example if we copy an entire email, which more often than not contains several carriage returns, only the first block of text before the first carriage return is fed into the emailscan.txt file and subsequently only this part of the email is scanned. Is there a way of ignoring/discarding carriage returns or converting text after the cin >> operator in order to merge all the text into one 'paragraph'? Thanks Michael #include "stdafx.h" #include #include #include using namespace std; int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]) { string line, paragraph, text, textin; int i, location; char* word = "virus"; // <--for example // USER TO PASTE IN EMAIL cout << "Paste text here:" << endl; cin >> text; cout << "You entered: " << text << endl; getline(cin, text); cin.ignore('\n'); ofstream filewriter; filewriter.open("emailscan.txt"); // read in text to file called filewriter << text << endl; // emailscan if(!filewriter) // check that emailscan can be opened { cout << "Error opening file for output" << endl; return -1; } filewriter.close(); cout << "The text has been saved in emailscan.txt" << endl; // checkpoint /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // OPEN AND READ EMAILSCAN.TXT ifstream filereader("emailscan.txt"); // first, read the text file if( !filereader) // check that emailscan can be opened { cout << "Error opening file for output" << endl; return -1; } for(i = 0; ! filereader.eof(); i++){ // run a loop to read lines getline(filereader,line); cout << line << endl; /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // FIND A WORD FOR EXAMPLE 'VIRUS' if ((location = line.find(word, 0)) != string::npos) { cout << "found \"" << word << "\" at location " << location << endl; } else filereader.close(); // look for the word and if found state where } cout << line << endl; filereader.close(); cout << "Iterations:" << i << endl; // how many lines? return 0; }