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As Cache said try running as an administrator. I had a problem with activating office 2010 last week on a fresh windows 10 install and as soon as I did that it worked.

It may be that the water heating coming on for only 30 minutes is not long enough to heat the water on colder days. Don't forget the ambient temperature of the water coming in will be colder so therefore take longer to heat up. When you have no hot water have you tried turning the boiler onto a manual cycle for an hour (maybe 2) and see if this has any improvement?

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Hi Esteban_Child_of_the_Sun, I did do a search but searched for a different phrase and didn't find much. the site you said seems to have everything I need so thanks. Noel

Hi Vikpaw, thanks for such a quick response. I thought that's what everyone would say but though I would ask the question anyway. Thanks for the help.

Hi all, Thanks for your replies. The sites you've linked to look great and exactly what I need, now all I need to do is make time to start going through everything. Thanks again Noel

Hi everyone, I've been told that we are soon going to look at moving over to sims. To get a little head start and to know what we're talking about when we look at the product are there any user guides I can download that I can read through? Thanks Noel

Hi all, I have just installed Server 2012 R2 Data centre edition onto a virtual machine so that I can start to learn how to use SCCM from the beginning all the way up to a fully working environment where I can deploy an OS and applications etc. My first question (many more to follow over the coming weeks/months I'm sure) is what roles do I need to have setup on the server before I can proceed with the sccm setup? I do have a copy of System Centre 2012 Configuration Manager (SCCM) Unleashed to work through however it doesn't really mention the roles required on the server side. Thanks in advance to everyone for the help and feedback they offer. Noel

Hi all, We are currently in the process of moving over to Office 365, firstly we are just moving our email over and then over the next couple of months we will be moving fully to using it. We don't have to worry about the actual moving and setup of the accounts etc. as our LEA will be doing this for us as part of our managed service. What I am looking for is some useful user guides, books or training material (preferably free or low cost) that will show our staff how to make use of the new features that comes with moving to Office 365, for example OneNote class notebook, Sway and the collaborative tools etc.. When I look for user guides there are many regarding the transition to office 365 and the management/admin side of it but there doesn't appear to be as much (maybe i haven't looked hard enough) regarding the end user and the way in which the new education features can be used to get the most of the system and hopefully help them embrace the change. If anyone could point me in the direction of such materials, books etc. that would be very helpful. Thanks for any help and advice you can offer. Noel

Hi Jmak, We see the same issue with our Surface Pro 3s. Our staff have gotten used to having to hold the power button for 30s and then leaving it for 5s before powering the device back on. All of our devices have the latest updates however this has never resolved the issue, staff are now just used to it.

Hi everyone, Our teachers use laptops as the main teaching device. These devices while teaching are connected to an external TV/monitor via either hdmi or vga. By default when the device is connected the display settings change to extend the desktop over onto the external device so we will then manually change this to the duplicate mode however unfortunately the setting will eventually revert back to the extend mode. Is there a way to force the mode into duplicate mode once an external monitor is detected by the laptop, perhaps using a registry setting? The laptops are currently running Windows 8.1 Enterprise 64bit edition and the laptops are Lenovo E550's. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi everyone, Thanks for the replies. I currently have the sccm console installed on my machine so that I can add and delete machines into our collection. It's sounding like the easier option would be to get the elevated access rights, assuming they will be granted. I will need to look into this. Thanks for all of the advice and feedback. Noel

Hi Steve, I've asked for the permissions to be able to deploy our own applications and I have been told it's not something they would do, I'm guessing it's so they do not have to relinquish any control also I would like to be able to create our own images and update them every few months so that any new large applications we wanted installed across the site can be part of the base build rather than pushing it out and installing it that way. Noel

Hi everyone, I'm not sure if this is in the right place or if it should be in the server section. I've been asked to look into setting up our own sccm server so that as a school we can have more control over our images and how we push software and updates out to our devices. Currently our school is part of a managed service with our local authority and they provide all aspects of our network and infrastructure needs including sccm, email, backups, AD etc. if we wish to make any changes to any part of our image or create any software packages then we need to ask someone within the LA to do this for us, currently there is only 1 very busy person with the LA that has both the knowledge and the access rights to be able to do this so getting any changes made can be a very long process (often months). I have been asked to come up with a plan of action outlining such things as hardware requirements to run the server locally ourselves as well as how we can achieve this goal while still being part of a managed service i.e. will it be possible to run our own server when there is another server on the same domain? I would be grateful if anyone can provide some insight into the points below. 1) What hardware requirements will there be? - I could use the recommended specs for Server 2012 R2 however I'm not sure if that would be sufficient in a real world application. 2) Is it possible to run 2 sccm servers on the same domain? If not how would we be able to achieve our end goal of having more control (LA won't allow access to their sccm server for obvious reasons) 3) Apart from having more control what are the main advantages and disadvantages to having our own server as opposed to using the one provided by the LA 4) Learning curve - How steep is the learning curve for sccm? I currently create the software installer packages and I have always been interested in learning however I have never used it more than just an end user deploying an image to a device and accessing error logs when problems arise. I'm sure there is a whole lot more to consider before looking into this project so any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Regards Noel

Hi HPlum78, Thanks for the reply. I'll take a look into this method. I have also been playing about with the wvetutil command which outputs directly into the evtx format. Noel

Hi Steve, Thanks for replying. The script you have provided works well and does what I need. I was wondering moving forward is there a way to have the file output an evtx file so that it can be opened with the event viewer natively as both a cvs and txt format are quite messy when reading? Regards Noel

Hi everyone, I've been trying to remotely access some event logs from a mcahine and the have them save to a folder on my D drive. I have been able to do this using the following script. cls $Machine = "Computer1" Get-service -computername $Machine -name RemoteRegistry Set-Service -ComputerName $Machine -InputObject RemoteRegistry -StartupType Automatic Get-service -computername $Machine -name RemoteRegistry Get-EventLog -LogName Application -Newest 30 -ComputerName $Machine | Out-File -FilePath "D:\Test\Application Event Logs.txt" Get-EventLog -LogName System -Newest 30 -ComputerName $Machine | Out-File -FilePath "D:\Test\System Event Logs.txt" When I have the file output the file is not complete i.e. the event entry looks like this 44392 May 13 15:01 Information ESENT 103 svchost (5332) Instance: The database engine stopped the instance (0).... 44391 May 13 15:01 Information ESENT 327 svchost (5332) Instance: The database engine detached a database (1, C:\ProgramData... 44390 May 13 14:58 Information gupdate 0 The description for Event ID '0' in Source 'gupdate' cannot be found. The local co... 44389 May 13 14:56 0 Software Protecti... 1073742727 The Software Protection service has stopped.... 44388 May 13 14:56 Information Software Protecti... 1073758208 Successfully scheduled Software Protection service for re-start at 2016-05-18T07:00... As you can see the whole line of text is not complete. Does anyone know how to get the whole event entry to be output rather than just a section of it? Or is is possible to save the file in the .evtx format so it can be opened in the event viewer application? When I just change the file extension to .evtx the file is created but when opened it is unreadable. Finally how would I put the Machine name into the output file name i.e. "D:\Test\System Event Logs.txt - $Machine"? Thanks for any help you can offer Noel

If you are able to access the BIOS you may be able to set the Bios administrator password and then use this password to overwrite the HDD password as this use to be possible (not sure if it is anymore).

Hi everyone, I'm currently running into a problem with installing Python 3.4.3 and Pyscripter together. I have the python installer downloaded as an MSI and would like to create a working batch file to complete the install which I have been able to do (I have 2 versions). The problem is that the batch file is installing Python into c:\Python34 as it should however when installing Pyscripter PyScripter-v2.6.0 and then running the application it will not recognise Python as being installed. If I run the same Python installer manually Pyscripter will then work. After a little looking I have found that when using the batch files there is no entry for Python within the Add/remove programs entries, this suggests to me that the installation process using either of the batch files isn't writing to the registry (I could be wrong). I have included the scripts from both batch files I have below Simple installer: "%~dp0python-3.4.3.msi" /passive Fully defined installer: mkdir c:\Python34 "%~dp0python-3.4.3.msi" /quiet InstallAllUsers=1 TargetDir=C:\Python34 AssociateFiles=1 PrependPath=1 Shortcuts=1 Include_doc=1 Include_debug=1 Include_dev=1 Include_exe=1 Include_launcher=1 InstallLauncherAllUsers=1 Include_lib=1 Include_pip=1 Include_tcltk=1 Include_test=1 Include_tools=1 AssociateFiles=1 As you can see from the scripts the installer msi sits in the same folder as both of these batch files and neither batch file produces an error message during the installation and I am able to run the Python Idle from with c:\Python34. If anyone is able to suggest a fix for this that would be very useful as otherwise I need to manually install Python onto over 150 machines. Thanks Noel

Hi, Thanks for the ideas and advice. I was able to get this working using the following script and set the batch file to run at start-up for the user. rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /n \\server2\Printer2 /y Thanks Noel

Hi, Thanks for the reply. I should have said i don't have access to edit our group policy so that isn't an option. Thanks Noel

Hi everyone, We currently have our default printer set by Group Policy but a member of staff needs a different default printer for certain reasons. Is there a way to have a start-up script change the default printer or is there another option? The current default printer would be \\printserver1\printer1 and the new default needs to be \\printserver2\printer2 I have looked on a few sites but I've not been able to get anything to work. We are currently using windows 8.1 but will be moving to windows 10 in the future (6 months). I'm hoping that this is quite a simple task as I have no experience with PowerShell scripts so don't really know where to start. Any help is greatly appreciated Noel

Hi everyone, When it comes to wireless networking I don't know much more than the average home user, I can setup a network and join clients to it but obviously you don't need to do much else with a home network. The school where I work has recently had a new wireless infrastructure (Xirrus) put in place and we are having some issues with it, luckily we have someone who is very knowledgeable helping to support us at the moment and watching what he is doing has made me realise how little I know about a real wireless network. I have done the cisco ccna course many years ago so networking and it's core fundamentals are not strange to me but I would now like to update my knowledge and skill set so that I can start to at least understand what is going on with our network and help identify any problems etc. My main question is where do I start? Many of the wireless books you can buy are aimed at the home user and do not cover what I would like them to as they are too simple. Secondly is there an emulator or virtual lab I could use to practise and test the theory as I learn it? Thanks for your feedback and ideas. Noel