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Yes that was my thought but if you change the seperator in SMB.conf it breaks it alltogether. STUMPED I AM!

Hmmm we used to use team here, It was the first thing i kicked out based on the fact its like a GCSE project as opposed to a professional MIS system that is built for purpose. It does come close to the functionality of SAM especially in terms of data integrity. I have spent the last 12 months moving over to sims assessment manager and whilst i could pick flies with that system generally is extremely robust and i would recommend it to anyone. The migration from Team has been a long road so far but gradually im seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. The approach i took was to export all data from team and import into SAM so that we have historical lookup. I have maintained the Team SQL database for now but i will be removing it soon (will keep a backup just in case) just my perspective.

I have been trying ages to get NTLM SSO to work on Moodle but am still struggling although winbind etc all appears to be working. Iis there anyone who has got this working if so when you run wbinfo -u do you get the following: domain\username or username or domain+username as the return output? according to moodle documentation i guess i should have domain\username - i think but i am getting "domain+username" if i change the seperator in smb.conf it breaks the lookup Any help appeciated

Just backup the VM's its one file per OS Hard disk.

At the end of the day it comes down to planning. Plan and spec it well and you will fine and never look back. Plan it badly and or spec it below what is reilly needed and you will get your fingers burnt! Since 100% virtualisation we have taken the entire domain down several times due to power cuts etc and as long as the management system (on my case vmware virtual centre) is on a physical box (none domain member, fixed ip etc you will be fine. And even if that does crash you can still connect to the esx's individually to move stuff around/ power up etc. One finaly thought keep buy a huge amount of storage And keep copies of the virtual machines.

Well speaking out here we run our entire infrastructure on esx bare metal and cannot fault it. I can see the argument for not virtualising dc's but the advantages (instant restore if it all goes to hell, Ability to move an os off a host if needed, snapshoting) out weighs it in my view.

I have found a way to do this. Using pdf995 (pdf 995: create PDF documents easily for free) The full version not the ad supported one You have to change the file extensions to .doc but it then works in batch mode!!! I am happy!!! at least until Capita give us the option to export as PDF which would, lets face it) be more sensible.

Hmm i considered this, I allready use various Printer type PDF convertors but i can t find a way a do it in batch (we are a school of 1750 students)

Does anyone know of way to convert the XML word documents created by export in SAM7 to a read only format such as PDF. I have tried a couple of convertors with no success Any help appreciated.

Such a shame i remember a set of reports on bromcom that gave you a percentage completeness per member of staff with details of missing grades .....VERY useful

Yes thats what i was thinking of doing, Come on Capita a how difficult would a report be on this.

Despite a bit of hunting around in dont seem to be able to find a easy way find missing marks on SAM. Am i missing the point as im sure even Bromcom had various reports to see how had not filled marksheets out.

Is anyone actually using day to day a MediaCAT digital signage box here? Please speak up if you do i would love to here your experiences p.s i do not work for Navaho

Im looking at moving our current 2003 R2 32Bit setup over to a 2008 x64 Enterprise Server. Has anyone done this yet as so far im not getting very far. siminst runs ok but does not "see" the 64Bit install of SQL2005, All i get is a drop down option offering a 32bit instance. Any pointers appreciated?

Not looked at profiles yet, will take a look but my understanding is that profiles is for Narative and not grading and simple comments etc . as for "not all information is in AM in the first place" well perhaps but surely your not suggesting the teacher fill the name of the sujects in on each marksheet which then goes into an aspect? To clarify the template looks somehting like the attached image. Note the subject names are freetext as there is no way to display them as a field entity, with them being "hardcoded" into a template how are non core subjects displayed as they diffrent for each student? Naz

We are in process of dropping our bolt-on reporting package and have been doing some research on sims to establish whats its capabilities are in terms of reporting. I have managed to put together a near perfect template in word with all the fields etc but one thing stands out as a limitation: Am i missing something or by design does it only support core subjects within the report. The word addin only seems to support the hard coding of subject titles and therefore seems incapable of displaying what non core subjects that particullar student is timetabled to be taught! Surely i cant be the only one to have noticed this! if this is the case, has anyone found a way round this rather large oversight by our freinds at capita! If i cant find a way round this i think its going to rule out sims reporting for us. Naz

I had already solved this with exactly that query but just wanted to say thank you for responding anyway. Being learning all about inner joins lately, they certainly are a useful function never had a reason to use them before. Thanks again Neil

Wondering if anyone can help me, Im trying to construct a SQL statement and i seem to be coming unstuck so i thought of you: Table 1 Pupilid, Subject, Grade 123, Maths, A Table 2 Pupilid - Subject - Grade 123, Maths, Null I trying do populate the grade field in table2 from the grade field in table 1 and i struggling with the following syntax: update table2 set grade = (select grade from table1 where table1.pupilid and table1.subject = table2.pupilid and table2.subject) where exists select grade from table2 where table2.pupilid and table2.subject = table1.pupilid and table1.subject) But SQL wont allow me to use AND statement Hoping someone can helpout or any guidance appreciated