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Mimio has released their MimioStudio software as an MSI for quite some time and although it installs fine quietly with no interface it hangs when deploied with GPO. I have heard of MST changes that makes it work but have not been able to track them down. Has anyone else managed this? I wish Mimio would just fix their installer as other than that their software is rather good. Edit: found this https://mimio.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2170/kw/group%20policy but its still not much help for a GPO deploy, I may be having a thick day though. Edit2: the installer is avalible here and fixes flash issues with Mimio and Flash above v11: http://www.mimio.dymo.com/en-us/Support/Downloads.aspx

I have tried searching for this and found similar, but sufficiently different to believe that the reports were not the same. So, I post about our problem. We are starting to apparently randomly see Windows 7 hang at the 'Welcome' screen when logging in. I do not believe that it is terminal, as I have left a machine over the weekend with the 'Welcome' screen spinning icon constantly rotating only to find the machine fully fit the following Monday. Last this week we left one of the machines for over 5 hours with the icon rotating before we had to crash it out. Unfortunately, being random and a small school, the small percentage of times that a machine logs in having the issue and these things do not get reported in a timely manner or simply being grouped under 'machine didn't work', its been difficult to get an exact idea of when this problem started occuring. The ICT servers and clients were a new in the summer, so it was a clean build. However, about a month back, the network topology was changed and it is possible that the issue crept in with this, masked with another issue since probably resolved (no reported re-occurrence) - however, that week was a major update from Microsoft plus Java, Flash, Acrobat all wanted to do their updates, so alot was going on that week. The network topology change was a change to the routing. The 4 subnets we originally routed using RRAS on the main server, but this has since changed to doing to routing on a TMG Firewall box as part of Forefront TMG. As a result, default gateways changed and initially we incorrectly has a routing issue with the AD machine having multiple NIC's causing intermittent LDAP failures. This has since been resolved and the AD server just now has the single NIC. However, whilst random blank desktops and the like have now gone away, the hang on Welcome screen persists. As routing is now done in TMG, we have all the routing logs available and, apart from IGMP multicast packets to (off the top of my head) 224.0.0.22 being blocked by the firewall, everything seems explainable. No errors as such appear in the Windows machines event logs either. I do however have some theories: 1. The IGMP routing packets are needed for something. 2. Machines go to standby and there are issues with it cleanly waking up 3. User error A couple of weeks back, by luck, I was in the ICT suite alone running some tests. Then about 7 users appeared wanting an impromptu use of the room which I said that they could. Of the seven or so users, most machines logged in in a matter of ten seconds or so, but two failed (hung with rotating icon at 'Welcome') to log in first time and a second time and one of these a third time. What I noticed from this was that one of the failed users had incorrectly used on at least one occasion used an incorrect password, yet it still hung. This may also corroborate my experience that when a machine hangs at welcome and is then crashed out, the previous users credentials are prompted at next login, not the failed user. I also notice that even log is clean, no evidence of much activity at all, but, possibly all noting a major time change due to coming out of standby. Machines are Dell Optiplex running Windows 7 Pro. Latest service patches. They have the fix for slow windows startup due to solid background fixed in April and, unrelated to the issue as the issue occurred before it was installed, they have the new hotfix for preventing the occasional double login prompt. Servers are Windows 2008R7 running physical (AD,DNS etc) and virtual (TMG firewall and routing). Going back to my theories... 1. I do not believe that the IGMP:0 multicast packets are anything useful and can legitimately be blocked, hence TMG does this by defaults (I have yet to find a way of enabling these in TMG 2010 otherwise I would have tried this already). However, we had multiple failures in the office last week and I thoroughly cross referenced the firewall/router logs - I believe that our firewall/router logs are a complete list of all intra-subnet requests. On one day, one of the three office machines failed and, checking the router logs, this was the only machine that put out a IGMP:0 multicast request. However, on a different day, all the machines put out the multicast request yet all successfully logged on. So if IGMP:0 is needed, its not critical in some cases, or, the request is being satisfied by something on the same subnet. 2. I'm slowly trying different permutations of standby and hibernate timeout settings, but am not making too much progress. However, I have had reported that one of the office machines failed to start even after it had been previously rebooted. Am currently trailing some machines with auto shut-down at night but its too early to see if this improves matters. 3. Whilst I witnessed this happen to the same two users one at least two logon occasions, I have also has this happen to me when logging into the domain admin account. Please, any suggestions...

Hi, I have had lots of reports of SIMS and PARS running slowly. One example I have seen myself is that sometimes when a teacher tries to save a register on PARS, it takes a long time. I've seen it take about 7 minutes and I'm told that it's taken over 25 minutes before. It used to take a couple of seconds... The person who normally deals with SIMS and PARS is not well at the moment and won't be back in work for a while. After looking at some other posts on this forum I have tried watching the Activity Monitor for our database, but I don't really know what I'm watching to be honest. I have seen the "Waiting Tasks" reach over 1600, don't know if that is normal or not. I have attached a couple of screen shots of the activity monitor with the processes list sorted by the "Block By" column. I don't know if anybody was stuck on saving when these screenshots were taken. We are currently running SQL 2005 Enterprise and getting ready to upgrade to 2008. Thanks, Daniel