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Hi We are did migration our Capita SIMS to PupilAsset. Anybody using Pupil Asset? Thank you

Hi All As you'll all know (and perhaps even be bored of hearing by now) we've been G Suite Partners for quite some time now. Instead of keeping a focus on the tech/chromebook side of things we've always been more honed on the services side. From our ongoing Ipad buyback, to our parental contribution scheme all the way through to our raft of G Suite project and support offerings. We've recently refreshed them, cutting them from 6 down to 3. We felt the need to simplify and bring more of them together, here's how we did it

We have 30 Terminal Server/RDS CAL's for our current terminal server (2008) and will be building a new terminal server (2008 R2)during summer, can these licences be migrated or do we need R2 licences?

I'm moving my SIMS server across to a shiny install of Server 2008 and SQL 2008. The migration has gone fine from what I can tell but I now need to move the Document Server. As I understand it, I should just need to run SIMSINST, pick the Document Server bit and sit back. However, it keeps failing with a message that I must have .net v1.1 to install the Document Server. Obviously, .net v2 was bundled with Server 2008 and I have every version since then installed. There is no way to install .net v1.1 on Server 2008 AFAIK. HELP!

I've been forced by Eset to migrate the virtual appliance (centos). This is something in years of ownership I've not been required to do before.. The push to the cloud solution is pervasive, the nomenclature is misleading. it took 3 attempts at reading guides, not understanding the nomenclature to find out what was required or the problem was. I now know that the upgrade involves me creating a new virtual machine, the instructions are spartan and not thorough. They tell me to make a new machine and spec the gen and ram but they don’t tell you to use the provided VHDX… I guess obvious but these are instructions not vague guides. Their support said they expected users to be familiar with hyperV! I thought I was going crazy, missing a step! Got a new problem, can’t log in to new VM, can’t find the answer, ask again tech support… article, great… Article says what the issue is and how to fix, type in the instruction “blah blah blah”…. Where? How? Again No Details…just assumptions. Terminal on the VM, nope, no option, SSH.. maybe but won’t accept credentials… reset credentials.. complexity not met?!?!! (fine) too short 18 or more chars….FFFS.. fine.. (existing creds just created 30 minutes ago didn’t meet these either but FML I guess.) Finally login as Admin… you need to be root to make these changes…… buttt clench. Root access denied.. access denied…. FFS.. more reading “root can’t use SSH” FFSS SFGSFS. This is why FULL instructions are needed! I hate ESET! I’m not renewing, this blows.

I have currently built a server for Hype-V purposes, I want to be able to take my physical server machines and migrate them to a virtual machine. Is there a way of doing this? One thing i am worried about is the drivers for the physical machine stopping the virtual machine from running! would this be a problem? My Hyper V is running on Windows Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 and my physical Servers are running on Windows server 2008 R2

We currently gave Exchange 2010 on site and are looking to migrate to Exchange 2016 and then possibly go hybrid with Office365. Has anybody else done this? Ideally we would like to move to Office365 but due to the layout and size of our site if the internet goes down on site Exchange allows staff still to communicate.

Hi, We are a secondary school with 230 workstations - all networked as RM CC3. We are currently investigating whether to move to a standard vanilla network with Windows 7 or stick with RM and go CC4. The easiest option seems to be RM CC4 as there are only two of us in the department - Me (the technician) and the Network manager. Has anyone moved from CC3 to Vanilla? What kind of work was involved? We are thinking of using a consultancy company to help us with the initial install, migration of users, exchange e.t.c. so if anyone has any recommendations that would be useful. We have a Year to do this so we are thinking of setting up a new vanilla domain with windows server 2008 and a few workstations to test policies, software on e.t.c. It would be really helpful if you could share your personal experiences, costs and the time to migrate from CC3 to vanilla (or CC4) as we are currently at the stages of deciding which road to go down. Thanks Lee

Hi All, We're in the process of migrating to Bromcom. I've been going through all the thid-party services we use and making sure they will work with Bromcom. I had been assuming that anything that connected via Wonde would move to the new MIS quite happily, but Vericool, a cashless catering provider, have said that it will take a day and cost us £750+VAT. While the cost is annoying, I'm more worried that if we go ahead with the migration, loads of services will turn around and charge us before their service starts working with the new MIS. Can anyone who has migrated to any MIS confirm if this was the norm with a Wonde migration, or is Vericool just atypical? Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone! I installed FOG 6 months ago on a random PC to test it out. Due to its stellar performance I put in for a new server funding dedicated to it and have only just recieved the funds for this. My problem is that I have got over 100 hosts and about 6 images plus some snapins. How do I go about moving the whole FOG installation to another box with a different IP address but also have all the current hosts talk to the new server? Both FOG boxes are running Ubuntu if it makes a difference. Has anyone done this? Steve