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The digital activity is an hour slow, any idea how to fix this? Outlook 365 calendar is set to UTC - London. Local PC time zone is the same.

Hello all, My AcctivInspire startup really slow lately. It usually takes about 3 - 4 minutes. Please help "How to fix it". Thanks a lot. TyDo.

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We have like many, procured our summer allocation of computers (Dell Optiplex 760 Small Form), they turned up yesterday, we un-boxed them and set them up in our imaging lab. We had 20 on a session and that's when hell was realised! Image just one (forced multicasting for the test) and we get a solid 690MB/Min on ghost 8.2 Image two or more and we get 2-6MB/Min, now we tried this on both multicast & unicast! We tried a few different specs of computers two hpdc5100 on the same cables produced 600+MB/Min, Even the Steps taken so far. Downloaded the latest packet drivers from Intel for the nic in the machine, this yielded no difference at all. Tried them on their own switch with fresh cables, no wimpy switch either, Cisco 2960G, still no joy. Our last solution is not ideal, but we will put the hard drives in to other computers and image. Dare i ask if anyone else has seen such problems before? It feels to me like a faulty network card driver/firmware

1000Mbit of internet here Classcharts and Parentmail (and a number of other sites) will offer print previews, or reports as a downloadable PDF. The issue I'm having is that when you go to download one using MS Edge it'll open a new tab, pause for 15-20 seconds then close the tab and the download is available. Using Firefox (on my test PC only) the download will open the download dialog instantly. (these are tiny PDFs around 100kb) not sure where to start, this seems to be an edge problem but I did disable the antivirus during testing to no change. I allowed popups but this didn't help, turned off enhanced security for the website, no change. Ideas? (other than use Chrome) EDIT Edge will download immediately if I use the save link option.. ((Not always available.))

Hello fellow edugeekers/SIMS frustratees, One of our receptionists has been noticing a significant lag in a few of the modules within SIMs, specifically when she is doing any work on attendance and with some reports. There are no errors thrown up, other parts of SIMS and the computer work fine. This is a recent issue and not a long-standing one with her account/her SIMS installation. Any suggestions?

Hello all, I really hope someone can help me here... Since I started here Policy Central has never worked properly. When I first started, the web based console would constantly throw SQL errors at me when I tried to review reports. This hasn't happened in a while, but what i'm experiencing now is it being really really slow. Some times it appears to load instantly, but sometimes it can take a very long time to get into the web based console. Having to sit there and wait whilst it loads. Anyone got any ideas? Would really appreciate it if someone can help. I have logged a call with Link2ICT, but they dont seem to be too bothered. I have asked for them to remove it from the server and then install it again, but I've been told I'd have to wait for to happen. How hard would it be to do that myself? Though I would rather just try and fix the problem rather than reinstalling. Many thanks.

I have recently been testing Windows 8 and its compatibility with the application suites used in our main ICT rooms - Thankfully no problems there! I have disabled the 'Show first sign-in animation' GPO so that I can see what is going on, besides most of our pupils have new laptops with windows 8 preloaded and know what they are doing. When I domain join one of these suite computers during a users first login I get the following screen This screen stays for a long time - I recorded 5 minutes several times. Entirely by accident one of the students realized that if you press CTRL + ALT + DEL to interrupt the Preparing Computer screen you can then access the desktop immediately. This makes me think that there isn't any vital config going on during this preparing computer stage and it is probably hanging. Has anyone else encountered this? I am not sure what to do about this long login wait. Thanks

Hi, Kind of posted about this yesterday but in the wroong section asking for the wrong advice. Our librarian has, over the last few days, had problems with the font drop down in office - (word, powerpoint and publisher at least - don't think she's tried the others). It juust opens, blank and then crashes the whole program. Takes ages to force close. Nothing else is running at the same time, I have been through and deleted about 90 fonts that were unneccesary (no idea how they got there but the PC has been there about 10 years so someone must've installed them before I worked here). Still the same problem. Not really sure where to go from here, no one else is having this problem to my knowledge. She has 2gb of RAM so more than enough for what she needs. Nothing else has changed on her set up recently. Anyone got any ideas? Really at a loss!

Since migrating our installation of SIMS.net to a new server recently, users have complained of very slow response when loading up the document server. Specifically when clicking Reports > Run Report, there is a delay of exactly 2 minutes 6 seconds before showing the list of reports. During this time, Sims.net application is not responsive. - Tested on server: no delay at all - Tested on three clients: exactly 2m 6s delay on all of them Whilst testing I've done the following: - switched-off on-access scanning (antivirus) on both client and server - ended all non-critical processes / stopped services - run three concurrent file transfers across the network to client using Robocopy to see if this affected this delay - it did not - run Filemon / Procmon to attempt to determine what might be causing this None of the above affect that 2m 6s delay when clicking Reports > Run Report. - Server: Win 2008 Std 32bit - Clients: Win XP SP3 32bit - Sims.net version currently 7.142 (Autumn 2011 I think) This wasn't an issue before I migrated the server installation to my new Win 2008 instance and re-installed doc server. Rather than posting results of my Filemon traces here, can anyone help given the above info? I haven't re-installed Sims.net on the clients yet... Many thanks! Mat

Good Morning everyone, We've had generally slow internet access for ages, which we're sure (following various tests) is a result of something inside school. We do have what I believe to be a strange network/DNS setup (but it may be perfectly normal) so allow me to explain: Our three DCs are normal DNS servers, each replicates etc etc. These are SCS1, SCS2 and SCS3 for the purposes of this thread. They resolve internal DNS fine. However nothing on our LAN has access to the county WAN/ISP feed other than our Censornet proxy server and mail server - these have two NICS, one on each. Thus no DNS request for an external domain will resolve from a workstation. Censornet (linux based) has to have an internal DNS as its first DNS otherwise it fails to identify our workstations via reverse lookup. It does have second and third DNS pointing to County, but being Linux it always tries them in order whereas windows has specific DNS servers per NIC. Thus when the internal domain lookups timed out, Censornet then tried looking to county and immediately got a result and displayed the page. Over christmas, I came up with a plan which seemed logical. I had our server support team install secondary DNS on the mail server (which has LAN and WAN nics). SCS1,2,3 now have a forwarder set so any external domain requests are forwarded immediately to Mail1. Censornet points directly at Mail1, so it can lookup external domains, but also can resolve internal stationnames. Now, first set of questions: a1): Does this seem ok as a DNS setup? a2): Should Mail1 receive updates periodically from SCS1,2,3? There are a couple of stations which don't have PTR records on Mail1 but do on SCS1,2,3 until I tell Mail1 to reload/transfer the zone from master. a3): Which should I be doing - Reload or Transfer - in this situation? a4): Is there something I should check to see why this isn't happening? SCS1,2,3 are set to notify all the NameServers listed, which I understood to mean Mail1 should therefore request an update when it is notified? Secondly, when I set this up at Christmas our internet speeds soured through the roof (as Censornet no longer had to wait for internal DNS to timeout). However they have dwindled to a snails pace over the last two months. Until yesterday evening - I was reloading the zone from master and managed to crash DNS on Mail1, so I restarted the DNS service. I came in this morning and internet access is back to full steam ahead. My thoughts go back to our old ISA server which we had to periodically restart to maintain internet speeds. b1): Why does it appear that I need to restart the DNS service on mail1 periodically to maintain internet access speed? b2): Is there something I can change to stop this happening? I'm happy to schedule it every weekend or suchlike if neccessary but it strikes me as odd. Sorry for the long post - I hope someone can cast some ideas in my direction. TIA, Peter

Hi, I have been having this really annoying issue where the internet seems to drop to an unusable speed say 0.4Mbps. When I do ping tests these either drop out or take an unusually long time. I can still ping the router no problem. Each time this happens i have been going to the router and performing a Cross over test and the speeds are coming back just as they should with no drop in speed and all ping tests are coming back. the router has been replaced two times and upgraded to a Cisco 2800 series; however this issue keeps occurring. I have been onto the main switch and even reset this to its default settings. I also reset the router and this does not improve the speed. any help will be much appreciated as the slow internet is driving me mad! Not to mention all the teachers! Thanks James

We have been experiencing some issues after the database was upgraded by our SIMS support to 2012, they have looked at it a few times and have concluded that the issue is with our network. However I don't see any issues. The issue we are experiencing is that clients connecting to SIMS take minutes to load and is longer than it used to be, however when signing in to SIMS on the local server the load time is much quicker. We are running full version of SQL 2012 on a Windows 2008 R2 server. Is there anything I can do to diagnose this issue and what type of network issues can cause this? Gramzon

We have had a new website developed for us and are in the process of setting it up. It is a PHP based site with MySQL running on a Windows 2008 R2 Server with IIS. Although the website works and can be accessed it is very very very slow to load each page. My thoughts are that it is have trouple connecting efficiently to MySQL however I have very little experience in troubleshooting these issues. The Web Development company we are using are out of ideas. Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated - I can PM you the link to the site if needed.

We've got about 6 Samsung N140 netbooks doing nowt. They have Win 7 on them but they're really sluggish and we need them to be faster- especially with today's demanding requirements for speed and efficiency. Anyone got any ideas what i could do to get them rocking?

We have integrated a hundred Macs into our network. When ever a Mac tries to read a directory on a Windows 2003 R2 file share or Windows 2008, it takes an inordinate amount of time. Even listing a simple sub-directory with just 3 1K files in it can take upwards of a minute. Now we installed an afp file share and speed is dramatically faster under exact same testing conditions. But of course we are a Windows and Linux shop running AD. And even if we bought three or four Mac Pros and set up afp file shares, we'd have no way to manage them. This problem of slow smb directory and file listing is driving us crazy. We have tested for months, replaced a core switch, tested and replaced cables, new N AP. All work perfectly with Windows client. No delays etc. Even simultaneously with Macs and Windows laptops, Windows machines are fine. Any suggestions, we are going crazy?

Trying to install "AVerTouch Win v1.3.2097.0 (msi)" for an avervision F17+ that the English Dept. purchased without consultation. Anyhow above having to download the drivers at 300kb/s (so 20 minute download) the bloody software keeps faulting out saying I have to be an administrator! Well I am an admin so I suspect another issue.. anyone running this software? (I've tried compatibility and Run AS)