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Hi, When our employees and students get new laptops every few years, we load an image on the new machine with apps etc, bind it to AD, login in with the AD user to create a mobile account. We would then copy the user data from old machine to the new by target disk mode, drag and drop. Just wondering how others accomplish this every summer in the edu world?

Hello! We've got a new server running Server 2008 R2. Our old server, currently in operation, is running 2003. Is it possible to just blitz everything over onto the new one? Group policies, usernames etc...? I was thinking if i tidy up the current one it would be simple just to send everything over to the new server. Is this possible???

We transfer lots of data with lots of other companies/organistions. I've yet to find a company that dosen't tell you that they fully comply with the data protection act and your data will be completely secure. but what checks (due diligence) do you carry out prior to transfering data that all is secure and above board? Often decisions have been made to transfer the data before it gets to me to do and when I ask questions about the organistations and their security I get vague answers and told to get on with it. Does anyone have a "checklist" I could issue to senior/middle management to use when signing up to transfer data?

Hi, Wondering if anyone has done this..... We have an LA issued domain name .sch.uk that I want to transfer to another nameserver (1 and 1) and change the IPS TAG. We are the registered owners according to Nominet. The LA dept are willing to release the domain. 1 and 1 are telling me they can't host that domain extension (typical, why they won't I don't know) Anyone moved a similar type of domain name to non LA host ? If so, to who ? Cheers in advance, Mikydoos

I need to transfer results from one aspect to a new aspect. I will then be deleting the old aspect. I thought I could do this but I cannot as the results are attached to result set eg Y10 term 1 or whatever. Is there a way round this? I don't see the point in preventing it. I assumed I could transfer them and it would retain the info like original input date and who the teacher was that entered it etc.

Thought I'd draw a quick link to this as it's bound to catch a few folks out. Joomla : WHM Migrate - configuration.php wiped (TIP) Scenario: Joomla installed on an CPanel server and you wish to move it to a new Cpanel server so you arrange (or DIY) the migration using the Migrate or Transfer account tools provided in WHM. WHM handles it all, hopefully and reports a success and you think great... Symptoms: Visiting the website suddenly starts bringing out erratic behaviour and suddenly the site is non responsive. I was able to get into the administration section, and then any changes I made to ANY files (configuration.php, virtuemart, etc...) all resulted in a wiped file. Cause: In my case Cpanel has obviously re-assigned a bunch of NOBODY (apache) owned files back to my actual user and this took me over the disk space quota for the account. Net result, CPanel just refuses to write any more data to the account and thus wipes files. Solution: You can either get your disk quota increased to cover the excess or start removing files you don't need... Once you've done this and got yourself back under quota you're sorted.. This applies equally to any site using script that creates or writes files and is error'd out by the quota limit.

Hello. One of my schools would like me to move all users’ data including shares online to Microsoft 365. What would be the best way to do this? The school already has a Microsoft tenant which they use for online teaching, Teams mainly. I’m really not an expert on this. Would all the shares like staff share be moved to Share Point or One Drive? Many thanks in advance!

Good Afternoon all, Just reaching out to any schools that might have moved from Schoolpod to Arbor and how you found success transferring CTF files across the two systems? We are planning for this move in the coming months and can foresee some pathing issues between the groups of data. Thanks for any constructive comments!

I wish to transfer DNS from a Windows 2000 SP4 Server (DC) to a Windows Server 2003 SP2 (also a DC). I've found this guide on the MS KB323383, but is there anything I should watch out for? I've never transferred DNS from one DC to another before in practice. Is it as easy as the guide states? Many thanks