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    Cannot open chrome if an Office 365 program is running

    Hi All, One of my users is having an issue where if she has excel or any other office program running and then tries to open Chrome chrome will not open. She then has to restart her machine then open chrome first then office. Has anyone heard of that before and have a way to fix. Regards Max...
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    mini mac server turns itself off

    Hi All, we have a mini Mac server running osx 10.9.5 It has started turning itself off every night, if i go into System Preferences - energy Saver - Schedule, there is a setting to turn off everynight at 6pm is ticked. I have tried removing that tick but when i close preferences and reopen...
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    Computer keeps changing location

    Hi All, I set up a pc with win 7, installed all the software i needed to then i needed to join it to the domain to install some other software. Once that was all done I checked the system and it was still showing current location as Australia and format as English Australia. I logged in as a...
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    Office 2010 saving files as .tmp accross a network

    Hi All, Having an issue with some of my users. Moved them all over to office 2010 all seemed to be going ok but then some users started reporting that after they save there files to their network share, they are being converted to a .tmp file. Usually also having their name changed to random...
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    Mac printing issues with Departmental codes

    Hi All, The Boss has got himself a IMac, running 10.6.8, we have just upgraded our Toshiba MFD Printers. I'm not a mac person so i'm a bit stuck, we have set departmental codes on the the printer so they can monitor printing. Now without the department codes the bosses Mac can print fine, with...
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    USB files changed to strange symbols

    Hi All, Had a student show me her USB stick, she was saying all her files were strange looking. I opened the stick and all of the folders and files names have been changed to <?/>..< like symbols and the date last modified have all been changed to strange dates 2064, 1985, 2099,etc.. I scanned...
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    issues adding a 2nd dc to a 2003 domain

    Hey all, Using the site below as a referrence i added a 2nd dc to my 2003 domain. Everything went smooth, no errors showed up, and when it was all finished checked the new dc and The AD, sites and services and domains and trusts were all in the admin tools folder. The default first site name is...
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    Deleting old dc after data migration

    Hi all, ok so I carried out a DC server migration from an old box to a new one, all went well and users are now connecting to the new box as before. However after I did all the migration of shared folders etc... After leaving it overnight to settle down I shutdown the old server to test the...
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    Two seperate Internet connections

    Hi All, OK I have a school which has 2 seperate domains, 1 for staff\ teachers and one for students. I'm installing a new Server and merging the two domains into one domain. Is there a way i can send the teachers out through one internet connection and the students out the other either via...
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    Restricting user programs

    Hi All, Not sure of the best place to post this in so sorry if it's in the wrong forum. I need to find a way of restricting which programs a user can access when they login to a win7 pro machines. The programs are installed and run locally from the laptops, and the laptops are part of a...
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    Help with a script

    Hi Guys, I'm still very new to scripting so need some plain language advice on a solution. Below is a script i'm using to send shortcuts to desktops around the network. Works great however on the Line strAppPath = i want to add a np switch, this stops students printing a forrest...
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    merging two domains into one

    Hi all, one of the schools i manage they were setup with two domains, one for the staff and another for the students, both ar 2003 domains. These are completely seperate domains, on different machines, even kept in different parts of the school.( don't ask why cause i don't know) anyway...
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    Second Domain controller

    OK i have setup a second domain controller into and existing domain. The orginal dc is a 2003 sbs the second is a 2003 enterprise (Because that's our standard os for servers before someone asks why enterprise). When i fisrt opened AD from the new dc, opened ok, i could see all the users and...
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    Adding a 2003DC to an existing 2003sbs domain

    Hi All, I've hunted around the net and can't get a straight answer to this. I have an existing 2003sbs which is the DC. This machine has some major errors that keep popping up and so i would like to get rid of it. Now i have another machine i am building up at the moment but would like...
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    2 internet connections seperate staff and students

    Hi All, Ok a seperate fast internet connections has gone in at one of the schools i look after. They would like to keep the first connection they had and set it up so that staff use the fast connection and students use the old connection. Was thinking just set them up as different...
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    redirecting incoming mail

    Hi all, There is most likely a very easy answer to this but I'm having a brain fade, so if you can answer this or at least point me in the right direction you can have my first born, or a star,......... most likely a star.... Anyway I have a new admin person who has taken over two jobs and thus...
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    Veeam FastSCP

    Hi all am new to this product and still learning esx side of things. if i want to use Veeam Fastscp to backup the VM's on the esx hosts do the vm's need to be suspended first or can they be copied live? Regards Max Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level and beat you with...
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    Dismantling desktop PC's

    I work for a group that hires disabled people and they run a recycle center. They are starting up a E-recycling program for people to dump their old pc's. The boss has asked me to come up with a training program where i can teach the staff how to dismantle the old pc's, what to look for, what...
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    Version Update

    Hi All, A quick question regarding EPO server, does it upgrade the client version number as well as the dat, engine files? So eg i have version 8.5 on a machine can epo update that to version 8.6 or latter or do i have to upgrade each machine Regards Max Never argue with an idiot, they...
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    No power to pc

    Hi All we had an electrician come in today to install a new power point in the wall. He needed the power turned off to the building first though ( damn electrician scared of a little electricity :-) ) ( I'm joking before anybody goes off the deep end in a triad about electricity) So we shut down...

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