Month: September 2007

Back in July I wrote about these errors and how they were happening because the DNS zones were not configured properly on one of our servers. Well, today I was reviewing the event log on a desktop PC and I just happened to notice a resurgence of the errors. After all being quiet for the…

I’m pleased to have discovered that Windows Live Writer can be used to compose messages in my newly established site support blog. I installed WordPress for this purpose and have managed to get it running properly after going through various new learning curves. These involved IIS6, MySQL and PHP as well as WordPress. Often in…

PROBLEM: When setting up a new account in WLW Beta 3 for a WordPress 2.2 blog, the following error is returned: Invalid Server Response – The response to the blogger.getUsersBlog method received from the weblog server was invalid. / Invalid response document returned from XmlRpc server CAUSE: A file loaded in xmlrpc.php is unable to…

Now for MySQL. After a lot of looking at documentation I installed MySQL Administrator, a GUI tool which is freely available from the main MySQL website. I had earlier installed the MySQL DBMS which I downloaded from their site last week. Working with PHP is not at all new to me, but both WordPress and…

Over the last few days I have been testing our third Riprep reference image. This one is mainly for our classroom PCs but I have found the HAL is the same one as the computer suite PCs use. So, in theory, the same image could work on both…maybe. The biggest hassle came with a .NET…

I have toyed with a few ideas for setting up a support site for intranet based staff use and did do a web page on one of our servers for a while. However the appeal of the blog and the mechanisms of it are such that I think this is by far the most preferred…

This thread on Technet Forums details the steps needed to get WDS happening. This is how far I have got down the WDS track. The boot.wim from the Vista DVD that we have self identifies as "Microsoft Windows Longhorn Setup (x86)" which I have left it as. While the image is being added I will…

Windows Deployment Services is Microsoft’s replacement for RIS (Remote Install Services). WDS development has been driven by the advent of Windows Vista; however, it is also capable of deploying Windows XP to client PCs. WDS is available as an update to Windows Server 2003 (in Service Pack 2) and will also be deployed with Windows…

In an ideal world every computer would be in a tower case and our computer suite desks would have proper tower bays with some form of integrated ducting. Unfortunately these objectives cannot always be met and so we have to adapt in order to achieve something that is functional, practical and above all, tidy. The…

Most users of RM Integris Student Management System in NZ should be aware by now that RM Australia-Pacific has taken over support of the product from Renaissance Education Division, as per the terms of an agreement dated 1st April this year. RMAP believe that this will help to improve the overall service delivery and performance…