Author Archives: James Rudd

About James Rudd

Network Administrator at Sydney Boys High School

HP Printers – “Printer driver is not installed” on Windows 2008 R2

Recently I migrated all our printers from a Server 2003 R2 x32 print server to Server 2008 R2 (x64). During this upgrade all the printers had x64 drivers added and their security settings checked. However, I kept experiencing problems in … Continue reading

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Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Mail

I have just been setting up a new Windows Server 2008 R2 box up as a terminal server. As part of this I enabled the Desktop Experience feature, however this also enabled Windows Mail. Windows mail seems to generate large … Continue reading

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Moodle Structure Problems

Recently I discovered our Moodle gradebook was playing up and not correctly recording marks from assignments as well as been unable to assign categories from quizes.
I tracked the problem down to the Moodle database losing all its default entries for its tables. Continue reading

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Google Earth Zenworks Deployment

How to deploy Google Earth to C:\Program Files\Google\Google Earth instead of Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Google Earth by removing AdminUser checks from the MSI. Continue reading

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