Invalid user name/password error when logging into Hosted SIMS

When logging into Hosted SIMS, the user may experience a local SIMS login box or the following error: This error will appear after the initial Remote Desktop Connection screen and after the blue/green Windows server screen where the user profile and group policy settings are being loaded. This is common when the user is logging…

Encryption – Unknown username

This FAQ will only need to be followed if there is not a duplicated machine name as per the following FAQ – http://faq.scomis.org/kb14883/   A customer will have created a new user to log onto encryption for a laptop. They then get an error when logging on which says “0xE0010020 unknown user name”. This is caused…

Changing a Hosted Applications user name – ie due to surname change

To change a hosted applications username following a request from the school (normally if someone gets married) firstly login to SIMSNET01 and rename the user’s account in Active Directory, making sure all fields get updated including the login name field. Connect to the users school SIMS database. Go to Focus, System Manager and re Windows…