moving the computer object in another OU, changing the computer description to the “owner” of the PC and so on. Well, we have been using RIS/WDS for a long time now, but we always had to do several things manually after the rollout, e. In the last weeks I did a lot in order to optimize our workstation deployment process. Well, what do you think? Do you have comparable values for such environments in view of monthly costs of maintenance? Do you have experience with printer consolidation? Tell me something ?
Unfortunately I don’t know much about the “financial” stuff, but I think that’s a fair price – particularly with regards to the simplification of the driver management and decreased cost for supplies (we order new ink cartridges and toner very often and have three boards full of them). We have to pay around 35 euro per month for one device, including 5000 mono pages und 1000 color pages, supplies and service/maintenance (further mono pages cost 0,012 Euro and color pages 0,05 Euro each). He offered the C20P print system, which meets our demands. The background is that we already have copiers and fax machines from them for several years now and there are existing leasing contracts for these devices and – most important – we have a good relationship to them. Some months ago I talked to a sales guy from Konica-Minolta. Considering central positioning of printers and buying printers which can handle the incurred printing volume I come to the conclusion that ~10 devices are sufficient (besides of the copiers, which won’t be replaced because they’re also used for scanning documents). In order to fix that, I think about how many printers our employees really need. Furthermore most of our printers don’t support ethernet, so they are connected to workstations via USB and shared. The effort to maintain this is just too high.
We use to buy color inkjets (even photo printers :S), mono laserprinters, mono and color copier systems resulting in 98723429384723 different drivers (PCL and PS in some cases). You see that we are far away from that.Ībove from that we currently don’t have a standard printer model. Some day I did read some article which said that 10-12 employees per printer is cost-effective. ~60 printers (including copiers with print function, excluding barcode printers for document archiving).~80 employees (just the “office people”).Regarding printer consolidation, let me tell you some facts (or just thoughts, because my mind is racing atm )) anyway. I guess that I don’t have to explain the benefits of consolidation.
So you have to clean up this folder which can easily done by a logon/logoff script and this little tool. Outlook’s own folder for storing temporary files (attachments and such) is stored in the variable OutlookSecureTempFolder in the windows registry (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Outlook\Security in my case). And above from that Outlook 2002 can only count up to 99 and then fails with the “file not found” error ?Ĭleaning up the temporary files isn’t the solution. In this case it looks like the user had not cleaned up his temporary internet files for quite some time. So Outlook tries to save a temporary copy of the file in temporary internet files and when a file with the same name already exists, Outlook is adding a number to the filename. So I opened up ProcMon on his system, set the filesystem filter, did a search for “Angebot” and finally saw this:ĥ95 15:10:31 OUTLOOK.EXE:2140 CREATE C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\username\Lokale Einstellungen\Temporary Internet Files\OLK121\Angebot.pdf NAME COLLISION Options: Create Access: 00120196ĥ96 15:10:31 OUTLOOK.EXE:2140 CREATE C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\username\Lokale Einstellungen\Temporary Internet Files\OLK121\Angebot1.pdf NAME COLLISION Options: Create Access: 00120196ĥ97 15:10:31 OUTLOOK.EXE:2140 CREATE C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\username\Lokale Einstellungen\Temporary Internet Files\OLK121\Angebot2.pdf NAME COLLISION Options: Create Access: 00120196Ħ93 15:10:31 OUTLOOK.EXE:2140 CREATE C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\username\Lokale Einstellungen\Temporary Internet Files\OLK121\Angebot99.pdf NAME COLLISION Options: Create Access: 00120196 After some research I found out that the filenames of most attachments were “Angebot.pdf” (the German word for “offer”). (Don’t know if this has been fixed in recent Outlook versions, we use 2002 here…)Īn employee called and explained the following error to me: He was trying to open different attachments from his sent mails and got randomly a “file not found” error.