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Thanks. I have looked at e-Safe and had a quote via Smoothwall (our current filter provider) who seem to be partnering them. The quote is for £6-£7 per user, per year. We have 1600 users, so that's a complete non-starter. I had a demo today on NetSupport DNA and actually really like the e-Safety part of it (which is the bit I'm most interested in). The thing that really stands out is the ease of use, which is (in my view) essential if you're going to ask a non-techie to monitor it - which we definitely want to do. We will still continue with an Internet filtering solution but I'd like to relax that a little to give pupils more freedom, whilst being able to keep an eye on trends and identify any concerns. I'd rather a pupil who was at risk (of self harming, for example) flagged alerts in school where there would be people to support them, rather than researching in their bedroom at home. I've a demo of Impero later in the week, so it will be interesting to compare their e-Safety solution.

NetSupport DNA certainly looks like it's got the e-safety side of things right. I've got a demo booked for next week, along with one for Impero, so it'll be interesting to compare the two - I'm only really interested in the e-safety aspect.

Our quote was for £6-£7 per pupil per year. With 1450 pupils that's way outside our budget!

I got a quote for e-Safe via Smoothwall and it's so expensive it's a non starter for us. I've had a look at NetSupport DNA (which looks pretty good) and will be looking at Impero too. I just wish that there was additional funding available to allow us to fully follow Ofsted guidelines on Prevent.

Yes please; I'd find that very useful.

How have you found Fortigate? What's the reporting like?

Having no meaningful experience with Linux, and feeling that I really should learn, which server distro would you recommend as a good starting point?

We use WebDAV too for staff and pupils to access home folders from home. I just wish Google would allow WebDAV access from a Chromebook.

You can set a mailbox to automatically forward email to another email address; normally leaving a copy of the email in the original mailbox.

With difficulty. When we decided that we'd allow Spotify we emailed students to tell them, and asked them to remove any music files they had stored in their home folders. We left it for a couple of weeks and then did a quick search for MP3 and had the worst offenders in for a chat. The word soon got round and the majority of files have been removed by pupils. There is always the threat that we can remove Spotify if people don't adhere to the rules.

With this setup, each user (pupil or staff) needs their own personal account to login to Spotify. We chose Spotify specifically because pupils could use it with a free account, rather than choosing another streaming service where users would need a paid account. The pupils love this...

We allow Staff and Year 10 and up to stream Spotify using the Web player. This decision was made in an attempt to stop kids downloading illegal mp3, or bringing them in from home. We have zero tolerance for this, but also realise that people want to listen to music as they work.

I'm sure I read somewhere (sorry, can't find it now) that this can happen if you run Windows updates before you copy the profile. Try configuring and copying the profile and then run updates. Found the thread: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/39659172-1917-4796-9c2e-9b1adfeced86/win-10-unattendxml-copyprofile-true-breaks-search-bar?forum=win10itprosetup

If it's currently the only server I'd keep it as a backup DC. There's no need to join workstations to a new Domain.

I actually bought the phone for my wife who's moved away from an iPhone. I've got a OnePlus One, but she wanted something a bit smaller. So far, she loves it and has found it much more user friendly that her iPhone 4.

On my original SCCM setup I installed SQL 2008, but the process should be the same. Set your sysadmin account as a member of the Local Administrators group. Open an elevated cmd prompt and CD to the drive with the ISO image. Run the following command to install (SQL 2008): setup.exe /q /ACTION=Install /ERRORREPORTING="False" /FEATURES=SQLENGINE,RS,AS,IS,SSMS,TOOLS,BIDS,ADV_SSMS,CONN /INSTANCENAME=MSSQLSERVER /INSTANCEDIR="C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server" /SQLSVCACCOUNT="NT AUTHORITY\System" /SQLSYSADMINACCOUNTS="BUILTIN\ADMINISTRATORS" /SQLSVCSTARTUPTYPE=Automatic /AGTSVCACCOUNT="NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" /AGTSVCSTARTUPTYPE=Automatic /RSSVCACCOUNT="NT AUTHORITY\System" /RSSVCSTARTUPTYPE=Automatic /ASSVCACCOUNT="NT AUTHORITY\System" /ASSVCSTARTUPTYPE=Disabled /ASSYSADMINACCOUNTS="BUILTIN\ADMINISTRATORS" /ISSVCACCOUNT="NT AUTHORITY\System" /ISSVCSTARTUPTYPE=Disabled /ASCOLLATION="Latin1_General_CI_AS" /SQLCOLLATION="SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS" /TCPENABLED="1" /NPENABLED="1" /IAcceptSQLServerLicenseTerms Run SQL Server Management Studio as Administrator and add your sysadmin to the list of Logins (Security -> Logins). Change Server Roles for this user to public and sysadmin. You should now be able to close SQL Server Management Studio and login as your sysadmin.

No problem. My phone took about four days to arrive.

It's yours! I'll send the link via PM.

Two invites have gone and the third is waiting for me colleague to decide if he wants it or not! If he doesn't, it's yours.

I got my OnePlus X last week and now have a spare invite if anyone would like it?

Does anybody know how to stop users browsing the network by hitting the Windows key and typing \\domain_name? There's not really anything they can get to, but I'd rather they didn't browse Netlogon and Sysvol.

Glad you got it working. Just out of interest, I use a log function that I can call when I want to write to a log file; it may be of benefit, or maybe not: function Write-Log { # Write to log file Param($header, $Message) $log_date = Get-Date Write-Output "[$($log_date)]: [$($header)]: $($Message)" >> $file_name } You'll need to set your log file location at the start of your script - I set a different one for each day: # File name should end up as: YYYY-MM-dd_Name.txt $LogDirectory = 'c:\Scripts\' $this_date = Get-Date $format_date = $this_date.ToString('yyyy-MM-dd') $file_name = "$($format_date)_Name.txt" $file_name = $LogDirectory.TrimEnd('\') + "\$($file_name)" #write to log file in script; example Write-Log 'Script running' 'Checking input file hours'

Maybe something like T-SQL: How to Generate Random Passwords - TechNet Articles - United States (English) - TechNet Wiki My example was for generating passwords in Excel, but I guess you're exporting straight to CSV and don't want the extra hassle of using Excel.

Yep, that look right. Glad I could help.

Nearly. You need to check for the MSOLUser within your Foreach. You can generate random passwords in Excel. This example will create a six char password that starts with upper case and finishes with two number. You could expand it further if you need more characters. =CHAR(RANDBETWEEN(65,90))&CHAR(RANDBETWEEN(97,122))&CHAR(RANDBETWEEN(97,122))&CHAR(RANDBETWEEN(97,122))&RANDBETWEEN(0,9)&RANDBETWEEN(0,9)