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You could test whether the user exists: $msoluser = Get-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName $line.UserPrincipalName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue if($msoluser){ write-host "User exists" } else{ write-host "Need to create user" # create user and send email }

We've used Smoothwall for nearly five years and have never had antimalware or deep packet inspection either. The only instances of malware that we've ever encountered have been on staff laptops that have picked them up at home.

I've copies of the ISOs (x86 and x64) - PM me if you'd like a copy.

Yes, it looks like that will work - also check out https://goo.gl/8rB3CE. We chose to use a CSV file for creating users as it gave us a bit more flexibility for adding licenses and also for using random password generated in Excel. Also, once you've got that info in a CSV you can then use it to mail merge login details to end users. We used AD for our user accounts, so moving to Dirsync made good sense for us, but it'd probably be of little benefit in your scenario. Good luck.

I would have thought that you'd be better using Powershell to create users in Office 365 using data from your SQL database. The only advantage of using AD and Dirsync is that (normally) AD is your user logon database, and so AD user password changes are synced to Office 365 accounts and everything can pretty much be managed on premise - including deleting accounts. When we manually created Office 365 accounts in Powershell, I used an Excel spreadsheet to create random passwords, which the Powershell script then assigned to each user.

It's been a while since I last used it, but the Office Customization Tool allows you to add custom template files - check out more details at this link: Office 2010 – Deploying custom fonts across all applications - EMEA Office Support Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

Many thanks for this tip Norphy. I was trying to deploy to VMWare Workstation and kept getting a failure during partitioning - removing the recovery partition sorted it. Interestingly, no problem deploying to Hyper-V though.

Has anyone got the update showing on their MS Volume Licensing site yet? Or is it okay to use the Technet Evaluation version to upgrade an existing installation?

I'm sorry about that, but don't worry - it's not a pressing matter. Cheers.

We've had an old MacBook Pro circa 2006 'donated' to the school by an ex-pupil. It's in full working order, but still has all the old user's files on there. I'd like to keep it, but I need to securely wipe the hard drive and re-install. And there's the problem. I don't have an OS disk. I've checked with Apple, and I can buy 10.6 Snow Leopard, but I've only got 512MB or RAM, so that won't work. So, I was wondering, if anyone had an ISO file of version 10.4, for Intel processor, I could have? I'm assuming I can just burn it to disk and do a fresh install? Many thanks.

We use port 80 for our SSL Cookie Session login page for Smoothwall? Admin login is on port 441.

If you haven't got any access control setup on your Zonedirector, I wouldn't worry about it. It was the ACL for our WLANs that stopped the SSL login page working for us. If you haven't configured ACLs, then that won't be the problem.

I'm assuming you have an allow entry for Smoothwall. With our setup, I found that I had to change my ZoneDirector ACL to 'Allow all by default', set the entries I wanted to allow as No. 1 - 7 and then set a final entry at No. 8 to Deny our entire subnet. Previously I had it set to 'Deny all by default' with entries to allow, but couldn't get the SSL login to work. Changing to the above sorted that. Hope that helps for you.

We don't have Scratch installed on a shared drive. I made an msi, and we deploy it to machines via group policy. Sorry I can't help further.

That's how we do it. Things sound like you've got it right, but here's a copy of our ini file; we set the drive letter to H: (which is the pupils' home folder). No other drives are visible in Scratch. [Global] DeferUpdate=1 ShowConsole=0 DynamicConsole=0 ReduceCPUUsage=0 ReduceCPUInBackground=0 3ButtonMouse=0 1ButtonMouse=0 UseDirectSound=1 PriorityBoost=1 B3DXUsesOpenGL=1 CaseSensitiveFileMode=0 EnableAltF4Quit=0 VisibleDrives=H: Home=H:

Exactly; it looks a really good product, but I can't find anybody who's using it or a review on the web. It seems like a really good solution for schools where budgets are tight.

Thanks. Hopefully someone who uses it will post a comment?

We're considering some server virtualisation and part of the process is looking at backup and recovery options. Has anyone here used Hyperoo (Hyper-V Virtual Backup Software - Hyperoo for Hyper-V backup? It looks a decent product at a good price (unless I'm missing something)? Thanks for reading and replying.

We use logon and logoff scripts to populate (and clear) logged on users. We query the number of logged on users every 15 mins and write it to a text file so we can look at statistics. You could probably do something similar to update a webpage?

If you run the daily report it'll show you what sites are pulling the most bandwidth. Depending whether you have and filtering in place this is likely to be media streaming sites like YouTube, we7.com, or grooveshark.com

I don't know why I bother?

I have a vbscript to do this. Just make sure the word files are in a folder then drag the folder onto the script to print. Make sure the default printer is set first though! Might want to try with a couple of documents first, just to be safe Print Word XML Files.zip

Sorry, forgot to mention; the price of £2.20 was for 2 years.

We bought 'Forefront TMG Web Protection Service' licensing from Academia. This was on a Select agreement and was 'per-device'. The cost was £2.20 per device.

You could put in details of a test account and then re-set the domain password of the account. You should then get an authentication box where the user can enter the correct details?