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Try connecting to the console; open the run command and type: mstsc -v server_name -console

I can echo the replies about getting proper advice. It's vital to get a shoe that suits your foot type and running style. It might cost a bit more for your first pair, but once you've found out what suits you you'll find the same shoes much cheaper online.

I hope you've thought about your backup solution. The backup utility that comes with Server 2008 is not Exchange aware (as we discovered to our cost). We just bought Backup Exec 12 as a consequence.

Backup the GPO and then restore it; this normally fixes things like this.

Add a virtual machine to your network. Make it a DC and transfer roles etc. Demote and remove old machine. Add new machine with same name and IP. Promote to DC, transfer roles and then demote and remove virtual machine. If I were you I'd consider having a second DC for fault tolerance.

What column?

Here's a vbscript I use to delete log files. I'm sure you can tweak it for your needs: '========================================================================== ' ' NAME: DeleteLogFiles.vbs ' ' AUTHOR: Jim Williams ' DATE : 07/08/2006 ' ' COMMENT: Deletes log files (or any other type) by age. Uses the file ' creation date to specify file to delete. '========================================================================== Option Explicit ' Set constants for log file paths and maximum age of files const LogPath1 = "\\server6\c$\winnt\system32\logfiles\w3svc1" const LogPath2 = "\\server6\c$\WINNT\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC3" Const LogFileAge = 30 'WScript.Echo LogPath1 DeleteFilesByDate logpath1, LogFileAge 'WScript.Echo logpath2 DeleteFilesByDate logpath2, LogFileAge Sub DeleteFilesByDate(ByVal path, ByVal age) ' Deletes files over a certain age Dim objFSO Dim objFolder Dim colFiles Dim objFile Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(path) Set colFiles = objFolder.Files 'WScript.Echo "More than " & age & " days old:" For Each objFile In colFiles ' If file is over age then delete If (objFile.DateCreated < Date - age) Then 'WScript.Echo "Deleting..." 'WScript.Echo objFile.Name & ": " & objFile.DateCreated objFile.Delete End If Next ' Tidy up Set objFSO = Nothing Set objFolder = Nothing Set colFiles = Nothing End Sub

Do you want the distinguished name for the computer and user, or just the short name? The code you posted retrieves the dn and works fine for me. What error message do you get?

What about: Set WshNetwork = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network") strComputer = WshNetwork.ComputerName strUser = WshNetwork.UserName

Any chance you have Kyocera printers installed with different versions of the same driver? We had a similar problem when we added a new printer to our server with an updated driver. You need to make sure that all the printers use the same version of the driver; the new driver should have drivers for your old printers too. If this is your problem you'll need to delete the kyocera printers and drivers from client machines before adding them back.

Any of the jobs that you mention are probably going to want a degree of some sort and/or lots of relevant experience. What I meant about looking at jobs is to keep an eye out the kind of jobs that you'd like to move into and then see what qualification and experience they're after. A lot of jobs advertised on-line will allow you to download the person specification that should include essential and desirable criteria. For jobs in papers/magazines you can always ask for the job pack to be sent to you - you don't have to apply; just get a feel for what the employers are looking for. Then you can decide on the best way forward for you.

I think if you've already got a degree (in any subject) and some good experience in IT then you might not gain much by doing an IT specific degree. I haven't got a degree so the Foundation Degree from Lancaster along with my experience was well worth it. I haven't made a decision yet on whether to do the extra two years to gain an MSc. That depends on the options available; transferring to an OU degree is one option though. Because the Foundation Degree is focussed on those people working in IT it's very relevant; the programming side is necessary to for the higher level (level 3?) part of the course and would help when moving on to an MSc. The other big bonus for me was that I managed to get my employer to pay for all the courses and give me to time off to attend one day per month. I'd say it's worth looking at jobs in the area that interests you most and see what qualifications/experience they're asking for. You may find that a lot of jobs specify 'Educated to Degree Level or equivalent' without specifying a degree subject.

I found that NASA and CASA were pretty straightforward. When I did them the main emphasis was on Windows based systems, but I think there's much more generic type information now. CANE was another step up, but pretty manageable. It's much more focussed on specific areas than the two previous courses. CSNP was pretty hard. The workload was quite high and fitting it in around work and home was tough sometimes. The whole thing was based on software development and culminated in a project where we had to produce a demo of a working application. This was done as a team with various members taking on different parts of the coding. Prior to coding there was a module on software development to introduce project management; useful for other things, not just software development. Coding was done using C#. This was especially hard for a couple of our team who were novice programmers. Fortunately, myself and one of the others (only four of us on the course) had a bit of programming experience so we assigned areas based on ability. The focus of the coding was on network aware applications. We had to code a Battleships game that could be started on two machines and played across the network. We also coded a paint type program that included a chat facility and the ability to share your drawing with the person you were chatting to. The final program was a football based client app that included fixtures, news, travel information. Live streaming of football matches. Chat client for football based chat. Option for the user to upload pictures and video taken at matches and tag uploads for other users to search and display. The help and support of the tutors at Lancaster was fantastic and I would very highly recommend any of the courses that Lancaster offer.

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Load user.man as a hive file into Regedit and make sure that the security permissions are set so that your users can read it. If not; change the permissions and then unload to save.

I completed this Foundation Degree (Network Systems Engineering - NASA, CASA, CANE, CSNP) last year if anyone wants any more info?

It is indeed. Sorry if I went off the point; I thought it might be useful to share the way I did it. Everything now moved to DFS and working nicely

I've just done this using mtedit.exe - it's in the same folder as GPMC. Basically: 1. Backup group policy 2. Open mtedit and load policy from backup location 3. Change destination to the new location; folder path only 4. Save migration table 5. Right click on original group policy and choose Import Settings; follow the prompts and point it at the migration table Warning: Once you've done this any packages will be redeployed; there's no way to get around this.

We use WebDav. It includes connections to users' home folders. Permissions are as per domain security.

We had some under desk mounts, but they just proved to be very popular foot rests. After a while they started to pull out of the underside of the desk; the looser they got the more they were kicked/swung. In the end we had to remove them and put the computers back on the desk.

We had a look at one of these from SCL. To be honest, we thought they were pretty ugly. The surround on the monitor is too big and it's a bit high for the smaller kids (Years 7 and 8).

I have TalkTalk Option 3 at £21 pm. This includes: line rental, free local, national and international (Europe, USA plus others) calls and up to 8 meg broadband. I've had if for about 2 years and no problems with the service.

Use GPO to change the security permission on the Administrative Tools folder in the All User start menu so they can't get into it? Startup script to do the same, or even delete the folder from the all user start menu? If you've got access to Control Panel you don't need it.

We use SRP path rules to ban exe, lnk, cmd, bat etc for all drive except C:\ and one of our mapped drives where students only have read access. This works well and, if reqd, we have added Unrestriced Hash rules for know allowed apps. We use group policy to disallow listed programs from running from the C:\ drive.

I had a similar problem. Have a look at my post here