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Wouldn't work for me using Firefox?

Have a look at AutoIT3 (http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3). You could easily knock up a program to run in the background at startup and start a timer when a web browser opens. Logging them off after a certain time would be easy too.

If you're moving to 2003 R2 it'd be well worth setting up DFS to make this easier in the future.

See my reply at: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/showthread.php?t=16735

Try removing Internet Explorer Enhanced Security from Add/Remove programs. This will prevent scripts being run from from network paths. If you don't want to do this you'll have to use Group Policy to add your servers to Local Intranet zones in IE. Add the UNC path (\\servername) in: User Config - Windows Settings - Internet Explorer Maintenance - Security zones and Content ratings - Local intranet

We use YAFPC - http://www.yafpc.net/ We installed it on some old hardware, put it on our network, and then added it to our server and shared it. When you send a print to it it sends you back an email with your page as a pdf attachment. The license cost us about £30. It's been updated since the version we use. It's been running in a cupboard for about a year now and no problems at all.

I use a vbscript that takes a text file of compter names as an argument, pings each machine and if it's on runs 'gpupdate /target:computer /force /boot' against each one. The script uses 'psexec.exe' which is a free tool that you can get from sysinternals for running a program on a remote computer. I can run the script against a room full of computers and I don't seem to have any problems with group policies being picked up.

Is your redirected start menu at C:\temp? It's probably better to put it in a network location, share it, and them map a drive to the location. You can then hide the mapped drive in Windows.

The MySQL ODBC driver comes as an msi and installs via group policy without any problems. Takes about 5 seconds.

We use a MySQL database for recording logons. We record the computer and username details to a table. Assuming that your logons table has two fields called computer and user; the following should work (it's been edited from my own script, but I'm pretty sure it's correct). Option Explicit Dim WshNetwork Dim strComputer Dim strUser Dim objDB Dim objDBConn Set WshNetwork = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network") ' GET COMPUTER AND USERNAME strComputer = WshNetwork.ComputerName strUser = WshNetwork.UserName Set objDB = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection") objDBConn = "driver={MySQL ODBC 3.51 Driver};server=DBSVR1;database=LOGONTEST;Uid=;Pwd=" ' OPEN CONNECTION TO DATABASE objDB.Open objDBConn Dim strSQL strSQL = "INSERT INTO logons (computer, user)" & _ " VALUES ('" & strComputer & "','" & strUser & "')" objDBConn.Execute strSQL objDB.Close Set WshNetwork = Nothing Set objDB = Nothing

Type AT at the command prompt and see if there are any entries.

Restore your DocStorage from backup.

Your virtual directory permissions should be: Read, Write, Directory Browsing, Log visits and Indes this resource Make sure you turn off 'Enable anonymous access. Also, just use Basic authentication (untick Integrated Windows authentication). This will make it much easier for you to test within school as it will prompt you for a username and password each time. Also, make sure you set the default domain to your school domain, otherwise users will need to use FQDN to logon on.

Have you just upgraded to SQL2005? We had this problem after our upgrade. We renamed the docstorage folder and restored our old one from backup. You'll have to edit your folder names if you've changed your instance name. We have no instance name so our path is: \DocStorage\ServerName\SIMS\lots of folders etc If our instance name was SIMS the path would be: \DocStorage\ServerName\SIMS\sims\lots of folders etc

Is your backup user a member of the Backup User and System Manger groups? Also, try resetting the password on the backup account, logon as the backup user and set the password and then try the script again. For some reason this kicked things into life after our upgrade. I forgot about this - sorry.

If your SQL Server uses an instance you'll probably have to add this to the script (we don't use one); /SERVER=SERVER/INSTANCE

Run SIMS System Manager - Tools - Backup Path to get the path for your system. It's likely to be "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\backup\" or similar.

Yes, it seems to be. I've used this script to backup the dB during the day and not had any problems. Don't forget, this just creates a zipped backup that you'll then need to backup using your usual method.

I downloaded the latest version of DBAttach.exe (v1.7 I think) and this is my command: "e:\SQL Server\MSSQL$SIMS\Binn\DbAttach.exe" /SERVER=SERVER /DATABASE="sims" /backup /auto /trusted /user=USER /password=PASSWORD This works for me.

Yes, we found this too. However, this isn't a problem once you start using https.

Yeah, you'd think so, but I've not been able to find another way of stopping this.

Sorry, I normally get an email when posts get updated but it didn't happen with this one. Here is the .au3 file. It'll pop up a message box if you browse network shares from a redirected start menu. There is a WinKill option that is commented out. You can uncomment this to kill the browse window. Feel free to change or amend as required. stopnetbrowse_461.zip

You might like to consider keeping your old machine as a second RIS server. We use Windows 2003 DFS Replication to keep images synched on our two ris servers. This helps with load balancing and disaster recovery.

No. Run ORK and point it at Pro11.msi. This will present you with a number of screens where you can tailor your installation of Office to suit your needs. Save the resulting .mst file and then use AD to deploy Pro11.msi with your .mst file as your transform. Office should then do a silent install with all the settings you specified.

Any chance of another one of these a bit further north? A three hour drive is bit much for me.