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Ah, Just looked at the image again... You have locked out some of the required fields - namely Email Address, Location, Country These fields need to be editable (or have a valid value in them) or you will just be presented with that page everytime you login. M

Really depends on what you want to do - Moodle requires a user profile which is what is being presented here. if you make sure that all the required fields are filled in before the user logs in (when the accounts are created) this should stop it. Are you using a hosted system or an internal system?? Mark

I'm glad my little comment sparked all this off, AND... I would never right off of a piece of software no matter what it was whiclst it was in beta I look forward to seeing the ideas come together in the future

@ZeroHour and Webman, Why not pool what you have both done, Login Tracker's Interface looks good, and the reporting side of it would be very useful, and the Edugeek Logon Tracker has the multi logon benefits. Just a thought

Maybe try removing the extra spaces between curr entversion and also the " /f" from the end - as far as i know it is just the key that is required no switches regards Mark

Try this, all you need to add is the odd bit of code you already have i have added a few comments to the code to help - or atleast try Let me know how you get on Mark Set myFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") filelocation = "Full PATH here" 'Enter the location of your txt file here If myFSO.FileExists(filelocation) Then 'this checks if the file exists Set logfile = myFSO.OpenTextFile(filelocation, 1) 'opens the text file for reading only Do While Not logfile.AtEndOfStream 'initiates a loop and loops until the end of the file strcontents = "" strcontents = logfile.ReadLine 'reads a line into the variable If Not strcontents = "" then 'checks the line is not empty 'DO YOUR WORK HERE End if Loop logfile.Close 'closes the file end if

I Think you need to open the file and read it in to the script - can't remember off the top of my head how this works but i may be able to find an example Mark

I am pretty sure that in any public place including schools etc all electrical work has to be tested by a qualified Electrician to ensure it meets standards - the Head of ICT is right to be concerned and personally i wouldn't want the responsibility of doing some thing like that. Plus as what you are suggesting is basically an extension lead why not buy one of those? Mark

hmmmm... lets see: 5 x Pupil Data Servers 5 DCs 1 Moodle Server 3 Printservers 1 Staff File Server 2 MIS Servers 1 SQL 2005 (soon to be 2008) server 1 AV Server 1 Remote File Access Server 2 Exam Servers 1 ICT Support Server 4 individual Departmental Servers 1 ISA Server 1 Digital Signage Server 2 Application Servers 1 Policy Central Server 1 Exchange Server 1 Pupil Email Server 1 Common File share server plus the odd testing server In short.... LOTS!!! Of course Physically that equates to 9 servers running VMWare ESXi with a fully virtualised servers Oh we also have 3 Backup servers that run VEEAM and VSphere (all our virtuals are backed up every night) and to cap it off 1 Ghost Deployment Server i think thats about it

Make sure that in your LDAP Settings in Moodle that the Mail Field is not set to locked - or unlocked when empty i had this problem also, and found that to be one thing. A bulk update of User Email Adresses may be the answer to get it sorted though Mark

Why not install VMWare ESXi onto your blades, saves on a licence, it's very easy to configure and will run with the hardware you have very easily. What I will say is to get get the most out of your virtual machines is the more RAM the better. As for the DC's we currently have 40 virtual machines inc. 5 DCs virtualised on 8 Physical Hosts running ESX4. We have had no issues (So Far) any power problems have usually been averted by a few powerful UPS units. If you want any more info let me know Mark

Michelle, Did you have any luck with this?? Mark

I second the comment on the custom containers.... On another note, why not hash the passwords using some form of TES Encrption or an MD5 hash or something like that, it may add the extra bit of security you are looking for... One Place to Check is here ProtectedData Class (System.Security.Cryptography) My 2 pence worth

Michelle, I have attached the guide I created when I setup our moodle site. please note we are using MS SQL not mysql and I have removed all the passwords from the file I would suggest that you take a backup of your current server just in case - or use a test server to try this but hopefully there should be some pointers in there for you. NOTE: The pages describe how to set up the site for internal use only. They also include how we have setup LDAP Access Give it a go and see what happens, and if you have any more trouble PM me and I'll see what I can do Regards, Mark Binder1.pdf

Michelle, You may need to edit your config.php file as AChandler stated. If you can post a copy of your config.php file (usually found at the root of the moodle directory) i'm sure we can take a look to see if it is there where you are going wrong. the main thing to remember when setting up moodle is once that wherever during setup it asks you for the site URL not to put in localhost, or even the name of your server (unless it is just an internal hosting) - i may have somewhere some documentation that i created when i built our server if i can find it i will send it to you regards Mark

Thought as much lol Still the error you are receiving would suggest that there is some form of file lock going on that has been properly released. That saying, with it erroring on an unspecified filename may suggest that ESX has it's knickers in a twist. I am presuming a complete reboot of ESX is out of the question?

last time i had something like that there were a few lock files that was stopping the vm from running, not sure whether this affects ESX.... My first thing would be to check datastore viewer for any .lck files Hope this helps EDIT: Just thought of something else - make sure your ESX is completely up to date - our latest build is 219382 which i think equates to ESX 4 update 1a (update 1 from vmware was very broken) all the updates included some important fixes - not sure again whether this will help.

An interesting one occurred yesterday when I was called out to fix a machine in one of out suites, one which I have not seen or read about before. The teacher had locked all the screens in a room using LanSchool which is common place. The worrying thing was a student that was still sitting there tatting on his PC. After a little bit of investigation it turns out that if you have a 3 button MS Mouse and the intellipoint software installed, if you click the middle button the instant viewer is displayed regardless of whether the screen is locked or not, thus allowing them to ge at anything that is currently open (and possibly the desktop). Thankfully for us we have decided that the intellipoint software is pretty pointless and we only installed it that one room So I just thought I'd make you all aware of this and we will be letting the people at lanschool know so they can look into it

I have used the linksys WRT54GL - fantastic little box and still works like a charm after 2 years... only reason I dont use it now... Moved from DSL to ADSL Can thoroughly recommend that router though

8 in total for us :/ not me I may add...

We finish on Thursday too so hopefully may get a few hours of fun out of this For those looking i found the images here Copier Joke

I use a Razor Copperhead wonderful mosue adn very good for gaming - oh and the scroll wheel works fine too :EDIT Doesn't help for spelling though I am afraid

We have experienced issues with PCE/SOPHOS/IE7(&6) but we are moving most of our clients to IE8 now which appears to be stable. We are currently running version 3009 (server and client) although some of our clients are earlier versions due to DeepFreeze and a lack of time to run round and update the versions. Apparently there was an issue with a single version of Sophos (7.1 something I think) and PCE 3004 which caused it to hog a constant 20% of the processor but this has been fixed. Recently I have to say updates from Forensic have been few and far between for PCE (used to be nearly every fortnight now every couple of months if not more) so hopefully the system is finally settling down. What I must add is that the support from Forensic is great and we have developed a good rapport with the product managers and support staff they helped no end when we were first having teething issues. We dont use PCE for site blocking as we have ISA filtering and LEA Filtering in place (pointless feature for most secondaries imho) but i can understand how that would be annoying if it did not work Hope this helps

Hi, sorry to jump into the thread but we are having some issues with Altiris, after the agents were installed on my PC and the PCs of my colleagues our login times went from a few seconds to nearly 20mins. we are not entirely sure why other than the logs show that our AV (sophos) is going nuts and there are service control errors. What I wanted to ask, as you seem to have used it quite a lot with some success is, Have you seen this issue before? Also, some of the software that is pushed out does not seem to 'stick' when a machine is rebooted, Do you have any ideas what may be causing this. Sorry to barge in and thanks for any help that you may be able to give Mark

No Problems, I am not a scripting guru was just trying to butcher someone elses work we use LanSchool here but we are a secondary so iTalc may do what you need but i have no experience with it Hope you find what you are looking for