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Still gone down xwiki at my new place two. Multi wiki/user groups are supported pretty simple setup and tons of good features. Has a Google like search now too as it uses solr search indexing

Create/edit a policy and add it to the user policy under windows / scripts / logon I think. Store the script centrally in netlogon or similar as long as everyone can read it who needs to it shouldn't matter. You can test by creating the vbs file and running as a user, should create the link for them on the desktop

The update for GPP is quite old, I would have thought it possibly would be on the desktops already. Short of that create a script to create a link: VBScript: WshShell = CreateObject("Wscript.shell") strDesktop = WshShell.SpecialFolders("Desktop") oMyShortcut = WshShell.CreateShortcut(strDesktop + "\MyLink.lnk") oMyShortcut.TargetPath = "http://mywebsite.com" oMyShortCut.Save That should do it, save as createlink.vbs and run with "cscript.exe \createlink.vbs" in GP.

Also read bdd.log in both cases, it is an amalgamation of all the logs together

Yes, go to either c:\MININT\OSDLOGS (i think) (if it still exists) or if the cleanup is finished check C:\Windows\Temp\DeploymentLogs\bdd.log You can read them with the sccm toolkit (free download) which has a log viewer called trace32/cmtrace(in2012) Download System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 Component Add-ons and Extensions from Official Microsoft Download Center

You should think about how often you want to upgrade. Compare EES with select in both formats but remember to take in to account growth of the server farm in the future datacenter is prob the way to go though

Good point! Can you access the admin share remotely is \\server\e$ ?

No deny's on folders anywhere?

Def worth a look in to. Considering its featureset I don't think it can be beaten for education. (I don't work for RES lol just found it really good!)

I was implementing it as I left my school so yes. Was looking into it as a replacement for a CSE system, the freeware one does all the printer deployment and menu deployment you would ever need! Server is really simple (SQL express database) clients look to this and pull down content locally so it works on laptops away from the network as well as on. Paid for version has some really nice to haves but was a little too expensive, for example you can get it to remove certain icons on the menus when certain conditions are met. IE when you are off the network remove normal SIMS icon, replace with SIMS Web icon etc

You could always look at something like RES. They do a free version, RES workspace manager express, it does printer deployment and most of what schools require for start menu management etc.

When you say split VLAN, what do you mean?

Have a look at glpi tis v good GLPI - Gestionnaire libre de parc informatique

If vle.schoolname.co.uk is a host, create a host A record, not a zone. A zone is for resolving *.vle.schoolname.co.uk the host A record can point to whatever IP you want it wouldn't have to be the internal address if the firewall only allows the external IP to be used.

For those who like to monitor their networks: I have just released a plugin to allow Cacti to monitor websites (use for testing if your website is performing during the Winter closures ) userplugin:murlin - Cacti Docs Let me know if anyone has any issues setting it up, documentation is URL Monitoring With Cacti – mURLin | RS Applications Enjoy

In an AD domain, the clients should only point to the internal DNS. Let your internal DNS make the decisions for them and make the forwarding decisions. HOW TO: Modify Time to Live on Domain Name System Records Change the TTL of a DNS record (this would only affect the internal DNS lookups though). I have not come across an issue of clients coming in with incorrect DNS caches, you can always run ipconfig /flushdns to test.

OK so do you mean you created a separate DNS zone for the vle.schoolname.co.uk address or created a new AD domain? Normally, you would (unless firewall rules didn't permit) let DNS resolve to your local DNS servers which would resolve to the internal IP addresses of the VLE server, then let the ISP resolve the names for external users. That way you don't have to get DNS to forward to the ISP just to resolve what is effectively a local host. Why do you have the internal cilents going to the external IP for resolving the vle.schoo... domain rather than its internal address?

0.25m?! Without cable management it just goes horribly wrong! Patch management Patch Patch management Switch Management

Only thing I would add - 0.5m for a patch cabinet is really short, you will end up crossing over the front of cabs which looks rubbish. Get longer 1 or 2m cables (unless the cab is teeny) you can always post some of the cable round the back to make it neat.

Use a user exit script to query the RAM through VB script and use it to select the task sequence Using a User Exit Script to Customize Deployments in MDT | WindowsDeployments.net Task sequence variable is TaskSequenceID and needs to be set to the ID OK f the ts (its short name)

Agree with that, my bb is a whole 2 meg. I can almost watch in nearly SD quality.... Nowhere near HD! :'(

cus having a load of external usb connected things is rubbish. DVD drives are about 20 quid, and considering they are most home users backup for their home vids (this won't change too quickly) I can't see them disappearing. As for slot loaders... didn't we all learn from VHS recorders, kids love to post things in holes like that (Ok I am biased because my little one has just started crawling, I'm already spotting things which need to be... err baby proofed )

We use squid and squidguard (corp not school though) got it updating the database through cron and NTLM authentication for web logging

Cacti with mac track can do that

Is IGMP enabled on your switches? If not you will be broadcasting instead of Multicasting as the switches won't be able to determine the multicast membership.