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@jjohnsoncantell I had to tweak the script slightly, as it wouldn't work even when I just changed the URL of the files needed. Tested it as a scheduled task and all went to plan... until I got into work this morning to notice them still on. I made a school boy error and set it to one occurrence only rather than every day so I'll be in a better place to give feedback tomorrow.

I've used Photorec before with good results.

@jjohnsoncantell - Link doesn't work but having seen how the message appears on the desktop when I've been testing this I can see how it could be difficult to get working properly. For me it appears as a new item on the task bar that the user has to click which isn't an ideal solution anyway. I'll try your script today and see how I get on. Thanks for the help/suggestion everyone. If I still continue to struggle I'll look into a paid solution as recommended.

Thanks will give that a go if I can't get PSEXEC to work. At the moment I have psshutdown.exe, my computers.txt and my shutdown.bat file in a folder on my DC. If I run the .bat file myself it shuts down the computers like I'd expect it to but as soon as I put it as a scheduled task it stops working. I noticed that when I first ran the bat file, I had to accept some EULA agreement before the script kicked in. Thinking that was the issue I added it to my bat file but still no joy. psshutdown -accepteula @COMputers.txt -u adminuser -p adminpass -c -f -t 120 > C:\temp\psshutdown.txt 2>&1 -m "Your computer is about to shutdown. You have two minutes to save and close your work. Click cancel to cancel the shutdown process." I then added the command to create a log file every time it ran which gives me the following error: I started looking into this over 2 weeks ago and still no further forward:( who knew it was so hard to shutdown some computers over night! Tried running this .bat file with and without admin details stored in it.

Wow thanks all was expecting a few "batch files are easy you n00b" replies but you've been more than helpful so far.

Thanks both will give it a go. REM was due to me testing it and forgetting to remove it before pasting code due to lack of caffeine this morning. Used AB Tutor in my last place to handle this so batch files are a learning process

I'm having trouble getting a batch script I've created working the way I want it to. I want it to ping every computer in a chosen OU and if there's a response then to give a warning prior to shutting the computer down. There is one computer that I need it not to shutdown though which is COMPUTER1 in my script below. Ideally I don't want it shutting down mine either but I can live with shutting my down till I can work out how to add another if statement that ignores mine too. I have set a scheduled task to run this at 8:55pm every evening. At the moment none of the computers I want to shutdown are doing so. @ECHO OFF DSQUERY COMPUTER -o rdn ou="Computers",dc=xxx,dc=xxxx,dc=xx,dc=xx -limit 0 >%tmp%\Computers.txt FOR /F "delims=," %%G IN (%tmp%\Computers.txt) DO ( PING -n 1 %%~G | FIND "TTL=" >nul IF ERRORLEVEL 1 ( REM ECHO %%~G : OFFLINE. ) ELSE ( ECHO %%~G : ONLINE. REM SHUTDOWN /M \\%%~G /F /S /T 300 REM ECHO SHUTTING DOWN %%~G IF %%~G==COMPUTER1 ( ECHO COMPUTER1 ) ) ) I don't have any paid for software to shutdown the computers like I did in my old job so thought a batch file would be my best solution. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

I have an Xbox One simply because all my mates have it too. If they all had PS4's I'd have got one of those instead. Most games apart from the odd exclusive are on both consoles anyway.

Has anyone successfully deployed CamStudio as an msi via AD? I need to install it on two computer suites and really don't want to have to do it manually be really struggling to extract an .msi from the .exe installer.

As part of an e-safety audit, I have been asked to look into locking down our Nexus 7 tablets that each student at our school is provided with during their time at our school. This morning a parent has phoned up complaining that their child was having nightmares over the weekend due to a game they installed (which so happens to be rated as mature on the play store). At the moment the pupils are told to only install appropriate apps and teachers are supposed to check the tablets on a regular basis which doesn't happen as much as it should. There is nothing in place to prevent unsuitable apps being installed as the person I replaced struggled with locking the play store/apps down. We have Meraki Systems Manager app installed on each tablet and when I login to the Meraki Dashboard I can't seem to find any option in there to filter install of apps by their rating or block an app by it's name or ID. I can prevent certain apps being installed by changing the settings on the play store itself but since the tablets are all set up so the student is the only user and therefore the owner, they can change the setting back if they know where to look. For those with Android tablets how do you manage them in a school environment? Any help will be appreciated. edit: I have since found out I can set a pin via the google store settings for any mature app which works but it still doesn't stop the app from running once it has already been installed. Plus it means setting the pin on each individual tablet.

@Hulbert99 Check your PM:)

We've got issues with iOS8 authenticating with Smoothwall at work. iOS 7 works fine but like you am unable to roll back.

It's installed per PC via GPO.

Wasn't sure whether to put this in this section or the server 2008 r2 section. Having trouble with one computer suite running Windows 7 installing a printer from a virtual Windows Server 2008 R2 server. If I log in as admin the printer installs without any error message, however when a student logs in a 'Windows Printer Installation' window appears along side the following error message: Windows cannot connect to the printer. Operation failed with error 0x0000000a If the error message is closed down the printer does install and work as normal however the message is there every time for every single student. All other printers on that server install on the relevant computer suites computers without any message so it's something to do with the computers in this particular suite or the printer setup but I'm not sure what. Printers drivers are correct, tried removing from domain and putting it back on, also tried re-imaging to no avail. Any ideas? Thanks for any help.

Thanks for your reply. Will read up on it.

I've been asked to look into a way of forcing staff user account passwords to expire every 90 days. I did a bit of research and found the option I need in Computer Config -> Policies -> Windows Settings -> Security Settings -> Account Policies -> Password Policy. I've set test values and applied the GPO to my machine for testing but it doesn't seem to be applying. Having checked gpresult the GPO is listed under 'Denied GPOs' with reason 'Empty'. Any ideas? Thanks for any help.

That would be appreciated thanks. Ain't got a clue about powershell. Really handy thanks.

Correct. Will take a look thanks.

Do any of the suggestions so far have the ability to create the user in AD, create the home folder on the server with permissions set, and set a share on that folder? The wisesoft spreadsheet one does the first two but not the third. Edit: Just seen this thread is for server 2000/2003. We're using 2012.

Has anyone managed to display channel four live on Xibo? I'm wanting to live stream the paralympic winter games but you need to sign up for an account.

At the moment we have a lot of pupils coming to our office for password changes. Our current way of doing it is that they fill out a paper form with their details and we then change it for them. Obviously this takes time and only one password can be changed at a time. To minimise downtime in lessons, we'd like pupils to be able to change their own passwords from the computer they are wanting to use rather than having to come and see us every time. I know there's software out there that will allow a member of staff to reset a password but if possible we want to rule out any involvement with staff as much as we can. Anyone done this before and can recommend a good way of doing this? Maybe something like the 'Reset Password' feature in Windows but which then asks for a security question before they can then change their password. Ideally being able to force a password criteria would be handy. Any help will be much appreciated.

Apologies if this is a common topic that has been covered before. I'm currently responsible for looking after the backups tapes and have been tasked with coming up with a new backup system but this isn't something I've done before so I'd appreciate some help and suggestions. We currently have two domain controllers and two data servers. The DCs get backed up on either a weekly or monthly basis. The data servers get backed up daily. Software wise we use Backup Assist. Tapes feel a bit 'old school' so I'm looking at a more modern and better way of doing backups, possibly something like a NAS. How does everyone else do their backups? Thanks for any help.

Getting the Hubsan X4 V2 as an xmas present for my dad as he's into his remote controlled helicopters and stuff (but a bit of a novice). Chose the V2 (H107L) version as from what I've read it's a lot more robust then the V1 and I think the LED lights will be useful for night time flying.

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Still work in progress but sure. Tried to blank out any information giving away the school name but nothing I can do about the background. Flash Clock Period is taken from a PHP script Weather gadget is embedded HTML BBC News feed taking from this thread BBC News RSS feed (ticker) which scrolls up the page Quote of the day is embedded html