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I can't speak for FreePBX (...yet, I still need to sort that out at my house...), but I can say that Yealink handsets are fantastic for the money. We have over 100 of them here. We went for the T19s for classroom, T20 for standard users and offices, W52 dect phones for our 2 kitchens and T26s for admin, and select staff where appropriate. We have had 3 fail over the course of the 2.5 years that they've been in service. If you use headsets, we also got a load of BT H31 headsets which have a configurable switch on them to select the phone make, and these work flawlessly.

Hi all, Hopefully a simple one. As the tile states, I would like to change the content of the email we get from unblock requests to include the user's group and the category that it was blocked for. Is this possible? If so, can someone point me in the right direction please I had a brief search on the web and on here but can't see anything about it. That being the case, I'm guessing that we can't, though it'd be good to know so I can stop looking! Thanks in advance.

Those look like parallel ports... Is this an installation that pre-dates USB?

100% for me. Not really a surprise as I sing quite a lot. Was slightly off putting having my partner tell me I was getting them wrong... I had the last laugh there!

I also use a Linux machine as my main workstation, so the news is very welcome. I'm fed up with having to RDesktop to a server to use the client software. I find that functionality through chrome is ok, but I can't get the VM Console view to work through it.

I'd say that it depends on what your current system is. If you've got a Biostore database already, then Biostore cashless catering would be a sensible option, and one that we are seriously considering as it would mean that we wouldn't have to recapture fingerprints for 2500 people (Staff and Students). Another consideration is; what other services do/will you use? we have biometric registration terminals at our 6th form campus with LiveRegister, who also do cashless catering as well as their own biometrics database engine. Our view here is that whatever we get should be able to do everything, from cashless catering to password reset terminals to access control. We've looked at Nationwide, Biostore, LiveRegister, Cunninghams (our current provider) and VeriCool. There's very little that sets them appart, though I would say that Nationwide seems a touch pricey. We're looking primarily at Biostore and Liveregister, as we use LiveRegister for attendance and already use a Biostore database.

I have a vbs script which I ported to Powershell that logs PC name, Username, log on/off, connection server used, date and time to an MSSQL database. I then have a php webpage that reads from the database and gives me searching functionality and adds school period (lesson #) and timestamp. Powershell: $dataSource = "ServerName” $user = “username” $pwd = “password” $database = “dbName” $StrMachineName = [Environment]::MachineName $StrUserName = [Environment]::UserName $Date = Get-Date -UFormat "%Y-%m-%d %T.000" $strLogonOK = "$StrUserName has logged onto $StrMachineName" $LogonServer = $env:LOGONSERVER $connectionString = “Server=$dataSource;uid=$user; pwd=$pwd;Database=$database;Integrated Security=False;” $connection = New-Object System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection $connection.ConnectionString = $connectionString $connection.Open() $strSQL = "INSERT INTO tblhistory (pcname,username,datelogged,message,logonserver) VALUES (`'$StrMachineName`',`'$strUserName`',`'$Date`',`'$strLogonOK`',`'$LogonServer`')" $command = $connection.CreateCommand() $command.CommandText = $strSQL $result = $command.ExecuteReader() $connection.Close()

this is exactly what I think every time I see something like this.

For group memberships, I do the following: $Goups = @("List of groups to add") $CurrentGroups = Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership -Identity $Admission $CurrentGroupNames = @() Foreach ($CurrentGroup in $CurrentGroups) { $CurrentGroupName = $CurrentGroup.Name If (!($Groups -contains $CurrentGroupName)) { If ($CurrentGroupName -ne "Domain Users") { Remove-ADGroupMember -Identity $CurrentGroupName -Member $Admission -Confirm:$False } } } Foreach ($GroupVar in $CurrentGroups) { $CurrentGroupNames += @($GroupVar.Name) } Foreach ($Group in $Groups) { If (!($CurrentGroupNames -Contains $Group)) { Add-ADPrincipalGroupMembership -Identity $Admission -MemberOf ($Group) } } This will find the groups that a user is currently a member of and check that against the list of groups to add. If there's a group that isn't in the new list that isn't the group "Domain Users", it gets removed. it then adds all groups that the user isn't already a member of. If you're creating only, not updating, then you could just use the bottom foreach loop with the groups array.

Which ISP are you with, if you don't mind sharing. My (admittedly brief) research suggests that ISPs are very reluctant to not charge for line rental. My main problem is that I don't want to be changed an additional £130 for a phone line to be run when it won't ever be used. Plusnet state that they require you to have a phone line to the house, even for FTTP. Seems pointless to me, or is it a money making scheme? Sipgate is one I was looking at, so it's good to hear that people are having good experiences with it. I already have phones that were taken from the school when we changed our phone system. they're Samsung IP phones and are good. @Geoff, I like the idea of using a chargable number for signups and other unwanted calls. you must get a lot of calls to make £50 from it though!

Hi all. Off of the back of another thread (phone systems recommendations) I was wondering if there's anyone out there that has got a residential SIP line, and if so, how it all works and which providers are worth looking at. I'm looking at using a freePBX box as a PBX on the back of FTTP fibre broadband from PlusNet. Is that feasible or am I barking up the wrong tree? Thanks

+1 for WDS/MDT I've got our deployment to zero touch using MDT and with a database of PCs and assigned roles. We deploy a standard Windows 7 DVD image then do everything over the top using the task sequence, such as installing applications and updates from WSUS. Also useful (being a 2 site school) that you can link deployment shares, so that one replicates to the other, meaning that we're not pulling all of our install images across the site link.

It shouldn't take longer than 24 hours when running at full speed. I would have a look at the network utilisation while the backups are running and try to get an accurate figure for transfer speed. Also keep an eye on the CPU and RAM use as it could be overwhelmed there. If you use push backups, check the same on the server being backed up.

Just out of interest, Does anyone still use this server, or am I the last one here?

I've started being called Snape (amongst other things) by the kids. I have shoulder length dark hair and wear black shirt/trousers with a black leather trench-coat.... I personally take it as a compliment, as I loved Alan Rickman as Snape

I was shown this a couple of days ago and meant to link it here... Absolutely brilliant!

In theory, yes you can as I've done it fairly recently. Try: # mdadm --assemble -s -f The -f will force it to reconnect if it is trying to add a disk as a spare, from my understanding. Disclaimer: please take caution if there is data on the array, as the -f switch MAY destroy your data, depending on how borked the disks are Edit: Potentially stupid question; I assume you're running this either as root or sudo...

I made a nice simple setup to automate the extractor... 4 machines, 5 engines, a CVT and a 1 minute clock. I'm exporting ores to a chest so that it will automatically extract relevant ores. I might add an alloy smelter so that we get the end product out, rather than flakes.

Got a bit more automation set up last night. Learned that the rolling machine is a pain because it uses patterns and doesn't lend itself to automation. You need one machine for every pattern. I'm now working on automating the production of steel. I'm thinking of using a level emitter so that there's a 'loop stock' of steel in the system, because on demand production would take ages.

Great! I saw that when the server first went live, but never could find it again

@ADMaster (I think ) found some certus quartz last night and I managed to get myself a pick with silk touch on it. we now have just over 1.5 stacks of certus ore which is running through the extractor. I also got some of the diamond ore that was in the same cave, though couldn't get all of it due to lava. When I've processed all of the certus and got a decent amount of nether quartz, I'll carry on with the expansion of the AE network and hopefully get the storage back under control. On that note, we now have 4 64k ME storage drives, so we're temporarily alright. From rotarycraft, I now have a bedrock breaker, but no way to power it as it needs ludicrous amounts of power. I'm unlikely to get anywhere with that until we have a decent supply of jet fuel, which relies on blaze powder and soul sand quite heavily.

25/75 This result surprises me as I thought that I conform far more to logic and rationality than I do you creativity or fantasy...

I'm making headway on my journey through rotarycraft. I now have 2 tungsten ingots with which to make a bedrock breaker. The next challenge will be to power that. I also now have the rotarycraft extractor figured out, so if anyone comes across any rare ores or minerals (like certus quartz or apatite) please don't mine them unless you have a silk touch pick.

I thought it might have been you with all the lanterns! What method were you planning on using to automate farming? I need to get my canola seed production automated really as that's the last step in automation of lubricant.

I got my rotarycraft lubricant creation semi-automated and so can now start looking at other things from there, primarily the bedrock breaker and the extractor.