mrmontymick

Enjoyed reading the first page, clicked next only to get a denied message from NetSweeper under the rule "Proxy Anonymizer"...... Off we go to add an exception rule....

The job description is being finalised still. I believe it will be available later today as it goes in the local evening paper today as well.

I have had this working successfully, as long as the image isn't too hardware dependant. We imaged a Dell Optiplex 620 which had a 80Gb hard drive - imaged with Multiple Partitions, Fixed Disc Size option and the OS was Windows 7. Created a virtual machine with a fixed 80Gb Virtual Hard Drive and it happily went away and installed it, no issue at all. The time it fails is if the base hardware the image is coming from is too different or if you are using the "Resize partition" option - sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn't.

If you have a Schools 3.x agreement in place then yes the Home Use Program is free to activate. The only cost involved is to the individual staff member to buy their licence key for £8.95 a pop or £17.95 if you want a DVD of it instead of downloading it. Simple, easy, cheap - just read the Terms & Conditions and make staff aware of the terms of the deal and Happy days.....

Agree entirely. It annoys the hell out of me. Despite this I have a HTC Desire and do absolutely love it, and more than the iPhone I must admit. The new iPhone 4 looks quite tempting though...

It's that strange combination of extremely sad, extremely useful and just plain geeky. And I have to admit to being the same....

Not a great look for him I must admit.......

We use GPO settings to distribute this information. Have a look under: Computer Configuration -> Windows Settings -> Security Settings -> Wireless Network (IEEE 802.11) Policies and you might find what you're looking for. You can create a new wireless policy including the ability to use Single Sign On, works significantly better with Vista/Win 7 than XP though.

This is the way we would like to go, it's going to be a big cultural shift for people but I think it's worth the effort.

Should have mentioned we do block exe's on USB drives and autorun.inf as well for all.

We advise students and staff to change the volume label of the USB drive to their username... seems to work reasonably well.

No, just add in the reservations but don't use them until the active lease expires on the DHCP. Once the active lease expires the DHCP server will issue them with another IP address and you can start using your reservations.

I think last time we had this issue all we had to do was create a new client32.ini with a new security key and then use NetSupport Deploy to push the new client ini file out - it automatically restarted the client and away we went.

This is probably good advice, we had a similar problem once, it got better with details view instead of thumbnails etc. When windows was creating the extended attributes (such as thumbnails) it was crashing explorer whilst trying to retrieve them. This happened particularly with media files such as AVI's which were encoded with, in those days, unusual video codecs such ax XVID. Once we updated the codecs on the machine the issue went away. Since then I've find that 90% of explorer crashes when browsing folders tend to be related to it attempting to do something fancy with extended attributes.

Out of interest why no Forefront TMG which is the direct replacement for ISA 2006? You have Exchange 2010, Sharepoint 2010 etc....