Bertie_Dellend

I use these (after being with Specsavers) - Posh Eyes Always very reliable and good prices.

I use Prism Pack It creates its own package (.pwc). The install can then be managed with its own client software, or it can convert it to .msi.

Exam season is upon us - I am sure like many others, we have specific, locked down exam accounts which are assigned to pupils for exam purposes. What I find a pain in the neck however is that we have numerous exams which take place over a few days at different times. For example, we have art exam students who use the same accounts over 4 days at different times each day:doh: And we have numerous subjects like this! Consequently I have to make sure that I enable all these accounts just before the exam starts and then disable them when the exam finishes. The logon hours feature in AD is far too rigid to cope with this. Does anyone know of an application that can enable / disable user accounts by date and time? Cheers in anticipation

Quackers gave a great guide to creating a custom mmc here - http://www.edugeek.net/forums/network-classroom-management/8430-teachers-resetting-pupil-passwords.html 1. Go to an XP Station and make sure the Server admin tools pack is installed. 2. click start, then run, and type mmc 3. File, Add Remove Snap in 4. Click Add 5. Select Active Directory Computers and Users 6. Click Add 7. Click OK 8. You will then have the normal Active Directory user/computer manager, go to the root OU where your pupils are stored. 9. Right Click on the OU and select new window from here 10. Close the other window from the root of the domain as we do not need that. 11. Click View then "New taskpad view" 12. Select Horazontal List as style 13. Click Next and Next again giving the view what ever names you want. 14. Do not run the next wizard. 15. Highlight a user account, then go Action, Edit Task Pad View, then click on the tasks tab. 16. Click NEW then menu command, and then select Reset Password on the right hand pane. Click next, give it an icon. Click Finish close the boxes. Now when you click a user you get the reset password icon appear. 17. Now just do a tidy up, get the view as you want it, click file options give it a name, icon for the console, save the console and create a shortcut to it on a shared drive and as along as the admin tools are install on the station it will work. Sorry if i have missed a bit off, i'm rushed this morning.

Why do you suspect that? A month or so ago I saw a West Indian man wearing a T shirt saying "F*ck White Trash" Unfortunately I suspect it is which ethnic group that you are targeting, that results in whether you will get in bother or not! I am assuming the group of young men were white?

52 weeks a year??

Have you tried the freezer trick? (i.e put the hdd in a zip lock bag in a freezer for a couple of hours). Sounds mad but I have seen it work.

It is a great bit of kit! Get the vmware version ( FOG - Computer Cloning/Imaging solution Server (0.27) | Virtual Appliance Marketplace ) & have a play. Full guide is here - FOGUserGuide - FOGProject Wiki

This the .pac file we use & it seems to work - function FindProxyForURL(url, host) { if (isPlainHostName(host) || localHostOrDomainIs(host, "10.0.0.200") || localHostOrDomainIs(host, "smoothwall.yourdomain.name")) return "DIRECT"; else return "PROXY 10.0.0.200:8080"; }

Did you rebuild your pc's (ie format / re-image) as clients for the new domain, or just disjoin & re-join? The 'Applying User Settings' time can depend alot on how you have set up user profiles.