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Mark, you'll want to use a tool called ADModify.net It will let you select an OU full of users and fill the description field with the required data. Matt

Generally it's supported by a firmware update from the device manaufacturer. I know that it is on my ipaq 5550 (although i can't update it as i don't have the HP bootloader installed) Matt

I had no idea it was possible to get quota info via WMI, so it's apples for apples. Can't help you any more on the permissions side either i'm afraid, hopefully somebody else will be along shortly. Matt

Best one's i've done have all been to do with net support manager. Either wait until somebody leaves the office and then "blank" their screen, watching them shout bloody murder at it when they come back and it won't wake up. Or, control their screen as they go to login and insert an extra character into their password. Truly drives them crazy. Matt

I know that is is possible to retrieve quota information for a different user than is executing the script using code such as below. Set colDiskQuotas = CreateObject("Microsoft.DiskQuota.1") colDiskQuotas.Initialize "Z:\", True ' where z is the drive users are stored of, can be mapped if necessary set objUser = colDiskQuotas.FindUser("" & User.Name & "") 'where User.Name is the name of the iis auth'd user then pass objUser.QuotaLimit, objUser.QuotaThreshold and objUser.QuotaUsed to your apache server. I'm not sure if this code will execute under IIS, but i can't really see any reason why not. Hope you have some progress.

Should still work Geoff. Try placing the swf and html file in the same folder (i.e. don't use the media folder) and modify the html. That seems to have worked for me also. Curious. Matt

It's nothing to do with executable processing on your webserver, flash files are executable on the client. The server just servers it as though it is any other file. It file works for me in Firefox, but like you state fails in internet explorer. Fiddling with all Internet Options does nothing which leads me to believe that it's something to do with how the html page year2.htm was created. Since you are using wink, can you render the project again, and upload both the .swf and .html file to your webserver and try it again. Matt Edit: Ignore that, just looked at some of my wink projects and the html rendered is the same as yours. Running mine locally work fine. As does yours. Does seem to be something to do with IE settings then, let me investigate a bit more.

Indeed Webman, I have experience of a county-wide VLE implementation and as you correctly envisage it is slower than toast. That's not taking into account the overloaded and constantly spewing errors of the county wan's content filters (which incidentally don't block a lot that they should). My gosh i'm in a ranting mood tonight. I'm going to have a pint. Matt.

All I can say beermouse is you lucky b*st*rd: Long before (i.e. about 18 months) I left my last place, I trying to get email and web brought in house. I spoke to everybody that needed to be involved and they gave me the go-ahead to investigate a solution to the shitty webmail and crap webhost problem. I even surveyed all staff on their desired solution. I came up with a formal plan, submitted a work schedule to get the project implemented and asked for the cash for a decent spec server (£1500) and SDSL line to run it on (£2200). I got a reply of "we can't commit to that without seeing a demonstration". So, undeterred, off i trot that weekend and work on a demo at home. Onto one of my own machines goes, FreeBSD, Samba - for AD integration, postfix and dovecot for mail, apache, php, mysql. I roughly skin and config squirrelmail, horde, joomla and moodle just for extra icing. I take it back and show it off, only to be bombarded for the next six months with "can it do this, I can't spend the money if I can't see it doing this" everytime I meet previous stupid request. This despite the fact that year on year costs are less than the current external solutions. So, everytime a member of staff makes a complaint or comment about current solutions it is logged, and we ask them to complain to Mr High Ranking Idiot. Another few months rolls by, with no progress. Then shitty webmail is down for an entire week. Things finally start looking promising, "we've run out of money" is the response, "but we'll put the costings in for the next budget allocation". WAHOO I'm thinking, finally. So, around comes next budget time, obviously HRI has forgotten how it works by now, no problem I say, as it's been sat there working but not being used since the last time i showed it to him. So, he looks at it impressed, and tries to send mail to his personal e-mail address an email. I explain to him (for probably the 4 millionth time) that our current internet connection doesn't allow inbound connections or outbound on anything other than http, which is why an SDSL line is in the specification with an alternative of replacing our existing connection with a bonded line, for less money than the current costs. HRI then decides that we cannot commit to spending anything until "external access" has been tested, which cannot be done without spending any money. Hence, stuck in endless loop with me getting more and more p*ssed off with the amount of people complaining to me about existing poor services. Thusly, I am now working somewhere else. Yet to meet the dreaded HRI. Good luck mate, sorry to distract from your original post just needed to get that off my chest finally. I'd definately recommend going the open-source chain on a mail and web server. There is a reason that ISP's use it. Plus you will definately get more mileage out of your hardware than windows (especially exchange) solutions. Matt.

Quite a lot of people on the internet have been seeing this recently. Means generally means that a machine on your IP (which could possibly be any in your county if your ISP uses nat) is malware infected and trying to harvest info from google. Google has therefore blocked all requests from the ip. Nothing you can do about it except wait really. See this news story for more info. Matt

Like MrForgetful says, file ownership seems to be the root cause of your quotas being reported incorrectly, i have a vbscript that will reset all ownership on all files and folders in all users area en masse. If you've got a lot of users it's the easiest way to do it and i'll share it if you like. Also, as you have pupils and staff on the same drive you may want my enforce quotas by group script. Let me know if you want to have a look at them. Matt

I would say that 14K is far above the normal staring salary. Many people on here will have started at below 10k, and still not have reached 14 yet. Even though the job advertises that they will supply 'training' it may not be formal in the sense of industry recognised qualifications, merely shown how to do things by somebody else there. You don't seem sure about what you would like to do, if you were really keen on maintaining computer systems you wouldn't even be asking. Matt

Been playing a bit with some of my vbscripts this week so i'm quite fresh atm If you change the following line: Set objRootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE") To: Set objRootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://ou=Network Computers,ou=ParentOU,dc=DOMAIN,dc=NAME") Obviously adapting to your specific ad structure. That should only query your networked computers ou and sub ou's. Matt

Yes, i had tried that, infact, i spent the last 2 weeks entering sites like that. I was wondering why they weren't being filtered! Thanks anyway though. Matt

Or it could work like i want it to and i could add writeyourown.writtenessays.com to my allow filter Matt

So then, in summary, it's a stupid filtering solution, not be being daft.....and I should start polishing my axe? Everybody agree? Matt

Thanks mrforgetful, i know i can do that but i have enough trouble trying to type some of the ruddy awful foreign domains in the first place, i don't want to have to do it 2/3 times for every site. Like i said, every other filtering system i have seen can do it in one entry. Matt

Okay, somebody please tell me how to do this. I've been fiddling with ISA 2004 this morning and i can't work out how ISA processes domain names/url's. Say, for instance, i want to block users access to http://www.foo.com, if i add that exact url to my denied sites list it will block http://www.foo.com or anything within i.e http://www.foo.com/bar etc. However if foo.com is configured to display the same as http://www.foo.com all the info is accessible via foo.com i.e foo.com/bar. If i add *foo.com nothing i intended is blocked, just sites such as barfoo.com. If i add *.foo.com http://www.foo.com is blocked but not foo.com. So, i'm asking can i block http://www.foo.com and foo.com by entering one domain into my denied site list? Every other filtering solution i have ever seen will do this, surely given everything ISA can do they can't have overlooked something quite so bloody simple! I tell you, if the ISA server wasn't on the other side of this site in a restricted building site i would most certainly have stabbed it with an axe by now. Please save my sanity somebody. Matt

Did you setup your ad in windows 2000-2003 mode? I'm not entirely sure as i don't completely understand what you're saying but my understanding is that Samba relies upon windows hosts emulation NT4 behaviour. Matt

Lol, you seem more excited about it than i do! Matt

I am currently as Trinity Catholic School, in Leamington. It's most certainly not the one that is run by a teacher. Can't image any teaching staff here that would know where to begin. I'm moving to Avon Valley in Rugby, so yes still within warks lea (which is good as my last 3 years is still counted towards "continuous service") Matt

Only 2 1/2 hours remaining of my 37 month sentence! Lol. Moving on to (hopefully) greener pastures at another school more local to me. So, if anybody is interested there will be a job going sometime soon in Leamington Spa. Can't wait to start my new job next week, new build for september, hopefully i'll be able to implement some of the "Blue Skies" discussions soon. Matt

This is precisely the reason that i gave Ubuntu the boot from my laptop with integrated intel card. You might be interested to know that any version of Freebsd 6.* (and consequently PC/DesktopBSD) will support these cards out of the box. Although setting wireless security settings can still be problematic. Matt

All channels should be available as they are non overlapping. Matt

These are beastly. I know they're not school branded, but they have interchangable covers and a label underneath that you can print/write on. I'm sure if you're buying 500 you can get the price down even more than it already is. Matt