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Not tried it, but would it work to fetch the password from an IIS setup on one of your servers using XMLHTTP and SSL? That way the password isn't included in the script, and isn't sent over the network in plain text either. Obviously it would be possible for someone to tap in the URL and get the password, so would the script be able to handle integrated authentication? If this concept can work, I can probably hash together the code.

Russ, I can torrent it for you, but before I do - is there an exemption under the Copyright, Designs & Patents Act for Education which would allow me to do that for you? (Obviously I usually only download Linux or other free distributions through torrents!)

I use the free version of MailEnable here. Seems to do the job OK - it supports plugins for monitoring, but I don't know of any. It stores the emails in text files with a folder for each mailbox, and can do AD authentication. Only problem I had was finding where I needed to go to change certain options, as they're scattered about, and not always where you'd expect.

I don't like it, but in it's defence it does pass the Acid Test. Something which neither Firefox 2 or IE7 do.

We have the Brother HL-2700CN which seems to do OK.

Midget - read my post again. I said MHz, not GHz! - That's what amused me! I have a 1.8GHz Sempron, and a 2.0GHz Celeron at home and am happy with them. I can usually only afford to buy the cheapest stuff (within reason) for my home machines. In fact half of it is stuff I scrounged off people who upgrade their machines!

Someone recently got sold an extra £150 worth of stuff. I told them they should have come to me, I would have given them Avast! and Open Office for free, rather than £99 for Office Student edition and £50 for Norton! They also sell rubbish computers - 1.8MHz, 2.0MHz etc! I did consider pointing it out, but thought it reflected them as a company :twisted: !

It generates a random alpha numeric string, which is helpful as a password (I've also used it for generating verification strings on some websites I do). You call it as follows: generatePassword(5) The 5 represents the length of the string, so you could make it shorter or longer. I also edited sDefaultChars="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVXYZ0123456789" to make it alpha numeric (it was just letters before) - so I guess you could add other characters like !#?@ etc A user creator script I guess would be as follows (I haven't tested it, as I just specify one password). password = generatePassword(5) '<<<< RootDSE is used to obtain the default naming context (saves hard-coding the domain) >>>> set objRoot = getobject("LDAP://RootDSE") '**** Bind to the default users container **** set objContainer = getobject("LDAP://cn=users," & objRoot.get("defaultnamingcontext")) '<<<< Create the user object >>>> set objUser = objContainer.Create("user","cn=" & fullname) '<<<< The sAMAccountName is the username the user will use to logon >>>> objUser.sAMAccountName = username '<> objuser.givenName = firstname objuser.SN = surname objuser.DisplayName = firstname & " " & surname objuser.userprincipalname = username 'objuser.FullName = firstname & " " & surname '<<<< Save the changes >>>> objUser.Setinfo '<<<< Set a password >>>> objUser.setpassword password '<<<< Enable the account >>>> objUser.AccountDisabled = False '<<<< Save the changes >>>> objUser.Setinfo

If anyone wanted to do it, this function will generate the random password (so I guess you could add it to the user creation script - and then output to the screen or to a text file). It's VBScript - can't remember where I got it from though! Function generatePassword(passwordLength) 'Declare variables Dim sDefaultChars Dim iCounter Dim sMyPassword Dim iPickedChar Dim iDefaultCharactersLength Dim iPasswordLength 'Initialize variables sDefaultChars="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVXYZ0123456789" iPasswordLength=passwordLength iDefaultCharactersLength = Len(sDefaultChars) Randomize'initialize the random number generator 'Loop for the number of characters password is to have For iCounter = 1 To iPasswordLength 'Next pick a number from 1 to length of character set iPickedChar = Int((iDefaultCharactersLength * Rnd) + 1) 'Next pick a character from the character set using the random number iPickedChar 'and Mid function sMyPassword = sMyPassword & Mid(sDefaultChars,iPickedChar,1) Next generatePassword = sMyPassword End Function

I'd file an abuse report with the ISP for good measure (but I can be petty!), someone was being pretty abusive on a charity who work alongside the government (so they watch us, as do BBC News!). Ignoring didn't work, deleting didn't work, so in the end I banned them and reported them to their ISP. Haven't heard much more! Last lot of MSN abuse I had was when some paedophile was chatting up my 12 year old sister, so I put in report through CEOP. About 3 months later 8O the local police force phoned up to say they'd found out who it was and passed it onto the Met Police as he lived in London. Probably best bet is report to Microsoft, and ISP abuse report - if you think it really warrants it!

Year 9s get 10MB here, I think the most students are given is 150MB (unless they really need it!)

Someone did that here - we now have teachers on "fire alarm" duty on the last day!

I use an a VBScript (in an HTA) which uses WMI, and Active Directory for all the computer names (which it pings to see if they're on). It's quite useful, as I definitely know who's on what machine when. I can also then log them off remotely

On the topic of ambiguous questions - I have had some "differences of opinion" with my exam boards in the past - like when I listed UK as a TLD (which it is, .co.uk is the SLD), in A Level computing, and they said it wasn't. Download the "Preparation for working life" papers, one of the teachers was talking about them, and they were along the lines of "Such and such happens to so and so, the emotion they would be feeling is: A - happiness B - Anger C - Sadness"

The best block we have here with E2BN is Access Database files - needed for GCSE and A Level IT coursework! They also said no!! Thank goodness for the staff filter!

I have the FX5500 and haven't noticed any similar issues. I'm using the latest NVidia software (93.71 is what the app says) and XP SP2

Yeah, Cameron seems to be doing to the conservative party what Bliar did to the Labour Party - can't he see that everyone hates Bliar?? I guess I'll be voting Conservative tomorrow

Avast! here - seems to do the job OK. It has a screensaver which does the scanning, which makes life easier as I usually leave it for a few hours in the evening, but wouldn't want to schedule a scan then.

I have lots of choice here: Independent - he's a prat (doesn't even know the name of the school his kid goes to!) Lib Dem - Don't really agree with their ideology or Grandpa Ming And Two Tory councillors - "Hug a Hoodie" Dave - mind you, I know one of the conservative guys standing and he seems alright. I say we should have a "None of the above" vote - so the government can't blame low turn out on apathy, but on the fact that they're all crap!!

Had to hit stop on the site, it was draining all my bandwidth (it hadn't finished after 5 minutes on 512k!!) This One isn't much better, luckily it's not one of mine, but I did consider offering to redo it for them - check out the scripts from Dynamic Drive (especially the No Right Click script, which I find infuriating as I click the scroll wheel to scroll [rather than scrolling it] - which triggers the script in FF!). SideWinder - If you let the ones who do computing and know more than the teacher (sometimes not hard ) then you should be OK! HalfMad's was done by year sixes!!

I just use the standard RIS image (made from the CD) for my installs - then it works on all machines. It's easier that way, as all the software is in MSIs so it gets installed on first boot. I can usually have a machine pretty much operational in 30-40 minutes with software etc. I also have quite a few of the drivers as MSI packages as at the time I couldn't get my head around integrating them when I needed to get the dead machine up ASAP.

I had tickets I couldn't use - why didn't I think of doing that!! It's at Pinewood studios btw

Just one problem with a scheduled task - administrators can delete them! This means you would still have to check that their admin rights are removed.

Also check your DNS settings, it took me a while to figure out why Group Policy wasn't working on my test network - I had the DNS settings pointing at my broadband router rather than the server. As soon as I changed that it all worked fine!

I think now I may be lucky I don't live in a cabled area! I know their software is bad though - at my nan's house when they reboot the box (usually after I crash it!) it shows "NLT" on the front display (that shows the channel number), which just shows the level of competence of the guys who wrote it!