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    Our head of ICT teaching, saw us playing around with it our office this morning. She loved it (the Start Menu...) so much, it's now networked and on her staff PC in her classroom. Just for a bit of fun, she's tempted to have her whole ICT suite running it. God, She's mad! We've got RM CC4, modified the Smart Client's XML file to include 6.4 - surprisingly it built properly. Just a shame there was 120 packages declined! This was because the OS version obviously isn't in the package properties in the Management Console. Just created a new OU in AD, created a couple of new GPOs, added the machine to the same RM security groups and linked a few of RM's GPOs and it works like a charm. Packages have to be deployed via GP as MSIs, printers and drives via GPP - other than that, no prob.
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    The "Microsoft Office Labs Search Command" isn't even listed as an add-in. I've also used GP to "Block all unmanaged add-ins", still the problem is there Cheers.
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    I have thought that. We currently have a RISO ComColor 7050 on every PC. Even after removing the driver, the issue still occurs. Rebuilding a PC whether the RISO is on from the beginning or not, I can't replicate it immediately. It tends to affects built machine 2/3 months after they were built. It seems so random. I've rebuilt about 20 PCs now, but it keeps coming back and back again. Cheers.
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    Excel in safe more didn't make any difference I'm afraid. Just tried it. Cheers.
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    Good morning. I know this is my old post, but I'm wondering if anybody having the problem has had any luck yet? Cheers. Paul.
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    Hi. The problem with RM Unify, is it takes all students and dumps them in one place irrespective on which OU they are in the AD. The only attributes the client uses, username, password, first name, surname. I know users can be added to a group manually, however this would be 'too much' for the people managing emails (not us in tech support) I'll take another look tomorrow. Cheers.
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    Cheers for the advice - sorry for not replying. I'm in Gran Canaria at the moment until next week, so I'll give your suggestions a go.
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    That's it, our cleaners at work use them. Seriously, they are invincible. We've seen with ours, pet hair, pound coins, socks, bits of mangled plastic dog toys, receipts, pillow fluff, pegs, bobbles, lego, everything...... Only 1,200 watts max also.
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    Good old Henry, best hoover I ever bought - 100 quid in Currys - especially with a dog and carpets.... Vax are rubbish so could t care less. Mine always hoovered everything up, then chucked it all out the back, making it airborne.
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    Hi Arthur, thanks for the advice. I have just tried and PowerShell gives me the following error: "Wildcards cannot be used as the first character. Please revise the filter criteria." Thanks, Paul.
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    Here's one driving me nuts. Using Exchange 365 with RM Unify. I currently have a dynamic distribution group setup for staff (user type is "Teaching Staff" and "Non-Teachjng Staff". All works properly, contains all staff. When Unify syncs the student accounts, it basically sets their account type as "students" - which I suppose you'd expect... I can create a group which contains all, bingo. I want to create dynamic distribution groups for each year group. Usernames contain the year they started. [email protected] [email protected] jbloggs12.... I am trying to use PowerShell to create groups such as "[email protected]" where they all have "14" in their email address, "[email protected]" where they all have "13" in their email address etc... If I run: new-DynamicDistributionGroup "year7students" -recipientfilter {EmailAddresses -like "smtp:*[email protected]"} - I end up with no members. If I run: new-DynamicDistributionGroup "year7students" -recipientfilter {EmailAddresses -like "*[email protected]"} - I get the error stating a wildcard can't be used as the first character. It doesn't matter if use "-like" or "-eq". I even tried: new-DynamicDistributionGroup "year7stuents" -recipientfilter {EmailAddresses -like "j*[email protected]"} - All uses starting with j, then ending 14 (jbloggs14), but still no members. If any powershell guru has any advice, it would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Paul.
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    Good morning. I currently have an ISA setup, with a Smoothwall SWG-1200. Currently, the ISA is the gateway for all traffic. The Smoothwall is the only device permitted to access HTTP and HTTPS through our ISA. All clients obviously use the Smoothwall as the proxy for HTTP and HTTPS and the ISA as the gateway for all other traffic. We have 3 VLANS (Secure, Wi-Fi etc.) - hammering our ISA, as the internet from each VLAN travels through it via it's own Smoothwall The ISA has it's internal IP and an external (council's) used as the router. Is there a way to connect one NIC of the Smoothwall to the Internal network and the other NIC to the corporate side. In effect bypassing the ISA for HTTP and HTTPS, whereas everything travels via the ISA (running parallel) Currently for example (which I HOPE ALL MAKES SENSE.......) PC (172.24.0.111) ________________ NON HTTP __________________________(172.24.0.1) ISA (10.20.30.40) __________ COUNCIL ALL TRAFFIC | |_____ HTTP(s) (172.24.0.10) Smoothwall ______________| Can I set it up as: PC (172.24.0.111) _______________ NON HTTP ___________________________ (172.24.0.1) ISA (10.20.30.40) ____________COUNCIL NON HTTP(s) |___________HTTP(s)____________________________ (172.24.0.10) Smoothwall (10.20.30.50)________ COUNCIL HTTP(s) Cheers for any advice. Regards, Paul.
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    Hi Matt, Thanks for the advice. It actually appears to be working! So grateful for your advice. Paul.
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    Thanks Matt, I've had a go with a few machines and it seems to be working well. I found, remove the key, restart the spooler, then delete the printer worked for me. I'm going to set this to remove via GPP soon and see how we get on. Cheers, Paul.
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    Hi Matt, I've had a play with a couple of machines tonight and really appreciate the advice - it appears to be working! I found, deleting the registry items, then the printers, they reappeared. Delete the registry items, restart the spooler, then delete them once the spooler has started and they don't come back! Cheers, I'll have a play tomorrow as well and see how we go. Paul.
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    Hi Matt, We're currently hosting PaperCut on a 2012R2 server. The printers were originally hosted on a 2012R2 print server, but moved to a 2008R2 server. The printers reappearing point to the old 2012R2 print server. Was PaperCut installed on your system previously, or has it just started to be in use? I'm wondering if it's PaperCut and 2012R2 compatibility causing the issues (even then with Windows 8 and 8.1 machines running the MF Client.) The PaperCut client runs for all staff, but not students. I'm going to disable it on Monday, because I don't think it affects students to be honest. Thanks. Paul.
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    I am still stuck with this one. I have more and more PCs developing this issue, so for staff convenience, they are being re-built as Windows 7 - but need to be 8.
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    It's just bizarre. So I'd assume it's not (unlikely to be) the RM software if it also happens via VBS deployment.
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    Same thing I'm afraid. Even with no printers assigned to the machine (via CC4, GPP, local - none!) - those keep coming back. Just totally doesn't make sense. Cheers.
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    So I know the GPO is working
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    They're truly disabled and the option to re-enable etc. are greyed out. :-(
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    Thanks for the advice. All add-ins are currently disabled via Group Policy.
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    Good morning. I'm wondering if anybody can help, or advise whether they are having the same problem. We currently run MS Office 2013 - which appears to be working fine, however printing from Excel is problematic. When the machine has multiple printers installed, Excel can only print to the default printer. When you try to select a different printer - it immediately reverts to the default. For some reason, it doesn't affect other Office apps such as Word or PowerPoint etc. I've read posts all over the internet - however non seem to have a solution. Any advice will be really appreciated. Cheers, Paul.
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    Hi Michael, Sorry for the late reply - broke my ankle so have been off work! Thank you for the advice. I'll give that a try and let you know. Paul.
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    It is the RISO which is the biggest pain. It was hosted on the 2012R2 server, it kept re-appearing, losing jobs, getting jobs stuck, plus not even connecting etc. Moving it to a 2008R2 server and changing a few settings on the advanced tab fixed all of the printing problems (Untick "Print spooled documents first" and untick "Enable advanced printing features"). Annoyingly, the RISO keeps reappearing from the 2012R2 server, which is no more, and another 2012R2 server hosting other printers.
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