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I fixed the file permissions problem--it looks like restarting IIS fixed that. I'm still looking into the date format issue. I'll post back if I find a solution to that.

Nick, Thanks again for all of your work on the project and for releasing the updated version. This is a wonderful application. A few questions: -In the Basic my computer screen, the date format now shows up properly for the folders. However, for the files, it always displays in the UK format. Where would I change this setting? -Also, I recently adjusted the NTFS file rights for some of our shared folders due to a request from SMT. What user/group would need to have read/write access to a share to allow users (who have read/write NTFS rights) to open the folder through HAP? I thought it would just follow the permissions of the authenticated user, but when I logged in under my account (a domain admin, full access to almost everything), it said access denied to any folders that did not have full read/write access to "Authenticated Users". Any ideas? Thanks again!

We use Lifetouch for our yearbooks (Lifetouch Yearbooks ? Elementary, Middle and High School Yearbooks). While I think Lifetouch has an option where you can use Adobe Indesign, as part of the contract we signed for printing the yearbooks, Lifetouch gives us access to an online SAAS yearbook design application (WebEase). It works quite well for us. One of the best benefits of the online application (in addition to having no license costs) is that authorized students/teachers can work on the yearbook from anywhere.

Thank you!

Yes, the user is set to English US. I tried to set the network service to English US by using the 'Copy Settings' option from Regional Settings, but perhaps I need to set it in another location? The language for non-Unicode applications is also set to English US.

I'm using the basic version. I have the server regional settings set to English (United States), but the date is still defaulting to DD/MM/YYYY. Do you know if there is another location on the server that I need to configure it in? Or, are there any ways to override that in the ASP page? Thanks.

Is there any way to adjust the date format for 'tiles' view to use the format of MM/DD/YYYY? I've looked through the coding but am not seeing that section of code. Thanks.

We use Bogen PCM2000 intercom equipment at our campus. Ours is only a one-way audio broadcast (no talkback, call buttons, etc). It has worked well for us, and the rare times that problems did occur, Bogen support has always been very helpful in giving us guidance on troubleshooting. I was able to design a fairly impressive system setup for us where we have a general paging zone for the whole building, but the classrooms that have projectors have separate amplifiers connected to both the building paging zone and the projector. If the projector is sending audio and a page goes through the building system, it automatically mutes the projector audio, broadcasts the page, then unmutes the projector. (I am using Atlas AA35 sound amplifiers to the projector classrooms, as these need half the rack space and are a bit cheaper compared with the Bogen amplifiers.) If you are needing two way audio (with talkback, call buttons, etc), Bogen makes a system (SI35A) that can do this. I've seen it in use at another company and it seemed to work well for them. However, when I priced it up for our campus, the cost was significantly higher than the one way audio system, as individual wires had to be run to each room, verses a "daisy chain" wiring style that we were able to use. The SI35A also would likely not be able to accomodate the projector audio inputs easily. We did look into Dukane. Their products are very good, but it seems to be harder to get parts for them compared to Bogen. Hopefully this helps. If you decide to look into Bogen paging equipment and have questions on how I setup our system, feel free to PM me.

I am getting the access denied message when trying to view the "Article: iPhone 4 NOT Recalled" post from the new posts list.

Thanks for the responses. They have not yet provided a good business reason for the widescreen monitors. It would probably be best to use 4:3 monitors. After looking closer on the Dell Premier site, I found 19" 4:3 monitors available, so finding them won't be an issue luckily. (We're looking at new monitors because most of our monitors are old CRT monitors with poor picture quality).

Thanks for the responses. I am glad to hear this won't be a problem.

Thanks. I'll take a look at using forms. I am trying to create a page where users login to an ASP.net application hosted on our campus server, and can click a button to connect to a PHP application hosted on our external web host, and not have to sign in again. (My thinking was to capture the username and password from ASP and send these to the PHP application as hidden form fields to silently and automatically log them into that application). I was going to have ASP destroy the password variable immediately after completing the PHP login for security reasons.

We are considering getting a few iMacs for our media lab. The only issue is that the iMacs are widescreen and the classroom projector is regular 4:3 resolution. Does anyone have any tips on connecting a widescreen iMac to a regular projector? The teacher wants to duplicate the image from the iMac on the projector. Thanks.

We are looking at replacing our campus desktops with Dell Optiplex 780 SFF machines, running Windows 7 Professional. A number of our classrooms have ceiling mount projectors (standard 4:3 resolution). Several of the teachers have requested widescreen monitors with the new computers. Are there any graphic cards available that can output the proper widescreen resolution to the widescreen monitor, and duplicate the image (reducing to 4:3 resolution) on the projector?

Is it possible to get the password a user used for ASP.net Basic authentication login? I need to set both the username and password as cleartext variables. I have been able to get the username successfully, but have not found a way to get the password yet. Any ideas?

I am currently looking at upgrading the network switches at our school. We have multiple buildings, all connected to the central server room through a fiber optic network. The server room has multiple Windows Server 2008 servers. Presently, all of our switches are unmanaged. I am planning to begin swapping the main switches for each building soon with a "web smart" switch (D-Link DGS1224TP). This switch says it supports 802.1x port based access control. I am looking at POE switches for a future VOIP phone system and for access points. My long term goal is to secure our wired network so that only networked devices with MAC addresses included on some type of "allow" list are allowed to connect (mainly to prevent students from connecting laptops). The problem is that a number of our classrooms have small unmanaged 8 port switches (specifically the D-Link DGS2208 switch). This seems to make securing the wired network more difficult. (I know that MAC addresses can be spoofed, I am mainly trying to make it more difficult for the average user to connect to the wired network). My other long term goal is to install Ruckus wireless, with two SSIDs--one for students/teaching staff that allows access to internet only; and one for techs that allows access to internet and local network. I am hoping to setup Ruckus so that no type of MAC "allow" list is needed for wireless access, unlike the wired network. Does anyone have any tips on how I might be able to secure this wired network setup? I had looked a little at Windows Server 2008 NAP and Packetfence, but was unsure if either of these are the best solution, and if they would negatively affect what I am trying to do with Ruckus. Ideally I would have managed switches everywhere, but our funds are very limited. Thanks for any advice!

Done. Good luck.

I've been using Netcontrol 2 for a few years now. You can deploy the application to the student computers using group policy (they provide an MSI upon request). It takes a couple of minutes for it to install this way. Activation is not required, you just have to enter a registration code on the teacher computer. However, the code does not always work and sometimes it takes multiple attempts of entering the code for it to actually consider the software registered (even if it says "Registered", it sometimes forgets this next time you start the program). Mine has also randomly lost the registration in the middle of the year. I have not tried any of the restrictions that can be applied to student computers. They probably work fine, I just have never gotten around to testing that part of the program. The connections to the student computers occasionally get lost, but that could be because our network equipment and desktops are quite old. Regardless, restarting the student and teacher computers resolve that problem. Teachers don't usually like having to restart in the middle of a lesson though... We have tried the screen sharing function, but could never get it to work properly for all computers. (There was always at least one or two student computers that would just show a black screen). One concern I have with Netcontrol is that you cannot hide the icon on the student computers. This icon changes colors and pops up a balloon alert above the clock when the teacher connects. This can be turned off, but the icon will always be visible. I emailed Netcontrol 2 support asking if there is anyway to hide it, but they said no. (Selecting the "always hide" on taskbar properties also does not work). I am considering switching away from Netcontrol 2 to another program in the future. I'm hoping to find something a bit more reliable with less glitches. Hope this helps. Let me know if you have any other questions for a present Netcontrol 2 user.

In case anyone else ever runs into this problem, it looks like the following stops the security warning: -Logon to a workstation using the default profile -Login to web application and click "Always Trust" -Logoff web application -Restart workstation -Copy Application Data\Sun folder to default profile

We have a campus license for some web-based software that uses Java applets (the application is hosted offsite). Each time a user logs in to the application, they get a Java security warning that says: Warning - Security The application's digital signature cannot be verified. Do you want to run the application? Name: app Publisher: unknown Then there is a checkbox for "Always trust content from this publisher", followed by two buttons: "Run" and "Cancel" Is there any way to prevent this message from appearing using either a logon script, GPO, or reg edit? The browser is IE7, client operating system is XP, server operating system is 2008. I tried running the application and clicking "Always trust" when I made the master image, but unfortunately, when testing after deploying to all campus computers, it did not work. Thanks.

This is looking great so far! One feature suggestion I would like to make is to also monitor status of projectors (connected via IP or RS232 to IP converters). Status messages like lamp life, filter time, PING status, etc would be helpful. I do not know if it would be possible to do this or not, however.

I have installed Hitachi projectors in several of our classrooms recently. The models we purchased do not have on board network ports, so I installed a Lantronix device server at each projector (the Lantronix device server converts the RS232 connection to an IP address connection). I have been using Hitachi's projector control software on the classroom pcs for the teacher to control the projector (no lost remotes). While the software does work, there are several aspects of the application that are not ideal for us, so I've started looking at the possibility of writing a simple Visual Basic program to control the projectors, rather than using Hitachi's application. I have downloaded Visual Basic Express 2008 and have done some research on Google looking for tips on connecting to an RS232 port through a Lantronix device server (which uses an IP address), but have had little success in finding useful information. It looks like the RS232 codes are hexadecimal values and that I would need to use Winsock in Visual Basic to send the hexadecimal string to the Lantronix IP address. I have not come up with any ways to make this work yet, however. Does anyone have any tips? I am new to Visual Basic (I usually do website programming), so I would appreciate any possible help on this project. My future goal, once I get this application working, is to then expand it to have a central console showing the status of all projectors. Once I get the first application working, the console should be fairly simple to create.

I am working on a new school website (we are supposed to launch it in the next day or two). Our site loads properly in both IE7 and Firefox. A few minutes ago, someone emailed that it does not load properly on Mac computers. I found a website called BrowsrCamp that shows a screenshot of the site from a Mac and it looks very different. I attached screenshots, both from IE7 and BrowsrCamp. Does anyone have ideas on how to correct this issue? If you have a Mac, the address of the new site is: dev.claridenschool. org Thanks! Screenshots IE7: dev.claridenschool.org/ie7.gif Safari: dev.claridenschool.org/safari.jpg

We are starting to run out of IP addresses on our present Class C IP address range (192.168.1.x). I am planning on switching to a Class B IP address range (172.17.x.x). Below are the steps I was planning on following. Is there anything I have missed or should any steps be done in a different order? 1. Change DHCP lease time to 30 minutes so that the new IP addresses will be picked up quickly. 2. Change router IP and DNS server address on router. 3. Change DC IP and change the address for the DNS server on DC. (Our DC also runs DNS and DHCP). 4. Create a new DHCP lease range, delete old range. 5. Change IPs on printers and access points. Do I need to delete the records in the DNS server or will they automatically update? Thanks!

Thanks for all the tips so far. I really appreciate it. I will be trying to get a Dell account manager and Premiere access soon. I will also look into the HP desktops though--sounds like that may be a great option to consider as well.