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If it is a redirected desktop make sure that the path you use to the icon in the shortcut is a path that a user access (E.G. If the .ico file is on your server at D:\shared\icons\icon1.ico make sure you edit the shortcut on a workstation and use P:\icons\icon1.ico or \\server1\shared\icons\icon1.ico - something that users can actually access)

You'll need to make sure the .ico files (I assume they are .ico?) are in a shared location that the users who are picking up the redirected desktop have permission to read

I took delivery of a batch of around 50 a couple of weeks ago (for the 3rd year running) and as usual, have no problems at all. I really am confused when I read the negative stuff about them in here - they've been nothing short of fantastic for me (from sales to the very limited occasional warrenty call out). I never buy their thinner clients though - personal preference is the fatter style cases. Mine came with the traditional style DVDRW drives.

I already got my MAK key the other day so can't check. Your best bet if you want it quickish would probably be to get it over the phone (MS Volume Licensing Activation 0800 018 8354)

Hmmm it's the same for me too! It's available on licensing.microsoft.com to download via the schools agreement so I don't need it off technet anymore

Vista drivers have mainly worked for me (like you, i've hardly needed additional drivers tho - 7 gets most of my hardware without requiring additional drivers). I did find that an XP driver for an old / ultra cheap webcam worked on it too!

If that's honestly all you want to do, I can't see why you can't detail the tools here? If they are completely free then you're making us aware of a resource rather than telling us to buy a product...? Do you have a link?

In case that was in reply to my comment, just to clarify - I share the same values on procurement. Procurement aside, if I am in the position to (appropriately) help a company in return for "free" resources which the school can then use, then that's what I meant by "all for"

At the risk of going all "Dragons Den" on you, you've posted two messages in a forum full of educational IT professionals and not stated the intention and/or purpose, so no one is really going to be able to answer?! I'm all for rewards, freebies and incentives, but they would have to be comparatively worthwhile with whatever I was doing in return. "Child Protection issues" is quite vague - but if it was specific details or incidents you were after I think you'd be hard pushed to get the data.

I'm not in the office to check, but ADModify might do what you want? I use it for the majority of our AD bulk work (although never needed to change format of username before!) ADModify.NET - Home

But correct Interestingly, the TV Licensing site information must be reasonably new. It certainly wasn't like that a year or two ago when I had conversations with them. It certainly does appear there are now easy ways to go without a license (if you don't watch broadcast TV and just reply on iPlayer etc - definately wasn't the case when I looked previously)

Lol it's mine today too - but I must have been a bit shy when I signed up as the bot sent me the email this morning, but isn't advertising me on the site!

To show the users calendar on startup you can go to Tools > Options > Other > Advanced and browse to the folder you want to be shown on startup. I'm not sure if it is possible to do this for a public folder though (I would hazzard a guess that it isn't). I use a similar system (although a shared calendar rather than a public calendar) but ran a very quick bit of inset (at the end of someone else's session) to explain to staff how to get to it (I.E click on their calendar and then open a shared calendar). They all know it's there, but it's completely down to them to check it.

This is how (strangely enough I looked myself before reading this post!) JustAnswer - Expert Registration I didn't sign up in the end as I wimped out, and also figured I probably wouldn't have the time to earn money!

As far as I'm aware (and i've previously done a bit of research as I considered going down this avenue myself!), any equipment capable of showing a UK television program (BBC, ITV or other) means that you need a TV license. BBC IPlayer via a standard TFT is also included within this definition (or at least was when I explored it?) The reason I didn't go down that avenue, as another poster has said, is that while I might resent paying it, it is almost insignificant enough not to worry about over the course of a year. When I also add on the fact that I want Sky Sports it's a no-brainer really. If you want to start a decent protest then concentrate on arguing not to pay council tax!

Unless you have any desire to switch careers (i.e. Actually quite fancy the idea of being a Teaching Assistant), then opt for TUPE. There are horror / scare stories out there about TUPE, but in theory it can be a positive move if you are good and prove it to the company. At the moment I guess you work in a school and have limited scope and progression. You might be a tech and then become an assistant network manager / network manager, but what then? Do you learn anything? Can you actually get anything better than that? With TUPE the company will essentially be investing in you furing the initial first year (or however long is written in the contract!) If you prove your worth (like you would with any new employer) then it's in their interests to keep you and reward you. I'm not in exactly the same situation, but have been in a similar one enough to actively read up (a massive amount of) information on it. I'd certainly see it as a new challenge and a positive step.

I've used Prism before which I found to be quite good for the price. These days I use Altiris Deployment solution (apps + os deployment) which isn't quite as cheap, but has some extra features which we make full use of.

Schools Agreement is the way forward for production side of things for the time being. The technet subscription is a useful extra though - if work didn't pay I probably would myself. Cheers

Perfect Arthur - thanks for the link

Thanks for that. I'll wait to see if any MS edugeekers comment then

What software package(s) did you use to do that Sysman? Looks awsome btw!

I've done a fair bit of searching for this but can't find the answer... Does anyone know what the license for the RTM download via Technet is....? Is this a time-limited version or a basically a fully functional "freebie" for technet subscribers? I can't see any reference of it being time limited, but also can't quite get my head around having the chance of downloading multiple versions / keys for the OS just because I'm a subscriber?!

Hi All, I've just overcome a potentially huge diaster recovery situation with Exchange 2003 which I thought I would share (after all, Google indexes this site, so this might help somone in future - or advise on backup strategy before a problem occurs etc). So... here's the disaster cause: Power cut yesterday (first day of summer holidays). UPS kicked in but didn't shut down the server correctly/in time. Turned back on and found that one of my mailbox storage groups (1 mailbox storage group and 1 public folder group) was corrupt and refused to mount. I knew we had daily backups of Exchange so wasn't too concerned about data loss, but despite having covered a lot of scenarios for exams or other people, have never had to do a restore myself. In theory, I thought I would need to create a recovery storage group, restore to there, use exmerge and then esutil! What a nightmare thought - who would like the idea of doing that! Well - I didn't at all! We use Backup Exec 11d - a product i've never been massivly impressed with, but inheritted and stuck with as it did the job. Basically, cutting out all of the theory (and all of the information found online from searching), you go in to Backup Exec, choose the storage group you want to restore. Choose "no loss" recovery and set it to overwrite existing files, set it to mount the group after restore..... wait until the restore is complete and blam - a fully working Exchange server which has even had the restored storage groups mounted automatically! If anyone is reading this wondering what backup software to use with Exchange, it's a no-brainer - Backup Exec will save you loads of faffing around with ropey command line utilities in a disaster recovery situation and save your bacon!

If you want to retain complete control of your own site, and are happy to use FrontPage or Dreamweaver for HTML / CSS based stuff then there are plenty of sites out there giving you access to decent templates. I've used Website Templates for Dreamweaver, Frontpage, GoLive, and Flash - 4Templates.com in the past. I've been toying with the idea of combining the main school website and Moodle together for some time (not quite ready to make the leap yet). I know there's also a lot of resources and positive comments on here for the EduJoomla package too (which I've briefly demo'd myself but couldn't really get to grips with)

If your Exchange 2003 server is only a member server it should be fine. Having said that, never tried it. But can't think of anything in theory!