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There is an inherent conflict between the attendance register and a register of who is in the building at any time. When the attendance system became solidified in its current form it was assumed that a pupil would be in school on a single site for a whole session, any child leaving the site during the day would be a one off and the teacher or administrator would know who was out. This has allowed schools to do the half day closing trick by having pm registration and then closing the school whilst keeping their figures looking good. I don't know if this is a weakness but it is a hack. This however means that the attendance register cannot be used to prove the attendance of any pupil at any time other than when they are registered much like an MOT only proves your car is road worthy when the tester signs the certificate. In order to know the location of the pupils a signing in and out process must be in place which is complemented by individual teachers taking a register each lesson to prove the child is not only in school but in the correct location. If you want to massage your figures and know who is in school your best course of action is to make the pm register compulsory and then sign the pupils out of school afterwards. Mike

Thanks, it was a fine grained policy in ADAC, I had found the settings in the default domain policy but they did not match and after reading your post I checked the ADAC and found the setting. However, a method of searching all the GPOs to find where one setting is being configured would be useful when trouble shooting a GPO issue rather than running GPResult and then checking the policies to see what has been set, as it can get a bit confusing especially if like me you have just taken over a new network and the GPO labels are not always totally clear to a new admin, I know I have not always understood my own naming convention six moths after setting up the GPO. Mike

Hi We have lots of GPOs linked to various OUs and I want to find out where password complexity is being set. Is there a way of searching all the GPOs to see which ones are changing a particular setting or do I have to go through each GPO individually? Thanks Mike