paullong

I've heard that you can now buy licences for ActiveInspire full version - see ActivInspire for all IWB Users? | The Whiteboard Blog - has anybody done this or know how to get hold of them?

I've got Vista installed on my home PC (business edition at the moment, although we have ultimate available now). It's set up as a workgroup PC as it's just a PC. My laptop is part of the school domain. When my PC had XP on it, I could share folders (eg c:\backup) and access them from my laptop - great. When I upgraded to VISTA, the print shares still worked, but the file shares didn't. Password protected sharing is off but I get from my laptop: "\\paulvista\backup" is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact .........." If I turn on password protected sharing on the Vista machine, I get prompted on my laptop for the username and password on the vista machine, which I put in, but then get "\\paulvista" is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact .........." What I have managed to do is share the public folder and can therefore transfer files that way. I can also share folders from my laptop to the VISTA machine, but I'm not keen on that because they may be visible at school too. It's got to have something to do with workgroups and domains, but I can't work out what or why. Anybody had similar experiences?

That's exactly how we see it at the moment !

Thanks Ric. We've looked at this option already and the global setting is in delivery options. Unfortunately though it would involve making the global setting, and then over-riding it for every member of staff which would be a lot of work. And we would need to remember to put the override in each time we create a new member of staff too. Someone else has suggested via email that we upgrade to the Enterprise version of Exchange - do you or anyone else have experience of whether this is any better? Cheers, Paul

2003 on a 2K3 server.

We're having some difficulty with kids emailing their whole year group or even worse the whole email community. We use MS Outlook 2003 at school and Web Outlook from home. It's when they're in school that the problem occurs because if they click on "To..." then they get to see ALL users. We've managed to hide the shared contacts/groups that we've set up in Active Directory by changing the security permissions on the shared groups to be invisible to students - this just leaves various gaps when they click on to.. However, they can still see about 900 users (Y9-13 + staff) and some are in the habit of clicking the first, holding down shift, clicking the last and sending. Obviously we have an AUP and ban their access to email when they do this, but we need to stop it from happening in the first place. We've tried setting the default number of recipients to 5 (for example) as a global setting, but this of course restricts it for staff too (unless we change each one individually). We've also tried hiding the global addressbook but this prevents anyone from logging on :-( Does anyone have any solutions or any software that deals with bulk changes to mailboxes or puts different types of users into different groups and manages them according to the group they are in? Exchange is very very un-friendly when it comes to linking in with AD and applying settings to groups of people. btw - one solution we are putting in to place in order to solve the fact that users can't see their own contacts when clicking on To... is to implement roaming profiles for staff - shock horror! Has anyone got any positive experiences of using RPs with exchange / Outlook and any advice? Thanks, Paul

Of course there are those unforeseen circumstances when sometimes it is necessary to 'jump' into action

Well as a teacher and a line manager I would never ask you to do such a thing at such short notice (except ...... !) The simple answer is - no problem - but you'll have to join the queue.

that's far too scarey for me to understand PS - Limbo - I assume that's you Neil?

Hi I'm a new user - found out about the forum today from the Birmingham LEA discussion forum (although I am within Walsall LEA!) I use a few of these PHP style forums and most have an option to subscribe to new postings. Is this option available and if so where can I find it? Subscribing usually lets you receive notification in your inbox that a new posting has been made and a link to it so that you can view it rather than having to keep logging into the website to check. Cheers, Paul