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Right, for future reference, the process for adding a whole OU to a search. You need to set the Search up in the first place in the GUI, so long as it has a name for the script to reference then you're good to go. On a Domain Controller Open Active Directory Module for PowerShell from the Start Menu and run cd Documents Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase "OU=2007,OU=Students,OU=Users,DC=domain,DC=local" | FT SamAccountName > 2007.csv with the OU path & CSV file amended as relevant. Open the generated CSV, select all and copy & paste into Excel. In the second column, use =TRIM() to strip out all the stupid padding PowerShell has put in. Copy and paste values from column B to column C to get a plain text version of the trimmed content. Copy and paste this into Notepad++ (minus the column headings), make sure Word Wrap is off, then Start recording a macro: hit End - Delete - , (comma), stop recording, then replay the macro until the end of the file to turn the list of values into a single, comma delimited line. Copy this to your clipboard. On a server with the Azure AD extensions for PowerShell installed (i.e. where you normally run Exchange scripts) Open PowerShell and connect to Exchange, logging in with O365 credentials:Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned $LiveCred = Get-Credential $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell/ -Credential $LiveCred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection Import-PSSession $Session Run the following command with the list of usernames you have on your clipboard, replacing the name of the mailbox search with the name you specified in the GUI earlier: Set-MailboxSearch "Search Name" -SourceMailboxes jbloggs07,jsmith07,... You can check that all the names have been added to the list with (get-MailboxSearch -Identity "Search Name").SourceMailboxes Amending the "Search Name" as necessary, of course. You can then export to PST from the GUI (using IE) as normal.

Winner Set up a role as described and added my account; added a couple of test users from the list, clicked the download button (have to be in IE for this to work), pointed the tool at a local folder and it downloaded separate PSTs for each user. Just need to write a quick PowerShell to add all the users to the search, which I can do based on the info in the top answer here: eDiscovery Powershell - Modify sourcemailbox list | Email and calendar | Microsoft Office 365 Community Job done! Cheers folks

This last week? The prospect of 70ppm wide-array inkjet printers (HP x585z). Why am I getting excited about printers. What is wrong with me. The potential 35% saving, fine, that's a great thing to be excited about. But I have found myself showing other people a YouTube video of the thing, fer Odin's sake.

fnnnaaaaarrrgghh Downloaded it yesterday when the web page updated to show version .305. Except the MSI was still bloomin' 296 (as you only find out if you think to look inside the MSI with 7zip, because the file is just "16"), and I've just wasted no end of time trying to work out wth was going on with my SCCM deployment and why it was uninstalling 296 only to reinstall 296 when it's normally such an easy job. MSI download is correct now, but Odin's beard, are Adobe deliberately trying to annoy me now or something.

Honestly? No grief at all. We migrated everyone (having asked, politely, if people could empty their Deleted Items as there was no point in porting those across) and for a couple of weeks were running on-site and in-cloud; in the Feb half term we then flipped the switch to delete on-site mailboxes and convert people fully to cloud. The Monday morning, people had to run through the Outlook First Time wizard, which is Next - Next - tick box, type password - Next - Finish and never needs doing again. That was it. The only problem we had was with personal contact groups; the details Outlook had cached were incorrect and would reject the email. Deleting the cached entry from the drop down in a new email then typing it out again fixed that. No-one complained about the change in webmail interface, remarkably. And I think that anyone who had any issues with is has been calmed down by the 15 free copies of Office they now have through it Oh, and passwords: we had to make sure our minimum password length was 8 characters, and that's it. No expiry needed. Not even any need to update passwords that didn't meet that criteria; it only applies that when you go to change it. No problems at all.

I did try this but got nowhere, and presumed it was because we were only on the free plan, and didn't have the premium features required (as the admin site kept warning). But it sounds like you've managed it, so I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong here... I'm in Exchange > Compliance > in-place eDiscovery & hold, and I can add a search, then choose All Users or Specific Users (though annoyingly I can't just search *07 to get all the appropriate accounts), but I can't set any search parameters (all greyed out) and I can't place mailboxes on hold (explicitly tells me I'm not licensed), and all I can do once the search is set up is Edit it. I can't run it or export to PST. How did you manage it?

And just as Marussia have a resurgence of fortune, Caterham's hopes dwindle... Caterham's administrators to sell off team's assets from March 11 | Sky Sports Not surprised tbh - if either team was going to be saved, it was the one that had £30m of prize money owed to it.

Yup! SATA is SATA is SATA when it comes to cables. The jumps in generation are only relevant for the motherboard and storage device.

One discussion I've just had with a potential new MPS supplier had these approximate capital figures: Colour A4: £400 A4 MFD: £1300 A3 MFD: £3050 So yeah, not cheap at all. We only have one A3 printer, by our office, mainly for DT; about 10% of what it does is A3 (about 5000 copies a year) so we'll be paying our money for one. This, of course, could be completely different depending on what manufacturer you're looking at.

Oh god yes SSDs all the way. We should be 100% by September We're mostly a mix of Crucial m4 and Samsung 840 drives, 120/128GB, with a handful of 840 EVOs and Crucial MX100 drives. All been brilliant, wouldn't buy any other brand. Buy them from your favourite reseller of choice, and don't forget the mounting brackets if you're putting them into older machines (which is definitely worthwhile). You can't half notice when you remote onto a machine that's still on a hard drive, I tell you.

Done that already - this is the Year 13 group that left last July, so we're already running a full 7 year groups plus this lot of leavers - but I would like it on hand for a longer period just in case a police investigation etc. needs access. Given how easy it is to request/assign O365 licences, I suppose I could just strip them of the Student Advantage licence, disable the accounts in AD and leave it at that; not as elegant, perhaps, but certainly workable. Not a bad idea. Cheers!

I think I know the answer here, but I can't be the only one who has come up against this. I want to close off all the old Year 13 accounts (bit overdue, tbh). We always disable accounts because it costs us nothing to keep them on hand. Files have been taken off the file server onto BluRay, and now I need to reclaim their Office 365 licences. Before I do that, and their mailboxes get deleted, I'd like to grab the PST to archive them, just in case. Storage is cheap and I'd rather have the data than not. Is there any way in Office 365 of doing this in bulk, or do I really have to add each mailbox to my Outlook and PST them one by one? New-MailboxExportRequest looks to be Exchange 2013 only, and whilst MessageOps can apparently do it it costs $1500pa for 1001-5000 mailboxes, and their free offer ("set us as your partner") doesn't apply to free education plans. So (a) does anyone else know how to do this without spending silly money? If I have to spend a few quid I'll live with it, but the pricing above is madness. (b) does anyone else even bother? Am I just being paranoid/overprepared?

Anyone?

A&E helped us through a miscarriage. Then we got a feedback text | Anonymous | Comment is free | The Guardian It's insensitive, and it's useless corporate nonsense, trying to produce quantitative data from qualitative outcomes. No-one chooses which hospital they go to anyway; if I need a hospital, I'm damn well driving to the one that's closest to me, not the one that a friend recommended because ooh, they just had a lovely time when they took their appendix out at Nottingham. The meals were ever so nice, and the nursing staff were just lovely, you know, really lovely.

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Have you not met @Disaster's Temper? A badly spelt email comes through and it's leash off, muzzle off, and he's loosed his Temper: Run Temper! Go on! Gerrem!

Our printer contract is up at the end of the year, so I'm just looking at various options for a new contract (including our current supplier, but it's worth shopping around). We have/want around 40 devices, all desktop printers (no follow-me-printing), mostly A4 mono but with various colour/MFP and a single A3 device mixed in. I want toners to be automatically monitored and ordered, because that shouldn't be difficult, but I'm not overly fussed about getting Papercut or anything. We have Pcounter, it does what we need it to, our print costs are not so out of control that we need the level of reporting offered by Papercut (though it does look nice...). I want all toner & service included, so I'm only paying a cost per page on top of a lease. All pretty standard stuff. Looking at the CCS Contract, RM1599, Lot 2 looks to be the right level for us and Lot 3 to be overkill - we don't need 24/7 support, integration with different OSes, bespoke software solutions... Am I reading that right? Is Lot 2 what I should be looking at and Lot 3 aimed more at hospitals and the like?

Kept meaning to do that. Done that now.

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If they can't even take the time to glance back over their emails, and give that minimal level of attention and care, I don't have much faith in their ability to keep me happy as a customer. I don't mind if it's an email conversation with my account manager, but when it's a mailshot it goes straight into Deleted Items. See also: job applications.

An i3 is more than enough, i5 is overkill for everywhere except Media/Music/Photography. I'm actually planning on Pentiums this summer, for office & teacher machines (replacing Core2Duo HPs). If you can buy from someone in the Technology Access Program - Novatech, Stone (@Stone_Charli), @VeryPC - you can get the Windows OEM licence for $1. Last year I was getting i3 + 4GB + 120GB SSD with a 5 year warranty for just over £300 ex VAT; upgrading to an i5 with 8GB RAM was about £60-£70 more for the Photography/Media classroom. @ICTDirect_Dave would do you something refurb with an SSD for less than that, I should think 120GB SSD is more than enough space, by the way; even our biggest install (on Hot Swap machines, with everything) are about 90GB tops.

And today's Funniest And Most Fitting Headline award goes to... BBC Sport - Sauber: Team boss keen to make up for pointless 2014 campaign Pointless indeed.

Can't see Ferrari hitting this target: BBC Sport - Ferrari: Italian team target two Formula 1 wins in 2015 It looks so wrong to see Vettel in Ferrari overalls. My brain keeps looking for the signs of a bad Photoshop job.

I adore Dear Esther, and until last night it had been the previous holder of my personal Bestest Looking Game Ever Award. It really is a walking simulator: that term's become a bit derogatory of late, but you don't do anything in DE except walk about. But the environment and the atmosphere are so utterly gorgeous that it's captivating regardless. I might go make a Game Photography thread, actually, I can't be the only one who gets sidetracked by climbing and crouching and nudging along edges to get the perfect screenshot composition. I've died more than once falling off a ledge I was only on for a screenshot...