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Besides the argument about hdd configuration.. Personally I would go with his original suggestion even though it doesn’t give you future expandability. You are suggesting the G5 series of server... i would seriously look at the new g6 generation. Vast improved chipset and can deliver far far greater performance. Have recently purchased 3 of the new G6 and i would say they are worth the extra money. I was extremely impressed.

sorry obviously missed the point that it was disabled..

Glad its sorted

i have just checked my windows 7 workstation running admin tools and i get add prefrences for ie8. latest admx template? () When you load IE8 on XP, you get an updated INETRES.ADM template. () When you load IE8 on Vista, you get an updated INETRES.ADMX template. Having said this: these will not effect whats displayed in prefrence

Either Memtest or the one i like: System Mechanic

am i being silly in suggesting net start ???

we have just installed our digital signs.. another xibo install: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmvpvYSbzk0]YouTube- Digital Signage Solutions ( Client Side)[/ame] xibo is actually a very nice bit of opensource.

You can do this from the preferences extension in group policy managment. computer configuratoin, prefrences, control panel settings, services.

I would be interested to know the error.

Processor = Pentium Dual-Core 2.5GHz Ram = 4GB System type 32bit Operating Base score i3.5 processor 5.9 memory 5.9 Graphics 3.5 Gamig graphics 5.3 Primary hard disk 5.9 We have 600 of these machines around our school

redirect the staff memebers desktops. why should it make a difference which icon its loaded from??? we have sims on every workstation!

Give staff permission to change pupil’s passwords: in ad give the staff group permission only to change password (advanced security rights) Here is a kix file call this from a bat file you give the staff.. Hay presto no longer being called by staff to reset student’s passwords: ;**** Change Pupil Password Routine **** ;User must be a member of ICT or Information Managers group ;Only login ids of the format Snnnn can be reset, where nnnn is > 2000 if ingroup ("ict systems") = 0 and ingroup ("infoman") = 0 ? "Only information managers or ICT staff have permission to run this script." ? sleep 3 exit endif ? "Enter the login id of the pupil whose password you wish to change..." ? gets $pupilid ? "Enter their new password..." ? gets $pass $prefix = substr($pupilid, 1, 1) $suffix = val(substr($pupilid, 2, 4)) if ($prefix <> 's') or ($suffix < 2000) ? "Not a valid pupil login id." ? sleep 3 exit endif ? "Resetting login id " + $pupilid + " to password " + $pass + "....." ? ? shell "c:\windows\system32\cmd /c net user " + $pupilid + " " + $pass + " /domain" if @error = 0 ? ? "Password has been reset! Wait 5 seconds.... " ? else ? ? "ERROR - password not reset! Wait 5 seconds...." ? endif sleep 5

Genius, Tried that in my test environment this morning it worked perfectly!... Now I just have to think of a use in my school ;-)

No Standard Will be fine. I only mentioned the printer as we moved to 90% windows 7 and hit major problems with drivers with xp. So have ended up running another vm of 2003 R2 to do printer drivers for Xp workstations.

However using the /3gb only really effects programs that arent heavily intergrated within windows. So having said that you may not even notice any performance increase.. Try it and let us know?

If you are a school and cant afford to use enterprise mode. i would simply suggest using wpa2 and putting your wireless nodes on a separate vlan.

Ok then so we cant block it from the proxy. how about if you uncheck in group policy automatic browser configuration. also try Disabling: under uses, windows components, internet explorer, internet settings, advanced settings, internet connection wizard. also try disabling some browser menues.

clonezila it is then.... still a very nice bit of software. but in the future acronis is worth the investment. pxe boot and image.

p.s. this batch file might be of use to u. forces the request for a license.. "%SystemRoot%\system32\cscript.exe" "%SystemRoot%\system32\slmgr.vbs" -ipk (Licens key) cscript c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs -skms (ip of licensing server):1688 cscript c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs -ato i would recommend if you are willing to pay for it acronis.

No not a problem our licensing server is 2003.

This could be time consuming but would work. set your activation server up. as you know it will start issuing licenses after 25 requests. You could image all your machines get them to request activation. sysprep them again and request for activation again. this would exceed the number of unique requests and therefore they would activate. Hope this Helps.

That equally works. Expect I have been in one school that liked the staff having access to it!!! don’t ask me why!!!

Do you use ISA: If you use isa server just create a rule that blocks that group. (redirects to blocked page)

Applies to Nottinghamshire. I have been speaking to the necessary people. I have heard that it’s going out to tender in January so EMBC may no longer be EMBC. However on the good news they will hopefully be pushing out 100mb trial lines in the early half of next year. As our 10mb line simply is not quick enough for 1500 users and 800 machines.

You are correct however i would just change fileserver to be storage server 2008. If you are a school and Volume licensing i would simply suggest installing 2008 R2 Enterprise. One thing to consider moving to windows xp and 7 mixed mode would be printer driver installation as if you push printers out using group policy it might be worth keeping a 2003 box so you can have old printer drivers for legacy xp machines. Might need some serious hardware upgrades for the exchange box. if you are moving to exchange 2007 or 2010. Does that answer your question as im not 100% sure what you are asking.