Gambit

As of late my current job has been coming more politics then anything. I have been getting tired of it, which led to start looking else where. I had a informal interview last thrusday for a sys admin position. This morning I had a 2nd interview via phone, it was with the IT manager, HR manager, & AD guru. It was a little over an hour in length. Each person took turns in asking questions/scenarios. I received a call today after work for a 3rd interview for tomorrow morning. It is with the IT Manager and his boss. My question is, what should I expect from this interview tomorrow? I am at my wits end with my current job, I am not sure how much longer I can contiune with all the crap that has been going on.

Techsystems: that program worked like a charm. Thanks.

happy: I tried what you suggested and it did not work. Any more suggestions.

I just got off the phone with the head sec at my HS. She stated that when she plugs her usb drive in and tries to access a file, she get's the error "xx is not formatted, would you like to format now?" The drive worked fine yesterday, but not today. Does anyone know of quick fix, just so i can copy the data off the drive. BTW it's an OLD 1gig san disk flash drive formatted in fat16.

background info: win2003 server w/ sp2. all xp workstations w/ roaming profiles. they still need access to local drive, some programs need access to program files. So I cant prevent access to. I had tried to create a path rule in software restrictions, was unsuccessful.

I am looking for a way via gpo to accomplish disabling the creation of new shortcut in the context menu when you do a file > new > folder/shortcut. Students are creating shortcuts to the local drive and installing software and games. This is has become a real pain to try and stop.

I have been searching for a way to just block the chat portion of gmail. Has anyone here been successful at blocking just the gmail chat??

I am trying to update all my workstations to SP3 of corel wordperfect 12. I would like to deploy the service pack through gpo to all the workstations. The issue however is that the sp is in an .msp format instead of .msi and it will not allow me to. Does anyone know of way to do accomplish this? I do not want to install this manually on each machine.

To each their own. I do not like sysprep as I find it requires too many unnecessary steps. All my images are sealed with using newsid. It is so much faster.

yeah sorry about that, first time I hit send it IE timed out, so I refreshed & re-submitted.

I have now learned that students are finding a way to access the c: drive on the computer, by creating a shortcut and putting c:\. Is there a way to deny creating shortcuts for students? I did a google on this and was not able to find anything on how to block this.

I have now learned that students are finding a way to access the c: drive on the computer, by creating a shortcut and putting c:\. Is there a way to deny creating shortcuts for students? I did a google on this and was not able to find anything on how to block this.

I recently did this, and yes you need to specify for each level U:\*.exe U:\*\*.exe U:\*\*\*.exe etc., for as many sub folders as you wish, I only went 5 sub folders deep, I figured most kids would give up after that. This was the only way I know of.

The details are pretty sketchy. From what I have been told, The one kid somehow got admin level rights, then gave his friend the same level of rights, and away they went. We just went to 2003 server roughly last year. The cops were call yesterday, so they're being charged, but thats about all the info I know. As of right now, all the techs are being left in the dark about this whole situtation. I dont even think that many techs know about this. I only know because the principal here is friends with the principal at the school that it happened. So only know of what he has told me.

One of our highschools were hacked. 2 kids finally found a way around our network. apperantly, the had full access to the ENTIRE domain, had a few virsus ready. The school tech caught them, but not sure how much damage was done before they were caught. Now I have the luxury of the principal at my school asking me to try to figure out how they got access to our entire domain. I dont even know where to start.