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That sounds nice! Any chance of a look?

We use an external DNS provider, OpenDNS. We set the IP for the DNS in the dhcp settings and then set acls on switches so that you cannot choose a different external provider like Google. It works really well and the management of filtering through OpenDNS is really easy

Open DFS from the administrative tools on one of your DFS servers. Now select the replication and either turn off the schedule or delete the share setup in replication. Now you can just ammend the GPOs for folder redirection etc. to point to the server you wish to keep. You can now just delete the shares from the other server/s. Just out of interest, what is the the DFS used for, are the servers Server 2003 or 2008 and why do you want to remove DFS?

Why dont you set up multiple security groups and assign them to the folders. Next, setup a custom mmc and assign priveledges to the member of staff. Now install RSAT on the teacher computer and give the staff member the mmc. Now just show the staff member how to add a student to a group in AD.

Users on our network from previous years have home folders set up as follows: \\servername\staffshare\username\files This is fine for a windows xp but with Windows 7 it needs a different layout to benefit the libraries. In my setup for the last couple of years, i have used my approach which is to use the follwoing: \\servername\staffshare\username\documents\files This works really well and removes the issue with seeing My Documents for folder names. What i want to do now is create the same structure for previous years homefolders, but i will need to move the files into documents. Has anybody done this before on mass with a script or tool. Any help will be greatly appreciated!

What firewall do you use? If you had something like ISA or TMG, you could just publish the website

We use all Cisco wireless kit and not had any issues. Very expensive but you get what you pay for!

Definitely a switch issue to me. Sounds like a broadcast. Do you have spanning tree enabled on your switches?

I think I mis-read your question We use a product called signage live. Its a web based solution that is quire inexpensive

Have you looked at ClickView Live? There are also a number of open soure solutions about too

Hi, I have a HP G7 server with two spare slots. We have added disks to match the existing disks and they are being picked up in the HP Smart Array Configuration program. Is there an easy way to add the disks to a current RAID config either through software or SmartStart CD? Or do i need crush the RAID and rebuild?

Thanks to PeterP for the script. Did you have any issues with x64/x86 shortcuts and (seperately) subfolders?

Thank you for your reply. Our Guest uses an external DNS (OpenDNS) is does not use our internal DNS structure. Will it still be best to use the split dns structure?

We have a guest wireless network that has DNS entries added through DHCP for OPENDNS. This has been working fine with no issues but has now decided to stop. Upon speaking to some people, they have said that issue could be that the request through TMG is a hairpin. Basically a user on the wireless requests the in house exchange owa, through an external DNS, then back in through TMG. To combat the issue, i need to create a rule with Network Rules that basically says that any request for the external address for OWA to go to an internal address and not to the external one. I'm a little stuck as to where to start or what to Google. Anybody shed some light please

How do find the logon times during the processing of your script?

We went through the same process over a year ago. There were 117 printers in total around school and a central budget for all Toners and drums, that nobody was accountable for. I knew the cost for running would.be extortionate, but never thought it.would.be.so.bad. First we found a cost for per page on all types of printers and mfds. Next we went round during a half term and noted the page counter for every device. We left it to the next break and went round again for page counters. This will give.you.an easy sum of how.much you are.spending. obviously each month is different in schools, with a couple of months when hardly anybody is there. To end, we were spending close to £70k a year. We have now implemented follow you with 11mfds. Current spend

For a number of laptops that don't get the client deployed correctly, we deploy the Ccmsetup.msi through GPSI and then use the GPOs from the CD to configure site option for the client

I suppose that it stems from the days of Server 2003 DFS. It had the right idea, but just never worked (well!). In Server 2008 DFS-R, they have got it right and it works really well. I say that with setups such as yours and mine, if you have the storage available to duplicate your homefolders then do it. Just make sure that one of the servers in the DFS namespace sits outside of the clustered setup if you can, that way you can prepare against a potential SAN failure

We use DFS for our primary schools that we support. A local server to each of the schools runs a primary namespace and then back at my school, i run a single DFS server that has the secondary locations added. Works really well and i only have to backup the server onsite and not any remote ones. We run a HA Hyper V cluster with blades and SAN, and only utilise one file server for all shares, home folders, desktops, start menus etc. Some people might say that there is HA because of the Hyper V setup using clustering, but argument is that even though there is HA for the server itself, what about the Server OS and possible corruption to the system files. My resolution to this is to run DFS instead of the single file server, and have it stand alone from the blades.

i second delprof2 on startup

We just get SCCM to deploy it

Hi, I have a few location for servers and i am trying to create a query that pulls in the servers. I can get the collection to work by polling the two OU's but this pulls through some legacy 2003 servers. to get rid of these, i have added query for the OS version. When i add the OS version, i get nothing in the collection?? select SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceID,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceType,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Name,SMS_R_SYSTEM.SMSUniqueIdentifier,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceDomainORWorkgroup,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Client from SMS_R_System where (SMS_R_System.SystemOUName = "test.internal/test_domain/test_member_servers" or SMS_R_System.SystemOUName = "test.internal/Domain Controllers") and SMS_R_System.OperatingSystemNameandVersion = "%server%6.0%"

What about Microsoft Endpoint Protection? We get it free with our Volume Licensing

Hi, Windows updates for clients and servers are successfully going out and is working quite well. During the deployment process, i have been setting deadlines for the installation and my deplyment template gives 5 minutes notice before forcing a restart. One of the computers i have been targeting for phase 1 of windows 7 updates is reguarly switched off before the deadline completes. Now when she switches the computer on in the morning, after 30 mins or so she gets a messge to save work as the computer is about to restart. How do other people manage this?

ACreate two gpos, one for a 64bit start menu and one for a 32bit start menu. Now using wmi filtering on each gpo, apply the correct start menu