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Can the sender zip and resend? Might be easier! I didn't think Exchange 2003 could block extensions but Outlook does - details of how to adjust the list are here - How to configure Outlook to block additional attachment file name extensions the other thing is that if you have Exchange Intelligent Message Filter installed then I think it can block extension types so check there.

Good to see you've found the problem! Ideally for time config you want workstations to synch to a domain controller (that's the default behaviour) and then each DC synchs to the PDC emulator (again, default) and then you configure the PDC emulator to synch with an external time source if necessary. Incidentally, the "net time" command is deprecated - it was replaced in XP with w32tm which should be used. The equivalent command is: w32tm /resync Note that this would have to go in a machine startup script - ordinary users don't have the privilege to set the time. It actually shouldn't be necessary; as the time service starts up it will attempt to synchronise and logs if it's failed to do this.

I'm sure I started getting grey hair because of RM Net LM. The school I was working at bought it in the summer of 1992; installation and testing over the summer appeared to go well but once term started we spotted a number of "issues" (as RM called them) - it could take a room of 20 or so machines at least 20 minutes to boot; not good when your lessons are only 35 or 40 minutes long! The NIC boot menu wasn't really like F8 in Windows - it's well before the OS loads. What it did allow you to do was to boot from a Netware server or a Lan Manager server (and I think there was a third option - could have been RM Net but it's all too long ago) The system wasn't thin client because the processing was all done locally but because the workstations were discless you got some of the benefits - update the software once on the server and all the machines get it at next boot. Eventually I migrated that domain to Windows NT 3.5; I think RM didn't have a supported migration route or it was too expensive so we then had vanilla NT on the workstations but with a domain called RMNet because we couldn't change it :-)

Of course, the proper response was "well, you come and do the washing up and I'll fix the computer" ducks and runs to get away from flying objects :-)

But if you don't ask questions you never learn new and interesting things :-) I understand what you are doing and why but I don't think it's a good idea. If users are running out of disc space then they need to delete stuff they don't use - it is a skill they need to learn. If the files need deleting because a school can't afford enough disc space to give sensible quotas then the idea of deleting the content is reasonable (assuming it has been backed up somewhere just in case!) Finally, while avoiding scripting can be a good idea and works well for a small school it's really not viable if you've got even 1,000 users let alone 10,000 or more (and many posters here do have that sort of network)

Not sure if you really want to delete all user files (staff? administrator?) but you can use the following code to do that. The key line contains: If you take out "ou=to be deleted" then it will delete every file in every user's home directory - use with care!!! If you've got an OU for each year group then you might use: or What I would do is to set up the code below but replace DeleteFolder sHomeDir with wscript.echo sHomeDir - you'll then see a list of folder names but they won't actually get deleted. When you're sure this is the right set of users you can go ahead and put back the delete line. Just for info, I'm doing the delete a file at a time because if you try and delete a folder and 1 file is locked then the rest of the folder gets left behind. Like this, you might get a few odd files left behind to tidy up manually but most will be cleaned up. Dim sRoot Set oRootDSE=GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE") sRoot=oRootDSE.Get("rootDomainNamingContext") Set oFSO=wscript.createobject("scripting.filesystemobject") Set oConn2 = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection") oConn2.Provider = "ADsDSOObject" oConn2.Open Set oCommand = CreateObject("ADODB.Command") oCommand.ActiveConnection = oConn2 oCommand.properties("Page Size")=1000 oCommand.CommandText = ";(&(objectCategory=person)(sn=*));sAMAccountName,adspath,cn;subTree" set oRS2=oCommand.execute do while not oRS2.eof set oUser=getobject(ors2("adspath")) wscript.echo "deleting " & oUser.name sHomeDir="" on error resume next sHomeDir=ouser.get("homedirectory") on error goto 0 if sHomeDir<>"" then if oFSO.folderexists(sHomeDir) then DeleteFolder sHomeDir end if oRS2.movenext loop Sub DeleteFolder(sRoot) on error resume next Set oFolder=oFso.getfolder(sRoot) For Each folder In oFolder.subfolders ClearContents(folder) Next ClearContents(oFolder) on error goto 0 end sub Sub ClearContents(sFolder) on error resume next for each f1 in sFolder.files ofso.deletefile f1,true next For Each f2 In sFolder.subfolders ClearContents(f2) ofso.deletefolder f2,true Next on error goto 0 End Sub

Don't think there is any free software. I've got Mail for Exchange working on my E71 but frankly it's a pile of brown stuff :-( I like tidy email; I have lots of folders. Guess how many folders you can use with Nokia's Mail for Exchange? Hint: it's less than 2!!!

How much editing do you want to do? Inkscape can edit a PDF but can only work on 1 page at a time. If you just want to fill in a form and you've got One Note (part of MS Office) then you can print to One Note and then fill in the form using One Note. If it's OK to work with it as a bitmap then Gimp can also open PDF files and edit them.

Assuming you've got something like this in columns A-C A B C John Smith 2 Feb 1998 then in column D you would put: =LEFT(A1,1)&LEFT(B1,1)&TEXT(DAY(C1),"00")&TEXT(MONTH(C1),"00") this will extract first letter of first name, first letter of surname, day formatted with leading zero and then month formatted with leading zero.

Not sure if I understand the point you're making. I wouldn't expect someone who's not a network manager to just dabble in things because they can but this is where you have passwords locked in a safe etc so that in emergency someone else can do the job even though it's not their main job. You then justify different pay scales because the jobs aren't the same. In a different example, a school might have a head and deputy head. They won't get paid the same money or do the same job but if the head is on holiday or off sick then the deputy would be expected to do the urgent things that come up that the head might have had to do (so they might need to make important decisions, authorise payments etc)

I've used Remark Office OMR (Optical Mark Recognition) software for collecting and analyzing data from plain-paper forms. in the past - can't remember the price but it was quite reasonable.

Do an ipconfig /all and look at the default gateways. If any of them is set to 0.0.0.0 then you'll get problems. (Is Vista telling you that it can't get network access on the system tray icon?) If this is the problem then there's a good article here How to Disable TCP/IPv6 Teredo Tunneling in Vista My Digital Life telling you how to get rid of all the stuff to do with IPV6 (it's not as simple as just unticking it in the network connection properties!)

What NICs are they? Not all of them support PXE but some need to be configured - eg you sometimes press some magic key sequence as the machine goes through POST to get a setup for NIC settings and there you can enable RPL, PXE or nothing.

If you're using windows quota management then that's just the way it works. It tracks the owner of the file and although you can change a file owner to a group, by default when it's created the owner is the user who created it. (Incidentally, this is one of the problems with quota management when you move files to a new server - the owner changes so you must remember to fix it or quotas don't behave!) I'm sure there's third party software which does allow you to manage it by group or just by folder no matter who put the files there. It wouldn't be too hard to have a service which checks the size of each file in a folder as it changes, checks the owner to see if it's in the relevant group and increases the total if so. If you have Server 2008 then you can set quotas by folder - it no longer has to be per volume. Some info about it here: File Server Resource Manager

Not sure that full exchange permissions is enough - it's a while since I did this (and it wasn't on 2007) but I seem to remember going into Exchange management, looking at the properties of the store and making sure that the account I was using to do PST backup had full control over the store and that this was inherited all the way down (this was with exmerge but I'd guess the idea's the same) Exchange is intentionally very secure - by default admins can't access user email.

Naa, only paper money and plastic cards - obviously too well paid :-)

I've not done this with Exchange 2007 but getting the tiny PST with Exchange 2000/2003 always meant that the account I was using didn't have permissions. Try exporting your own mailbox; if that works then you're definitely looking at permissions. If it doesn't then we'll have to wait for someone who knows what they're talking about :-)

That has a horribly unfair feel to it if it's accurate! It seems to be saying that colleges which are 16-18 only will get extra funding. That completely messes up general purpose FE (which typically takes ages 16-90) but over the past few years have been forced to concentrate on 16-18 I can understand that it looks like a good way to sort out some of the mess and if moving funding needs away from LSC for 6th form colleges helps make more available for the rest of the FE sector then maybe it's a good idea but it just feels like another way of shafting FE!

I suspect what they're telling you is that they're not going to let you write files like this. ASP certainly supports it: set oFso=server.CreateObject("scripting.filesystemobject") sRoot=server.MapPath(".") set oFile=osfo.createtextfile(sRoot & "\" & test.txt) oFile.writeline "Testing" oFile.close (server.mappath just works out "where am I?" - it will return something like c:\inetpub\wwwroot\mysite\myfolder) The problem is that if you can write "good stuff" then a hacker can probably write "bad stuff" What are you wanting to write? Could it be put in a database instead?

I'm getting lost here! Have you got power sockets inside lockers and you're trying to get something inside the locker which can be plugged in?? Is it a "hot" device (like a kettle)? One possibility would be to wire your own leads - buy a 13A plug and IEC C14 socket and some very flexible mains cable. The wire will still come out of the bottom but it should be able to turn through a sharp angle. I'm sure I've seen very flexible mains cable for sale somewhere but (of course!) I can't find it now... You need something which is made from very many fine strands of copper and a very flexible rubber outer sheath. I'm not sure what the H&S implications are of doing this - the reason almost everything is sold with moulded on plugs is that it removes the risk of someone wrongly wiring the plugs and also makes it tougher (so wires can't easily be tugged out) - you'd need to check that out with someone who can confirm that it's OK (or not!)

And if this was what was happening here then I'd probably agree with you BUT IT'S NOT TRUE!!! Someone has used a word "blocklist" perhaps because they just fancy a change, perhaps because they're just being pedantic and think it's a more accurate word and then the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail HAVE MADE UP LIES about what's happened and why! Those lies then get propagated by people on here saying "ooh, isn't it terrible with all these people being all PC" when (as far as I can tell from reading what CAB have said) this just didn't happen! I reckon the people who need to get a life are those who go round looking to stir trouble when there's actually nothing really to report!

Ideally, you want to open every app while logged on using the account that's going to be your master profile. With a mandatory profile, if you don't do this then users will get fed up because every time they run apps they will go through first run settings. Of course, not every app has "first run" stuff (eg Notepad, Paint) but many do Once you've done all that, you need to search the registry (HKCU bit) for references to the username you've used - some of them you can leave but others will need changing (eg some software will set the save location to something like \\server\share\username - you probably want that to be n:\ or whatever drive letter you use for home directory) Now you copy the profile to a server share (whatever you've specified for your users or \\domain\netlogon\default user if you want it to also be the basis for new users where you're not forcing a mandatory profile). Log on now as a test user and check each app again - make sure they work. Finally I think it's easier to get the redirection right using group policies - redirect "my documents", "application data" and "desktop"

Are you trying to lock down the guest machine so that the students can't do any damage inside it or lock down the host? If it's the former then I'm not sure that you can - as piqueaboo says, you need pretty high level privileges to be able to debug code - but it may not matter; you can just put back a copy of the VM hard disc if someone messes it up (I'd guess only you know whether they're likely to deliberately mess things up or just do it by accident. If it's just an occasional accident then copying back the big virtual disc won't be a big deal. If it's routine badness then that's harder) You could put the vitual machine "master" in a read only folder on each machine with an icon saying "replace VM" - if users have a problem, they just shut down their virtual machine, double click the icon and less than 5 minutes later they're ready to go again. If you just want to stop students "stealing" the VM then don't bother :-) Sign up for MSDN Academic Alliance (Academic Alliance Home - Microsoft UK) and you can then just give XP, Visual Studio and lots more to your students. If you buy your software through Campus Agreement then I think MSDN AA is included in the cost - not sure about the schools agreement but even if you have to pay for it, it's not expensive and will save so much grief in terms of licensing! Alternatively, take a look at the prepared VHDs here - Try Visual Studio Team System 2008 - Virtual Machines - not sure if this has more than you need but this is intended for users to download and use freely.

Sadly, most people won't see that and even if they do, they won't bother to check so this will go down as yet another example of the wrong headedness of "political correctness" when it's no such thing. "blocklisting" actually makes more sense as a word - you're using a list of domains/IPs from which you are going to block email. the sentence: I'm going to block email coming from IP a.b.c.d and from domain reallybadomain.tld makes sense. The sentence I'm going to black email coming from IP a.b.c.d and from domain reallybadomain.tld doesn't make sense

You really ought to recognise that if the story is in the Daily Telegraph (and they're quoting from the Daily Mail!) then it may not be completely true! Citizen's Advice haven't banned the term blacklist; someone internally has just used the term blocklist in its place (which is hardly unreasonable when Spamhaus uses the same term!)