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How old is this app? It sounds like it dates back to pre-Windows 3.1 when it was difficult to print different fonts except by storing them in the actual printer and sending commands (often as ESC codes) saying "change to font XXXX" It's not hard work to have something which just uses a Truetype barcode font and, as Nick says, you can get a code 39 font free Only issue might be if you're not using Code 39 (there are lots of barcode fonts) but even if you had to buy the font it shouldn't cost much and you can then use pretty much any printer (laser works best)

I think that auto-archiving doesn't work as you would expect and is basically useless. You might expect that if you tell it to archive emails older than (eg) 30 days that it would do just that. The trouble is that it calculates "older than" on the basis of "last accessed" rather than "created" - there's an article here which goes into more detail. I wouldn't use auto-archiving; it's safer (and possibly easier) to manually move stuff to folders when you're finished with it.

and, if I understand the process, are not being allowed to teach until they can pass the test. Lots of people want to be doctors; they fail the exams to become doctors. That doesn't tell us anything about doctors except that they passed the test and some people failed. Similarly, all we can get from this is that some people who think they would like to be teachers aren't good enough to be teachers and don't get allowed to teach until they can show that they are good enough.

Err; not really :-) the idea of change management is that you have some kind of proposal - "I want to install patch XYZ on server2. the purpose is this ....; the impact is likely to be this ...; my backout plan is this ...." this can then be discussed by the people who might be affected and, once everyone's happy that the world is not going to fall to pieces then you go ahead, check the change in the agreed way and, if necessary, reverse out the change if it doesn't work.

The message about UNC paths is informational - it's not an error and you can ignore it. As I understand it, you've got a script which is mapping drives - that presumably has something like: net use X: \\server\share1 net use Q: \\server\share2 so what you want to do is add to that so it looks like this: net use X: \\server\share1 net use Q: \\server\share2 regedit /s \\server\share\silver.reg You need to find a safe place to put the silver.reg file - a possibility is the netlogon share and you can access this by putting: regedit /s %logonserver%\netlogon\silver.reg What I think you've done is put the .reg file in the policies section of your sysvol share (you get there when you create a group policy to specify a logon script) and just say that the .reg is the script. This will work but there's no way you can stop the prompt - regedit runs in "normal" mode and isn't silent. You could specify the logon program to be regedit /s silver.reg but the problem is that regedit won't know where to look for the .reg file - this is why it's easier to put it in a defined location (like netlogon) and call it from a batch file

I hate statistics like this because they give no real information. Yes, I now know that lots of trainee teachers are not very good at basic spelling. What I don't know is how they compare with the rest of the population. If we gave the test to the population at large, would we get more than the 25% failure rate shown for teachers? If not, then what these stats show is that teachers are better then the general population at spelling (which is what we want). Sadly, I get the impression that few newspaper editors understand basic maths so have no real feel for the numbers they include in their articles and just fill their papers with meaningless verbiage.

Not really true. Getting a grade C specifies that you can do basic maths etc. and you can check the syllabus to find out the list of criteria. The trouble is that the basic maths, English etc that many would feel to be essential are not the ones which are used as criteria in the award of grades.

Try to find the file tip.htm on the machine (should be in c:\windows\web); check to see if it's read-only or has weird permissions. You can probably delete it - it will be replaced by the SP when it installs. @penfold_99 - have you seen MS KB 951978 - this seems to have a fix for your problem.

You might also want to revisit the lockout policy - there's some evidence that the default 5/30 is not very helpful. If someone is trying an automated hacking tool then they're likely to make hundreds of attempts and (unless you have very weak passwords) they won't get in with just 5 attempts. You could also try changing your complex password to a complex phrase - this can be long, with punctuation marks and numbers but easier (perhaps!) to remember and type :-)

There's loads of stuff on the MS web site. In general, you want to avoid double scanning. For example, if you have home directories on a server then scan them server side and don't scan the network drive on the client (should make things quicker; file is scanned on server and blocked if it's bad rather than copied to client, scanned and blocked) there are certain folders you should avoid scanning - on an Exchange server, don't scan the folder with the actual Exchange databases (MDBData); on a domain controller, don't scan the ntds.dit files and so on.

tosh74 is right - what often happens is that something gets hard coded in the profile pointing to a UNC. When the user tries to work with a particular app (and possibly at logon if the path has got into their "my documents" bit of the shell folders) then it all falls over. If you also use a drive letter for "my docs" then you can try replacing any reference to the UNC with the drive letter (eg if it says \\server\share\testpupil then change it to n: or whatever drive you use)

It's not the complexity, it's the fact it's already been compressed. BMP files will compress; JPG much less so and so on. Word .docx files won't compress as much as .doc (because the .docx format is already a zip archive)

Of course and my apologies if it seemed like that. My comment wasn't intended at the OP but rather at the comments like "delete all their files", "looking at getting a bat, planks of wood are useful" etc

Together with the network managers who can't be bothered to set up systems properly with folder redirection. It's not difficult, it makes the system "just work" in the way you and users would want it to do and I can't understand why so few people bother learning how to manage their networks properly!

It's really not a good idea to make people change passwords when they don't need to - all it does is to annoy people for no purpose. Make the effort to identify the people whose password needs changing and get them to change it. The script below will find people whose password was changed more than 20 days ago; change the 20 to whatever you need. You can also edit it so it forces password change at next logon - just uncomment the lines flagged. iDays=20 Set oRootDSE=GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE") sRoot=oRootDSE.Get("rootDomainNamingContext") Set oConn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection") oConn.Provider = "ADsDSOObject" oConn.Open Set oCommand = CreateObject("ADODB.Command") oCommand.ActiveConnection = oConn oCommand.properties("Page Size")=100 oCommand.CommandText = ";(objectcategory=person);sAMAccountName,adspath,cn;subTree" set oRS2=oCommand.execute do while not ors2.eof set oUser=getobject(ors2("adspath")) on error resume next refreshtime=0 RefreshTime = datediff("d",oUser.passwordlastchanged,now) on error goto 0 If refreshtime>iDays Then wscript.echo oUser.name 'uncomment next 2 lines to force password change at next logon 'oUser.pwdlastset=0 'oUser.setinfo End If ors2.movenext loop ors2.close

go for a soft phone? Much less to steal with that :-)

Have you checked to make sure that the group policy has applied successfully - you say you've forced an update but not if it succeeded. I've never tried to unblock attachments (most of the blocked types are things like .exe which I absolutely don't want to receive by email) but there are plenty of web sites suggesting that it does work. Can you get the files put somewhere other than in an email? Skydrive or similar file space? Sharepoint?

I'd definitely do it with the GPO but the script that I've used in the past uses value 2 (ADS_ACEFLAG_INHERIT_ACE) to get the perms inherited. The MSDN website gives the definitions of the various flag constants.

It can generate lots of data - you will certainly want to increase the size of log allowed. You then need to look at some of the tools available for monitoring logs and helping you to find useful info. Microsoft have a couple which can help - logparser and eventcomb (this is a resource kit tool; it does lots of stuff but can be helpful)

What I think you definitely want is a commitment that the system can do wireless n in the future by just a firmware or software upgrade. Many laptops you buy today come with 802.11n and it does have benefits so you will want to use it before long. What you don't want to have to do is rip it all out and start again!

Nah, you don't want air-con or oxygen in your server room. The way you do these things properly is with liquid carbon dioxide cooling. check this for the way things are done in the real world :-)

WSUS is detailed here - the bit on the left has "getting started" You need Server 2003 or 2008 - it can go on an existing server because it's very low impact. You can't deploy any old .exe file from it, only the updates that MS deploys (and a few other things but that's much harder work - stick with just updates for now!) It really is worth installing it - it will make the windows update process pretty much painless and gives you complete control (a group policy tells machines to use your update server; once a month you choose which updates get deployed and that's about it!)

It doesn't come as an MSI (don't ask why - it's just one of the things Microsoft do to make your life a misery :-)) but it's very easy to push it out with WSUS. If you don't want to use WSUS then download the Internet Explorer Administration Kit - this gives you the tools to prepare an unattended install. You should also be able to get the full download of IE7; its setup can then be run as ie7setup /quiet /restart (run silently; restart at end)

Use lcase: objUser.put "mail", lcase(left(objUser.Get("givenname"),1) & objUser.Get("sn")) & "@lordswdg.bham.sch.uk"

replace is nice and works well in this specific case. The good thing about getting different examples is that it shows people other options. Our email addresses are of the form .@ etc and for this the "left" function is needed because samaccountname won't give you that at all.