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Not had any issues at all with it. It deletes that file and nothing else gets touched. Been using it now for 2 years. We have about 3000 users right enough. Paul

We put Windows 7 in about 2 years ago over the summer holidays, but i wouldnt like to go back to that first day of term ever again. It's taken us till now to get it tweaked just right. imo its managed better via GP and with 2008 servers its better, but visually its not worth the hassle. Folder permissions are a nightmare too, i mean trying to do anything simple on a C drive is nuts, but the protection is there to save time in the long run with rogue pupils altering the contents of a windows folder lol

We've created a batch file for the deletion of the dreaded Desktop.ini files lol Just double click it when we see one and it turfs the whole lot in one fail swoop. F: (or drive your userdrives are on) del desktop.ini /F /S /Q /A H 100% works a treat on Server 2008 R2. I just have a wee BAT file on the servers desktop and it happily runs. You could then set up a sheduled task every morning or so to run it. Paul

The way we do it here is; Login as admin to the computer and set the printer you want "as default" We have a kix32 login script that sets the current printer set in the registry as default. Export the Registry key HKCU - Software - Microsoft - Windows NT - Current Version - Windows. On the right plane you will see the printer you set as default. Right click and export to the root of C and call it printer.reg Also create a text file called printer.txt This is our login script that runs ;************** Set Default Printer ****************** If EXIST ("c:\printer.txt") = 1 shell "cmd /c \\servername\public\Logon\Scripts\W7\printers\printer.bat" ?"Default Printer Set...." Endif Inside our Printer.bat file, we have c:\windows\regedit /s c:\printer.reg The only thing you need to worry about after that, its applying a login script to run when users logon. Hope that gives a step for a solution.

I have passed it up the line, and hopefully it will filter down. The problem is i can see both arguments, and we're trying to get the school involved in Twitter updates and stuff like that. The newer staff are all starting to ask for software that they used in their old school, i.e. Dropbox and we're kind of lagging behind.

Dear All, In the ever growing trend that is Social Networking, it's becoming the norm these days for groups and pages to crop up for marketing purposes or to have a centralised hub for whatever it may be used for. Our internet policy states that there will be no access given to social media, and networking or webmail and i think for good reason. Everyone signs this agreement every year and yet today i'm still being asked to allow Facebook because there's a business need for it. What's everyones view on access to FB in school? Thanks Paul

fellow edugeeks, The current popularity of itunes at home with our students and staff has meant the argument for having it installed on their workstations is now at fever pitch. I am at a loss for trying to find out any information on how legal or illeagal this process is. Can a teacher have their iTunes library held on a networked computer in a school? to then show videos on the projector to the class? My first reaction was no they can't as its no more legal than ripping a cd to a network drive and letting everyone listen to it. To be honest this sounds more like a copyright issue than a licensing however its the closest area to post in. Any help or even a hint to a solid outcome would be great. Thanks, Paul

Thanks for that, i did send a file over last year, however no-one ever replied which i was disappointed with. Its only surfaced again recently.

Dear all, I have noticed at our school, a huge increase in the amount that teachers are saving in their user drives. It took me a while to figure out why and i hope that someone can shed a little light on the subject. When Activ-Inspire was released, we jumped into the upgrade and went for it. Teachers loved it and that was all well and good. However, when Inspire opens a .flp file, it obviously cannot write back to it, so it creates a .flipchart file instead. Great news it seems, but no. It increases the files sixe by a huge amount. Thus using up a lot more space. I read that .flp files were in a compressed state, and .flipchart files are not. Is there anyway of compressing these new .flipchart files? so i can get some drive space back? Thanks in advance. Paul

We currently use a logon script that points to a registry file on the C drive of the pc. Its an export of the default printer setting. So when the logon script reads this file it plants the registry key and defaults to that printer. for example we use Kix32 as our logon script If EXIST ("c:\hplj.txt") = 1 shell "cmd /c @LDRIVE\logonscripts\printers\hplj.bat" ?"Default Printer Set...." EndIf Bat file contents c:\windows\regedit /s c:\hplj.reg reg file on C drive contents (hplj.reg) Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows] "DebugOptions"="2048" "Documents"="" "DosPrint"="no" "load"="" "NetMessage"="no" "NullPort"="None" "Programs"="com exe bat pif cmd" "Device"="Admin_Mono,winspool,Ne00:" So in short, i export the above registry key to the C drive as hplj.reg (could be named anything you want) The person logs in and this file changes the default printer.

The problem with professional web companies is because they know you need it they charge you a fortune. We were quoted £25k for changing this site Untitled Document and we just cant justify that. However that was for a content management system too. If you can do it yourself, go for it, because you have overall control of its layout. We bought this site in years ago and its so tightly packed there is no room for anything new.

There's google webmaster tools, which is useful however i noticed a chrome extension called SEO, and when you go onto your site, you click the SEO button and it gives you stats on how the net see's your site and what search engines have it logged. SEO for Chrome Obviously you need chrome for it to install. It helped me with my site.

Google earth wont run until its running the new version (as has been said already) however our problem was that ISA wasn't allowing the connection to the update server to allow earth to be updated so we had to download the stand alone installer in the meantime until we could create an ISA rule to allow the connection. Its the same as iTunes too for us.

I can speak for the person whose doing the surfing, as i was the one you'd see on msn, google chat and the like most of the day. My boss eventually said to me about it, and i was more mad with myself than anyone else as we all know its wrong until we're confronted about it. Since then, i've had MSN, google chat, and any other chat programs taken away. I know how to change it back via websense however that's not going to solve anything. Its made me a better and more attentive person to work with i think, as my mind isn't elsewhere. Talk to him/her or make subtle references to it and your worries may just fizzle away. If they get defensive then i guess they don't have much respect for others.

Hi guys n gals, I wondered if i can pick your brains with a niggling problem we have in the school. The set up is as follows; Server 2003 R2, ISA 2006 SP1. The server is our internet gateway server (proxy) The clients have WinXP Pro SP3, IE7 and all pointing to the proxy. An issue has arisen whereby a page cannot be displayed message comes up when you try to login to facebook. In the ISA logs i get a message saying "12209 The ISA Server requires authorization to fulfill the request. Access to the Web Proxy filter is denied." This is coming up with the user as anonymous, however i think this is supposed to happen? Now we know IE is terrible for troubleshooting however if i use Google Chrome i get this message (Error 107 (net::ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR): Unknown error) My understanding of the relationship betweet client and ISA over SSL is that a request is made from the client of https and then ISA creates a secure gateway (SSL tunnel). The client then resends the information and all is well. There is rules allowing access to these sites and also allowing access to HTTPS so as far as further troubleshooting goes i cant think of anything. So far i've installed SP1 on ISA and done windows updates to the client. I also read somewhere it could be a challenge handshake problem between ISA and IE7 but i haven't heard of this. Thanks, Paul