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We went with a Smart ID Printer. Smart ID Card Printer | Digital ID I am extremely impressed by it. The colours are very good, print time is reasonable, it's a bit noisy but where it is that's not really a concern for me. The only gotcha for us was that the magstripe encoder built into our ID card software is incompatible with the printer (too new) so we have to encode it using a specially formatted field on the card that the printer can pick up on. We bought it from Digital ID, service was excellent, their support in resolving the magstripe issue was really good.

Our disciplinary process here at the college involves restricting student's access to the Internet for one week when a breach of the computer usage agreement is committed. This was achieved by adding our students to a policy in our content filter that allowed our internal IP range but nothing external. However since migrating to Live@edu this was no longer applicable. What we needed to do was add some additional domains so that access to live@edu can also happen. I raised a support call with Microsoft for a comprehensive list of associated domains and they came back with one...*live*. Not so. Below is the list of all domains I've allowed so that Live@edu can be served up. *live* *passport* *wlxrs* *microsoft* *bing* *outlook* *atdmt* *msecnd* Without allowing all of these, the page will either render very badly or most likely not at all. I was particularly annoyed at having to allow bing.

We had a Magicard until it died a death, I wouldn't have another. Very highly strung piece of kit.

We need to refresh our ID card printer. Most vendors are suggesting a Pebble. One has also suggested a Smart. Does anybody use either of the above? How would you rate them in terms of reliability? - We need to produce in the region of 1600 cards a year. 1200 of which is in a 3 day period during enrolment.

We've got some 2500 students with Live@edu accounts. I have had a few reports of students working in the live versions of both Excel and Word returning to their Skydrives to find their documents haven't saved. This is not something that I have been able to recreate. Has anybody else experienced this? Is there a common symptom for documents that don't save? Any advise will be welcome. Thanks,

Delivering a secure exams environment using Group Policy - external.docx Registry key mentioned in this document is the one detailed previously in this thread. Thanks,

Hmm, I've had cause to look at Steady state a couple of times, both times I've thought better of it. If I was you I'd ditch steady state and let group policy do the work of securing the machine. I'll put up a post containing my documentation on using group policy to create a secure exams environment. Thanks,

Hi, I'm sorry this is not working for you. I can absolutely vouch for the process, we're running in the region of 80 computer based exams at the moment with spell check disabled. The only gotcha that I have come across is that the workstation can only have 2007 components. Indeed this morning I was asked to look at one where the spellchecker hadn't disabled and the box still had Frontpage 2003 on it. Can you check the registry to ensure that the .dll files have been renamed?

Thanks to Jerome Araujo at Microsoft for providing me with these links. One of the advantages of migrating to Live@Edu is that you are able to synchronize your college e-mails with e-mail client applications on your computer such as Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird. You can also access the e-mails from most smart phones such as iPhones, BlackBerrys, Android phones etc…. Instructions on how to do this are available from the following links: For iPhone: Set Up POP or IMAP E-Mail on an Apple iPhone For BlackBerry: Set Up POP or IMAP E-Mail on a BlackBerry Curve For Outlook: Set Up Outlook 2010 for IMAP or POP Access to Your E-Mail Account If the above links don’t apply to you then this link: Generic Settings provides generic instructions that you can use to get the information you will need to put into your phone or mail client.

There may be times when you need to access the mailbox of a student or staff member. Detailed below are the steps to take to open their mailbox within your Outlook. Find the user in Active Directory Users and Computers on a computer or server with the Exchange tools loaded on them. Click on the Exchange Advanced tab and press the button marked Mailbox Rights. Add yourself with Full Mailbox Access. In Outlook Choose File - Account Settings - Highlight your Exchange account and hit the Change button. Choose More Settings - Advanced tab - Add. Add the user and hit Ok - Next - Finish - Close. You will be back at your mail folders with the users mailbox listed in the folder list. Once done reverse the process by removing the mailbox and recind your permissions to the mailbox. Variations on this theme will work for versions of Outlook 2003 and 2007. The only difference being how you access your Exchange account settings within Outlook.

Whilst Googling for something else have found the fix for this. When the user gets the error "Documents in this folder are not available. The folder may be have been moved or deleted, or network problems may be preventing a connection to the server." In XP you need to run c:\windows\system32\webfldrs.msi in repair mode. Uncheck Repair all detected reinstall problems but check everything else. Runas an administrator with the user logged in. In Windows 7 download the following: Download details: Software Update for Web Folders (KB907306)

Hi Oxcidius, The method I've outlined above will disable spell checker in Office 2007. The box has to have all Office 2k7 components installed though. If anything 2003 is still installed, including supplementary applications such as Project and Visio then it won't get nobbled. Thanks, Tony.

Provided you use the Install Manager application to create the TRANSFORMS file then you will be able to install without the Autoupdate features. The installation removes any previous versions prior to installing the new one. - It did in our case anyway but it was only a minor version change (10.0 to 10.6). My batch file looks like this: @echo off msiexec.exe /i "\\server\Software\smartboard\v10\10.6\Drivers\VC90 SP1\vc_red.msi" /passive msiexec.exe /i "\\server\Software\smartboard\v10\10.6\Drivers\SMART Product Drivers.msi" TRANSFORMS="\\server\Software\smartboard\v10\10.6\Drivers\Config.mst" /passive msiexec.exe /i "\\server\Software\smartboard\v10\10.6\Notebook\Smart Notebook.msi" TRANSFORMS="\\server\Software\smartboard\v10\10.6\Notebook\Config.mst" /passive

Installing the vc_red.msi worked for me also. I got this error in the field but not on my test box, I guess there is a Windows update that I've not pushed. Have to take a look at that. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Hi, Bit of a weird one to throw out there... Completely randomly some users will experience and error whereby a Sharepoint document they have been editing quite merrily for some time will return the message: "Documents in this folder are not available. The folder may be have been moved or deleted, or network problems may be preventing a connection to the server." When they come to edit it. It is also identifiable by a corrupt Nethood. It seemingly only affects the one particular user on that one particular workstation. Removing the profile doesn't fix the problem. However, a system restore of the workstation to a time prior to the error message appearing will fix the problem. - No applications and seemingly no system files have been modified in the period between restore points and as I say, other users on the same box won't have the problem. In all cases, if the user can pinpoint a date when the problem started we can restore to a date prior and it will start working again. In a limited number of cases the workstation will corrupt again within days. If this happens our current fix is to reimage the workstation. Which so far has fixed the problem permenantly. We are using XP SP3, Office 2007 and Sharepoint server 2003. Has anybody come across anything similar? Thanks,