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Hi Everyone Just thought I would follow this up as I now have a solution for this Google have now updated their GP templates to separate "Google Safesearch" and "Youtube Safety". On our old template it was just one control that was Safesearch. I think this is because Google and Youtube have since linked them together and if you do not update your templates and have Safesearch selected on the older one, it will just turn it all on. So to confirm the solution to this for us was to download the latest ADM templates for Chrome and set it all back up again from scratch.

Hi Guys Am I able to inject the .NET updates into my Win 7 WIM file? For the Office updates, I have been extracting the MSP files from the EXE's, then pop into updates folder of Office. There are loads of .NET updates that need to be installed every time we run a deployment so would like to integrate them to save time. Is this possible and if so can someone tell me how? Thanks Guys

Caffrey, does your web filter pick up stuff that Google Safesearch doesn't do any more? As in if someone searched for pornography, would your own web filter stop that? It seems that the rules on filtering are a little grey but I do question whether turning off Google Safesearch, even for staff could be a safeguarding issue?

Hi Guys Has anyone else noticed a change with Youtube when it comes to Safesearch. We are signed up with Google to make sure that searches are filtered, however it seems youtube may have now been integrated and teachers are complaining all over the place that half of their videos they show in class will now not play as its blocked by safesearch. Does anyone have any information on this or been effected? Thanks

Just got ours today, These guys kindly sent 4 pairs for all the guys in the office. Thanks VeryPC!

Hi all We have finally decided that we are spending way too much time trying to constantly fix our Samsung LFD display boards. Its time for an upgrade to something better, however I have no idea where to start. The ones we currently have run XP embedded and have about 2 gb of space and that's excluding the OS. The idea of Magicinfo was great, however its very fiddly and takes ages to config what you need. So if anyone has some suggestions on where to start looking that would be great, ideally alternatives to Samsung and Magicinfo. We were also thinking of maybe putting a small form factor machine or a Raspberry Pi onto it and just using the display part of the screen, but not sure what's out there without the hardware support. Any idea would be very much appreciated. Thanks

Still on hold.......... A complete Joke

Well thats basically what I am doing, however I have not updated the notebook packaged in a while and they may have updated the driver pack that is intergrated into the main "Education Software 2013". I would download a fresh copy of the whole thing, run a manual install, then check the driver version number. If it meets the current one advertised on thier website then you should be fine. I deployed the whole school in Summer 2014, and since then I have had around 10 classrooms report about Excel not opening and freezing on the splash screen. I have run the driver install as a silent install from MDT on all of them and the problem has gone away. Smart seem to say a lot of things, the last thing they said was that it will not work on our RDS server, however we put it on and its fine. The 1st line guys seem to just say whatever is easier at the time.

Please note that Smart have resolved this now with the latest "Smart Product Drivers". I'm not sure if they have updated the version that comes bolted with Smart Notebook, but I can say 100% that if you download the latest product drivers download and install, it will fix the issue. On our MDT server I have just created a software group for Smart Notebook, with 2 dependencies, one being the full install, then 2nd re installation of product drivers.

Thanks computer_expert, sorry it took this long to send my thanks, I have been off work. This could very well save me ALOT of time. Much appreciated

Hi Arthur. Thanks for your advice, I will have a look at WinToolKit. So what is the best practice for this? This is how I started and have continued. * Started with vanilla Win 7, installed all the microsoft products like office, visio, visual studio, .NET ect. * Enabled Microsoft update * Kept updating until no updates left. * One by one going to Download centre and downloading each update that was needed. * Then pumping those in via RT7 lite. * Then every couple of months, grab a machine, deploy via mdt. Then run windows update, then do the same thing again and download all updated that it took. * I was going to then just update the Wim that I had updated previously with the newer updates. The issue I see now is that I'm not going to know if there is a superseded update, as even if I started from scratch I was still going to use the existing updates from months ago, pump those into the fresh image along with the newer ones. Do I in fact have to start all over again, get a fresh win 7 image and update it then download them all again from download centre? If there is an easier way, I would very much appriciate someone enlightening me as it seems like its going to be a knightmare! Something else to add to this is that we currently do not have WSUS set up yet, and I am doing this because we are doing a laptop refresh of all staff laptops, and at the moment my 1st line guy is having to run Microsoft update at the moment on every machine which includes around 100 updates and its taking a long time, especially when you have around 50-60 laptops to do! Thanks in advance

Apologies if this is an obvious question, but if I have used RT7 Lite to pump in updates into a Win 7 image, then 6 months down the line, pump more updates into the image, will this keep the previous lot of updates caked in or do I need to pump them all in again? Thanks guys

Below is the Html file I use "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> BBC Live Streams dp.SyntaxHighlighter.HighlightAll('onceCode'); var width= 740; var height= 550; var playlist; var config; var revision; function reload(url) { var emp = new embeddedMedia.Player(); emp.setWidth(width); emp.setHeight(height); emp.setDomId("emp1"); emp.set("config_settings_autoPlay","true"); playlist = "http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/simulcast/"+url+".xml"; emp.setPlaylist(playlist); config = "http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/simulcast/config_"+url+".xml"; emp.setConfig(config); emp.write(); updateEmbed(); } function updateEmbed() { $('codeWrap').update(' '); $('embedCode').update("var emp = new embeddedMedia.Player();"+"\n"+ "emp.setWidth('"+width+"');"+"\n"+ "emp.setHeight('"+height+"');"+"\n"+ "emp.setPlaylist('"+playlist+"');"+"\n"+ "emp.setConfig('"+config+"');"+"\n"+ "emp.write();"); dp.SyntaxHighlighter.HighlightAll('code'); } reload("bbc_news24");

Hi Guys I have 2 Magicinfo Samsung display boards. For the past 2 years I have been streaming BBC news, and I simply ass the necessary code to an HTML file then embed that file onto the LFD. In the last 2 weeks, its stopped working, giving me the message that javascript needs to be enables and flash installed. I know that javascript is enabled in IE (which I am sure magicinfo uses IE for web based material) I know I also have flash installed. When I load the html file on my machine I get the same error, which leads me to believe that maybe the BBC have done something to this Before I spend a load of time investigating this, has anyone else had this happen to them? Kind Regards Alex

Just had this at my school for Hairspray. The batch file works best, just install the exe on each client you run as, then I have just stuck the batch file on the start menu. Nice handy topic this one, thanks @mrbios

I think that's the best bet, I know if I disable the addon, there will be some maths teachers who are not happy with the way Excel works with the Smartboard, but I think its better it opens then not at all. Smart say they they are not going to fix this with 11.4 and instead the fix has been applied to the latest paid version. Bit of a kick in the teeth when you have around 90 boards. I would like to know if its "smart ink" or office ink" that is being disabled, if you could find that out I would really appreciate it.

Hi, did you ever get a permanent solution for this? I have exactly the same problem, and Smart Tech are saying I need to un-install and reinstall Smart notebook and all its affiliates. With 90 classrooms running this its a pain in the backside.....

So I haven't been on Spiceworks much over the holidays as we have been deploying all of our machines, however I did have a look today, and was welcomed by this message.... They are both as crappy as each other, a perfect match..........although now Nelson Thornes has been taken over by Oxford University Press, isn't that classed as incest?

Thanks for all your help, I am going with SHimmer45 and extracting the MSP out. It was the extract switch I was missing I would rather keep my WIM 100% vanilla as we have had issues in the past with sysprep causing issues with some of the wonderfully designed and built education software we run. It looks like they are packed in an exe just because they can include a box to accept a Microsoft agreement.

Hi Guys I am currently building our MDT server for our summer rollout, and I am having some issues trying to work out the way I can get some of the updates injected into the WIM. I have used RT7Lite to inject all of the MSP updates, however I have a load of updates that come in EXE's. These mostly tend to be Office updates. The options I thought of were: 1. Use RT7Lite to install as "applications". However this means that I get a dialogue box after the image has been downed and before MDT kicks in on the OS. I have to select each application to install, so a pain really as there has to be user intervention half way throught the deployment process. 2. Try and extract the msp out of the EXE. Microsoft advise againsts doing this as it could cause problems, however I have been unable to do this, using WINRAR and other tools that can extract from EXE's. 3. Put them as applications on MDT, and create a bundle that runs them all as dependencies. Has anyone come across this? Any ideas would be very helpful. Please be aware I currently do not have a WSUS server, this will happen after Septemeber. Thanks

Sorry, I should also point out if you do go to advanced then defults you get the exact same screen as the second image shows on the left.

Hi Richard Thanks for your reply. I have tried this, however the settings are different between the preferences in an office program and the preferences on the propeties on the actual printer on the print server. I can not seeem to find an option for automatic resizing, but that may be due down to that fact its an HP Printer that has its own configuration tabs instead of the usual windows one (If you get that) These images show the differences between the Print Server and the workstation, but through word. The only reason I am having to change the settings within word at the moment is because I can not find the same setting on the print server. http://i41.tinypic.com/11ax0qq.jpg http://i42.tinypic.com/r0bn8l.jpg

Hello I seem to have a problem with the allow "a4 letter paper resizing" option within the Office Suite. I have a HP Business A3 2800 Inkjet which we use to print D&T Coursework. Up until now, as long as the document has been set to A3, the printer has printed the document in A3. Now since yesterday, if a document is A3, it will print out in A4. This is due to the allow a4 letter paper resizing check box being checked, when you go to File>Print then press options, it shows it being checked. Is there a way to change this setting for all users? Just as this is an issue which seems to only come up as a choice in Office programs, and all settings on the print server seem to be correct? Any ideas? Windows XP SP3 Workstation Windows Server 2003 R2 Print server Printer: HP Business Inkjet 2800 using PCL 6