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Hmm, I'm not sure if that does what I need it to do. I really need something with Treesize capabilities, but that analyses mailboxes. I can dream I suppose.

Hi, I have been asked to do an audit of someone's mailbox, and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions as to the best way to do it? Basically I just need to find out the average number of messages they receive per day over the period of say, a month. We're running Exchange '03 I was thinking a simple VBScript would be good, that directs to the persons mailbox and then just outputs how many messages they have on each day between a set number of days/weeks/months etc. Or a piece of software that does the same thing. Many Thanks

NB: To protect the guilty, the names of both the trainer and the training provider have been omitted. My recent training day experience was bizarre to say the least. I turned up late to the one-day course so perhaps didn't get off to the best start. I stupidly put the wrong address in my Google Navigation app and was blissfully unaware of this until I sailed past what I thought should have been (and was) the correct junction and ended up in the arse-end of nowhere. When I finally arrived, I was told to wait in the visitors reception area where I would be called by the trainer, but 10 minutes passed and me and some other poor soul on the same course were still sitting in lovely, awkward, lonely silence. We were finally called to a small group, but we luckily hadn't missed much. I wasn't in the mood to socialise to be honest (hence previous awkward silence), and was a bit peeved at having to attend the course in the first place, so I was being a bit of a stroppy git, although I bottled it up quite well, and just grumbled under my breath now and again. Within the first minutes of starting off 'Mr questions' piped up with the first of what would be a catalogue of 'ego-flex' questions. You know the sort of person. They ask a barrage of questions that aren't really questions, they were just a way of that person expressing how knowledgeable they are. They generally went along the lines of "Well when I do such and such, I tend to do this. How has this changed in the latest version?" or "How would I go about rigging up my brain to the interface, so I can control the database with my mere thoughts and thus become evil leader of the universe?". This put me in a fouler mood as it meant progression was minimal,, and all I could think about was how unseasonably beautiful it was outside. The course progressed with questions man piping up as usual, but the weird thing was he seemed to work for the training provider. He was wearing a damn lanyard with the providers logo on. What the hell was he doing here? He obviously was an expert on the subject. In fact the trainer seemed to be mostly just addressing me and my fellow latecomer. Perhaps the training company hired the rest of these guys as filler? Is this what attending a training course in North Korea would be like, but without the torture, or death camps or the giant picture of our divine leader on the wall? What put the icing on the cake was after lunch. The other three people sitting opposite my desk who I hadn't heard a peep out of all morning suddenly decided to engage in some work related, IT troubleshooting task in the middle of the session. It had nothing to do with the course, and they were in and out of the training room chatting on their phones and tapping on laptops as if it was a normal day at the office. They all seemed to know each other too, and came from the same place, yet they seemed surprised to see each other there at first. If I was the poor trainer, I would have popped a vein in my head by now. I would have thrown my laptop at the offending party and stormed out of the room. I would have at least told them that what they were doing was unacceptable, and damn rude. So the course finished at last, and I still wasn't sure what I'd do with the new information I'd learnt. I quickly made my way home wondering what the hell it was I'd just attended.

ADM innit.

Hmm, that's strange. It may be to do with some AD inconsistencies on our server as I have inherited quite a setup here. Perhaps I should just wait until we complete our 2008 R2 migration.

I hope I'm not hijacking this thread but: Is anyone having issues with Chrome not bringing down GP settings? I've installed the adm template on a server 2003 machine, deployed Chrome to a test client and the only GP setting it seems to pick up is the homepage. Things like blacklisting all extensions by just putting a '*' in the GP blacklist don't seem to take effect. I can still add the eBay extension for example, from a student account on the test client. I take it other people have successfully deployed Chrome in a school environment?

Looks like i've found a possible answer courtesy of stackoverflow. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9231610/error-when-installing-curl-debian-squeeze will try in the morrow

Hi again After trying to install phpmyadmin I realised I forgot my mysql root password. I tried to reset it but it wasn't having any of it, so I uninstalled and reinstalled MySQL, set my new password and all seemed well. Now I'm getting errors when trying to access phpmyadmin login that are saying: phpMyAdmin - Error The mysql extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration So I try to install php5-mysql as it seems like it's missing, and it does the usual prompt to install the package, and after confirming Y I get the following message and then nothing else: php5 (5.3.3-7+squeeze5) squeeze-security; urgency=high * The following new directives were added as part of security fixes: - max_input_vars - specifies how many GET/POST/COOKIE input variables may be accepted. Default value is set to 1000. - xsl.security_prefs - define forbidden operations within XSLT stylesheets. Write operations are now disabled by default. -- OndÅej Surý Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:22:26 +0100 php5 (5.3.3-7+squeeze4) squeeze-security; urgency=low * Updated blowfish crypt() algorithm fixes the 8-bit character handling vulnerability (CVE-2011-2483) and adds more self-tests. Unfortunately this change is incompatible with some old (wrong) generated hashes for passwords containing 8-bit characters. Therefore the new salt prefix '$2x$' was introduced which can be used as a replacement for '$2a$' salt prefix in the password database in case the incompatibility is found. -- OndÅej Surý Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:31:16 +0200 As far as I understood it, it was just telling me that there were some php updates, but it doesn't install php5-mysql. Everytime I try to install it comes up with the same thing, even after doing an apt-get update beforehand. Any ideas? Do I need to manually update something?

So simple, yet such a PITA. Thanks a million glennda. I am so happy, if you were standing next to me right now you would be beating me off with a pooey stick.

Wonder if anyone can help? I've tried to follow the above document without too much success. I say that, I managed to get most things set up, but when I connect to ftp I get a 500 OOPS error. This is only resolved when I manually create the individual user's directory inside the /home/DOMAIN/ folder. So if I'm getting the ftp error: 500 OOPS: cannot change directory:/home/DOMAIN/schubert I create the dir schubert inside the DOMAIN dir, and assign permissions to the account. It then connects fine in ftp, and uploads without error. But what I have now, is hoe the hell can I access the students folder via the net as originally planned. At the moment my server is pointing to /var/www, so attempting to navigat to http://10.0.0.1/DOMAIN/schubert or /schubert or /home/DOMAIN/schubert/index is never going to work. AS I said I've followed the BBarrington wiki document to the letter, but it is for an old version of Ubuntu so some things, such as some lines in the smb.conf file were missing. I'm so confused.

I just found this from a previous thread. I might give it a go. FTP and Web server [bishop Barrington IT Wiki]

Ah, OK. I've heard of webmin before. I shall have to download and have a play. Cheers

Hi, Could anyone give me any advice on setting up a central web server for students to develop database and PHP applications on? Obviously there's XAMPP and WAMP, but can you set up individual accounts for students on these? I want something where they can upload their stuff into their own directories via ftp, and create their own MySQL databases too. I'm also thinking about setting this up on a Linux server Thanks

It's worked once for us, and that's when I tried it for the first time in Chrome. Sometimes is doesn't even play the ads, but it usually gets to the programme sponsor and then quits.

OK, well I'm still going to raise it with Norfolk ICT Shared Services, but being a C4 screw-up it's probably a waste of time. You'd think they'd want to make sure educational establishments could access their content.

Sorry to thread dredge, but are people still having problems playing 4OD content in their schools? For me it's the same as everyone else. Adverts play, and as soon as the content lines up it errors.

Legend! I appeared to have missed out some important information here (ahem...) Thanks to all

Am I right in thinking it's now /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf ?

Hi, I am *trying* to set up a Debian server to act as a dedicated Xibo server (don't ask - I just wanted to find an excuse to fiddle with a Debian server in work). I am having real issues with getting it to access the outside world through our proxy server. After doing extensive searches on the net, most only deal with setting up a Debian server as a proxy server, not setting it up so it can go through one. I have tried export HTTP_PROXY="http://xx.xx.xxx.xx:8000", and I've also tried putting it directly in the wgetrc file (as suggested by a website) but pings still return 'Packet Filtered', ,and wget commands fail miserably. Any help would be much appreciated. After inputting the command route -n, I have noticed the destination and gateway addresses are wrong. Would this affect the above, and how do I rectify this? Thanks in advance

yes, you're right. I checked the GPO setting and it wasn't enabled. Thanks to both of you for your help so far. I should add that I am very much in the 'learning network manager' category.

Hi, Here's a noodlescratcher for you all. I've recently inherited a system that, at best,, is in need of a little TLC. It seems the previous NM had a hatred of not only his job, but also children and teachers, so inflicted his hatred by letting the place fall dow around his head. Luckily, he's now gone, but my technician and I have been left to pick up the pieces. Anyway, woe is me story over, I just can't get my head around this problem we're having when creating new user accounts manually in AD. As the year progresses, we get new students popping up from other sixth forms whom require accounts set up. So far so good, however, recently new accounts have been set up, yet the correct local profile fails to load on login. We copy the accounts over from existing sixth form accounts, set them to prompt to change password on first login, and bam, no profile is loaded. There is usually nothing in the event logs, and i've checked various permissions of local and network profile folders which seem OK. The next weird thing is, if we set up the accounts NOT to prompt to change password on first login, they load up fine - profile and all. I just can't see the link between creating the profile on first login, and prompting to change password on first login, and why the latter seems to be interfering. We're still Server 2003, and I'd be the first to admit our setup is far from ideal. It's not a problem in GP as all new accounts should be sharing the same policy settings as existing ones. Maybe someone has had this issue before, or can offer any wisdom? THanks

That's interesting. So as an employee of the council you were entitled to paid leave for interviews? I thought this might be a possibility but a very slim one.

Thanks for the advice. Where I work is very friendly but I don't really trust anyone; it's very much a 'smile and be polite' environment, but you have to be VERY careful about who you speak to (crazy, I know). I'm sure I must be able to speak in complete confidence to someone, in a legal sense (like you would with a doctor)? Possibly someone in HR (although they do love a bit of gossip, which worries me).

Aww, you should have IanT, I love Norfolk! I did want to move to Norwich (my hometown) but lack of jobs has really restricted me. Bristol is my second choice and seems to have a much bigger selection of IT jobs. Right, i'll ttry and pluck up the courage to speak to the boss (we do have quite a good relationship).

Hello All, My partner and I really want to relocate from Essex to Bristol. Has anyone got any advice about job hunting when you wanting to relocate (bearing in mind i'd have to travel 400 (round-trip) miles for an interview. Has anyone here done this? Should I quit my job first, or should I tell my boss about my plans in the hope he'll give me some time off to travel for interviews ()? I was just thinking of pulling a sicky every time I had to travel, but he might get a tad suspicious, and I tend to feel guilty about these things. Thanks in advance