TheScarfedOne

Right, me and edutech are now at preston - and having coffee by entrance ramp. If anyone wants to lift with us to the hotel, pm one of us

Oooh, goodies??!!

Me and EduTech are arriving about four ish. We are on the 3pm from Crewe. Looking forward to it :-)

My old School was block all webmail to all users (staff and students) - and use only College email systems. New school, students are blocked and we are consulting on staff at the moment.

Happy birthday :-)

What time are people arriving on the Wednesday? Me and @EduTech are looking to get to Preston Station for between 3 and 4; so anyone staying at the Ibis is welcome to catch a ride with us (and coffees/alcoholic beverages if desired). Looking forward to it! Are we doing the Geek T-shirts again for one/both nights? Stuart

Indeed - enjoy the break! Im sure there will be another EduGeek event soon which you can attend :-)

I thought you could now do device tracking? The map view (if you populate it) will trianglulate the device. @MarkPower can you confirm for me?

@EduTech, wheres my Thanks button you muppet lol

And another pointer @EduTech... you missed one! HAP+ has a booking component to it as well, and rather tidy it is too Home Access Plus+

I would go for GLPI, nice and handy :-) GLPI - Gestionnaire libre de parc informatique

Ok, so from the title, you are probably thinking what the... Well, Mark put up with 8-9 months of urming and ahhhing over when we would get Ruckus in. Paul helped getting it spec'd up - and also for working on our Juniper install and design. And the final piece of the jigsaw... "Shaft" as we know him (Winston) as you may... The smoothest installer on the planet... except when it comes to bats! Just ask him about the place with bats lol Seriously though.. thanks guys, couldnt have been happier with my 40AP Ruckus design and install; and the work they did spec wise for Juniper.

Yep the settings you are looking for are all in GPO Admin Kit for Office. Import these, and configure the Default Save Location Option. Sadly, there is not a "global" one, you have to go into each office application section and add the value you want. This can be unc or drive letter.

Now that will be worth seeing! Where's @PhilNeal when you need him!

Take a look at the following link from the ADDS team at Microsoft... Automatic creation of user folders for home, roaming profile and redirected folders. - Ask the Directory Services Team - Site Home - TechNet Blogs Thats how Ive moved on to doing it now, in combo with Active User Manager

@EduTech, are you going to be staying up there? Im looking to book hotels - and it would make sense for a group of us to club together @Gatt glad to hear you are on the mend @john, are we sure recommending @EduTech as a chauffeur is a good idea? I think im still scarred from the hasty exit from the dual carriageway :-o

Im in... and no vino for you John lol! Drinks on EduTech again :-p??

Thats a good way or cornering out the IP telephony market. I have to say though, I am quite impressed with Lync/Comms Server - Im just wondering what buying up Skype achieves for them in the public arena? Even the WLM Live call functionality is ok - so where does it fit in?

Blooming heck. Never saw that one coming :-s

I would suggest a Group Policy Folder Redirect to a Server Share containing the shortcuts for all users. If you dont currently use this, then I could post up a script for you which would copy a file to a folder in the users profile on logon.

Here is a section of the one I used before I just moved schools... ' WSH - Windows Logon Script ' Type and Target: Printers Logon Script for Workstations ' Location: ** ' Compiled: August 2007 ' Author: ** ' Section 1: Error Handling and Variables ' ==================================================== ' Declare variables and enumerate existing printer connections On Error Resume Next Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Set WshNetwork = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network") Set oPrinters = WshNetwork.EnumPrinterConnections Dim computerName computerName = LCase(WshNetwork.ComputerName) ' Delete existing connections to network printers For i = 0 to oPrinters.Count - 1 Step 2 On Error Resume Next if Left(oPrinters.Item(i), 3) <> "lpt" And Left(oPrinters.Item(i), 3) <> "usb" then WshNetwork.RemovePrinterConnection oPrinters.Item(i+1), true, true else end if Next ' Section 2: Remove MS XPS and MS Office Image Writers ' ==================================================== 'strComputer = "." 'Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") 'Set colInstalledPrinters = objWMIService.ExecQuery ("SELECT * FROM Win32_Printer") 'For Each objPrinter in colInstalledPrinters ' IF objPrinter.Name = "Microsoft Office Document Image Writer" THEN ' objPrinter.Delete_ ' ELSEIF objPrinter.Name = "Microsoft XPS Document Writer" THEN ' objPrinter.Delete_ ' END IF 'Next ' Section 3: Map printer connections based on Location ' ==================================================== ' Add printer connections dependant upon location - first 6 characters of machine name Select Case (Left(computerName, 6)) Case "admadm" WshNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\PrintServerNameHere\PrinterName" WshNetwork.SetDefaultPrinter "\\PrintServerNameHere\PrinterName" Case "admart" WshNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\PrintServerNameHere\PrinterName" WshNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\PrintServerNameHere\PrinterName" WshNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\PrintServerNameHere\PrinterName" WshNetwork.SetDefaultPrinter "\\PrintServerNameHere\PrinterName" End Select

Yep - the same problem here yesterday too, and mail flow has been a bit patchy since. Nice of the Grid to follow their own change control procedure of NOTIFYING schools of changes like this first! Stuart

Richard over at Salamander also has a system for SIMS/CMIS to Moodle, as well as to Sharepoint and AD. Im not advertising honest... im just a user of the AD bits (and soon the Sharepoint bits :-)) Stuart

You still after that MSI Witch? I will upload a zip to my SkyDrive and PM link shortly

If you take a look on my blog, I talked about this PITA of a bug. There was a dodgy Windows Update which broke folder redirection. The way to fix it was to delete a few registry entries. Issue 2: Folder Redirection If you get a blank desktop or start menu (or both) but you know your folder redirection is working/set up properly... run the following. It clears out the KnownFolders section of the registry which have got broken. strKeyPath = "CLSID\{031E4825-7B94-4dc3-B131-E946B44C8DD5}" oReg.DeleteKey HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, strKeyPath strKeyPath = "SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{031E4825-7B94-4dc3-B131-E946B44C8DD5}" oReg.DeleteKey HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, strKeyPath strKeyPath = "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{031E4825-7B94-4dc3-B131-E946B44C8DD5}" oReg.DeleteKey HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, strKeyPath strKeyPath = "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions\{2112AB0A-C86A-4ffe-A368-0DE96E47012E}" oReg.DeleteKey HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, strKeyPath strKeyPath = "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions\{491E922F-5643-4af4-A7EB-4E7A138D8174}" oReg.DeleteKey HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, strKeyPath strKeyPath = "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions\{7b0db17d-9cd2-4a93-9733-46cc89022e7c}" oReg.DeleteKey HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, strKeyPath strKeyPath = "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions\{A302545D-DEFF-464b-ABE8-61C8648D939B}" oReg.DeleteKey HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, strKeyPath strKeyPath = "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions\{A990AE9F-A03B-4e80-94BC-9912D7504104}" oReg.DeleteKey HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, strKeyPath Standard rules apply, YMMV