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I've been using if it for 5 years now and it's bl**dy good great for deployment of images and scripts. The only problems I see on the horizon is that symantec have bought them out and now have their hands on it. Expect it to turn to s**t any time soon.

Why would you use a laptop as a server?

What's the cost of a wyse terminal as opposed to a PC?

You need to automate the process creating batch files which use 1. Calcs 2. dsquery group Also dsquery group with the -rmmbr ( As opposed to the -addmbr above) Obviously your ou paths will have a different structure Kili

Apeo I only set the permissions once at the start of the year and then forget it. All permissions are assigned using calcs via a batch file which is scheduled to run at certain times of the day. So no work involved set and forget I'm for an easy life:tea::tea:

We run this for two groups at the moment. When in a controlled environment they don't have access to any other folders within their home folder they only have access to the controlled folder , access is denied to all other folders or folders on any other mapped drives for the period of the lesson. When the lesson is over permission is auto scheduled to deny access to the controlled folder and grant them access to their home folder files and mapped drives. Kili

No it does not. If you read my original post further back in this thread #25 you'll see how to set this up

Yes but it still requires two accounts per student which just creates additional work. Access to a controlled exam folder placed in the users existing home folder makes much more sense and there's no need for additional accounts for each student

Thats a shame useful code but a duplication of accounts is just creating more work, good effort though I wish my coding skills were up to your standard. Kili

Congratulations on the code which may or may not be pure genius as I'm not a coder I couldn't say. However as I understand it this requires the creation of another account per student distinct from their existing user account , is that the case?

Your a braver man than I am, don't give them access wherever possible

Deny them access to taskmgr immediately you must be mad allowing access to this function. They can stop all sorts of services i.e ant virus using taskmgr

Any product from Adobe. This company makes the most complicated network installers you can imagine, absolute bloody nightmare getting their products deployed. My eyes light up when I see a product with an msi file for install so easy.

Hi guys I try to keep it simple. The following may not look simple to set-up but once done its schedule task and forget until the next year group need setting up the following year. Here’s what I do step by step. 1. Create and run a batch file using the mkdir or md commands to make a controlled conditions folder in the home folder of all the users who need exam conditions e.g. “controlled exams” This batch file will be used only once so if you don’t want to bother with the batch file just copy and paste from your excel sheet straight to the command prompt on your server ( Make sure your in the correct ou/folder) 2. Create two batch files one to DENY access to “controlled exams” and one to GRANT access using the cacls command e.g Teachers_initals_deny.bat Deny access should contain cacls commands to set the users permissions on his/her home folder and all sub folders and files to read and list only so that on login they can access their home folder but cant create folders or save files, then set the “controlled exams” folder only to modify, read, write or full control ( if you trust them not to delete the folder) The reason for this set-up is to stop them copying the work created in “controlled exams” to any other folder in their home folder so they can edit the work later at their leisure. Teachers_initals_grant.bat The batch file will obviously reset full control over the users home folder, sub folders and files back to the user with the exception of “controlled exams” which will have the deny permission set at the end of the lesson Schedule these batch files to run on your server 5 minutes before the start of a lesson and 5 minutes after the lesson. 3. We have an AD group called “Deny internet Access” any account placed in this group is as the name suggests denied Internet access .for you to achieve the same will depend on what Internet filtering system you are using – we use Lightspeed which integrates with AD. As long as you have a deny internet ou integrated with AD with your given Internet filtering software your good to go. Again the need is to deny students access in this case to the Internet under exam conditions to do this we use two commands run from batch files scheduled to run right after the batch files above. e.g addgrp.bat dsmod group with the –addmbr switch This command is used to add the students to the “Deny Internet Access” ou e.g remgrp.bat dsmod group with the -rmmbr switch This command is used to remove the students from the “Deny Internet Access” ou To summarise : • logged on under exam conditions all access to users folders and files in the students home folder except the “controlled exam” folder is blocked. •When not logged on under exam conditions users files and folders except “controlled exam” are accessible • When logged on under exam conditions denies access to the internet • When not logged on under exam conditions grants access to the internet • No need to create separate AD login accounts or additional folders The only pitfalls as far as I can is if the teacher changes the lesson time without informing us. And students are allowed to plug in USB sticks during lessons to copy the exam work Hopefully this will help someone – works for us if you want batch file examples post here and I'll post the code Kili

trueCrypt encrypt the whole drive or just a folder

Your answer is here Post #19 of this thread explains how to do what you want using GPO's. I've implemented this and it works fine.

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Ask your management to allow you to buy a single technet subscription ( 134 euros). This will give you access to all the Microsoft software you require with serial numbers for download. Kili

I'd advise against doing what you suggest on the grounds that if every class ( in form time say) plays this DVD across your network it will affect all other users trying to open close/save files due to the load across the network. Without some sort of network streaming device/software your going to have problems. I delete/block all video files from our servers and advise staff to play DVD's directly from the computer DVD drive to the class - no network traffic - no problems Kili

No great hardship when your a multi millionaire . He's not there for the money but the power

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Motherboard drivers? what make is the PC?

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Bloody hell Novell! I've still got Novell 3.12 disks knocking around somewhere I thought they had expired.