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Hi everyone, I'm need of a bit of advice regarding TV in the classroom. We've recently started outfitting our classrooms with short throw projectors, document cameras, and interactive boards of sorts in replacement of the aging TVs. The buildings all have video distribution equipment that takes a cable feed, reassigns channel numbers, adds a couple internal broadcast channels, and sends it back out analog to the classrooms over coax. The problems is we're still utilizing this setup and using separate TV tuners since the projectors don't have them built-in. These separate tuners are causing a host of problems on their own mainly because of the cheap build quality. From what I've been able to find nobody makes a quality analog tuner anymore. I'm sure there is other districts on here with the exact same problem I'm facing. What solutions and/or ideas have you guys come up with? Thanks!

I'm sorry Nick, I should have clarified. I'm trying to deny students the ability to access HAP altogether. The problem I'm having is after adding that snippet of code to the web.config file in the root of the HAP folder, when attempting to log on as a student your kicked back to log on page without an access denied message. Also, that student's name is then shown in the upper right corner of the page with the log out option. This is what led me to believe the student was actually being logged on and counting against the quota.

Nick, I added this bit of code to the web.config file and it keeps out users who aren't part of that particular security group, but it still lets them logon in a way. They'll get the logout option, but will be dumped back to login prompt. Does this add to the count of currently logged in users, and is there a way to dump the user back an access denied screen? Thanks again.

HAP only checks a user's immediate group membership and won't do nested, correct? Thanks!

Well, I feel a little stupid. I passed that page on my way to the change log. Should have scrolled down.

I noticed that v7.9 has been released and wanted to look at the change log for update details, but it doesn't look like the change log has been updated on the site since v7.5. What changes does v7.9 bring from v7.8? BTW - I've been running trials with the staff on v7.8 and everyone absolutely loves it. We're looking at a late week/early next week roll out to all staff. Thanks again!

Use DHCP to point to the gateway on router one, and set a static address on the phone server and give it the gateway for router two.

WDS supports multicast imaging starting in Server 2008. It's made my life a lot easier.

I don't know if you would want to use this, but it makes things a little simpler in our mixed environment. We've got a mix of Windows 7 and Windows XP systems in our network, and to keep the group policies clean we have separate computer policies for those operating systems. To avoid having to separate XP and 7 machines into different organizational units I created a couple WMI filters to filter the policies based on OS version. You can use these queries to create the filters. For Windows 2000/XP Namespace: root\CIMv2 Query: Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem Where Version like "5.%" and ProductType = "1" For Windows Vista/7 Namespace: root\CIMv2 Query: Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem Where Version like "6.%" and ProductType = "1" I hope this helps...

I might have this in the wrong thread, but it seemed to be the most appropriate. I've been tasked with coming up with a solution for handing out email accounts for the students at my district. Options like LiveEDU and GMail have come up, but I'm trying to stay away from having yet another collection of users I have to maintain. It would be nice to have an in-house solution that could authenticate against AD for this, and automatically create/remove mailboxes as accounts change in AD. Mailbox quotas would also need to be enforceable. I use Squid for our internal proxy servers and have it setup authenticating to AD, so I'm relatively comfortable to a Linux CLI. Is there anything out there in open source land that can meet these requirements? I was thinking Sendmail, but I've got no practical experience in setting up a Linux mail server. Thanks everyone!

Just tossing this out there, but it might be fun to experiment with PXE booting the clients and removing the drives.

Look no further than Cisco WCS. We've got six sites with about 200 or so POE enabled access points, managed by three wireless control servers; which are in turn managed by a single install of WCS. District wide we have 540 student netbooks, about 200 teacher/staff laptops, and other misc wireless devices. Every square meter of the buildings has coverage. It's a slick setup that needs very little attention after initial setup.

I figured it out. Stupid me never installed the ASP.Net role service. I've got it working and browsing home directories. I have to say this really cool. If you were this side of the pond I'd buy you a beer! Thanks again.

Hi Nick, thanks for the help so far. Some fair warning though, I'm a complete n00b when it comes to IIS. I don't get an error message upon trying to login; the page will only display invalid login. I still don't have an integrated pipeline checkmark either. So I decided to go back from the top in following the installation video and realized that Forms Authentication isn't listed under Authentication in the IIS manager. Any ideas?

Most, if not all, newer HP drivers have given me such grief that I'll scour for a compatible Microsoft driver before I use the real deal. You might want to give that a try.

This isn't going to be easy, but I believe it can be done. Your chief requirement is going to be able to identify where in the building where the laptops are, and the only way you would be able to do that is by the access point. Would being able to pinpoint what AP the machine is associated to be close enough? If so, here's what you can do. The MAC address of the associated access point can be queried from WMI. With this, you can either deploy your printers by means of a VB script, or group policy. Let's say group policy for now. You can create a GPO to deploy each group of printers surrounding each AP in the building and apply them all to the computer OU. Next, you can filter what laptops the policies are applied to by means of creating WMI filters in AD. You can write a filter for each AP's MAC address and apply it to the appropriate policy. So the WMI filter containing the MAC address for AP01 would be applied to the printer policy for the area surrounding AP01. Here is what you need to query in WMI: Namespace: root\WMI WMI Class: MSNdis_80211_BaseServiceSetIdentifier The thing you have to watch out for is the MAC is going to come out of WMI in decimal, so when you write your filtering query you'll need to convert the AP's MAC from hex to decimal. I use WMI filters in AD for applying policies selectively to machines based on what version of Windows they're running, but I've never done something like this. But if it is in WMI, you should be able to filter by it. Good luck!

Your wireless laptops can't connect to the domain now to see that the policy has been removed. You're going to have to plug each one into the wired network and let them refresh their policies. After that they should be good. You can force a policy refresh by typing this at a command prompt: gpupdate /force

You don't let the machine boot up again after sysprep finishes. This when you're supposed to capture it as an image. Run sysprep with these options: sysprep -mini -reseal -shutdown Then capture it and import into WDS.

Select the server in the IIS mmc in the treeview on the left Open the server certificates under feature view Add a self signed cert Select the site in the treeview at the left, right click -> Edit Bindings Add HTTPs Then open SSL settings for the site in the features view Add a check to the Require SSL box and apply settings I know the list is quick and dirty, but I was just going out the door when I saw your reply. This got AD working and the Services Activated check mark to appear, but the pipeline still isn't working. I hope this helps...

Got mine working kind of working; I can get the services activated check box and browse AD organizational units, but still don't have a green check on the pipeline. To get services working I enabled SSL on the site using a self signed cert.

Windows Server 2008 SP2 - IIS 7.5 I'm having the same problem right now Glennda has described. I've followed the installation video to the letter. This looks to be very cool and I can't wait to see it in action.

You could try hitting up a campus book store and picking up some college texts on Hyper-V and 2008 R2 Server.

You've got the path right, but you need the entire contents of the sysprep directory placed in there and not just the inf.

Can you PXE boot from this location? The idea is to have your switch setup, all your netbooks plugged into it, with a single desktop/laptop also plugged into it that has a local copy of the image and the Ghostcast Server executable. The switch will have a link plugged into your building network so you can PXE boot all of the netbooks. Once they're booted, you can use Ghost32 and join them to the Ghostcast session that is being hosted off of the desktop that you have plugged into the switch with the rest of the netbooks. Before you start the imaging process, unplug the link to the building network and let it go. Once the Ghostcast session finishes, plug your switch back into the building network so your freshly imaged netbooks can pull DHCP address and join the domain. You're still booting off of the school network and relying on it for addresses, but the Ghostcast session is being hosted off of the network. This will get around any issues you may have with not being able to multicast across VLANs. Hope this helps...

Another thought, if PXE booting across VLANs is an issue too, you can this... I've had to image machines that were offsite before, so I would export my WinPE wim image off of our WDS server and use these instructions to dump it to a USB drive. Create bootable Windows PE 3.0 USB drive - 4sysops If you've got a big enough stick, you can copy the entire image onto it too and use Ghost32. Makes for a nice compact on-the-go solution. 32GB sticks are coming down in price now too (or however big you need).