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Fresh install of v9.0 then upgrade to v9.1 applied (didn't try anything in 9.0 other than making sure I could log in, upgraded to 9.1 straight away). IIS7.5 on 2008R2 Std. SSL only (with valid cert installed). 1. When uploading a file: File reportedly already exists. Select overwrite. Then error: "Upload of has failed! Value cannot be null. Parameter name: No File Attached!. 2. When creating a folder: SyntaxError: Unexpected end of input. (Folder is still created) 3. When renaming a file: SyntaxError: Unexpected end of input. (File is renamed but progress box stuck 1/2 way - have to close then refresh. Same in any browser on OS X and Windows 7. Help!

Please note: This advert has closed and the position is now filled. Regards, Lewis Burgess Network Manager Oxted School

Please note: This advert has closed and the position is now filled. Regards, Lewis Burgess Network Manager Oxted School

Hi, Just wondering if anyone has used, or has experienced NXPowerLite for File Servers It claims to compress Office documents, JPEGs, PDFs and ZIP files (definable as to which ones, we'd probably only use it for Office filetypes). Like many, we've gone blue in the face asking teachers to tell students to compress images in PowerPoints for example. NXPowerLite for file servers apparently will solve all of the usual compression issues. Edu discount is 50% on £1095 per server. Still sounds a little expensive, but I think the reduction in storage on our SAN + backup tapes + time etc would be of huge benefit. I'm thinking about using the trial version. Would really appreciate any feedback if you've got any thoughts about 'inflicting' this product on our user storage servers. Looks like they've got some BIG players using it (HP, NASA, Sony, Virgin, Disney, IBM, Nike) - so it can't be that rubbish?! We'd need 3 copies, so could be worthwhile, as long as it doesn't really upset those who want to keep high quality versions of PPTXs.

I've just rolled out Adobe Reader 11 on my CC4 network. Very easy now, no need for RM Blueprints etc. Can keep the package up to date easily enough by patching the acroread.msi file. No need for transform files or repackaging. Those of you who are not on CC4 will still be able to use these instructions, as I'm sure you're savvy enough to work out which bits you can change! Adobe have released some official ADM templates for Adobe Reader v11 (don't know if they'll work with v10). Combined with the instructions below, you can create your own Adobe package just by using the downloadable redistributable package - no need for App Wiz or Blueprints! Step1: Get the MSI 1. Sign up for and downloaded the Adobe Reader redistributable package, in EXE format 2. Copy to C:\Temp 3. Create new folder in C:\Temp\AdobeReader 3. On a command line, run: C:\Temp\AdbeRdr11000_en_US.exe -nos_0 "Reader11" -nos_ne 4. Prompt will ask for destination, specify C:\Temp\AdobeReader (note if you just specify C:\Temp it'll purge it) 5. Once finished extracting, on the command line enter: msiexec.exe /a c:\Temp\AdobeReader\AcroRead.msi /p c:\Temp\AdobeReader\AdbeRdrUpd1014.msp This will patch the AcroRead.msi file with the changes from the update msp file (these instructions included v10 example) Note, you can skip step 5 if you've just downloaded the first major release, e.g. 11.0.0.0 6. Copy the AcroRead.msi out of c:\Temp\AdobeReader to a new clean location. Step 2a: New RM CC4 Package: For a new package: 1. In the RMMC, import a CC3 package, specifying the AcroRead.msi file (make sure it's the only thing in a directory or the RMMC will pick everything else in the folder up too). 2. Edit the package immediately, rename it and specify the correct OS Constraints (e.g. to include Windows 7) Don't deploy it yet! Step 2b: EXISTING RM CC4 Package For an updated package, update the File Set of the package with the new AcroRead.msi Step 3: Policy Settings - new! You only need to do this once per major version Adobe have now released an official ADM template for Version 11 of Reader, which can be imported in to GPOs to control various usual features. There is a 3rd party unofficial version which also includes settings for Air, Updater and Java Runtime. Here: CustomADMX | Free System Administration software downloads at SourceForge.net Adobe version, here: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/11.x/11.0.00/misc/ReaderADMTemplate.zip These ADM files are fine for a vanilla environment, but RM like to keep machine and user settings separate. It's possible to make this ADM visible and friendly with the CC4 RMMC. Download them from here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/30vefz2vv1dmi3n/AdobeReader11ADM.zip Instructions: 1. Extract the 2 files to \\sch-srv-001\d$\RMNetwork\RMManage\Type Manager\ADM 2. Open the RMMC and navigate to: Registry Policies -> Computer Policies -> Global -> All Computers 3. Click Tools -> Options -> Registry Policies. In User Policies, select AdobeReader11-User and in Computer Policies, select AdobeReader11-Computer. Note that these policies have nothing set by default, so although they'll appear in each of your Computer and User Policies, we're only setting them up in the Global policies, so it applies to everyone. 4. In the Global -> All Computers policy, select the new Adobe Reader Computer category. 5. Set as follows: a. Disable PDF handler Switching: Not Set b. Disable automatic updates: Ticked c. Turn off user participation in the feedback program: Ticked d. Don't show messages while viewing a document: Not Set e. Show messages when I launch Reader: Disabled f. Display PDFs in browser: Ticked g. Auto Complete: Not Set h. Enable Protected Mode at startup: Disabled The last one is important otherwise PDFs won't load in IE. 6. Click Save. Then move on to User Policies -> Global -> All Users and select the new Adobe Reader User category. 7. Set as follows: a. Accept EULA: Ticked b. Display splash screen at launch: Ticked (your choice!) c. Enable Acrobat JavaScript: Ticked d. Ask before installing checkbox: Disabled e. Load security settings from a server: Not Set f. Automatically trust sites for Win OS security zones: Ticked 8. Click Save. Close the RMMC. Step 4: Test Deploy and get the shortcut Next, test deploy your new package to a machine, reboot it so it picks up the new Computer Policy settings then log in. All should be good :-) CheckPDFs load in IE (if they don't then the policy isn't right). Finally, we need to import a shortcut in to the package, if it's a new one, rather than an update. 1. From the machine where you test deployed to, navigate to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 11.0\Reader 2. Create a new shortcut to AcroRd32.exe 3. Copy this shortcut to a 32 bit computer has access to the RMMC and import it in to the package. (Irritatingly, you'll have to update the package version). Step 5: Deploy! Now you can deploy the package to your site and put the shortcut, if you want users to have access to the App, within Software-> Program Sets.

Oxted School are seeking to appoint a full time Senior ICT Technician (2nd Line), required from November/December. Surrey Pay: S7 - £22,290 - £26,489. An excellent opportunity for an inspired, committed and enthusiastic person to join a successful department. We are looking for a Senior ICT Technician to assist the Network & Web Manager and team in supporting staff and students in all aspects of ICT services: including: Providing second line technical ICT support, hardware maintenance and software assistance throughout the school To assist the Network Manager and his team in a wide range of tasks, including hardware, software and network administration, fault diagnosis, maintenance and support. To support the Deputy Headteacher in reproducing and upgrading the timetable systems This attractively situated and well-appointed school has a high achievement culture with many opportunities for professional development. Induction of new staff is carefully managed and you would be well supported. Further details are available here: Oxted School - Working at Oxted School Closing Date: Friday 2 November 2012 at 12.00 noon Interviews will be held week beginning 5 November 2012

Wow! I'm so glad it's not just us. I've been seeing this issue randomly on our system too. It seems to have died down recently but never did get to the bottom of it. Was very odd as the user was definitely printing to the correct printer and it did not have IP conflicts, yet the job came out on a completely different printer, in a location where the previous and current user on the affected workstation hadn't even logged on to. Event logs, printer logs, station mapping logs threw up absolutely nothing of any use.

I'm still having trouble downloading any files using HAP. I'm using v5.3 on IIS7.5 (Win 2008 R2) joined to our main domain. I've followed the video and checked the permissions on folders etc, but it still doesn't want to work. Safari reports a 303 error whenever I try to download a file. It tries to download but fails. Looking at the IIS logs, it appears to be an error 500. Always fun. 2010-09-28 12:12:54 10.18.116.2 GET /extranet/Download/N/OX-NetMon09.pptx - 443 lburgess 10.18.116.68 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+U;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+10_6_4;+en-us)+AppleWebKit/533.18.1+(KH TML,+like+Gecko)+Version/5.0.2+Safari/533.18.5 500 0 64 59 I then tried clicking many times on the same file, and amazingly 1 in 4 attempts worked. If you try enough times in quick succession, it will download it but obviously usually fails. Very frustrating! Help!!!

Here's the code I lifted via Safari's inspect element feature on the BBC News live streaming page. Of course using it may break the BBC's T&C. Further, it might even break it further (targeting the content at children under 13 etc): BBC - Embedding Terms and Conditions It would technically be possible to remove the menu at the bottom by removing key &config_settings... elements in the code above, but I'm not going to paste the code here because I think that'd be dodgy ground as it's changing code that's not mine rather than just pasting in a small part of their code easily viewable in the source of the page. Hope that helps! PS: Don't forget, to view the link above you must have a TV license as you'd be viewing live TV. Playing clips, highlights, headlines, iPlayer videos are not subject to this requirement as it's not live.

Further to my previous post, here's a couple of links for BBC News bulletins and Sky Sports News daily report: Sky Sports News Daily report: http://admin.brightcove.com/viewer/us1.24.00.02/BrightcoveBootloader.swf?%40videoPlayer=1806217383&autoStart=true&dynamicStreaming=true&flashID=myExperience&height=412&isUI=true&isVid=true&playerID=29318049001&publisherID=165012893&videoSmoothing=true&width=648&wmode=transparent BBC News headlines:

I found for some reason that the Sky News video wasn't working today. I found another method, not sure how legit or not! Using Safari's Inspect Element feature, I found that Sky News headlines are produced as an flv file which they wrap up in their player. Calling their player doesn't work, presumably due to the referrer. Instead, I used a free flash player: JW Player: Flash Video Player | LongTail Video | Home of the JW Player Then grabbed the FLV location: http://static1.sky.com/feeds/skynews/latest/daily/webheads.flv Finally, coding this page and uploading it, along with the JW Player files to one of our webservers, allowed me to play the Sky News headlines video automatically (without the menu bar too) instead of using their WMV stream. Note, the Sky News flash video size is still pretty small at 500x282, but I doubled it up and well, it's a bit bigger! <br /> var s1 = new SWFObject("http://your local web server/flashplayer/player.swf","ply","1000","564","9","#FFFFFF");<br /> s1.addParam("allowfullscreen","true");<br /> s1.addParam("allowscriptaccess","always");<br /> s1.addParam("controlbar","none");<br /> s1.addParam("flashvars","file=http://static1.sky.com/feeds/skynews/latest/daily/webheads.flv&autostart=true&controlbar=none");<br /> s1.write("container");<br /> Hope that helps someone!