Darylrese

Morning, We need to give a web shortcut to all users who dont have redirected desktops or program sets. What would be the best way of doing this? Our staff have roaming profiles and can typically pin / unpin whatever they like to start menu's / desktops. The shortcut points to an internal URL to retreive spam email, so it would be great if we could somehow get the shortcut into outlook 2010 but failing that the desktop would be fine too. Any ideas?

Hey guys Just to let you know as a quick fix i set the parent permissions on the home driver folder, set everything underneath to inherit then set the user permissions one by one at the user folder level. Next time i will look into doing it with ICACLS. Many thanks

Managed to get it installed and working Only thing i need to find out how to do is unblock some suspicious attachments as its quarantining items at the moment which have word documents and pdf's. Any idea how to stop this?

Thanks guys! Doing the work today, only thing i might struggle with is SQL setup. Was going to builkd a dedicated SQL server but apparently its light weight and doesnt need anything special. Going to keep it all on exchange. Do the users have access to block / unblock sends once they recieve spam mail through the report or read only? We get about 800 spam emails a day!!!! Our firewall etc is hosted at the council and they seem to do little about the problem.

not used it before, a little new to this but will look into it, thank-you. Will it reset permissions for the whole structure? Basically we need teachers security group to have full control over the 'homedrives' folder and then each student full permission to their own folders within that Ok your right, i can't keep it like this, a shortcut to the folder lets a student in. If all else fails we might have to go into each folder and add the student to their own security tab one by one...there arn't thousands I need to reset them back to what they were and start again if possible.

I understand i just cant see a better way of doing it without setting permissions one by one or starting again :/

Thanks guys. In the end we created a security group for all students and one for staff needing access, gave them the correct level of access and forced it to replace all child folder permissions from the home drive folder. Everyone can get in now, they just need to be added to the correct group to get into the work areas when setting up but that not issue. All the folders have the same permissions now. The only problem i guess is technically everyone has access to each others files as long as they are a member of the group but their documents is redirected so they cant change the path and also they have no way of getting on the server anyway. I appriciate its not the best way of doing things but the document library for students is forced via GPO so i can't see an issue until we have time to completely change the file structure in the future. They also dont have access to the e drive so unless they manage to get the admin account they cant do anything anyway

Thats great thanks, will that script just add permissions to that group on all subfolders?

Hi, I have been given downtime on our exchange server on friday to install Sophos PureMessage as we are ridiculed with SPAM emails at the moment. Is Sophos PureMessage easy to install? How should i setup SQL for use with PureMessage and will PureMessage allow the end users to control what is blocked and what is not for inbound email? At the moment we only have Vamsoft ORF filtering software which blocks most of our SPAM but also means we have to manually dig out genuine emails when requested and its very time consuming. We are already licensed for PureMessage under our current agreement

Oh man not looking forward to that!! When a new student starts we manually enter a document path in AD in their profile and it creates it for us when they log in.

The setup is E:\Home drives then in there is all the students folders, inside them is a My documents folder. Theres no inherit permissions on those, problem is i cant find a way of doing it in bulk. for example: We basically need all the 'My Documents' folders to inherit from the parent folder but also still include the exisiting permissions. For example on this account OAKill is specified as a user in the list, if i force child folders to have parent permissions (from the homedrivers folder), this im guessing will take him off the security list therefore denying him access to his work area?

Hi, Our ICT Teachers want to have full access to students work areas so that they can go in and print work off / mark it. I have created a security group and added the teachers in it. I then added them to the 'homedrive' folder modify full control which contains all the students user folders in. When applying it only applies to a small amount of users and most deny access to the teachers when they try to access the files. When checking individual folders, the group is not there. What click box do i need to check so that all the security permissions in the sub folders are inherited without denying access to the students too? Im sure its simple, my mind has just gone blank and last time i tried i took ownership of all the folders by accident and no-one could access anything! When checking sub folders, the permissions and group have not been inherited.

Many thanks Jack. I have asked the council to unblock the ports for us and will try again once they have unblocked them. Daryl

theres no setup files in my dashboard, i saw them when i first set the account up a few weeks back but cant find anything now? They are on the overview tab shown below on intial setup i believe EDIT: Not to worry, i created a new account and the download and setup menu is now there. My ipad is stuck on the waiting for the device to check in page now so i will try admin access and see what happens

Yeah problem is i cant find the dowloads now i have created the account a few weeks back

Ok so i have the push cirtificate uploaded to the Meraki Desktop, browsing to m.meraki.com is asking for a Network ID I just need to find out what and where that is??

I have looked at Meraki and i cant figure out how to set it up for the life of me lol All i got when installing was a constant annoying pop-up about setting up a VPN connection on my desktop :/

Hi, Our new head loves Apple and wants us to purchase ipads and Imac's around the school. We are starting off with just 25 ipads and will expand when the budget allows. We have been asked to spec up a cost effect solution for managing the ipads and other devices. We are looking at getting the top spec MAC mini i7, 4gb, two 1tb, OSX Mountain Lion Server, a keyboard and mouse and a 27" HDMI monitor from a local store. Will this combination be sufficiant for our needs? We are hoping to use Apple configurator to configure and deploy the ipads. What functionality will it give us in terms of ipad deployment? Can we restrict them and install apps in bulk? Sorry for the complete lack of knowledge, this has all been sprung upon us with no training and i come from a windows background with zero first hand experience in apple products. Many thanks

Many thanks, tried the script and no luck again it would seem. It looks like it may be removing the old versions of java but its failing to install the new one still. Heres the script: if exist "C:\Windows\Java-7-Update11-x86.log" goto :EOF cscript /B /nologo "\\mca-sr-fs1\DeployedPackages\scripts\Remove-java.vbs" /keeponly "\\mca-sr-fs1\DeployedPackages\Java_update_7.0.11\jre1.7.0_11.msi" /quiet /log C:\Windows\Java-7-Update11-x86.log :EOF I downloaded Remove-Java script and placed it on our server which is line 2 above. The log files last few lines are as follows: MSI (s) (58:90) [15:33:05:382]: Product: Java 7 Update 11 -- Installation operation failed. MSI (s) (58:90) [15:33:05:382]: Windows Installer installed the product. Product Name: Java 7 Update 11. Product Version: 7.0.110. Product Language: 1033. Manufacturer: Oracle. Installation success or error status: 1603. === Logging stopped: 17/01/2013 15:33:05 === Did i need to change anything in the Remove-Java vbs script? Theres too much to post here in the log. Its saying failed then installed but its not installed. Try to install manually and it fails

Im very tempted to not deploy java via msi in future, i just cant get it working atall! I need to remove all previous versions first though because at the moment it wont install any of the updates as its asking for all kinds of old msi packages on the network share and refuses to install even if the user manually downloads it from the internet. That script didnt work, and nor did the one on the link posted further up this thread

great thanks for the script! Its throwing up an error, not sure if its removed old versions but still cant get the new version on. Its asking for the path to java 7.0.9c even though we have never used that version.

Hi Guys, There have been a few java updates recently but im having problems with getting them installed. We get an error code 1603 in eventviewer and it tries to install on every boot. Running the .MSI manually it fails with an error 'The installation was interrupted' This has been the case with the last few updates. I am creating a new GPO for each update and deleting the last. Security permissions are all set for workstations the same as any other software install. I'm guessing the issue is because the msi is failing to install even manually but the last few have been doing this. If i run 'Windows Install clean up' and remove all previous versions in the list, java installs fine. Any ideas? Is there a script to remove all previous versions of java??

Where do you redirect them to keeping all current files / folders in place?

Sorry should have stated, we don't redirect staff desktops.

Morning, We let the staff save files to their desktop but a lot of them are 'dumping' large files on there and we have atleast 20 users with files on their desktop over 5GB in size. Is there a way of restricting either what type of files go onto the desktop or specify a file size limit rather than just disabling saving to desktop all together?