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On top of the increase in the available number of GPO settings (there are zillions now) they've changed where ADM templates are stored so there's one location rather than storing them all in every single policy. From what I've seen though they expect you to manually create the central store folder and configure it.

That was the free upgrade which came about 6 weeks after they'd hiked the price by 3 quid/month! I find the quality of their product great, but they are pricey. We hammer our connection more than most families would and I still think 20Mbit is excessive for our needs. I doubt I'd notice any speed increases over about 8Mbit. As for the 50Mbit increase which was originally due Q2 of this year, it wouldn't surprise me if they do the same - jack the prices, bump you up, then remove the 20mbit deal forcing you to choose between upgrade and downgrade.

I'm very happy with my new Canon IXUS 950IS. I paid around £165, but you'll obviously need an SDCard and probably a case on top of that. I think the image stabilisation is optical in that model, but electronic in most of the ones lower down the range or produced earlier. The screen is quite big considering the teeny size of the camera. Fits in tight pockets (even with your wads of Vegas winnings in there). The supplied lithium battery seems to last ages. Video and sound quality are both surprisingly good.

Realistically you'd have to - it'd be much easier than trying to figure out which parents were divorced/separated from the data in SIMS. I'm not sure how that situation is handled by SIMS LG - in particular: how are the usernames and passwords distributed to parents reliably and securely? I can imagine a situation where one parent might not pass the login details on to another if both passwords went home to the child's main address. Anyone dealt with this rolling out SLG?

1. we have a software helpdesk if that's what you mean. everything gets logged in it if it's "for a customer" even if they ring it through. Routine/maintenance/pro-active type jobs don't get logged. 2.a there is a priority field on the helpdesk page, but staff generally fill that in according to their baseline mentality rather than the true priority. we reassign it according to the guidelines in the helpdesk (probably too long-winded for this post) 2.b we tell them we prefer helpdesk/call/email. when people ask for things in the corridor I always ask them to email me with it as well or log it on the helpdesk 3. that would depend on the job and potentially on our workload. we don't have an sla for it, but then an sla would either be too generous to us or unrealistic to achieve. 4. directly, me (the IT Mgr). indirectly, the business manager / slt 5. regularly. I haven't successfully converted them to searching the knowledgebase yet... one day! 6. they can come and visit or their teacher can phone us/email/log a call. 7. we aren't strict about it. people who stop you in the corridor when you're carrying boxes through 200 kids and then don't follow up with an email/logged call etc. tend to get what's coming to them!

It may be set up to be able to use multiple CPUs/cores, but whether it actually does is decided by SQL server itself on a query-by-query basis. SQL server evaluates whether it's faster to split the job up between processors or just run it on one: Introduction to Parallel Query Execution

As hinted above, you don't necessarily need to do this by whole octets. That is, you can have a subnet mask of (say) 255.255.252.0 which will give you approx 4 times your current address space: 11111111.11111111.11111111.00000000 = 255.255.255.0 - current setting 11111111.11111111.11111110.00000000 = 255.255.254.0 - ~2x as many hosts 11111111.11111111.11111100.00000000 = 255.255.252.0 - ~4x as many hosts 11111111.11111111.11111000.00000000 = 255.255.248.0 - ~8x as many hosts I strongly suspect your IP range is part of a larger network though - 10.8.100.x would be a very random subnet to pick for a "standalone" network. Definitely check with the people who maintain the larger network as SYNACK says.

This looks like one of those annoying settings where there is no "disabled" option - only "not defined". Although I haven't tested it I suspect you will have to set the contents of the message text and the message title policies to be empty, but still applied (i.e. box ticked in the GPO setting).. on the client run a gpupdate /force.. then in the policy set it back to not defined and gpupdate /force the client again. Some settings seemingly won't "undefine" if they have a value set.

PCounter definitely has an option to delete duplicate jobs, which would get around the situation you describe. I'm not sure which of the other print management tools has the same feature.

Yes, you can generate reports with that info in from the ISA console. I guess it might be worth increasing the cache by 50% and comparing the subsequent increase in cache hit %. We used to have a crazy 5GB dedicated to it, but I think we've dropped back to 1GB now. AFAIK our LA also cache to some extent. The doorstop^W cachepilot we have installed probably does as well!

First off, try to get a Supportnet account if you can. I'm not sure if you still have to be a single site (i.e. not LA supported) to qualify. From the solution search on supportnet: Which leads you to "disk write error" being the problem. I would run filemon whilst reproducing the problem to see what's borking.

open diskmgmt.msc and allocate a drive letter from there?

Perhaps you could limit voting to people with over a certain number of posts and/or people whose account was created at least X months ago.

Other criteria I would like added: Doesn't require software to be running on the server, be it for licensing, saving progress or whatever. (goodbye heinneman) Doesn't require a pesky dongle in the server (i'm looking at you solidworks) Doesn't have some daft non-perpetual license - why would I want to "subscribe" to a CD of powerpoints. Has more than 1 paragraph of text per GB of pointless 3d video/animation/video of an animation (die Birchfield RS software! die! die! Die!) i.e. some educational value. ...and breathe! I would like to nominate the "Focus on..." range of technology software. Easy to install and share out, amazingly lightweight 3d simulations/demos, reasonable price, lots of educational content in there.

Without spilling the beans on anything confidential, what sort of price are you looking at for a 12-bay rackmount and which model are you looking at?

Can you connect to the DC? Can you log on to it?

Another thing to consider with wireless signals is that the clients make the effective signal range greater - a laptop connected on channel 1 on the very edge of the range of your channel 1 AP will be transmitting at full strength from that location and potentially causing interference with laptops talking on the same channel to a different AP. Cisco have a good document on this topic - Wireless channel deployment issues

Cheers for clearing that up Ric (I suspect I'll be missing out R2 altogether now Longhorn is within spitting distance). In that case I reckon it'd be pretty easy to use the old-fashioned method to achieve the desired results: Scripts can be used to fix any ownership problems (bearing in mind this is home folders rather than shared areas it should be easy) Assuming the worst case of usernames being entirely random: You can add quota entries for a year's worth of users by the "find" method above based on their OU Change their quotas to something non-default en-masse (97MB say) Add another year's worth Sort the list by the quota allocation Change their quotas to 98MB. Add another year's worth Sort the list by the quota allocation Change their quotas to 99MB. Once you've got all your users in it's easy to tweak the entries user-by-user as required. Of course, this all falls down if you have other user storage on that volume as the settings are volume-wide...

BTW: This is handy if you want to compare the shots taken by ordinary folk on the different models: Flickr Camera Finder (Apologies if you've seen it before)

I haven't used R2, but are you guys saying they've removed features from stock WS2003? In basic WS2003 up to SP2 (and in XP Pro) I can get the properties of a volume, go to the quotas tab, enable quota management, set the settings there, then click on "Quota Entries..." In that window you can do: quota > new quota entry advanced > find now **twiddle thumbs** select all the users > OK OK again You then have all your users (assuming you don't have too many to be returned by the search) in the list and you can tweak quotas per-user accordingly. Our usernames start with a year-group letter which makes picking them out and bulk-fixing their quotas much easier. Possible in R2 or not?

It can be annoying trying to get offline files to go away once it's got its claws in. One thing you could try as a tester is the csccmd (client side caching command) commandline tool. There is a jazzy 1.1 version which does all sorts of stuff: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/884739 but XP comes with a basic version 1.0. From your XP cmdline, try running csccmd /disable If it's already disabled you'll get: ERROR:: CSC is not enabled on this machine. at the bottom of the output. If you have luck with that, scripting may be the next step... If you're really called Ryan and you do have cleavage, please keep it under wraps!

I got a Digital IXUS 950IS (powershot something-or-other in the US) at Christmas. Amazon was cheapest at the time, but it looks to have jumped up about £20: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Canon-IXUS-950-Digital-Camera/dp/B000RGLZYC Very happy with it and the batteries that come with them now are many miles better than I was putting up with with my old NiMH battery camera. It's packed full of features (like most compacts it seems you need to use spot focus if you want to do it manually, but you can then lock it in place). Video and audio quality is surprisingly good. I was a tad annoyed that it seems to boost the brightness on the lcd screen for images which are too dark, so you have to switch the histogram view on to make sure your pics aren't really underexposed. I'm guessing that will be the case for all the IXUS range. IIRC the 950 has optical stabilisation rather than the digital version you get in other models.

... and are you staying in education?

If you search the forums for Software Restriction policies you will find a lot of advice on how to do that sort of thing via GP. You can set it up to deny by default or allow, and then set up exceptions. We have it set to deny be default - after a couple of weeks we'd found all the wacky locations the legitimate software had installed to. The policy is set per user, so it gets around the problem of admins being blocked, but also presents you with a potential problem if your drive letters are not consistent throughout. What you can do is push out USBDLM (again via a GPO IIRC) which will let you set specific letters for USB drives to use. EDIT: It's always dangerous posting at 4pm - everyone else posts the same thing directly before you, making you look a bit simple.

If you search the supportnet solution search for PDOXUSRS.NET you will probably find the related info. Bafflingly, that file is still required to have user:modify permissions with the new mssql version of fms as I found out to my cost this morning!