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I'm looking at doing that here for servers with less than 4GB in. Depending on the spec of RAM you need it's not really that expensive.

Have you had a look at the examples at the bottom of: RUNDLL32 PRINTUI.DLL,PrintUIEntry /? Obviously there aren't any for removing network printer connections - that would be too easy - but it does have examples of using double quotes to handle spaces. Assuming you're using /dn /n , try doing it with and without a space between the /n and the start of the doublequote, e.g. RUNDLL32 PRINTUI.DLL,PrintUIEntry /dn /n"\\server\my annoying printer" RUNDLL32 PRINTUI.DLL,PrintUIEntry /dn /n "\\server\my annoying printer" I've also heard of the command having some case-sensitive elements to it, which is nice. What command have you been running exactly? Are you sure the printer was originally added via printui.dll?

There's a post in the similar threads below, but I'm not sure what impression I'd take from it!

That situation improved greatly this year actually. In the past there have been millions of those unhelpful types as well as women dressed as: Chickens Saucy coppers Saucy schoolgirls (nope, not kidding) This year was definitely better.

As per the title: http://education.guardian.co.uk/link/story/0,,2236721,00.html (featuring comments from Ian Lynch, who I'm sure will be remembered by those edugeeks who used to visit a certain newsgroup way back when)

You need IIS installed to install the Exch admin tools so it might be that?

I think we may have been separated at birth

Is that true? I always thought EMC SANs would be very expensive with them being one of the big names in storage, but I see prices like: http://www.zomp.net/shop/product_info.php?ctr=froogle&products_id=390982 (£2k for an iSCSI clariion which will hold up to 6TB of SATA disks.) Presumably I'm missing something!

Knight repeated his assertion that the government will pressurise broadband, hardware, and software providers into giving taxpayers a good deal. "I believe the market will respond with an affordable solution," he said. That's really quite frustrating - the suppliers don't need to be pressurised by the govt, they are pressurised by capitalism already. The only areas where government pressure would be of any use are where a monopoly exists - say if they decided to supply MSOffice to these poor and needy. Cue a lengthy consultation process by BECTA, followed by them selecting the usual suspects to provide hardware and software at approx 5% higher rate than anyone in this forum would typically pay. They could of course save "taxpayers" money by not making them pay VAT on the IT equipment. I won't hold my breath.

While that is true for a lot of people, I think it does come down to how you choose to study for the qualification. When I took my MCSA I did it over 6 months, studying for at least 13 hours a week. At the time, Microsoft were recommending people spent 3 months studying for each MCP, although that doesn't seem very practical for MCSE students. The people that turned up to the "bootcamp" and exam without having done the pre-study (my training was from Thomson Wave, now part of Skillsoft it seems) were mostly wasting their time - I was the only one of 13 people to pass the evil 70-291. How people get anywhere with intensive 2 week MCSE courses abroad is beyond me - I can retain information yes, but there's definitely a limit to how quickly I can shovel it in! When I did my MCSA exams 2 years ago, some of them did contain simulations rather than straight multi-choice, but I'm not sure which ones have simulations nowadays.

I'm there on Friday, which is probably the worst day for freebies. Some enterprising soul should overlay the freebies onto the BETT floorplan for us late arrivals to plot our treasure hunt.

We always use bootable USB drives for Ghosting and have done for a few years now (our version of Ghost is pretty old). All we're doing really is creating a bootable pen drive e.g. via the HP utility, then copying the contents of a ghost boot floppy over the top. We have a few different folders on there with the files from the different boot disks for different models of PC, so just copy the relevant one into the root before booting the PC. It's a million miles faster than booting off CDs and all you need is a working USB port.

On this topic, I understand that RAID 6 has a performance hit compared to RAID 5, which intuitively makes some sense. With that in mind, is it not better to have RAID 5 + hot spare than RAID 6, especially as the hot spare isn't being used so isn't getting the wear and tear of its RAID 6 counterpart. As far as I can see, the only advantage of RAID 6 is that it can have exactly 2 disk failures in quick succession whereas a 2nd failure within a few hours on 5+Spare would lose your data. If you're looking at (say) a 10 disk array, the odds of *exactly* 2 disks failing within a few hours seem fairly slim.

It might be worth taking a look at printer mapping scripts rather than group policy loopback processing as the latter can slow down the application of group policy quite considerably (although it depends on the specific circumstances). Take a look at this one on the edugeek wiki for starters (i can't remember whose it is): http://edugeekwiki.rm-charlton.net/index.php/Scripting_Printer_Addition_Based_on_Location Our login scripts use KiXtart instead of VBS so they probably wouldn't be much use to you. UPDATE: It looks like it's Ric's script now I've read the comments...

Although we don't use it here yet, my understanding is that you can set up a root which you access via \\yourdomain\installpoint\ much like you can probably type \\yourdomain\netlogon right now to get at the netlogon folder which actually lives on your DCs. That way you can have a "virtual" location which never changes and so that software won't be reinstalled. Of course, it's a bit late now - you'd want to have the DFS set up prior to the original software installation.

When this particular white elephant last crossed our paths, we settled on the Samsung 400PXN screens. They run XP embedded or similar inside the screen and can handle all sorts of formats (video/ppt/web/flash/blah) fed from a standard PC over your network. They can also store a certain amount of content on local flash so it's not being streamed all day long. If you google MagicNet, that's the software they use. Most of the systems that use CAT 5 use it as simple analogue cable so you can't run the signal through switches or more importantly fibre links. Running fresh cable around our sprawling site would've been a lot more expensive for us so we couldn't really entertain those. Unfortunately the cheapest price isn't available for UK delivery: http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=samsung+400pxn&btnG=Search&hl=en&show=dd&scoring=p

We used battery.co.uk a couple of times (for power adaptors rather than batteries). No problems with the orders, cheap and speedy. Might be worth a call? 01252 722888

With dynamic updates, would a computer which is removed from the domain not also have its DNS record removed? Obviously the computer account would go from AD at the same time. EDIT: Failing that, it's also possible DNS scavenging could be set up on a more aggressive interval than DHCP lease expiry. Either way it sounds consistent with the computer having been added to the domain and then removed again.

Possibly you haven't tweaked your domain to remove the right for ordinary users to add up to 10 computers to the domain (?) Is it possible he's added his laptop, picked up a DHCP lease with a FQDN, then removed his computer from the domain again - with DHCP being the only place that leaves a trace. I had a few muppets do this, so I now get email alerts each time there's a new DHCP lease. It can get a bit "noisy" at the start of term, but I feel more on top of the situation. We've also removed the right to add computers to the domain for standard users.

Bad news! It'll reinstall. In a few moments, someone will be along to chastise you for not using DFS!

With app deployments via GPO you might be able to troubleshoot it quite quickly as you can see which machines in a suite aren't installing the software as they boot up. You could then log onto a faulty one as an administrator and run rsop.msc to see what policies it thinks it should have and any errors during their application.

Price of staying the night in..... (not sure, but it's not preston) UPDATE: still not sure what P is, but that is the exact cost in dollars of 6 hours in space with Space Adventures. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/339535_spacetourism14.html

Hmm, that made me wonder if the kiddiewinks can avoid blocks on iexplore.exe by doing: Data > Import External Data > New Web Query and browsing in that window instead. It seems to render using IE and will display Flash content. No right-click menu on web pages, but otherwise it seems unrestricted. Where possible it seems to make more sense to block them on the proxy. Also, might it be an idea to move this thread into security?

Firstly, what objects are inside the OU you've applied the GPO to? If you're applying a user policy onto a load of PCs it's not going to work. (Sorry if that is obvious, but I'm not sure how familiar you are with group policies). From my experience printers tend to be set as login scripts for users, but with some conditional statements in them to give the correct printer (and/or to set the correct default) for a specific location. If you have it set up that way in the script, you could try calling it from your existing login script set up in the properties of the account in AD. If you don't have a login script set up there, you can put your script in the \\yourdc\NETLOGON folder and then make that their login script. We use Kix, so our login script entry looks like: kix32 pupillogin.kix with kix32 and pupillogin.kix both living in the NETLOGON folder. Sorry if any of that is obvious, but for me that would be the starting point.