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Our network cameras use their own cabling (coax, i think) to pass data back to their camera server which records the data. Only the server is attached to the IP network, so it only causes traffic on the network when someone wants to retrieve footage or watch the screens live. Watching in live view uses around 0.1% of my bandwidth (=100kbit). The server is storing 16 streams at a reasonable quality and uses up 280GB for an 8 day loop (that's capturing everything, not using motion detection).

You could try getting the effect using the FFT filter. Phones just pass a small range of frequencies, so make your selection, fire up the FFT filter, and drop the gain for areas outside the middle of the human voice range. Wikipedia reckons that range is 300Hz to 3400Hz - maybe make it taper off below 500Hz and above 2600Hz.

If you're using class server 4, then the client installer is an msi ("Microsoft Class Server 4.0 - Teacher.msi"), so there's no reason why you can't. We've not got that far with the blasted thing yet though.. one day.. soon..

Not at all. It looks like it could be quite a useful reference. I've cheekily grabbed the easy one (setting up and managing local profiles) for a kick-off. Any improvements welcome, obviously.

Pedagogy definition may be able to tell you, if you can read those wacky phonetic spellings (or have sound)

I tried this and found it hard to work with Ownership. Thats when I found the Windows version of chown. True enough. Subinacl is pretty powerful, but not much fun to work with.

You can also accomplish this with the subinacl resource kit tool from Microsoft

Misco are OK (cheap pen drives) but they do tend to pummel you with emails and flyers. Be wary of their returns policy though as I know a couple of people who've had trouble returning kit.

Make sure that the sharepoint root is installed at http://servername/ rather than a subdirectory like http://servername/sharepoint/ or you won't (AFAIK) be able to install class server into it!

2 x DC, DHCP, DNS 1 x ISA + Web filtering + WSUS 1 x Exchange 2003 2 x file servers 1 x print server 1 x SIMS.net (MS SQL) server 1 x FMS (SIMS finance) server 1 x cashless catering (MS SQL) server 1 x NAS 1 x MOM 1 x Sharepoint, class server 1 x Terminal Server (trying to retire this) 1 x Avantis CDServe (almost retired) 2 x CCTV servers 1 x Partridge in pear tree ~550 clients, 1850 users Our server setup is well over spec at the moment (long story), but will last us for quite a while now.

For classserver we pay £1/student/year (if memory serves) on our schools agreement which was bought 18 months ago. I seem to remember the server license itself is about £250/year - not sure on that though. Class server 3 effectively works as a standalone product (with AD integration for logins) - it has its own site which displays personalised content based on the classes you teach (or study) in. Class Server 4 also diplays personalised content, but it integrates into sharepoint via web parts so you can have a "My Assignments" part on a page telling kids what work they have to do. Annoyingly I can't see any way of filtering the "My Assignments" list so that it only includes assignments relating to the department page you are on. The documentation (which sucks balls) suggests that it can't really be done unless you want to make a separate sharepoint site for every class - the thought of making about 60 sharepoint sites per school subject is about as appealing as sandpaper underwear. Anyone got tips? In CS3, it would automatically create a site for each class so there wasn't a problem. Does installing CS3 then upgrading to CS4 make this any better? I've got a whole bunch of other issues with class server, but they probably need their own threads, or possibly wiki space, to sort out.

Outstanding! I'm almost afraid to ask: did you get the job?!

We're almost on the same lines I mean: if you set NTFS permissions on a start menu folder and the stuff inside it to (say) "DENY - Full Control" for a domain-wide group containing all pupils, then when a pupil logs in the folder appears to be empty, whereas a teacher would see it as normal. Default User and All Users start menus aren't writable by normal users by default, so they can't screw them up.

We don't redirect start menus so I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to do. We install all the software on the PC, move anything unsafe from the "default user" and "all users" start menus into the local admin start menu (just for safe keeping really, the admins can get at unsafe progs via start>run... anyway) then take an image of the PC. If you have something (e.g. SIMS) installed on a pupil machine and you don't want them poking around in the shortcuts for it on the start menu, you can set permissions on C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\SIMS.net\ via group policy. They'll be able to see the start menu folder, but it'll appear empty when they go to it. Like I say, I'm not quite sure what you need it to do!

If you've got the 3com switches with expansion slots in the back you can use the 3com stacking modules to stack them and I'm pretty sure the backplane speed is >> 100Mbit. I guess it depends if your current 3com kit is managed stuff or the cheaper unmanaged type. If it's not managed, it might be worth taking a look around at other cheaper kit from newer players doing slightly less featureful gigabit switches with web admin etc..

Loopback processing is primarily evil because it slows down the application of GPOs so much when you use it in merge mode. Other than that it's not too serious, just not required for most situations.

I concur. Very happy with ours and the print quality is the most vivid and glossy of any of our colour lasers. AVOID: Xerox phaser 8400. They're prone to mechanical failure (2/2 within 18 months), they deliberately waste the toner (wax block) that they run on and the colour reproduction is often miles off (dark brown instead of bright red!)

If only they were all at the bottom of the sea . They still turn up at BETT amazingly - Who is still willing to pay serious cash for a fileserver to hold ISO images?

Try putting something like: echo computer name begins with echo %computername:~0,3% echo check for batch file if exist \\lsahtc_win2k1\netlogon\ntstaff.bat echo batch file exists echo path to desktop is echo "c:\documents and settings\%username%\desktop" pause at the top of your script while you're testing and see if you get the output you'd expect. It won't fix it, but it's where I'd start.

In Microsoft land you can use Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM). The new version is supposedly a huge improvement over the slightly pants MOM 2000, but they've changed the licensing structure recently . You now pay for the MOM server (as before) and then pay again for all servers that you monitor too. You'll be amazed to hear that it works out more expensive in nearly all cases. MOM comes with a set of standard alerts for different server types (Exchange/SQL server/DCs/Plain Ol' Windows/Sharepoint/etc.) and reports to highlight which servers are most in need of upgrades. You can configure it to do just about anything if your scripting is up to it, but it does the basic stuff out of the box. There are 3rd party management packs too so you can, for example, jack it into your Dell OpenManage software if you have any Dell servers.

You can take the individual MCSA modules whenever you want, together or apart. Each one gives you an MCP in that subject, and they are converted to an MCSA when you get all four (3 core + 1 elective: SQL Server or Exchange, possibly others) I finished my MCSA not long ago. Of the dozen or so people I took it with, I was the only one to pass them all, so it was a big relief to get it out of the way. From what I saw, the only way you can be sure of passing is to put a lot of time in (in my case about 350hrs of study over 6 months). In some areas I definitely spent more time than necessary (70-270 and 70-290); in others I probably should've spent more (70-291 is a real bitch and not very useful in Real Life). On the plus side, they send you a free tie pin and a certificate laser printed by Bill Gates () when you're done.

I couldn't agree more. Most people are surprised how far away signals can be picked up. We use WPA-PSK at the moment. WPA-PSK has been broken to some degree, but it's still "strong enough". I'd like to move to something centrally managed if possible, partly to make life easier and partly because pre-shared keys are intrinsically Bad.

1. In Group Policy, click User Configuration, click Internet Explorer Maintenance, and then click Security. 2. Double-click Security Zones and Content Ratings, click Import the Current Security Zones Settings, and then click Modify Settings. 3. Select the content zone in which you want to manage ActiveX controls, and then click Custom Level. 4. Tweak (you can also set up your class server to be a trusted site while you're at it I think)

DBAN is definitely the best way for security. It's not quick, but you could set them all going at once and leave them overnight I guess. It's worth checking with them to see if they'll guarantee securely wiping the data. I know all the big computer recycling firms will give you a receipt which states that.

Possibly you can use this resource kit tool in a simple batch file: AddUsers It looks like you can point it at the remote PC too. If not, use psexec from sysinternals.