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I think it does, although you could possibly just change the schedule so that it never runs again which would leave your existing copies there. The service would still be running though... depends what you're trying to achieve I guess.

I do something similar logging to an MSSQL database. One of the advantages over a text file is that I only have to give access to add entries so the users can't delete all the records. As you say it's also easier to build web based reports if you're looking at a SQL database. We have one-click access into the user's web logs for that day I think I can build a link in to our CCTV system too, but I've never had the time...

I suppose I'll find out when we test it, but can a default homepage layout be specified yet? I know Capita were suggesting it would be possible to turn some homepage elements off by default in the future but I forget how far into the future that was going to be! Unless there are any essential new fixes in there I think we'll employ the usual "watch Supportnet for 2 weeks" approach before installing.

Cheers Ric, that's interesting info. If you have all 16 disks in use it looks like you have quite a lot of redundany. For what I'm after (a mixture of file and video storage with disk-based backup in a different building) I'm not sure SAS disks are really an option. They're certainly not the most cost-effective one as my purposes don't need absolutely breakneck speed, but do need relatively large capacity. The SAN I bought last year does have the option of mixing SAS and SATA, but for now it's only got SATA disks in it. If anyone is interested in a less expensive option, this is the model I went with: AC&NC - JetStor SATA RAID Array Model 416iS | Serial ATA 16-bay iSCSI RAID I think it can take disks bigger than 1TB now, but those were the biggest disks with enterprise models available at the time.

To add to that, there are scripts on here to set permissions on user areas so that can do a lot of the hard work for you. Also MS have a File Server Migration Tool (google: FSMT) to help with such moves. As you hint in your post some very basic NAS devices don't support NTFS, but I think they are probably in a tiny minority now. Caveat emptor!

Janet do this as a service. Another company called edutxt do it and have an API i think. They work out between 3p and 8p per text depending on the company you go with. Some more leads here: [ame=http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Awww.bettshow.com+2009+sms&btnG=Search]site:www.bettshow.com 2009 sms - Google Search[/ame]

Where list price == what?? What disks did your units come with? I'm hopefully in the market for a SAN box for our other building this year. The first SAN purchase has proved to be pretty good... 8TB in RAID 6 with 8 slots still empty. I was bothered about performance because it's hard to get worthwhile performance stats for any of these devices, but it turns out access is roughly twice as fast as our servers' local disks.

It's also highly dependent on how much of the workforce the BSF MSP have committed to keeping on. If your council has guaranteed all tech staff will keep their jobs in their contract, then you should be relatively safe. If not, I would imagine that managers are the ones most likely to face Gordon Brown's axe. From what I've seen it seems to vary a lot with different BSF projects. If the P4S BSF propaganda is anything to go by, you might end up as a "Team Leader" which means you get an extra star on your badge. Woo yay.

As with any account, you may have used it for running bits and pieces on your network, e.g. windows services, scheduled tasks, that sort of thing.

If anyone is interested, here are the guidance notes for producing an Alternative Procurement Business Case (attached). Shame it took a FoI request and 22 days' wait to get them, but that's typical of this scheme I suppose. So there you have it. If your school is looking to make a start you should at least have a little more than the ridiculous 42 day deadline to put something together. Obviously I have seen the likes of Villiers in Ealing and Notre Dame in Sheffield getting turned down despite having excellent ICT in place and a very clear vision so I am not particularly hopeful, but I hope it at least levels the playing field a smidgen. APBC Template.doc APBC - School Guidance.doc APBC - Appendix 2 - ICT Output Specification.doc

I could think of at least one other way in the general case, but unfortunately it won't work for Uniservity. Generally speaking you could set up a lookup database which would act as an intermediary between AD and the website. Your user would click on a link which would take them to an ASP page on a local IIS server. The page would take their AD username as a variable, look it up in the database, then redirect them to the VLE login with the VLE username and VLE password embedded into the URL. You could put it into an IFRAME or something similar so that the username and password don't show up in the address bar for all to see. Once the page has had time to load, redirect the parent window to the VLEs homepage without credentials - it will still be logged in thanks to the site's cookies. If the user had access to change their own password you would find that those users who did would have to log in manually. Why won't it work with Uniservity? The Uniservity login page: https://www.school-portal.co.uk/Secure_UserVerifylogin.asp?GroupID=YOURGROUPIDHERE ...will only accept txtusername and txtpassword when passed via POST rather than GET. I will be generous to them and suggest this was done for security reasons

I knew LDL was a bad thing. Vorderman told me so. Har har.

can you create a new document under s:\sims\ from one of the affected laptops?

The workstation needs to be a member of the domain to automatically pick up the DC as time server. To apply a manual fix, run: net time /setsntp:dc1 dc2 myotherdc lastdc Then restart the Windows time service on the workstation

We have a GPO which replicates the functionality of simsperm.bat. As part of that they have modify access to everything under c:\Program Files\SIMS\ Details of the GPO settings are attached to another thread as an HTM file. If you want them let me know and I'll try to dig it out. UPDATE: the post is here... http://www.edugeek.net/forums/educational-software/12268-sims-nova-t.html#post134709

Richard Herring does a pretty good podcast with Andrew Collins (off "I love 1984" ). Podcast RSS Feed (I should probably mention that it's NSFW unless your W is very different to mine!)

I have installed FMS dozens of times and no two installs have gone through alike. I find the best method for us at the moment is: Run S:\SIMS\SETUPS\FMS\FMSAPPLICATIONSETUP.EXE Find a working FMS workstation Copy the contents of its FMS folder over your new workstation's FMS folder. It saves much of the hassle of diagnosing the many and varied errors FMS throws up after a new install.

A Freudian slip there!

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There's not much to my current setup. In fact: cd /d "e:\user data" "E:\Batch Files\strings.exe" -s *.xls | findstr ShockwaveFlash > "E:\Batch Files\XLS-GameSearch2OutputRAW.txt" cd /d "E:\Batch Files\" for /F "tokens=1,2 delims=:" %%a in (XLS-GameSearch2OutputRAW.txt) do @echo del "%%a:%%b" >> XLS-GameSearch2OutputCLEAN.txt type XLS-GameSearch2OutputCLEAN.txt | uniq > XLS-GameSearch2OutputUNIQUE.txt del XLS-GameSearch2OutputRAW.txt del XLS-GameSearch2OutputCLEAN.txt start XLS-GameSearch2OutputUNIQUE.txt That's it. The meat is on the 2nd line. As you can see it's pretty (read:very) quick and dirty. It spits out a batch file full of: del "e:\path\tofile.xls" lines so I can remove any I don't want to kill off then run it. Also I found that you can disable the flash in a file by corrupting a couple of characters in the SWF's header (i used a tool called binmay which does binary search and replace in files: swap the 1st and 3rd characters of the embedded SWF and it's goosed). Removing the SWF portion altogether may well be hard.

Another small bug I'm afraid. When I try try to open a file on a UNC path with the File Inspector, it fails with the following error: It doesn't crash the app completely, but the file can't be examined either. Incidentally, I gather the XLS flash game tool is using hashes to detect the games. If you search XLS files for "ShockwaveFlash" that will find all of them, not just the ones you have a rule for. I'm not sure if the current version of EduSweep can do that, but it might be a new feature! At the moment I'm doing it with a "strings" script, but a GUI app would be nicer.

you've made the fatal mistake of assuming becta know anything. extra homework for you.

In case you haven't seen or read it already, here is a transcript of the Public Accounts Committee questioning Tim Byles, head of Partnerships for Schools. It is definitely recommended reading for anyone with an interest in how BSF is going. Uncorrected Evidence 274 If you want the video version, it's here: Video Player The ICT bit only gets going at Q46, but the whole thing is an entertaining read and they don't hold back. Dr Pugh (Lib Dem, Southport) needs some serious congratulations for his input into proceedings.

It is baffling, yes. Basically they have failed on the criterion "not enough bureaucracy". If that's where the goalposts are then BSF will win every time. Surely the school's argument is that it's so far beyond the BSF offering that it doesn't need a step-change in its IT setup. They will need a hell of a lot of change management when a MSP comes in and demolishes the service they already provide.

It's a bit like having a turkey decide what you have for Christmas dinner really. I'm glad you have brought that to our attention, but it has still put me in a very bad mood!