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Hello Everyone; No WINS on the network at all im afraid, NT4 machines do need extra permissions set but these are XP machines on the NT4 Domain

Hello I have already set Option 015 for the domain name and DNS is set to use unsecure updates. Adam

Hello Everyone; I've got a bit of a unique situation here maybe someone can shed some light on it for me. I have a windows NT4 domain (yes yes it needs to be burnt but is tided into some business stuff that really should also be burnt...) called BD. I have some windows XP clients of this domain. I also have a Windows 2008 R2 DC with DHCP\DNS running; so here is the strange issue Windows XP client set to use DHCP gets an address and attempts to register it's self in DNS it does its PTR record just fine but does not create a forward lookup record. When i look at the PTR record it reports the data as machinename. with no domain attached. Does anyone know how i can make these clients report a domin when they register in DNS? Thanks any pointers adam

Hello Everyone, I've got a really old server here running Windows NT 4... I'm trying to shift everything off of it in quick order however it is still used for authentication, does anyone know a way to see which security groups are being used? Thanks .Adam

We have 2 new gateway devices which act in a cluster, so both need to be connected to our internet gateway Cisco (direct connection to BT, no LA filtering etc). I need to test and conf. these devices before we go live with them so the swich has to split the incomming connection 3 ways, 1 to the existing gateway and 2 to the new gateways. We have a /28 for our public IP's so each device is on a different public IP. The Switch in question is a HP ProCurve 1810G-24 J9450A using the most upto date firmware which i beleave is 2.2 oh yes and speeds have been locked down on the ports to 100Full

Hello Everyone, I've set up a ProCurve 1810 to sit inbertween my internet connection any my internal networks gateway. I've assigned ports 1 - 4 to be part of a VLAN and attached our internet router and our gateway to two of these ports. This is in preperation for a new gateway that is going in. However when in this configuration Active FTP (not pasive) and IPSec traffic seams to get blocked\dropped. Plug the internet straight back into our gateway and all returns to normal. anyone ever seen this before?

Well I’ve spent my first 3 days moving from pillar to post visiting every department in my new workplace watching (and even trying my hand) at almost every job in the company. I’ve seen how everyone interacts with IT and what it means to them in there day to day job. Its given me a good idea of where the issues lie and what are going to be the little day to day issues that I might have to sort out. Now how many of you had an induction like that? Do you think that going and seeing key people in your school and how they use systems would have helped you in your early days?

Well I've landed my self a new job out in the private sector starting on Monday. If working in schools has tought me anything it's that things are almost not what they appear to be, and that stupidity if often the cause of many issues. I'm hoping that this new post will be slightly less of the stupid and allow me to get down to some productive rather than fire fighting work. I've been hanging around here since my first mentor introduced edugeek to me way back in 2007 (ok not that way back, but it feels like it), and it's been a really useful resource. Back then the site was aimed at the Educational IT Tech, it's been good to see that we are now not just a community for education but also for the wider community. I for one will be hanging around. As part of my move i'm going to blog my experience of moving into the 'real world' and see what lessons can be learnt and feed back to education. Who knows it might even be interesting....

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Just a note for anyone coming across this thread; BusinessLand has gone under.

+1 for SpecOps Deploy been using it here for over 2 years now, really good bit of kit.

just as an update from WinInfo Short Takes: March 5, 2011

MS have said that a new SP1 RSAT should be out in April, but still this is just so silly.

Just to finish up my post the KB was kb967715, the update from MS is optional so make sure your sure before applying it

its to stop the spread of virus via autorun.inf i think you can change the behavior in the registry i'll try and fond the KB for you.

There is also the small issue that MS have now disabled auto run for all plugin devices in a recent update.

You may wish to look at this post here http://www.edugeek.net/forums/scripts/43018-script-rename-computer-join-domain.html and this article on technet http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772217(WS.10).aspxhttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772217(WS.10).aspx about the netdom command. The only issue you will have is that the script will have to check at startup if the computer is a member of a domain and then decide what to do based on domain membership something like Psudo Code If member of domainname.local { Un-Join Domain restart } if member of WORKGROUP { Join Domainname.net restart } if member of domainname.net or anything else { do Nothing?? }

Hello Everyone, Since i'm off to pastures new my job has been advertised; Full Time ICT Technician Salary £13,000 - £15,000 dependent on knowledge and experience We are looking for an enthusiastic junior technician to assist with the day to day running of the schools networks. Good knowledge of Windows OS and excellent people skills are essential. This vacancy is full time 37 hours per week all year round. Southend High School for Girls if you have any questions please do PM me.

Yes this is true, see Microsoft UK Education - Types of Educational Licence - EES the quote we've had back for budgeting has a saving of 10K form last year!

just my 2p worth, here we never have patch leads running accosss the cab, they all go from the patch panel (50/50 left and right) then down the sides of the cab and back inwards along cable management until there above the port in the switch that they should be. The cables down the side are all velcro-ed into place the keep things tidy.

Yes i think if the noses are snapped they've had it

Ditio on what TechMonkey said lots of scout groups would take them off ur hands. If you need contacts please PM me and i'll do what i can.

We've just purchased a bunch of new computers at £499 inc. monitors and licences, and 3yr warrenty. Now these are from a 'Big Name' company and this will mark the 4th room we've updated using this brands computers. Now perviously we have had 3 other types of computers in the school. The oldest being RM. Now these have lasted for ever and are now getting just slightly past their 5 year point. The other 2 brands we have had are from smaller companies and we have had all sorts of issues, and spent too long testing, and RMA'ing them back to be fixed. So far (touch wood) the PC's from this 'Big Name' have been no problem. So i have to say in my experance that paying a bit more and ensuring that you have warrenty cover is well worth the investment.

Hello, In the exchange management console you can go to Recipient Configuration | Distrubution Group, select the goup you want to disable and simply right click and select disable, this will remove all the Exchange properties from the group but leave it in AD. You can then re-enable it later. As your gettng the messages back from a distribution group you might be able to recall the message by opening it in your send items clicking on file and going to recall (Office 2010 here) but i've never tried it for messages sent to a distribution group.

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