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I belive you mean "GOTO 20", or if you want it to disappear and flash up again "GOTO 10" :-)

As promised, this is the doc I worked from to install and integrate GLPI and OCS: English : OCS and GLPI installation guide - Les RPM de Remi Took a little bit of tinkering, as I have in stalled it on Ubuntu, but is a good guide anyway. Highly recommended if you're doing a fresh install for the first time.

We paid £272 for our first year with ServiceDesk, and £550ish for our second year, and to be honest, once you get used to it, GLPI is nicer to use, and is cheaper ;-) I'll try to find the link I used to set up the GLPI/OCS-NG integration, and post it here.

We used to use ManageEngine ServiceDesk, but migrated to GLPI last term. GLPI has nearly all the functions ServiceDesk has, including warranty tracking and a knowledge base, but is Open Source. We also installed OCS inventory, which scans all machines for changes at start up, and updates the helpdeks accordingly. Next step is to start using the booking feature for Cameras, Laptops etc.

I originally created all my scripts manually, and merged them into one big file using "IF InGroup" to determine which lines applied to which group of people. To map printers to particular rooms, I used something like: ; Set the workstation location based on name $location = SubStr(@wksta, 5, 2) Set "location=$location" If AddPrinterConnection ("\\CL2KSRV01\2E-Laser") = 0 ? "Added printer connection to \\CL2KSRV01\2E-Laser." EndIf If AddPrinterConnection ("\\CL2KSRV01\3E-Laser") = 0 ? "Added printer connection to \\CL2KSRV01\3E-Laser." EndIf Select ; Case ($location = 3E) Case ($location = Room3) SetDefaultPrinter ("\\CL2KSRV01\3E-Laser") ? "Default printer is 3E" Case ($location = Room2) SetDefaultPrinter ("\\CL2KSRV01\2E-Laser") ? "Default printer is 2E" EndSelect If you wanted to add just on eprinter in each room, simply move the addprinter statements into the select/case block, above default printer. Alternatively...... You could download ScriptStart (Script Start - User Profiles Simplified) which gives you a nice web interface to work in. You just tick the boxes, fill in the printer names, set the rooms up in filters, and click the download button. COmmunity edition's free and the documentation is more than adequate to get a reasonable script up and running in about half an hour. Sorry to waffle :-P HtH Ian

Hi, I don't know if you've solved this or not, but my HT just asked for the same facility. After a little digging, I found the correct file format to allow me to bulk import contacts (ie, users without a domain logon) into the AD and Exchange 2003. The .csv attached only configures the bare minimum required to create a contact, but if you want to add more details you just need to know the AD schema names. To import your users, edit the contents of the DN column to match your domain, fill in the other columns accordingly, and then run CSVDE on the server with this syntax: csvde.exe -i -f parents.csv -j c:\ The "-j C:\" is optional, but useful as it saves a log file for the job. All you need to do after this is done is create a distribution group within the AD and add all the imported users to that group. You may wish to change the SMTP address of the group, otherwise parents will be able to email all of the other parents! (I changed mine to [email protected] - exchange allows it, but mail to this address goes nowhere). Any questions or problems, drop me a line. Hope all this helps, Ian Parents.zip

Old and battered i-mate PDA2k - basically an O2 XDAII, or on Orange the SPV M2000. It's basically a rebadged HTC BlueAngel. Good bit of kit to have, as the screen slides up to reveal thumb board making remote console access on the go a lot easier.

We found that E2BN didn't filter a lot of the sites we felt were unsuitable, so I found an old box (PIII 750, 256Mb RAM) and set up a Censornet (CensorNet - The Open Source Internet Protection Solution). It is basically a tweaked squid/Dansguardian, with LDAP importing facilities so you can add all your students at once. The ICT co-ordinator/teacher loves it, it helps keep the kids "on task" and if theres' a site that the RBC don't filter, we can add it in a matter of seconds. Another one to look, IMHO, is Untangle, this provides loads of services and can be run either standalone or on a spare Windoze XP machine.

I'll see what I can do @ Dos_Box: I have one teacher who has now bought her own laptop because her previous 2 "Just stopped working". Sucffice to say, the last one was held together by masking tape after it "fell"

I recently bought 1he 160Gb LaCie for our HT (who, incidentally, managed to break a flash drive!) and so far, I've had no reported problems. The drive's small, light, sturdy, aluminium cased and surrounded in rubber. I think you'd have to go a fair way to damage it, but I suppose it all depends on the internal drive mount. We paid £89.90 for 160Gb, but in the end I think the 160Gb was out of stock and we got a £200 for the same price. So far, it seems worth it, but the saga is ongoing!

Don't know if it will work for you and your LEA, but I installed the ISA Firewall Client (\\SERVER\MSPCLNT\Setup.exe) on my laptop, and it would appear that I bypass the LEA filters completely. Even talked to the LEA about it and they were unaware it was possible. It means I don't have to set proxies in browsers, chat programs etc, and it appears I'm completely unrestricted as to what I can view on the 'net.

Oh the irony, I've just tried to access the BSF website and it appears to be down :-) Also found this :-D

I installed Flash Player 9,0,115,0 and i seems to work fine now, whereas it didn't with 9,0,47,0. Downloaded it from here. You can find out what version of flash you're currently running here

I totally agree with Lithium on this one, formatting the hdd is definitely the way to go, but...... If you did the install with an upgrade disc, I'm assuming you did so from the windows GUI, because AFAIK, upgrade discs will only install over an old copy of windows, and cannot be booted from and installed fresh. (I could be wrong, it has happened ;-) ) However, if you have a full XP install disc with volume license, I think you should be fine. It's even possible you can download a copy of XP from the microsoft volume licensing site (here) if your license allows it. Hope this helps and I'm not totally wrong and misleading you here. Ian

We have at least one teacher who refuses to use school laptops because they're "not very good", yet she is one of the people with regular problems. Unfortunately she's the head of English and gets pretty much what she wants. I've only been here three years, so there's till time to train them @Nick: I was considering the same sort of idea but in my local neighbourhood instead of in the school (it's a bit out in the sticks), and I came across this. http://www.howtoforge.com/wireless_hotspot_howto

I've attached the one we use for you, I think I went trawling the 'net and cobbled together a couple until the head was happy with it. Hope it helps. Ian Arnold Middle School Laptop Policy.doc