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Hi I have several of these computers that I need to rebuild. When I choose the F7 option and select PXE boot (realtek), it starts the pxe boot process and then attempts to get an ip address from DHCP (still at the dos phase), it fails to pickup an ip, gives the message exiting pxe, and then loads up the RM Build disk splash screen. After about 10 minutes, it brings up the offline build dialogue box where I have to put in the username and password and the build key. Does anyone know why its failing to pickup an IP at the doss phase, other models of laptop and desktop are working fine. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks.

Hi, I'm hoping someone can help me as I'm running out of idea's. my clients are mainly xp on a CC4.3 network. I have Java version 7 update 45, Adobe shockwave 12, and Flash Player 11.8 installed on the computers. I am having trouble with playing youtube video's from these computers, I keep getting the message "An error has occurred, please try later" I have tried different browsers (google, IE, Firefox) to no avail. I've tried uninstalling/re-installing Java and flash. deleted history, cache, temporary internet files ensured Java is enabeled in the 'manage addons' of IE firewall is disabled, and popup blocker unchecked none of these seem to make a difference. Help.

Hi, When we created our doman, we forgot to add the policy that will give full control permissions to administrators for every single user profile created. We have changed that now, and all newly created user accounts provide this permission to user accounts. However, for existing user accounts we found that taking ownership, resetting permissions, giving ownership back to the user seems to mess up the profile to the point where the user cannot load the profile. I've found that using the SUBINACL is a lot less messy way to resolve the issue. However the problem I'm having is that it gives me root level permissions to the users profile, but not all the subdirectories. I'm running the following command (Which should in theory give me permissions to the folder and all its subdirectories), so what am I doing wrong. My server end is Windows 2008 R2, with Windows 7 clients. SUBINACL /verbose=1 /subdirectories "E:\studentprofiles\rolanddre.v2" /grant=Administrators=F Many thanks in advance. Kind regards.

ok, that worked fine. Thank you. The student on who's account I manually tried and didn't work was becuase I created a new folder on the same volume called Prohibited_data, and moved his contents. As I didn't take ownership of the files that I moved, his quota remained the same. The quota got adjusted when the file ownership was changed.

I've manually changed the permissions on one paticular folder it didn't seem to work. I can certainly chown.exe, but I wanted to be clear how the batch file will work. once I've created .cmd and placed it in the root of the student home folders along with chown.exe, which has the following structure volume name: StudentDocs 08StudentA folder x, folder y, file x, file y 09StudentB folder x, folder y, file x, file y 10StudentC folder x, folder y, file x, file y it will then go ahead and change the ownership of 08StudentA and all its files and subfolders to username 08StudentA. Sorry to sound apprehensive, its a 1000 students in one big hit. If it goes wrong, and kids can't access their work, the ICT teachers will hang the Techs. I might try it with a couple of accounts first to see if it works. Thanks in advance to clarifying thou.

have an issue at one of my schools, where disk quota's have been set on students home folder, but one of the tech's inadvertantly removed the 'deny write permission when quota has been reached' option. Some of the kids very quickly realised this, and loaded/saved all sorts of pictures/music etc etc.. and each kids user area swelled to 3/4gb. Luckily, I spoted this quite early on, and re-inforced the deny write permission. I also deleted what were obviously non work related files. However, the problem now is that even thou I deleted the big files/folders, the 'used disk space' (in the disk quota window) is still showing 3/4gb for the effected student, so he/she still cannot save. Browsing through various website, I find that one of the reasons could be that disk quota is associated with the owner of the file/folder, and by me deleting those files (as an administrator) from the users home folder, I have taken ownership. The work around is to make the student the owner again (choosing the option to apply the change to all subfolders and objects), then refreshing the disk quota window. I did this for one student (and thought it worked, but I was wrong) it didn't work. Any idea's? Anyone?

sorry forgot to say, you need to have a text file with all your computer names. You can do this by exporting them from your AD.

Set WSHShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Set oFS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") strWarning = "Due to network maintenance, this computer must be restarted. You have 5 minutes to save your work from the start of this countdown. Sorry for any inconvenience caused. " strDelay = 300 'Delay given in seconds; change this value to your preference, or set it to 0 to give no delay at all 'Open a text file of computer names 'with one computer name per line Set oTS = oFS.OpenTextFile("C:\computers.txt") 'go through the text file Do Until oTS.AtEndOfStream 'get the next computer name 'store it in variable strCompname strCompname = oTS.ReadLine WshShell.Run "C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe -m \\" & strCompname & " -r -c " & Chr(34) & strWarning & Chr(34) & " -t " & strDelay 'Replace the "-r" switch with "-s" to make the computers shutdown instead Loop 'close the text file oTS.Close This is a script that I use (taken from the spiceworks forum) which gives you the warnings before shutting down the PC. I Schedul the script to run at a 7pm via GP. Hope this helps

How to Send Recurring Email in Outlook | eHow.com... Found this Url that does what I need, for anyone thinking of the same. Thanks.

Hi, our school is on the lgflmail system, with a combination of outlook clients and the lgfl webclient. we have a helpdesk software that logs calls when we send an email to [email protected]. I want to create a rule that will send an email to that address weekday. The email will be exactly the same same. i.e. Header: Daily Network Checklist Body: Copy/Paste into reply and Delete appropriate Answer 1. Backup Successful YES/NO 2. Anti Virus Console checked YES/NO i) Virus Warnings YES/NO ii) Adware Warning YES/NO etc.... Is it possible to do this?

ok ditched the shell script method and used auto it instead. Basically compiled the following code into an .exe with AutoIT AutoItScript - AutoItScript Website Run("explorer.exe " & "c:\drivers") WinWaitActive("drivers") Send("#{LEFT}",0) Run("explorer.exe " & "c:\") WinWaitActive("OS (C:)") Send("#{RIGHT}",0)

If any of the above didnt work and if like you say its only one machine, then do the following.. its not a fix more a work around 1. give the user local admin rights.. get him/her to login, then 2. Create a folder on the local c:\drive with the same name as the users home directory 3. Go to the properties of my documents, add the folder that you have just created, and exit the document properties 4. Delete the folder that you just created on the c:\ 5. open command prompt (run as administrator) 6. Create a symbolic link ( How to create symbolic link in windows 7 « Windows 7 Home )to the users home folder using exactly the the same name as the folder that you deleted 7. log back as as yourself and remove the users local admin rights, and get the user to log back on.

One of the things that was really poplur with teachers is my last school was the fact that they could customize the childs desktop (via the ergo grid menu) based on the lesson they are delivering. This is very similar to putting desktop icons on on a restricted, but shared (student)desktop, except desktop icons on shared desktop is better in that its realtime, you don't have to log out and log back to get the new icons. Anyway, I tried to replicate this but also trying to avoid it being too clicky/fiddly (for teachers) etc, I have had partial success and need a bit of help. Basically what I' m trying to do is write a script that will open two windows ('programs bank' and 'class shared desktop'), then snap 1 to the left and the other to the right (all the clients are windows 7 pro) The keyboard keys to snap is 'Windows key' and left arrow key (for left snap) and right arrow key (for right snap). There doesn't appear to be a script key code for the 'windows key' so I tried to use CTRL, ESC which is "^{ESC}". but this has not worked. Does anyone have any suggestions suggestions? Here's my script. the script opens both windows, but does not snap. set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") 'Open the first Windows wshShell.Run("C:\WINDOWS") WshShell.SendKeys "^{ESC}{LEFT}" 'open the second window wshShell.Run("C:\newfolder") WshShell.SendKeys "^{ESC}{RIGHT}" 'set wshshell = nothing

password control is exactly the sort of thing i'm looking for. Thank you. i'm in the process of my second attempt at making an msi for the application ( I need to deploy to 300 machines. Do you have an Msi for this, I can get my hands on easily?

we are a secondary school and have recently moved away from RM CC3 to a Vanilla Windows Network (Windows 2008 R2 Servers, and windows 7 workstations). I've managed to replicate most things, but the teachers want a console and the appropriate tool to be able to reset students password. Does anyone have any suggestions. I can give them elevated rights so that they can only change the password for students, but I dont really want them to logon to the server. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Hi, I have a very strange issue (and ofcourse it has to be the head teacher) where when he opens attachments from outlook (i.e. pdf or html) and tries to print it always comes out landscape. All the settings in outlook in i.e and in devices and printers are showing portrate. When I click on file print it shows a preview of a file to print and it shows a page break on the page where its going to cut it. I'v tried to move that by dragging but that has not helped. I've also deleted renamed the outlprnt from the cached user profile on the local machine. This also not rectified the issue. PLEASE HELP!!!!!

Hi Russdev, I'm assuming your the guy from imperio. If you are can you please advise on whether you just sell your classroom management module seperately. I work for a local authority, where a number of our schools are moving away from the expensive RM and other offerings, out there to Vanilla Windows. One school in paticular would like to purchase the classroom management module. Do you sell your classroom management software seperately? If you so, can you please leave me your email address and I will contact you directly. Thanks.

Has anyone installed/trialed/got this working at all? I'm just testing it. Installed it on a couple of machines, but so far I'm finding that only the remote control function works. The other features like locking computer switch off/on send text message etc etc.. All don't work. Looks like a great peice of software (if I can get all the features working) given that its free. Currently there is no support for the product, so basically if it doesn't work tough ( Thanks in advance.

Hi All, just wondered if there has been any further development on this. RM explorer equivelant for vanilla network would be awsome. I've also been reading about the an alternative (free alternative) to RM Tutor called iTalc. Has anyone used it?

Thats close enough. It worked fine. thanks.

old network ad structure as follows AD name: myschool.internal Servername: DC3 OU's.. Establishments MySchool Students Year 8 Year 9 etc.. plus 1 or 2 sample user accounts in students I am typing the following CSVDE command: csvde -m -f students.csv -d "OU=Establishments,OU=Myschool,OU=Students,OU=Year 9,DC=myschool,DC=internal" -s DC3 -r "(objectCategory=person)" -l "samAccountName,firstname,lastname,homedirectory" it says command completed succesfully, no entries found. Am I typing missing something obvious? Twin turbo, the ds query seems really simple, but what are you outputing to, and how does it know which container to query?.. many thanks

No becuase on the old server, they are in subfolders called Year8,9,10 etc.. to cut a long story short they haven't been managed very well, so you some year 11s are in year 8, 9, 10 container etc and this is the same for all other year groups.. On the new server I have exported the users from the mis, into excel and from excel into AD so this is fine. This is why I will match first name and last name to find the user and their corresponding home directories, but obviously need to export the info from AD in the first place.

Hi guys, need a few ideas, Heres what I got: I got an old broken CC3 Network (windows 2k3 server), and I'm moving to a new Vanilla Windows 2008 R2 server. 1. Moving staff is straightforward, usernames in new in old and new servers are the same. 2. The problem is a the students. I have 1000+ students who's usernames are a new format (not my idea, that's what the school wants). my thought is I make one excel spreadsheet export users from old network to and new new network, with the following information Old Network New Network Username FirstName Lastname Home Directory Username Firstname Lastname Home Directory Do a formula where firstname & Lastname Match and then move the old home directory to new home directory. To do this I need to a tool that can export from AD (Win2k3 and Win2k8), Username, First Name, Lastname (which is easy), but the IMPORTANT one is "Home directory". Any idea's?

Hi J0rdan01070, couple of questions if you didn't mind, 1. How are you adding your product key, I'm assuming you do this manually becuase you haven't added the product key field to your xml. 2. Is it prompting you for a computer name during the installation? I read on ms technet website that if you remove computer name feild, it will prompt you for a compater name. Thanks in advance.

the unattend.xml for pe worked a treat. are you automating joing computers to the domain. The second phase of my deployment is running a syspreped widnows 7 image an unattend.xml that asks for the machine name before joining the machine with the supplied name. The prompt for a machine name comes up but regardless of what I type it joings the domain using username# (with username being the one supplied in unattend.xml for pe). thanks in advance.