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or if old style white f series computer case with smart cache logo on it http://www.rm.com/_RMVirtual/Media/Images/f_series_case_front_normal.jpg Russ

You know what I was just going to write something as catching up on emails see got something about from bett pr people about the subject. Russ

Done

A funny video about looking after laptops. Maybe should be mandatory for all staff and students. December Bonus Video-Russell Dyas

I like this one from the same year.. Nutrocker 2009 - MattsonLights.com - Computerized Christmas Lights on Vimeo Russ

Still waiting loan unit from RM how dare they give it to paying customers first. Did get my hands one for a quick look last month and really impressed. Russ

91 and counting. Some of the follow messages interesting who says journos do not have a sense of humour Russ

Do not send an email with the press distribution email address in the CC asking all the contacts to reply with updated details put the press distribution in BCC. As people tend to hit reply all and then send the details to all people on the press distribution list. Cue 68+ emails later and some journalists from certain segments of F1 press getting very annoyed Russ

The script does what it says on tin really. It gets all the RM log files and zips them up. If not used CC4 and RM support then you might think this script is pointless. But after getting the log files for RM support 100th time I got annoyed and decided to write batch file (v1.0, 1.1 & 1.2) to save some time. V1.3 was never released and it was then I decided a move away from batch file was needed. The script means as soon as RM support say can you send me these log files you run the script against machine then send the zip file and they have all the log files they need. As for user input well it is needed as machine you run script against is different each time as one time I want log files for one machine. Then might need another machine next time etc. Also chances are not at station your running script on hence why it gets everything remotely. I do need to sort out error handling on the input through

strcomputername is sorted out at the start of script (just not shown that) my code above was just event viewer part of much larger script. Will try with security option and see what happens. Russ p.s If want to see the script then look at getlogs.vbs - rmloggetter - Project Hosting on Google Code. p.p.s Would not use on live environment yet and lots of tidying up to do on the code.

@Koroyo Not batch file but windows scripting (it was a batch file). As for powershell that the next stage but need to sit down and learn powershell. Needed to move away from batch file in meantime. Russ

Give me a pm with your location I am sure I can find you a school nearby who will host a visit. Russ

Link from Koryo worked great next issue.. Next Issue part of script pulls the event viewer logs off.. 'Get Application Logs Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _ & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate,(Backup)}!\\" & _ strComputerName & "\root\cimv2") Set colLogFiles = objWMIService.ExecQuery _ ("Select * from Win32_NTEventLogFile " _ & "Where LogFileName='Application'") For Each objLogfile in colLogFiles errBackupLog = objLogFile.BackupEventLog( _ "c:\" & strComputerName & "-application.evt") WScript.Echo ("File saved as c:\" & strComputerName & "-application.evt") Next Works fine against Vista machines but not XP machines (errors with permission denied error). As can tell getting to limits of my knowledge when it comes to windows scripting.

Sadly it does not wait. Russ

As Shaun will tell you I am no developer been updating a batch file to windows scripting and got some code below. I want to replace wait command with something that will check to see if has completed any ideas. 'Zip Up Log Folder. strFolderToZip = strWorkingLogDir strzipFile = strCurPath & "\" & strRMLOGDIR & ".zip" Set Ag=Wscript.Arguments Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set ts = fso.OpenTextFile(strzipFile, 8, vbtrue) BlankZip = "PK" & Chr(5) & Chr(6) For x = 0 to 17 BlankZip = BlankZip & Chr(0) Next ts.Write BlankZip set objFolder = nothing set objShell = nothing Set fso = nothing Set ts = nothing Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application") Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Set DestFldr=objShell.NameSpace(strzipFile) Set SrcFldr=objShell.NameSpace(strFolderToZip) DestFldr.CopyHere (strFolderToZip) WScript.Sleep 30000 ' increase this if the folder is large Russ

I will wait for shaun who will be able to say for sure. but then maybe I am being daft but surely whats new just gives latest posts you have not read from edugeek. So why not just put standard rss feed in then as your reader will tell you if you read a item or not. Does that make sense?

Another great comedian gone.. BBC News - Leslie Nielsen, comic actor and Airplane! star, dies Russ

@msgtech Technically you been using beta versions official released version only came out other day.. Russ

Rigght got it installed CC4 network but installed on standard server 2008 box and can browse the folders but if we try and access any files we get 404 error. Any pointers from anyone on where to look. Russ

Review copies due out at end of this month I am on the list just got to wait for them to start shipping them out

In latest versions of Netsupport and in tutor 5 (based on Net Support) you can communicate via microphone and headphones etc.

errm no... You can move location with out rebuilding well I certainly can. Granted we do not name our stations with the area in all our stations have format XXX-stn-001, XXX-stn-002 etc personally I do not think you should name a station xxx-heads office, xxx-ict1. In previous years we moved the stations about way too much to make it twice as much work if had to even change the name with our numbering can move them anywhere we want no issue. @oxide54 As it uses the station name to reference station in several places within the RM postgres database and it adds a layer of complication in which I can see. I also can see been useful if it had been added as part of CC4 (and probably number one feature that has has been requested many times).

http://security.symantec.com/nbrt/npe.asp?lcid=1033 This one is def a last resort program but could be useful. Russ

Mayhem by Imelda May

just seen this. Microsoft Launches Open Source Filter for Mediawiki - WikiEducator Microsoft released a extension to save word files in media wiki format. Russ