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Hey all, I'm trying to get remove all traces of these items from my Windows 7 machines. Following excellent advice elsewhere on this forum, I have removed them from explorer, however they still appear on the left of the "open file" dialog in programs such as Office / OpenOffice etc. Has anyone successfully removed these? Many thanks,

Hello, long time lurker here, I wish to leave my job in education to find something more challenging in the private sector. However after applying to about 15 jobs (2nd/3rd line support, sysadmin, IT engineer, that sort of thing - all through recruiters) and not hearing anything back, I was wondering if any of you had advice on how to get my foot in the door. I'm a senior IT technician at a large secondary school, where I've worked for three years since graduating with a computer science degree. I have a CCNA but no MS qualifications (just started the ball rolling on those). I'm currently in Leeds but am looking for work in London as I'd like to move down there. I consider myself to be very knowledgeable in all aspects of Windows networking, and have a genuine passion for the field. I'm especially interested in the SBC, virtualisation and mobile spaces. However I'm concerned that the fact I work in school is preventing recruiters from putting me forward. Is working in a school still considered 'tin-pot' compared with private sector IT? I hope I'm wrong. I'd like to land a job in the banking/finance/massive conglomerate sector, but I realise that may be a little ambitious as they all seem to require experience, so any company with a larger-scale IT setup would do me. I'd love some datacenter experience. I've read that quite a few of you have successfully moved away from education, so I'd like to ask: where do you work now? How did you get into it? Thanks for your time

Thanks for your reply, All the promotional blurb I read about XenApp suggests that end user boots their client to a local desktop, but then can use server-hosted apps as if they were local. What we need is for the entire desktop to be hosted on the server (for things like mapped network drives) as students will be accessing the server from XPe thin clients, their personal laptops, and eventually from home. Does XenApp differ from TS at all in this scenario?

...what made you choose it over vanilla Terminal Services or any other product? I'm looking at implementing wireless thin clients at our school. We need more PCs, but have no space, so a laptop/trolley situation is unfortunately inevitable. We have a 2950 running Server 2008 and I've set up Terminal Services on there. I'd expect this to handle 30 or so TS connections with no problem. So the question is, what does Citrix actually offer here? We're going to need the whole desktop to run on the server, not just applications, so does that mean XenDesktop VDI is my only option? Faffing around with desktop images and the like seems unnecessary for our situation. I'm led to believe that ICA handles quick-moving content (flash etc) a lot better than RDP, is there much credence to this? At the moment this is the only thing I can see that lets TS down, and there's talk of improvements in this department with Server 2008 R2. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Haha yeah, now that is true

A well reasoned arguement you have there.

The only experience I've had with them is in an O2 shop, but I have to say I was blown away. Sure, it might be lacking all the functionality of your N95s etc, but the UI is lightyears ahead of the competition. The fluidity of the menus, the multi-touch resizing, the flipping and scrolling - it's all just so intuitive. The very first time I picked it up I went into the SMS composer and instantly rattled out "A quick brown fox... ..." quicker than I could do via T9 on my 6230. I can only wonder at how much quicker typing would be with experience. And the lack of tactility didn't bother me a bit - the classic iPod 'click' sound is more than adequate. Couple these with the most amazing screen I've seen on a handheld device it's a winner for me. Makes me wish I was on O2. The moment they put 3G in it I will be.

Interesting... at the moment we've only got Sharepoint Services 3.0, is it possible to map the AD email address to the SIP using this? If so, how? Or am I out of luck until we get full-blown MOSS?

Give this a try: Use the Add Printer wizard to manually install the 2600 to the local machine you're trying to print from. Make sure 'automatically detect...' is unchecked. Use port LPT1. Use the 'have disk' button to grab the just the drivers (not all the software and other crap) from the CD and install them. Give this newly installed printer a name like Nova Printer or something. You can then use NET USE LTP1 \\printserver\2600printername to have your Nova printer print to your 2600. Bang this in a batch file and copy it to the startup folder of your admin staff. Hope this helps.

Hello all, long time reader first time poster. Apologies if this has already been answered elsewhere, there seems to be a problem with the forum search today. My school is using Sharepoint Portal with LDAP Active Directory authentication. All of the attributes (names, department etc) are correctly copied into Sharepoint when the user is created. However, we would like to have the 'SIP Address' field automatically filled in so we can use Portal's 'presence' functionality - as far as I can see we have no dedicated LDAP attribute for this information. I've spent the afternoon scouring the web for a way around this to no avail - would we have to extend our AD schema to include these attributes? I would be very grateful of some advice on how to get this data into Portal for our > 1200 users without manually editing each account. In our case the SIP address of a user is the same as their email address. I'm new to Sharepoint and had never even heard of a SIP address before today - so apologies if the above doesn't make sense. Thanks in advance.