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Don't bother, they have outsourced their support and tech guys and there callout times and reliability is shocking to say the least. We'll be replacing their boxes (our screens) with a standard Digital Signage box.

looks like craigs list on acid

is it not in the new admx template for IE9? inetres.admx?

we just use SIMS as well, and insert a grade and a comment for each student, then this gets piped out to a printable word document. (All the money sims has and they still use mailmerge!) anyway it works fine and with SLG, makes a good parental report to view online

Hello, We are currently running a centos linux box with squid/dansguardian and NTLM auth for web filtering. (SARG for user reports) Its worked well for 3 yr but with us wanting to demote our last 2003 DC, we need either an updated or alternative solution as it dont work with 2008! (mainly kerberos issues, in the fact you need it rather than relying on legacy ntlm like 2003) Has anyone got the latest versions of squid/kerberos working with authentication with 2008 yet? Currently working through this guide here active directory - Getting Squid to authenticate with kerberos and Windows 2008/2003/7/XP - Server Fault but just wondered if anyone has found anything else in the mean time? It needs to be free and have transparent user tracking. Just need to get squid talking to 2008 first, ill worry about DG/Sarg later on

theres an open source copy called CamStudio, free and just as good as camtasia! Doing help vids with it is great, but like camtasia id always use it in conjunction with something like adobe premiere (or premiere elements, or any decent vid editing software) to create the finished articles. They go well with either voice commentary or Text to speech. My first IT job was for a dot.com bubble startup making instructional videos for the likes of Office etc. Went bust when the rest did but gave me a years experience on camtasia lol.

we use fronter heavily here too with intergrated mail We are planning on leaving within 18months, moving to moodle instead, it fits what we use fronter for. And possibly zimbra for mail. Main fronter complaints are the webmail is far too basic these days and fronter never seems to be updated, well for what we need anyway. Stuff like illuminate isn't required.

ignore, just found the main link!

Our main CCTV was originally ADT installed but the PVR was limited to 16 Cams and crap. We binned ADT, now fit cameras in house and have upgraded our pvr to a 4tb 32channel box. Between getting the new box, we did fit a few cameras panasonic pan/tilt ones in a few ICT rooms, recording to an ActiveWebcam server. All worked fine, and still does till we eventually replace them to be on the main system. Most people accept CCTV in school as the norm these days. Classrooms/Toilets may be not a good idea, but ICT Suites\Isolation (to protect staff more like as alot of kids are 1 on 1 with stadd) corridors shouldnt be a problem

Ok file upload issue fixed by editing the repository_ajax.php file, changing @header('Content-type: text/plain'); to @header('Content-type: text/html'); and sticking it after echo $OUTPUT->header(); // send headers regarding enrolling all students, trickydicky has the right idea but i think ill just do user-self enrollment and just hide the 'do you want to enrol' page.

Thanks for the two replies. See your points about it. We defo can't go down the enrolment key route due to a few things (best not to ask lol), so maybe allowing students to enrol themselves in each course is an alternative. Regarding the uploader thats a shame, ill see if the have a work around, may just look at 1.9.

Sorry to dredge up old threads but I just got round to attempting to fix this (never really bothered me as always accessed users from unc shares) any way, I took the above guys test script, modded to work with xcacls.vbs and it works a treat, many thanks Nixphoe. due to our legacy shares (created few year back by ranger, our issue was domain admin access to desktop.ini, not administrators) script below if anyone wants a gander, modded to work straight from a batch file, and xcalcs.vbs from c drive 'dir /b "\\servername\students\"') DO cscript c:\XCACLS.vbs ""\\servername\students\%%a\desktop.ini /D "Domain Admins:R""

Hi there, Im currently testing moodle as a possible alternative to fronter, with the eventual intention of replacing fronter and frontermail with moodle and zimbra possibly. Anywhoo, I have moodle setup on a test box, LDAP import and userauth with AD is working fine however I have a couple of embarrasingly simple questions. I basically want to by default, let ALL students access all courses with no enrolment options (Ie. they can click on a course, it lets them in to view/use it, no 'do you want to enrol or anything, just straight in), any courses which I would later create for staff only, id simply disable enrollment and auto assign staff. Anyway in previous versions of moodle, doing the OPPOSITE of the below instructions would work. 'If the default role for all users in Site Administration > Users > Permissions > User policies is set to student rather than authenticated user (the default setting), this will result in all students being enrolled in all courses. ' Now seeing as im using version 2, when I goto 'Site Administration > Users > Permissions > User policies' , it is set as authenticated user but in the drop down there are no other options so I can't select Student. Any ideas anyone? Secondary, when creating a folder 'container' in a course, the file upload prompts me to download the repository_ajax.php file, rather than just upload my file. Im assuming this is a slight mis-config of php on the server, php itself in general is working ok, but is there any includes or apache extras I have to enable? Any help will be most helpful! Some people may be asking why I want to do this, basically our fronter is setup the same way, all students can see all course content, we have no discussion bits etc so abuse wouldnt happen. Im trying to get it as simple as possible to avoid the envitable 'oh its different we dont like it' attitude. We have our reasons for wanting to move away from fronter, too numerous to mention.

we use TightVNC's beta 2 and it works fine. server works fine with realvnc or most clients also.

cheap is sub £200 for 300pcs

Smoothwall may be good but im doubting its free or cheap? lol

Like alot of schools, we dont see why we should pay for filtering if you can get it for nowt. (Our LEA's) filtering aint good hence the below solution We run a SQUID/Dansguardian box on CentOS using NTLM to filter the kids internet. (NTLM gives transparent logon but with full username tracking) (Hosted on VM with 1gig ram copes with 300users at once quite happily) This works fine for blocking keywords and actual sites. We have had to however create some custom DG plugins to block cgi/php proxies (saves having to find all the addresses, it just blocks the code) but we do have to update this manually when a new php script comes out (the code proxy sites use) Our BLUD lists are from a uni in america and is only £50 a year but obviously them and us cant find everything. My question is does anyone have an auto update method for proxy scripts? (not site addresses, actual proxy scripts)

ah sorry thats my fault for not reading well enough lol, well forget the webmin and ssh bits then! still no harm in stopping services and clearing logs though(or just remame them), check time as well! (although this isnt much of an issue with windows) if you get any errors when restarting the services, just create some blank files, eg. store.log etc by creating a txt file and renaming the extension. then still have a read through the logs afterwards. if you find anything which doesnt seem normal or errors, try googling them.

Best to stop the services then delete the logs. 2 ways to access the linux box, ssh or a web interface. SSH, use a program called Putty (free). Stop the squid service and then goto /var/log/squid and wipe out the logs. Then restart the services. The logs will then be recreated. Also check the time on the squid box is right, funnily enough even an hour out can sometimes cause issues. Also you may want to read up on a item called webmin. Once installed on a linux box you can do pretty much anything to the box via a user friendly web frontend. (We use webmin to manage our main squid/dansguardian box for the kiddies). If this doesnt fix anything, once the logs are a few MB, download them to your pc (either using linuxes built in ftp commands) or webmins file utility if you install this. Have a read as they may help see what is going wrong. (But id clear the old ones first as they seem a wee bit too big for notepad lol) Sorry if this seems like a really brief reply but things such as delete commands, ftp etc can be quickly googled for. The above is also assuming you have a pretty standard linux install layout. Hope this helps

We have the old 2003 ts running through a vpn for staff but im keen to try the new 2008 kit

central admx is the way to go, we did this when we introduced office2007

cutepdf agree best ive found, not sure if you still need ghostscript with it?

Have you imported the ADMX files into your domain using a vista or windows 7 machine? Trying to change them on an xp machine wont work. Or you just doing an individual machine?

We've had fronter for 4 yr now and its part of everyday school life Email/Chat is through it for staff, no chat for kids Staff notice boards, our finance ordering is done through a fronter room Even classifieds Every department use it to some degree Its mainly staff motivation which is needed and regular training/encouragement People may grumble in general about VLE's but to be honest most are just lazy and dont like change (not implying anything about anyone by this remark, just what ive found in general)

Thanks for the threads, funnily fixed it ourselves by just changing the shortcut to point straight to pulsar.exe and not simsload.exe first. This stops it checking for updates. To be fair we were gonna update the TS manually anyway when sims updates come out The issue we have now is that normal sims works fine, however the old 'satellite programs' like Examinations and Lesson Monitor dont work. They didnt work before we changed the pulsar shortcut either comes up with Incorrect Connect.ini file. Its strange considering you can use sims.net itself file, marksheet entry, person lookup, reports and so on. It might be related also to the sims.ini file.I noticed in the ini file, our SIMSSQLAppsDirectory= section is blank, would this cause the issue?