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Thanks, will double check when it next reported. Maybe its because they have forgotten how slow the school machines are after using there nice new home computers.....

I have for quite some time had reports that the network is very slow in the morning? They report that logins are slow and browsing mail etc is slower than normal. I have checked: there are no backups still running There arent a huge amount of staff / students all loggin in at the same time None of the network cards on the servers are hitting anything over about 3% Sophos / WSUS is not downloading updates Pretty open question but does anyone have any ideas why "The Network" would be slower in the morning?

Try looking at the code for "ICTNUT's My Little Server Monitor" on here mate, we have a page setup for all our server, printers, switches, access points etc. We can easily see whats online. http://www.uploadgeek.com/image-A54F_4BED0700.jpg

Also is there any thing you think i should know or consider before i do this? If i remember correctly, if you are creating a new/updated password policy, you will be doing this for all users including students. I think a "2008 domain level" lets you have different password policies for different user groups. Can anyone please confirm?

Thanks Mate, Unfortunetly: "This Program is blocked due to compatibility issues" on windows 7 64bit

Ive searched the symantic support, they dont seem to be supporting anything else but 12 now Does anyone please know if i can install just a "Management Console" onto my PC and remotely manage it? just as with many others. i.e Exchange/Sophos/SCVMM Management consoles ?? Thanks in advance

Hi Adam, Could you please explain what you mean here, Are you say NOT to redirect to the Home Folder/Drive. I was about to start over and create a new policy that will redirect: Desktop: \\server\staff_drives$\%username%\Desktop Pictures: \\server\staff_drives$\%username%\Pictures Music: \\server\staff_drives$\%username%\Music Videos: \\server\staff_drives$\%username%\Videos Cheers Tim

Ive setup staff desktops to redirect to \\SERVER\Staff_Desktops$\Username I left "Grant user exclusive rights to Desktop" checked, so when they log in, the folders are created but only they have access to them. Ive also added a line to the log-off script: cacls "\\SERVER\staff_desktops$\%username%" /e /p "Domain Admins":F Now admin also have access and staff cannot create shortcuts to other peoples desktop folders etc Also, ive created a log-on script that I can leave on for a few days, it copies their desktop files from the old location (in their profile) to the new desktop share. It then renames the old location desktop_old so if ever run twice it will skip through: @ECHO OFF @cacls "\\SERVER\staff_desktops$\%username%" /e /p "Domain Admins":F CLS COLOR 4C Echo Backing Up Your Desktop Files.... Echo Please wait.. Echo If you have a lot of Files on your desktop this may take a few minutes... @xcopy "\\SERVER\staff_profiles$\%username%\desktop\*" "\\SERVER\staff_desktops$\%username%\" /E /C /Y /Q @rename "\\SERVER\staff_profiles$\%username%\desktop" "desktop_old" CLS COLOR 2A Echo DONE Rem 5sec wait ping -n 5 127.0.0.1 > nul There is probably an easier way around this with special NTFS permissions, or maybe as sted suggested redirect to inside the homedrive. lol Glennda - Redirecting to the old profile on vista/win7 didnt work correctly.

Keep their desktop files within their home drive?

Thanks for the reply, I tested this before and failed, i am now having the same problems with security as before I have also found that we have the same problem with our staff profiles !! I have redirected the share to \\SERVER\Staff_Desktops$ I have set security on this folder for staff to modify. Everything works perfectly, but staff COULD create a shortcut to \\SERVER\Staff_Desktops$ and then browse through everyone elses desktops? http://i43.tinypic.com/bf4cqd.jpg If i DO check "Grant the user exclusive rights to Desktop" then we cannot access the folders. If we take ownership then it loses the users permissions. Can Cacls add the domain admin account somehow? Maybe part of a logon script? Or have I set something up incorrectly? Thanks in advance

Hi all, We are looking to deploy more and more Win 7 Machines, but currently as with Vista when staff log into a Win7 machine they create and use a xxx.v2 profile in our staff_profiles share. This means that they dont see any desktop files from their normal XP profile. Might be asking too much but is there a way for them to use the same profile? Or a way for them to use the same desktop when loggin into xp/vista or win7 ? TIA

Thanks for the reply mate, No errors. I have followed a different guide using this step when creating the image: Step #13 Once you have everything configured correctly, Copy or move your sysprep.xml file to : C:\windows\system32\sysprep. Now to run sysprep, navigate to that sysprep folder, hold SHIFT and right click and select “Open New Command Windows Here”. Next, input the following commands: sysprep /generalize /oobe /shutdown /unattend:sysprep.xml This seems to work, but surely just the xml that i tell WDS to use should be enough? Bit confused.

You could deploy that image easily with WDS mate...

Thats strange, its the opposite way round on vista. You get the login pic but no start menu pic, you have to use the reg fix to get the start menu pic to work. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "UseDefaultTile"=dword:00000001

There is a group policy for this isnt there? Computer Configuration | Administrative Templates | Control Panel | User Accounts "Apply the default user logon picture to all users" And then you simply overwrite the user.bmp located in the "c:\ProgramData\Microsoft\User Account Pictures" folder. We have our school logo in the user picture frame on all our Vista machines before they log in. Not sure if the same applies to win7 though, but the same files are there

Ive been looking at deploying Win 7 Pro with WDS... I can deploy the standard win7pro image.win with a unattend.xml (located on the WDS server) Everything works perfectly, all OOBE settings are suppressed and PC joins domain, activates, sets local admin pass etc etc...... So.. next step, reinstall with a fresh image, install office 2007, all apps etc. Then sysprep it and then capture to customimage.wim Now when I deploy this new customimage.wim it doesnt seem to apply the answerfile (win7.xml) any more after install? After the install i have to run through all the OOBE settings, select the lauguage, setup a local user etc etc... Does anyone please know if theres a step im missing to get my customimage.wim to auto-join domain etc just as the standard image.wim does? I HAVE remebered to select "Allow image to install in Unattended mode" in WDS and choosen same xml file (win7.xml) as with the stardard image.wim Thanks for Looking http://sharepointgeorge.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Capture5.png

Perfect solution thankyou !! "If you insert: http://quietube.com/v.php/ at the start of the YouTube web address, you will just get the video alone on the page"

Staff are more and more using Youtube to play videos to students. I have been considering blocking it for some time and it is blocked for students. Recently, i saw a staff member playing a clip to the students with raciest/swearing in the comments area at the bottom. There are plenty of YouTube downloaders out there. I was wondering, if i block youtube, and give them access to the downloader, is this legal ? Will I be putting myself at risk giving them the access to download from youtube etc ? Thanks in advance

Check LAN driver, you may need to make a registry change. We had the same problem with some laptops, they would join the domain and everything would work apart from certain GP`s. There was a M$ document out there for the reg change but I cant remember right now. How are the Omnino III`s ? We are considering buying 90 this summer instead of RM ones.

Maintenance update - March 16, 2010 Version 6.11 of Netop School6 is a maintenance release. This version updates version 6.10 of Netop School, which added support for Microsoft Windows 7 as well as a number of other updates. See details in the modification notes posted to the Netop School support page. Netop School Version 6.0 Now Available

deploy printers with group policy works perfectly. I think you need R2 if your running server 2003

We found that they were right clicking the default IE shortcut and choosing "Run without plugins", we had to remove that with GP and just create a shortcut.

XXX.local ? might not help but until recently we were able to join computers to the domain with just domainname but now for some reason (i think NetBIOS) we now need domainname.local without the .local we get the above error goodluck

Ive completed our Win7 staff profile, appart from one small problem.... When they load explorer and then MS Word, they then check the hotpicks that Explorer has created and there is a link to "Templates" This then lets them traverse up through the folders to the C drive. Is there a setting that can restrcit this please? Current they cannot access the C drive and its also hidden in My Computer via group policy Thanks in advance http://i43.tinypic.com/dnbqkw.png

Ive been using the revo with XBMC as a full hd media centre since the day it came out. Its perfect for HTPC !!! handles 1080p MKV with the cpu running at around 3% !!!! Mine is also the old single core 3600 not the dual core atom. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYGPcwzq_QI]YouTube- XBMC with Aeon Stark running on Acer Aspire Revo[/ame]