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thanks for the reply sorry forgot to add, i need this as 90% of the clients are updating. The others are reporting error Error 0x80004002 in the windowsupdate.txt file. I manually carried out the steps mentioned above and it worked. I would like to simplify the task with a script!

anybody able to knock up a vbscript that will Stop Automatic Update Service delete "%Windir%\SoftwareDistribution" folder. delete "%Windir%\windowsUpdate text file Start Automatic Update Service reboot system (all clients xp pro, windows installed on C drive) cheers

it is a printed copy . It's was kindly provided by moorside school. i will see if i can locate the thread on this site then post a link for you!

panic over found a copy in my study!

anyone?

i managed to find a great thread that contained a gpmc report for a group policy that restricted what apps could and could not run. I printed it off but have not been able to find it. (it also cover alot of other areas that i would like to implement. I have spent the last two hours trying to search for it. Anybody know where is it and drop a link here? i would really, really be extremelly greatful!

what certificate is it? and will they have pop corn?

thanks for the info, off to the one next week in brum then heading for terrychristanland 30 april !

just did a scan on one of the server drives containing home folders. It has 335mb of .tmp files. I need a script & a batch file so that i can schedule it to run every evening on the drive containing just home folders. (schudule the batch file only) (am kindly asking for both vbscript and batch file so that i can see the coding that is used create them) much appreciated! yes i know it is saturday, but in the last 3 hours i have managed to do 6 tasks that i have been delaying whilst in school due to lack of free time!

windows IT pro & pc pro, pc pro's a good magazine, could do with more in the enterprise section though! but still for me the best on the market, micromart was ok but too many ads!

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/serverunleashed/default.html

got one on tuesday, great for going around the site to troubleshooting. judging by the size of is keyboard and screen ideal for field trips (lightweight, portable, excellent battery life) and also for primary schools (small keypad, screen, tablet functionality) I demo'd it to staff here and they seamed very interested. It was a little slugish, until i adjusted it for best performance. Got it on the domain, running office 2003 & sophos. Still testing!

been using stone now for 4 years and have nothing but goods words to say. great build quality very competitive 5 year waranty on our 50 pcs purchased last year. next day turn around. would highly recommend on our experience with this company.

the good old CIDR (classless interdomain routing!)

thanks pal i found this on the net (did not use it and removed the trust as how secure are teacher passwords? I don't know of any way that you can remove a domain, why do you need to do this? If its because users log onto the incorrect domain, then you can force a default domain and then hide the domain list using group policy. Although there is no group policy setting to do this, I got around the problem by writing a custom ADM file which changes a couple of registry keys in: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\W inlogon. The 2 keys to change are: ShowLogonOptions - set to 0 to hide the domain list & DefaultDomainList - set this to the domain you need to logon to. Here's a copy of the ADM file: ;************************************************* *************** ;* Custom ADM file to force specific domain to logon to. You'll * ;* need to also change group policy \Computer\AdminTemplates\Sy * ;* stem\GroupPolicy\ Enable Registry Policy Processing, and * ;* enable "process even if the group policy objects have not * ;* changed" * ;* Written by Gary Middleton,UK * ;************************************************* *************** CLASS MACHINE CATEGORY !!Logon POLICY !!HideDomainList EXPLAIN !!HideDomainList_Help KEYNAME "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" VALUENAME ShowLogonOptions VALUEON NUMERIC 0 ; removes dropdown list VALUEOFF NUMERIC 1 ; enables dropdown list END POLICY POLICY !!DefaultDomain EXPLAIN !!DefaultDomain_Help KEYNAME "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" VALUENAME DefaultDomainName VALUEON "DOMAINNAME" ;where DOMAINNAME is the domain you want the users to logon to VALUEOFF "" END POLICY END CATEGORY [strings] Logon="Logon Options" HideDomainList="Hide Domain List" HideDomainList_Help="Enabling this settings hides the domain list from the CTRL+ALT+DELETE screen.Disabling will show the domain list." DefaultDomain="Default Domain" DefaultDomain_Help="Default domain name to set to DOMAINNAME if enabled. It will be the default option in the drop down list at the CTRL+ALT+DELETE screen" Just cut & paste into wordpad, save with a .ADM extension. Load GPMC, right click administrative Tools & add template, find location of the saved adm file. To view change view\filtering from the menu with the policy loaded, uncheck box "only show policy settings that can be fully managed" You'll then be able to edit the 2 keys in your new Admin Template within the policy. Hope this helps, Gary Middleton.

we had something similar occur, what we did was to create a default user profile (whilst creating the profile attached the device and installed it) I made sure i plugged it into all the usb ports one-one to make sure that it will work on all usb ports.

yes i would pay

excellent idea Zero hour to the rescue?

i set this up on a few pc's Active User Manager http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~mikem/activeman/

just put the software & driver v4.1.12 on a vista laptop. It works fine, however the laptop not thinks it is a tablet pc. When you press Ctrl, ALT & DEL the input keyboard appears below the switch user button. Any body else get this?

creating updated images configuring port trunking setting up a virtual adapator on server iwb rooms cabling check security marking all equiptment software deployment developing intranet configuring gpos for admin network watching train signal labs 1-24 (thus gaining knowledge required to administrate more efficienetly (school kindly bought these for us to save us going out on courses! (my idea!) printer mainetance (all 60+) stock take (inventory update) learn how to use the activ votes that I won at BETT 2006 comms cabinet cabling tidy up update patch panel diagrams site port status -testing shall i go on?

we have two domains i have created a one non-trasitive trust where the circ domain trusts the admin domain. i need to do this so that i could allow staff to work on a network application that was setup on the circ network. It was setup as their was alot of staff did not have laptops at the time. Now they all have a wireless admin laptop. However staff may need to log onto a circ pc and use the software. (temps, etc) The trust eliminates the authentication to another domain issue. However now on the circ pc's in the logon to box the admin domian name appears. Anyway to prevent this or will i have to remove the trust?

we have bought some units from stone computers. Warranty includes bringing a spare laptop, if they cannot repair your unit whilst onsite, they loan you the spare unit they fix your laptop and return it. 3 year warranty NBD We also use XMA, toshiba may be doing the cashback offer, we claimed over £1,000 cashback.

microsoft link for scavenging http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/92d228d2-4fe2-40b9-88a7-2a5a2bee85081033.mspx?mfr=true

get another angle on it, dlink do a free wireless survey and see what they recommend. I think it's andrew taylor who looks after the education market. We got them to do the survey and then bought 2100AP's and positioned then where instructed and on the channels recommended.