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We have a LCD display mounted on a wall in the staff room with the school calendar constantly displayed in Outlook on it. We have it set to "day" view. Every moring before anyone notices we remote into the box driving the display and knock th day forward one day. When we set this up we assumed that outlook would always display todays events but alas not. I guess it used primarilly where users log out at the end of each day. I'm willing to live with it but would welcome any ideas to automate it. Have already concidered using scheduled tasks and an AutoHotKey script.

This happened to me too. They asked me what accounts they could delete and then went and deleted a load more than they said. Also some of th accounts i had created only a month or so before and therefore had the "never logged on" flag which i think they went by.

Can I throw this into the mix... The iPad 2 and iPhone 4S feature Airplay Mirroring. Basically you need an Apple TV (£99) and a HDMI projector or HDMI to VGA/DVI cable. You will also need wifi coverage. As it's streaming the video over wifi you would need to test the performance of this over a possibly congested school network. This does not work with the iPad 1 or iPhone 4. They can only display movies from the iPod app.

There is SO much educational software that have install guides that state that a "Network Install" must then be followed by a local install. Annoys the hell out of me. It's then alway an experiment to discover if running it from a UNC path will work or not!!!

did you see the link to wpkg-gp - Running WPKG as a Group Policy Extension - Google Project Hosting ? Looks good!

FocusVideoPhone is so simple. Like all the best software has no installer is just a single executable! Each installation has it's own address book. Not sure if this address book could be copied to another machine or not. Only wish it had a full screen mode but otherwise it's a really neat solution.

My primary school want to display pupil work on a screen outside classrooms. Initially i was thinking of using powerpoint with embedded photos and videos running in a loop. Then ithough of using a touch screen eqipped monitor or AllInOne unit to allow the "slides" to be skipped or paused. Then I thought of using the powerpoint output to series of jpeg's feature to store the slides on a SD card and use it in a digital photoframe there are also some semi touch screen photoframes available Then I remembered that many HDTV's have a JPEG slideshow feature running from SD card or usbstick. Does anyone know of a TV which will let you combine video and photos in a looping playlist. Cheap but at least 19" in size up to £300 ish??? There are also SD to HDMI media players available but would prefer it embedded into screen for simplicity.

sorry for Zombie post! but these Kinect hacks are just awsome! I really see many educational possibilities here. Already they are working on automatic sign language recognition!

Sorry excitedly rushed to post without searching first. Thanks for extra info.

Found this linked from the Wikipedia page on Interactive Whiteboards. Anyone making a capacitive IWB yet?

To People using GPP: Do you have to have a 2008 or higher DC for GPP to work reliably or is a 2003 R2 DC enough?

Surely someone knows a way, or what about 3rd party tools/scripts to do the same thing?

In Windows XP you could right click on a load of selected files and print them all in one go. How can this be done in Windows 7? Does it matter what version of Office is installed?

Did you receive it in the end? Looks like one of the more quality Tablets available. Still has resistive screen tho

you can add the 64bit driver to the network printer using additional drivers button. This is the same procedure for installing Windows 9x drivers. This will become more and more important as Windows Server 2008 R2 is 64bit only. You add the 32bit drivers this way on a 64bit server. I have found that some machines won't let you install the 32bit driver on 64bit server locally. You can however do it using Windows 7 Print management console on a 32 bit version of Windows. %systemroot%\system32\printmanagement.msc

Any update on if SP1 fixes this behavior?

was only interested in automated deployment solutions so was a little disappointed at lack of content in this area.

From the site... #shutdown all client computers Get-SpecopsADComputer -group:ClientComputers | Stop-SpecopsComputer # check what client computers would be shut down # note that no actions will be taken Get-SpecopsADComputer -group:ClientComputers | Stop-SpecopsComputer -WhatIf #shutdown all client computers # but get the chance to confirm each action Get-SpecopsADComputer -group:ClientComputers | Stop-SpecopsComputer -Confirm #shutdown all client computers, even if they have unsaved work Get-SpecopsADComputer -group:ClientComputers | Stop-SpecopsComputer -ForceCloseApplications #shutdown all client computers, even if they have unsaved work $computers = Get-SpecopsADComputer -group:ClientComputers $computers | Send-SpecopsMessage -Message:'This computer will be shut down in 5 minutes' # Wait 4 minutes Start-Sleep -Seconds:240 $computers | Stop-SpecopsComputer -ForceCloseApplications ` -WarningTime:60 -Message:'1 minute to shut down' Just looked at the shutdown tool is a powershell cmdlet. Do they do a gui version and does this cmdlet require a specops client installed on the target machine?

An internet connection is already a "must have" in schools. We don't generate our own electricity if a cable is severed so why do it for IT? Scary (for our job's) but cloud is the future!

I really hate the ActiveTeach Failware. I used to love the old network versions where you were instucted to install on server then you still had to individually install it on each client anyway. What is the point of a "network" version if you still have to install it on every machine? @Hightower thanks for the DownloadThemAll tip. We have Frog VLE so we still have to manually upload 60 odd files individually to Frog. There is a mass upload function but it will not work for SCORM content as this uses a different method to upload (honestly it's true)

For Office 2003 to 2007 (which is very similar to 2010) there is an excellent interactive command reference guide produced by Microsoft where you select in 2003 what menu you are using and you are then shown an animation of how to do it in 2007. Must have taken ages to make! I don't think such an easy to use tool exists for 2010 so i'm posting it here. Interactive: Word 2003 to Word 2007 command reference guide - Word - Microsoft Office Interactive: Excel 2003 to Excel 2007 command reference guide - Excel - Microsoft Office Interactive: PowerPoint 2003 to PowerPoint 2007 command reference guide - PowerPoint - Microsoft Office

I found these excellent interactive guides to where to find functions in 2007 for users of 2003 Interactive: Word 2003 to Word 2007 command reference guide - Word - Microsoft Office Interactive: Excel 2003 to Excel 2007 command reference guide - Excel - Microsoft Office Interactive: PowerPoint 2003 to PowerPoint 2007 command reference guide - PowerPoint - Microsoft Office

the lockout policy is actually an open door to denial of service attacks on the admin accounts. All the attacker needs to know is the e-mail address and the webmail URL

Link2ICT Zimbra Password Lockout Policy Dear Link2ICT, Why oh why oh why have you conspired to make my life a misery!!! 1.You have imposed a draconian password lockout policy of three failed login attempts then lockout for ever! 2. There is a 30-60 second delay in resetting accounts passwords Imagine a student gets his password wrong 3 times the account is locked out. Zimbra does not tell the end user this. They just get the same error as they would if they got the password wrong. They come to see a technician to reset their password. We reset it and unlock the account. They go back to their PC and type in the new correct password but it fails due to the 30 second delay, they lock out the account again. Technician pulls out hair!! Technician resets and unlocks account again this time remembers to tell kid to wait 2 minutes before attempting to log in. What a bloody nightmare!!!!!:mad::mad::mad::mad: They will not change their policies due to child protection but they have not implemented complex password requirements (secretly glad they have not) Also we do not use the "BECTA approved" username format which anonymises the student name but is hard to remember.

Do you have SSO/AD Auth working with this?