jsnetman

I'm MCITP:SA and the fact I have it has landed me a few contract roles, it's nice to have on your CV and attracts interest. Been meaning to go for EA but finding the time is the problem.

You can also make a custom mmc console to do this, you can tie it down to one or a few ou's and limit any activity apart from changing passwords.

We also had about 100 msi's when going from xp to 7 and all of them bar one worked fine, some of them will complain in event viewer but still work.

BT have it across the corporate network, well its available some people are still on XP but most are on 7. there are quite a few jobs out there for deployment and SCCM engineers as the large companies go to Win7.

Hmm that 37k is starting to look better, just checked out the income tax in Jersey. Allowances and reliefs for 2012 From what I am reading you get very big tax allowances if married with two children, and tax releif on mortgages if you are on a low to middle income. Married, wife not working and two kids you would pay 0% income tax! The house prices still put me off though.

Do a search for poperty rental or purchasing a home in Jersey, that should put you off, unless you are single and can live in a very small studio apartment it's just not realistic on that salary, 50k on the other hand and it would be attractive.

I think that very attractive salary will be outweighed by the cost of living in Jersey, still it would be a lovely place to bring up a young family which I have.

Like I say you only need to create one row, make sure that each field ends with a number, when you copy the data down the number appends to the next. You can create 1000 users in about 2 seconds once you have the first row set up.

It's very easy with excel to do that, just create one line like FicUser1, password1,............. and so on and tehn copy the data down. You can have as many as you want.

Just create them yourself in a spreadsheet and import them with addusers.exe.

Just done a P2V of windows 2000 a couple of weeks ago. You need to use VM converter 4.1 or under as later versions don't support 2000. It also has to have sp2 on the windows 2000 box as well. But other than that it worked a treat.

Just got a LG LED 3D and the 2d to 3d is as mentioned here is not that impressive, but watching a true 3D film from a usb drive and it's fantastic. Watched lion king with the kids other day and the animated wildlife seemed to be in the living room.

My posts are coming across as a bit negative in respect of my thoughts of what a NM should be, I will say it's not just to manage existing kit but also to innovate and bring in new technologies, advise SMT of these technologies and how they might benefit teaching and learning, this is very important to a school and have witnessed many dogmatic managers in my eleven years as an NM.

To a large extent the ICT strategy is outside the remit of the school and SMT, the strategy is implemented at government level. For instance the dictate that all schools should have a VLE by a certain date. Of course you can decide which VLE to adopt but the overall strategy has been formed above the schools level, the curriculum also dictates this strategy. I suppose their is room for maneuverability within the strategy but thats about all. Ok yes as a NM or tech you can get involved in all sorts of activities outside of the remit of your role, as I did until I found it detrimental to the efficient running of the network, an example of this was when I was drafted in to support ICT lessons, whilst engaged in this there was a lot of unhappy teachers around the school that needed my services but was not available to support, SMT soon got the message! Another example was that I ran the after school computer club and provided network games for the kids, they really enjoyed this, after all what 14 year old would not enjoy running around with a semi automatic killing their classmates, well SMT deemed this inappropriate, probably rightly so and decided to make it a homework club, I demanded a teacher be there as I had no idea what they are learning on a day to day basis, this was refused so I refused to keep the club open, it was on my own time after all. What I'm trying to say is that as a NM your first duty is to maintain the network and the second to support teaching and learning but only when it involves technology. Getting involved in too many things outside of this will only degrade the network eventually.

You need to go to the network manager and ask for the domain admins user and password, you will probably receive a detention though.

In my book a NM is just that, they look after network, if you want someone to advise on ICT strategy I think that is a totally different role and does not require a high level of technical competence, but requires more understanding of teaching and learning and how to integrates it with technology. But I do understand that all schools are different and every smt will have their own idea what a NM is, including being expected to advise on strategy, but for me I found it boring and just prefer the techy side of things. I'm sure if you look up the general job description of network manager it does not include the ability to be able to shape a business, that's more the line of a business analyst.

I'm sure there are many NM's involved in the overall ICT strategy of the school but we should not forget the primary role is to manage the technical issues involved in running a network and most senior techs will have that ability. I never wanted to get involved wirh the strategy side of things (although I was invited to the meetings normally after my working day so was not too enthusiastic) I saw my role as impelemting whatever they wanted and of course advise on the technical aspects of the strategy.

There is no line you have to cross in terms of becoming a NM from a tecnicians role, what you have to prove at interview is the experience and knowledge to manage a network and also how you will cope with pupils and teachers, managing people does not normally come into it in a school environment as you often find the line manager is a member of smt or head of ICT for the NM and techies. I went from a techy role at a big college to NM at a school with no real quals in IT. Spent my time as a NM getting some MS certs and then decided to go contracting. Was tough getting my first contract because business seem to have this stigma about educational/public sector jobs and the ability to cross over to the business sector, which I think is totally ungrounded.

What administrator account are you using local or domain. Even on a domain I think you have to add the "allow administators to shut down the system" in group policy.

Do you not need to do a Non Authorative Restore on the duff DC, I think that would work. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc730683(WS.10).aspx

I have never been rejected, if you are working there is no need for them to reject, unless you have a bad rating of course. My accountant advised me to do it the credit card way as that's what he does and pointed me to a few figures in comparison to doing it via a bank loan.

Do it on a credit card is the best way, that is if you know your job is going to be secure for the next few years. You will pay no interest at all if you switch your credit card every 18 months or so. They are all offering 0% interest on balance transfers, you will have to pay about 3% every time you switch credit cards though. But if you keep up with the switches and payments on time it is far cheaper than any loan from a bank.

User startup scripts run with the the same rights as the user logging on. You will be able to use the script in the machine startup policy as that will run with system rights. However if this is XP we are talking about you could insall the "User Hive Cleanup" utility from MS and also use delprof.exe in a machine startup script.

"imagex /mountrw c:\wim\boot.wim 2 c:\wim\mount" Should the index number be 1 instead of 2 ?

The "specific user" entry looks wrong to me. It will be surpassed by the creator owner as the user will then be given full control as the owner. I may be misunderstanding your question though, is the specific user the actual user assigned that home folder, if not then it looks right.