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How are people handling Windows Deployment in the serverless model?

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Can anyone know a reliable source for firmware for this unit that's not Juniper themselves please? It's an ancient unit but there are updates as recent as 2018. Cheers.

I'm looking at Maraki's video solutionand I like the on-device encrypted storage on wifi cameras but it occurred to me that there might be something comparable and cheaper out there. Anyone had a play with Shinobi? The "pro" version is free to Edu. Does not seem to accommodate cameras with built in storage in the way Meraki does it. I was wondering what people'e experience of having the media write back to storage servers via wifi is? The thought did occur to me that old smart phones in some sort of hardened case might be an interesting project. Obviously they are wifi enabled with built in storage. USB powered.

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Based in and around Stafford, technical training in Birmingham. Starting Jan 2019. National ad is imminent, I will post a link soon. Whole year working, this will be a level 3 technical apprenticeship. It won't be just changing toner cartridges! The successful candidate will get a sound technical training in IT support in a network computing environment and get to work for an expanding organisation at a time of significant change. Example technologies involved: Hyper-V VMware Windows 7 - 10 Windows Server 2012 - 16 SCCM DPM Azure Apple MAC Apple iPad HP Switching Ethernet Windows Group Policy Linux Audio - Visual equipment Windows PowerShell The successful candidate will have demonstrated a strong personal interest in computing and shown a natural tendency for logical thinking.

What are folks experiences with hosted SIMS? I'm thinking of suggesting our 6 primaries move from local SIMS DB to hosted. For a start it's not absolutely clear to me whether a local (installed in school) SIMS client will still work with the hosted solution or if it has to be via RDP. I've read that maybe the SIMS client will still work via a VPN but is that Capita supported and how is update handled? What's the reliability of SIMS like in a hosted solution?

Quick and dirty PS script to remove a single profile or matching pattern of profile names from a single computer or group of computers. Feel free to add your own validation etc. #Import Active Directory Module Import-Module -Name ActiveDirectory #get the profile name from the console input: $input_profile_name = Read-Host -Prompt 'Enter the profile name or pattern ( e.g. test-teacher-* )to delete ' #get the computer name from the console input: $input_computer_name = Read-Host -Prompt 'Enter the computer name to or pattern ( e.g. IT-suite1-* ) to delete the profile from ' # Get computers from AD: Get-ADComputer -Filter 'name -Like $input_computer_name' | Sort-Object | ForEach-Object -Process { # set the variable $computer_name to the next computer name from the list generated: $computer_name = $_.Name # Run delprof2 for each computer: & '\\someserver\somefolderpath\DELPROF2.EXE' /u /i /id:$input_profile_name /C:\\$computer_name }

Me too. Not filled with much confidence by the replies but I'm aware that a few months have passed. I wondered if you and went for SMH and what your experience of it was. Has anyone else got any more recent feedback to give?

ICT Technician 2012-09-07 13:38:15 (UTC) Closes tomorrow (26 Sept 12).

I agree with that. Keeping it simple too without a very feature-full GUI seems a good idea. We are thinking of using Notepad++ to edit code but it does not appear to highlight things in python as it does with asp by default. Gotta look into that! Thanks for all the suggestions!

Now that kids are going to do Computing rather than ICT at GCSE, my head of ICT is asking for suggestions about what to teach in preparation for gcse. He's very capable himself but recognises that the techies could have some valuable suggestions! We are looking at Python on Linux (saves any security issues on Win clients!) Currently I've got a linux server that they can ssh to with putty and log in with their domain credentials (using likewise) to do some Python coding. Access to their CIFS share (a work-in-progress) to save and run scripts, Notepad ++ to edit the code. Any other suggestions for preparing kids for GCSE computing?

See here Apprentice - ICT Technician - Painsley Catholic College, Cheadle, North Staffs Reference Number SCC001924C Sub Location SCC see Advert Employer Staffordshire County Council Contract Type Apprentice Working Pattern See advert details Hours 37 hours per week Closing date for applications 14 August 2011

The junior role / taking a voluntary position are good ways to get in. Try approaching your local school with a permanent ICT support team and offer to volunteer if you can't find places advertising for volunteers. I took an assistant ict tech job (and that was hard enough to get!) at 35 having changed career and worked my way up to network manager last year so it can be done.

We had some problem with PXE boot - Missing driver? - not much effort has gone into overcoming the prob yet! Mind you, that was vmware rather than virtualbox!

Interested in this myself. You could try to P2V an existing physical machine see virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows I've not tried it yet!

Seen: RM Communities I recently made a package to do the exact same thing (Disable RM V3 webcams so have the correct PID for the device) Instructions to create the package: 1) Download DevCon from The DevCon command-line utility functions as an alternative to Device Manager and extract to a dedicated folder 2) Create a file called "Driver_Disable.cmd" with the following contents: COPY devcon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32 devcon disable *PID_5606 3) Create a file called "Driver_Enable.cmd" with the following contents: devcon enable *PID_5606 DEL C:\WINDOWS\system32\devcon.exe 4) Create a file called "Disable RM One v3 Webcam.ini" with the follwing contents: [Package] Description=Disables the Webcam device using MS DevCon.exe Version=1.0.0.0 OS=5.1WS ExeFile=Driver_Disable.cmd UninstallExeFile=Driver_Enable.cmd Addcommand= /passive /quiet /norestart UninstallCommand= /passive /quiet /norestart 5) Import into the RMMC as a CC3 package This package copies over the file devcon.exe to the local %systemroot%\system32 folder and runs a command from this which disables the device driver. On un-assignment this re-enables the device and deletes the devcon.exe file. Works a treat and you can simply change the PID to reflect whatever device you want to disable so is a nice template package also. If you're assigning this on CC4 then you need to make sure you have made a small registry change to all computers before this will work. See here for further details All files created and downloaded above just sit in the root folder so you should have devcon.exe, Driver_Disable.cmd & Driver_Enable.cmd together. Also check on the station your testing on whether the reg fragment has actually been applied before assigning out the package. The tell tail sign for the cmd/bat issue is the error: After Package Failue Reason : EXE error, check Event Viewer on machine for more detail: Executable package operation failed to complete : 1 in the latest log file in C:\Program Files\Research Machines\Network Management\LogFiles\Service Host (RM Installation Agent) TOC.html so have a quick look there too. Oh and check the PID is the same on your computers under device manager....Should be the same but worth a check

That's great. Thanks.

OpenOffice.org 3.2.1, VLC Media Player 1.1.3, Blender 2.49b

Was thinking more in terms of the Open Source stuff. I'm aware of Blueprints but don't know how comprehensive that is.

New to RM and CC4... Is there anywhere on the 'net where community created packages can be downloaded and uploaded?

I understand Freenas has the facility (not sure if default or not) to configure the firewall. Could the ports (typically TCP ports 860 and 3260 I read) not be restricted to the IP(s) or MAC(s) you want to connect?

I can recommend GLPI been a success @ my school. More than a helpdesk too! Asset management, knowledge base etc. Can talk to Active Directory for auth so no new login credentials to remember. I run it on a former curriculum server. Ununtu server edition is the OS.

bit extreme maybe but... Armagard - General Industrial IP54

I put in MRBS recently on an old curriculum desktop running Ubuntu 7.10 server (soon to be on more suitable hardare). Works a treat, staff think it's great. Cost us £0! I use it to book other stuff besides rooms - portable multimedia for example.