Stuart_C

So I knew Visionsoft had gone under and my licence of Visaul Audit was about to expire. What I didn't realise was that the sfotware would totaly stop working! So after sulking for a day I got to thinking, what should I replace it with? And thus I need some suggestions. I've got Spiceworks but to be honest I don't like it as much as I did visual audit. I find it a bit clunky (love the helpdesk though). So any recomendations? Free is good but I don't mind paying a little.

Today I had a rummage round my DNS and a bit of a tidy up. I deleted a load of records for old devices and generally felt happy. I would have been happier if the scavanging worked but that's a different story. So I've just checked it. My forward lookup zone is fine. Correct number of PC's and correct IP's. My reverse lookup zones are a bit more odd... For example some entries have reappeared that I deleted earlier. These entries are for PC's that I have renamed/removed ages ago. The namse do not exist in DHCP or on the network yet they have just popped up. also some of my computers don't have reverse DNS entries. I just nipped onto one, ran ipconfig /registerdns and... nothing. I've got 2 Win2k8 r2 servers replicating DNS between them. Any ideas where I should be looking to figure this out?

There's a Windows server command dsmod which will allow you to script changes to AD. I used it when I needed to populate our AD with E-mail address.

Thanks for the info. I know it's a bit cheeky to pester someone for something they are doing in their free time for the good of others for free.

Can I be cheeky and ask when V2 will be available? (I've have asked the same question on the classroombookings site). I had issues getting V1 to work and I was about to have another go but didn't want to spend time on it if V2 is arround the corner. Cheers.

To ask the obvious question, why allow the students access to task manager? Just block it entirely for the students and allow for the staff via GPO?

Hi there, We have two doamins on site on seperate subnets. In the DNS of each is a forward looking stub zone to the other domain. I have some software that, as part of it’s domain verification process, performs a reverse DNS lookup of the IP however as it’s on the Domain A this check fails when it tries to contact Domain B as there is no reverse lookup zone for the Domain B network range in the DNS of Domain A (and vice versa but that doens't matter) Thus I need to know, can I create a stub zone in the reverse lookup zones? Is it as easy as right clicking on the “reverse lookup zones” folder in DNS in Domain A (Win2K8R2), selecting “New Zone” then “Stub zone” and following the wizard?

Personally I'm running McAfee with EPO server. Central managment, pushes everything out, sync's with AD fine. Lots of control options and you can deploy the software via AD if you wish,

I'm hoping I can use WSUS to drop it on the machines. I am however a bit worried about some of our older machine which I've clogged up the HDD on as it seemed a large install last time I installed it.

I just used my existing ones then whent through and looked at the extra setting for 7. I creteated a temp GPO ten using a 7 test machine applied my current policies and the temp gpo. Spent ages tweeking and playing got what I wanted then copied the settings into my main GPO so it covered very PC. I'd also recomend finding out how to script the pinning of items to the startmenu and task bar if you don't already know how to do it.

I like dsadd...

Might have forgotten to ask for it as we thought we'd fixed it... It was from this morning if you can track it via organisation?

Hi tom. I don't think I'm using outbound filtering. I'm uptodate apart from the latest Auth update.

Is anyone using WCBS WebAmunus through their Smoothwall box? If so have you got it working so that you can send baulk E-mails? I can't and need to sort it. The problem seems to arise after you add in a group load of E-mail address and hit "attach" or even "Send" where the page just times out. Having been through it with SW Support and made sure it's in the do not Auth groups etc. etc. we're a bit stupped. It's like the site doesn't do anything, or possibly forgets all the setting and tries to access the internet direct. Irritatingly the E-mail works fine if you go direct and bypass the smoothwall and open up the firewall. Shockingly I am oppoesed to this and want it to work properly.

Ture to both points. I've posted the URL's in the Smoothwall direct support forum. Just about to see if Tom's freed up his inbox

Could be a laugh. A fair few teachers here think school should provide them a PC at school AND buy them one for home as "they only use it for school work".

Other freebies may include "My Glove" it's the right, its grey and has fake leather on the fingertips and palm. If found please return. On a more serious note perhaps next year should be the year of the EDUGEEK burger. Get a small BBQ, grill burgers, sell them cheap, make a killing. You could even get a brand and burn the edugeek logo into the bun.

Easily the best freebe for me was the edugeek pizza! I was restrained though and resisted the urge to eat a whole one Got quite a few diary's, draw string bags and the usual baulk load of pens. I got an edugeek mug for my techie and I also snaffled a HP toy bear for my daughter (round he back of the HP stand)

Thanks PiqueABoo that seems to work. I would swear blind I tried that but without he run comand switches. However when I added them it worked. Which is why I hate programming! Cheers again

We are indy and we actually found the best deal from BT by a long way. Actually I forgot to ask are those prices with or without VaT? If they are without I voted in the wrong category.

Hi there, I was wondering if anyhone here has got Capita to customise their hosted SLG? If so how did it go? I've been having a bit of trouble with them and I wondered if it was me. To be honest what they have actually done looks really good and I am more than happy with it. The problem has been sorting out the little details. With that the process has been a nightmare. For example on a couple of the sections the background to the breadcrumb section was a differnet colour to the acutal page background and other sections of the portal. I am down to one minor tweek that just needs fixing though the latest design I was sent seems to be a step back as they sent me a screen shot with most of the customisation removed on the whole page to fix one little font colour issue. The time delays whilst they make chnages, then upload them for me to see means that this process has dragged on for months and it's frustrating. Has anyone else had similar issues?

One of our new Staff here came from a indy school using ISAMS and he said it was great. I can not attest to the accuacy of this statement though.

Cheers I'll have a look tomorrow. I don't think I've helped myself by posting this in the wrong forum as I think I should have put this in the scripting forum.

I am trying to get a script to run that looks at a file version number on the PC and sees if it's up to date. If it is then it does nothing if it isnt then it runs a program. The problem is that i can get it to run the exe file but I can't get it to run the exe file with the parameters needed. PS, My coding-fu is weak. So Far I've got: Dim FilePath Dim fso Dim FileNumber 'Sets the value of the variable FilePath FilePath = "C:\Program Files\\" Set fso = CreateObject("scripting.filesystemobject") Set wshShell = WScript.CreateObject ("WSCript.shell") FileNumber = fso.GetFileVersion (filepath) if(FileNumber = "x.x.x") then msgbox "File Verson Up to Date" else wshshell.run "\\\\exe" msgbox "Install Run" end if (The message boxes are for testing purposes) This seems to work OK however I can't seem to get it work with the variables. From the start menu I can easilly run \\\\exe /Variable1 /variable2 Help? And whislt I am at it is there a way to make the script stop only when the exe has finished running?

So I get in this morning and for some reason all my Win7 machine bring up a certificate error (do you wan to continue) when trying to access some HTTPS websites. Now I did think something was up with mine but they work fine on XP boxes, they also work fine in mine and did work fine before christmas and appart from the install of papercut client I've not changed anything though WSUS has been running. The problem also occurs when logging onto the UCAS track site. Other websites seem to work however. UCAS apply is OK. I'm off to try some other sites to see what happens... Any other ideas?