Stuart_C

The below works fine for me. If I'm honest a friend sent it to me... But I'm not! It's MINE! ALL MY OWN WORK!!!! This also works to apply any users settings to a computer regardless of who logs into it. For script to run on computers use Loopback processing in Merge Mode That would allow you to apply a script to a Computer Account but using the User section of the policy. To set it up what you need to do is: 1. Create a Group Policy with the Loopback Policy enabled: Computer Configuration --> Administrative Templates --> System --> Group Policy User Group Policy loopback processing mode: Enabled & Merge 2. Create a Group Policy attached to the OU containing the computer account with the script in the: User Configuration --> Windows Settings --> Scripts Logon --> printers.vbs. The Replace operation stops all other User based policies applying there and only uses those that would apply to the Computer OU. The Merge operation uses the normal User based policies as well, but any policies set on the Computer OU take precedence. Script for automated mapping of printer according to room number: rem ** Next line must not be deleted ** Set WshNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network") rem ** This will delete existing printers ** On Error Resume Next Set oPrinters = WshNetwork.EnumPrinterConnections For i = 1 to oPrinters.Count - 1 Step 2 WshNetwork.RemovePrinterConnection oPrinters.Item(i) Next rem ** Setup new printer connection ** WshNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\server\HP" rem ** Setup default printer ** WshNetwork.SetDefaultPrinter "\\server\HP"

Whilst I looked at dictaphones I believe they are out. "..Blah blah must use the AQA autio recorder (preconfig version of Audacity) blah blah blah..." - AQA oral gudance notes thingy. I'lll have a look at the products when I get back into work tomorrow. Cheers.

Hi there, I'm looking for a USB microphone to use for recording Oral exams. Thus it has to sit between two people and record both sides of the conversation when they are sat a distance away. Any suggestions? I've been through a number of standard mic's and I can't get any decent pickup (might be due to basic sound cards, thus the need for a USB)

Hmm.. That's a really good point. A good 5 years too lat for me but a good idea none the less.

I've just bought a SonicWall SSL VPN 4200. Basically a web interface, you log in with your AD username and password and then you get access to what ever shares the sys admin feels you should. However just to be honest, the 4200 is the bottom of the rance model and might not be usefull in a school your size as it is rated for 50 concurrent connnections and is relatively basic in terms of it's features. The recommended model (when I talked to Sonic Wall) was much more expense. It does however have a number of very good features to protect your network and the data on it and if I had the cash I would have gone for it. We decided to go for the lower model as I am anticipating (or should that be hoping) for a slow uptake in it's use plus I can't predict how many concurrnet connections I am likely to have.

Hi all, I have two questions regarding Software deployment in GP. I've not done anything too fancy so my GPO deployment list looks like: Product1 - Version2 - Assigned - \\server\share\install Location Product1 - Version1 - Assigned - \\server\share\install Location Product2 - Version3 - Assigned - \\server\share\install Location Product2 - Version2 - Assigned - \\server\share\install Location Product2 - Version1 - Assigned - \\server\share\install Location Product3 - Version1 - Assigned - \\server\share\install Location Product4 - Version1 - Assigned - \\server\share\install Location Product5 - Version1 - Assigned - \\server\share\install Location Now very soon I shall be replacing the server where all my software installs are located. Is there a way to change the source path? Or do I need to totally fake it by moving the install files to the new server, remove the old server from the network then create a DNS alias with the old server's name and point it to the new server. Secondly. When I get an upgrade to a piece of software I deploy it as an upgrade (at least according to GP, realistically all upgrades are effectively new installs). Can I remove the old GP deployments (selecting "Do not uninstall software, just prevent new installations" to prevent complications) then delete the install files to reclaim disk space.

Basically working on the assumption that no internet filtering is 100% perfect (unless you use block everything + whitelists). Thus it might be usefull to run off a list of sites that the kids had been on that were not classified see if anything pops out. Yes I know the list is lilely to be huge however and it's only likely to be random sample checking however a bit of manual intervention is generally a good idea in this area. Given how clever kids can be when you don't want them to be...

I did realise that buy hey...

Just been looking through the reports, is there a report, or is there a way to create a report that lists all the websites catagorised as "n/a" by the smoothwall?

Vic, If you are interested, Capita just called. When I showed them it happening the guy I was talking too seemed stumped for the minute. However at least I was able to prove it in action which is good. We proved, which I guessed would happen, that if you set the home number as "main" then it works OK. However this is a problem if the promary contact number, I.e. the number the parents want you to try them on, is NOT their home number. So I was having none of that. So it's off to the escallation team. I hope you don't mind but I did mention that "someone at anotehr school had noticed the problem" though i didn't mention you by name.

We use SIMS across two domains though it's all hard cabled. The two domains have a trust relationship and then I've addedd the "users" group for the foriegn domain into the sims security group. Works fine. It depends on how you've created the S drive on your accademic domain. If you've used DFS I'd just add in another link so you've have s:\sims\ in the admin domain and s:\sims\ in the accademic domain.

Is it really sad that it's made my day that I've found me on there? Well I'm driving by I passed the car a while back and I've been waiting for AGES to see if I get on streetview

We have our ouwn mail system (MDaemon) and block all access to external E-mail for students. This is school plolicy and related to our duty of care over the student. We can't monitor what goes on so... No one has external access. yet Our system use an automatic monitoring system to flag up offensive words to me. I then forward them E-mail on if necessary. Staff can use external E-mails though.

Sorry, It's just the one sitting on teahers desks in classrooms, do you have them?

I was wondering what your schools policy about Printers in classrooms is? We are, as I'm sure most places are at the moment, being pushed to save as much money as possible. One area I was looking at is removing, or stopping the use of the little deskjet printers in classrooms. We all know that the cost per page is much higher than our network printers or leased photo copiers but I was wondering what you actually had in school. Do you allow staff to have their own printers in classrooms? Does every room have a printer in it? Answers on a post card please.

Yes... I worried about having to delete things or set "main" all over the place. The problem is that I have no control over the Student teacher view fields. I'll be interested to see what Capita have to say...

Well the woman that spotted it was using tesco picture manager, however... I should still be able to look at the (NTFS) owner and see who created it but the owner is the server admins group... It's really strange. The only person doing SIMS updates is me so I doubt it.

ok. Just wondered. I wonder where it's come from...

Randomly I've noticed a picture, slightly blurred of some people is swimwear jumping off some cliffs in front of a waterfall, the path is :\sims\setups\New Image.jpg Now according to the security the file is owned by the \administrators group and was created 9th june 2008. Does anyone else have this file? Is it a splash screen on something that I've never noticed? The fact that it's owner is a admin group not a user is a bit concerning...

I've just been informed about some "wrong" information is SIMS... When I looked at the Emergency Contact numbers in SIMS student teacher view I notice that there are some descrepancies between that view and the full detials screen. It looks to me that the contacts are listed for the parents as: Telephone - Mobile - ????????? - Main Fax - Home - ???????? Telephone - Home - ???????? SIMS is then picking up the first entry for "Home" and putting it into the Student Teacher Contact. For some reason it's not picking up "Telephone Home" and putting that it. I've looged it as a fault with Capita and await to see what they come up with. Whislt I wait has anyone else noticed anything like this? When I delete the fax number it displays the correct information and when I put the home fax back in it changes the order the numbers are displayed in the contact record so the home fax comes first. when i then look at student teacher view the fax number is displayed again.

This worked perfectly for me. Took a bit longet for the complaining to stop. The only problem is that, depending on the setup of your OU's, you may need to have a policy to turn it back on for techers... *Shakes fist in air and screams* Curse you Boardworks and your Flash embeded powerpoints!!!

I'll be honest I am going to have a go in a trial if i can but at the same time I might pencil in cancelling my contract. I don't want to "risk it" and find I've wasted a boat load of money and have no internet filtering! And to be honest those Smoothwall people seem very nice, they get good press on here and I think work out a bit cheaper.

(this was nearly a rant on Behind the Red Door). Officially they don't support it at all. This is a problem as I was intending to upgrade the servers at easter, thus i need place the order in the next couple of weeks to make sure i have the machines. However I need to know what they are! Unless there is some blag round it I can't have 2K8 R2 and Websense! I think the phrase "Didn't you figure out things were going 64Bit couldn't you have written V7 such that it at least worked under 64bit OS's"!!! I really don't want to sacrifice the OS for the sake of one piece of software. As 2K8 R2 is only 64Bit i'd have to go for 2k8. Either that or I look at their standalone box to act as web filter. Some I've seen a few posts that it works, though generally without Websense support. I am going to get my laptop and install 2K8 R2 evaluation on a virtual machine and see how it goes. The problem is that I won't necessarily be able to fully test it as a web filter and verify the logging. This may lead me to cancelling my subscription if I can't resolve this. Pity it's up in a month yet I've already paid! So that makes things more complicated.

Simple Question, has anyone tried running Websense on Win 2K8 R2 or even 64 Bit 2K8? Apparently Websense dont support it, which isn't actually the same as "it won't work". Should it just run as a 32bit app?

Hmm... This will be worth knowing. Might give it a go over half term so I can trial a few machines. To be honest I gave up on SIMSperm. Opened the BAT file up and then used GP to set the permmissions bassed on the contents of the BAT file. That way I don't have to worry about forgetting to run it when I install new machines.