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Look at pfrank - it's very good, free file renaming software, which will allow you to create a regex script to drive the rename.

Bump - help please guys...

I'm trying to set up a VirtualBox solution for Computing classes to program. I've created my image, worked out how to provide access to their home folder without giving network access and all looks good. However, I want to start with a clean image every time - reading up on it I think writethrough suits my needs more than immutable - I don't want the snapshots created, just no changes kept. I've therefore changed the disk type - I've tried it via the command line and the GUI, but when I open the VM and save a file to desktop, it is still there after closing down the VM and restarting it. Just in case my understanding of writethrough was incorrect I tried immutable, same results. What am I missing? All I want is a VM that students can use to program, without creating an environment where they can share their games ("I've saved zombies on the desktop of that machine, log on any you'll get it" type of thing)

Pick your arguments. if you swear infrequently then, when you do, people take notice. I've probably sworn twice in the office, and both times action was taken to resolve the issue. And this is someone who worked in an East End Pub.

Windows 7. i can set the locale to UK in control panel once a machine has deployed. Is there any way to set it during deployment, or by GPO. Failing that I need to find a way to globally set Office 2013 to use UK english, because it's following the locale at the moment.

I'm implementing SCCM 2012, and working on the OSD. I have a very simple unattend.xml which should set the language options to English(UK). Location seems to be going in OK, but system locale is still English (US) The unattend.xml is: en-GB en-GB en-GB false false Any ideas?

We have in the past set jobs like - here's two broken laptops, make one good one. We had one call come in where a machine wouldn't boot, and we set the WEK on finding out why. We replaced the machine, brought the broken one back to the office, give him some spare RAM and a power supply, and let him go for it. He said afterwards he'd wanted to build his own machine for ages, but never had the nerve - he was worried he's break a component when fitting it. He went out and bought the bits that weekend and came in on the Monday with such a sense of accomplishment - it was great to see.

I assume you've checked your boundary is correct?

Staff access is permitted, 6th formers get a quota - an hour a day for streaming media, social media and web mail.

Oh I'm doing that. But what to do with profiles is still a valid question. I'm redirecting what I can for students (staff take laptops home, so their profiles will be roaming).

This is a me too post - I too am building a new 2012 R2 domain, moving away from CC4. I'm using SCCM for deployment of OS and applications, and am well ahead with that, but my major concerns are user setup (do I use mandatory profiles, roaming profiles, or no profiles at all!) and GPO settings to lock down just enough to leave the system usable.

Back up the e drive and restore to k. Probably the fastest way to retain all file permissions.

We're using 7.2, and it deploys with no problem on CC4 using the lsinfo switch and the exe. Just make sure you don't name the exe Sibelius.exe - the installer looks for sibelius.exe and fails if it sees it running. Call it sibeliusinstaller.exe and it's fine.

What happens if you run the .cmd file manually - do you get any errors or event log messages?

We recently ran a trial version of an Exchange monitoring program - I think it was ManageEngine, and the reports from there showed that 80% of our mail is internal. I can think of no good reason to send all that mail out to the Internet to bring it back in again. At least with an internal mail server if the Internet goes down mail will still flow.

Me please. I need a new fleece.

it was one I found here somewhere. Looking an the syntax, you'll need the /move /midlad:YYYYMMDD /s switches.

E-mail came from my boss, complaints went to my boss, easy.

I got my boss to e-mail all staff, telling them that any files not accessed in the last two years would be archived, unless I was told about it first. A week later I ran a robocopy script that moved all old data into an archive folder (on the same drive, but hidden from staff) I left it there for a few weeks, and when nothing had been requested from it, moved it all to a NAS. Our issue want hard drive space, but back up - it was taking far too long.

I think it's the \my documents part of the path - it seems to like the wildcard at the end. Time to learn Powershell.

I've connected the N drive (it's what users are used to, coming from RM) to \\server\users$\username\my documents. I then redirect the workstation documents to \\server\users$, setting the redirection to "create a folder for each user under the root path", which then redirects documents to \\server\user\username\my documents. I set music and pictures to follow documents. in the main, this does what I want, in that users click on the N drive and are directly in their documents folder, rather than up a level. All this works, and I can create the majority of my users using a script or powershell (once I work out how) it's the odd one that needs to be created mid term that could cause an issue - particularly if created by one of my technicians, I want everything as automated as possible for them. A new network is going to create enough issues, without having a long list of things to remember.

@witch - sorry, I get error messages and the home folder path is copied exactly. I'm using the "Connect drive letter to path" option.

Thank you both - I'll experiment some more

Bump??

The last time I managed a vanilla network we were using Windows NT, so I have a lot of catching up to do! Anyway, in NT I created a template user, and created ad hoc users by right clicking the template, copying and putting in User name and Display name. The profile path and user area path were populated in the template with wildcards %username%, and were automatically updated. Now, on Server 2012 R2, I'm trying to do the same, however the user area path points to \\server\users$\%username%\documents, but my template doesn't retain the wildcard, instead replacing it with _templateuser. When I copy the user the path isn't updated. What am I doing wrong, and can anyone recommend a suitable walk through or guide? I think I'll be here a lot before we have this up and running