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We have a locally hosted IIS server, I want IIS to get some xml files (RSS Feeds) however we need to use a proxy to access the internet here, can I confuse IIS in to using the proxy here? short of editing the PHP scripts to use a proxy at that point it would be more useful to make the whole IIS use a proxy. Anyone else done this before? Thanks fooby

So my Dual Core 3.0ghz 4GB ram 700gb (raid 5 of 4 sata disks) Is a bit overkill?

EMAIL acceptable use policy The college email system is a filtered, monitored system with students not being allowed access to any other online systems (e.g.hotmail). All students are allocated an email address in Year 7 that stays with them throughout their college careers. Any misuse of the system will result in the disabling of the relevant account. Users are responsible for all e-mail they send and for contacts made. E-mail should be written carefully and politely. As messages may be forwarded, e-mail is best regarded as public property. Anonymous messages and chain letters must not be sent. Never give out personal information, always use the college address and telephone numbers if needed. Never use vulgar or offensive language in any communications. Make your subject line as descriptive but also as short as possible. Do not reply to pestering, offensive or suggestive e-mails and report any such messages to your teacher. Use your personal e-mail filters to delete annoying 'spam' mail. Never arrange to meet people via the internet and always inform an adult if someone suggests such a meeting.

Have you tried running ipconfig /flushdns on your local pc? as far as i know, this will make you pc check the DNS server properly again.

We just recently bought these Two domain controllers of spec 1x 3U Rack Mount Server Chassis 1x Intel Motherboard Support 2 XEON Processors 3.0 GHz (Onboard Video and Dual Gigabit Lan) 2x Intel XEON Processors at 3.0 GHz 4x 1GB DDR Memory Modules ECC Intel Validated 4x 250 GB SATA Hard Drive Support NCQ 16 MB Cache 1x Rail Kit 1x Delivery £1915 And Three terminal servers of spec 1x 1U Rack Mount Server Chassis 1x Intel Motherboard Support 2 XEON Processors 2.8 GHz (Onboard Video and Dual Gigabit Lan) - Support For Raid 0 2x Intel XEON Processors at 2.8 GHz 4x 1GB DDR Memory Modules ECC Intel Validated 2x 250 GB SATA Hard Drive Support NCQ 16 MB Cache 1x Rail Kit 1x Delivery £1677 From our main supplier Cebec

Have you checked the event logs in both servers? This is a good starting point. Use this with eventid.net and you should be able to work out whats up. fooby

Did you fix this? I have it too :'( Twice now.

We have direct contacts to places like Novatech, so we can buy from there. We also have a college credit card, so we can buy from ebuyer directly, this has proven very useful. Our main supplier is a company called Cebec, our contact is Raj Vokketur and he has been brilliant. Any problems he is on the phone and his mobile! in fact he personally drives our servers down so they cannot get damaged in transit! This company is one of the best we have used so far, excellent customer service, warranty's are usually return to base (manufacturer warranty) as we have a few technicians here we can cope with fixing / building computers. They may even have techie's they could send out to assist with this sort of thing. Raj Vokketur at Cebec get hold of him on 08452 255059 or [email protected] This guy will go as far as he can to sort problems and queries you have, definitly recommended. fooby

I have been using software from wisesoft.co.uk to ensure the NTFS permissions are correct (before, I had built a script to do that) NTFS Fix http://wisesoft.co.uk/ntfsfix.php so whatever way its copied you can restore the permissions afterwards. As long as the folder is the username, for example \\server\share\username username will get full permissions and so will whoever else (staff / admins etc) fooby

This is in our startup script here, serves a dual purpose. One to schedule the shutdown of the pc's (and so if they come back on, it switches them off again) and it clears the scheduled task list (just in case someone gets one in there ) fooby schtasks /create /sc daily /st 18:00:00 /tn "Shutdown at 1800" /tr "shutdown -s -t 60 -c \"This computer is scheduled to automatically shutdown at this time. You have 60 seconds to save all your work and logoff.\"" /ru system schtasks /create /sc daily /st 22:00:00 /tn "Shutdown at 2200" /tr "shutdown -s -t 60 -c \"This computer is scheduled to automatically shutdown at this time. You have 60 seconds to save all your work and logoff.\"" /ru system schtasks /create /sc daily /st 00:00:00 /tn "Shutdown at 0000" /tr "shutdown -s -t 60 -c \"This computer is scheduled to automatically shutdown at this time. You have 60 seconds to save all your work and logoff.\"" /ru system schtasks /create /sc daily /st 01:00:00 /tn "Shutdown at 0100" /tr "shutdown -s -t 60 -c \"This computer is scheduled to automatically shutdown at this time. You have 60 seconds to save all your work and logoff.\"" /ru system schtasks /create /sc daily /st 03:00:00 /tn "Shutdown at 0300" /tr "shutdown -s -t 60 -c \"This computer is scheduled to automatically shutdown at this time. You have 60 seconds to save all your work and logoff.\"" /ru system schtasks /create /sc daily /st 05:00:00 /tn "Shutdown at 0500" /tr "shutdown -s -t 60 -c \"This computer is scheduled to automatically shutdown at this time. You have 60 seconds to save all your work and logoff.\"" /ru system

Ah right I see. You are right, con2prt will ignore that then.

con2prt /f Deletes all connections to network printers, leaves local ones alone. works for us here. http://www.ss64.com/nt/con2prt.html

Edit your startup script to delete the files from the pc. If it isnt there it can't be run. When I built the image (ghost image) for our network, half the windows software dissappeared. Things like the games and other useless things are all removed. Also I have used a combination of the hidden attribute, and NTFS permissions to restrict file / folder access. Since by default a user cannot see hidden files, if they can find a workaround to see the contents of the C drive, they can't even see the files there anyway. Since they also cannot type an address in the addres bar, they can't browse at all. fooby

Seriously.... They can even get that far? When I was learning group policy and stuff, I was admin'ing a windows 98 network with so many holes. I have gone over the top I think with my group policy. However, in its locked down'ness I think I stop a lot of problems added to the network I'll post my exported GPO fooby

Along a side line.... http://www.code4ward.net/CS/blogs/c4w/articles/royalts.aspx Royal TS is a good way of quickly getting to your servers. I use it here (I have 13 servers I need to remote into) daily, with no real issues, I dont worry too much about connecting to the console (what you would see if a monitor were connected physically) and i just use the virtual sessions (the network manager sometimes is on the same box) Definitlely a useful feature, otherwise i would have to move fooby

We bought 200 (ish) computers from one of our suppliers, this isnt a "preferred" supplier as we dont have to stick to that. For £200 we got a pc (sempron 2600, 40gig, 512ram) monitor, keyboard, mouse. we know where to buy from P.S i can give anyone who wants, the contact details

Found this while brow... err "researching" on the net loads of freeware stuff, pages http://shellcity.net/content8.htm

Its not in the right click menu, however there are 2 apps that you can run to open, and close the cd tray. http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Skrommel/index.html#CloseCD

Glad I could help

Try renaming the .VRO to a .MPG or .MPEG then treat it as and mpeg and find a free mpg to avi converterer. Or You can get VSO DivX to DVD http://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=vso_DivXtoDVD This can actually take loads of input files such as avi wmv mpg etc and makes a nice dvd from it. You can also buy their software called copy to dvd and then you have a one click solution to make dvd's

The only problem with unrestricting the *.lnk part, is, i have an exe on my usb stick, all i need to do is create a shortcut to that exe on the stick (or user folder / home dir etc) then it will become allowed. What you should do, is unrestricted access to \\server\share\startmenu\ which is a read only share, or unrestricted access to whereever the start menu files are. fooby

The trick is to buy the cheapest, nastiest optical mice. That way, its both cost effective to lose them, and really not worth stealing

Yeah, we hope so we are adding about 200 thin to our 500 fat network. Shouldnt be too hard as thins, as you say, are pretty easy to sort out

http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=531620#post531620 http://www.theeldergeek.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=7144&st=0& http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=86626 Three places to start looking, seems like its do'able though

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