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Is it installed to the machine locally or run from a software management system?

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We had this problem after the upgrade to SQL. Your connect.ini file should look something like this [sIMSConnection] ServerName=10.97.28.6\sims2005 DatabaseName=SIMS [ExternalApplications] The first line is the IP or hostname of the SIMS server followed by the SQL server name You can put the connect.ini on the server in which case you can rewrite the local connect.ini to read [sIMSConnection] redirect="server connect.ini location"

I did it the other way round and prevented student from changing their passwords with a group policy. see attached screen for location

Server 2008 has the ability to deploy printers with group policy as does 2003 R2. It does make the job a lot easier to get certain printers available only for certain users or rooms

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This doesn't seem right to me. If your logon scripts are called from the domain it should run them with the privileges required. I have scripts running all over the place for students and there's no way I'm making them an administrator Actually its a bit untidy but i'm sure i'll get round to that eventually. You know what they say 'if it ain't broke don't fix it'.

This is one that we did for the parents. You could adapt it for the kids as well if it has relevant q's for youParent ICT questionnaire.doc

If you don't need them to use command line then you could just disable access to the command prompt, it's on group policy somewhere That way they can't even bring their own command prompt on a usb stick because it won't run even from there Does the event log show where the shutdown originated as it does if you use the microsoft tool. You could turn the security audit on for all events it may pick up the originating user in there somewhere.

Under user settings/admin templates/windows components/windows explorer/Prevent access to these drives It may not be of use to you as it also prevents double click on the drive(s) in question but we use it to prevent access to the local machines c drive and it seems to stop typing into the address bar as well

There is a group policy setting which prevents them typing anything into the title bar at all. It does mean that they will need to navigate to folders using explorer but as typing paths into the address bar is not really used that much I don't see this as a problem. There is also a setting to hide the address bar completely

Thats the one I've gone for too

The logon scripts were in short awful when i first came here. I now have one script that works with the active directory structure. Have a look at http://www.primalscript.com/Free_Tools/index.asp and the logon script generator. With this you can map drives to specific user groups and allocate printers the same way if you wish, however server 2003 R2 lets you deploy printers to specific active directory groups. This means that an it room can have a single printer assigned to it, particularly handy for the students that are able to log on to any computer in any room

I removed my mandatory profile for the students as it was causing me no end of problems. It seemed that if the network connection was anything less than perfect it would load a default profile anyway. My solution was to use just group policy to get the machine looking how I wanted it. This did mean that I could redirect to a common start menu and set wallpaper (an html page with active links) so that everybody saw the same thing. To solve problems with windows caching the profiles and not refreshing gpo information on logon, I have now also set delprof.exe (available from ms website as part of resource tools) to delete the user profile when the user logs off. All this basically gives me is the equivalent of a brand new profile each time the user logs in (ideal for the students who don't need to customise any aspects of their desktop)

I use a vista machine to do my network admin tasks. I have recently had a problem with assigning a scheduled task to xp machines. I get an 'unable to connect' error. This seems a little strange as i can access everything else in the computer management screen. Any ideas from anyone?