Jake

Afternoon all, For the love of all that is holy, does anyone have a copy of Jmail they can send me? I've tried downloading it from the emailed link from Dimac a half dozen times now and every time it just seems to corrupt and when I try and install it comes up with not a valid package and wont install. I'd appreciate it if anyone has the jmail installer if they could send me it and I'll try that one. Thanks, Jake

Did you ever find a solution to this? I'm having the exact same problem and its bugging the bejesus out of me

Morning all, Spent yesterday diagnosing a login issue and in doing so I realised how much of a mess our AD is, redundant accounts, empty OUs, empty groups, groups that contain another group as a member and that group has the initial group as a member, so effectively just looping around on itself and achieving nothing. Just wondered what methods you all use to clean up AD, redundant accounts are easy enough to manage by last login date, but the looping groups thing I'm not so sure of the best way to get an idea of , which doesnt involve me having to check every group.

Thanks Nick, I've no idea if this is any help or not ... Handling Apostrophe (single-quote) in XPath expressions in .NET « Bugs! Space

No no, I dont think you're rude, I dont run the network, the apostrophe choice isnt one made by me, so no offense taken

Yeah its a touch unfortunate, but their AD useraccounts have the apostrophes in and they get ever so irate if they dont have their names done "properly"

Morning, Been testing this out with a few users now without any issue (other than it seems really really slow, any thoughts on that?) , but today I've increased the test userbase to include a few more members of staff and two of these users have apostrophes in their surnames and neither of them are able to login due to the apostrophes. When they try it comes up with : '/Bookings/Booking[@username=co'sullivan]' has an invalid token. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: System.Xml.XPath.XPathException: '/Bookings/Booking[@username=co'sullivan]' has an invalid token. Everyone else is able to log in perfectly fine, just the two with apostrophes who are having the issue. I'm sure that somewhere I could just insert a line to replace the apostrophe with something else automatically? Anyone got a solution to this? Jake

No probs, gets me out of my cage. So....where are all the new babe-techs?

Bay House is my school. Thats pretty much all I am at liberty to say publicly.

We have almost 3000 students on our live@edu, must say that so far its been fine. The filtering options are pretty decent really and you can set it so that only permitted domains can send mail to the students etc. Any emails triggered by your defined filters can be copied to an admin etc.

Anyone encountered the following issue with Illustrator CS4? We have the CS4 Master Suite, running on decent spec machines (Windows 7 64bit machines, 8gb ram) All the other packages within CS4 are running without issue, however we do seem to have one of those annoyingly intermittent problems which are often so much more difficult to diagnose. When a student is working in Illustrator and goes to save their work , sometimes Illustrator will crash with a "Exception_Access_Violation" error. This causes the work done to be lost. The problem is that it doesnt happen all the time to the same machine, doesnt even happen all the time to the same student. They can save x number of times without problem and then it falls over, or it could be the first save of the day and it falls over. It happens regardless of file size, can be a blank sheet with just a black line on it or it can be a heavy imaged sheet of work. The students have ample quota within their documents areas to save the file. I've never had it crash yet whilst using an admin account so I am guessing that its something restriction/permission related, but am drawing a blank as to why they can sometimes save and sometimes not within the same session, given that they have the usual setups regarding both their documents and drive accesses. I've dug around a bit on google and the adobe forums and cant seem to find anyone else with an identical problem, so I am assuming its something our end rather than adobes. Anyone seen anything like that with Illustrator? Or maybe with another package within CS4 which might also apply to Illustrator?

Nothing within the web interface, but I can perform a test print using the physical buttons on the printer. Which prints happily without issue.

Yeah I've gone to the web management via IP (thats where I see the Media Mismatch error reported), but there are no options on there for paper types or tray setups. The web page is actually pretty basic, essentially just covers the networking details, ink levels, current status and thats about it. Nothing in there thats actually configurable (aside from the network settings)

Absolutely at my wits end (not that is particularly far some people would say ) We have 3 A3 Officejet 7000s and they are driving me utterly mad. I've tried 11 different drivers so far, various "compatible" ones and version 12, 13 and 14 of the official drivers. I've installed, cleaned, removed , reinstalled umpteen times. Tried on Server 2003, Server 2008, an XP machine....No matter what I have tried its done the following.. Doesnt print, throws out a blank page and when you look at the printer in the browser via IP it shows an alert which says "Media Error : Media Mismatch". Print an A4 page with A4 paper, Media Mismatch Print an A3 page with A3 paper, Media Mismatch Print anything at all damnit...Media Mismatch. Tried phoning HP themselves, sent through to some Delhi backstreet and the woman was next to useless and clearly just following on-screen prompts.... "Go to the start menu"....er...yeah, you do know what I do for a job right? I mean you do understand what I've tried so far?. Has anyone, anyone at all...got any idea why the devil I am getting Media Mismatch on every one of these printers, seemingly regardless of driver or OS. We have almost 200 HP printers and the others are all fine apart from these A3s, which CDT want for weird plans and gadgets and what not

Great stuff, some good options to look at here, thanks all

Tell me about it ! Daft indeed, but thats the course , or rather than a part of the course, the rest of the course is reasonable.

Throwing something out there to see what ideas people have/used. We have an exam course starting soon, the course has quite strict rules, the issue at hand is as follows : (i) The student cannot be allowed internet access. This must be evidenced. (ii) The student must during the course, show that they are capable of sending an email and have an understanding of how to structure an email and usage. Use of CC, attachments etc. (iii) The student must not use any form of webmail , as per internet restriction, for the email component. So effectively, what we will need is something which looks like an email client, with all the usual features. But isnt webbased and doesnt involve us having to fart about setting up individual mailboxes etc.

Thanks, I'll take a look at that.

Thanks, Nothing has changed serverwise, same servers as last year, same users, same shares. Only server which has changed in the last several months was our SIMs server which I rebuilt, but these are student accounts on PCs that dont have SIMs access. I suppose they might have shortcuts to USB sticks or something though.

Hi all, Bit of a long shot this one but wondering if anyone has seen anything like this before. In the last 2 months we've had several, seemingly random, people encountering the same problem. The problem is that they are able to log in and run programs etc, but the moment they go to browse their documents, their machine locks up. (the list of documents, files and folders etc, show but it then freezes up the machine). It does that for them on any PC on the network, oddly though you can copy their docs out , create a new account for them and copy their docs onto the new account and it still locks up when they browse their docs. Which made me suspect something in their files, however their files are all normal run of the mill office files, pics etc. AV finds nothing unusual in their docs and there appears to be no connection between their files and the files of the others that are having the same problem. I can log in as admin and browse through their docs without issue. I did wonder whether there was something wonky with folder redirection but it seems to be redirecting fine, its only when you browse the docs list itself that it freezes. Prior to this starting we've never had a similar problem , theres been no new software recently, nor any major server side changes that I could see might affect it. Its happening seemingly to random people, probably about half a dozen now and despite my best lines of thought I just cant seem to see why. Anyone ever seen anything like that?

Excellent, Yup no problem, they can do without the encoder. Thanks, another option for the HoD to consider.

Thanks , extra options to present to him are always welcome. What are the fundamental differences between Studio 5 and 5?

Quite possibly and its certainly an option I will be presenting him with next week. (along with an open source alternative)

Hello hello...thats a much nicer price. Gets the price for 40 down to around 7k. Thanks for that (Steinberg have confirmed with me that there isnt a 10 user edition and that a single license is around the £250 mark normally, so that would appear to confirm that its a bulk price at the place where the HoD got it from. Well...thats not going to be too good a piece of news for him, just spent £40,000 on his two new music IT suites and I'll have to break it to him now that he needs to stump up another £15k for the Sibelius and Cubase that he wants )

Yeah the more I think on it , the more I am convinced that what has happened here is that the website lists the item as 10+ users and a price but doesnt indicate anywhere that it is a price PER user, so the HoD has bought a quantity of 1 thinking that it covers him for 10 PCs. Having said that, he actually needs 40 PCs worth anyway, so the 10 wouldnt have helped much anyway but thats a seperate issue. Looks like I will have to explain to him that he has paid £250 for ONE copy and will have to stump up the other £8,000 or so for the other 39 copies.