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@witch Even the secret local carpark in that vicinity was over half full yesterday!!!!

14 mile traffic jam into Bournemouth yesterday and people still trying to get back out long after midnight. UPDATED: Anger follows weekend traffic bedlam on A338 (From Bournemouth Echo) And this is before the 6 weeks of bedlam when the schools break up, the fireworks and the Airshow starts!!!! (I still wouldn't live anywhere else though....)

The Night Owl between Bournemouth and Poole. It might look like a hole in the wall but trust me, mushroom double cheese is the best burger I've ever had. Just don't drink the coffee.....

We've got a Genee GV6100 Visualiser in the Art department and although not HD quality it's pretty cheap and good enough for what its used for (and yes, it is used a lot...)

These two lines in a batch file does the job for me, logs computer usage and keeps an individual user log:- echo LOGIN %date%, %time%, %computername%, %username%, >> \\server\Logs\PCs\%computername%.csv echo LOGIN %date%, %time%, %computername%, %username%, >> \\server\Logs\Users\%username%.csv Andrew

We use MRBS for this, just change classrooms for the areas you want to let. MRBS: Introduction Andrew

Potentially your AV client might slow things down trying to preempt the scanning of 650 folders off a root folder? #completeguess

On a similar theme, anyone installed Update Rollup 1 for SP3 yet? Any good or bad feedback?

You can also set wallpaper using BGInfo which is also useful for having PC name, asset number, last user etc as part of the wallpaper. BgInfo Run it at login via a GPO using "\\server\netlogin\Bginfo.exe" \\server\netlogin\student.bgi /SILENT /NOLICPROMPT /TIMER:0 Andrew

Dell Optiplex 755 machines with windows 7 (32bit, 2Gb RAM) running Live Movie Maker 2012 with no problems at all if that's any help? What codecs are you running? Did you install off-line or on-line and what other parts of Live Movie Maker did you install? I installed mine via this command line using the off-line installer wlsetup-all.exe /silent /AppSelect:MovieMaker /NOToolbarCEIP /NOhomepage /Nolaunch /nosearch Andrew

Hi Dell have a very old utility for changing the POST image but it's 12 years old and may very well hose modern BIOS's Use at your own risk.... Driver Details | Dell US Andrew

I've given up on Robocopy and these days I'm using FastCopy v2.11 FastCopy Loads of options on the command line or can run directly from the GUI Andrew

Seriously considering using BackupAssist to backup data each night from my servers to a couple of NAS's. Looking to backup Windows 2008R2 servers plus several instances of SQL 2008 R2 and Exchange 2010 SP3. If anyone is using this, I would be most grateful if you could feedback how effective or otherwise this solution is? I've tried the trial version and it appears too good to be true for the price... Also, if someone could clarify the licencing on the BackupAssist Exchange Mailbox Add-on and the BackupAssist SQL Server Add-on modules, is it one needed per SQL/Exchange server or one add-on per product? From the trial it looks like you can backup multiple SQL databases on different servers but not 100% sure if the add-on covers them all at once? Thanks in advance Andrew

Morning all. Normally I would agree with you all and go for option D, but I have a very small upgrade window available right on the projected date of the Summer release so will air on the side of caution just this once, install with Option C and install SQL2012 either October half term or Christmas. Thanks for all the replies Andrew

@FN-GM Thanks. I did mean SQL 2008 R2 but still in the habit of just typing SQL2008 even after all these years.....

Thanks for the advice. It confirms what I suspected, start with option C and upgrade SQL over Christmas :-) Cheers Andrew

Hi Just about to build a new SIMS server ready for a migration from W2K3/SQL2008 in early July 2013. Just wondering what versions I should build the server given current support levels from Capita.... A) Windows 2008R2 with SQL 2008 B) Windows 2008R2 with SQL 2012 C) Windows 2012 with SQL 2008 (and then update at a later date to SQL 2012) D) Windows 2012 with SQL 2012 I would like to go with Option D but is Option C safer until the Summer 2013 update and 47 hotfix patches are released first? TIA Andrew

Hi Scratch - Imagine, Program, Share Ignore the link for scratchinstaller1.4.exe and instead download the zip file just under it. Unzip the file to any shared folder of your choice then unzip the msi file into the same folder, move the scratch.ini file to the same folder as the .exe file and edit to suite your needs, point everyone at scratch.exe and that's about it. My scratch.ini file is as follows [Global] DeferUpdate=1 ShowConsole=0 DynamicConsole=0 ReduceCPUUsage=0 ReduceCPUInBackground=0 3ButtonMouse=0 1ButtonMouse=0 UseDirectSound=1 PriorityBoost=1 B3DXUsesOpenGL=1 CaseSensitiveFileMode=0 EnableAltF4Quit=0 Home=R:\ VisibleDrives=R:,q:,o:,e: ProxyServer=proxy.xxx.wilts.sch.uk ProxyPort=8080 Language=en Hope that helps Andrew

OK, cracked it after some advanced Google work but I'll copy it here in case anyone else ever needs to know this in a hurry... Search for a subject on all mailboxes and send a full report to ICT user: get-mailbox -resultsize unlimited | search-mailbox -SearchQuery “Football" –Logonly –Targetmailbox curriculum\ict –Targetfolder Inbox -LogLevel Full Search for a subject on all mailboxes and delete from all mailboxes: get-mailbox -resultsize unlimited | search-mailbox -SearchQuery “Football" –DeleteContent (Answer A when prompted...) Search for content on all mailboxes using date and send a full report to ICT user: get-mailbox -resultsize unlimited | search-mailbox -SearchQuery “Football",”Sent:16/05/2013" –Logonly –Targetmailbox curriculum\ict –Targetfolder Inbox -LogLevel Full Search for content on all mailboxes using date and delete from all mailboxes: get-mailbox -resultsize unlimited | search-mailbox -SearchQuery “Football",”Sent:16/05/2013" -DeleteContent (Answer A when prompted...) Search for content on all mailboxes using date and from and send a full report to ICT user: get-mailbox -resultsize unlimited | search-mailbox -SearchQuery “Football",”Sent:16/05/2013","From:ajw" –Logonly –Targetmailbox curriculum\ict –Targetfolder Inbox -LogLevel Full Search for content on all mailboxes using date and from and delete from all mailboxes: get-mailbox -resultsize unlimited | search-mailbox -SearchQuery “Football",”Sent:16/05/2013","From:ajw" -DeleteContent (Answer A when prompted...) * The -SearchQuery string can be anything in the email including attachment name, html code, subject etc.

Hi Exchange 2010 SP3 Just migrated from Ex2003 so in new territory and not up to speed with the PS commands yet... Whats the quickest way to delete a message from all users in a database that has no subject or content other than a picture? All I have is the time it was sent.... Cheers Andrew

Sorry to hi-jack this thread but just wondering how you manage the cash and credits of PaperCut especially who has responsibility of cash and doing the credit updates TIA Andrew

Run Sims as a portable app from a network share. Just one place that needs updating then....

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Hi @nev104, any news on how this project is progressing? We all appreciate the effort and free time involved in coding something like this so we all know it's "as and when" for testing etc Cheers Andrew