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Don't know because I'm confused... where are 'certain internal systems' sending the mail? Is it to a mail address associated with a mailbox on your local Exchange?

My usual trick which is documented by MS somewhere(!) is to add a new temporary IIS web-site alongside the Default one, do the cert request from and import the cert to the temporary site when it arrives. Then go to the Default site and quickly swap the certs over (replace old and select the new cert from list). Guess you might need wildcards in some scenarios but with Exchange 2003 I've always managed to arrange things so it's all happy with standard single-name IIS cert. In practice I also need to add an intermediate cert from the CA to the local comp store and restart IIS - not all, but you need to do that for a few CAs.

Because Primary schools have been known to burn down etc.? [One I'm aware of that didn't do off-site got lucky because although the drives looked like toast, the specialist data recovery company did manage to get their data back]

As is the school that dishes out lots of homework.. when you both work, have to use after school clubs etc. that adds lots of pressure on available time, and ultimately the child. Read and recoiled from a 'quality' press weekend article recently which was a recipe for getting your unfortunate state Primary kid in the same ball park as one at a posh prep school... in year 5 & 6 you're supposed to trade extra-curricular for academic grind. Way I see it year 5 & 6 are probably the last opportunity to still have a decent conversations etc. with Sprogette until at least 2025 and I'm not planning to waste that manically sharpening her exam passing skills. She's sat behind me now doing some piano practice and she loves doing it - given the merest hint that the repetition required for passing the next grade is threatening that love, then doing grades will be history. Exams matter to an extent, but so does being a child without premature adult concerns/pressures.

Once upon a time Gove used to portray himself in the media as a Times columnist and I thought he was a [bleep], indeed an notably ill-informed unpragmatic [bleep], stopped reading and began to appreciate thoughtful Tory folk like Matthew Parris so much more. With Gove I just can't shake a kind of juvenile debate feeling... there's always a bit too much popularism, righteousness, small stuff writ too large etc. This is education, if there were a really good way of improving it then some genius would have presented it long ago. [Mine: Fewer attempts to improve it would likely be an improvement] You'll likely acquire at least some of this outlook, but what works for me in a parental bliss sense with a child 5-6 years ahead of yours rarely has anything to do with academic performance at school - I'm content that she's clever enough and happy to leave the competitive stressy parents to try and manouvre their often vaguely unpleasant, and sometimes seriously obnoxious kids to the top of the pile. It's much more about the person Sprogette will be, the degree of self-motivation, the sense of justice, how she reasons about things, approaches life etc. One of our spies recently reported a parental conversation in the playground where Sprogette was described as "everyone's friend" (which we kind of knew via the birthday party invites) and that truth pleases me more than most things, except perhaps that her very best friend is one of the less academic, but most pleasant natured girls I've met - they're remarkably good for each other. Short version: YMMV but given a reasonable amount of ability I think the social creature matters as much as, probably more than, the academic one.

Not optimistic about the prices changing, but I think staggering holidays somehow would be a good thing. This is kind of my point. Don't recall whether Sprogette knew her A-Z when starting, probably did, but I really don't think that matters much because they do lots of it at school. We're still doing a form of bedtime reading with an 8.5 yo who can readily devour books herself, coz that's still what is supposed to happen in her universe, but I'm mostly interested in using home time for all the things school won't teach her. It's difficult to explain succinctly, but home time here is supposed to be, and often is, a bit like some extended Brownies session (YMMV but here they're brilliant at introducing the kids to all sorts of interesting things[1] in addition to the more obvious creative and outdoor adventure type stuff). [1] For instance, School has 'em standing at set distances in the corridors with model sun & planets, Brownies took them all to an observatory and sent them home with a bunch of constellations to (eagerly) find in the night sky.

T'other 1/2 has a second degree in Psychology and obviously as a teacher, that PGCE Should it ever come to that my line would be: Stay out of my life and I'll stay out of yours i.e. if I wasn't forced to 'engage' with a bunch of superfluous unwanted homework I wouldn't have cause to teach Sprogette via the 'wrong' methods. I am a bit sympathetic towards the school case though - decent differentiation at Primary is an idiotically unrealistic ambition given that there is just one teacher and around 30 quite different kids, especially in this all-inclusive age when several of those kids are likely to have serious 'behavioural issues' that seriously undermine the other's education.

Mmm.. couple of weeks ago during the 1/2 day of the weekend it takes to get all the homework done having... a) Taught a literacy lesson they haven't had at school yet that was a pre-req for the Sam Learning exercise they'd been given for homework. b) Helped get her on track with a seriously inappropriate maths puzzle which required either a computer program or manual brute-force via ~60 separate, reasonably nasty bits of arithmetic to complete. ..we had some division. Sprogette, 8.5yo, is there going around the houses working out the answers in some offically approved manner that *in theory* prevents a very small percentage of kids from being permanently tainted with a fundamental misunderstanding about the universe. Having watched her solve a couple correctly via the tedious RSI-inducing method I showed her good old fashioned long division and she immediately got the method and it's better efficiency. Thing is I was sat there seriously wondering if this might cause some kind of trouble with teacher..

Agreed, although at Primary age I don't actually think it matters that much if they miss a few days in school, or at least it certainly wouldn't for Sprogette who's one of those youngest in the class on top tables etc. She's possibly the only one in her class who hasn't had any term time off for holidays, because we can't simultaneously get mum, a teacher, off school. I'm not expecting anything too silly on this from the DfE, but there is very serious stuff at the heart i.e. how far the state runs your life, makes you do "what's good for you" based on sod-all evidence. Pity no one is saying anything about homework so we can have a proper debate about that, especially reigning in the advance of Primary homework because in my life that is both significantly harmful and largely useless, unlike almost anything else we choose to do with our child in our limited amount of joint 'family time' including just playing games and messing about.

Stopping funeral attendance etc. would make this issue go NUCLEAR and no one sane will do that. That said I expect there are some schools that are sufficiently Kafkaesque/stupid/incompetant/up-their-box-ticking-backsides to do it. -- Once upon a time 'between jobs' I had to do a 5 hour drive from my dying mother's side, sign a bit of Job Seekers paper here at home, and do then immediately do the five hour drive back. This was in order to avoid being kicked off benefits and have to start a fresh claim which would have have some very seriously financially and family damaging side-effects. Took it to the area managers etc., but they sympathetically said they just couldn't find a way to get around the tick boxes, let me sign something later or in a neaby office etc. Fortunately both my self-control and mum hung on for a day longer than this took , but I've never ever had more sustained and viciously dark thoughts than on that day... you just don't mess with folk in these kind of circumstances.

I've used fontreg for this in the past, have just put it in some package folder alongside the font files and run: fontreg /copy

A: Because a lot of people don't grok what CC3 has and hasn't added to Windows. There are a few RM AD custom attribute definitions etc. but they're completely harmless. The closest I've come to a genuine issue left behind by CC3 is a very occasionally 'wonky' set of security permissions on an RMMC created/managed AD user object (inheritance not ticked). Otherwise your points a. & c. seem reasonable.

I strongly suspect exposure to powershell accelerates brain cell death rate (proportionally to number of cmdlet syllables, total line lengths etc.), or at least it routinely does my head in. I'm pretty sure this will do the same trick *and* help save your IQ: New-ManagementRole –Parent MyBaseOptions_DefaultMailboxPlan –Name MyCustomOptions_DefaultMailboxPlan Set-ManagementRoleEntry MyCustomOptions_DefaultMailboxPlan\Set-Mailbox –Parameters Password -RemoveParameter Then go click in ECP Roles & Auditing as Jame's post above. If you want to undo those changes for any reason, go run this: Remove-ManagementRole MyCustomOptions_DefaultMailboxPlan

A: No, because the browser-replaces-OS meme is at least a decade older than that.

Why 2003 for anything?

Was quite a good tour... wish they'd managed to convey the less extreme ubiquity a bit better though, and it was all weird blokes wot-done-it on camera which isn't obviously representatative. Definitely could have done without the Anonymous[tm] bloke who hung around with others who did some of the Jessie S stuff. [::spits on any half-wit with any associations with, or admiration for, that corner of cyberspace::]

I'm not confirming that it works, but you can turn off password reset on the service manglement portal (eduadmin.live.com).

Yes if you're happy in powershell-land then the cmdlet is search-mailbox and there's a page with detail on technet:Search For and Delete Messages from Users' Mailboxes

In your shoes I'd try that alternative too - don't have the energy to verify this, but it definitely looks like blanks passwords just don't mix with LDAP.

Nope & nope. I don't mind sorting out some kind of example with all the key elements though, just not now (busy). Meanwhile, do your new student accounts go in different OUs and/or groups subject to their cohort/year-of-entry or something?

Simple huh? I think this from LDAP RFC4513 and possibly others might have something to do with it: Unauthenticated Bind operations can have significant security issues (see Section 6.3.1). In particular, users intending to perform Name/Password Authentication may inadvertently provide an empty password and thus cause poorly implemented clients to request Unauthenticated access. Clients SHOULD be implemented to require user selection of the Unauthenticated Authentication Mechanism by means other than user input of an empty password. Clients SHOULD disallow an empty password input to a Name/Password Authentication user interface. Additionally, Servers SHOULD by default fail Unauthenticated Bind requests with a resultCode of unwillingToPerform. Empty passwords are obviously significant for this protocol. "Can of worms" springs to mind.

Instructions were rubbish/incomplete. This does work for version 3.1.1 but you have to put the network location for user files (common files/videos, and where they save) in the registry on client boxes.

There's a standard recipe? [Threads on here when the middleware is CCx tend to trigger a lot of myths] Re-title that "10 displacement activities for SysAdmins"? Etc. = devices and VMs for Learn Programming[tm] are minor variations of BYODs.

Not that differently to you TBH. I use powershell with the 2008 R2 native ActiveDirectory module. Powershell really loves working with CSVs and makes this kind of thing relatively easy.. 20 lines max, or even one line if you've got a very widescreen and not much 'common' sense. PS is also good at string manipulation e.g. picking bits from a few columns to arrive at something like 'joeb6', or at least it seems that way if you've written any C# because the code is essentially identical.