PiqueABoo

Try again, but just type: data Then hit return (you typed "data." i.e. with a period/dot on the end).

I dropped the case against on reading about the recycle bin above.. not very likely that would get there without someone doing it via a GUI console.

Scenario: Multiple machines in different places with different IPs, different Sus IDs, but same NETBIOS name e.g. "Alice" and the name can NOT changed. You only get one entry for Alice in the WSUS console, and the info probably relates to the last Alice that reported (don't know). Couple of questions then: 1) Can anything be (easily) done in this scenario e.g. persuade MS client-side to report the client with a FQDN? Would fiddling with the Primary DNS Suffix help? 2) If not, then will all the Alices's still get (approved) updates OK i.e. is this essentially just WSUS console issue?

Schools, or at least the ones I encounter are apparently used to it - all have symmetric around here and increasing upstream flow for lots of different credible reasons is why. Many of those can't or won't be replaced by cloud-fluff any time soon, which is explicitly acknowledged in this comment of yours i.e. there is a "lot more" data at the school: If I breach a cloud service I might get access to hundreds of thousands of folk's data. Only time will tell but with hindsight we may decide that some school with their random VPN occasionally being totalled would have been a better overall deal - think of it as a minor variation on the old but still perfectly good "Windows monoculture is bad" argument. I suspect we might see something of a cloud backlash, in fact there are creeping signs of one already as a direct consequence of the script kiddy self-promotion/journo-publicity over the last couple of years. People here and there are talking about getting their important stuff off the net, back behind the air-gaps. Will be interesting to see what, if anything, falls out of the current CoE push on net-neutrality in that respect e.g. "Users should have the greatest possible access to Internet-based content, applications and services of their choice...".

Teacher is contractually obliged to work extra hours[1], albeit as they see fit, beyond their "in school teaching" quota. AIUI somehow, the open-ended whatever-it-(reasonably)-takes got them the 1/365th. That many of us work extra hours to discharge what we feel are our professional duties is irrelevant, our employees can't do diddly to make us do that via our 9-5 contracts. That some Teachers don't obviously spend many extra hours, that some have been known to get TAs to relieve some of the extra hours workload that is supposed to be theirs alone, that you (or at least I) don't often hear of an useless idle one being hauled up for not doing enough homework... is perhaps another thread. [1] a teacher must work such reasonable additional hours as may be necessary to enable the effective discharge of the teacher’s professional duties, including, in particular planning and preparing courses and lessons; and assessing, monitoring, recording and reporting on the learning needs, progress and achievements of assigned pupils.

Very good point... and I missed it! Already late for being elsewhere when asked for a fleeting opinion Not sure where it came from, but I'm sure my screen-shot had a dozen or more To addresses, so finding out what some of the other recipients got will prove something - I'm just hoping a few of them were not Live@Edu mailboxes.

Seems too obvious, but this isn't the deleted items retention period is it?

Performance, especially how quick you can update the the screen with whatever, is a key factor in ease-of-use - always has been, always will be, but.. ..I think that is where it often all goes wrong. Manglers, sales-droids et al who just don't get behind the scenes that well respond to bells & whistles hitting their screens quickly (so they can make important exec decisions about colours, fonts and the like), and getting those there and kind-of-working all too often takes precedence over a really well-considered underlying architecture. It really doesn't take long before the "weight" of it all makes it increasingly difficult to go back and do what you should have taken your time over in the first place i.e. performance fixes are often compromised by limited 'wriggle-room" later down the line. I'll leave how that could possibly be true in the fabulous, brave new world of reusable, extendable, flexible, abstract OO-everything, as an exercise for the reader. IME, which is similar, devs have long had that tendency to shrug and respond "throw more h/w at it" - heard it over and over forever, but it's by no means unique to Capita. That said, it's been much more common for server-side - the pragmatic realities on client-side have generally been better recognised and better respected. dotNet can be pretty fast, and generally sufficiently fast, serious number-crunching (which this scenario clearly isn't) excluded. I'm generally happy to write in pure dotNet for user-land code now, but were someone else of the current generation to implement the same code, I would expect it to go around the houses quite a bit e.g. why write a line to add two and two together, when you can implement an ever so clever, general purpose arithmetic engine, which of course despite the ever-lasting intention will still get thrown away within a few years to make way for the latest new and exciting dev-tech. SQL has a lot to answer for re. resources and performance too, but if customers have an "easy/standard access to our data" tick-box there's not much choice.

I've just seen it from one Live@Edu mailbox apparently affecting a few of their mails. Unfortunately it was just a screen shot but had exactly the same symptoms i.e. what looks like a flipped unicode bit or two when it's a left-angle bracket, plus in a few other places I can't quite figure out - don't yet have an original to look at the bytes and how it is broken obviously isn't that important compared to how it was broken (and whether that can be prevented). I'm attempting to get a set of broken mail headers, plus a couple of OK ones to see if I can spot anything common in the SMTP transit path e.g. some brand of AV scanner, a particular server etc. Could just be Live@Edu of course.

I think 2008R2 is about booting a CD that understands NTFS and can copy files to the C: drive - could have been a bartPE (my "weapon" of choice) or any other equivalent. Is that gracefully removed i.e. are there logs files kicking around (with timestamps), or was it simply folders, or simply files "deleted". Meanwhile someone's got to do the other-side thing, so I note: 1) all the things you mentioned are ones which keep often busy files open, not readily delete-able. [but that certainly applies to registry, which presuambly was OK then?] 2) chkdsk is very good at disappearing files when clearing up broken file systems For me at this distance without little info., Windows event logs etc., the firewall password is best smoking gun - don't know about that one, but I've yet to see a 1/2 serious one that doesn't keep track of admin logons and password changes.

The way to test this fully without disturbing your current e-mail is to go buy a cheap domain from somewhere that gives you sufficient access to the DNS to create the (new style) MS verification TXT record , MX records etc. You add that to your tenancy as an accepted domain, create a mailbox account for that new domain name and start mailing etc. Remove associated mailboxes and that accepted domain later. Organise mailboxes where? You can't do that in most places you can see them, it's just one big flat A-Z GAL, or rather the first 500 if you have more users. What you can usefully do is set a mailbox custom attribute when creating accounts (but not with the GUI import) to indicate whether it's staff, student, etc. You can then use that to make dynamic distribution groups, run powershell commands to do things to just one set of user type etc. There's a bit of a learning curve here, but I think it's worth getting to grips with for future convenience.

Seconded and although AD usually survives them, I think the most likely explanation for this is an abrupt reset e.g. power outage or h/w glitch, as opposed to something malicious.

Presuming it says you do anything as opposed to giving people orders and making interesting statements that suggest you think you are above the law. I appreciate your angle here, but disclaimers describing what lovely things an org does are not exactly common in amongst the one's I've had over they years. ..apparently bored people have researched this a few time and shown most folk do not read them when they're way down at the bottom of those mails, which I think obliges everyone+dog to stick them at the top if they're really trying to demonstrate they've done everything reasonable.. A robust defence is one where we've got existing case-law to make it robust, surely? I may be way off here, but have occasionally wondered how you might pursue a 3rd-party for their negligence in sending you a virus, when in principle that can only cause damage because you were equally negligent. Are courts likely to be that impressed by pots calling kettles..? Still it's probably at least £10 a word, so... -- I was wondering: Is the liability insurance you can get for all of the stuff people reckon they can disclaim away a complete rip-off, or a sage precaution?

Guess you might know.. it used to be called a mini-hub, but are there any cheap and dinky little gadgets you could insert between anything and a GB netpoint that will just mirror the traffic to a port for netbook/laptop/IDS/whatever i.e. save you fiddling with the switch? Or is there some mini-GB switch that will do it?

That's almost what I'd do (what are "comments" for?), but I think it makes more sense for folk starting out to use the ECP - someone put a basic recipe for this in that disclaimer thread.

Perhaps don't plan to do documents until Office365 for Education turns up which includes some degree of SharePoint Online? There isn't as much storage space for users, but unlike SkyDrive the organisation gets to manage it. Don't ask me how/what/the extents of what you can manage though, or how you might sync docs to there.

Reason I originally asked about this is that normal folk will want all their existing mail transferred to Live@Edu. If Thunderbird is set to download all mail from the POP3 server, then you have a problem - perhaps some Thunderbird expert will know better, but I'm not aware of a simple way to get mail stored in some Thunderbird format transferred to Live@Edu mailboxes, and that's 500-600 times over. I wouldn't want to do that if you were using Outlook and had PST files (which can be manually transferred slowly, one at a time via a copy of Outlook 2007 or later, preferably with PST Import rather than dragging & dropping). Sorry, but I genuinely can't think of a good way past this. You must have asked easy questions or something. They've had me metaphorically banging my head on the wall a few times - having to explain how some not-that-unusual areas of e-mail work to someone who is supposed to be supporting the [bleeping] product doesn't make me happy. Nor does being told "we don't support X" (which for this "X" was nonsense) when they get stuck. It's always been slow for anything lacking a simple boiler-plate answer, but to date support has been much better once escalated to a more local engineer. -- Setting up a basic functioning Live@Edu tenancy isn't hard. Getting current Live@Edu to do some advanced things can be interesting - probably the office365 movement thing, but a lot of the documentation doesn't fit the reality in front of you properly at the moment. Nor for that matter do some of the links in the ECP e.g. I can click a link to get an AdminAuditing report but it will be empty because that's turned off and the cmdlet to turn it on isn't there etc. And has anyone seen that FOPE yet?

Is this a universal disclaimer by any chance (if so look at this thread)? If it's some kind of genuine signature format with everyone's names in the same place, then just like those pesky disclaimers you make a transport rule to put it there.. you can put variables/placeholders in your standard text and they'll be replaced by actual names, departments or whatever. You can do this in powershell or the ECP (go to the Mail Control tab, there's clickable context relevant help). I'm sure I saw the ability to turn off users making signatures in the OWA UI somewhere, but it's probably a (powershell) Set-OWAMailboxPolicy thing.

Mmm.. suspect e-mail disclaimers are the world's current greatest example of why you should distrust consensus. Everyone doing it because everyone does it. ::screams:: If disclaimers are any use then given a decade of fairly extensive e-mail use we would surely have some case-law to back that up. All there really is of course that oft-cited case in the wrong dismissing the influence of a disclaimer over other substantive message content. The only thing the specialist megaquid lawyers seem to agree on is that it might, and that's an untested might, be useful to put a brief confidentiality notice at the start of messages that are genuinely confidential i.e. warn me before I read it. As above (@pctru)if you really have to have one then your very best bet is to appeal to my good nature (i do have one honest!): "please", "would you kindly", warn me about being subject to FOIA etc. If I ever get anything sensitive from a public org with "must", "prohibited" and their ilk then it's going direct to a red-top and not least the ICO because I just hate that lazy facist tat... as in who the Heck do you think you are to give me orders? And I'm reasonably sure the ICO latter will tend to focus on the internal policies and procedures you don't have to help prevent it happening in the first place whilst contemplating a fine... "doh, I thought putting some threatening psuedo-legalese on every e-mail anyone sends would.." isn't going to cut it.

We've got a 2006 2litre TDCi Edge which has been fine... 30-40 mins mixed trips gets me ~48mpg and it's 50+ on long M1 motorway trips etc.. No expert but I reckon the torque is pretty good given what I can easily breeze past up hilly slip-roads. Boot is handy. We don't have any gaffer tape, but I get the bumper flimsiness. Pains: Where I was situated when the EGR valve went (you're not going anywhere), the rear seatbelt locking thing you can get when you put rear seats down, size (I borrow t'other half's for nipping out and parking in very tight places/spaces), how long it takes the trip-thingy to decide that you've got 100+ miles left instead of that 25 it reckoned coz you were parked on a hill.

Does it have to be a radio button? Any kind of table thingy makes me think of DataGridViews which are ever so handy at times and they support a CheckBox type.

More info required for a clueful response: What's the scale i.e. number of mailboxes (staff + students)? What do people use to access their e-mail? Some web-browser-based client? Outlook? Something else (what)? If it's not pure web-based then do the mail clients use POP3 or IMAP? When are you thinking of doing it for real?

I was using Windows VMs at the end of the 90's because we had to support 95, 98, NT3.51, NT 4 and about to be released Me and 2K with a wide variety of web browsers and versions. That is what real development is like, or at least what real development is like with no one being paid truckloads of maintenance money in a position to cause some significant pain by jumping the MS support expiry gun. In any case you missed a key point: Why can it run on XP longer than 2003? What's the massive difference that make's them count as 2 OS's as opposed to 1.1 at worst? Ans: None worth mentioning in this context. I don't know what the agenda is here but I haven't seen a single comment from anyone with a credible tech reason, so I'm falling back to suspecting there's something else going on. Perhaps it is some strategy to effectively force some schools into the cloud or something? PS: I wrote/support extremely serious code on 5 Windows OS+platform combinations all by myself - and this stuff needs to care about some of the differences.

It's only going to be a mess if Capita make it so. I'm expecting this to cause financial pain for some of those little Primary schools with things like CC3 that can least afford it. They can't afford to upgrade entire system until date X, but to continue using SIMS they have to pay to have some of it 'rearranged' ahead of that date which isn't a trivial cost as a percentage of ICT budget, and reduces money for that entire system upgrade. Gets even messier if they do classroom attendance etc.

I think it's neither of the above, but I guess it depends on who you talk^H^H^H^H listen to. Capita are still insisting on killing things significantly ahead of Microsoft doing that e.g. roughly 2 years earlier for Server 2003, 18 months earlier for Office 2003, 6 months earlier for XP. In particular WHY?!? is there a need differentiate between XP and 2003 (which runs the SQL 2008 they support for a lot longer)? PS: I'm arguing as someone who's done serious multi-platform dev in the depths of Windows and AFAIC this "oh, we might not be able to get MS to fix their OS" stuff is a crock, as in device drivers it ain't so what are these deep OS dependencies? Why do they care provided whatever they've built their code with e.g. dotNet vN libraries work.