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I've added the SMTP component to the nearest IIS service several times for that.

For years and years you've been able to get a Group policy spreadsheet which has all of that.. possibly not so filterable though and I suppose the advantage of this is that in principle it will get updated and fixed more often.

I just went straight to the MDT script and changed that. 1) Look in \scripts for: ZTIGather.wsf 2) I inserted code at ~ line 512 which is after it has attempted to retrieve the make + model and immediately before a VBS comment saying: Get the UUID from the Win32_ComputerSystemProduct class 3) Here's an example of the code to fix a 'broken' model by removing the forward-slash: If sModel = "ACME / COMPUTERS" then sModel = "ACME COMPUTERS" End if It's very quick to do and you can repeat it for any other 'broken' models as you encounter them. I've done the same thing for a 'broken' make (same as above but you test and set sMake instead of sModel). You don't need to remake the WIMs or anything because they're run directly from the distribution share.

I've had that kind of problem with a couple of models.. my solution was to lightly modify one of the MDT scripts to map "bad" model names to nice ones that will work as 'folder' names (note: they're just in XML files, not real NTFS folders). Can't get details now, can later if interested which script and where.

I didn't like that Panorama - seemed kinda lightweight & superficial. Read some a bit more seriously and this caught my eye: "Age differences are noteworthy: teachers’ engagement with children’s internet use is least among 9-10 year olds. Partly because the notorious Jessie Slaughter case suggests it might all be a bit too late if you only start on that when they're 11. In fact something like 7 is probably the latest I'd want to see some serious engaging.

Ah.. this explains last week's Panaroma. Unless you're carrying the e-safety torch, I'd just read the key-findings... ...which I just skimmed coz they were too long.. but this looks like the most significant geek-needs-to-know bit: "Parents would prefer to get information on internet safety from their child’s school, so greater efforts should be undertaken by the education sector"

Still haven't played with E2K10 so this might have changed a little, but you usually configure an umm.. scope (which domains you're sending out to) should use a given send connectors. If you just have one connector it would be "*" i.e. all of them, but you might add one for say "example.com" which points to a different MTA from the default. So have you configured something like this in the new connector?

Well in GPOs there's "Synchronize all offline files before logging off" which in the description says: If you disable this setting, the system only performs a quick synchronization. Quick synchronization ensures that files are complete, but does not ensure that they are current. I do full: Never really understood why you'd want all the files with some of them potentially out of date, but I only sync user MyDocs (for a specific user of that box), perhaps it makes more sense for syncing from multi-user shares or something.

I wouldn't reimage until after user-doing-something-unpredictable has been eliminated.. XP? Can you do that? Thought it was implicitly incremental..

It's not exactly a huge sample size, but the only time I've ever seen trouble with offline files was re. a flaky HDD... are the event logs clear of disk errors? Unexpected shutdowns etc.?

Is it always A - [something]? If so you have to wonder whether sync-at-logoff is being interrupted when they're in a hurry to leave or something... don't know, but it needs to be asked. PS: Hadn't seen your last reply. Is this happening a lot or isn't it? Outside consultant only explains it being in a mess once and if you've cleared the CSC cache since I don't see how..

They might have a lot in common but they're not a common platform.. the first is 5.1, the second 5.2 and you routinely get separate versions of hotfixes. Have you looked in the Application event log.. when GPP processing stuff breaks for me I get events.

It's not obviously online, but Private Eye picked up on that BECTA report which they claim reveals: "that four out of five school management systems were bought illegally" etc. PS: Bah.. subject should say "Private"

Oooh.. I'm so impressed I'm going to spend lots of money on their products now.

re. the OKs, if you/whoever needs to run it in future, then delete the WScript.Echo line within the while loop.

I only do JS, but it's calls the same WSH functions so it's just a case of translating to VBS (possibly just a case of removing the semi-colon). This example call with command line switches works for me: wshshell.Run("something.exe /a /b /c:hello", 0, true); The 0 is a windows style and that true is a boolean and tells it to wait until the EXE has finished running.

World+Dog says 'no thanks' to 3D TV

Live@Edu is being morphed into "Office365 for Education". Perhaps we'll know more this time next week after MS have been at BETT but in the mean-time look at what I posted here mid Dec. The slide in that presentation is handy because it has info I haven't seen anywhere else e.g. we already knew the (school) managed collaboration will be done on Sharepoint, but the slide has numbers for the disk space. There is less to do, but you still have things to deal with when it's outsourced. I don't think Exchange is much trouble at all, including Exchange 2003. If it ain't broke don't fix it.. with an existing Exchange, unless the current requirements change (e.g. you want a lot more additional mailboxes than the h/w will handle) or some other factors turn up (e.g. server goes out of warranty) I would wait until O365fE has fully arrived.

::sob:: Beaten to it, just a few minor points worth adding.. "Self-signed" certificates are root certificates which is why it goes in the root store... if you let the certificate import dialog (part of CAPI the crypo API) choose where to put it, it never seems to get it right, but that may be smarter in Win7 (I haven't tried). You said you'd flagged the cert for use in IIS, so it definitely should just work for OWA once you've got the cert distributed. Do you use POP3 & IMAP? I always turn those off and just stick to OWA and full Outlook. At the very least try and get rid of POP3 before someone decides to use it then downloads (& deletes from server) their mail.. and by-and-by loses/trashes it.

Think beyond the initial migration: If you're going to use this dynamic approach where you don't have explicit NTFS permissions and everything revolves around ownership, then you'll likely need to be able to remove stray perms and reset ownership for one or more user folders in future. It's not that often, but there have been occasions when for one good reason or other, I've wanted to go to a server and drop a few files in one or more folks folders.. after which I want the ownership changed from Admin to the respective user(s). Better to have that capability present and correct now, rather than trying to make it in a hurry when someone's scwtheaming about how incredibly urgent..

Where did the certificate come from? How did you make it (or get it)? Answer to those questions will save time talking about the wrong aspects here.

Umm.. I'm not attempting to be hostile but it's Friday so I'm tired/grumpy and I'm seriously struggling to extract the point from that. Best I can manage is "we need to spend more to get [unspecified magic IT], otherwise we'll be stuck with 10 year-old ICT concepts". Is that close? And if so, well first I think most of them are much older than that, and second what are the significant new concepts we're not paying for? Take away the shrinking geometries and subsequent increase in portability, strip off the 21st-Century marketing, and where is all that innovation?

This was Outlook 2007 on XP that apparently wouldn't pick up the IE proxy settings and I might have been in stupid mode and probably need to check it all over again, but to set the WinHTTP proxy go to a command prompt and type proxycfg -p some.proxy.name If it's Win7 you do this via netsh and you'll have to google how. As mentioned above and in that other thread that DNS CNAME has to be present and correct first. I'm a bit suspicious about it apparently landing at your local Exchange server IIS at some point, although on a domain box the first of several places Autodiscovery looks is in AD so maybe that's something to do with it. If your live@edu domain is the same as a local one then maybe there's some unfortunate DNS conflict somewhere.

You've got a few more possibilities than migrating old ones to new ones, where for instance you couldn't do your logon script approach. I wouldn't choose the login method because if there's any random pain it will just prolong that and it's not the most efficient approach. YMMV but I'd much rather move stuff in bulk at the server-side, fix any errors that happen, fix perms + ownership, job done, next. Talking of errors: Whatever method you use I would look for stuff that is approaching maximum path length in the source, and perhaps reduce any culprits down to 200 chars or something.

Off the top of my head for (one-off non-subscription model, under select or whatever the right kind of licensing is) I think it was very roughly something like £80 and £200 respectively plus CALs at around £3-4 each. But as above, MS are promising "Secondly, if you normally buy your software on a perpetual license (eg Select), then switching to this will reduce your annual bill substantially". Guess we'll see if that is actually true for small Primary numbers where IME the initial OS costs may well have been amortised over 6-7 years e.g. they got the 2003+XP they're still using that long ago. [is there a lot of 2008R2 + Win7 in primary yet? How's the typical application s/w holding up i.e. are they having to buy upgrades or alternative for much of it?]