PiqueABoo

Google has been broken for me ever since they started doing silly things when you search for something in quotes e.g. "a-b".

A couple of months later it may well be e.g. second photo down on the right. You'd probably get away with some of it coz most teachers will have their own copies of their planning but getting away with all of it is a lot better. PS: Don't know if it was substantiated but the Daily Mail had a quote saying "'It looks like it was the computer room which was alight first."

What happens when the school burns down?

Seems like a better place to go than one alternative I can think of. You don't. I believe E2K7 is supposed to be a bit more promiscuous, but E2K3 is a single-forest kind of app. However if your admin staff keep their accounts on the CC3 domain then they can connect their Outlooks to mailboxes for those accounts on the Exchange server. I'm sure that works, but it shouldn't be difficult for you to test and prove that ahead of time. Unless you have zillions of admin staff it won't be that difficult to maintain.

Yes, but that's the answer for middleware that meets the needs of the school (in practice). My point was that an MSP reverting a system to vanilla is an example of a serious failure, not a virtue.

Good idea. This one is supposed to fix the uninstallation problem, so that's worth looking at.

Sorry but if you're in a school then no it's not. You might be a particularly good IT Manager, but you're almost certainly a jack-of-all-trades. IT is a huge, huge, huge area. The problem is that (having been one in some areas after a long time in R&D) I've yet to spot what I'd call a credible "expert" in the managed service provider I know best. One reason is that real-world IT is seriously ageist - even if they have the talent, a lot of people working in it simply don't have enough experience. Or if they do have the expertise they've often moved past the places that would benefit from it. Mmm.. I can think of some very recent comments by someone in a school (grafted onto a BSF deal) who would probably kill for that to happen. You do have to wonder why these everso, professional experts put broken, presumably school, network management software in there the first place. That's certainly not 'industry standard', nor is it anything like professional (in the ethical/standards sense) to implement something you know is deficient... and if they didn't know they're incompetent amateurs.

As above problems here almost always shows in the FRS event log.. there are others but journal wrap is the most common cause.

The fundamental problem is that XP should be saying "Media disconnected" when the cable isn't there. I'd probably blame the driver, but the first thing to check is that you do NOT have this in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters DWORD: DisableDHCPMediaSense 1

I decided not to care about that scenario. If they can do it on org's boxes including teacher laptops and on their home machines that's good enough for me. Ultimately this is supposed to be work/business data - why do you need to access that from any box anywhere on the planet?

Yes but that's a discount off the bill, it doesn't necessarily get you good coffee? And if it does taste like dishwater we'll probably still have people on both sides of the contractual fence claiming it's just like blue mountain.

There is a CL util on here that you can use to configure WZC connections, including the password: labs.arubanetworks.com But it relies on the key lying around (which is pretty much the same reason MS don't let you put it in GPOs).

Ah.. still have to prove to myself that there is a "which driver" issue, but that's essentially what I came here to suggest (look for tc on the system and run that if extant, otherwise try the penstick copy.) The bit that bothers me though is the collision between the risk of someone not encrypting something confidential because clicking say a shortcut to mount containers is jus too hard, and the risks of encouraging people to autoplay of USB sticks given it's now well-established use by malware. And that will be very bad news unless you've got different ones for every machine- in which case how does it work when I go to another machine?

April 2014.. that's 5 years time.. your new PCs etc. may well be in or headed for WEEE-land by then.

It's big/wettish but settling here. I'm doing anti-snow dances because I have to catch up with stuff cancelled because of school closures.

Yeah, sorry I hadn't got as far down as your post, but I suppose it doesn't hurt to have that point restated.

Noooooooooooo!! Here's the 277th Private Eye take on PFI from a couple of weeks ago. PFI/BSF is a crock. If one thing sinks in make sure it's the first line.

I'm sorry this is a side-issue but I have to ask: So what? It's just a package object class and few attributes isn't it? They're not going to do anything e.g. package objects won't appear out of nowhere, create a new OU or computer and they won't get any rmCom2000-Wotsit attribs.

FWIW PC Inspector and Recuva were both in my "couldn't hack it" category. When pointed at the "not formatted" pendrive the former threw a memory exception, the latter (which is portable so I carry it around) couldn't see anything.

Out of interest why can't you just install truecrypt on these machines where they're not an admin?

I had one of those recently.. several utils couldn't hack it but I used (the free) photorec to find the files and that worked just fine. Didn't recover the original file names though, but i didn't care much about that. Warning: it runs in a DOS box.

That's what I did but with NTFS ACEs instead. The other one that's similarly annoying is the XP "Help and Support.." - I just disabled the service way back whenever, but why did it have to be service?

I've got a 5 yr-old.. fixing names to objects is one significant part of what they do. There's nothing special or clever about bits of computers e.g. you get the same effect with all the pictures in the last inch of an Argos catalog.

This is one of my pet problems: AIUI the standard Primary vision seems to be lots of little, often very expensive, often unmanageable (centrally), wireless gadgets in classrooms all doing lot's of lovely multimedia type stuff, and this concept seems to be backed by kids having little fingers and get along just fine with a DS (the reality is that they seem to get along fine with anything and big screens are clearly better for lots of stuff). Oh and kids love babbling on facebook etc., so that's another of the only possible ways they can use ICT to learn. There was recent thread nearby where someone was celebrating getting 30 wireless-n laptops logged on via their Extricom system and 25 managing to stream iPlayer video before it began to suffer. There will always be exceptions like new schools, but try running the costs of all that stuff (that still doesn't work the way you want i.e. 30 all happily streaming video) past a typical Primary where IME for financial reasons they often have several teachers still struggling along with ancient inadequate laptops for their IWBs. And these are the same schools that, for all the staff's valiant efforts, are letting some of those 'included' kids essentially stagnate because of resource issues. I don't *want* to be negative about this, it's genuine concern about the realities, potential outcomes and whether visions will end up robbing Peter to pay Paul. If anyone thinks they can argue that concern into submission then please do.

Thanks for the heads-up - may or may not use it, but I certainly wanted to try this a month or so ago.