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That happened to TOH.. a little angel from her Y5 class nicked her phone from her desk... we used a very similar strategy i.e. lied about trackability, and when it was anonymously returned they had left a hilariously inept recording on it trying to impersonate/implicate someone else. We initially called and were told it had been blocked etc. but the telco failed to do so...

I've run into this a few times.. schools do manage to have kids and staff together in a GAL, they tend to be relaxed, cool even, and somehow manage to survive whilst taking advantage of the system by actually mailing each other etc... whereas schools that want it otherwise tend to be neurotic about everything. I've tried telling the latter that since they've (typically) used a preditable formula/convention to create their staff e-mail addresses then any kid that they've actually educated a teensy little bit will be able to figure out most of them in the time it takes their teacher to connect a laptop to an IWB, but alas... It is a cultural *problem*.

::sheesh:: Do we have to absolutely everything now? Well I'm older than most of you so I'm appointing myself Tsar for Wonderful IT and my introductory policy is: 1) All future policy will be evidence-based from non-commercial sources. 2) The maximum executive toy to SLT ratio is 0:1 3) The maximum pupil to server ratio is 100:1 4) %49%66%20%79%6f%75%27%72%65%20%61%20%4e%65%74%77%6f%72%6b%20%4d%61%6e%61%67%65%72%20%61%6e%64%20%63%61%6e%27%74%20%72%65%61%64%20%74%68%69%73%20%79%6f%75%27%72%65%20%66%69%72%65%64 5) C98640A896A440838195409985818440A38889A240A896A47D998540969540A38885408184A589A29699A8408296819984

Advice: You could do this but I'd use the time instead focusing on the next, post-CC3 system. Support stops for CC3 when MS XP support stops in April 2014, but personally I'd want a replacement in by summer 2013 which isn't that far away now.

Not that strange, I probably typed "RawLanguages" or something.

::drat:: it's been a while and I'm sure I tried LangaugesRaw but got lots of redness. Just checked that it really did work and your filter gets more results than my where-object. The former matches $null, the latter doesn't.

Thing is.. writing a script can take a while especially if something you're interested in doing doesn't have perfect documentation, whereas kicking off a simple brute force one-liner and checking it finished when you've returned with a fresh coffee might use some MS CPU cycles, but it doesn't take much of MY time. That said I do like doing this kind of thing because it works for most stuff, fits on one line and spits out less console noise: get-mailbox -resultsize unlimited | ?{$_.languages -ne 'en-gb'} | set-mailbox ... For a while I used to want to use -filter whenever I could because I suspect that is more efficient, but this reaches more parts and figuring out what is filterable (besides 'name' or a customattribute) can be a pain e.g. can anyone find a working filter for the above?

You have to set the WinHTTP proxy to use powershell through a proxy (xp:proxycfg -p proxy.example.net, win7:netsh winhttp set proxy proxy.example.net)

You don't need Exchange. If you're running XP there's a KB to install WinRM which includes powershell. If you're running Win7 you have powershell. You start powershell and use connection commands that are in this MS guide That automagically imports the Exchange cmdlets module when you connect.

I was just responding to the preceding post.. wasn't a comment on the pros/cons of earlier comments. --- FUD glorious FUD. Things I think are true, anyone is free to correct: 1) Not pointing any fingers in any particular direction, but I've tripped over exploitable serious security vulnerabilities in some stuff from some large vendors. Far as I'm concerned none of 'em deserve your trust simply because you've heard of them, it's a long-standing product with some discernable market share, they say it's wonderfully secure, you haven't heard about it being hacked or whatever. For the most part proprietory school systems/software has had an easy ride re. security because folk who hack things well generally have more interesting targets. 2) I'm not aware of a school being fined by ICO for anything relevant yet, as opposed to undertaking to pull their socks up. We had the publicised school with password reuse issue last year where hacked credentials retrieved from one system got them into an independent (MIS) system - you really ought to think very hard about the implications of user password reuse, also of AD integration. 3) The main risk reading data out of anyone's undocumented DB is of course interpreting it wrongly e.g. you may have to decode the meaning of obscure content in several fields to accurately decide whether some Widgit record is active, whether it should be collected or ignored. The main benefit of APIs then is that they ought to do that work for you. However the DBs I've pillaged don't have APIs I can get, so I've just painstakingly reversed stuff like that and OMG(!) one vendor update even changed the contents of a rather critical field once, but ::shrug::

Nit-pick: pen is an abbreviation not a TLA. Mixed feelings about that, on the one-hand discouraging amateurs lacking a "security mindset" from exposing the crown jewels to the world is probably a good thing, but it reads like "You can't afford to do this so don't even try".

It should be, but I'm not saying it's perfectly safe so do take a copy of the original before you fiddle, in fact just back up your GPOs via GPMC like conscientious admins are supposed to every so often. Then rather than using notepad and wondering which bit to edit it's probably easier to make a new throwaway GPO, configure the folder redirection there without touching any folder you don't want redirected, and try copying the fdeploy.ini from the new GPO over the fdeploy.ini in the original GPO. If it all works OK throwaway the new GPO. Doubtful - it could easily be an unavoidable side-effect of folder redirection e.g. in some scenarios it *might* need to know the difference between "was never configured" and "was configured but isn't now".

Don't know - accessing someone's logon session anywhere without them knowing is on the other side on one of *my* personal lines, staff or student it offends my sense of ethics.

Moi? RA is RDP with bells & whistles.. you just RDP to a few computers with your RDP-enabled test account and test something.

Yes, you just quoted my not-Googled explanation of where those specific settings are stored and how the OP might fix their (non-systematic) problem. Not really, just a job where once in a while I might have time to care about this kind of issue.

The overwhelming majority do NOT, they either exist in a registry.pol file with a value e.g. [enabled|disabled, 27, "Hello World!"] or they don't. The screenshot shows folder redirection which is handled by a GP extension - settings for folder redirection live in a fdeploy.ini file within the GPOs sysvol folder. If it's top of anyone's priority list than then a) Can I have your job? b) Go find that file and edit the setting out with notepad (if you have multiple DCs then I would go toggle a normal setting in that GPO so the version number changes).

That for those reasons. Why anyone would add 3rd party software overhead is beyond me (the only reason I might use something else is for doing this between two machines that aren't in the same domain).

::shrug:: This is **education** and it's almost like that here (not LGfL) and presumably other places: There are DNS servers you use that work, a bunch of proxies where schools can pick a predefined filtering level or implement their own, if you must you can get IMAP & SMTP-AUTH 587 out to some places and possibly a couple of others. maybe videoconferencing type stuff etc. for which I presume there was a credible business case. The folk providing RBC etc. connections have a 'duty of care' that you don't appear to appreciate (comments on "filtered web"). They're possibly overdoing it here, but you haven't said anything/enough to convince me that's the case e.g. what port and why etc?

Probably, but the standard (EMCAScript) javascript and jscript mostly implement definitely calls itself a Scripting Language.

Possibly not the best time to say that e.g. JavaScript+HTML5 being that 'first class citizen" re. WinRT & Metro Apps.

Take some screenshots...

Uh huh.. on one of the earlier 'What Programming...?' threads I mused: I think I'm missing DOS & serial ports. Reason: You could get a minute amount of x86 assembly to send data out of a serial port and if the other end of that is something shiny that does pixels then you've covered a lot of fundamental territory at a nearly direct level, which might be a good thing to do *before* diving into the relatively abstract-from-computer high-level stuff. It's the spirit, not my specific and possibly flawed example that counts... and I wouldn't do that until after the basic theory (binary, text encoding, image representation, recipe=algorithm etc.) had been covered in whatever entertaining ways you can without hitting the computers. PS: Just did some more musing while doing the washing-up the old-fashioned way and have decided you've just got to have some crypto in there early on.. Simon Singh-style stuff with history and some basic puzzle type stuff (as opposed to hard maths).

Someone's sample code for trying to get through the projectprometheus.com logon. [it's all getting a bit too spoiler-ish now, including that latest trailer. I'm going in hibernation mode until it's released]

I thought charities could get Exchange server licence for ~ £40 (ignoring the h/w etc.)

Was in a Primary school a few weeks ago.. their curriculum system is in an **extremely dire** state and they've known and have been reminded about that for a long time... but instead of getting on fixing that they have bought expensive "class ipads for the children".. only the kids aren't likely to see them much because they had very obviously and very quickly turned into teacher's personal kit that goes home and doesn't always come back.. all for net surfing + (stupidly expensive) note taking at a very occasional meeting. Wish that were a rare exception but it's not. I'm just gobsmacked, appalled, by the rise of ethically impoverished attitudes in folk in whom you trust with your kids. Funding isn't the only thing they're missing the point about...