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look at delprof2 it might do what your looking for but might still require run on each machine, we have large churn of users so as they login to each machine profile directories are created cna get upto couple of hundred profile directories on some machines, I used that over the summer in a summer2013 login script just went round to each machine and logged in, done chkdsk, delprof and defrag, as part of our summer clean out. Delprof2 - User Profile Deletion Tool Be very careful with this, i have 20 odd years non-experience with computers and still managed to delete my profile directory and documents i needed using this.

I found a 5 1/4 full height drive in the cupboard the other day at our old high school campus.

Just to be different linux and iptables, ok it lacks a intuitive gui tho I believe you can get a gui app to manage it and it has been around ages meaning loads of documentation. I used to use it on my home server. I heard something that there's a newer linux firewall with slightly better, easier configuration. NFtables.

+1 we have it on a old server (well most of our servers are old) along side WDS/MDT, it only has 4gb memory and starts to crawl when pushing out updates, all due to sql memory requirements. You also want it on a fast network connection.

I done a few powershell scripts for WOL, shutdown, restart and ping to groups of machines (groups are defined in txt file with ip/machinename and mac, name used for shutdown, mac used for WOL. I've attached my scripts, I just relooked at WOL script it may need to be updated to allow you to specify broadcast address (or just replace the one hardcoded), but its a pretty easy change. I was also in the process last year of writing a gather script which gets wmi info off machines (pretty much anything you can think of: macs, bios s/n), also wrote a custom MOF to get installed apps as the WMI is surpose to be a bit dodgy. I would have love to finish it but got higher priority things. I may be willing to part with the gather work i did but its very much hacked work in progress. 1 more thing if your on same subnet you can use something like nmap to get mac ids for ips Hope this helps Mike ps_scripts.zip

We are looking at possibly using sccm Too, We Use wsus And wds/mdt. Will it cover both of those?

I started a Technologies club few months back, mostly using code.org and have few kids that are really excited. My wife (librarian) said there is gossip from the kids around the campus that i'm cool I think its great the kids are getting some tech training as it's almost as important as the other core lessons these days.

Anyone use SCCM for deploying third party programs / updates? My problem is the number of version they release and trying to keep ontop reader, flash, java etc I looked at trying to use WSUS to update custom updates but got stumped on the certificate bit. Also do you guys let reader / flash auto update?

Its so easy to under estimate the immense forces at work here. Very cool tho thanks for sharing the link, i've downloaded them and will pass them onto science dept.

We have 1 teacher here that uses reflector, There's also a demo version of reflector which I think allows 20 minutes of use, a good way to check out to see if its a workable solution. We flattened out our vlans during last summer network re-address.

I'll be going, luckily I'm a bit better prepared this year. Last year i'd only been with the district / in the USA 1 month. I think this year im looking at stuff I can use with my new Technologies Club I started and BYOD as think they could be big in our district.

Another vote for wacom intuos had an old one years ago and worked fine in windows 7, also had 1 at my old company, used every day, worked year on year. Think the only thing we replaced was the transparent cover and the pen nib.

I also enjoy playing with them on the phone and string them along for as long as possible, while there on the phone to me there not scamming anyone else. I act completely stupid and make them repeat everything 10 times, "im sorry where is that again, im sorry I dont see that link/button to click" kind of thing, and a hold on a minute the front door thrown in for good measure, and leave them hanging 10 minutes. By the time/ if we reach remote login, after i've pretended to download whatever they wanted, and their saying things like im trying to login now and not working, I reveal that they have just wasted the last 40-60mins on the phone with IT professional and i'm not about to fall for a stupid scam, I have to say that some are a mite unhappy, at which point i hangup I also try and figure out how smart they are when they ask for an ip address ill give them a 10.x.x.x address and see if they catch on.

My mate gifted it to me over the steam winter sale, I've not played it much. I like the idea of it but I give up during the grind of it all. I'll have to try and get up the motivation to give it another go, which is hard as assetto corsa and assassin creed 3 have me gripped. Maybe some mods would help.

I presume your windows. In dhcp -> domain -> Scope - (right click) > properties, we have ours set at 2 days. Also if you have multiple scopes check each as you can have different lease time per scope. Also check your DNS, in forward and reverse domain and arpa (right click) properties -> name server tab and ensure all name servers are listed with correct ips.

A couple of things to check, the versions of wsus server and clients, I had an issue when i moved our from 2003 -> 2008 that wsus server didn't get updated correctly and clients were on later version and wouldn't talk, updated wsus server patches and started working. Also make sure that any GPOs with wsus details are updated to new server, another problem i found where we had 3 copies of windows update server information in GPOs.

Some other options are if you have server (or machine with serial port) in/near the rack and serial cable from machine, remote desktop and putty to switch. putty is great because it gives you telnet,ssh and serial in 1 exe

We have been going through working out our infrastructure over the last year, we have made some strides forward but not 100% painless. I come from a software development role to Tech Support and like you trying to find all the hardware and how its connected / what its address is. Tools i've been using are nmap, The dude, ping, traceroute, putty. Probably the easiest way to find information on your switches is to plug directly into them via serial cable (or buy usb to serial) and learn the the switch commands. This summer we went through and re-addressed all of our devices. breaking them down by campus (3 main campus + 4 other buildings), while doing this we also cataloged all the devices and other useful information, ip, mac, printer names, printer server, wifi access point. We are still continuing to this day to catalog and fill in the blanks but have a pretty good spreadsheet of where everything is on network and login information (most of our kit still had default security logins ) Second phase was to have the closets rewired, we had 10ft patch cables and virtually no cable management, so massive amounts of cable weight. We did all this with a third party contractor, and the decision was made before I got here to go that route, but there was nothing that they did that we couldn't have done ourselves. admittedly we may not have been able todo it in the same time frames but we would have had much better understanding doing it ourselves. My advice is to get a solid plan, and not worry too much with the things that are currently working, aim to make 1 change at a time and deal with any fall out before moving onto the next problem.

About half our machines are xp, I'm working hard to push win7 as the default install and move existing hardware to 7, but alot of underspecced pcs means win7 wont run too well, and no money for upgrades/new machines on some campus'. Also the boss doesn't see it as a big rush Also trying to get 2003 to 2008 done, managed to get 3 machines during the summer, and 2 left which are backup dc and sophos server, i'm hoping to combine.

IntelliTone Pro Toner and Network Probe - Cable Network Testing | Fluke Networks we have one of those and has been a great bit of kit for locating and testing cable runs.

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Thanks apeman, yes I re-enabled it after the changes were made

Thanks for the replies, I got an email from a lovely man at brawn consulting who specialise in samsung displays. The ip configuration changes were being stopped by samsung EWF, EWF needs to be disabled in order for any changes to configuration to be saved. Now set as a reservation on DHCP so any futher changes should be easy

I thought I'd ask on here to see if anyone has any ideas for how to set ip address on a samsung 460dxn LFD, it runs embedded windows xp and i've gone through the normal suspects (the network connection settings in windows) and am able to set an ip address and its all up and running, as soon as the display is rebooted it goes back to its old ip address. I've checked the bios, magic info client program and onscreen menu configuration and not able to find anything related to setting ip address. Any help is appreciated.

Another good command on the client is Gpresult /R And Gpresult /R /scope computer From an admin command prompt this will tell you what gpos are applied Im still pretty new to group policy but the management tool has some good explainations for what the settings do. Like everyone said apply to dummy user, computer or group. Another thing I found is if you have a computer rule it doesnt get applied if you assign it to a user.