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Not in a computer, but I did once find a fish in a printer. One of the 'pranks' that Year 11 pulled on their last day.

As written that script won't remove hidden files, as Get-ChildItem only returns hidden files if you pass it the -Force parameter/flag.

Just had a fifteen minute blast of snow in Isleworth. Not exactly a whiteout, but pretty impressive. Here's hoping they're right and we get more on Thurs/Fri. The little kid in me that loves snow has never really gone away...

Haha, true! And sure, happy to help! Batch is fine, but PS is so much easier to work with, and gives you a lot more flexibility.

Scripting is awesome IMO (PowerShell recommended!) for those weird edge cases where the standard tools just don't work (e.g. stuff without an MSI like old educational software from the 90s, SIMS & FMS, etc.) Glad you got it sorted though!

I would seriously consider changing that... See here from the NCSC, and here from the US FTC. Short version is that they lead to people picking a simple password and shoving numbers on the end.

Because one MSI with a transform is too much like sense... We'll be deploying this at our new site - something to look forward to! Also @Joanne - check the Event Viewer logs for events related to Windows Installer, see what you find.

I'd still suggest that unless said user was very high-risk (e.g. target of sophisticated attacks) they don't need it.

You'll need to do some, er, jiggery-pokery to ESXi to allow macOS clients if you're planning to run it that way.

Tempted to set something like this up at our new site... Meet Lenny - the internet's favourite telemarketer-tricking robot | The Independent

Test a different machine, see what that does.

I like Voyager, but then that's probably because it was the first of the modern series I watched. Tied with DS9 for favourite one - they both do different things well.

I want to like Discovery, because I love Star Trek, but I'm having a hard time doing so because... well, this sums it up: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/02/star-trek-discovery-ends-the-season-with-a-bang/ Too much retreading old ground, and not enough exploring! Unrelated - has the BBC's Requiem been mentioned? Spooky mystery drama, quite good.

Nice! Shame we can only run it on a simulator as yet - nice that we'll (probably) be able to just swap out the simulator object for a real interface to a quantum computer though when the time comes.

Merry Christmas to all!

BTS

@twoods - Wow, blast from the past, this one! I'd write a Bash script or AppleScript that did effectively the same thing and use that.

@elsiegee40 - just wanted to say that I was offered this job this afternoon (and I accepted!); thank you for all your work in finding and posting these!

Thanks - that wasn't in the original post, which must have been taken down at some point for editing.

How do you actually apply?

Our vacancies | Alperton Community School

According to this (linked from the school website), the salary is £38,229 - £41,025

We have about 50 AlphaSmart NEO 2 devices (these things) available. Looking for about £25 per device, but will consider sensible offers. Collection from Perivale, North Ealing.

This is good news! In the meantime, the issue is caused by various DLLs that the Exams module relies on not being registered properly. What you need to do is make sure that they get re-registered after a SIMS update - it seems from looking at Process Monitor traces that all the DLLs in the SIMS directory starting with 'CES' need registering. Along with those are two .NET libraries - these need to be passed to RegAsm in order for it to create the COM wrapper around them (the rest go to regsvr32). A PowerShell snippet like this will take care of it - if you use a script to deploy & update SIMS itself it can be integrated into that. # This path may be different for your environment! $regAsmPath = "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\RegAsm.exe" # Ditto - change this to wherever SIMS is installed $simsPath = "C:\Program Files (x86)\SIMS\SIMS .net" Get-ChildItem $simsPath -filter "CES*.dll" | %{ & regsvr32 /s $_.FullName } & $regAsmPath "$simsPath\LoginProcesses.dll" /nologo /silent & $regAsmPath "$simsPath\DocManagementProcesses.dll" /nologo /silent

Are there any systems out there for managing safeguarding/cause-for-concern cases - tracking reports, referrals, meetings, etc? I know of a couple for LAs and social work teams, but couldn't find any aimed at schools. I could tweak a standard 'support ticket' application to fit, but want to see if I've missed anything! (Apologies if this is the wrong forum to ask this sort of question!)