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Hi, We run ISA 2006 mainly because our webfilter (SurfControl) sits on it. At the moment it allows authenticated users (integrated) through only. What I am would like is to allow staff members to hook up their laptops to the network wihtou having to connect to the domain and authenticate with their domain usr & pwd to get internet access. Is this possible and how? I have tried setting basic authentication to no avail and also using the 'run as' with IE7 with no luck. All help appreciated.

I am in the process of getting around this too. What I am doing is setting all of the network printers up on two servers. As well as that I am rewriting the logon script to map the printers using the script in the Edugeek Wiki. The advantage with this is that if one server goes, in the script you can very quickly change which server the printers are mapped from. Hopefully will give a bit of redundancy

Currently having a go at Evony. It's free and fill in the little time I have!

We use Kompozer here with no problems. Installed onto machines with no dramas and no tweaking needed with our mandatory profiles. Not as clean code as dreamweaver but can't complain for the cost either!

On the topic of emailing suppliers, I will never cold send an email for quote, except for one supplier which I have a very, very good relationship with. While email is good, nothing beats the personal touch of calling someone and talking briefly first and then asking if its alright to send an email with the finer details of the request. I find this approach takes a little longer but people seem to really like the personal touch and I think that in a few cases I have gotten better deals then other colleagues over here because of it. Just my 2 quid.

This is of no comfort to you now but I recommend that you use a script to record who logs and where. The thread linked below details a script that I am now using and have caught a few kids out now Record Logon

Would you mind sharing the script that you use for this? Sounds like it may resolve a few issues I'm having here but with staff that don't want there laptops joined to our domain.

Have the setting in Internet Explorer been changed? In the Local Intranet Security settings make sure that User Authentication>Logon is set to "Automatic logon with current user name and password".

Close, I'd go back to teaching wood and metal work! Somedays I really miss the simplicity of being in a workshop:(

We use a Ruckus system so all the access points are centrally managed. I've been through the c onfig several times and can't find anything that has changed there. Nope, can't ping from the mail server back to the laptop. At the moment I have the encryption set as WPA-PSK. I'll have a go at disabling the encryption and trying that tonight. XP. We don't have any Vista machines here as the district office decided that we are going to skip vista and go straight for win7

I've tried pinging via IP to no avail. Tried to repair the connection as well but no good. The only thing that I can pick has changed is that between a few days the laptop wireless connection was issued a new IP address via dhcp. But it is still within the scope so I can't see how that would affect anythin....but it is the only thing that has changed too?!?

I have a strange problem that I can't resolve. With a few laptops (not all of them as mine is fine) when that are connected to the wireless network they can't see the mail server. I've tried to ping the mail server via cmd prompt and no response. They log on fine and when connected via cable all is good. As I said it is on some laptops not all of them. I've checked the DNS and no settings seem out of place. Any suggestions really appreciated on this! Yours Rowan

And of course the joystick in the corner

A hornet that close would knock him over flat!

I have had someone tell me I should just transfer the existing exchange to a new box (with StorageCraft) and wait till exchange 2010 next year. Is this worth it? How long would exchange 07 last me for?

Current Specs - Sun - IBM x306 Intel P4 3.0 GHz, 1 Gb RAM, 2 x 230 Gb HDD Raid 1 Mercury - P4 1.8MHz?? Venus/Mars - Acer Altos r701 Intel Xeon 2.8 GHz, 2 Gb RAM, 2 73Gb HDD Raid 1

We are at the stage where we have a chance to get a couple of new servers. I'm trying to work out what is the best way to allocate our needs. We have approx 130 computers with 300 users. At the moment we have Sun - PDC, apps, file, dhcp, dns, backups, print Mercury - Exchange, pxe boot, DC Venus - Intranet & VLE Mars - ISA & Web filter I was thinking about replacing Sun and Mercury with new machines and use the old sun with a couple of extra drives as the backup server (with LTO tape drive attached) Is this a smart way to go? Would a SAN box be a better option? An lastly what sort of specs would everyone recommend? Thanks Rowan

And the problem with that is???

Just checked and I have the keys up too. Now just for the download and all will be good!

This may be an Australian thing only but I hate "youse" It's just lazy speech. Especially when you walk into a shop and the attendant says "Can I help youse?" Most of the time I walk out then.

What about K9 Web Protection?? I use it on my kids PC and know of several friends and family members that use it for their kids as well. It has some nice features like an override option and you can set your own white/black list. Best of all it is free for residential use.

A cheaper version of Deepfreeze is HD Guard. It has central management and update periods can be configured. We use it on all student PC's and it has been very helpful and has help reduce the general maintenance problems due to accidental installs etc.

This is the whole section of the script that maps the printers. The section above is not for the first printer, which makes it a not more confusing for me. I am not overly converse with vb but know enough to get around. blnLocal = FALSE strComputer = "." Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Set colPrinters = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * From Win32_Printer") For Each objPrinter in colPrinters If objPrinter.Attributes And 64 Then blnLocal = TRUE End If Next If blnLocal = FALSE Then ' Variables declaration Dim objNet, strComputerName, cmp ' Read NetBIOS computer name Set objNet = WScript.CreateObject( "WScript.Network" ) strComputerName = objNet.ComputerName 'Remove obsolete Printers 'objNet.RemovePrinterConnection ( "\\Sun\iR5200 - Admin" ) , true, true 'objNet.RemovePrinterConnection ( "\\Sun\iR5200 - Admin" ) , true, true ' Create printers for computers in Staff Room cmp = InStr( 1, strComputerName, "ACW-STAFF", 1) If cmp > 0 Then objNet.AddWindowsPrinterConnection( "\\Sun\iR5200 - Admin" ) objNet.AddWindowsPrinterConnection( "\\sun\HP2015n-Staff" ) ' objNet.AddWindowsPrinterConnection( "\\Sun\T8024-Admin" ) ' objNet.AddWindowsPrinterConnection( "\\sun\HP2015n-Admin" ) objNet.SetDefaultPrinter( "\\sun\HP2015n-Staff" ) WScript.Quit End If ' Create printers for computers on Staff Laptops cmp = InStr( 1, strComputerName, "ACW-LT", 1) If cmp > 0 Then ' objNet.AddWindowsPrinterConnection( "\\sun\HP2015n-Lib" ) objNet.AddWindowsPrinterConnection( "\\Sun\HP1200-214" ) objNet.AddWindowsPrinterConnection( "\\Sun\HP1200-102" ) objNet.AddWindowsPrinterConnection( "\\Sun\iR5200 - Admin" ) objNet.AddWindowsPrinterConnection( "\\sun\HP2015n-Staff" ) ' objNet.AddWindowsPrinterConnection( "\\sun\HP2015n-Admin" ) ' objNet.AddWindowsPrinterConnection( "\\Sun\T8024-Admin" ) objNet.SetDefaultPrinter( "\\sun\HP2015n-Staff" ) WScript.Quit End If ' Create printers for computers in Admin cmp = InStr( 1, strComputerName, "ACW-ADMIN", 1) If cmp > 0 Then objNet.AddWindowsPrinterConnection( "\\Sun\iR5200 - Admin" ) objNet.AddWindowsPrinterConnection( "\\Sun\HP2015n-Staff" ) objNet.AddWindowsPrinterConnection( "\\Sun\T8024-Admin" ) objNet.AddWindowsPrinterConnection( "\\sun\HP2015n-Admin" ) ' objNet.AddWindowsPrinterConnection( "\\sun\Ky1800-DP" ) ' objNet.SetDefaultPrinter( "\\sun\HP2015n-Admin" ) WScript.Quit End If ' Create printers for computers in Room 102 cmp = InStr( 1, strComputerName, "ACW-102", 1) If cmp > 0 Then objNet.AddWindowsPrinterConnection( "\\Sun\HP1200-102" ) objNet.SetDefaultPrinter( "\\Sun\HP1200-102" ) WScript.Quit End If ' Create printers for computers in Room 214 cmp = InStr( 1, strComputerName, "ACW-214", 1) If cmp > 0 Then objNet.RemovePrinterConnection ( "\\Sun\HP1200-102" ) , true, true objNet.AddWindowsPrinterConnection( "\\Sun\HP1200-214" ) objNet.SetDefaultPrinter( "\\Sun\HP1200-214" ) WScript.Quit End If ' Create printers for computers in Room 215 cmp = InStr( 1, strComputerName, "ACW-215", 1) If cmp > 0 Then objNet.RemovePrinterConnection ( "\\Sun\HP1200-102" ) , true, true objNet.AddWindowsPrinterConnection( "\\Sun\HP2015n-215" ) objNet.SetDefaultPrinter( "\\Sun\HP2015n-215" ) WScript.Quit End If ' Create printers for computers in Library cmp = InStr( 1, strComputerName, "ACW-LIB", 1) If cmp > 0 Then objNet.RemovePrinterConnection ( "\\Sun\HP1200-102" ) , true, true objNet.AddWindowsPrinterConnection( "\\sun\HP2015n-Lib" ) objNet.SetDefaultPrinter( "\\sun\HP2015n-Lib" ) WScript.Quit End If ' Create printers for computers in Bookhire 'cmp = InStr( 1, strComputerName, "ACW-Bookhire", 1) 'If cmp > 0 Then ' objNet.AddWindowsPrinterConnection( "\\Sun\Ky1800-Lib" ) ' objNet.SetDefaultPrinter( "\\Sun\Ky1800-Lib" ) ' WScript.Quit 'End If ' Create printers for computers in Room 211 cmp = InStr( 1, strComputerName, "ACW-211", 1) If cmp > 0 Then objNet.AddWindowsPrinterConnection( "\\Sun\HP1200-214" ) objNet.SetDefaultPrinter( "\\Sun\HP1200-214" ) WScript.Quit End If End If

You need enough room to have around 4 ft of desk space per person (and 6ft of depth to allow chairs plus enough desk space to accomodate a few PC's under repairs. Also space for storage.

I have a printer in each computer lab which are set via the logon script. Lately however they have not always been going right. Sometimes random computers are mapping to a single printer in one room. Nothing has changed in the script, and it seems to be random. Would it be better to map the via GPO?? How much does this take? For reference here is an example of the script ' Create printers for computers in Room 214 cmp = InStr( 1, strComputerName, "ACW-214", 1) If cmp > 0 Then objNet.RemovePrinterConnection ( "\\Sun\HP1200-102" ) , true, true objNet.AddWindowsPrinterConnection( "\\Sun\HP1200-214" ) objNet.SetDefaultPrinter( "\\Sun\HP1200-214" ) WScript.Quit End If