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How do you deal with tracking if one or two laptops are taken?

Do you book out entire trolleys or are teachers able to book out some of a trolley?

Hi All, So at our Academy changed it around so instead of having 4 computer rooms to having 1 computer room and 90 laptops. The problem is now how to schedule these and the logistics of how to give them out. It is taking up most of our 2 first line technicians time to just: have these out, collect them, put them on charge and to try and maneuver large trolleys during busy lesson changes. Other schools must have a good way for doing this and it would be good to know how. Thanks, Peter

I made the script below when a student sent a mass email to everyone in the school . I tried using piping to make this a possible one-liner but there was whitespace added and the damn trim function wouldn't work. I couldn't find anything on the web that did this so I hope this will be useful for anyone else. add-pssnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.E2010 import-module ActiveDirectory $filepath = "C:\students.csv" Get-ADGroupMember "Students" | Export-CSV $filepath Import-CSV $filepath -Header dish,name,oc,uid,samaccname,sid | Foreach-Object{ Set-Mailbox -Identity $_.samaccname -RecipientLimits 2 }

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You could run a scheduled task to go through and make the students re-take ownership of their folders/files. Or you could use C# to make a filewatcher ( FileSystemWatcher Class (System.IO) ) to re-take ownership of the file when a staff member edits it. This method is just a work around, not an atcual fix. There may be a way but I don't know it yet.

/r/askreddit is one of the best subreddits. /r/technology has just become a dump for people linking news stories about piracy. /r/worldnews is a good place to find main news stories; while letting others filter out the rubbish.

I was correcting the person I quoted but I wouldn't use anything as expensive as Amazon for offsite backups. FreeNAS is very good and a simple rsync should surfice.

You may want to use Glacier instead. It's cheaper and is made for backups. http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/

Shirt, office trousers, black trainers.

You can select all computers and to go the task manager. You can see a list of running processes for all the computers ticked. Then you can find the SIMS process and it will show you what computers are running it and you have the option to end the process.

Gee, how about: Security, Control, unexpected downtime.

I already use PIA as a firewall bypass in school. We use it for support applications or blocked websites that teachers need to access.

If you go to websites like 'random imgur' there will be 1-2 adult images.

@plexer It's like these movie companies dmca'ing google but not going after the source.

Once again... The Government deciding on something that they don't understand. There are tones of proxies still working for 'a questionable torrent website' that are not blocked by my ISP. If you are trying to censor the Internet it will not work.

I think Office 2010 is easier to use and works better. Office 2012 has a strange effect by default that smooths out what ever you type, which is a little put off putting.

How do you deal with custom shortcuts for one or two users that work/roam on all computers?

Do you have to deal with more/less software. Also do you have to deal with software not being on the computer?

I would like to find out how people are managing Start Menu's for users. I have tried RES and a custom script I made, but it would be good too see what others are using.