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while ($true) { $ComputerName= "facebook" If (Test-Connection -ComputerName $ComputerName -Count 1 -Quiet) { Write-Host "$ComputerName is Online" } else { Write-Host "$ComputerName is offline" } Start-Sleep 10 } That will continue looping forever, and check every 10 seconds. while ($true) { $ComputerName= "facebook" If (Test-Connection -ComputerName $ComputerName -Count 1 -Quiet) { Write-Host "$ComputerName is Online" break } else { Write-Host "$ComputerName is offline" } Start-Sleep 10 } That will loop until it's online, then stop.

We have two exam usertypes, "Exams Secure" and "Exams relaxed". Secure has no internet, relaxed does have internet but no (school) email. Only a specific program set on the start menu is available to them; the regular ones are hidden. The exams apps (Word, Internet, Network Notepad...) are all there - we don't stop them using "the wrong one" - that's down to invigilation if they're off-topic. Peter

Is it not the message which needs encoding to bytes, not the IP address?

@stgoodyeara makes a habit of it, usually over lunchtime.

Our three hosts are due for replacement this summer. We've been with IBM System X for about 12 years now, last refreshed in 2011. The automatic replacement would be the IBM x3850 M6, but I'm wondering whether there are other known-brand alternatives I should consider? All our server room is IBM, but our backup system is HP Gen8 380e (ish?) and we have a Dell VRTX which has multi-use as an emergency DR environment but primarily ICT programming environment. The FC SAN is IBM and not budgeted for replacement until next year. Specs are currently 12-core CPU, 100GB RAM. Thoughts? Supplier replies welcome; i'll choose whether to contact you or not. Peter

Ah, fair point.

Do both sides need to see within each other, or would guest mode on one side work?

I get a cheque from grandparents for every birthday and Christmas. Glad I'm with HSBC as I can now pay them in via the app then bin them instead of having to go to the bank.

Hi @spluckrose, https://www.primexinc.com/clocks/xr-series/ https://www.primexinc.com/products/xr-series-bell-scheduling Three radio transmitters with small GPS time receiver stuck to the window or mounted outside and 1 meter high antenna inside to give coverage! Clocks and timers receive signal from the transmitters, for On 1-3 seconds, or 1-3 pulses every second, or On-Off-On, or a couple of other combinations. Thus it *could* be used for fire or lockdown as well. The timer also has a manual button that rings the bells whenever you press/hold it. Looking at the website, it looks like it might be possible to put the timers on the network instead of needing the radio transmitter stuff, thus giving you four network controlled timers for your bells? I wasn't involved in the setup so never investigated this. Feel free to ask further. Peter

Our bells were rewired from the manual timer in premises office to a timer on the same radio-controlled system as all our clocks (Pimex Wireless). There's 8 preset patterns, of which the default is between every lesson/break/etc/etc, but we have another with an additional bell at 11am (Remembrance) and at 11.45/12.00 (last-day-of-term) and also no times (holidays). The times are set from a PC which has a USB/Serial connection to the transmitter. It can also run in "online" mode so the PC software controls all the bells live, rather than the preset times stored offline.

We moved to Sage Payroll a couple of years ago. No issues with it from my point of view. Peter

The greetings are stored in c:\program files (x86)\Avaya\IP Office\Voicemail Pro\VM\Greetings (Windows version of VMPro) or /opt/vmpro/Greetings (Linux version). Can you delete the .wav for whichever huntgroup mailbox it is?

Use VAMT to reset the key on clients to the default "GVLK" KMS client key. Then add your MAK key to VAMT and once you've got 25 PCs connected, it will validate them all.

No, SAR is any email about the individual (if that's what they ask), not the individuals own emails.

Great response. I’ve just ordered EXA but keeping (renewing on new contract with new box) the Smoothwall UTM we currently have.

Yeah, we have this one in PE.

Airserver...

We've just signed up with Exa last week. Quote from a local network manager "Over my dead body will I ever leave Exa for our internet provision".

Kyocera/Annodata? The problem comes when their spreadsheet is in decimal pence but rounded to pounds & pence - I could clearly see where the problem was but it didn't help!

@RobSheehy The message field comes from ParentPay. You can turn it on, then log into ParentPay and set a message on a child - but there's nothing stopping the parent deleting/updating the message. Peter

As an aside, I can't replicate this - it's showing the same password for an unset user every time I double-click, close, open, search, blah blah. Peter

You'll need to prepend @fordea's code with mine from above, otherwise $ComputerName isn't populated: $ComputerName = read-host "Enter computer name" $Results = Invoke-Command -ComputerName $ComputerName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -ScriptBlock { $OSInfo = Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_OperatingSystem $IPInfo = Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration -Filter 'ipenabled = "true"' $Date = Get-Date [PSCustomObject] @{ Date = $Date.ToString('dd/MM/yyyy') Time = $Date.ToString('HH:mm:ss') Name = $env:computername IPAddress = $IPInfo.IPAddress | Where {$_ -notlike '*:*'} LastBootTime = $OSInfo.LastBootUpTime } } $Results | Select-Object * -ExcludeProperty RunspaceID, PSComputerName | Export-Csv D:\RebootPcLog.csv -NoTypeInformation -Append

Are you intentionally using VB?

We did ours mid October. I stubbornly refused to do USB sticks after they sent the diagnostics so made them give me online version. All worked swimmingly, apart from the tests started all by themselves. I thought it was a video tutorial of the test, but couldn't work out how to get back to login screen - nope, turns out another school was taking their tests half an hour before us and HAD been given the same AWS credentials so we were watching students taking their tests live! Quick call to one of the named people on the invigilators support documentation and we had new credentials within about 10 minutes. Peter

We scan all ours in; not sure anyone knows the pdf is available!