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"Design Reports" seems to be the management tool for all SIMS reports; turning on and off categories of reports is in there as well.

It's in Reports > Design Reports. Scroll down to the list of owners reports, then drag a report from their list (right hand side) to another owners folder (left hand side). If that's not there, I'll check the permissions spreadsheet that I was in yesterday.

Hi Sam. Sounds to me like you might be better with something like the Kramer or AMX control panels: Media & Room Controllers AMX : Product Info : Keypads I tend to use Kramer myself, but we have an AMX panel in the conference room which controls the Projector and TV in there, plus switches the (Kramer) 4x4 VGA switch to the right input/output. Peter

Correct. Disabling is the reverse action to mail-enabling an existing AD account. It returns to being a simple AD account with no mailbox. That bit I have no problem with. Removing... bye bye AD account.

Accessible to all staff?? We do a version of this, where the person going away puts everything in one subfolder, then we either copy it into the replacement's own area, or provide a shortcut into that subfolder, depending on the duration and frequency of access required. We don't make someone's area available to all staff to help themselves. Peter

Ditto! With the exception of our programming VMs, which have it installed locally, I go for this approach. Peter

Thank you for this link; my 5406 is at K.15.13 from Jan 2014 Peter

Stuart ( @TheScarfedOne ) from Salamander did my install last week. Can't praise it highly enough, particularly with the number of tweaks I kept requesting! I wasn't expecting them until summer, so hadn't planned any amount of time to work with them last week, but Stuart just got on and did it. Few emails here and there and it was basically done. I'm already finding new uses for it Peter

Awesome, thanks for this! We have one laptop that the NT6 lady uses and I'm sick of downloading the new version from the website with the zipped password etc.

Correct - I should have said that as its what FormatFactory uses behind the scenes. But it takes a million and one parameters such as what colour you'd like the sky to be this Sunday, and what temperature should the meat be cooked at tomorrow. I prefer something more on the lines of default profiles. WMV, high quality, go.

Howdy. I'm getting annoyed that this has so far eluded me, given it shouldn't be such a hard task to achieve. All our performance lessons, exams, rehearsals etc are recorded on iPad in super high quality. They have a large uncontended share on the nasbox which the teachers can freely save into, but they are all well trained and do, generally, convert down to high or medium quality with FormatFactory depending on it's use. I'm trying to save them and their technician the manual labour time of doing it, by having two folders "Videos In/High Quality" and "Videos In/Medium Quality" that then get batch converted into a /Done subfolder for them to move where they want the following day. Format Factory's undocumented CLI commands would be fine, but since they renamed the UI in FormatFactory from "All to WMV" to "-> WMV" it breaks the command line because ">" is prohibited in folder names. Does anyone else batch-convert videos using a scheduled batch script rather than manually via the UI? If so, what do you use and could you share your script? Cheers. Peter

We have one of these from CPC; they have three or four other similar units on page 645. QTX Sound: QX15PA Peter

Well I walked into an IT room that seats 40 just after lunch. I knew it was used for exams this morning, and there were signs everywhere saying 'exam in progress, go away' etc etc etc, but when I looked through the window a colleague was wondering round busily so I assumed (as usual) the signs had been left up for the entire year exam season - and waltzed in with a cheery "Morning!". There was one student hidden in the corner, mid-way through his extra time allocation, added on from this mornings' exam. Ooops!

Depends if you're in Cumbria, Lancashire or Leeds? :-) (Your profile has all three)

Maybe we need to know more about the requirements to make an informed suggestion. :-) My first reply was "from what you've said" and included some assumptions. One of those being a food tech teacher isn't likely to have ever used Access, and another being she probably has a finite number of recipes that she wants to use in this situation. For an ongoing, multi-dimensional, multi user scenario it's quite possible to use Access. But for a single user, limited size dataset that isn't really multi-dimensional, Excel is equally capable. In my opinion. :-)

Sample attached. Used https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Create-a-drop-down-list-7693307a-59ef-400a-b769-c5402dce407b to remind myself how to do dropdown boxes. Peter Recipes.xlsx

We use Casio's as well. 70 or so signature series, some slim series, and some ultra-short throws. Peter

Hi. From what you've said, I would probably be using Excel. Sheet1 with the price lists, then Sheet2 onwards with one sheet per recipe. Have a box at the top of each recipe that asks for the number of students in the class, so when she fills it in it recalculates the ingredients below, then she (presumably) prints it off for the technician to order? Peter

Can you post a URL? Google just wants to find me other visitor management systems :-(

Migrate it to another datastore, but set it as THIN provisioned in the migrate wizard. This will recreate it thin, at the max size it needs to contain the existing data. You can then inflate it back to normal size afterwards. Peter

In that case, you might be able to do the same thing with Powershell and the AD cmdlets - either use Excel to generate the powershell commands then paste them into Powershell, or use Powershell to parse the initials and surname and do the same thing. In other words, Powershell to rename the AD accounts (keeping same SID) and batch (or another powershell) to rename the folders as above. Peter

I find Excel is the best scripting software for this purpose. Export a list of your current students from somewhere, into Excel, with forename and surname in columns 1 and 2. Add a new column: =concatenate(left(a1,1),".",b1) This will give you their new username Then add a new column along the lines of: =concatenate("rename ",a1," ",b1) This gives you the (approximate) batch command to rename the folders - just make sure you cd into the parent directory first. Then you can copy the column contents from excel into a cmd prompt and it will rename them. You will need to do similar for permissions, but I get so mixed up with cacls / icacls / xcacls/ anyothercacls so I'll leave that to someone else to help with, using the same approach as above.] Peter

£59,500 for us, plus £5,000 for staff. No thanks.

Yes - edit the .config file that comes with the .exe Peter

Ah, I had this at the end of my testing, but I thought it was because I'd messed up the files by opening a live file as a backup (historical version), so the text area contained XML that it shouldn't have when I saved it.