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Mine's doing the same at the moment (within CLEO) but since it's on the google domain I'm wondering if it's one of google's settings or something CLEO's changed. Will have to try at home tonight.

It will probably be to do with the Internet Explorer security settings as I had this issue as well. You'll probably find if you copy the file from the network location to a local drive it will let you open it (or go to sysvol through the system folders rather then the unc). Can't remember the exact settings to put in as I shut my machine down tonight because I'd had enough, but I think it was the Local Intranet zone, untick the automatic box and tick the 3 boxes underneath (not 100% on that one) and then add in the network paths in the advanced bit and you should be back. I'd compare it to one of your other servers and see what the settings are and set them the same.

Dunno whether this is worth it or if there's a better way. Create a new PST folder within Outlook, move the files for that month into it and then close the PST file within Outlook and create one for the next month and repeat? Wouldn't be automatic though which I'd guess ideally you'd want, not sure if you could adapt it to make it automatic.

This is the command that's in a batch file being run here, was setup before I started though so not looked 100% at the syntax, because it just works! ping -n 1 -w 1000 (machinename) && psshutdown \\(machinename) -c -f -k -t 60 -n 60 -m "This computer is about to shut down to save power. To continue working press the Cancel button. Please shut down this computer when you finish." >>d:\misc\pingshut.txt At a guess though and looking at the command and syntax, it pings the machine first, if it responds it then sends the shutdown command and writes a line to the pingshut.txt file saying that the computer is scheduled to shutdown, if it doesn't respond it just moves onto the next machine.

Thanks guys, will write it down and have a chat with the bursar and see where we en up! Cheers

Is your ident working correctly (or have you installed the ident service)?

Group Policy Preferences? http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-server-2008/39312-10-things-gpps-can-do-better-than-your-script.html Now I've got the hang of them I think they are great!

I had this while I was testing potentially deploying Office 2007 through Group Policy, initially the problem was that for some reason my cab files had lost the digital signature. If you right click on a couple of the files in the setup directory and go to properties and you can check the digital signature in there.

Hi all, Just a quick question really as I'm going to have to start planning what needs replacing yet so I can try and get more cash out of next years budget hopefully, or atleast make it clear we're going to have to really start looking at these things. Along with everything else I realise that the network infrastructure while working isn't ideal as it's just been extended as needed so along with getting some areas re-cabled and run back to switches (rather then one link into another switch running upstairs and then several small 4 port switches spawning off that!) is to start to (plan to) get the switches replaced. I've read a few threads on here and a lot of it seems to be down to personal preference (or I got that impression anyway) but is the additional cost of a procurve switch worth it compared to a netgear prosafe product? All switches bar 2/3 are currently unmanaged so ideally that will be the next step anyway to bring the network up to managed switches so doing both and either getting netgear or HP in and gradually replacing them and standardising on one manufacturer seems to make sense in my head. Is that the right way to try and tackle it or should I approach it another way? Cheers

I had something similar on a 2600, only solution I found that fixed it was to replace the black toner.

Thanks, will try and get one and see what happens.

If I remember rightly on ppopup there is also an option to select which servers to poll, is your print server selected for the student account?

Hi all, Our Science department have some Easy Sense data loggers along with the serial cables and since the last batch of PC's we got no longer have serial ports it makes them rather redundant. I've noticed on the Data Harvest Website they have some USB to Serial converters, anyone know if they need to be a specific type of cable or if I could find one cheaper elsewhere would that work (or is it just going to save a lot of hassle if we got them from Data Harvest)? Thanks!

Here currently I have my own standard user account, a standard domain account which is added to the local admins group on each workstation and then domain admin accounts are only used on the servers. Part of the system I inherited and seems to work quite well actually.

Tried Cain & Abel? http://www.oxid.it/cain.html Have used it before to recover a password for a machine, as long as you can install the software on the machine you will be away. It's a brute force attack so will probably need to be left running and thus will depend on the complexity of the password.

Ah, the software is probably RM Securenet then rather then RM Connect. Just out of interest, when the new profile folder is created on the server, are the permissions being set correctly and how do the permissions compare to the one which does sync correctly? Just another random thought and may be way off the mark, are the profiles on a seperate drive to home folders and are quotas enabled on the profiles drive? If so, has the user exceeded their quota? Don't know if any of them will be relevent?

Was looking for prices for a new smartboard today and came across this while doing some research: RM.com Shop: Clear blind for SMARTBoard 680 Don't know anything more other then whats on there and that google brings up a few more results.

The other possibility is how is the printer connected to the workstation? Is it removed and added again every logon? If so that will presumably remove the settings.

I'm leaving mine well alone atm due to the fact people seem to like saving to the C drive far to much. Next term's project is to ease them off this habbit and get them to start saving to the server. Might require a couple of demonstrations as to why this is a good idea to get the message across (if I can build up enough courage).

Might be why the flash uninstaller was picked up as a virus on the scan last night. Cheers.

Cheers, will give it a go when I'm in over half term providing I can get this cabinet recabled and tidied up a bit. Thanks again!

Probably a daft question but I might as well ask it anyway. We got a new server installed over the summer to run SIMS instead of the slightly tired admin server which is now just running as a DC/Admin File server. So looking at it, the server isn't really being taxed by SIMS at the moment and I'm wanting to setup Hyper-V on the server as well so I can run a small webserver in a virtual machine. Now for the daft part of the post, there aren't any known issues running SIMS and Hyper-V I'm guessing and is anyone doing it now or would anyone rather say to me that's a bloody stupid idea don't do it? Cheers Cache

Got a script which I wrote to pop up the AUP on logon incorporated into a .hta if that's of any use? Very crude and could probably use tidying up, but scripting isn't my strong point and I just cobble it together from other scripts. Pulls the group and displays if the group matches. Also writes whether the user has accepted the agreement back to a file which is how I made it pop up only once a week (because I would then empty the file monday morning). Could take the file writing and checking bit out and it would pop up everytime. Also, if they click disagree then it simply logs the system off again. Something I need to implement hear again now I think. If you want it I can post it up tomorrow (it's on a cd sat on my desk atm).

Do you need to install the SQL2000 desktop engine? There's a 2005 SQL installer in my setups folder which I've just used to setup a test server on a virtual machine, never touched the 2000 installer at all. My knowledge of SIMS isn't great though so could be wrong (only started using it a few months ago so just picking bit's up as I need them)

I've bought a few Acer Extensa 5630's from Insight fairly recently @ approx £340 and everyone seems quite happy so far with them.