NoelT

Computerworld Wales are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, committed individual to work in one of the schools for which we provide IT services. The successful candidate will need to have a good knowledge of working within a school environment. They will need to show a flexible attitude that is required in a modern school. They will have a good general IT knowledge, the ability to work independently and as part of a team. Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required. This is a permanent, full time position and usual hours of work will be 07:30-16:00 Monday to Friday The successful candidate will be required to undergo DBS Enhanced clearance. Any ability to speak Welsh would be a bonus, but not a requirement. Roles and Responsibilities General activities to include, but not limited to: Configure and install new hardware as required Asset tag and maintain asset list of IT equipment Setting up of laptops, projectors, interactive screens etc. as required Deployment of software and images as required, with the help of the central support team Maintain user and computer accounts, as well as Office 365 accounts. Maintain printers/copiers on site in partnership with the school print provider IT Skills Required Ability to support and troubleshoot: Windows 10 Office 2019/365 Active Directory Group Policy AV equipment/Interactive displays Any exposure to application deployment is also a bonus Any exposure to virtualisation technologies is a bonus Email your CV or any questions to [email protected] **APPROVED**

Hi, Going through a deployment and using 8.1 on the desktops. Getting the GPOs setup now, all the standard redirection stuff etc. One thing we can't seem to figure out is how to customize the right-click start button stuff. We don't want students getting into disk management and power options etc. Whilst they won't be able to do much, we would rather completely remove all these options. The only things left on that start menu would be desktop and sign out/shutdown ideally. Even being able to remove the run would be nice. It's disabled, but still appears there. If you click on it, the error saying it's disabled comes up, but surely there's a way to actually remove it? Thanks in advance, Noel

Hi Penfold,Thanks for taking the time to reply. I'm using powershell on 2012. But that looks like it will do the trick.I will try that when I get to the office tomorrow. Cheers

HI, First post here, so be gentle! And apologies for the length of the post - just trying to put as much info as possible. I've had a search, both here and on the wider web, but can't seem to find what I'm looking for. 2012 Domain. Got some scripts working for bulk user creation - that bit is fine, creating user, creating setting home folder perms etc. creating remote share etc. etc. all good. I have a situation in a school where they want to automate creation of single users, again this is working fine. The issue I have is checking for the existence of a matching username. The school username format is: year of entry, 4 characters from surname, number, first character of firstname. So pupil Fred Bloggs starting this year is 13Blog1F. Again, based on text input and substring this is easy to get. I've even got it so that if Fred Bloggs already exists and Frank Bloggs starts it will do 13Blog2F. my issue is on the rare occasion we would get 13Blog3F necessary I'm struggling to get this to go. An example of the code, minus all the group and home settings is: # Single User Creation - NoelT 2013 # Ask Questions and Generate usernames $firstname = Read-Host 'First Name?' $surname = Read-Host 'Surname?' $YoE = Read-Host 'Year of Entry (YY format)?' $pwd = Read-Host 'Password?' $Surnameshort = $surname.substring(0,4) $firstnameshort = $firstname.substring(0,1) $fullname = ($yoe+$surnameshort+1+$firstnameshort) $altname = ($yoe+$surnameshort+2+$firstnameshort) $alt3 = ($yoe+$surnameshort+3+$firstnameshort) $alt4 = ($yoe+$surnameshort+4+$firstnameshort) $alt5 = ($yoe+$surnameshort+5+$firstnameshort) # Create User based on info provided in the correct OU # To check for existence of user in AD first if (dsquery user -samid $fullname){ new-aduser -Enabled $true -AccountPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText $pwd -Force) -SamAccountName $altname -GivenName $firstname -Surname $surname -name $altname -Displayname ("$firstname" + " " + "$surname") -Description "Student User" -path "OU=Test,DC=domain,DC=co,DC=uk" -ChangePasswordAtLogon $true } else { new-aduser -Enabled $true -AccountPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText $pwd -Force) -SamAccountName $fullname -GivenName $firstname -Surname $surname -name $fullname -Displayname ("$firstname" + " " + "$surname") -Description "Student User" -path "OU=Test,DC=domain,DC=co,DC=uk" -ChangePasswordAtLogon $true } I've tried elseif too, but can't seem to get it going. Any suggestions would be massively welcome. Thanks in advance, Noel