NetworkGeezer

It's more a case that the v3 installer will install v2 if it's not already there. Capita advise schools to install v3 as it will be used in about 18 months time. So save yourself the return trip now.

Outlook Web Access? So you've bought the line that OWA is the same as Outlook 2003? Anway, I'd never thought I'd see the day when you'd use a Microsoft product as an examplar to prove a point

Be careful what you wish for. I have yet to meet a browser application that is good to use a fat client app. Sure a web version might make for easier deployment to clients ( bypassing update-hell at least on the client side) and use on Linux/MacOSX possible but I am really not looking forward to supporting a web version of Profiles or Assessment Manager

Be fair, SIMS is quite integrated into Microsoft Office

I though you ran Citrix and stuff?

Wouldn't all those coiled wires have a electro-magnetic effect. You'd have kids with braces flying towards the server room

If these staff normally display a poor practice in relation to confidentiallity and computer security then raise your concerns with SMT. As things stand you couldn't prevent the same people from printing out the same information and taking it home. It's not inconceivable that senior staff take staff appraisals and CVs home. Teachers also routinely take home confidential data about students. All that VPN and other remote access technologies introduce is a greater security threat if privately owned or third party equipment is being used.

The Wscript.Shell object, which is normally used in VBS for manipulating shorcuts, is also availible in PowerShell $WshShell = New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell $lnk = $WshShell.CreateShortcut("$Home\Desktop\PSHome.lnk") $lnk.TargetPath = $PSHome $lnk.Save() That example is from the PowerShell user guide, showing how to create a shortcut to the PowerShell application folder. The only objects from VBS/WSH that aren't are avaible to PowerShell are Wscript and language specific classes in VBS (e.g. RegXp, Matches, Err, Debug etc.) It's still worth learning VBS as PowerShell is unlikely to take over just yet. PowerShell needs a download on all supported platforms apart from maybe Windows Server 2008 and is not supported on Windows 2000. VBS doesn't suffer from these issues.

It depends on whether the existing scripting actually obtain the location from computer/client name prefix. If you have relied on having different GPO logon scripts attached to different machine OUs then this won't work to well with thin clients.

@altecole The operative word here is 'offline'. Disease did not say whether he wanted this for testing purposes or just so that he could work at home.

Are you sure that what you really want isn't to be a network manager. If what you are after is more say over budgets and policy then this can be done as an network manager or IT director. With an ICT coordinator the slant is more towards teaching, particularly championing the use of ICT across the currirculum.

The FOR /R %f in (*.INI) recurisivley finds every instance of an INI file and assigns its path to the variable %f The type command just reads the file pointed to by %f The /V switch to the find command displays every line not containing the search string (in this case "INSTALL_FAILED" ) and hence removes it. The last part was to pipe (write) it back to the original file but it looks like the shell may still be reading the ini file when we try to write back to it. I have changed the code to use a temp file FOR /R %f IN (*.ini) DO type "%f" | find /V "INSTALL_FAILED" > some_temp_file.txt & move /Y some_temp_file.txt "%f"

Why not try the following at the command line: FOR /R %f IN (*.ini) DO type "%f" | find /V "INSTALL_FAILED" > "%f" The only problem is that it will process every INI but it saves a bit of typing.

The real joke is that it has taken Microsoft 10 years to get to this point.

Why scripting? Is this time dependant? If not then simply use GPO security policies.

£250! What type of license? Do you offset some of the cost by using core CALs in School Agreement?

You've learnt a trick or too from the students there steve?

Have the pre-admission kids been allocated form groups and teaching groups yet?

You haven't said where you are based.

That's a bit BOFH Geoff. The computer in this case is meant to be on the school network. The problem was that a approved application was being used. Wouldn't this be more job for a proxy/content filter?

Are you saying a someone managed encrypt the disk or you actually referring to a base unit as a ‘hard drive’? Sorry. Pet peeve

If you use non-RIS PXE booting then you need to redirect the PXE requests using DHCP server options to the machine running the 3Com Boot Services.

It's the Users container not OU as GPOs can't be applied to containers unless this is something new to Longhorn.

And all IPs allocated from reservations otherwise scope placment would be allocated at random if the DHCP server straddles both VLANS.