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Giving that a shot myself, @Chris2785, now, thanks! UPDATE: the link converts to - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/%5b0-9 This still right?

Hahaha! Don't you love making enemies as soon as you start a new job?

Tell me about it, welcome to my world. and the previous NM has done me no favours letting them do as they wish... I don't want to seem like the bad guy either and have the staff hate me, but then the staff/HT says 'well we'll punish those who are stopping the services for Impero'. Oh well, in which case we'll map them to the staff shared area too and if they open something, we'll just tell them off....... :mad: :mad: EDIT: and don't get me started on the 'you're not being fair - it's your way or no way' comments from staff..............

Thanks guys. It would only be local administrative rights she would need on her own laptop for the purpose of installing software, but a lot of what you said covers that still. I then am presented with the 'we have to have some level of trust in the staff' comments. Which is also a tough one to battle! Not long before this, I'd removed Task Manager for students. After an uproar from the same member of staff, guess what I've been asked to make available again. And guess which students are ending Impero services etc.

That is also the case here, but I know she will try and get the head to make an exception...

Hello, I've been brought into a workplace whereby the staff all had local administrative rights. Due to multiple staff downloading dodgy content and one being greeted with a cryptolocker-type piece of software I've decided it's 100% necessary to remove local admin rights from them. Something I wouldn't have given them initially. Lovingly the IT teacher doesn't like the fact she can't install software when 'she always used to be able to'. How do I explain to her that it's not going to happen, nor will it... Don't you just love teaching staff...

Shall I PM you the script and see what you make of it? Might be able to understand what I'm meaning at times!

It's not worth the time for error codes haha! And if I were to put a pause in, I'd need a 'IF ERROR' on every line wouldn't I? Or can I sit the entire thing in an if error loop?

Touché, but what about when you're watching it and it errors, but then closes quickly. You've seen it error, you know when, but you don't know why...

Oh, I see... Yeah... Hm, why doesn't it just have a function to write everything to a log... Just seems like such a simple feature?

Oh I see, but for what that's worth I may as well have two lines of every echo. One with >> %LOG% and one without? Haha!

But when I do @ Echo text > output.log won't that stop it from outputting to the console?

The batch script in file size is 5KB (it does call other scripts however). The number of lines is 158 (currently) EDIT: The scripts called total to 26KB

I need it to output to the console as well unfortunately

How do I do that? Without writing another line saying (for eg): @ ECHO Installing NET Framework >> %LOG%

I just need it to output everything it does so that the one day it errors I can look through the log to see why. It echoes things to the user, it asks for user input (me/technicians) for example 'Laptop/Desktop?' and then it will or won't run 'netsh add profile' But if I just output the actual commands that do something it just says 'Command completed successfully' which obviously is neither use nor ornament...! If I then >> %LOG% the @echo lines, it doesn't then display them in the CMD window, which is stupid! I can't really create two versions of every echo just to show in the log as well, as my script would be a right mess...

Oh. Bugger. Is there any other ways? Haha!

Hm, but would that log results of commands and things? Where it's wanting user input The script has sections where it records variables and does different things according to those etc.

Hello, I've written an imaging script (installs software, sets up computer etc.) and I want to log everything out to a text file (C:\STAFF-IMAGE-LOG.log). How do I get it to output EVERYTHING? I've tried using set log="C:\file.log" and then >> %log% The issue is, when you add this to a line with @echo at the start, it prevents it from echoing to the CMD window. Ideas?

Hello, My KMS server is giving me an error about the count not being reached. I've read up on this and it says it needs so many requests but unfortunately I don't have that many available. When I do slmgr /dlv it doesn't even show any count option at all? Ideas?

Sorry if this is the wrong category, please feel free to move the post! I'm wondering what AntiVirus software everyone uses/recommends for a UK based school. I've seen a lot about AVAST, but I think I'm right in thinking that's only free for businesses in the USA? Ideally I would like a management console, so I'm aware of what's going on in the network. Currently I have Sophos, but I've never really liked it. Plus it doesn't even update now...(!) Also, would you use the same AV for your servers? Or do you have a different preference? Thanks!

So rather than using 'deploy with GPO' you use a script to manually deploy it. That way you can run the remove all command beforehand?

Morning Is it possible to run a GPO/script on login that removes every printer on the machine and then adds one from GPO (print server, deploy printer). I've got a VB script which removes all the PCs on the machine, but it requires running as admin.

All went well, the head has agreed not to hand this out to anyone. Thanks guys

Thank you so much guys, really appreciate your input! I'll let you know how it goes...........!!!