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Hi, I've been charged with the responsibility of adding new IP addresses to the network and i don't have a clue. I'm currently viewing DHCP on the domain controller, staring at 'New Scope' on the current server. The local authority have given us 2 new ranges (obviously these aren't the real ones ) 100.100.10.1 - 100.100.13.254 and 100.100.14.1 - 100.100.17.254. We already have an existing range in DHCP. I quite literally have no idea where to start. I think i done a week of this in my final at Uni! Basically i need to add them to the DHCP scope but i'm a bit sceptical about going straight into it without having advice from others plus reading everything i can online. Any help greatly appreciated. I'm sure i've not given enough information, but i'm a bit all over the place at the moment. Cheers Stu

Cheers Elesiegee. I kept typing first run in the search, no wonder i couldn't find it. I'll give it a shot. Thanks again.

Hi all, We have our home page set through a GPO for the whole school. It works fine. However, if you have used IE and then close it, open it again it comes up with 'go.microsoft...' etc as the homepage which doesn't work. I have it set manually on a couple of admin machines with IE7 and several home page tabs. However they always get the first tab set as 'go.microsoft...' whichi'm guessing is the first run trying to run again. However the install of IE7, i disabled the first run with IEAK. Any ideas?

We're really only in the middle of trialling LanView. Few little irritating things, but things that may be my fault. Other than those, i'm well impressed. Shame

Cheers Steve. It worked up until the next orphaned folders beginning with 'B'!. It looks like it's stopping with the archive folder. I'll need to move where the archive folder is. as it's checking the archive folder as a home directory. Thanks to the technicians i inherited these users from, there's a load of users that still exist but their usernames have been changed and home folders left the way they were

If strADPres = "Present" Then EchoAndLog Date & "," & Time & "," & strUNCStart & "\" & objSubFolder.Name & "," & "Folder/User is ok." Else EchoAndLog Date & "," & Time & "," & strUNCStart & "\" & objSubFolder.Name & "," & "Folder/User is bad. User Not Found!" objfso.movefolder strUNCStart & "\" & objSubFolder.Name strUNCStart & "\archive\" End If Hope i've done that right. I'm getting an expected end of statement here, (where the bold starts) objfso.movefolder strUNCStart & "\" & objSubFolder.Name strUNCStart & "\archive\" I'm guessing the one of the statements need to be in brackets???

Cheers Rob. new to this scripting lark. That worked. 230 orphaned home folders. not too bad i guess. Now to delete them manually!

Thanks robk / tamarside. i'm new to scripting and i'm struggling to get one working. It just flashes up with a command prompt and instantly closes. This is the script i'm trying to run.

Hi zimmer. Elsiegee's idea is what i had and what i would have tried myself as that is how i build the profiles. For some reason it wasn't working for this. Something to do with the TIF i think. I didn't do any regmon/filemon recordings. I probably will now i have a bit of breathing space!

Without me starting a new thread (yet! ) Has anyone got any tips on deleting users and home folders together? I inherited a system with a load of inactive users and their home folders / documents. On further inspection there seems to be some users without home folders thanks to them not being deleted when there was a migration. Also, some home folders exist that no longer have a user. As you can imagine, it's a bit of a mess at the moment and i don't know where to start without doing it manually:( Regards.

Thought i'd post what i had done as i forgot to due to all the festivities! Pending further testing, the editor issue has been fixed. After creating a profile we usually make the profile mandatory by renaming the ntuser.dat file ntuser.man. If the profile is mandatory it's not holding the license or allowing access to the license already downloaded. I have got round this after creating the profile and making sure no one is logged on at the time using that profile. instead of renaming the ntuser file, i have now edited security permissions on the file. I changed these settings for 'Users', so any domain users without admin privileges don't have rights to write to it. I denied all write related permissions through the advanced section of security. This in essence makes the profile read only but you can write during the session meaning you get the license as any of the users. Then at logoff, no changes are saved.

Tried it but you can't copy TIF to a server from what i've seen / tried. Also, when you manually move them it changes the file name from "filename.ext" to "filename[1].ext" for some reason. If you rename the ones that you think you need i think it changes it's validity somehow too as if it's in tif folder you can't get security or sharing settings etc. Like they're locked.

Just to mention i tried that ntuser.ini file thing and hacked the registry to try and get the current user to copy across TIF and Local Settings to the roaming profile. It worked, but it doesn't copy the contents!!!!!!!!

they are shown and you can click on them and the message i mentioned above turns up. Even with our license in that folder. (unless the license changes all the time.) At least it's another thing to say to the people who designed the site. It should come up with some sort of browser window to browse for pictures and you should be able to drag them in.

It seems to have worked in the fact that the bar comes up, but because the license is different the functions don’t work correctly. I even replaced the license file with our license that downloads when you open the page. Pops up with a message saying “web Services URLs must be listed in the license file. Add additional URLs at http://xstandard.com” If you have any ideas about that I’d be grateful.

ahuxham, i'm struggling to play about with what you said. While checking something else i noticed an open profile with an ntuser.ini. took a look inside and seen this; I don't want it to exclude local settings or TIF. If i can find where these things are excluded i might be on to something.

What have you tried jsnetman

Yeah, the staff have open roaming profiles so when they log on they'd probably get a new license. Will get in touch with the Learning Platform admin which doesn't tend to be any help. I've tried adding the license manually but you can't copy directly from TIF as it puts a [1] at the end of any file, then if you rename it, it certainly doesn't work. Adding from a login script might work i guess, but i'll need to find out if the license works like that and if you can copy into a local settings folder, with it being 'hidden' etc. Also it's something i've not done before.

Well, looking at the profile left in documents in settings from the admin version of user60, within local settings\temp internet files, the license is in there. However, when logging off, it didn't save local settings to the server copy of the profile.

Damn, it hasn't. What did happen is, when i logged onto PC60, with user60 who i added to domain admins and opened a copy of the profile. Did what i had to do, logged off, closed the profile. assigned new profile to user 59 and logged on to PC60 again. It worked. Logged back in with user60 and it didn't. It only worked because it was open... Back to the drawing board

Hold on, i think it's worked!!!! I swear i've tried that about 500 times!

Hi elsiegee, thanks for the reply. I have tried that. Would seem like the logical thing. However, the temporary internet files don't copy when you copy the profile back to the server. No idea why windows won't let you do that.

Hi, We have a pretty big problem. I'll try and explain as best as i can... We support a CLC with it's own staff and members. We also support a High School with it's own staff and students. We have roughly 4 types of users. CLC Staff - Personal, Open, Roaming profiles. CLC Users - One Mandatory, Roaming Profile for all. School Staff - One Mandatory, Roaming Profile for all. School Students - One Mandatory, Roaming Profile for all. The profiles are all stored on the server. Both the school and the CLC have access to a local authority "Learning Platform" accessed by the whole of the authority. This includes a feature of writing blogs and uploading material. This uses 'XStandard' editing tools. The problem is that the full set of editing tools ("Pro") aren't downloaded when accessing the page. CLC Staff can get them as it's an open profile for each person. If i open any of the other profiles, it works for them too. So if the profile is closed, only a 'lite' version is downloaded. **This is the weird bit. The first mandatory profile to access the page on that station DOES get the pro version!** So, User1 logs onto PC1 with MandatoryProfile and gets the Pro version. They log off / reboot. User2 logs onto PC1 with the same MandatoryProfile and can only get the lite version!! This happens whether the profiles are deleted at logoff/shutdown or not. The license that is downloaded is called license.txt and seems to be stored in Temporary Internet Files It was stored in TIF for me, a technician. I've tried copying the TIF to the profile with no luck as they don't copy as a file would. I've tried creating the mandatory profiles after the license.txt file is downloaded but that doesn't not stay in the profile for some reason. I have also tried using open profiles with 'prevent roaming profile changes' set in a GPO, but that made it read only and still only got the lite version thought the profile was open. I have been going round and around for a long time now trying sort this out with no luck. Any ideas greatly appreciated. Cheers, Stu

Thanks for the help. The problem was the fibre connection. The driver had became corrupt. I added some different drivers and now the share i wanted to see has shown up. If i hadn't have been cleaning behind the cabinet this morning, then i wouldn't have known that the servers were connected to the disk libraries by fibre! Stroke of luck!

Just seen that node2's driver for fibre channel has a problem. This goes into the tape drives. I'm going to uninstall the driver and hope a reboot will install it correctly and i'm back up and running. Fingers crossed!