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foreach ($i in $a) {$i + "`n" + "=========================="; Uninstall-HotFix -ComputerName $i -HotfixID KB3008923 > H:\Scripts\Powershell\Run command from text list\HotfixRemoved.txt } Should have the output redirect string in quotation marks as the path has spaces in it.

ADMX is the newer format and should be used on any server running Windows Server 2003 onwards.

Do you have any reporting tools on your web filter box? Might be worth doing a search of what hits the test user is generating when trying to get to the AppInventor site, might be some random link on the site to a CSS file or Javascript file which is being blocked.

MFL software perhaps? I've seen way too much of that stuff.

Could be that something is blocking the Google login page or part of the auth process on that side (probably due to blocking Google+ and similar) and it's getting stopped at that point before it even gets to the AppInventor site. I've ran into similar issues where we had locked down Chrome too much and they couldn't sign in properly to access the site.

Depending on the messages it sends it might be possible to have a script listen for the message and then email out to the relevant staff. Or possibly something with an Arduino in it could work. Depends on how much work you want to put into customising something rather than getting a security company to provide a more standardised solution.

They are great for the staff who are press ganged into doing it because they know a little about computers, especially at schools where they can't afford (or don't need) a dedicated IT person. Of course the counter to that is that most LAs have an IT service that can provide the school with a part time tech who goes around a few schools, I've even seen it done by a secondary school offering the service to feeder schools for "free" (at least financially free but there is certainly an expectation that most of the pupils will attend that secondary school in future).

Computers are just adding machines and abacuses (abacuii? abacus? no idea what the plural is) are also for adding, therefore abacuses are computers.

I've had that happen too many times when cooking ready meals or soup in the microwave and staff have turned it below full power for some reason. I'm still not sure why microwaves have any settings other than "defrost" and "full power", I've never seen instructions that say "set your microwave to 60% power for 3mins and then 40% for another 2mins".

Guiness is a liquid Guiness is a meal Therefore liquids are meals.

Mario Kart has been rebranded in our house to something more NSFW. The amount of swearing and threats thrown around when a few of us race is a sight to behold.

I bought one with a few games for about £180 from Game before christmas. The bundle deals are usually pretty good value for money and you should be able to find one with Mario Kart.

Last job had about 4GB after about 9 years or so and no maintenance. We did some work with SIMS support and doing the various house keeping and archiving tasks and made some big improvements.

This is what we do every few months, just to roll up any updates that have come out. But we deploy them through SCCM a few weeks after they've come out to allow time for others to test them and find bugs etc. We've just been using DISM on the WIM file that is in the source directory that MDT uses and never had any issues with it after slipstreaming updates into it.

As I recall they were bought out by RM.

Have you got a computer club or similar? Something I tried was to suggest to the computer club that they all come up with ideas for what they'd do with a Raspberry Pi and the best ones would be given a Raspberry Pi (I had a few spare due to buying more than I needed for a project of my own) and some guidance on completing the project. Obviously not an idea with school owned Pis but you can still use the basic idea, perhaps have a few classes who are interested and buy more SD cards than you'd normally need and get them to come up with ideas and work through them. This does depend on what ICT/Computing course your school is running. I know the OCR Computing course has an assessment for Linux that suggests using Pis to complete it (we went with some spare laptops running debian since we don't have Pis) and this could be a way to ease them into that.

Cached Logins are what we use here and it works well, keeps all the GPOs etc in place. Only thing to watch out for is redirected start menus or desktops, we set up a GPO that redirects the start menu to a local copy when a laptop user logs in, the copy is made every time it starts up with a simple robocopy batch script.

Definitely +1'ing this. I've used it at both schools I've been in and never had any complaints, lots of praise in comparison to the previous systems (RM Tutor in one and Ranger Remote Control in the other). You'll always love being able to log in to a full room of PCs and run a series of commands from your office (or the teacher PC in the room if it's term time). We've had to rebuild one PC suite since September and after the initial build start with PXE boot and MDT it was just sit back and watch the class work through the script you've created in their handy GUI.

I've only been using it for a few months (used Cachepilot or TinaPilot or whatever they are calling it now at last job) and I really like it, great interface for simple tasks like checking on web logs (including realtime view) and easy to quickly allow/block things. My major complaint though is that some things aren't quite where you expect them to be or called what you'd think they are. We had some fun finding various things and having to bounce between a few different sections to modify things, once you get the hang of why some things are where they are then it makes sense but that initial hunt is a little odd. I'd still recommend it to anyone who can afford it.

According to this link on technet you can't use Test-Path for remote registries but can use another tool. So you'd be looking at something like that as a basis, and then trying to add in Get-ChildItem or similar since you'd have to specify the ID for each reg key. The other options I can think of would be PSRemoting or Invoke-Command (though I think that's seen as bad practice to use it) and using pretty much what you have within the Test-Connection IF statement but within a remote session (or Invoke-Command script block), perhaps modifying the $ValidPCs variable to update a csv file on a shared drive to do the logging you're looking for there.

At my last job we replaced about 30 projectors which were used with the same board (and probably the same model projector for a lot of them actually) and we contact RocheAV (Roche AV) and they gave us a pretty good deal on them (and they were a good price to start with) and I believe they also offer mounts with some of their projectors now. I believe we ended up with LED Casios, can't recall the exact model but they were a noticeable upgrade to the aging projectors we took out. We even had staff trying to speed up their projector upgrade after a day or two of replacing them after school and word getting round that we were doing it.

I'm not sure we have much choice in this at the moment (till the election) and it looks more like a small group of people (politicians) are signing away our rights with little thought beyond "it will help stop all those terrorists".

I assume he hasn't thought about it and, as with all things technology that politicians talk about, has no idea what sort of impact such a law would have. I'm expecting back peddling and lots of spin on what he "actually" meant to say when he's told by various people how stupid an idea this is. Of course GCHQ might tell him to do it anyway and help them out a bit with all that internet traffic they are storing but DPI has never really been a problem for them anyway.

Someone on twitter noted that you can't get to the non-https version of the tory website. Maybe they should fix that first. I'm also not sure what he thinks this will do, if a terrorist is willing to kill people or blow something up then why would they worry about breaking some other law that says they can't communicate with encryption.

Like why they've changed the shade of purple on some Wispa wrappers.