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I cannot believe I didn't think of that myself! So simple. It appears to be working! Cheers Steve

it usually costs a small amount of money to get replacement media, but yeah, LEA won't be anything to do with it. We got ours from Viglen and in the case of us losing any discs like that we just ask if we can get some replacement media for it, (assuming you've already got the licenses for it) and they send one out after charging for replacing it.

Hi, I don't know if anyone can help or shed some light on this, Basically, someone has edited some data in Personnel 5 which needs to be restored for conversion to Personnel 7 However we have tried restoring the Star and System folders which is where we believe the personnel files are stored but when i try to restore it skips a load of files (this is restoring using Symantec Backup Exec 10.1), saying "skipped by user" I've attached a text file which shows some of the files skipped. Thanks, Matt

Could someone send me a backup copy of Speedball 2 on the Amiga, my mate's mother threw away the disk after I left it at his house.

That sounds like a good idea. Let me know how this works out, i've been thinking about implementing something like this over the summer!

This is certainly a tough issue. So much of our time is spent finding emulators, flash games, mp3s, etc Also kids are now accessing the windows games (sol, winmine etc), by tunneling through to the C drive through Word. We're using AB Tutor Control to watch what the kids have on their screens throughout school and I've currently set up a policy on it which will prevent the running of certain emulators, windows games and you could even stop kids running swf files. Obviously in the case of classes using swf files for work this poses a small problem but you can apply this policy for the duration of the lesson when kids aren't using flash. The saddening fact is that there isn't a lot you can do to put a full stop to kids bringing in games. It really has to be a joint effort between ourselves and the teachers. ...and relating to an earlier post... That's a shame, I bet those parents didn't have any other reasonable suggestions on how to deal with that kids misuse of ICT equipment. It's not much different from removing a kid from the classroom due to bad behaviour.

Does anyone have any companies they can recommend in terms of both price and support? I've got to put together 3 quotes for a PC suite and wanted to know if anyone had any company to recommend, or even advise against 8O

Urrrgh. Kids pinching remotes. Sooo many have been pinched here.... and it's 40 quid a pop with these Sahara projector remotes. I tell you what though it's a good idea with these projectors that they have these removable security panels (much like a car stereo), although when there's a power cut around school we have to go round all those projectors in school to turn them on. Still, I believe it's cut down on break ins. Sorry, strayed from projector remotes there. Wanted to voice my annoyance for kids stealing remotes.

What settings do people use for IMF eg. what SCL ratings do you usually have in place?

I've got some homework to do then ;-) Thanks for the advice, am going to investigate into Ubuntu/Exim/SpamAssassin The stuff they don't tell you on Microsoft Exchange courses ey! random thought: (I really hate that "No more eating for you now" song they play on radio 1)

Hehe, i'll have to get my head round linux first. Never used it! Is there a particular distribution i should be using (or do i not know what i'm talking about at all because i've just read up about linux for the past 10 minutes?)

Does anyone have any recommendations or suggestions for dealing with spam on an exchange server? At the moment our general school email address gets spammed to high heaven! I've got some ideas on how to deal with it but just wondered if anyone's got any spam solutions to recommend?

Has anyone Demoted a DC on a live network? I've got a bit of a problem. A while back one of my colleagues accidentally named a pc in the library to "Library" which shared the name of the Library Server, also being used as a secondary DC. After this happened, we've not been able to connect to it over the network at all. It's also not functioning as a Domain Controller even though in it thinks it is. So, if I type in "\\library\" we get a "Logon Failure: The target account name is incorrect" message. Obviously this is buggering up replication on the network, among other things. Plus, all the links to any library server applications and shares can't be accessed (although i've kinda sorted that by moving across stuff to our main DC (Curric05). If I do a DC Diag on Curric05 I get numerous replication errors plus... (not sure if this is anything) but on the service test it says "TrkWks Service is Stopped" and "TrkSvr Service is stopped". Now, this problem with the library server wasn't really causing many problems until yesterday when in one IT room (and it seems to be just one at the moment) it started to not pick up Group Policy. After checking up on Event Viewer i got the following message under application events: "Windows cannot obtain the domain controller name for your computer network. (The network path was not found). Group Policy processing aborted." It's a bit of a strong guess but i'm guessing this is about the pc's trying to connect to the library DC to get group policy? If it is I guess I need to demote the Library DC. Has anyone done this in a live environment at all? Any suggestions? Or... am I totally wrong about this being the reason group policy has decided to not work?? Any help would be appreciated! (all this happens when my boss is on holiday! great!)

Ah yes, just checked event viewer. This is all part of a big problem which i'm going to post as a new thread :-(

Argh! GP! You know what it's like! I've got a room where half the pc's are deciding to just not pick up the group policy! It's a living nightmare!! Now, they can right click on the desktop, don't pick up the desktop icons etc. It's all going bad. When I run an ipconfig it's attached to the network fine, plus i can see the computers using the tutor control program. It just seems to be randomly not picking up the GP. Please please please .... any suggestions?