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Nobody ever set up Outlook anywhere on a home machine before without first taking it in work first?

Thanks for the replies. I may use a script with a random password thrown in which outputs to a file for use if required. A bit of a pain really. Would much prefer a bit of software that simply lets you use a one time password and then once logged off resets or something. I remember using something like this years ago with security software on machines where we would call someone and they would generate a password using some software which would be single use and would unlock security settings. As the machines are not on the domain, all the domain based methods are no good to me and i searched through many of them via google. I do not want to give out any security dongles or devices to anyone so all the software that uses that approach is no good. Will give a script a go with MDT during the build process and see what happens. Any more suggestions or links to software is much appreciated as i am lazy and would prefer to purchase something more polished and secure.

Try going on a course, my company is paying for some and they are nearly 2k for a single cert for 5 days training:doh: When you have to pay yourself you soon start thinking those CBTs aren't so bad I have used CBT Nuggets or Testout for many exams along with the MS Press book and a test network to play on. Never failed one yet. Make sure you at least use a decent book too though. Trainsignal do some decent CBT stuff too.

Hi All Anyone come across any software that will allow a disposable local admin password on a remote laptop/computer? Need to be able to provide a local admin password if the unlikely situation occurs that something needs to be done with local admin rights. There will be no IT staff available to deal with the issue locally and remote access may or may not be available. Not really interested in the rights and wrongs or what would or could dictate this need, just need to have the option available should the need arise. Example would be 50 laptops being imaged then sent out to be used remotely at a particular site for 6 months. If i give a local admin password out then all the other machines will have the same password and could be tampered with should the password be handed out. I need a bit of software that will resolve this or some suggestions on generating random passwords for my image that i can quickly reference thus limiting the user to a single machine with admin rights. Any help would be much appreciate guys!!!

Is it possible to set up Outlook anywhere on machines that are not part of a domain and are used remotely and never connected to the corporate network at all? I have Outlook anywhere set up on machines on the domain and autodiscover settings fill in the msstd: bit and the proxy bit with the correct owa address and all works. When i try manually setting these things up on a non work computer used remotely it does not work. Any suggestions?

Some truly entertaining shows to me at least that you may or may not have heard of. Let me know if you can think of some other gems that i may not have heard of as i love finding new shows. Misfits - Heroes kind of meets UK chavs How not to live your life - Top quality British humour The Walking Dead - Egg from "This Life" in US zombie series, reminds me of "Lost" but with zombies Peep Show - The don of comedy The Inbetweeners - Peep show for teens. The IT Crowd - Need say no more! Many more cool stuff out there. If you are stuck for a pressie for someone then think of a box set of one of the above.

Can you get your sky or virgin channels on this though or is it limited to satellite foreign channels. I always thought sky were encrypted and would not work through a tv tuner card thingy regardless of you subscribing.

Got some games for xmas so i may be gettin the acronis out for some diy myself then soon hehe, thanks for sharing.

Dont really use my xbox much. Why the need for the large drive? Any benefits to me doing this too? Just more room to copy the games locally to stop using the disks?

Wininstall le still available and does the business. here.

Couldn't be bothered to click to change my pic. Too much hassle. Thank god I have my passwords stored in an addon or i would never log in. Same for this site. Gettin real lazy. Surprised myself typing this. Charity is good though. There will always be those who are gullible online, from the "send this message to everyone you know and hotmail will donate a pound to charity" rubbish to the newer versions on facebook. Magicians is a funny film i love those two guys, its on now, ITV1.

An alakir guild called Seal Cub Clubbing Club was renamed to Orgrimmar Dust Bin Collectors. They were not happy. Many requests for rubbish collection were whispered to their members as you can imagine.

Alakir was fun for a few years. Played since release and then on an off over last few years. Having a go on Darkfall now as wow is just a cash cow esports game. Graphics and stuff are a bit lacking in Darkfall but its full loot and so similar to Ultima Online i am enjoying it. Doubt i will come back for the Cataclysm as i would be bored in half an hour.

Teachers make a pretty damn good wage. Lets not kid ourselves. Many many people in this country could only dream about how much a qualified teacher earns. It's probably only the CEO in this tale that would be able to say he earns more lol. Love the backlash on anyone who dares to say teachers are on a good thing. Unions are waiting to stamp down any such remark in seconds Not to say they do not work hard and deserve a good wage. They do. Just find it funny that a teacher is the target in this tale which appears to be about someone mocking their salary. If they were talking to a school technician i could understand it....

Thanks for the replies and the settings. @Arthur, I was unsure about whether the settings you posted in the sysprep.inf and unattend.txt were in both files or just one or what... They happily sit in sysprep.inf but my unattend.txt looks like the bits below and I was unsure whether i mess with it or not so i tried it with only changing the sysprep file. [RegionalSettings] ; IF this section is used the Winnt32.exe /copysource:lang setting must be specified ; InputLocale_DefaultUser= ; Specifies the Inputlocal and keyboard setting for default user ; UserLocale_DefaultUser= ; Locale ID for default User ; InputLocale ; Locale\Keyboard combinations to be installed ; Language= ; Lanugage locale to be installed ; LanguageGroup=1 ; Language Group to be installed ; SystemLocale= ; System Locale to be specified ; UserLocale= ; User Locale setting I tried them without altering anything in the unattend.txt and again everything except the "location" is set to the UK. The location is still set to US. Another thing i have noticed is that the sysprep folder remains on the root of C: and the sysprep file is in there on its own. Is this normal? Shouldn't this folder get deleted? Otherwise the CD key is still visible in it to anyone who manages to get to the C: drive. Any reasons for this? @Leezallen my build was a litetouch install completely unattended but when i checked the input location bit in regional that was set to US still although all other bits were UK. If you have some working settings I am sure others would appreciate them on here.

Thanks, I have tried this which has given me UK keyboard and language but the location dropdown in the language and regional settings still has US set. If there is a way to do this without having to add these cmdlines bits i would prefer it. I searched high and low online but just found others with similar probs.

I have installed MDT again fresh and imported an XP SP3 image without any modifications into MDT and then just edited the sysprep.inf file from the tab in the Task sequence i set up to use to install it. The regional bits in the sysprep.inf are below: [RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup=1 Language=00000809 SystemLocale=00000809 UserLocale=00000809 InputLocale=0809:00000809 Depite this, when i install XP it comes up with US keyboard, language, and regional etc.. as though it just ignores the sysprep. I know it does not ignore it entirely as it picks up my CD key and username and organisation name perfectly. I know i can capture an image of XP with the regional settings changed but i want to roll out a clean image and apply changes and join domain without using an altered image. Any suggestions? I have tried loads of things in customsettings and bootstrap and messed with the unattended file in the task sequence bit too without any luck. Its really annoying when i see the " and @ wrong as i would like to get to the bottom of this. Has anyone deployed a non-captured xp using mdt and had it pick up the right UK settings everywhere? Care to share your unattend, sysprep, customsettings and bootstrap so i can see what i am doing wrong? Cheers!!

Just flicked through the thread so apologies if i am completely bonkers but perhaps the issue of delays when trying to browse those paths is a netbios issue rather than dns or firewall? Do you have default netbios over tcp/ip set in your clients? Do you run Wins? Is any of these things being blocked by a firewall or elsewhere?

As said above, your server will use the root hints on your server if it can not resolve the address locally. You could specify a forwarder to your isp dns to let this do the grunt work for you instead but you don't have to.

Seems my post was just deleted and not even moved. No reason for it as it was in no way offensive, just similar comments to what others made.... ah well... not the first time that has happened.

These might help. When you say it will not find the WDS server when you try to upload it do you mean the bit where it asks you the server name to save the captured image to? Have you put in the server name properly? tried the fqdn of the server? Have you checked that your network card is working at this stage by "shift f10" to get a command prompt and ipconfig? I had it only fail when i was doing it all in VMWare but i think that was because the VMWare drivers needed to be injected into the boot wim i was using. Not letting you connect to the WDS to upload the capture Check out the BillNut posts. XP WDS Guide Another XP WDS Guide Hope this helps.

Had a quick listen. Sound like talented guys. Bit too much death metal type screaming for me though. I am a massive nirvana fan and like grungey rock but can only take so much throat ripping lol.

Server is x86 but i am sure i had this working a few months ago and it was x86 then too. I have reinstalled my server many times as i play around with things like WSUS, WDS, RRAS etc. It is not a major problem as i will probably reinstall and hopefully things will work out fine. This is just a test network after all. I just had queries about WDS because of this and also was not sure about needing to use a x64 boot image as everything i was doing indicated that a x86 boot images could capture and deploy x64 just fine. It looked prettier in WDS with a single image to capture and another single image to deploy Vista/7. Having another set for x64 looked a bit uglier. Yes i am strange!

Yeah, the Server 2003 CD i used to install my server was SP2 which defaults WDS to native mode. I did change it when i was testing in the past to mixed when i was messing with RIS still but decided to leave RIS behind as it cannot handle newer OS's. I intend to play around with MDT 2010 and have had a quick look at it a month or so ago but i believe it has had a few name changes in the past and guides on the net are confusing when you are trying to work out the names it used to be called or getting confused by these similar tools that are actually the same thing but just older before they were renamed.

Cheers for the reply. I have read about the bugs with it not showing one or the other architecture but i could not get it working. I tried that command and it succeeds but i can still only see the x86 images after restarting WDS and f12 on laptop again. I may just reinstall the server soon and give it another go. It is annoying though. As i said, i can install a x64 image manually with a DVD then capture and deploy it through WDS using my x86 capture/deploy boot images but it will not show the x64 install wim images that i added from the DVD. Oh and another thought, for XP, i did not want to use RIS mixed mode so i installed XP locally using a CD, then sysprep and captured in WDS as a wim. Is this how you guys would do it if you wanted to use WDS native and deploy a clean source XP wim? Can i also use WSIM to create an XML answer file for an XP Wim?? I know i can just create a fully set up XP image with everything already done then deploy it but i liked the idea of having a base image for XP like the ones you get from the Vista/7 DVDs.