rh91uk

I take it your running the hosted version? It's funny, we've got someone in to do some training/a user group session at the mo

Wow, I kept out of this thread! How did I miss this, lol? I'm not going to make any comments, apart from thanks to everyone who provides me with such a great resource to lean on if I need to Richard

Would be very interested to know this too as we seem to be getting exactly the same problem ... instead though, teachers seem to INSIST that no one is deleting the files!

Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World in my ears at the mo!

Good! I did have quite a few of these keys around but I think most of them were chucked out or I could of posted you one!

just what I was looking for! Cheers!

Nope and nope Thanks! Will give that a go Didn't try that. Will try that. Thanks.

Hi all This is a stange issue that we here have not seen before and can't seem to figure out. Please see attatched image (scanned) Someone is designing (don't ask me why!) a magazine front cover in Word. It prints fine to a PDF creator, but when it prints to a printer we get the attatched file where half the images are getting cut off/not appearing. Any ideas? Thanks, rh91uk

Are they all in the same directory?

What's the lock on it?

I do this sometiomes frequently via a script I picked up ... I posted it in another thread. You may be able to do something with it... rh91uk Patch remote PCs.vbs

Haven't dealt with them myself but I know their really nice guys ... well, they helped me on the very confusing (to someone who hasn't used them before!) tube system @ BETT when I asked some random guys who turned out to be IDNS if I was on the right line

Hi all I think I am being incredibly thick here .. but how do I stop users editing their name in Moodle and their user profile? I prohibited editing profile in the system role permissions but to no avail! Help appreciated, cheers rh91uk

We have it on all PCs here as our standard image - but it is not visable in the Students start menu and if they, for osme reason, try and navigate to SIMS or the SIMS directory they get blocked out of it (Software Restriction Policies)

What I do is implement a script which I knocked together which pings for a domain controller. If it can find the domain controller, it will shut the PC down (force it to shut down) and if it can't - it won't!! (good for when Teachers are using their laptops at home standalone!). I add this via scheduled task in GPP's. Let me know if you wan't a copy.

We use our LA support team, like pretty much every school in our area does. they do seem to be very good, and will always endeavour to try and get an answer for you if they can't get it themselves ... but I agree sometimes I'm fed up of hearing "I'll go back to Capita and ask them" when it's an issue that really needs fixing!

Yep - once you install the drivers (the annoying tools down the side) on the machine you'll be able to pick up the pen and just write all over it!

If you have access to Technet you could download one from there.. I'm not sure on the legalities of sending copies, tho! If it was provided by county can't you just give it to them to fix?

That's what I aim to do - then surely it is off the live SIMS setup - hence if it goes wrong there's nothing to worry about

We have been told (and I think this is ridic .. personally) is that our support contract with our LEA (very minimal!) would be void if we even touched the SIMS sql db. What I want to do is run a script which adds new users from the SIMS db. So, what I plan to do is on another ms-sql box of ours is mount the database on another server at whatever AM in the morning, run the script I want to run then, and dismount it. After the backup of the SIMS server has taken place, without a doubt!

Hi, Was wondering if anyone could help me? I am looking to assign Students to the Student Role in categories en mass. I have set up external DB enrolment. Is there any way I can do it? Thanks, Richard

Hi penfold_99 - thanks for this, keeping them in the external DB was the right thing to do! doh! Cheers!

Hi all - yes, it was to do with Broken Links! can't believe I didn't think of this before! Many thanks for your help.

Yep - as far as I recall this is usually an LA job for the data team up there.

Users cannot change the resolution here (it would be criminal if we let them do that) but we do use ResSwitch here to successfully set a resolution. 1. Download resswitch (http://www.naughter.com/download/qres.zip - extract, go to "release" then take out of there ResSwitch.exe) 2. Create a batch file with something similar to the following in it: @echo off if exist c:\noresswitch.txt goto end resswitch.exe 1440 900 32 75 :end (1440 900 being one of our resolutions!) 2. Find a GPO (or create a new one) that is linked to that computer 3. Go to Computer Configurartion -> Windows Settings -> Scripts and add a new startup script. 4. Add the name of the batch file (resswitch.bat for e.g.) into there. 5. Click "Show Files" 6. Copy in the batch file AND resswitch.exe That should do it for you! Let me know if you have any questions!