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Anything from Windows Live Essentials is very difficult to deploy using GPO software installation, even without customisation (which is largely impossible). There are literally dozens of MSIs in the main installer package, and I don't know if anyone has identified which pre-requisites you'd need to install for each individual product. I strongly suspect one of the pre-reqs for Movie Maker is DirectX 9, which is a .exe install only. I deployed the .exe instead using System Center, but the same process can be used with Local Update Publisher if you have a WSUS server. Otherwise you're probably looking at a logon script, but that's not my area of expertise.

How many tokens do you have to collect for the free Ai Weiwei?

I see you asked this a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately, the only way to do it is with the hacks that you have already seen. If your manager believes it is possible to do any other way then please invite him to demonstrate, as I'd love to see it.

Is there more to it than is in this pic? The reason I ask is that "Christ" is actually "Christi", which along with Catherine and Magdalen (starts at 3,3) are names of some of the Oxford colleges. I haven't spotted any more though.

Exchange can be set up across multiple servers. It's not impossible that you have a Client Access server onsite, while the Mailbox server with the actual data is offsite. More info: Understanding Exchange Server 2007 server roles

I was under the impression that Live@edu is hosted Exchange, with all the functionality that offers. Exchange lets you add permissions to any mailbox so that another user has full access to it if desired. You probably need to use Powershell to configure it but I'm pretty sure the ability is there.

Normally your WPAD would be on an internal server, not externally published. So you would create either an A or CNAME record in your internal DNS. If you don't have an internal webserver already, and don't want to install IIS just for this, there's no reason you couldn't create wpad CNAME on your internal DNS to point to the external webserver, and then have the DHCP option set to http://wpad.ockendon.thurrock.sch.uk/wpad.dat Worth noting that if your DNS is on Server 2008 or 2008 R2, you will need to alter the DNS blocklist or the wpad name will not resolve. All that said, I don't think IE relies on the hostname being called WPAD (Firefox and some other browsers do). I suspect something else may be up here. Have you configured the webserver currently hosting the wpad.dat to return the correct MIME type for .dat files (application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig)? Also, what version of IE are you using? Older versions sometimes request the file based on the IP address, not the hostname, which can break in virtual hosting environments.

Word can't merge to separate files natively - it's the biggest weakness of mail merge in Office. There are some macros you can fiddle with that should work... or you could just use LibreOffice which I'm pretty sure has the entire process built in, including the emailing.

WSUS and printer shares?

I use it, but only for full-system backups. Works fine for me, have done a couple of restores just fine. For monitoring (assuming you want to know if a backup fails), I suggest setting up a Task Scheduler item to email you if any Failure/Critical event appears in the Backup event log (under Applications & Services\Microsoft\Windows\Backup).

Google Earth works the same way I think. Google are a colossal pain in the backside about this sort of thing, many of their product groups seem to have no respect for the "IT department" whether its in business or education; they simply see 'us' as a barrier to people using their products.

I've had a some dealings with ADA Networks, but not a huge amount. Always seem very knowledgeable and competitively priced.

We have this in our staff contract, with a reminder in the AUP. I wouldn't want the only clause to be in the AUP as I'm not convinced it could stand up to legal scrutiny. The wording in our staff contract is as follows: (Not that I did not write this, nor do I make any warranty as to its suitability or enforceability.)

I've nothing bad to sday about Canon, always my go-to for digital cameras for schools. Misco's price is good too, though if you can buy from Amazon you can shave off £3 per unit by buying the pink ones You won't need to buy batteries but you will need an SD card for each one, the included card is usually very small.

To be honest there's not that much client-side that you couldn't test just with a non-inheriting OU in the existing AD and on the existing servers. That's how I did it. I had about 30 vanilla clients running off of just CC3 DCs for about 6 months.

I did not add the new DC until I had started the final stage of the migration. I did add technically the new DCs before going vanilla, but only a few days beforehand so I couldn't tell you whether CC3 would have worked flawlessly in this configuration or not. For what it's worth, I did not upgrade the schema until well after the new DCs were introduced.

Microsoft Virtual Server, and its successor Hyper-V, are both included with the price of Windows. In 2008, Hyper-V should just be a role you install from the Server Manager. The only cost involved would be the NT4 licence.

From what I could find, the only other UK newspaper to pick up this non-story was the Daily Fail. That should tell you all you need to know, really.

Maldova should have won. THEY HAD A FAIRY ON A UNICYCLE! How could they NOT win? Proof that the rest of Europe has no sense of humour.

The last time I had two drives "fail" simultaneously it was actually a false failure detection due to a bug in the storage controller. May be worth contacting HP and see if there are any such known issues with your controller.

What age group are you working with?

Reading/Berkshire area.

The problem I have here is that the fibre was installed well before my time and I think the company that did it has gone bust, so I don't have any contacts to ask. I definitely would NOT want to have to replace the entire run, as it is the longest run on site (several hundred meters) and traverses more than one building before it even gets to the duct.

This is now out of CTP and into a fully released version. If you want to disable the update check that happens at launch, the only feasible way to do it is by adding a /NoUpdate switch when you launch the program (along with /NoInstrumentation if you want to disable CEIP) Source Attached is a transform that will add these to the shortcuts for you when Kodu is installed. No Update or Instrumentation.zip