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Having checked this morning looks like all subscriptions have been removed as none of the guys here can get into the downloads section at all now. Logins to technet site still work though

This should do it for you: robocopy.exe [source] [destination] [flags] robocopy.exe /? will giove you the other [flags] that you can use.

There was no survey ! Anyhow my guys are getting keys now.

We can't get the Keys at the moment

There is a kown bug in the File Transfer manager that MS uses to control doawnloads, the workaround for XP is here: Microsoft File Transfer Manager VISTA / Server 2008: If you are running Vista or Windows Server 2008, you should check to make sure User Account Control (UAC) local policies are not precluding the Active X installation and launch from happening. In Windows Server 2008 there are 10 new UAC policies with 2 or 3 options each, and some users have found they needed to make adjustments in order to successfully install FTM. Specifically Enabling "Admin Approval Mode for the Built-in Administrator account." has allowed FTM to be installed for some users experiencing this problem. Or you can download it here: Microsoft File Transfer Manager

Most of our guys here have got it without a problem although I can confirm the keys do not work

Well done mate, Ahh the memories of way back when this all started who knew it would come to this As usual if there is anything we can do just shout ! Well done that man.

Anything to do with more than one action on more than one item uses a multi threaded approach. In the case of anything to do with the target PCs a scout ping is sent out if a response is recieved then the action is performed on the target PC, if no response is recieved then a boolean marker is placed against that PC and a warning image is shown next to its name in order to identify a problem.

@PiqueABoo: I'll cover your points one by one, and I do apreciate them... Yes I agree however the more intergration you have with AD then "potentially" the more delegation you have to give to those using the toolbar, now talking from exprerience I have come across sites where this is limited technical expertise due to many varying reasons and having to do mass delegation is not an option. Neither is creating complex ADUC MMC's to do the job. The whole idea is simple to use, simply to deploy, and lightweight. Yes very sad but very true, i've seen it. Again alot sites don't use this. Scenario: I release a toolbar to help users and technical staff make life easier but before you can use theres a fair bit of AD admin you need to do first, people just won't use the toolbar and alot of time, effort, and goodwill will be wasted. Yes a good point but they are definately reapplied at logon, or have I miss understood the question? Again the idea was to have a lightweight clientless application. The application would normally be installed on the teacher PC in a classroom or on admin (IT Support) PCs. The calls are based on classes built into the .Net framework which opens up alot more remote management and connectivity than before (non .Net languages) and the maximum memory footprint we have seen in testing when running shutdown commands on 25 virtual PCs was 4.5Mb and when sitting idle it uses around 1.1Mb Hope this answers some of the points you raised.

"Meat Loaf may once again rise from the ashes like a Phoenix" Although I did see he was performing at the Phantom Winger the nightof the Conf, a little sideline business maybe

Hmm Yes you could be on to something there !

You don't have to put IP addresses in the text file you can use NETBIOS and FQDNs if you wish There are a few reasons for using text files: 1 - You may not want all PCs in an OU 2 - Pulling information from AD adds another 2 or 3 steps to the whole process and is problematic in that we would need to filter off all the stuff in AD that you don't want anyone to get access to i.e. Servers OU 3 - Ease of deployment - The domain admin can control what rooms are listed. 4 - AD/OU setups are different in each school (naming conventions) and may not be clearly obvious to the teacher what the OU is. I am not saying that it cannot be done as it interfaces with AD to dothe whole Password Reset / Account Lockout / Group Membership thing already I just think it is far easier this way and if anything much more flexable from an admin point of view.

With the amount of hints posted thus far if people still cannot work out who / what/ where / how / [insert your bit here] it is then I give up..... Just as my two pence worth salary really is only the business of the said person and as far as taking a pay cut that depends on how much of a cut you are willing to take but when you are running a "business" and you take a leap of faith and go it alone "sometimes" you have to make sacrifices in order to make the business succed

Have a look at: Code 8007007B - A filename, directory name or volume label syntax is incorrect. also: http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/Logon/code/ As far as experts exchange is concerned when you google it make sure you open the cached version and scroll to the bottom the solution is visible to all :-)

We have a standalone nagios setup but was looking into moving over to groundworks however we have not been successfull in setting it up, tis very fiddly

Hoping to get a release out by the end of the week but I also have a release of the helpdesk to get out as well so it maybe the week after.

As long as you have the laptop list as a selectable "room" then the changes will be applied. Remember the text files you create simply has the PC/Laptop name in it with one per line and selecting these will push the changes out. The word "room" can be seen in a virtual sense in this case.

OK, after looking into AD delegation for staff in order to allow them to do: Password changes Membership changes - for banning internet access Acount Lockout reset These are all easy to delegate within Active Directory with compromising security. With this in mind I will work towards adding Membership changes and Account lockout reset to the toolbar so staff can do this also.

The term "EduGeek Project" means I have been asked by the EduGeek team if I could do this so I deem it to be an EduGeek Project. I totally agree. As I stated before I am not the one to make this decision however the ethos surrounding Edugeek is to keep applications like this Open Source and freely available for all to use so with this in mind I would say that it is very likely that the source will be released I just cannot say when. So we may be able to collaborate yet

This is an edugeek application, it is being developed on behalf of EduGeek, and yes the idea would be to release it as open source. When the open source version would be released I don't know but like most of the apps that are being developed for edugeek (by us OP Software) are being done for free and will be provided for free for all to use. Ultimately it will be down to the guys running EduGeek to decide when to open source any of the apps, ideally once it is stable.

Done.

Already there, where the application is installed is a folder called rooms and within this can be placed any text file with a PC per line in it. Simpy only add the text file for the room you install the app into.

The idea is to try and keep it as simple as possible and as it stands now the app requires no client installed on the PCs for it to work. Internet banning is easy if it is just a case of adding the user to a banned group in AD although will need to look into what staff delegation in AD is required over and above password changes, this would also be the same for locked accounts. As far as the HOSTS file is concerned if you start to do this then you will have hosts files littered with entries and what happens if the wrong website is added? remember these are machine wide or are we talking about resetting thefile at the end of each session?

This issue with editing the local hosts file is this would block all internet access. In some schools that I manage they have internal VLEs that would also be blocked by this action so the proxy option was a better one unless someone can tell me otherwise? Remember HOSTS files do not support wildcards i.e. 127.0.0.1 *

In essence no as the proxy settings are on a per user basis and as soon as the user logs of and on again the proxy settings would be rest as per GPO as these are applied at logon.