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Good day fine people. i have been working on the bane of my life which is deployed printers disappearing and i notice the following seemingly separate issue, or is it?: three to four comand promts pop up and hang on start up with the message blocked by administrator. i have identified the offending GPO as user setting/ preferences /start menu/don't display run this is set as part of my student lock down policy to prevent users from using the run command. when set, this is blocking some part of windows start up including log on scripts. when not set i see the prompts flash up and go away working normally. i noticed this while trying to apply a gpupdate as a log on script to fix my disappearing printers, but this log on script just becomes the fourth blocked window. i feel these issues are related. i have tried other methods of blocking scripts or the command promt itslef however the run box gives students too much access. i have also tried to identify what these windows are in order to find a way to add an exception for them. they are nothing i have deployed as i can see them in an OU outside of my policies. they appear to be part of windows or an application. they launch from the system 32 folder, you have to manually close each window before continuing. is anyone anyone else seeing this, id be glad to hear from you.

Hi Everyone, Just have a quick question for the masses. I've worked at several institutions before and I'm trying to gauge what is typical pracitce in an educational environment. When you guys have departments who need additional capacity at their end points (adding a network printer to an office, more workstations, etc.) what do you guys do? Does IT have an additional line ran to the endpoint from the IDF, or does the department pay for it? Perhaps you install a switch at the endpoint and increase capacity there? At my previous university we had a vendor who came out and ran network cabling, do you guys have on staff people that do this, or do you just use one of the methods above. I'm kind of against switches at the end point but that's what they've been doing. I want to talk my CIO into having a vendor who does this on an open PO or case by case basis.

Hmmm.. I'm baffled. I have just unboxed 4 new dell computers with Win7 of various models. 3 of the 4 machines are Latitude E5400's and I have 2 of them set up and to their users. BUT... I've just noticed on those 2 machines that when you try to launch an HTML shortcut from the desktop or other location on the C: drive, that IE comes up with a white screen and never shows anything. If I manually start IE, and go to FAVORITES (where these shortcuts came from originally) they run just fine. Huh. I've taken my 3rd Latitude E5400 out of the box since finding out about this and have been going thru my normal setup step by step, and I can not get this one to fail like the other two are doing. This is quite annoying. All users of all machines have Administrator rights on the machine, so its not anything to do with permissions. I've tested our McAfee software that we load on the machines (before & after the install of it) and it is not that software that is causing the problem. It has nothing to do with all the preloaded crap software that Dell loads on... Any ideas what to look for? I tried googling this and either just didnt find the right keywords or there just isnt much out there on this.