[info-tech] items on hand

2009-07-16 Thread Jackie Fonley
I know these things are dating themselves, but I'll be getting things ready for recycling next week. . . and if anyone could use any of this -- I think it makes sense to keep using it in schools first. If you have any interest, email me off the list serve and we can work out details regar

RE: [info-tech] User Profiles

2009-07-16 Thread Richardson,Tony
You could remove the message boxes and do a little rewrite on the script to have it check for the day of the week. Then run it from an AD org unit as a policy to clear those fat student profiles weekly when the computer starts up. Roaming profiles consume a bunch of bandwidth if there are a lot of

RE: [info-tech] User Profiles

2009-07-16 Thread Richardson,Tony
Here is a vbs script that I use to quickly remove student profiles from a pc it works rather well. Substitute your own profiles in the CASE statement that you want to keep. Call it what you want with a .vbs extension and run it on your lab pcs. --- On Error Resum

RE: [info-tech] User Profiles

2009-07-16 Thread Dan Davis
In our group policies I have this set so they save in the "My Documents" folder on the desktop, however this is actually "virtually mapped" to a storage space on our servers. That way I do not need to worry about mapping drives for staff for this. Dan Davis Network Administrator Spirit Lake Com

RE: [info-tech] User Profiles

2009-07-16 Thread Mitch Mueller
Ok. I will have to take a look at it again. I thought we just turned off roaming profiles but I might look into that. So does your staff save everything to their my documents on their local machine or to their personal drives? From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us [mailto:info-tech-ow...@aea8

RE: [info-tech] User Profiles

2009-07-16 Thread Dan Davis
I use roaming profiles for staff, not students. This is handled via our district AD servers. I also delete the roaming profiles off of the local computers for students when they log out via group policies which are in place. Dan Dan Davis Network Administrator Spirit Lake Comm. School Distric

RE: [info-tech] User Profiles

2009-07-16 Thread Mitch Mueller
Ok. So would it be better to use roaming profiles or not? From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us [mailto:info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us] On Behalf Of Dan Davis Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:20 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech] User Profiles If you are not using roami

RE: [info-tech] User Profiles

2009-07-16 Thread Dan Davis
If you are not using roaming profiles from the server, then each staff / student who logs into a computer will get a newly created profile on the local machine, unless they have one from before. This can take up quite a bit of hard drive space over time. When someone logs into a computer, the fi

[info-tech] User Profiles

2009-07-16 Thread Mitch Mueller
We are having problems with our user profiles updating here. We are running Windows XP SP3 and the servers are server 2003. I aren't using roaming profiles so I'm not sure if it is not suppose to update. Just a question. If you have any information of what might be going on please let me know as

[info-tech] FW: Test

2009-07-16 Thread Richardson,Tony
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