I’m Going on Holiday, What do I need to Disable on my iPhone?

KB ID 0000622 

Problem

Here in Europe the big mobile Telco’s are being forced to keep roaming prices down. But going abroad with all your data services turned on can mean you might come back to a big bill.

Solution

1. On most peoples phones “Data Roaming” is already disabled (Mines always off).Data Roaming is designed to let you use another provider’s phone network if your carrier signal is too weak. On some sites it says you cant use your phone abroad if you have this disabled I DISAGREE, I’ve got it disabled and I use my phone every time I’m out of the country?

Settings > General > Network > Data Roaming.

2. If you see ActiveSync and/or have mail pushed to your phone, you might want to also disable “Mobile Data” to stop that happening while your away.

Settings > General > Network > Mobile Data.

3. That’s Data stopped but your phone will still function as a phone. WARNING you may still be charged “call forwarding” if your phone rings and you let it go to answer phone while you are away. I don’t mind that, because I prefer to keep my phone on. If you want to disable the phone and text features as well, e.g. You Just want to use the Camera, iPod, and Alarm capabilities. Then just put the phone in Airplane mode, (which isn’t a word Apple! The word is Aeroplane!)

Settings > Airplane Mode.

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Windows Server – Setup Home Folders and Profile Folders

KB ID 0000739 

Problem

A while back I got an email,

Message: Hallo Pete,

Can you make a tutorial for me for sharing a Home Folder or Profile Path folder for every user?
It’s hard to get one.

Thanks in advance.

Sincerely,
Matthew Wittenberg
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Well it’s taken me a while (sorry!) But here you go,

Solution

Creating and Allocating Home Folders to Users

1. Create a folder that is on a drive or volume with plenty of room.

2. I’ve simply used ‘Home’ as the folder name, open the folder’s properties.

3. Sharing Tab > Advanced Sharing.

4. Tick to share > put a dollar ‘$’ symbol onto the end of the share name (this just stops the folder being visible to someone browsing the network) > Permissions.

5. Grant Everyone ‘Full Control’, Don’t worry we will lock it down with NTFS permissions (Remember permissions are cumulative, and most restrictive apply) > Apply > OK.

6. Security tab > Advanced.

7. Change Permissions.

8. Untick ‘Include inheritable permissions……’ > Add.

9. Select CREATOR OWNER > Edit > Permissions should apply to ‘Subfolders and files only’ > Full control.

10. Select SYSTEM > Edit > Permissions should apply to ‘This Folder, subfolders and files only’ > Full control.

11. Select DOMAINNAMEAdministrators > Edit > Permissions should apply to ‘This Folder, subfolders and files only’ > Full control.

12. Remove the Users (the one with Read & Execute).

13. Remove the Users (the one with Special).

14. Add.

15. Everyone > check Name (make sure it underlines Everyone) > OK

16. Sett Apply to = This folder only > Allow the following.

Traverse Folder / execute file
List Folder / read data
Read attributes
Create Folders / append data

Allocate the Home Folder to the Domain Users

1. From within Active Directory Users and Computers locate your users, (you can press Windows Key+A to select them all).

2. Open their properties.

3. Profile tab > You can connect a drive letter (I usually use H:) and connect that to the users home drive. Set the path like so;

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\\Server-name\Folder-name\%username%
e.g.
\\PNL-DC\Home$\%username%

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4. This is what the users will see.

5. On the server the folders are all created straight away.

Creating and Allocating Roaming Profile Folders to Users

The process for setting up the folder is identical to the one above for the home folders.

1. Create a folder that is on a drive or volume with plenty of room.

2. I’ve simply used ‘Profile’ as the folder name, open the folder’s properties > Sharing Tab > Advanced Sharing > Tick to share > put a dollar ‘$’ symbol onto the end of the share name (this just stops the folder being visible to someone browsing the network) > Permissions.

3.  Grant Everyone ‘Full Control’, Don’t worry we will lock it down with NTFS permissions (Remember permissions are cumulative, and most restrictive apply) > Apply > OK.

4. Security tab > Advanced.

5. Change Permissions > Untick ‘Include inheritable permissions..’ > Add.

6. Remove the Users (the one with Read & Execute).

7. Remove the Users (the one with Special).

8. Add.

9. Everyone > check Name (make sure it underlines Everyone) > OK.

10. Set Apply to = This folder only > Allow the following.

Traverse Folder / execute file
List Folder / read data
Read attributes
Create Folders / append data

Allocate the Roaming Profile Folder to the Domain Users

1. From within Active Directory Users and Computers locate your users, (you can press Windows Key+A to select them all).

2. Open their properties > Profile Tab > Tick ‘Profile path’ > Set the path as follows;

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\\Server-name\Folder-name\%username%
e.g.
\\PNL-DC\Profiles$\%username%

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3. Unlike home folders, profile folders are only created when the users log onto the network, here you can see this profile has a V2 on the end of it (a version 2 profile means it has come from a Windows Vista or newer machine). For this reason if your users use Windows XP (or older) clients, AND Windows Vista (or newer) clients they will get TWO DIFFERENT profiles.

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