Thanks, X &mdash; both for excellent work at your school and exemplary tech reporting!  Did you and Joe do a sort of walk-thru on the 204 lab, or more of a verbal report?  Erik and I were thinking of trying to be on the scene for a walk-thru if that's still yet to come.

We do have a Location Based Printing script in place in the Active Directory setup for Murray, but that is just for a couple special cases (and actually in part just for the sake of illustration), and it does not cover the many almost-identical HP TCP/IP printers in the classrooms.  I'm glad Joe could see and pick up from you that correct procedure for adding a printer by IP address.  


The address for that printer, was it set in the static range? (Fourth octet 231 upto 254.)  The previous TechCo at Murray was keeping these via a binder of test pages from each printer.   This is of course pretty useless for the typical tasks you need these addresses for (moving a computer, moving a printer, restoring the address to a printer that has dropped it).  Do you know if Joe has collected these into a single list somewhere?  If not, let's suggest that; it can equally well be paper, a document on his computer or PDA,  or even a shared Google spreadsheet like we were using this summer for ENTR. 


To get Asset Tags the school TechCo calls the 3-EXCL help line and requests them. Last year the schools had an extremely mixed experience doing this: some call-line personnel simply took the request, asked how many are needed, and had them in CPS Mail Run for delivery the next day.  That's the way it should be! But others claimed only the Unisys teams could have the tags and would bring them when they came to install the computers; or that the techco had to fill in a form detailing the hardware, OS, and S/N for each computer.  So it may take persistence, or luck.