Your Name: Greg Brown

Today’s Date: 20 Nov 2009

Day(s) worked or described: Mon,  Fri

Total hours for week: 6

The School: Price Elementary

Kind of Work: general tech

Main Report or Narrative: I will start with last week because I had trouble submitting a report.  I organized and plugged in the laptops in the cart.   Speaking about the laptop cart I've done some research and I believe that I can clear the power-on-passwords if I open up the computer and remove the BIOS batteries for just a moment.  I'm wondering if I should go ahead and do that the next time I'm here or what people might think about that.  Also last week I spent some time looking at a computer that seems not to have an operating system that I was planning no installing Windows 2000 on as soon as we find the Install disk.

This week I took inventory of the computers in order to help move computers into the right rooms etc.  Also during free time during both weeks I've been working on compliance and have a question in that department too.  I noticed that when running the renaming script on computers with Windows 2000 installed the script runs up to the point where I am required to put in a username and password to establish the authority to change the name. On the computers running Windows XP the script puts the username and password in for me.  I'm wondering what there is I can do about that.  Also in most cases I've had difficulty, if not found it impossible to update the SMS client, the issue being that the .exe file doesn't seem to run.  Any advise on any of this would be helpful. (Each time I've used the word computer I've been referring to either a dell "optiplex x280" or a dell "optiplex gx1p".)

Happy Friday!