Did your password expire?

Panicked user:  Help, my computer doesn't work!

Tech:  It doesn't do anything?

Panicked user:  Well, I can't print.

Panicked user:  My email isn't working either.

Tech:  Have you reset your password recently?

Panicked user:  Yes

Tech:  Did your computer ask you to reset your password?

Panicked user:  Umm...  I don't think so.

Tech:  Hold on, let me check for you.

net user /domain username

Tech:  The network says you need to update your password.

Bing safe and ad free searching for your school

Follow the steps below if you value a safe and ad free experience for your staff and precious little students.

Step 0:  Go to https://www.bing.com/classroom/registration to fill out the online form.  You will need to know what your public ip address is.  Hopefully it is a static address.  When the process is complete, all search requests from your school should be safe and ad free.

Google SafeSearch enforced

Follow the steps below if you would like to enforce Google SafeSearch for your organization.  These are the steps for Windows Server 2008 R2

Step 0:  Go to your DNS server and right click on forward lookup zones.  Now click New

Step 1:  Click Next

 Step 2: Make sure Primary zone is selected and check Store the zone in Active Directory, click next

 Step 3:  Select To all DNS servers, click next

Step 4:  Type in www.google.com, click next

 

Step 5:  Select Do not allow dynamic updates, click next

Step 6  Click Finish (almost there)

 Step 7:  Select your new zone on the left side of the window and then right click on it to create a new Other New Records.

 

     

Step 8: Find Domain Alias (DNAME) under the select resource record type section and click the Create Record... button.  Type forcesafesearch.google.com in the Fully qualified domain name (FQDN): section and click ok.

If you followed all these steps, you should see that Google's safe search is now enforced.

no puppies, kittens, unicorns, or muggles were harmed in the making of this DNS record.

Distributing cloud printers to Chromebooks in Google apps

Before you add printers we will need to have a group created with all the users you want to use the printer.  In this case we have already created a group called printers@yourdomain.com  under the groups section in the google apps management console.

Now log into your printers web interface and go to HP Web Services.  Click Enable.

After you click enable an information sheet will be printed.  There will be an email address assigned by HP to use for cloud printing.

It should look something like this.  eml72whatwhat97@hpeprint.com

Now you will need to go to google chrome and login with an admin account for google apps.

https://www.google.com/cloudprint#printers

Click on Add a Cloud-Ready Printer

Now click on HP and then click on HP Registration Page

Now enter your email address created by HP e-Print Services

Now it should tell you the printer was added successfully

You can now go back to https://www.google.com/cloudprint#printers to share your printer.  Select your printer and then click share.

Next:  Enter printers@yourdomain.com in the invite people box and click share.

Voilà! Now your Chromebooks have the printer!