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ORIGINAL: keswadmin

Sorry, you mis-understand me or else I can not explain myself... just me I expect

The feature I am after that allows me to set the times of access for each of my AD groups is only available on the enterprise edition.  This is so that each of the groups - already in existance on AD - can have usage hours for internet access, to prevent student access to the internet after hours when they put a network cable into their laptops. 

(The wireless system will decide which group they are in already and prevent access to any network resource by restricting access at certain hours of the night.  regretfully it does not work for LAN cards only wireless cards.)

So in order to do this I had to upgrade to enterprise version becuase standard version does not have this option... only I can't remember what the option is now, to be able to set it up.  I distinctly remember going to the MS ISA website and checkign out the features and seeing that it was not available in the standard version only the enterprise version, hence the update now that the summer upgrades are underway.

thanks

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ORIGINAL: keswadmin

OK - maybe this is a better way of explaining it.

I have the following groups already in use in AD called, Staff, 1st form, 2nd form, 3rd form, 4th form, 5th form, L6th form and U6th form.

I want to all staff who live in site to have access to the internet 24/7
I want the 1st and 2nd years to only have access between 8am and 8pm
3rd form to have access 8am to 9pm
4th and 5th form 8am to 10pm
L6 and U6 to have access 7am til 11:30pm.

Where possible I want to continue with the windows authentication that is currently used, but there are a number of laptops that are not on the school domain, but have been given access to teh school network when they have been authorised.  These machine must prompt for a school username and password before internet acceess is to be given and then only according to the year group that they are in (or staff).

thanks in advance.