I am using Microsoft Office Professional 2003. I am working in a school and
would like to restrict access to OneNote Shared Sessions. As you could
imagine, these shared sessions are being used to cheat during exams and/or
disruptive chatting during class. If anyone has any idea on how I would be
able to block the users from the Shared Sessions, please notify me. Thank
you.

In OneNote2007 you could use group policy to block shared sessions (see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924617). However, I don't think we had this
policy in OneNote 2003 SP1...
-Irina

"ChuckD" wrote:

> I am using Microsoft Office Professional 2003. I am working in a school and
> would like to restrict access to OneNote Shared Sessions. As you could
> imagine, these shared sessions are being used to cheat during exams and/or
> disruptive chatting during class. If anyone has any idea on how I would be
> able to block the users from the Shared Sessions, please notify me. Thank
> you.

If you have access to the configuration of the network being used (like the
classroom's wireless?) you could block the default port (2302) but that
won't prevent students from configuring another port.

I'm not sure what you could do otherwise, other than continually monitoring
the network and blocking all non-web traffic.

=?Utf-8?B?Q2h1Y2tE?= <ChuckD@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
news:98A1172E-C68D-4352-A666-93320CF53375@microsoft.com:

> I am using Microsoft Office Professional 2003. I am working in a
> school and would like to restrict access to OneNote Shared Sessions.
> As you could imagine, these shared sessions are being used to cheat
> during exams and/or disruptive chatting during class. If anyone has
> any idea on how I would be able to block the users from the Shared
> Sessions, please notify me. Thank you.

In article <eXGZYRXJHHA.2456@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>, esojka@ms-
onenote.net.nospam says...
> If you have access to the configuration of the network being used (like the
> classroom's wireless?) you could block the default port (2302) but that
> won't prevent students from configuring another port.
>
> I'm not sure what you could do otherwise, other than continually monitoring
> the network and blocking all non-web traffic.

Even if you could block all the ports on YOUR network, all the kids have
to do is create an ad-hoc Wi-Fi network directly between their laptops.

To the original poster: There really isn't any technological means for
you to prevent misbehavior. You simply must have control of your
classroom. If you don't have control of the kids then they will always
find a way to misbehave and disrupt the class.