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18th June 2013, 10:26 AM

jamesfed replied to a thread CCTV in Hardware

After doing a revamp at my last place I can say I prefer Sony cameras to the Axis cameras (except the Axis PTZ-212 which has a crazily big viewing...

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17th June 2013, 12:55 PM

jamesfed replied to a thread Minimal/Quick Windows Audio Player? in General Chat

Tell him to stop using a 3,200rpm hard drive and upgrade to a SSD ;)

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17th June 2013, 12:29 PM

jamesfed replied to a thread Outlook 2010 - Some users being constantly prompted to enter details in Enterprise Software

Are you using Lync or any other software that might want to talk to Outlook?

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17th June 2013, 10:27 AM

jamesfed replied to a thread Flexing my muscles in Gaming

Star Trek online ;)

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14th June 2013, 03:12 PM

jamesfed replied to a thread File Modification in Windows 7

Got auditing turned on?

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13th June 2013, 03:09 PM

jamesfed replied to a thread PDFs in Internet Explorer - Windows 7 - Crashing in Windows 7

Turning off protected mode has fixed no end of problems for me as well - you can even do it using a reg change (a quick google will find which one)...

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12th June 2013, 10:37 AM

jamesfed replied to a thread Online form website - logins from AD in How do you do....it?

Take a look at Visual Studio Lightswitch - built into most of the 2012 VS packages now. Its a rapid database/form creation tool that ties into AD...

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12th June 2013, 10:02 AM

jamesfed replied to a poll Which VDI do you use? in Enterprise Software

I did a guide on how to App-V Adobe CS6 a while back and have a few other bits and bobs on my blog - App-V | my world of IT Best thing you can do...

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11th June 2013, 01:35 PM

jamesfed replied to a thread pCounter on on 2008R2 on HyperV in Thin Client and Virtual Machines

Are they HP printers by chance? If so and you are using the Universal Printing Driver there is a kown problem where you have to change from TCP/IP...

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11th June 2013, 01:32 PM

jamesfed replied to a thread Backup Solution for Primary School in Hardware

Could you just replace the faulty HDD?

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10th June 2013, 02:57 PM

jamesfed replied to a thread OSD on to machine that was previously in use.... in O/S Deployment

Have another check under 'All systems' that the PC isn't there (and if so right click/delete). The chaps here used to do a reset of the...

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10th June 2013, 02:06 PM

jamesfed replied to a thread Moving Sharepoint from test server to new hardware in How do you do....it?

You could setup a NIC on your virtual host that goes directly out to the web (if that’s still the option you want to go for) - as the host and the VM...

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10th June 2013, 01:57 PM

jamesfed replied to a thread Moving Sharepoint from test server to new hardware in How do you do....it?

Why not just turn it into a virtual machine?

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7th June 2013, 07:07 PM

jamesfed replied to a poll Which VDI do you use? in Enterprise Software

Citrix VDI-in-a-box at my last place - very easy to setup :) Used App-V extensively as well, took me a while (about 4 days solid work) but in the...

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7th June 2013, 10:36 AM

jamesfed replied to a thread Students "Hacking" each other in Windows 7

This should fix your permissions problems in no time - NTFSFix

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7th June 2013, 08:51 AM

jamesfed replied to a thread Java and Flash updates in Windows 7

I use SCCM to push out the updates - no need to remove the older versions as they just overwrite the previous one. A little while back I put...

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6th June 2013, 05:39 PM

jamesfed replied to a thread Making how to guides for teachers in General Chat

IMO guides (of any kind) rarely do anything but collect (digital) dust when issued to most members of staff. Better training (small groups and one...

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6th June 2013, 12:55 PM

jamesfed replied to a thread Removing the map from meraki management in Cloud Services

Put it in their little suggestions box :)

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6th June 2013, 10:41 AM

jamesfed replied to a thread Laptopsforteachers.co.uk - opinions please! in General Chat

Cheers :)

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6th June 2013, 10:34 AM

jamesfed replied to a thread Laptopsforteachers.co.uk - opinions please! in General Chat

Only thing is I'm no longer at the school where we did business before so I wouldn't be a very good person to call :) I do start at my new place...

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6th June 2013, 08:46 AM

jamesfed replied to a thread Laptopsforteachers.co.uk - opinions please! in General Chat

Used them quite a few times at my last place - a good deal in all cases (although HP trade in cash back is better most of the time).

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5th June 2013, 04:56 PM

jamesfed replied to a thread Network Manager - Frogmore Community College, Hampshire in Educational IT Jobs

Site rules say that you shouldn't comment on the pay of job ads but..............I do have to say it...thats appalling pay!

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5th June 2013, 04:52 PM

jamesfed replied to a thread Life after Sixth Form in General Chat

Just to quickly share my story here.... At age 16-18 I was doing something very similar to you - doing casual work for my old secondary school in...

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1st June 2013, 04:44 PM

jamesfed replied to a thread Enabling USB Access without admin rights in Windows 7

If your admins have removed USB access then its for a good reason (usually data protection) - if you are able to get them to work and someone finds...

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29th October 2012

01:16 PM - gshaw mentioned jamesfed in post 2013 RTM ISO's available on Technet
...ing with at the mo. As for jamesfed be glad you're not closer to m...

11th October 2012

11:54 AM - jamesfed mentioned Millgate in post Big touchscreens
... the cleaver touch displays - Millgate should be able to help you out...

15th September 2012

02:45 PM - jamesfed mentioned VeryPC_Ed in post HP DL120 + OCZ PCI express SSD as a RDS server
...ve than a single RDS server. VeryPC_Ed - quite right about there bein...

13th September 2012

07:23 AM - jamesfed mentioned MrWu in post HP DL120 + OCZ PCI express SSD as a RDS server
...ers for the mentions guys :) MrWu you maybe intrested in my late...

12th September 2012

07:53 PM - Arthur mentioned jamesfed in post HP DL120 + OCZ PCI express SSD as a RDS server
...ing PCIe SSDs to HP servers? jamesfed has... www.edugeek.net/forums/...

29th August 2012

08:26 PM - plexer mentioned jamesfed in post KVM 1U with monitor
...s after one not selling one. jamesfed speak to the guys at ICT Direc...

5th July 2012

10:14 AM - jamesfed mentioned CyberNerd in post Do schools spend more money on back-end ICT than is necessary?
...g a 4x RDS cluster similar to CyberNerd over the summer holiday - agai...

25th June 2012

12:26 PM - jamesfed mentioned tmcd0035 in post Raid 1 or Raid 5
...etty much the same with me as tmcd0035 - RAID1 for anything that is O...

23rd June 2012

12:29 PM - jamesfed mentioned Axel in post What do you use your Axel M80s for?
...i all, I've got one of the Axel M80s on trial at the moment wi...

22nd June 2012

12:08 AM - jamesfed mentioned SYNACK in post New website - Showcase your server
...he specs form. Nice thinking SYNACK

9th June 2012

02:12 PM - Arthur mentioned jamesfed in post My IT Related Blog!
...e kiosk software per machine jamesfed posted some prices for the 10z...

31st May 2012

10:38 PM - jamesfed mentioned CyberNerd in post Internet Down!
...#8217;t always agree with you CyberNerd but….. +1 for canning R...

26th May 2012

08:45 AM - pcstru mentioned jamesfed in post New VDI Project
...look at in action. There's jamesfed's VID in a box demo day on 6th...

4th May 2012

05:52 PM - jamesfed mentioned nickbro in post http to https redirect help
... again! :) Never a problem - nickbro gets all the real credit thoug...

30th April 2012

02:51 PM - plexer mentioned jamesfed in post Recommendations please for school imaging ...
...e of the few things that is. jamesfed damn, seems so strange that MS...

27th April 2012

08:06 PM - plexer mentioned jamesfed in post Recommendations please for school imaging ...
...link here) tomorrow morning. jamesfed how do you deploy the app-v de...

15th March 2012

12:04 PM - localzuk mentioned jamesfed in post Servers for virtualisation?
...cost us around £5k. However, jamesfed just highlighted the HP DL165 ...

13th March 2012

09:47 PM - jamesfed mentioned m25man in post Another question about drives for servers
...out backup recovery plan from m25man - this is not a time to pray t...
08:20 PM - m25man mentioned jamesfed in post Another question about drives for servers
...active windows partitions. As jamesfed says, once the array has been ...

12th January 2012

09:52 PM - SimpleSi mentioned jamesfed in post Foundation E-Profile help!
I think jamesfed is right - I seem to remember...