Just wondering who on here is Staffs and using Entrust (Capita)/Staff LEA for their broadband at the moment? Anybody know for definite what's happening come April?

If so, what are you planning - staying with them or moving to another supplier?

They've not sent any official quotes/renewal/information about what is being offered, well not to me any way. I've had information over the phone of prices but things like SMTP connectors and SAP issues still worry me.

Cheers

Gareth

I work for a school improvement organisation, London Connected Learning Centre. We are currently working on a feasibility study into a nation-wide learning project for a major cultural organisation.

Part of our research is into the state of broadband and filtering across the country (Average speeds, rural availability, connection types (fttp, fttc, etm etc). As a starting point we have broken our research up into the regions of the country covered by the Regional Broadband Consortia.

We have been informed that WMnet doesn't actually provide or procure broadband connectivity any longer and that this is now left up to the local authorities, on an individual basis, within the region, to work with their partners to supply Broadband and filtering to schools.

Are there any network managers or technicians here that would have a bit of time to talk to us and give as an indication of their broadband, filtering and virtual learning options within the area, and for us to potentially use your school as a case study.

We would be extremely grateful for any help. Please feel free to post here or PM for further info

I hope somebody can give me some advice on this.

We're basically upgrading all our old 100mb switches from 2008 to 1GB switches in the next couple weeks.

We've chosen HP out of the possible hardware vendors as they have a pretty good lifetime warranty, the price is pretty good and the functionality of each seems worth the cost.

However, after consulting with Link2ICT, they've basically said that we can't move away from Cisco for our main switches that connect to their end. Apparently according to them the HP switches we are buying will not talk to their Cisco network and thus we must go for Cisco and Cisco only. We're spending about £6,000 on a complete refresh on our switches, a total of 11 switches, and just one of the proposed cisco alternatives is £3-4,000. We may need three of these.

Is this true that Cisco switches can only communicate in this manner with other Cisco switches? As to me, an amateur in switching technology and advanced networking, this seems like BS and a total rip off.

Any help would be grateful.

Cheers,

Alex

EH! did i miss something!

and why do they need my Cmis data? Surley they would use the data from SINA? right? Logins etc..

anyone in the know?

Basically I'm looking at what Link2ICT provide for us and the amount they charge and I'm wondering if it's actually good value for money and in the best interests of the school.

They currently provide, Internet, Policy Central, Sophos, CMIS support and remote backup for £12500 pa.

Does anyone know if it's possible to actually "leave" BGFL and go it alone, so bring in my own firewall, antivirus and internet connection and if so would it be worth it?

Any thoughts greatly appreciated.

Rich

cscript ZmCustomizeMSI.js C:\ZimbraOlkConnector.msi -sn mail.myvle.org -sp 4
43 -ssl 1 -zdb "H:\"

Microsoft ® Windows Script Host Version 5.7

Copyright © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Setting parameters:

ServerName: "mail.myvle.org"

ServerPort: 443

ConnectionMethod: 1

ZDBFolder: "H:\"

Installer db updated successfully

The output if it runs correctly is at the bottom. This presumes that you have both the ZMCustomizeMSI.js and the ZimbraOlkConnector at the route of your C drive. Once created I'm just distributing it to fixed desktop and admin machines.

When outlook starts for the first time it will just ask for the users email address and password. If you have had the passwords setup by link2Ict they will need to be changed the first time they are used so you will have had to logon and set those up via the web interface.

Good luck...

I'm guessing i wont be able to make our school website in joomla...

i' creating docs about esafety and am getting more and more pages filtered! (the latest was on the sodding FBI.gov website.

does anyone know the staffs unfiltered porxy. PM me if you dont want to post on here. I have asked SLT but still waiting for a reply, and i am busy lol.

As with all other network matters, bar the Janet managed regional backbone network, networks in the West Midlands are managed by the local authorities.