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Hi Danbee, The Network Manager is a fundamental part of the decision making process, and all purchase decisions are made by them, as long as the Trust's procurement process is followed (three quotations for large purchases etc. showing best value - not necessarily cheapest). The Lead IT Practitioner will also be responsible for determining the Teaching and Learning requirements, curriculum need etc., both roles feed in to the strategic direction.

Hi Sippo, There are two other IT technicians currently along with our Lead IT Practitioner (and me at the moment) supported by two excellent consultants where necessary. This role is just to manage the network of one secondary.

Hello Edugeeks! A rare and unique opportunity has arisen at Royal Wootton Bassett Academy for a dynamic, knowledgeable and enthusiastic Network Manager to drive our vision to provide the best infrastructure, devices and tools to enhance teaching and learning. Salary: NJC Grade L/M (£36,371-£41,591) Full Time Permanent Position Start date: ASAP Closing date: 09.00am 21st April 2022 Role overview: Provide 2nd and 3rd line, and where required 1st line, support to Royal Wootton Bassett Academy. Administer all aspects of the school’s ICT infrastructure and systems. Enhance the ICT infrastructure, implementing ICT developments and changes which improve the use of ICT across the school. Consistently demonstrate the Support Staff Professional Attributes & Competencies associated with the post. Main Responsibilities: Infrastructure & System Management Maintenance, configuration, administration, updating and optimisation of all school wide and department infrastructure/systems, ensuring they are available at all times, which includes but is not limited to: • Internet links • Cabling and network switch estate • Wireless network, Windows servers, Printing estate, Email system • Anti-virus and anti-spam systems • Management Information System and Virtual Learning Environments • Phone system • Audio visual installations, PC deployment/server management • Installation, configuration and maintenance of educational software • UPS • Administration and performance of backups of all school ICT systems • Configuration of all ICT Safeguarding mechanisms including email filtering, internet filtering rules etc Reporting to : IT Lead Practitioner Line Management of our IT Technicians Royal Wootton Bassett Academy, rated Outstanding by OfSTED, is proud to be part of the Royal Wootton Bassett Academy Trust family of Academies, but this role will be based solely at Royal Wootton Bassett Academy. Please get in touch if you'd like to know more about the role, the school, or generally have a natter. Recruitment pack can be downloaded at https://www.rwba.org.uk/media/2151/rwba-it-network-manager.pdf

The iPads were iPad mini 1s from 2013 that were slightly damaged in some way (like a headphone socket or rocker switch) or that we couldn't remove from DEP. We just put them to work as displays instead of disposing of them.

I wrote one for in-house a couple of years ago that links to SIMS, and displays what the current lesson or booking is on an iPad outside each of the computer rooms.

Have a look at Gloom, Patchwork, Coup, Suchi Go! and Exploding Kittens for 2 player + Munchkin really is 4 players.

CopyProfile = true kills it.

I think copyprofile in sysprep in Windows 10 build 10240 is still broken. We've been testing this all day. A fresh install from the DVD on the machine, going through the setup for a local account and then joining it to the domain manually works. Any user profile can log on and get a start menu, search and notification centre any time they log on. No sysprep, so no copyprofile. However, a fresh install put into audit mode, and then immediately sysprepping against an unattend.xml answer file that than turns on the local administrator account and sets a password with copyprofile=true doesn't behave the same way at all. After manually joining that to the domain, for any user profile that logs on, the start menu, search and notification centre don't work. Unless you blow away the profile entirely and delprof, and then for the first login, everything works fine. On any subsequent login, no start menu, search or notification centre. But - another fresh install, audit mode and immediately sysprepping against the unattend.xml WITHOUT copyprofile=true and everything was good again. Tried building the image and sysprepping without being connected to a network as detailed here: Windows 10 Image - Customize in Audit Mode with Sysprep - Page 12 - Windows 10 Forums but that doesn't seem to work here either. The only thing that seems to work is not having copyprofile in the unattend.xml file.

Yes - if the sysprepped image contained windows updates. The roaming profiles are killing us, now. With a sysprepped image and copyprofile=true, you can log in once fine - start menu, search and notifications area all work, but log off and log on again even on the same machine, and none of those things work at all.

I have downloads, but no keys. I've been on the phone with Microsoft and was told I had to wait until they had finished an update to MVLSC, and that I should check again in MVLSC on the 8th August for the Windows 10 Education KMS key to show up then.

KMS client setup keys (GVLKs) for Windows 10 are here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/jj612867.aspx

Windows 10 Education showed up on Dreamspark this morning.

Windows 10 Education available to download in 1st August. http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-details-windows-10-rollout-strategy-and-why-you-may-not-get-the-os-on-july-29th

FULL TIME SENIOR IT SUPPORT TECHNICIAN - Royal Wootton Bassett Academy Salary: between I28 (£24,472) and I31 (£27,123) Depending on experience per year (FTE) Job description may change depending on experience. Re-posted as a result of candidates finding other roles before interview. Our Senior IT Support Technician will work as part of a supportive and friendly team to deliver first and second line support to staff and students in our school. Day to day duties will include troubleshooting and resolving issues for desktops, laptops, servers, tablets, projectors, smartboards and telecoms. You will ensure that an excellent standard of customer service is delivered at all times throughout the life cycle of all IT service requests as well as documenting steps taken to resolve issues. You will have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work well on your own or in a team. If you have a range of desktop, server hardware and software support skills, you could be just the person we are looking for. You must have an understanding and working knowledge of: • Microsoft Windows 7 & 8.1 • Microsoft Server 2008 R2 & 2012 R2 • Microsoft Windows Active Directory • Group Policy Management Exposure in the following areas is desirable: • Office 365 • Sophos Antivirus (Enterprise Management Console) • Software deployment using Group Policy & WPKG • Microsoft Data Protection Manager • Apple OS 10.9 Mavericks • Smoothwall UTM • DNS & DHCP • Papercut print management software Royal Wootton Bassett Academy is a very successful and very proud 11-18 school with over 1600 students on roll and over 250 students in our very popular and successful Sixth Form. Royal Wootton Bassett is geographically situated in a pleasant location with Bath, Bristol, Cheltenham and the Cotswolds all within commuting distance. In December 2010, the School was awarded Outstanding in every category by Ofsted. Royal Wootton Bassett is the only school in the country to be awarded this prestigious accolade. Ofsted commented, “The students were an absolute delight.” and “in every area of the School they carry out exemplary practice.” In November 2013, the Academy was again awarded Outstanding in every category by Ofsted where they stated “Around the school, students are polite and courteous to each other, to members of staff and to visitors. Students listen attentively in lessons, and almost always respond rapidly to teachers’ instructions”. As far as we are aware, Royal Wootton Bassett is the only school in the country to be awarded this prestigious accolade in succession. Royal Wootton Bassett is an Equal Opportunities employer who actively seeks to minimise obstacles caused by disability or by disadvantage. The Governing Body and staff at the Academy are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share in this commitment. This appointment is subject to an enhanced DBS check and positive references. Further details about the Academy, a job description and the application form for this post can be found by visiting our website www.rwba.org.uk. If you have any questions regarding the post, please contact our Network Manager, James Miller ([email protected]), at the school. To apply please send your completed application form & CV to Mrs S Lazenby at the school, or email to [email protected]. Closing Date: 12th April 2015

I'm glad there are so many people here that are having a great experience with Smoothwall. Sadly, for me - I'm sorry to say that I haven't. Webpages have been incredibly slow to load on workstations around the school. You can wait up to 30 seconds at times for a page to appear. Bypassing the Smoothwall, and the issue goes away. For something that is a critical box, the support we've received over the time that we've had it hasn't been great. Recently, an issue occurred which meant that we were unable to provide any filtered internet connection through the Smoothwall to our pupils or staff for two days. You can imagine the number of complaints we had to deal with in the office. In the end we resolved the issue on our own as it just felt like we were weren't a priority for Smoothwall support. We had to do something. Two days without connectivity. Two days with little movement on the support ticket. I seem to recall that when we first got the box, we just ended up putting it in the rack and configuring it ourselves. I wasn't involved in that stage of things, and I keep meaning to ask whether we should have received some support in setting it up, or whether that was an additional option at cost that we didn't buy. Just recently, trying to use NearPod in school - the drawing features are being blocked by the Smoothwall. We've followed all the advice from NearPod in trying to unblock the required sites and configuring the Smoothwall, but it still doesn't work. It does on other sites that don't use Smoothwall as a proxy, and is fine from home where there isn't any proxy in place. It's got the be the Smoothwall. Any fix on this, support? Still waiting... (other than the response that it is a NearPod issue) The web interface on the Smoothwall to manage it is just poor. Imagine if you were new to the device and wanted to do something simple, such as block or unblock a site. Nothing intuitive. We also hold off on updating the Smoothwall box as the updating process has killed it a few times before. I went to visit the Smoothwall stand at BETT a few years ago, and I stood around for a while waiting for a few people to become free to talk to me, but as soon as anyone was, I was ignored. Or they went off to talk to someone else that they knew. So, regrettably, the sum of all this means that my personal experience of Smoothwall isn't great. Glad other people are happy with it, though.

The unattend.xml for this Technical Preview for Enterprise needs the key putting in the specialize section otherwise it will stop dead and ask for the key after sysprepping an image. PBHCJ-Q2NYD-2PX34-T2TD6-233PK * Deploys fine with FOG (with the usual Windows 8 workaround for FOG 0.32) I've also enabled a local administrator account and set the unattend.xml to autologon three times with to run a logon command each time, but I'm finding that it autologons once, and runs all the commands simultaneously. It could be my script, but it has worked fine with Windows 7, 8 and 8.1. I'll play around with that a bit more.

Had the same issue as @MrWu this morning - we'd just recently moved ISPs and needed to change the proxy settings within SOLUS3. SOLUS3 needs to phone home to Capita to verify that all the modules loaded are correct and up-to-date.

SLG App Tier URL http://:90 AD Services Website URL http://:1100/slgad.asmx Where is where you have installed the AppTier and is where you installed the AD Provisioning stuff. Steve.