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How big is your installation files in total you used to reinstall? It sounds like that could be missing something.

I will be honest without knowing who the shareholders and directors etc I would not risk it in my school.

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Finally starting to quieten down here so bad to edugeek for me I have seen slow syncing before, it tooks ages, so I would leave it and see what happens.

+1 when I think City Link I say it like they do in South Park, City Wok They are the worst I have ever used, now I always try to use parcelforce/royal mail as personally I have had no problems at all with them and they usually always delivery on time.

I appear to be unable to pm until 5 posts as well. Hopefully Mr Dook will see this message in case he wonders why I have not replied

The thing I find is all these plans of byot are all just getting started. People that mention using iPads etc need to realise its a device that only came out in April last year, we as IT people shouldnt be seen as blocking/holding things back when a new device shows up and suddenly our plans for the next year or 2 suddenly need to be halted and changed to meet these untested (and in the ipads case, hard to manage/deal with) devices which have very mixed positives and negatives. I would naturally say no/block devices until we had time to evaluate how to get it implemented correctly, should we drop all the current work since a few mention "this is the way to do it and we need it a day after it came out", blocking is the correct response as there is simply limited time to deal with this. Its bad when people seem to think its all about power/control, its actually all about doing it right and to do that it takes time and a device which requires a large part of your curriculum to be redeveloped (ymmv) to meet the needs and even then it could just be a fad. This is before the fact that the next ipad will do other things etc which require more testing etc each year. We never rush into things as its simply bad practice be it education or industry and any one that says thats a hold-back attitude is simply far into blue skys thinking really without having to actually do the work to make it all work. XP for example is still in use because it works, its not to say people wont move to windows 7 but thats only over a year old and these things take time to implement and test. We get it in the neck if we rush and it goes wrong and we are seen as backward/power hungry if we take a slower plan and dont suddenly drop our 2 year plan to deal with these extra devices etc that came out a month ago etc. Actually I forgot, a lot of teachers in my school think we telepathically know about problems they dont report so its not a leap to think we can see years into the future.... On a side note I am disappointed to see swearing creeping into a few posts but I suspect that is indicating your frustration GD.