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thanks for the comments! it turns out i unplugged and bypassed the magic box by mistake!

Hey, just a quick one! I've been looking for alternative filtering services and during the testing of various products i discovered that when i took my current filtering box down that DurhamNet seemed to have lifted their filtering (redscreen on blocked pages).. so for example with the box off we can now get on facebook, twitter, redtube etc.. kind of scary really considering i believe we are paying for this service. I was wondering if anybody knows if they have had a restructure and changed their filtering policies finally allowing network managers to take more control or alternatively has something broken. Regards, Ian

Hey, the administration policy they have in place was like this when i started a few months ago, i also discovered even a few LSA staff had administrative rights which i've since have sorted. Thanks for the advice its something which definitely needs sorting.

Thanks for the replies. Both the Dept. Head and Headteacher have admin rights at the moment. It seems from the replies your views are similar to mine. The main problem is that he was both IT Teacher and Network Manager before i was employed (I was employed because he didn't have enough time to complete his teaching duties). Thanks again!

Hey guys, I'm a Network Manager at a fairly small special school in Durham, we only have about 65 machines. The head give me strict instructions last night to change all our administration passwords and change the IT teacher from an Adminstrator back to a normal staff user due to a few complains he has had against this particular teacher. When the head explained the situation to the teacher he has kicked up a massive fuss and send numerous letters to both the school governors and his union. He also mentioned that if we were a main stream school we would require 2 administrators is this true? so i was just wondering, Do the IT teachers in your school have admin rights? and also how many administrators do you have in your school? Thanks Ian