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Hi! As I am sure you are all aware the 31st is System Administrator Appreciation Day has there are no events on in the Birmingham and we were feeling under appreciated we decided to have a party. Sign up over at http://www.meetup.com/GeekUpuk/events/224096042/

Yes! Link2ict are working on it and say the link is fine to the proxy. and are asking about dns issues today we will see if they come back with any helpful suggestions. my main issue is the drop outs we are only a small school but are having a lot of issues since the new firewall whether something needs changing or updating i do not no.

I have tried all on and off and even out of hr's for weeks and not broken 60 mb/s with a few 8 mb/s even when no one is around.

A Link2ICT NM Meeting is much needed has i don't think i no any one who is a network manager in a birmingham school who is not having issues.

Any one still having issues? are speeds are not fantastic hear

Fizzpop is Birmingham's Hackspace/Makerspace open day fizzPOP is a group of interesting people doing & making interesting things. We provide an infrastructure for people with a wide range of skills and interests, bound by a common interest in tinkering with stuff to make something new. It’s a for more information goto the website fizzPOP - Birmingham Maker- & Hackspace! or google group https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum ... hack-space The space is still very new but needs everyone to get involved to get things going. check out Nottinghack | at Nottingham Hackspace for an idea of the what we are aiming for. Rspv on GeekUp Birmingham (Birmingham, England) - Meetup ... 169318462/ or just turn up.

Well got the code and a block form link so will have to try it out tomorrow.

Thanks for the help. I have asked for preAuth key from link2ict. sadly i am a little stuck with them at the moment for email has i wood love to go self hosted or use office 360 but the head is not happy to move away from link2ict at the moment. if any one has any other suggestions let me no?

Hi! i have been put with setting up moodle has the new school vle. i have set up ldap and things are working very well in the lab but i have an issue in that the head as asked for SSO solution witch links to are email system witch is zimbra witch is hosted by link2ict. are there any blocks that can store the zimbra user name and password in the VLE so i can have a single user name and password. Thanks Adam

hi everyone thank you everyone the help and information it's been really useful. I'm currently putting the final case to the governors they are about 95% convinced so hopefully this will push it all over the edge. post back and let you know how you think is gone.

I'm after rack mount and checked all the other proposals and that correct I think. I'll have to look into the APC tomorrow with are suppliers

Hi Everyone I'm currently having a problem committee of are governors that we need to build in redundancy into our new virtualised server environment. unfortunately this is delaying the project and he's asked me to get statements and recommendations on schools who are running a similar environment and why it is necessary. if anyone can e-mail me a comment in support of this spec and redundancy etc who are using a similar system in their school please e-mail me at. [email protected] here are some of his comments. "Please can you do research on similar schools with fairly recent new installations, that will help confirm what we have specified is required. I understand their may be some differences. If you use this spec to go through with them so that we have some bench mark criteria." "The problem is the quotes at the moment are about fixing a problem, which is hypothetical and not based on measured capacity or usage." "I accept the requirement for the virtual server, the backup server is more than the implied £5000, it is £9K with the duplicated licences and also the installation costs will also be higher as there is alot more to do and it is more complicated so it is a third of the quote. Yes I also accept that it should mean that there is never down time due part failure" the basics that looking at is HP DL380 G7 Tower Server 2 Hp SAN P4000 1 Windows Enterprise Server 2008 2 APC Smart-UPS 3000 RM 1 8TB NAS Device 1 Project Management Days 2 Installation Days 10 I've attached some notes I've made and feel free to check out the school website at http://baskvill.bham.sch.uk/ for information. please help me with this as arena to get this project off the ground and running before September. many many thanks adam Most InportantPowerPoint Notes And Justifcations For Vertual And Redundancy and spec.docxBaskerville School new network prposal govners.docxSpec Draft 1.docx

sorry was just talking about the SSD, after looking at the air but i am not an apple fan relley qwite like hp and lenovo laptops.

If have been looking at the SSD options myself. After playing with a macbook air. It seems cost effective to go for a 256gb one witch might just be enough for the main OS and a few VM images. The office issue I do have a room I can use but I share it with the servers and all of the toner supply's has well has a number of out of action computers. The head has promised to move me asap. I have lost about 80% of the storage space over the last few years, but will see on that front. Also it is next to the copper witch leads to a lot of stupid question's The main problem I have with the justification of this is that I am the one who specs up and oks things for most other people but this has to go to a committee.

good idea but the kids do that hear with out promting has lead to meny an upgrade!