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Hi All, I would like to gather together a couple of reports of testing wireless systems on the N standard that comes complete with graphs and tables to compare the top wireless providers. I have found this report but it doesn't test Meru which is quite a key one that I would like to see results on. As always with these requests, it's a bit of a rush because of a surprise meeting later today, so any quick help would be appreciated. Thanks,

This worked brilliantly thanks! Didn't even know the button was there let alone what it did!!

Hi All, Over the summer we made the change to Google Apps for Education through RealSmart. We have been setting up iPhones and Windows phones with the gmail apps and calendars ok, but am having trouble with android. I'm not an android user and there seems to be slight variations between each model of phone but it looks as though all of their contacts and messages are linked with their google account. I dont seem to be able to add another google account and I don't seem to be able to retain the data ie messages and contacts if I remove the personal account. Does anyone have any tips on what to do here? Thanks,

Point taken lol. They do do some decent discounts for education though apparantly.

DropBox Teams might provide you with the functionality you're looking for. AD Integrattion and a fair bit of seperation from your network. People might like that they can access it through a web browser or their own explorer interface, and it would work nicely with tablets if you're going down that route...

Thanks. This is a useful thread with a good workaround. I was hoping I wasn't going to have to rely on a script to do this so GPP is a good compromise.

For those that haven't jailbroken their iPhone. Do not Disturb will not make a noise when someone that is not on your favorites list rings, texts or emails. I have to say though that I am loving some of the irony here about 'do not answer outside work time. simples.'.... while they're posting on a forum in work time....

SchoolsBroadband - I left a message on your website before i posted this thread! PM won't send for me either. I will give you a call next week. Gigaclear looks exciting but will take a lot of engaging with the parish coucil and local community so I would imagine it would be a 12-18 month timeframe minimum?

Hi All, I am looking into getting a quicker broadband connection for a rural school that is a long way from the exchange. They currently have a 2mb Learning Stream connection which is very obviously slow but symmetrical and guaranteed. They are outside the range for an EFM connection, a single adsl line will deliver 3mbps down and 0.4 up but isn't guaranteed and wholesale fibre is double the price of the LS connection and therefore unaffordable. I have seen to other potential ideas after looking around on the net. 1 is a satellite connection with someone like tooway but have written it off due to poor consumer reviews so imagine that its nowhere near reliable enough for a school. the other idea was bonded adsl. Eclipse do a 4-line solution which would deliver 10-12 Mbps is about £2k but I would like to - if possible go with someone who can do the whole managed router/firewall/filtering service too. Any ideas?

We had dismissed atom-based tablets out of hand based on the fact that we are running a few sets of atom-based netbooks and after 12 months using them is beyond tedious. How does the W510 stack up price wise against the ipad? At the moment (and I am keen on having my view changed on this as my thoughts are changing almost daily) I feel that the iPad is the benchmark for tablet computing, while an i3 desktop/laptop with 4gb RAM and win7/8 is the benchmark for budget desktop computing. I see tablet computing as mainly content comsumption with maybe somecreation so internet research, creating prezzi presentations, light word processing and light image editing. Desktop computing I still see as the ideal tool for doing the bulk of your GCSE IT. Spreadsheet creation, Database creation, video editing, desktop publishing, web design etc. So they are two different purposes that are both very valid and useful. I do feel that we should be running 2 types of devices as I haven't found one that will do both. So given a budget of 100% in a year, I don't know how the split should be made to give the optimum balance of immediate 1:1 access to tablet computing and tradition high-spec desktop computing. 50% Tablet and 50% PC might put us in a position where we can afford to replace half the computers that we would normally and allow us to give a 1:1 tablet to a whole year-group, but the tablet would only be a nexus or ipad mini. Do we need to look at a 70%/30% split so that the tablets are running W8 and integrate with the domain or will that leave us short on high-spec desktop computing capacity?

I've trialled a w700 and liked it as a laptop replacement. But then realised that that's all it was - a laptop replacement. Except it was more expensive than an equivalent laptop and didn't have a touchpad. As a consequence, trying to do anything it the desktop environment was tricky at best and I wasn't really using it as a tablet at all. I think on paper a W8Pro tablet is an all in one device replacing both laptop and ipad but in reality isn't as good as either for the money. In short, I would get them an ultrabook if W8 and domain compatibility is a must, or an iPad with a good RDP app if it for meetings and remote working. On a seperate note, I don't get where windows RT fits into all this. It has the downsides of everything- fiddlyness of windows and non x86 arcitechture of a tablet.

I like the look of the iBank8 on the ict-direct website, but typically we have 10 ipad minis that we want to store and charge. I saw the Griffin Multidock 10 Bay at the Bett Show and that would fit the bill nicely but it's £500 compared to the £220 from ict-direct for the 8 bay cabinet. Does anyone have any ideas on alternatives? Cheers,

Brilliant thank you! It's working nicely now. If I wanted to enable the Supervised Only restrictions in a byod environment, how would I go about doing that?

Hi All, I'm having trouble with Meraki Systems Manager. I have set up the account, setup the apple push certificate and can enroll the device. It is constantly checking in with the meraki servers and correctly identifies everything about my device. I have set the profile to add wifi settings and the enforce restrictions such as using facetime and have set an app to deploy. When I enroll the device the app atempts to deploy but fails and the restrictions aren't enforced. When i go into the details of the device on the meraki dashboard it says that profile updates are pending and the recent activity section says that the profuile failed to install. I have attached a screen shot of the error message. If anyone could help I'd be grateful. It has the potential to be a fantastic tool if it can be made to work! Cheers,

Do you offer a salary sacrifice scheme to offer as a staff benefit? Also, could you post examples of offers as and when they arise?

Thanks, I'll have a look at using that and see what comes up!

Hi All, I've been trying to setup a proxy.pac file as a means of enabling proxy exceptions on ipads - that will be it's sole use. I've read a few great threads on here about it and have used several scripts including the one FNGM posted. The weird part is that they all make the ipad able to see 'google.co.uk' when i enter the pac file url in the network settings of the ipad. But it won't let me access the local servers I've put in as exceptions. I have put my code below: function FindProxyForURL(url, host) { //Declare proxy strings as variables var capitaproxy = "PROXY webshield.embc.uk.com:80"; // IP not to use proxy if (shExpMatch(url, "*intranet*")) { return "DIRECT"; } if (shExpMatch(url, "*cctv*")) { return "DIRECT"; } if (shExpMatch(url, "*webserver*")) { return "DIRECT"; } if (shExpMatch(url, "*127.0.0.1*")) { return "DIRECT"; } if (isPlainHostName(host)) { return "DIRECT"; } // URLS not to use proxy server if (shExpMatch(url, "*mail.inthehive.net*")) { return "DIRECT"; } // Slect Proxy Server if (isInNet(myIpAddress(), "10.56.84.0", "255.255.252.0")) { return capitaproxy; } if (isInNet(myIpAddress(), "10.58.188.0", "255.255.252.0")) { return capitaproxy; } if (isInNet(myIpAddress(), "10.58.224.0", "255.255.252.0")) { return capitaproxy; } else return "DIRECT"; }

Yes it is for school. A collaborative group of schools specifically. They currently use fronter but don't likeit and there's a lot of admin overhead for what should be a very simple task.

Hi All, I need what I thought was quite a simple forum. The main features needed are: Forums and sub-forums made private based on user groups Calendar that users can add to configurable attachments to allow large attachments but block exe's etc. optional- only allow registration from a list of email domains I've started with PHPBB3 and while I've found the things that I want, the calendar in particular is proving difficult to get working. Regards,

Hi All, Does anyone have any experience of these? They look like quite a neat way of giving equal access to a small number of new devices that could just be for general independent research or work. http://www.lapsafe.com/uploads/diplomatlmsapril2012dtech.pdf It could integrate with the library system, and everyone wears ID cards that have their cashless catering number and library numbers in the barcode and mag stripe on the back.

What have you got in the way of an internal media site?

Sorry I should have been more clear. I know where the exchange settings need to go, but just can't get the right combination of port/username/password/domain to make it authenticate properly.

Hi All, Has anyone managed to get spiceworks to email you through exchange rather than smtp? As I understand it, Capita haven't set up SMTP so schools are going to have to find a way around it for devices or programs that send automated emails. I've tried lots of different combinations of accounts\username just username etc and am not really getting anywhere. Cheers, GSK

Ah right. I'm pretty sure we don't get cals in our agreement, just office. That's a shame. Any others out there that are free?

Forgive my ignorance, but is that the subscription based licensing thing with ms? We do that but only for office, would we still qualify?