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The major ones I work with are Databarracks for larger clients and also Mozypro on the smaller side. Both work very well.

Thats a good idea - don't know if it will help - from Google it looks like its to do with a custom boot records with having the a recovery partition but i can't seem to fix it!

Its not that windows is putting said devices into sleep mode and the signal from keyboard/mouse is not waking them up again but unplug/plug back in is? Check in device manager for the USB hubs and properties - power management.

which is what the Nexus 7 runs. Although i did manage to side load it on but the browser doesnt support it

Yes it has been removed its still an awesome piece of kit though and I havn't found much I can't play on it but then i havn't tried educational websites - BBC is now all HTML5 AFAIK

I have three Dell Vostro 220 desktops which I am trying to convert to virtual machines (for a specific reason can't rebuild etc etc). When P2Ving the machines when booting as VM i'm just getting a STOP 7B error which means inaccessible boot device. Booting startup repair and running bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd is showing now windows installations. I have tried when copying the dell system partition and also without (setting the windows partition to the primary). Does anybody have any other ideas I can try to convert these? I'm just downloading clonezilla to try that.

Yup - but you are going to struggle to find a class 2 projector and even then its likely to cost a bit more. Therefore getting the sparky in to replace the wiring is easier. I know how you feel I would love to be able to change that kind of stuff (plug sockets etc are not hard to change!!) but instead you have to pay a spark!

to be honest in the long run its going to be cheaper to just get a decent sparky to do the work!

I used an epson one in my last place. worked well although the cons were then pens are heavy and the cost of replacements is high.

Not a clue regarding cost - Teaching staff used it extensively and I believe it works well. I no longer work there but they also used this for lesson observation recordings St Paul's Professional Centre -- Online Lesson Observations: Overview

Time to find a new preferred company!!

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By ICT Status do you mean specialism? Or like M$ training academy? I thought they scrapped the specialist schools funding? In terms of Virtualization VMware it is the best all round product out in the market place. In comparison to Hyper-V it outshines it in most areas. VMware supports Currently link 670 different OS's whereas Hyper-V is less then 50 (I believe). In terms of the licensing a 3 node cluster (Max 6 Physical CPU's) with a VCenter Server is the essentials package which comes in at circa £410 RRP and VMware vSphere Essentials Bundle includes: VMFS (Virtual Machine File System) 8-way Virtual SMP VMware Hypervisor VMware vStorage Thin Provisioning VMware Update Manager VMware vStorage APIs vMware vCenter Server for Essentials With 5.1 this can have unlimited amounts of RAM (VMware ditched the "Ram Tax" in 5.1). VMware vSphere Essentials Plus Kit is similar in the hardware allowances to the basic essentials package but includes more features but does cost a lot more. @ Circa £5500 RRP including 3 years 24 hour 7 days a week support (or £5100 for 3 years basic). As well as the features of the essentials package Essentials Plus also includes VMware vSphere Storage Appliance for Essentials Plus VMware Data Protection VMware High Availability (HA) VMware vMotion VMware vStorage APIs VMware Hot Add VMware vShield Zones VMware vShield Endpoint VMware Replication A full edition comparison is available below. Compare VMware vSphere Kits for Cloud Computing, Server and Data Center Virtualization Remember if you are happy to run 2 x VCenter servers and 2 seperate 3 node clusters there is no reason you cannot run 2 x the Essentials basic kits from what i understand but I will need to check that with the licensing guy - my VTSP only covered technical bits

Global AXS AKA M247 Ltd are very good. I put them in at my last place and they are very competitive. M247 can also incorporate a Smoothwall cost into the monthly fee as well. What size of school are you? What speed leased line? Distance from the exchange as you could also look at EFM which gives you a similar SLA ran over 4 copper pairs at up to 10mb for a fraction for the leased line cost.

SA2500 - about 3k And I don't think the plugins mentioned above are available as the URL's it links to are dead when i tried to do it for the Assistant head there ages ago max - Adito as the updated versions in them which you can export.

Buy a Juniper SSL Appliance and run rdp through there

It goes through as 147 and they give you a £30 credit when checking out. EDIT: I've got one

What about the Sandisk ones?

What about these? OCZ Vertex Plus Series - Solid state drive - 240 GB - internal - 2.5" - SATA-300 - buffer

This is true hadn't thought of that point but IMHO it should be pushing people to use there own accounts etc

If you implement @webmans login tracker you should be able to then easily pull the information using PHP. You can then have an option at the top to select the time period (give say a 5/10 min window for login) and then the room and it will auto-populate - you then don't need to worry about them not filling it in.

Application deployment = MS GPO Or image reguarly OS Deployment = FOG Print Management = Paper Cut (Ricoh will now sell this with MFD's I beleive). Backup = Veeam Desktop Start Menu creation = ScriptLogic Anti Virus = Avast Network For hypervisor I would go with VMware or at a shove Hyper-V but I would be very put off Hyper-V. If you are looking at a SAN then Equallogic's are brilliant and the intergration into VMware is Awesome. You have plus's to onsite exchange but also Live@Edu/Google Apps could be good. With the Veeam backups I would suggest something like a IOmega Nas Device which has the ability for you to plug in a USB HDD and hit copy and it will copy data off the device onto the HDD. This then gives you data to take offsite. Or built into the device is the ability to sync data with Amazon S3 or Mozy Pro Etc.

This post isn't for me its actually for somebody else who works in a school in London. Has anybody dealt with this company? It was sent through to the Business manager who is a little skeptical as am I. A copy of the email is below (with names removed). I think the more worrying part it allowing it out to parents/getting the rebate rather then getting the re-used hardware from the blue chip companies. What do people think.

For exchange 2010 you need the one with 5 domains. You need the url for your OWA i.e mail.domain.org.uk but you also need to include autodiscover.domain.org.uk and the internal server name ie exchange-svr1.domain.local plus any other names the server may be referred too as/.

saw that - but its unsurprising its not huge amounts - that could simply be stock they have bought in and not paid off. Its 30k and they are owed by clients 110 - so infact they are 80 grand up. Although looks like it owes the tax man 9k. Like the fact they are worth £1500!