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I highly recommend NETWORK IT | ICT Services for schools in West Midlands we have used them for Ruckus wifi in many of out Academies within our Trust. Fantastic price and great personal service. At one of our schools we have around 300 devices connected to wifi not had a single problem (ok, may be had to restart the odd AP). Give them a try.

When I said I disabled the libraries, what I meant was I hid them from appearing in explorer, as i dont think you can completely disable libraries. so I dont think unhiding the libraries would really make a difference.

Unbelievable!!! I am using local profiles, so I modified the library files and copied them to the default user profile. they do copy over to the user profile when the user logs in and redirects to N: but the libraries are still bloody sloww!!! even though they pointing to the correct place. Some office applications still cant open or save as, and generate an error message. Dont know what else I can try. maybe a group policy rebuild? i dont know, its a daunting task and im running out of time Thanks for all your help guys.

Hi Arthur Thanks for the link, it looks very interesting, just a couple questions regarding it if you don't mind. I don't have roaming profiles set for staff and student users, only admin users, the link says to modify the library files for the server, wouldn't I need to modify the library files for the local machines? Hope this makes sense. Thanks

Initially yes, but then I started to separate the different settings to new gpo's disabling n enabling each gpo to narrow down where the problem lay. I did have my gpo migrated from server 2003, rather then setting it up fresh, did you set your group policies manually again when you set up sever 2012 r2?

I'm using server 2012 'r2 with Windows 7 sp1 n office 2013 proplus sp1 Is your setup exactly the same?

Hi All I'm facing a very frustrating issue for which I cant even seem to get a work around even. The problem is, when I redirect users and staff desktop to a unc path (\\servername\share) the document libraries become terribly slow. I have disabled libraries from the registry, but when I use office 2013 and i click file and open, or file and save as, the window opens with the slow libraries location as default or doesn't open at all. The moment I disable the desktop redirect gpo, the libraries and office works perfect. I really need to restrict access to desktop. Please anyone, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Saheed

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I wouldn't say Ruckus is the cheapest, but if you get hold of the special bundle they offer it can be. Our Ruckus install was done last year by Network IT24 from the West Midlands. Very helpful and competitive. They offer a cheaper WiFi solution to Ruckus as well but we went for the best based on the recommendations from here.

Interesting read, will be following up on this more, as our school had iPad minis for staff and are looking down the ipads for pupils route... Sounds like a lot more hassle for us guys.

What an amazing bit of technology! Custom built PC or this??? Hmmmm....

we have had Ruckus in now for almost a year. Not one problem so far!, we went for the education bundle with 7982 AP's and the 5 years support included. (Don't think we will use it) It was installed in a tight time frame by the guys @NetworkIT24, Bryan knows his stuff! It was either Meru/AeroHive or Ruckus, a good friend at a local school had Meru and is still having problems after a year of being installed and numerous tech visits from the installers. Put us off big time, don't have the time to be diagnosing wifi issues every day of the week, we have over 120 netbooks/laptops.

We went for the Ruckus Wireless education bundle 1x Controller (Zone Director 3000) 25x 7982 Access Point's (450mbps 3x3x3) We got a 5 year warranty aswell included with this offer! It cost us around £12k excluding the PoE switches. Amazing value for what we got, we still have a few Ap's spare too, as we didnt have anywhere else to install them. The wifi is amazing! we had Netgear before which was ok when we only had 15 laptops. But now we have netbook trolleys upstairs and downstairs and more laptops. We also had a look at Meru but was too expensive in comparison for the same thing and heard a few bad reviews from neighbouring schools. So went for Ruckus! No Looking back! The guys who installed it from Network IT 24 were great, they even gave us a courtesy call recently to check if we were happy! Obviously I am as the wifi works and the staff are not doing my head in!

Xbox One!!! and new Forza:hat:

MSI's....Had similar issues, but checked all the gpo settings and checked that the gpo is assigned to the right ou, three restarts later. software installing! Always a bit of pain rolling these outs.