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Speechless!

But, but, but...it's gold plated to improve signal quality and shielded to prevent electrical interference...

Mmm, this is on the same list as the segway and iMac desktop I want I know it's going to come back and bite me, but everytime I research the prices on replacing the core switch I get cold feet approaching manglement.

You pay a separate annual subscription for each server product you want to license through EES, it's not part of the core desktop licence suites.

Extremely roughly... About £750 on a schools select agreement or, I'd guess, £200 per year on EES. That's for every 2 physical CPU's in each host, so multiply up as necessary.

So what do you have against iPads? They are clearly the future, some 500 years early. Make it so!

The licencing requirements for Windows Server guest OS's is 100% identical in both VMWare and Hyper-V. The cheapest answer is often Windows DataCenter x ((Number of physical CPU's in Host Server/2)rounded up to the nearest power of 2). If you plan to run less than 8 VM's on the host, ever, then Enterprise is cheaper to license. It can be purchased either as a separate perpetual license or as part of an annual EES subscription.

Weeellllll, in that case......

Lol, actually was a serious reply! The managed wifi tender spec is currently out to potential providers, looking to go in over the summer. My current suggestion is to reduce our fixed IT suites down from 4 to 2 and drastically increase the number of bookable laptop trolleys available (Win 8 hybrids?). There's a need for at least one trolley of iPads that can be shared mostly between Art and Music, but possibly also ICT and Media. Long term, BYOD is looking like it's the way forward. I want to replace PE staff laptops with Surface tablets or something similar. I also want to standardise teaching spaces to Smart IWB's, teacher laptop, speaker and cheap projector with wall mounted generic IR controls. SEN and the Library to have smaller wireless netbooks. Job done!

I've been trying to get segways written into our development plan. Unfortunately, like the 30" iMac I happen to need for my personal desktop, I haven't found a way to get it passed upper manglement

I used VMWare at my last place. Got VMWare certified and everything. Had ESXi been released when I moved here I'd have almost certainly gone down that route. But even then Hyper-V in 2008R2 did what I needed here to not be able to justify spending on VMWare. Now the "free" choice is between Hyper-V and ESXi. It's no contest, Hyper-V has more features. If you're large enough to need the central management tools and levels of fail over that the paid for VMWare offers then it's a great choice, for everyone else - you're paying out twice to get something you've already bought in Server 2012R2 DataCenter. Let's face it, if you're running a Windows network and are serious about virtualisation, you're buying DataCenter anyway. As for Hyper-V footprint, I've said it before, if the resources taken up by running the full 2012R2 OS as host is a concern then you've miss-spec'd your host server. As for primaries, We've considered it for several of our supported feeder schools but have never gone down that route. They're just not big enough to need it. Server spec's and hardware prices might make us reconsider on their next refresh. If we do, ESXi might actually be the best fit here. Actually the old Microsoft Virtual Server, or VMWare Server (GSX), might have been better products for these small scale single hosts but alas they're now long discontinued.

Wireless, Mobile, Laptops, and, er, iPads

Hyper-V here. 3 Hosts, 30-ish virtual servers. I've no idea what the more intervention or buggy-ness is, I've never experienced it. Solid as a rock and does the job I need. VMWare is overkill in this environment.

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There's a 55" Panasonic for £1199 on that John Lewis site. I'd probably look at that over the more expensive, and smaller, Panny or the more expensive Sony.

never heard of webm either. Still what ever works for the PC disaster race joke

From what I can tell 4k is around 20Mbps. With cable and BT Infinity, 4k streaming is currently doable. All you've really pointed out is how 8k isn't a viable format, not the requirement for a larger optical storage. IMHO the next step is 4k and Internet downloads and streaming is inevitable. I doubt broadcasting will move beyond 1080p. I think BT OpenReach have time to spare considering the current requirements of 8k. To be fair to BT, 30 years ago 14.4kbps modems were state of the art!

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and at least a 60fps animated gif!

This thread and the MS links within are probably worth a read through as well: What are the risks of a multi-homed domain controller with Server 2008 R2? - Spiceworks

If I understand your network correctly, yes that should do it. Your admin machines use the admin DNS server on the admin DC. These servers are DC+DNS for curriculum only. I thought both networks were using the same DNS servers for a moment, thus the panic. If the admin cards are purely access to network shares and nothing else then yes, set DNS to respond only on the curric cards.

In that case, my advise would be contact some local high school and/or your local authority and see if you can get someone to come and look over it with you. I certainly wouldn't want to pick this apart in an internet forum. The only other question I'd have is - are the two dual nic servers DC's on the same domain or is one admin and the other curriculum? It could be a simple as removing the admin nic from one server and the curriculum nic from the other, but I fear it's likely to be a bit messier if the two domains are sharing the same DNS servers.

Do the curriculum and admin domains use different IP ranges? Or are they both on the same subnet? Are the DNS server Domain Controllers or are your DC's separate? If they are separate are they running their own DNS or are these the only DNS servers? If these are purely DNS servers and your DC's don't use them for anything at all then you may get away with Binding the DNS to specific NICs for each IP range: Configuring Multihomed Servers

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Hey, I'm with you. But then I'm not on the Sky board of directors either! Besides 4OD is a bad example. It's broken as hell. Rarely get though an entire program without the adverts causing an issue. Often I think it forgets what program I was watching when the ads finish. Usually it plays the same ad three times, nice.