tmcd35

Man, you needed a Media Studies lesson to learn way The Fifth Element is a carp film? I got that in the first 20 minutes of the first viewing - then turned it off! you do realise what will happen to my reputation if the finance department ever find out about that!

I did a BTec National in Computer Studies in the late 90's, roughly equivalent to A-Levels. By far the single best course on the subject I've ever seen, learnt more in those 2 years than I did on my 3 year degree course! Unfortunately ICT in schools tends to be "must teach programming" or "Microsoft Office", the interest stuff that lays between the two are often missed out. Also, it's a cross-curricular subject. A lot of what ICT is should be taught in Maths, Science, and Technology classes. When they are it's rarely in a joined up way. How many kids doing logic gates in Electronics or Physics lessons make the ICT connection?

Do we have to have words about the trade secrets act again?

We have "Business Studies" teachers, is all I'll say on the subject

Mmm, 4K plays fine, 8k stutters at around 5fps and lots of buffering. Still can't say it matters, I'm pretty sure my monitor, like my TV at home, is suck at 1080p. How much are those 8k sets now?

Got to be worth a try, can't say I like the idea of my TV being toned down

That's interesting I might try and find that! I watched the original The Bridge and The Killing that way. Better productions, even with the subtitles.

Let me know when the complete series is available to stream or download. Do Channel 4 do silly 30 day limits for programs added to 4OD? I cancelled my Sky Now subscription because they do that, you see something interesting and the first episode is no longer available. I want to binge watch dammit! (sorry that turned into a mini-rant - meant to say, this looks interesting).

I'm tempted to grab a wheelbarrow and visit the bank just to see the look on the poor cashiers face...

Yep, fine. Only reasons I can think of for multiple virtual switches would involve possibly VLANs, DMZ's, multiple physical subnets, or wanting inter-VM communication with no access to the physical (test networks). Wherever possible I find it easier to imagine I was setting up real physical machines to a real physical switch. Would I have one switch per physical machine and then connect each of those switches back to the core individually, or would I use one physical switch and then concentrate on the uplink between that switch and the core?

We have about 10 VM's on each host. Each host as a 2Gb team for the virtual switch. We've never had any network related speed issues. And, as @Steve21 point out, it does provide failover.

So you wouldn't be interested in 15m dong then?

My turn to be pedantic :shock: Technically your physical NICs connect to a virtual switch not the individual VM's. The VM's virtual NIC's connect to virtual switches. So you should think of the non management ports on your host NIC as being uplinks from the virtual switch to your physical switch. Thus, best practice would be to bond them unless you have a need for multiple virtual switches? Also, if these bonded ports are not being used for management by the host (and they shouldn't) then they don't need either IPv4 or IPv6 enabled - again best practice would be to disable them.

Grrrr, you wasn't supposed to check the exchange rate

Will you accept Egyptian pounds?

A quick scan here: Microsoft Edge's enterprise absence may lead to Windows 10 fragmentation | TechRadar Suggests we will have the power not to deploy Edge if we choose on Enterprise, and LTSB just plan won't get it. I suppose in Enterprise giving us the choice whether we want it or not makes sense. However, if you want Enterprise and Edge then there's nothing stopping you deploying it, just beware that LTSB won't auto updated but other versions should. Typical MS 100 SKU's when 2 will do... Still - Chrome

Chrome is always used regardless to what Microsoft bundle with the OS. That said, I thought Edge was included as standard? The only people not getting Edge are on the LTSB release. So it's a non-issue.

Is Windows Firewall enabled?

As per @Arthur's post. The use if the LTSB would be on a very specific case by case scenario were the installed software isn't going to be updated frequently, if at all, in 10 years and certainly won't be needing internet connectivity. There are still businesses running Win2k on mission critical hardware because the risks/costs of upgrading are too great. A lot of banking systems are still built around ancient COBOL applications for the same reasons. Think scenario's like Air Traffic Control, if they updated that system then they'd probably look at the LTSB branch. In school about the only system I can think of that would benefit from that approach, with developer support, is the MIS system.

My guess would be anyone who needs to use the LTSB probably isn't too worried about internet connectivity on that server. We're talking very specific, mission critical, cannot break under any circumstances, probably supporting legacy software, scenerios. It's not exactly the every day build any of us should be using, unless say Capita or Serco based their next MIS builds around this - which might make some sense.

Currently a HP Procurve 4108gl will be replaced with 3x stacked Allied Telesis x610's. I'll be keeping the some of the modules from the 4108gl in an old 4104gl chassis I have laying around for emergences. The AT's will give us full Layer 3+ switching so we can implement VLAN's and have 6x10Gbe SPF+ ports between them for future expansion. We're upgrading a large portion of our edge switches to AT GS950's at the same time but will still have a small number of HP 2650's and 2510's that'll we'll replace with AT's during refresh over the next 2-3 years.

Thanks guys, I could have sworn it was limited lifetime the last time I looked in to it. As I say, new core going in in August, so I'm not too phased by it

I have, on one of the core switches no less. I'm sure it's limited lifetime warranty, so now the product is obsolete I don't think they'll replace it. I'm not complaining, I think the switch shares it's birthday with some of our year 11's!

At the moment - panic! The switch is out of warranty, It has a HP lifetime warranty - but I'm sure the lifetime, as defined by them, is up. I'd get what I can back up using old spare switches I have laying around, but I'd struggle and have to prioritise services. During the summer our new core is going in. I'll be keeping the bones of the old core in storage so I can swap out with that if the worst happened.

I joined around the same time as you Tony. I vaguely remember the newsgroup and used that on and off. April 2005 was when I got my first real IT job, in a school of all places, so newsgroups and forums were very much a life-line back then. I think there was another forum called 'schooltechnicians.co.uk' or something similar (that I thought was better at the time ). I found Edugeek when I was doing a Google search for that other site and this came back on the search results. Edugeek got better very quickly, and that other site disappeared off the face of the planet along with the usenet groups.