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All our feeder primaries are a lot smaller and make do with half a day per fortnight (often it's closer to a whole day). The largest, around 100 pupils, gets half a day a week (again normally a whole day in fact). The visits are carried out by a single technician. We are a secondary school of similar size - 100 staff, 750 pupil, 250-300 computers - Without supporting the feeder schools we can make do with 1 NM and 1 Tech; we are 1NM and 2 Techs at the moment to cover feeder support. All of us are employed full time.

It shouldn't. GPO's apply in order or presidence from the lowest OU up. LDAP queries return contents of OU and sub-OUs. In short, the student should for effectively remain a member of the 12 OU with the new GPO on the sub OU overriding higher up settings.

^ This, I've had to do it in the past for SEN students.

Me thinks you don't understand the console market - it's a tad bit bigger than you think if you think it can be phased out in a generation. Something like the Steam Console would have to be pretty disruptive to achieve that. Smartphones have been the most likely contender, they seem to have got Japan but the rest of the world as yet to follow. Personally I'd say PC's are more likely to die out in favour of consoles/smartphones/tablets/laptops/set-top boxes. Convergence is a pipe-dream.

We have a similar student, to be honest we just set up the VNC link between his laptop and one particular teacher he has for the majority of his lessons. I'm not really worried by the VNC link. He's pretty much constantly accompanied by a TA and even with Windows on maximum magnification I'm not 100% certain he can see anything... In these cases I find the path of least resistance win out (VNC).

It'd certainly be in the RAID BIOS config somewhere. Problem is it's different for every controller. Usually they have a view config option on the main menu and from there it should be reasonably obvious if it's one array configured or multiple. Most primary school servers I've seen have had 2 drives mirrored for the OS and the rest RAID-5, but there are exceptions to every rule. If it was set up with a separate OS array you'd have expected the machine to boot, but then some controllers do refuse to boot in a degregated state to avoid further chance of data loss.

Were the drives definitely in the same array? I only ask because the more typical config is Drive 00 and Drive 01 mirrored and drives 02-05 in RAID-5. In that scenario the two failed drives are on different arrays and they may yet rebuild with fresh drives. On the other hand if the drives are on the same array then yep, I'm afraid all data is lost. If you get the drives to a professional forensic recovery outfit, and keep them in the right order, they might be able to get some data back (££££'s). Backups?

Exactly, as far as I recall they need to be set on either Server 2012 or Windows 8. That could be just for IE11 though, IE10 might be setable from a Windows 7 machine, can't remember. Either way you can't do it on the 2008 server (R2 or not) directly. Once set from a valid machine then Server 2008 will send them to Win7 machines and they will apply. Go figure! Edit: note, as far as I know, this is only for IE. Other GPP's should be fine. Also, don't forget to press [F5] to turn field underlines from Red to Green otherwise again they won't apply.

Do you have a copy of Windows 8 you can install on a spare PC or in a VM? You'll be able to install the AD admin tools on that machine and then set the GPP's from there.

If you have an EES subscription then SCCM would be fully licensed for use with your desktops. Takes a bit of setting up but once done is by far the best way of managing software installs, bar one... If you pay out for MDOP on top of EES then you also get App-V. The combination of SCCM+App-V really can't be beat.

99.99999999999995% certain of a broadcast storm. Most likely culprit is a student plugging a network cable between two network points - grrrr. Next most likely is a faulty NIC sending out bad packets. Easiest way to find out were (assuming points are labelled and correctly) is to unplug cables until the lights calm down. The last one unplugged before the lights stopped going crazy is your culprit! Also, thank the Edu Gods that you have spanning tree enabled otherwise your entire network would have been down!

Is DHCP full? are they on the same VLAN (if used) as the DHCP server? Are you 100% certain, as in cable tested, the link(s) between effected edge switch and core switch are not faulty? If you have spanning tree enabled and the lights on the effected switch are going crazy have a look and see if you have a network loop or a faulty NIC in that building.

The smart money is on 2018/19. They won't go as long as PS3 or, worse XBox 360. Last gen was stretched on a little too long come the end.

VeryPC, Novatech and Stone. All three build to order, specialise in education, and offer extremely competitive prices with first class support behind. I often find the biggest problem is deciding who gets the business

I think I stopped caring about processor spec's a long time ago. Our current standard is "Dual Core, 4Gb, 120Gb SSD" for pretty much everything and out usual build to order suppliers compete very well on price (sub £350 now I think) with those specs. I suppose the bigger question is what are the laptops being used for?

That not really a Mac vs PC hardware question though is it? It's a Software question Premier PC vs Premier Mac vs iMovie, etc. It's probably down to features, UI, and personal taste more than anything else.

Fight! Seriously though, what are you thoughts on Hackintosh?... If you're spending £2000, personally I'd go for build your own super high spec PC. Add in a bit of Virtual Box and if OS X was really required, I'd look into finding a suitable solution for that later. (PS: This is from a Mac fanboy! - buy the mac, they are better - yadda, yadda, yadda)

Mustn't have been cheating then! Still stuck on 8...

mmm, found an answer to 7, not sure if it was cheating though?

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It's a shame the music gets tainted. I did think of Lostprophets 'fans' (is that even allowed now?). I never liked them but lots did. Hopefully the remaining musicians will reclaim the best songs in their new band? Still hoping Sir Cliff doesn't leave me having to make that moral choice!

Then IE still need the proxy setting for your TMG proxy. DNS requests are separate from page delivery.

I assume you don't have a proxy server and your router is happy forwarding all port 80/443 requests out to the live internet? If that's the case then yes, remove all setting from IE and it will query DNS as normal. If your ISP restricts open ports through the router you may need to either have a proxy server internally and filter traffic through that, or contact your ISP for their upstream proxy details, you may need to set up WPAD or a GPO to apply these. We use RM broadband and all traffic out must go through their upstream proxy (which we've asked them to set as unrestricted). It might help trying to picture the traffic path... User opens web page -> DNS request to DC -> DNS request to Filtering Service -> Result to DC -> Result to user -> Request open IP/port from web server -> page delivered to user or User opens web page -> DNS request to DC -> DNS request to Filtering Service -> Result to DC -> Result to user -> Request open IP/port from ISP's upstream proxy -> Request open IP/port from web server -> page returned to upstream proxy -> page delivered to user or User opens web page -> DNS request to DC -> DNS request to Filtering Service -> Result to DC -> Result to user ->Request open IP/port from internal proxy -> Request open IP/port from ISP's upstream proxy -> Request open IP/port from web server -> page returened to upstream proxy -> page returned to local proxy -> page delivered to user

Your clients should continue to use your domain controllers as DNS servers which would forward external requests to the filtering service. If you change the DNS details on the clients they won't be able to access internal resources, especially domain controllers, and users won't be able to log in. Best place to set this is on the DHCP server so they are dished out automagically when clients get their IP's. AFAIK WPAD is only need if you want to apply proxy settings via automatic discovery instead of fixing them in GPO settings.

What DNS servers is the filtering system point to? Smells like the filtering systems isn't forwarding requests to either your ISP's DNS or Google's DNS.