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Select Plus - Perpetual licences. You purchase them once and they are yours for as long as you keep the equipment they were assigned to. OVS-ES - Annual subscription. You pay an annual fee based on the number of full time employees and the software you want access to under the license. You can then install as many copies of said software as you like/need so long as you keep paying the annual fee. Which is best? Depends on the answer to two questions The number of staff vs number of computers? You need significantly less staff than computers to make the subscription model work. How often you upgrade your OS? You typically need to upgrade your core OS (XP -> Vista -> 7 -> etc) every 5 years or less. Any longer, typically if you skip a version (XP -> 7, skip Vista) then perpetual licencing might be cheaper in the long run, but more expensive up front. If you add in other benefits like SCCM and anti-virus protection (SCCM Endpoint Protection) then most schools find the OVS-ES model cheaper, at least for client/desktop licencing.

For passwords check out Wisesofts BulkAD: Bulk AD Users For the file, I'd use Group Policy Preferences.

yes. And you can re-image them with Win 7, Vista, or XP if you don't want to use Win8.

According to MS's brief: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Licensing/learn-more/brief-operating-system-license-requirements.aspx You can only reassign Volume licences if they are covered by Software Assurance, if not they are tied to the machine they where first assigned to.

The OS licence dies with the computer. Only Office (any licence) and full retail versions of Windows are transferable. That said, OVS-ES is an annual subscription for unlimited licences, price based on number of staff, so under this model you automagically get a new licence for the new machine. Remember, any volume licence - select, OVS, etc - version of Windows is an upgrade licence so you need a qualifying OEM licence (or purchase/transfer a qualifying full licence) with the new machine.

If this comes to pass I will happily be deported and go rediscover my irish roots - top of the mornin' to ya!

By that definition I'm not British! I'm white, I was born in England, you have to go back about 4 generations for my northern Irish roots (or 2 for my Scottish roots). But I certainly couldn't identify myself as British under that definition. If UKIP wanted to uphold that as the master race ideal, I wonder were they'd ship me off to? Maybe it's a case for giving Scotland independence? Or giving Northern Ireland to the republic?

The first thing to do is compile a list of virtual servers you want to run. I tend to go for a 1 server 1 service policy, so I have about 30 VMs in total. Domain Controllers - 1,2, more? DNS Servers - on DCs? DHCP Printer Server File Server MIS Server Library Database Accounts Software Application Servers Web Servers Mail Servers etc. Once you know what servers you're supporting, spec them up as if they were real machines. How many Cores, how much RAM, How much HDD do you need for each of those VM's? Split the load between the two host servers. Double all the Cores, RAM, and HDD space you've calculated so far (for failover), then had 50% (for future expansion).

As a general principle I think power should be devolved to the appropriate level closest to the people it effects. But I do agree "power to the cities" doesn't seem the right approach. I'd like to the regions (Regions of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) get the same level of devolution as Scotland (and Wales, and NI also).

Time to stop the Troy bashing. They've announced a policy I actually agree with: George Osborne to outline city devolution plan for England - BBC News As always not sure about how they're going about it, but devolution of power locally is always a good thing.

Lol, no but as a 4 year old I clearly lacked musical taste (some might say that's still the case)

There's also the Word GPO setting - "Keep the last AutoSaved versions of files for the next Session" in User Config\Admin Templates\Word 2013\Word Options\Save

Yes, but if the auto recover information is stored on a drive protected by volume shadow copies, and the copies are being made regularly enough, you should be able to restore the last version of the auto recovery information from the folders previous versions - ie from before word deleted it on exit. Thus you could use that to trick word into recovering the document and then saving it as normal. Long winded but should work as a fail safe. (note I've not actually test this, but can't see why it won't work - in theory)

An idea... Set the autorecover location to a volume you have volume shadow copy working on (or can set it up on). Set both to run every 1-2 minutes. If the student closes word without saving anything, hopefully there'll be something in auto recovery you can restore using previous versions?

I read that as Windows ID10T Core

I like watching Eurovision. Strange, but I don't usually find 2-3 good songs worth adding to the iPod. Shock, horror, this year the UK entrant is one of them! That hasn't happened since...1981!

Socialism is proven not to work Capitalism is proven not to work Maybe there's a third way...Third Way - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I'm giving serious thought to relocating to Scotland.

Mmm, something's not scanning right here. To protect our "values of tolerance and mutual respect", we have to relinquish our Freedom of Speech? Surely this isn't demonstrating those important values well? Edit: beat me to it -

OMR forms. Haven't done a web search but I can't believe software isn't readily available to print OMR forms on a standard lazer and read them back in through a standard scanner. Any way, OMR is the term you're looking for (Optical Mark Recognition).

According to the gov website (https://www.gov.uk/housing-benefit/what-youll-get) it's 10 for opposite sex and 16 for same sex.

Under the ages, 5-9, I think they can share a room! edit: I also used @Garacesh's £700 figure for the rent so that'll effect things slightly.

Benefits Calculator - entitledto - independent | accurate | reliable Nuclear family, 1 boy, 1 girl, both 5-9. 2 Parents, both long term unemployed. No disabilities. 3 bed Council house in Lowestoft, band B:

Another 100,000,000 food parcels needed for cannibal children

It's also worth pointing out that the mythical £26k wouldn't be one lump sum payment - there you go try not spend it all in the Bookmakers or on Lottery tickets. Things like council tax and rent are paid direct to the council and probably make a good proportion of that figure. Also, I think you need to compare against tax credits and what low wages are being topped up to. Does tax credits top up working families of a similar demographic to the same £26k? Sure some people have their priorities wrong (I've seen family members on benefits pay for high sky packages and then wonder why they can't afford a bus pass). But maybe the answer is to introduce decent economics lessons in to secondary schools as part of the national curriculum? For many it'd be a more worth while qualification than GCSE Maths...