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We use Truancy Call, Call Parents and their Text Someone product. While all work "ok", they dont blow me away! I get frequent emails from them apologising for loss of service too (despite our Admin team never mentioning anything!) GroupCall's product (which I saw at BETT09) looked MUCH better and is a similar price.

My last server install was for a new Exchange server. Being that the initials of the school I work for are BS I thought why not combine the two! It wasn't until a week or so after when I was troubleshooting an Outlook issue on the Headteachers PC he turned from the screen with a confused frown and said "BSEX-01", who called the server that?!" that I realised I might have chosen a more suitable name!

Yeah no complaints with them really. I guess the only comment worth making is to keep the Mic high and unobscured (but you probably figured that out already lol). I just re-looked on the link I sent and notice there is a PTT version of it. I know that technically makes it not hands free, but I wonder if I was looking again if I'd buy those instead... it might be quite handy to listen in to a conversation or choose to effectivly mute someone without having to fumble around on the display...

I'm not a massive user of them, but I have these: [ame=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sennheiser-Headset-integrated-microphone-tailormade/dp/B001FWYXF0/ref=cm_cr_pr_sims_t]Sennheiser MM50iP Stereo Headset with integrated: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics & Photo[/ame] (The review on there isn't mine by the way!) PS - Awsome Avatar! Hooooo!

Students and Staff both have access to email via Exchange. All accounts are scanned (in and out) using Policy Patrol from Red Hat Software which deals with Keywords, Spam, attatchments, custom rules etc. Neither staff or students can access any other mail service (we use RM SafetyNet Plus and have the web based mail filter switched on). The view is that 1) We can't control or restrict content from an external email source, and as it might be inappropriate or virused it is prohibited and 2) As all have school-based email, there should be no requirement to access personal mail (in terms of staff access this causes the occasional comment/query now and again, but when you point out that the use of the Internet connection is for teaching and learning purposes only, and that personal addresses should not be used for work etc, the discussion doesn't carry on much longer!)

The best, and proper way of spelling it too!

Hi apoth0r! I managed to delegate the day to day Moodle admin to my assistant, but still keep an overview of it and add bits in etc. I've been busy "Theme"ing recently! Most of my themes are heavily based on the awesome themes available on Moodle.org from Shaun D from Newbury College.

Morning everyone! As you can see, i've been registered here for a while now but only just started posting! I'm Mark, 25, and living on the shaky (and currently regrade-pending) title of Head of IT&Communication Services! Although originally from Yorkshire, I'm based in Cornwall and responsible for IT (and a handful of non-IT things!) in a secondary school in Cornwall. I also coordinate (and visit) primary schools within our cluster who buy in to our support instead of County's provision! I'm hoping to take more of an active role in the forums, and currently interested in learning more about remote access / TS experiences of others, so you may see me post in those kind of topics quite a lot! Cheers! Mark

Hi Tony, I currently use the following: OS Deployment (windows tools) Altiris Deployment Solution Patch deployment tools / methods (windows tools) WSUS for Microsoft updates, but Altiris Deployment Solution for MSI and other patches etc. Application deployment (windows tools) Altris Deployment Solution, although have also done MSI delivery via GPO before. Application maintenance (windows tools) Altiris Deployment Solution Probably useful to mentioned that we are a non-RM school running a vanilla network, which is the reason we looked for a rugged solution! Cheers Mark