jamesfed

I hope the guides in this post helps you - http://www.edugeek.net/forums/enterprise-software/111305-deploying-adobe-reader-adobe-flash-java-msi-gpo-guides.html I've found in the past that its best to make sure that any botched installs of Java/Flash are completely obliterated before doing a 'pure and perfect' install so you may need a reimage. Personally I include all the plugins in my SCCM Task Sequence - that way they can be easily updated at time of OS Deployment without having to keep the OS updated all the time

Haven't tried the networking yet but do have the cables in so will take a look. Having to recharge the pens is a faff but otherwise none have been broken and you get 2 per board (you can even use 2 pens on the same board at the same time).

Had 50 of them over the summer as well here - stock was very very low and they were delayed but have been ticking over nicely since installation. One really nice thing of course is you can use normal board pens on the supported whiteboards (something our teachers took a long time to adjust to) No dimness in the bulb or loss of colour saturation but I'd have to get back to you in a few years time for a real verdict on that! We did have one develop a fault in its speaker system but that was replaced within a week so again no real drama.

Doesn't work on non domain joined or the Home edition of Windows That would be the killer feature for me (mix in OSX/Android/WP support and I'll set it up tonight) so hoping they will bring this out in the future.

If you feel up to it then why not make your own I've used this in the past - Artisteer - web design software and joomla template maker very powerful bit of software and kicks out WP themes that do all kinds of funky things (namely responsive themes).

I'd more be looking to provide the option for BYOD to be a useful supplement to learning. First step is a decent WiFi setup which is easy to login to After that its all about making your services easy for the students to access; for us that meant setting up (and publishing guides on) WebDAV to let them get to their documents and network shares as well - don't forget email guides as well. After that and almost more importantly than anything else is working out ways that these devices can be used in lessons... this is the hard part which were still working on here!

I can imagine that'll depend on the ability of the eStream software although that's more of a licence concern (depending on who owns the video).

Sounds like an idea, I've asked out media tech dude to look into roof mounted options as well (kind of like the ones you get in theatres) as well

Currently looking into options to do lesson capture at a reasonable price (some of the professional options I've looked at so far are in the region of £3,000+ per class room!); I've got the software sorted already (Planet eStream with its dual record (video from a camera and the extended screen)) just looking into the hardware. My thoughts thus far go around a webcam (maybe even something like a Kinect for Windows) which is mounted to the ceiling pointed in the direction of the whiteboard on a fixed basis. Will be trying out some things with cameras I have already (Microsoft LifeCam Studio being the one I am most hopeful of) however I've got concerns of the USB cable length as well as sound quality (especially if the teacher isn't pointed in the direction of the camera). Hardware wise has anyone done anything similar before?

Set my install up based upon the Amsys one - very good guide

I'd take a look at Munki to add some extra tie in for your software updates - munki - Managed software installation for OS X - Google Project Hosting Its just a service that sits on the Macs and when they are idle it dials out to your OSX Server and forces the updates - very very very efficient and does pkg and dmg deployments as well (saved our bacon when Apple did that crazy Adobe Flash player forced update

These guys are worth their weight in gold - IntelliTone Pro Toner and Probe Kit You plug one end into the network point you want to locate on the patch panel which then sends a tone (digital or analogue) down the wire, this is in turn picked up by the probe. When I started my new job a few months back this was one of the first tools I got - very little was labelled up!

Well the time to do the first Moodle update has come along and I was wondering if anyone has any insights into how the process has gone on their own servers? We are running 2.6.1 and the latest version is 2.6.2 (very minor setup up but don't want to mess it up!) running on IIS on Server 2012 R2. Sufficed to say the server its run off has had a complete VM backup ready to go in moments and in all honesty my biggest issue is when to run it as we've seen the students use it up until midnight!

Do you have VLANs in your environment? If so you might find that your router isn't allowing the WOL packets to traverse the VLANs. One way to test would be to run Wireshark on the source server and on a PC in the same VLAN as the target - see if you see the packets in both

Cant envision why you would ever use a domain admin account in that manner anyways

WebDAV setup here for it Theres WebDAV apps for pretty much every single phone OS out there. Lets the kids jump right into their own work folder.

If your NAS supports it I would forget about any kind of AD integration and look straight to iSCSI (link to a guide on the QNAP website on how to set it up - QNAP - Resources - Tutorials - How to create and use the iSCSI target service on the QNAP NAS). The short version is the NAS box appears as just another hard drive plugged into whatever file storage server you have already. That way instead of managing two setups (your Windows servers and your NAS box) you just keep managing your Windows servers with all the file permissions etc that you are used to already. It looks daunting at first but its a great technology once up and running.

If you have a Mac server you can use it for Time Machine (or Capsule or whatever it is) backup Other than that its a second target for backup.

Hope this helps someone sometime - Deploying AirServer 1.9.6 via SCCM | my world of IT Much easier than screwing around with the command line thingy although remember to get your prerequs installed first!

I think the real thing here is that trusting in replication and duplication of live data as a backup system (using DFS-R, VM replicas or other means) is the false economy. I consider our backups that go over from the SAN to the NAS box to be isolated as multiple versions are kept and at no time does the live data have any chance to influence the backups. All the same, every 3 months a tape backup runs saving everything to long term media

We've got a bucket load of Viglen Integra AIOs here, as said by Chris they are built on standard parts and the case has a height and tilting VESA mount on it so you can easily change the monitor. The one downside we've found is there isn't that much space inside the side panel to for your cables but otherwise they are nice PCs.

Kitted out a Primary School in a revamp with these a year or so ago - as far as I know they are still going very well indeed So if the situation called again I'd go for them!

How about create two volumes - one (say 40GB in size for a Windows OS install) and the other with the reminder of the capacity of the drives with everything in RAID0. Install Windows and then use the blank space eraser tool in Eraser Eraser | Internet Security and Privacy on the other partition to obliterate anything that might still be around.

lol replying to a different post and ended up on this one by mistake oops!

How about create two volumes - one (say 40GB in size for a Windows OS install) and the other with the reminder of the capacity of the drives with everything in RAID0. Install Windows and then use the blank space eraser tool in Eraser (Eraser | Internet Security and Privacy) on the other partition to obliterate anything that might still be around.