jertsy

Novus are very good, Mark Birchall did lots of work for me in the past. 01260292500 http://www.novus.uk. Only a small company but they punch well above their weight. Hope this helps.

Novus are very clued up with this type of thing in my experience, I have used them for a number of years. http://www.novus.co.uk 01260292500. Good luck with it all.

+1 for Novus from me, fantastic group of guys.

XIRRUS here, I had it at my last school too. Some AP's were 6 years old and never missed a beat.

We have something similar at present, its fairly basic stuff but obviously I need to be sure it can grow and adapt as we require it.

Sorry to hijack this thread but this post seems relevant to us at the moment. We have a requirement whereby our Wi-Fi system needs to be able to give public access & staff access to a sports centre that we have so the public would need to sign in or authenticate in some way, we also want to rent out whole blocks to various business's giving them Wi-Fi access, we also have boarding pupils from over seas and we will have a secondary school and a further education establishments. All of this will need to be segregated off and each has its own requirements i.e. speed, different signing in methods, RADIUS in some cases. In short it needs to be very flexible. Prior to me starting here they purchased some Ubiquiti Unifi stuff but from what I can see this cant meet all of these requirements, so I am thinking more of an enterprise system is required, would you agree or am I doing a disservice to Ubiquiti?

I did the same

Cheers for the input @Lonix. I agree I'm never a fan of buying stuff just because you can, there needs to be a use for it and used properly for teaching. They did this at my current school and we do have some equipment under utilized. The new school have a 1GB internet connection on order so that should be fine for now, I just need to ensure there is decent fail-over if cloud services are to be used. I would have touch screens rather than projectors all day long now. Planning a future renewal program is also essential, I've seen it here whereby they had BSF money and replaced everything, but now everything needs replacing in one go as they haven't done anything despite some years ago me doing a full 6 year rolling renewal plan but hey ho! Whatever we buy needs to have the staff on board and I wont know fully until I start in 3 weeks, this is just a brainstorming exercise at this point.

No SIMS they are going for a web based platform. Design/music/media will definitely be a consideration cheers @maark

Nice device, very rugged and a tablet come laptop, obviously cheaper as no windows OS too.

Thats interesting, thanks

@FN-GM thanks, do you use windows clients with G Suite?

Thanks @Joanne, I will definately be going out to see some demo's or getting them done onsite. You are right it is tricky to say until I start, I guess I am just brainstorming at the moment.

I have bagged myself a new job at a new school that is being setup, its very exciting to be able to get in at the very beginning. The focus will be on innovation and I think there is a few quid to chuck around, my question is if you had this project what would you do...? 1. The traditional route of windows 10\server 2016 onsite storage 2. A hybrid of the above, office 365 one drive etc... 3. Google classroom with chromebooks etc... 4. Anything else I am thinking more of a cloud type setup as this seems to be the way things are going, but I dont know how much will be cloud based and until I start. I have been out of the loop a litte bit in terms of going to demo's and seminars, as the school I am at now has not had money for years and its just getting worse, I didnt even go to Bett this year as it was kind of pointless. Cheers Jertsy

Yeah, we are having intermittent access. All day yesterday as well as filter 5 went belly up apparently. Did anyone else on filter 5 have issues yesterday?

Cant you can upgrade 2012r2 to 2016 then remove the roles to make it a core server, in 2012r2 the command to take it to core is Uninstall-Windowsfeature Server-Gui-Mgmt-Infra -Restart. I know in 2012r2 you can switch between core and GUI but in 2008 it was a reinstall job, I would presume 2016 would would be the same as 2012r2.

Hi I do home study for my Microsoft exams, I use books, Pluralsight and Measureup practice tests. I have attended courses that have been good but I have also attended some that have been poor and not worth the extra money, thats why I now study at home. Having said that for CCNA I am looking for classroom study as I am starting from scratch with that. Have you considered Comptia A+ or N+? That can be a good introduction to ICT Certification. Hope this helps.

I spoke to 2 long term employees just before Christmas, both have now been made redundant.

I had a teacher saying her Lenovo PC was restarting randomly last year, there was stuff in the event logs and when I had a bit of a google it seemed it could be BIOS related. I flashed the BIOS and its been good so far, might be worth a try if you havent done it already.

When it restarts is it saying the old 'start windows normaly' message? If it is then I would say its a power issue i.e. its cutting out. If its restarting gracefully I would say its something in windows.

Another Inventry here, pretty pleased with it on the whole. Tech support has been hit and miss in the past, particulary around the start of a new school year but it seems better now.

Another Inventry here, pretty pleased with it on the whole. Tech support has been hit and miss in the past, particulary around the start of a new school year but it seems better now.

You could have a look at this, Ive never used it myself as we're skint at present, but when we do a refresh it will be a big one and I was going to give this a try then. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/technology-hardware-for-schools#Aggregation-for-schools-webinar

I have an onsite exchange server but also 365, its a hybrid environment and basically our mail gets routed through Microsoft's anti SPAM filters