dlanor

We have around 20 OKI colour lasers and have generally been very happy with them. We get fast prints with good quality prints, ok not photo quality but we don't need that. A year ago I got a Minolta printer from LNL on a three year agreement for free YES FREE, the only condition is that we buy minimum of three sets of toners duing that period and if we can get toners cheaper than their price they will price match. We also get service included for the three years, at the end of that time they have the printer back and we get a new one. I believe that this deal is originated by Minolta, only goes to show the profit on toners, still I am happy with the performance and quality. I am at home so I don't have LNL's details to hand, needless to say I have no connection with them. The printer they are offering at the moment is the 5440 DL. :?

Just goes to show that senior moments get us all at times, Greg is right the workstation updates would be done on the terminal services computers. Don't get me wrong I am more than happy that SQL will be updated, about time too. What concerns me is the timing, it is simply adding another job when I have got a large program of work planned already (I would like a week off during the summer). Is a standalone setup practical as a backup, after all that is going to add yet more work apart from preparing another SQL server we would have to transfer a copy of the SIMs db at the last minute, and as we have several office staff working through the holidays using SIMS it starts to get complicated. Toby is right that there is no easy time for such a change I just hope that it does not slip like the Feb update as that will really complicate matters! :drinkers:

I am concerned with the scope of this update. If anything does go wrong then with the results season upon us anything that screws that up is going to make life a misery, guess who will get the blame. No doubt half the Capita staff will be on holiday at that time. Just for Capitas benefit we techies don't spend the whole of the summer hols sitting around waiting to accomodate SIMs upgrades, we already have planned a large range of updates, enhancements and changes for this time. Whilst I agree with Steve Edgar that schools in Oxfordshire on the central hosting won't have to worry about that side they will still have to update workstations and at a recent technicians those representing schools that are hosted centrally were knashing their teeth over various problems.