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The EdgeSwitches are much better in terms of options, they just need to be indiviudally managed. The unifi switches are easier to manage but to few options in my opinion.

You can do it all on ePortal already then. On ePortal you can open the Roll Calls and fill them, I'm assuming as Nursery you don't have teaching groups and lesson by lesson registers

So license your cores on a physical host, and be done. We use 2 quad core processors, so we have 8 cores total, so need to buy 8 x the license. Least its per core and not per thread!

We relay our via an internal emails erver that passes it to office365. Then you only have 1 place to update the password.

I have also had cost increase for SQL, they have a minimum number of cores you have to license now, seems like a bit of a scam to me. You have to license a minimum of 4 cores for SQL (I think), I'm sure anyone not using atleast 4 cores is very very rare but theres a prinicpal about it. Same with data centre etc, you now have minimum core numbers aswell. SQL you use to be able to license just the host it ran on, so for example you have 4 hosts, but 1 virtual SQL server, you only need the licensing for the processors/ cores in one physical server. As should the SQL VM move to another machine then it would still be running on the same number of cores/processors. However, if all your hosts have 20 cores, your in trouble. Makes physical boxes cheaper!

Projector, likely a dead colour wheel which depending on age is likely a new projector.

If you already have a certicate, which seems likely since your now getting an error. You should be able to request a SHA-2 version for free, every supplier we use allows us to.

It depends on how the house is rented, are each room rented indivudally between the landlord and the renter or is the house rented as a whole? If the house is rented as a whole, then you can get contents insurance across the whole place for everyone. If however, each room is rented individually then you have to get contents individually as well apparently (it is what I got told), your room would then also require you to have a suitable lock on it, a 5 lever one normally for indoor doors. My other half once got broken into at university and they refused to payout because they had contents insurance on the house, but each room was a seperate contract, and her door wasn't locked sufficiently!

Do this @michael2k6 and then he gets a notification saying he was mentioned! On paper it seems relatively easy if you ask me, though I haven't done it. You would mvoe the DB etc as expected. Then sort out the .CDB file to point to the new instant. I once did a disaster scenario in which I restored the database to a second server and connected to it. It all worked except an issue with an SQL user not created on the new "restored" server, which was easily fixed.

I'll be honest, I went home Friday havign read how the ransonware was meant to have worked, and thought to myself. That security loophole won't be an issue for me. I don't update my servers up to the latest patch always, I would say I am about 2 weeks behind though. I have a couple of non-critical (strong words, as it includes a server for students to play games on) that I use to test the latest patches on before deploying across the school. It is all about managing risk I guess, and running servers with known exploits is never a good idea with that said, I can understand why in the NHS people might not have risked an update but still.

If you look at the manual for the projectors, it will tell you what it means. http://www.projectorcentral.com/pdf/projector_manual_7119.pdf The colour of each light matters as well as if it is solid or not.

I've used in the past. 4gon (can be hit and miss) msdist (are usually fine, but had stock issues last time I needed to order) Senetic (most recently, but hasn't been painless)

Is it a timezone issue, ive seen it when your set in a different timezone as the even was created so it jumps across 2 full days instead of 1.

If the switches have SFP modules in the front then you can plug in an SFP module, then plug in the connector you have and your setup and going.

Get the more powerful PoE switches to ensure you have two things, enough power now but also power to avialble in the future. You can then most likely but a couple of SFP modules, and probably some ST to LC fibre patch cables and go straight into the switches directly. Technically there are 1GB converters out there but its still a media converter and I would still avoid it where possible.

Change the password as well, activesync etc take a few days (upto a week) to be disabled even if you disable sign-in. Sounds stupid I know but we had a remember of staff getting emails despite being disabled, Microsoft informed me the only sure way to stop it immediately was a password change... reassuring.... not

I believe I have dug it out. I'm thinking its one fo these 71251-040/0800 71251-040/0800 PREHKEYTEC, DIN Audio / Video Connector, 4 Contacts, Jack, PCB Mount, Tin Plated Contacts, Zinc Body | Farnell element14

I have found out what the male part is, the manufacturer code is PREH 71430-040 Just trying to get a female replacement part number now! I believe @Oaktech si right, its a 4-pin mini din - lock in version

I always like a good challenge, and today I have been given a DMX controller that is broken. A quick wiggle of the cable and it flicks to life briefly, so after further testing we have proved it was the conenctor on the board. So opening up the DMX controller it is really obvious that the connector needs resoldering to the board minimum (and we are hoping to do it). However, there is also some moverment in the conenctor itself, not just on the soldering to the board. Given the connector itself might be damaged, the question is, what connector is it? Then I can go about buying another one and replacing if necessary. Please see the picture below:

We are with First Utility, I found Ovo entirely useless. They accused me of giving them a false opening meter read, made up their own opening reading. This resulted in my old supplier asking me for over £1000 for gas. I obviously disputed the reading and refused to pay and told them it was a complete and utter rubbish. I sent in pictures of the meter, the previous supplier sent them all my meter reading for over a year to show my reading would never be that high but Ovo wouldn't have it. There customer support was useless, on the phone they were rubbish, via email it was like getting an answer from a politician, they answered a different question and asked a random one, it was like an automated robot was replying. In the end I complained to the regulator, took about 4 months to get the readings sorted and I just cancelled my Ovo account there and then, paid my final bill and went back to my previous supplier, refused to pay the cancellation charges. Didn't even get an apology from them. I then moved to First Utility which was fine, but then you only know how bad a supplier is when there is a problem.

I didn't misunderstand, I was jsut stating noone pays £600+ for a domain joined fat client unless it is for a specific job (maybe a graphics machine). I look to spend about £300 on new computers, more then the windows clients you are using granted but the cost isn't as high as you made out. Just trying to get a proper comparison and highlighting potential pitfalls with the licensing, as when I started in my current place there was misunderstanding about VDA licenses, which aren't cheap.

If you are comparing Citrix to buying fat clients that are £600 each then you should be saving money. Most schools seem to buy fat clients at half that cost (if not cheaper). They also last longer then 4 years. I also thought (happy to be corrected) that when accessing a Windows Virtual machine, from a none Windows client (e.g. a Linux terminal) there was a licensing cost as well, a VDA license or similar which wasn't cheap. I'm not saying Citrix doesn't work for you, we use it for external access and have about 40 thin clients on site but people prefer the fat clients here.

Port forwards on the smoothwall box. Network then Configuration then Port Forwards Make your source IP get forwarded to your internal Moodle IP, preserve the port (most likely), turn on Log and IPS if you use them.

Just setup papercut to store a copy of the job for a week, thats what we do, soon catch them and no watermark needed! Also useful when the student print out rude images that drew in paint because they were "bored"

We have used companies to only splice before (although it was due to an end falling off). We paid £300 for them to come out then a massive £1 per tail, he origianlly came out to replace 2 ends, but in the end I got him to do 16 since the cost only went up by £1 per end. This was 4 per end on one fibre (though we knew had a broken end), and then 4 at each end of a fiibre run that only had 2 of working, he tested all of the runs first and some had drops that were on the edge of acceptable and asked if we wanted them all doing. He got 7 of the 8 to work well within the allowed limits and gave me a read out to prove, the other one technically worked but the drop was to high to pass. So companies will do it, they will test them for you as well.